CA AB 10 - Gail Pellerin
Pupils: body shaming model policy and resources.
09/13/2023 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
AB 10, as amended, Lowenthal. Pupils: body shaming model policy and resources. Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, states that its purposes include, among others, providing pupils with the knowledge and skills they need to develop healthy attitudes concerning body image.This bill would require the State Department of Education to, on or before June 30, 2025, and in consultation with specified entities and relevant stakeholders, develop and post on its internet website a model policy and resources about body shaming, as defined, and would encourage school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to inform teachers, staff, parents, and pupils about those resources, as provided.
CA AB 100 - Philip Y. Ting
Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022.
05/04/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
AB 100, Ting. Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022. The Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes.The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA AB 101 - Philip Y. Ting
Budget Act of 2023.
08/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 101, as amended, Ting. Budget Act of 2023. This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA AB 1015 - Lisa Calderon
Diaper and Wipe Distribution Program.
01/25/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1015, Calderon. Diaper and Wipe Distribution Program. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to administer various public social services programs, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, the CalFresh program, and the State Emergency Food Assistance Program (CalFood). The department has administratively created the Diaper Bank Program, through funding from the Budget Act of 2021, to allocate grants to specified food banks and other regional entities, with the aim of providing diapers to low-income families with infants or toddlers.This bill would require the department to establish and administer the Diaper and Wipe Distribution Program for low-income families with infants or toddlers. The bill would authorize the department to determine the method of distributing program funds, and would require the department to conduct outreach to, and consider, eligible entities for participation in the program, as specified.The bill would require the department to require all participating entities to report on a quarterly basis to the department, at a minimum, specified quantitative information, including the numbers of diapers and wipes distributed and the total dollars expended. The bill would require the department to post on the department’s internet website a list of the participating entities.The bill would condition implementation of these provisions on an appropriation, and would require that the funding be spent within 36 months after receipt of those moneys. The bill would authorize the department to use up to 10% of any appropriated program funds for purposes of administrative costs to implement the program. The bill would exempt allocations made to any entity under this bill from certain contracting requirements, and would exempt implementation of these provisions from the Administrative Procedure Act.
CA AB 1017 - Laura Friedman
Homelessness: Striking Worker Emergency Homelessness Prevention program.
09/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c).
AB 1017, as amended, Holden. Homelessness: Striking Worker Emergency Homelessness Prevention program. Existing law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program to award moneys appropriated as competitive grants to assist cities, counties, and continuums of care in ensuring the safety and wellness of people experiencing homelessness in encampments, to provide encampment resolution grants to resolve critical encampment concerns and transition individuals into safe and stable housing, and to encourage a data-informed, coordinated approach to address encampment concerns. Existing law authorizes a continuum of care, city, or county to submit a specified application to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness for a program grant, and requires the council to prioritize funding applicants that demonstrate a commitment to cross-systems collaboration and innovative efforts to resolve encampment issues, as specified. Existing law requires the council to administer the program in accordance with a specified timeline. Existing law requires grant recipients to provide specified data elements, including health information, in a manner consistent with state and federal law, to their local Homeless Management Information System for tracking in the statewide Homeless Data Integration System.This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, create within the Encampment Resolution Funding program the Striking Worker Emergency Homelessness Prevention (SWEHP) program administered by the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. The bill would specify that purpose of the program would be to prevent workers suffering strike-related hardship, as defined, from becoming homeless due to a prolonged labor dispute by making zero-interest loans available to eligible striking workers to assist them in paying their housing costs. The bill would require the agency, in consultation with the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, to develop an internet website and online application for the program, as specified. The bill would require an applicant for the program to electronically sign a declaration of strike-related hardship, as specified, under penalty of perjury. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make other conforming changes to the Encampment Resolution Funding 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.
CA AB 1019 - Gail Pellerin
Child custody: counseling of parents and child.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1019, as amended, Pellerin. Child custody: counseling of parents and child. Existing law provides that a court, upon making certain findings, may require the parent or parents of a minor child, or any other party involved in a custody or visitation dispute, and the minor child to participate in outpatient counseling, as specified.This bill would prohibit a court from ordering a child to be transported to a facility or program, to be placed in a residential facility or program, or to participate in services or therapy, whether on a residential or outpatient basis, to address the child’s alienation from a parent without first obtaining the consent of the other parent, the consent of the child, and the consent of the child’s appointed counsel. If the child is 12 years of age or older, then consent of the other parent and the child would be required.
CA AB 102 - Philip Y. Ting
Budget Act of 2023.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
AB 102, Ting. Budget Act of 2023. The Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2023 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA AB 1028 - Tina McKinnor
Reporting of crimes: mandated reporters.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1028, as amended, McKinnor. Reporting of crimes: mandated reporters. Existing law requires a health practitioner, as defined, to make a report to law enforcement when they suspect a patient has suffered physical injury that is inflicted by the person’s own act or inflicted by another where the injury is by means of a firearm, or caused by assaultive or abusive conduct, including elder abuse, sexual assault, or torture. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor.This bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, remove the requirement that a health practitioner make a report to law enforcement when they suspect a patient has suffered physical injury caused by assaultive or abusive conduct, and instead only require that report if the health practitioner suspects a patient has suffered a wound or physical injury inflicted by the person’s own act or inflicted by another where the injury is by means of a firearm, a wound or physical injury resulting from child abuse, or a wound or physical injury resulting from elder abuse.The bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, instead require a health practitioner who suspects that a patient has suffered physical injury that is caused by domestic violence, as defined, to, among other things, provide brief counseling, education, or other support, and a warm handoff, as defined, or referral to local and national domestic violence or sexual violence advocacy services, as specified. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, specify that a health practitioner is not civilly or criminally liable for any report that is made in good faith and in compliance with these provisions.This bill would make other conforming changes.Because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 103 - Philip Y. Ting
Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022.
06/30/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 33, Statutes of 2023.
AB 103, Ting. Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022. The Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes. The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA AB 1033 - Philip Y. Ting
Accessory dwelling units: local ordinances: separate sale or conveyance.
09/11/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 17.).
AB 1033, as amended, Ting. Accessory dwelling units: local ordinances: separate sale or conveyance. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, authorizes a local agency, by ordinance or ministerial approval, to provide for the creation of accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. Existing law requires the ordinance to include specified standards, including prohibiting the accessory dwelling unit from being sold or otherwise conveyed separate from the primary residence, except as provided by a specified law.Existing law, notwithstanding the prohibition described above, requires a local agency to allow an accessory dwelling unit to be sold or conveyed separately from the primary residence to a qualified buyer if certain conditions are met, including that the property was built or developed by a qualified nonprofit corporation and that the property is held pursuant to a recorded tenancy in common agreement that meets specified requirements.This bill would, in addition, authorize a local agency to adopt a local ordinance to allow the separate conveyance of the primary dwelling unit and accessory dwelling unit or units as condominiums, as specified, and would make conforming changes.By imposing new duties on local governments with respect to the approval of accessory dwelling units, 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 bill would also make a related statement of legislative findings and declarations.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65852.2 of the Government Code proposed by AB 976 to be operative only if this bill and AB 976 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 1038 - Anthony Rendon
Family childcare home education networks.
09/12/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Dahle.
AB 1038, as amended, Rendon. Family childcare home education networks. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. The act requires the department to contract with entities organized to operate family childcare home education networks that support educational objectives for children in licensed family childcare homes that serve families eligible for subsidized care. Existing law requires the family childcare home education network programs to include certain components, including an assessment of each family childcare home provider to ensure that services are of high quality and are educationally and developmentally appropriate. Existing law also imposes various requirements on family childcare home education network contractors, including ensuring that a developmental profile is completed for each child.This bill would require that tools used to make the family assessments be appropriate to family childcare home settings, and would require a family childcare home education network program to maintain a developmental portfolio for each child, as provided, and include opportunities for parent involvement. This bill would impose additional requirements on family childcare home education network contractors, including that the developmental profiles specified above be completed in accordance with the provider’s observations, and that the contractors conduct site visits and offer training and technical assistance to providers, as specified. The bill would also impose various duties on family childcare home education network providers, including requiring providers to adopt and use a curriculum and to provide age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate educational activities for children.
CA AB 104 - Philip Y. Ting
Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 104, as amended, Ting. Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023. The Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA AB 1043 - Bill Essayli
Residential real property: foreclosure.
08/29/2023 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 1043, as amended, Essayli. Residential real property: foreclosure. Existing law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust and prescribes a procedure for the exercise of that power.This bill would prohibit a person from contacting, soliciting, or initiating communication with an owner to claim the surplus funds from a foreclosure sale of the owner’s residence before 90 days after the trustee’s deed has been required.In performing acts required by the provisions pertaining to the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust, existing law provides that the trustee does not incur liability for specified errors and that the trustee is not subject to specified law.This bill would add that a trustee does not incur liability or subject to that specified law when responding to requests for payoff or reinstatement information.When some or all of the principal sum of an obligation secured by real property has become due prior to the maturity date by reason of default or other specified failure to pay and a power of sale is to be exercised, existing law authorizes a trustor or mortgagor, at any time prior to foreclosure, to pay to the beneficiary or mortgagee specified amounts, including specified amounts shown in the notice of default and reasonable costs and expenses that are actually incurred in enforcing the terms of the obligation, deed of trust, or mortgage, as specified. If the trustor or mortgagor cures the default pursuant to these provisions, existing law requires the beneficiary or mortgagee to execute and deliver to the trustee a notice of rescission, as specified. Existing law limits costs and expenses that may be charged pursuant to specified mortgage law to $50.This bill would include reasonable costs and expenses that will be incurred as a direct result of the cure payment being tendered as part of the cure payment described above. This bill would include recording a notice of rescission pursuant as part of the costs and expenses that may be charged pursuant to specified mortgage law and raise the limit to $100.Existing law specifies when a trustee’s sale is deemed final and perfected, and provides that, if an eligible bidder submits a written notice of intent to bid pursuant to (1), below, the trustee’s sale is deemed perfected as of 8 a.m. on the actual date of sale if a specified requirement is met.This bill would recast that provision to provide that the trustee’s sale is deemed perfected as of 8 a.m. on the actual date of sale if a specified requirement is met if an eligible bidder submits a written notice of intent to bid under any of the provisions granting eligible bidders the rights and priorities to make bids on the property after the initial trustee sale described above.Existing law, until January 1, 2031, grants eligible tenant buyers, as defined, and other eligible bidders, as defined, certain rights and priorities to make bids on the property after the initial trustee sale. Existing law provides that a trustee’s sale of property under a power of sale contained in a deed of trust or mortgage on specified real property until the earliest of, among other things, (1) the date upon which a representative of all of the eligible tenant buyers submits to the trustee a bid that meets specified requirements, including that the bid be limited to a single bid amount and not contain instructions for successive bid amounts; and (2) 45 days after the trustee’s sale, except if an eligible bidder submits to the trustee a bid meeting specified requirements. Existing law requires prospective owner-occupants, as defined, eligible tenant buyers, and eligible bidders to submit specified affidavits or declarations regarding bidder eligibility under certain circumstances. Existing law authorizes the trustee to reasonably rely on these affidavits and declarations regarding bidder eligibility, and requires these affidavits or declaration
CA AB 1054 - Lori D. Wilson
Pupil instruction: high schools: computer science education courses.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1054, as amended, Berman. Pupil instruction: high schools: computer science education courses. Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, science and mathematics.This bill would require the governing board of each school district, and the governing body of each charter school, maintaining any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, by January 1, 2025, to adopt a plan at a regularly scheduled public meeting to offer at least one course in computer science education pursuant to a specified timeline, to post the plan to its internet website, and, on or before May 31, 2025, and annually thereafter, to review the plan at a regularly scheduled public meeting and report to the public on the plan’s implementation, as provided. The bill would, among other things, specify that a computer science education course means a computer science course that is aligned to the computer science academic content standards adopted by the State Board of Education and in which pupils do not merely use technology as passive consumers, but understand why and how computing technologies work, and then build upon that conceptual knowledge by creating computational artifacts. The bill would require school districts and charter schools to describe in the plan their planned efforts to increase the computer science course enrollment of female pupils, pupils with disabilities, pupils who belong to ethnic and racial groups, and pupils eligible for free or reduced-priced meals that are underrepresented in the field of computer science. The bill would require school districts and charter schools, on or before June 30, 2026, and by each June 30 thereafter, to report specified computer science education course-related data to the department, as specified. By imposing additional duties on school districts and charter schools, 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, 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.
CA AB 1057 - Akilah Weber
California Home Visiting Program.
02/01/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1057, Weber. California Home Visiting Program. Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health, which is responsible for various programs relating to the health and safety of people in the state. Existing law requires the department, to the extent resources are available, to maintain a program of maternal and child health that includes the provision of educational, preventative, diagnostic, and treatment services, including medical care, hospitalization and other institutional care and aftercare, appliances and facilitating services directed toward reducing infant mortality, and improving the health of mothers and children.This bill would establish within the Health and Safety Code the California Home Visiting Program, a voluntary maternal, infant, and early childhood program originally created administratively, under which the State Department of Public Health provides funds to local health departments to support pregnant people and parents with young children who live in communities that face greater risks and barriers to achieving positive maternal and child health outcomes, as provided.
CA AB 1059 - Laura Friedman
Product safety: consumer products: textile fiberglass and covered flame retardant chemicals.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 1059, Friedman. Product safety: consumer products: textile fiberglass and covered flame retardant chemicals. Existing law, the Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation Act, establishes the Bureau of Household Goods and Services to license and regulate persons engaged in businesses relating to upholstered furniture, bedding and filling materials, and insulation, including juvenile products and mattresses. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.Existing law prohibits a person from selling or distributing in commerce in this state any new, not previously owned juvenile products, mattresses, or upholstered furniture that contains covered flame retardant chemicals at specified levels, and prohibits a custom upholsterer from repairing, reupholstering, recovering, restoring, or renewing upholstered or reupholstered furniture using replacement components that contain covered flame retardant chemicals at specified levels. Existing law exempts from those requirements, among other things, components of adult mattresses other than foam.This bill would make that exemption inoperative on January 1, 2027. The bill would exempt from the above-described requirements aramid fiber when used in fabric in the interior of a mattress or on a nonsleep surface of a mattress, as specified. The bill would additionally exempt modacrylic fiber without antimony trioxide or other covered flame retardant chemicals. The bill would require the International Sleep Products Association, on or before October 1, 2025, to submit to the bureau a quantitative health risk assessment of modacrylic fiber without antimony trioxide, as specified, and would require the bureau to post the assessment on its internet website.Existing law, known as the Green Chemistry program, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process to identify and prioritize chemicals or chemical ingredients in consumer products that may be considered as being chemicals of concern. Existing law provides that the Green Chemistry program does not authorize the department to supersede the regulatory authority of any other department or agency or duplicate or adopt conflicting regulations for product categories already regulated or subject to pending regulation, as provided. Existing law, the Safer Consumer Products Program, implements the Green Chemistry program pursuant to regulations adopted by the department.This bill would authorize the department to prioritize or take action on a product containing a covered flame retardant chemical and would provide that if the department adopts regulations governing the use of a flame retardant chemical in a juvenile product, mattress, or upholstered furniture that those regulations adopted by the department shall prevail.Existing law authorizes the bureau to assess a fine if a person continues to sell or distribute products in commerce in this state belonging to the same stock keeping unit as noncompliant products, as specified. Existing law requires the bureau to take specified other actions in that regard, including posting citations issued on the bureau’s internet website and receiving complaints from consumers concerning juvenile products, upholstered furniture, or reupholstered furniture regulated under the act.This bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, offering, or distributing in commerce in the state any new, not previously owned juvenile product, mattress, or upholstered furniture that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, textile fiberglass. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2027, prohibit a custom upholsterer from repairing, reupholstering, recovering, restoring, or renewing any mattress, juvenile product, upholstered furniture, or reupholstered furniture using a replacement component that contains, or a constituent component of which contains, textile fiberglass. The bill would authorize the bureau to assess a fine against a pe
CA AB 1071 - Joshua Hoover
Teen dating violence prevention education: online information and resources.
07/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 1071, Hoover. Teen dating violence prevention education: online information and resources. Existing law requires each educational institution in the state to have a written policy on sexual harassment and to display that policy in a prominent location, as defined, in the main administrative building or other area of the educational institution’s campus or schoolsite. Existing law requires a copy of that policy, as it pertains to pupils, to be provided as part of any orientation program conducted for new and continuing pupils at the beginning of each quarter, semester, or summer session, as applicable. Existing law requires each schoolsite in a school district, county office of education, or charter school, serving pupils in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to create a poster that notifies pupils of that policy and to prominently and conspicuously display the poster in each bathroom and locker room at the schoolsite, as provided.Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to post, and annually update, on the State Department of Education’s internet website, and provide to each school district, a list of statewide resources, including community-based organizations, that provide support to youth and their families who have been subjected to school-based discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying, including school-based discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying on the basis of religious affiliation, nationality, race, or ethnicity, or perceived religious affiliation, nationality, race, or ethnicity. Existing law requires the department’s internet website to also include a list of statewide resources for youth who have been affected by gangs, gun violence, and psychological trauma caused by violence at home, at school, and in the community.This bill would require the department to make (1) resources on abuse, including sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, and teen dating violence prevention for professional learning purposes, (2) information about local and national hotlines and services for youth experiencing teen dating violence, and (3) other relevant materials for parents, guardians, and other caretakers of pupils, available on its internet website.
CA AB 1078 - Corey A. Jackson
Instructional materials and curriculum: diversity.
09/07/2023 - Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 1078, as amended, Jackson. Instructional materials and curriculum: diversity. (1) Existing law, the Safe Place to Learn Act, requires the State Department of Education, as part of its regular monitoring and review of a local educational agency, to assess whether the local educational agency has, among other things, adopted a policy that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on specified protected characteristics.This bill would require that policy to include a statement that the policy applies to all acts of the governing board or body of the local educational agency, the superintendent of the school district, and the county superintendent of schools in enacting policies and procedures that govern the local educational agency. Because this provision would impose an additional requirement on local educational agency officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department, no later than July 1, 2025, to develop guidance and public educational materials to ensure that all Californians can access information about educational laws and policies that safeguard the right to an accurate and inclusive curriculum.(2) Existing law requires, as a condition of receipt of specified funds for instructional materials, the governing board of a school district to take specified actions, including holding a public hearing or hearings and making a determination, through a resolution, as to whether each pupil in each school in the school district has sufficient textbooks and instructional materials aligned to specified content standards. Upon a determination that there are insufficient textbooks or instructional materials, existing law requires the governing board to take action, as provided, to ensure that each pupil has sufficient textbooks or instructional materials within 2 months of the beginning of the school year in which the determination is made. If the county superintendent determines that a school does not have sufficient textbooks or instructional materials in accordance with this public hearing process, existing law requires the county superintendent to provide the school district with the opportunity to remedy the deficiency. If the deficiency is not remedied, existing law requires the county superintendent to request the department, with approval by the State Board of Education, to purchase textbooks or instructional materials for the school, as provided.If a governing board of a school district makes the above-described determination, by resolution, that there are insufficient textbooks or instructional materials, this bill would require the governing board to submit a copy of that resolution to the county superintendent of schools no later than 3 business days after the governing board hearing.(3) Existing law requires a school district to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to, among other things, instructional materials, and to report summarized data on unresolved complaints to the county superintendent of schools. Existing law requires a complaint under these provisions to be filed with the principal of the school or the principal’s designee. Existing law requires the principal or the designee of the district superintendent to make all reasonable efforts to investigate any problem within their authority and to remedy a valid complaint within a reasonable time period, as specified. Existing law authorizes the complainant to appeal to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and requires the Superintendent to provide a written report to the state board describing the basis for the complaint and, as appropriate, a proposed remedy.This bill would authorize a complaint that more than one pupil does not have sufficient textbooks or instructional materials, as a result of an act or omission by the governing board of a school district, to be filed directly with the Superintendent. The bill would authori
CA AB 110 - House Budget Committee
Early childcare and education.
05/04/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
AB 110, Committee on Budget. Early childcare and education. Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates for purposes of the act, and specifies the reimbursement rate for contractors. Existing law requires $184,794,000 in one-time funding to be made available to address inequities between the standard reimbursement rate and the regional market rate ceiling for center-based childcare providers in the California state preschool program, among other programs, by providing reimbursement rate supplements.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2022, and subject to available funding, authorize the department to issue temporary rate increases to contractors that exceed the existing specified rates and the previously described reimbursement rate supplements.Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, and specifies the reimbursement rate for contractors. Existing law also specifies the reimbursement rates for childcare services provided to CalWORKs recipients.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2022, and subject to available funding, authorize the department to issue temporary rate increases to contractors and childcare providers that exceed those existing specified rates.Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to establish a fee schedule for families using preschool and child care and development services and requires families who utilize those services to be assessed a family fee that is based on income, certified family need for full-time or part-time care services, and enrollment. Existing law prohibits those family fees from being collected for the 2022–23 fiscal year.Existing law allocates $519,000,000 in previously appropriated federal funds, and appropriates $60,000,000 in federal funds, to the State Department of Education, and requires the State Department of Education to transfer most of those funds to State Department of Social Services to provide subsidized childcare and preschool providers with COVID-19 pandemic-related assistance, including, among other things, reimbursement for childcare and preschool contractors for family fees that are waived, as specified. Existing law also appropriates $739,025,000 in federal funds to the State Department of Education to, upon order of the Department of Finance, be transferred to the State Department of Social Services for the purpose of expanding childcare access by funding additional slots under the alternative payment program and the general childcare and development program.This bill would extend the prohibition on the collection of those family fees through September 30, 2023, and would require contractors to reimburse subsidized childcare providers for the full amount of the certificate or voucher without deducting family fees during this extended period. The bill would also make the above-described previously appropriated federal funds to expand childcare access slots and provide for family fee waivers and the reimbursement for waived family fees available in the 2023–24 fiscal year in an amount that is equal to the cost to extend family fee waivers from July 1,
CA AB 1106 - Esmeralda Soria
PK-3 early childhood education specialist credential: grant program.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1106, as amended, Soria. PK-3 early childhood education specialist credential: grant program. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to award planning grants of up to $250,000 each to regionally accredited institutions of higher education to develop plans for the creation of integrated programs of professional preparation that lead to more credentialed teachers with an emphasis on identified shortage fields, as provided. Existing law requires the commission to also award implementation or expansion grants of up to $500,000 each for regionally accredited institutions of higher education to develop new programs of professional preparation or to establish a new partnership with a California community college, as provided.This bill would, separate from those grants, require the commission to develop and implement a program to award, on a competitive basis, planning grants of up to $250,000 each to regionally accredited institutions of higher education for the development of plans to guide the creation of programs of professional preparation, and implementation grants of up to $500,000 each to regionally accredited institutions of higher education for the implementation of programs of professional preparation, that lead to more credentialed teachers obtaining the PK-3 Early Childhood Education Specialist Credential, as provided.This bill would authorize a regionally accredited institution of higher education awarded a planning grant or an implementation grant to use the grant funds to create a new 4-year integrated program of professional preparation, adapt an existing integrated program of professional preparation, or establish a stand-alone program of professional preparation, and for any purpose in support of planning for, or for implementation of, those programs of professional preparation, as applicable, as specified.This bill would, as a condition of the receipt of a planning or implementation grant, require a regionally accredited institution of higher education to provide to the commission specified program and outcome data for at least 5 years after receiving the grant. The bill would require applicants for either grant to provide certain assurances, as provided.This bill would require the commission to give first and 2nd priority to grant applicants that make specified commitments, and would require the commission to annually report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature on any grants funded until funds are fully expended, as specified.This bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
CA AB 1109 - Ash Kalra
Product sales: sodium nitrite.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 0.).
AB 1109, as amended, Connolly. Product sales: sodium nitrite. Existing law prohibits the sale and distribution of certain consumer products that include chemicals such as phthalates, polybrominated diphenyl ether, and perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Existing law prohibits the sale of certain products to persons under 21 years of age, such as alcohol and tobacco, among others. Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, requires, beginning July 1, 2024, a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements. On or after July 1, 2014, this bill, to be known as Tyler’s Law, would prohibit a person, retailer, or online marketplace from selling sodium nitrite to a person under 18 years of age and sodium nitrite in concentrations greater than 10% to a person 18 years of age or older. The bill would establish a defense to the former prohibition if the purchaser acknowledged before purchase they were at least 18 years of age through an effective system, as specified, and the person, retailer, or online marketplace took all reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to ensure the product would be sold and delivered to a person at least 18 years of age, or the purchaser acknowledged before purchase they were at least 18 years of age and the person, retailer, or online marketplace complies with the requirements of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. The bill would exclude from these provisions the sale of sodium nitrite to a business.
CA AB 1110 - Joaquin Arambula
Public health: adverse childhood experiences.
07/10/2023 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1110, as amended, Arambula. Public health: adverse childhood experiences. Existing law requires the Office of the Surgeon General to, among other things, raise public awareness and coordinate policies governing scientific screening and treatment for toxic stress and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).This bill would, subject to an appropriation and until January 1, 2027, require the office and the State Department of Health Care Services, while administering the ACEs Aware initiative and in collaboration with subject matter experts, to review available literature on ACEs, as defined, and ancestry or ethnicity-based data disaggregation practices in ACEs screenings, develop guidance for culturally and linguistically competent ACEs screenings through improved data collection methods, post the guidance on the department’s internet website and the ACEs Aware internet website, and make the guidance accessible, as specified. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations.
CA AB 1112 - Tina McKinnor
Foster youth.
01/29/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1112, McKinnor. Foster youth. (1) Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. Existing law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of each foster child. Existing law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP), which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC), which provides payments to approved relative caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments.Existing law requires, when a child is living with a parent who receives AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP benefits, or ARC payments, that the rate paid to the foster care provider on behalf of the parent include an additional amount, known as an infant supplement, for the care and supervision of the child. Existing law makes a pregnant minor or nonminor dependent eligible for the infant supplement, referred to in this instance as an expectant parent benefit, for the 3-month period immediately prior to the month the birth is anticipated.This bill would expand eligibility for the expectant parent benefit to include minors and nonminor dependents who are under the dependency jurisdiction of the juvenile court and who would be eligible to have foster care benefits paid on their behalf but for the minor or nonminor dependent not residing in an approved placement. The bill would require the department to develop and implement automated payments for these purposes, as specified. Because counties would administer these extended benefits, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law authorizes a county to pay, in addition to the basic rate, a clothing allowance to provide additional clothing for a child.This bill would require a county, if the county opts to provide a clothing allowance, to provide the clothing allowance to a minor or nonminor dependent who is under the dependency jurisdiction of the juvenile court and who would be eligible to have foster care benefits paid on their behalf but for the minor or nonminor dependent not residing in an approved placement. The bill would require the department to develop and implement automated payments for these purposes, as specified.(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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 1113 - Kevin Michael McCarty
The Expanded Learning Opportunities Program: the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System: the After School Education and Safety Program: the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Laird.
AB 1113, as amended, McCarty. The Expanded Learning Opportunities Program: the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System: the After School Education and Safety Program: the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. (1) Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program to provide funds to school districts and certain charter schools to offer, outside of any instructional time, expanded learning opportunities, as defined, to pupils enrolled in classroom-based instructional programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, under specified funding methodologies and program conditions.Existing law establishes the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, which is maintained by the State Department of Education and consists of pupil data from elementary and secondary schools, as specified, relating to demographics, program participation, enrollment, and statewide assessments, among other things. Existing law requires the system to be used to accomplish specified goals, including to provide an efficient, flexible, and secure means of maintaining statewide pupil level data, as provided.This bill would require the department, by July 1, 2024, to collect, as part of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System, pupil data for each pupil enrolled in a program under the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program, the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES), or the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2025, to identify and reduce data reporting redundancies in the collection of pupil data pursuant to these provisions and existing local educational data reporting requirements for those programs. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature to provide equitable opportunities to pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, with a welcoming and enriching space through afterschool programs.(2) The After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, an initiative statute approved by the voters as Proposition 49 at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election, establishes the After School Education and Safety Program (ASES) under which participating public schools receive grants to operate before and after school programs serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 9, inclusive. The act requires an amount not to exceed $550,000,000 to be continuously appropriated to the State Department of Education from the General Fund in each fiscal year for purposes of the program, and requires the amount to be allocated to public elementary, middle, and junior high schools according to a specified priority scheme, as provided. The act authorizes the Legislature to amend the provisions containing that priority scheme only by a statute, enacted by a 2/3 vote of each house and signed by the Governor, that furthers the purposes of the act. Commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, this bill would require, notwithstanding any other law, at least a certain percentage of the total amount appropriated pursuant to the act or by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute or for purposes of the ASES to be allocated on a priority basis for programs serving middle school pupils, as provided. The bill would set forth a legislative finding and declaration that the bill furthers the purposes of the act.(3) Existing federal law establishes the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program to provide pupils with academic enrichment and other activities during nonschool hours or periods when school is not in session, as provided. Under the program, of the total amount appropriated for after school grants to community learning centers, at least 50% is required to be allocated on a priority basis to community learning centers serving high school pupils and at least 40% is required to be allocated on a priority basis to community learning centers serving elementary and middle school pu
CA AB 1116 - Timothy S. Grayson
Money Transmission Act.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 1116, as amended, Grayson. Money Transmission Act. The Money Transmission Act generally provides for the regulation of money transmission, as defined, by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation. The act provides for certain exemptions from the act, including an exemption for the United States or a department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, including a federal reserve bank and a federal home loan bank.This bill would, among other things, additionally exempt from the act a person that acts as an intermediary by processing money transmission between an entity that has directly incurred an outstanding money transmission obligation to a sender and the sender’s designated recipient if the entity meets certain criteria, including that the entity is properly licensed or exempt from licensing requirements under the act. The bill would also exempt a registered futures commission merchant under the federal commodities laws to the extent of its operation as such a merchant.The act requires a licensee to, not more than 45 days after the end of each calendar year quarter, file with the commissioner a report containing certain information, including the current address of each branch office of the licensee in this state, as specified, the name of each person who acted as an agent in this state of the licensee during the calendar year quarter, and the address for each agent branch office, as specified. The act makes a person that intentionally makes a false statement, misrepresentation, or false certification in a record filed or required to be maintained under the act, or that intentionally makes a false entry or omits a material entry in such a record, guilty of a felony.This bill would instead require the report described above to be filed through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and Registry, as specified. The bill would require a licensee to include in that report additional information regarding a person who acted as an agent in this state of the licensee during the calendar year quarter, including the agent’s telephone number and email address. By expanding the scope of the crime described above, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The act requires an applicant for a license to possess, and requires a licensee to maintain at all times, tangible shareholder’s equity of $250,000 to $500,000 depending on estimated or actual transaction volume, as determined by the commissioner, as prescribed.This bill would delete that provision and would instead, subject to the commissioner’s discretion, require a licensee to maintain at all times a tangible net worth of the greater of $100,000 or 3 percent of total assets for the first $100,000,000, 2 percent of additional assets for $100,000,000 to $1,000,000,000, and one-half of 1 percent of additional assets for over $1,000,000,000. The act requires a licensee to, at all times, own eligible securities having an aggregate market value computed in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles of not less than the aggregate amount of all of its outstanding payment instruments and stored value obligations issued or sold in the United States and all outstanding money received for transmission in the United States. The act defines “eligible securities” to mean any United States currency eligible security or foreign currency eligible security and defines “United States currency eligible security” and “foreign currency eligible security” to mean specific securities.This bill would make various changes related to the determination of the value of eligible securities held by a licensee, revising the list of those securities. Among those revisions, the bill would include in the list of United States currency eligible securities the full drawable amount of an irrevocable standby letter of credit for which the stated beneficiary is the commissioner that stipulates that the beneficiary need only draw a sight draft under the letter of cred
CA AB 1119 - Buffy Wicks
Enforcement of judgments.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 18.).
AB 1119, as amended, Wicks. Enforcement of judgments. Existing law permits a judgment creditor to apply to the court for an order requiring the judgment debtor, or another person who is in possession and control of property of the judgment debtor, to appear before the court to provide information to aid in the enforcement of a money judgment, as specified. Existing law requires the judgment creditor to personally serve a copy of that order on the judgment debtor not less than 10 days before the date set for the examination. Existing law permits the court to issue a warrant for the arrest of, a warrant to compel the attendance of, and may hold in contempt, a judgment debtor who fails to appear in response to such an order. This bill would extend the notice of the examination required to be given to the judgment debtor to not less than 30 days before the examination. The bill would authorize a judgment debtor in a case involving consumer debt, as defined, to serve a financial affidavit signed under penalty of perjury, as specified, and file with the court a notice of financial affidavit and proof of service in lieu of appearing for the examination. If the judgment debtor files the notice and proof of service, the bill would require the court to cancel the financial examination unless the judgment creditor files, under oath, as specified, a notice of motion for an order determining the need for the debtor to appear for a debtor’s examination. If the judgment creditor files such a notice of motion in a timely manner, the bill would require the court to decide, either on the pleadings or through a hearing, whether the judgment debtor must appear for a debtor’s examination, as provided. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would also prohibit a court from issuing a warrant for the arrest of a judgment debtor in a case concerning consumer debt based on the judgment debtor’s failure to appear or failure to file a judgment debtor’s financial affidavit. In these circumstances, the bill would authorize the court to issue an order to show cause to determine whether a warrant to compel the judgment debtor’s attendance should be issued, which the judgment debtor could satisfy by filing a judgment debtor’s financial affidavit described above. The bill would require the Judicial Council to create and update its forms to reflect these changes.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.
CA AB 1123 - Sabrina Cervantes
California State University: employees: paid parental leave of absence.
10/07/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 1123, Addis. California State University: employees: paid parental leave of absence. Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Board of Trustees of the California State University, as one of the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in California. Existing law requires the trustees to provide by rule for the government of their appointees and employees. Existing law requires the trustees to grant a leave of absence without pay for the purposes of the pregnancy, childbirth, or recovery of a female employee, for a period as determined by the employee not exceeding one year to any permanent employee, as provided. This bill would require the trustees to grant to an employee, in each one-year period commencing on the date leave is first taken, one leave of absence with pay for one semester of an academic year, or equivalent duration, following the birth of a child of the employee or the placement of a child with an employee in connection with the adoption or foster care of the child by the employee, subject to specified requirements.
CA AB 1130 - Marc Berman
Substance use disorder.
06/29/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 21, Statutes of 2023.
AB 1130, Berman. Substance use disorder. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, regulates the distribution and use of controlled substances, as defined. Under the act, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for the administration of prevention, treatment, and recovery services for alcohol and drug abuse. Existing law, the Medical Practice Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of physicians and surgeons by the Medical Board of California. Existing law authorizes a physician and surgeon to prescribe, dispense, or administer prescription drugs, including prescription controlled substances, to an addict under their treatment for a purpose other than maintenance on, or detoxification from, prescription drugs or controlled substances and under specified conditions to an addict for purposes of maintenance on, or detoxification from, prescription drugs or controlled substances.This bill would revise and recast these provisions, among others, to delete the reference to an “addict” and instead replace it with the term “a person with substance use disorder,” among other technical nonsubstantive changes.
CA AB 1134 - Tina McKinnor
Family reunification services.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1134, as introduced, McKinnor. Family reunification services. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of the child’s parents or guardian, and requires the court to order the social worker to provide designated child welfare services, including family reunification services, as prescribed. Existing law provides that reunification services do not need to be provided to a parent or guardian when the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, certain circumstances exist, including that the parent or guardian of the child has been convicted of a violent felony, as defined.This bill would instead provide that reunification services do not need to be provided to a parent or guardian when the court finds that the parent or guardian of the child has been convicted of a violent felony, and the victim of the violent felony was a child under the custody of the parent or guardian. By expanding the scope of individuals requiring reunification services, the bill would impose additional duties on county child welfare departments, thereby imposing 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.
CA AB 114 - House Budget Committee
Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill.
08/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 114, as amended, Committee on Budget. Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill. (1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes, among other things, an alternative education grant, as specified. Existing law includes, among other things, a base grant based upon average daily attendance as a component of that alternative education grant.This bill would revise the alternative education grant by, among other things, increasing the base grant component of the alternative education grant, revising the calculation of average daily attendance for purposes of the alternative education grant, as specified, and establishing add-ons of $200,000 for each county office of education that operates a juvenile court school and $200,000 for each county office of education that operates a county community school. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate $3,000 per unit of average daily attendance for a Student Support and Enrichment Block Grant, as provided. The bill would make these provisions applicable commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year.(2) Existing law, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add $200,000 and other specified amounts, that are dependent upon the number and size of school districts under its jurisdiction and that are determined to be in need of differentiated assistance, to a county superintendent of school’s local control funding formula allocation, as specified.This bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would increase the above-described add-on by $100,000.(3) Existing law, commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add $2,000,000 to the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s local control funding formula allocation for the purpose of supporting statewide professional development and leadership training for education professionals related to antibias education and the creation of inclusive and equitable schools.This bill would, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, increase that add-on for the Los Angeles County Office of Education by $1,000,000 to instead be $3,000,000.(4) The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent to administer the California state preschool program. The act also requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Social Services and the executive director of the State Board of Education, to convene a statewide interest holder workgroup to provide recommendations on best practices for increasing access to high-quality universal preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children offered through a mixed-delivery model that provides equitable learning experiences across a variety of settings. The act requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the director, to provide a report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance with the recommendations of the workgroup no later than January 15, 2023.This bill would delay the reporting of those recommendations described above to instead be no later than March 31, 2024.(5) Existing law establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education in both the 2021–22 fiscal year and the 2022–23 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants, as specified.The bill would authorize the department to allocate or prorate un
CA AB 1140 - House Insurance Committee
Insurance.
08/28/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.).
AB 1140, as amended, Committee on Insurance. Insurance. (1) Existing law requires an owner or operator of a motor vehicle, or an owner of a vehicle used to transport passengers for hire not regulated by the Public Utilities Commission, to maintain liability insurance coverage for the named insured and any other person using the vehicle with permission in the amount of $15,000 for the bodily injury or death of any one person, $30,000 for the bodily injury or death of all persons, and $5,000 for damage to the property of others resulting from any one accident.Commencing on January 1, 2025, existing law would increase those minimum coverage amounts to $30,000 for the bodily injury or death of any one person, $60,000 for the bodily injury or death of all persons, and $15,000 for damage to the property of others resulting from any one accident, and would again increase those amounts, as specified, on January 1, 2035.This bill would limit application of the above-described increases for minimum liability insurance coverage to those policies and bonds that are issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, and on or after January 1, 2035, as applicable.(2) Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and generally regulates the business of insurance in the state. Existing law requires, biennially on July 1 of each even-numbered year after July 1, 2020, each admitted insurer with California premiums written of $75,000,000 or more to report to the commissioner on its minority, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), veteran, and disabled veteran-owned business procurement efforts and its governing board and board diversity efforts during the previous 2 years. Existing law requires the commissioner to establish and appoint an Insurance Diversity Task Force with at least 13, but not more than 15, members, including 2 members who are representatives of a minority business enterprise and a member who is a representative of an LGBT business enterprise.This bill would include persons with disabilities, as defined, as part of each admitted insurer’s procurement and diversity efforts that it reports to the commissioner biennially. The bill would require a member of the Insurance Diversity Task Force to be a member who is a representative of a persons with disabilities business enterprise, as defined.(3) Existing law prescribes the commissioner’s powers and duties, including various duties to regulate the business of insurance in this state and to enforce the execution of those laws. Existing law provides for the issuance of various licenses under the jurisdiction of the commissioner.Existing law requires specified businesses and corporations to file certain business-related information with the Secretary of State and to pay specified filing fees. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of State to suspend the powers, rights, and privileges of a corporation if the corporation fails to perform specified acts.This bill would make inactive the license of a licensee that is suspended by the Secretary of State. The bill would prohibit the licensee from conducting any activity for which a license issued by the commissioner is required until the licensee is no longer suspended by the Secretary of State.(4) Existing law requires the commissioner to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information as specified by statute for specified applicants applying for a license, including a surplus line broker and a car rental agent. Existing law also requires the commissioner to give monthly qualifying examinations in each of the cities in which the commissioner has an office.This bill would require the commissioner to submit fingerprint images and related information for applicants applying for a license as a self-service storage agent, a variable life and variable annuity agent, and a vehicle service contract provider. The bill would, instead, require the commissioner to administer
CA AB 1147 - Eduardo Garcia
Disability Equity and Accountability Act of 2023.
09/13/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Menjivar.
AB 1147, as amended, Addis. Disability Equity and Accountability Act of 2023. The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act makes the State Department of Developmental Services responsible for providing various services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities, and for ensuring the appropriateness and quality of those services and supports. Pursuant to that law, the department contracts with regional centers to provide services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities.This bill would enact the Disability Equity and Accountability Act of 2023, which would make various changes to the act for purposes including providing increased oversight of regional center operations and performance. The bill would require an evaluation of regional center performance by the department, which would be implemented using a common set of performance measures. The bill would require the department to establish standards, consisting of benchmarks above which indicate good performance and minimum benchmarks below which a regional center shall undertake efforts to improve, for these performance measures, as specified, by July 1, 2025. The bill would require the department, in consultation with stakeholders, including consumers and family members, to annually establish, update, and review these benchmarks.Existing law requires the department, in consultation with stakeholders, to identify a valid and reliable quality assurance instrument that assesses consumer and family satisfaction, provision of services in a linguistically and competent manner, and personal outcomes, as specified.This bill would require the department by March 1, 2025, to advise the Legislature describing the extent to which the requirements of this section have been met, including the surveying of all consumers, including those who have not purchased services, and providing specific steps and the schedule by which these requirements will be met.Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the individual program plan (IPP) and provision of services and supports by the regional center system is centered on the individual and the family of the individual with developmental disabilities and takes into account the needs and preferences of the individual and the family, as prescribed. Existing law requires an IPP to be developed for any person who, following intake and assessment, is found to be eligible for regional center services, and requires these plans to be completed within 60 days of the completion of the assessment, as specified.This bill also would declare the intent of the Legislature to ensure that goals in any plan allow for innovation and nontraditional service delivery, as specified. The bill would require the service coordinator, as part of the initial IPP meeting and each review of the IPP, as specified, to provide the consumer or, if appropriate, their parents, legal guardian, conservator, or authorized representative, oral and written information about the Self-Determination Program, as prescribed. The bill would require the regional center service coordinator to provide specified information regarding the program within 5 business days of the consumer expressing interest.The bill would revise the criteria applicable to regional center governing boards with which the state contracts, including with respect to training and ongoing support, and executive director performance standards. The bill would require the department to establish and adopt a grievance procedure for governing board members, as specified. The bill also would, beginning on January 1, 2025, make regional centers subject to requirements of the California Public Records Act. Notwithstanding any other law, the bill would require access to records regarding an applicant for, or recipient of, services to be provided, upon request, to the applicant, recipient, or their authorized representative, as specified, unless expressly prohibited by law.T
CA AB 1148 - Mia Bonta
Child support suspension.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1148, Bonta. Child support suspension. Existing law suspends, by operation of law, a money judgment or order for support of a child for any period exceeding 90 consecutive days in which the person ordered to pay support is incarcerated or involuntarily institutionalized unless the person owing support has the means to pay while incarcerated or involuntarily institutionalized. Under existing law, the obligation resumes on the first day of the first full month after the release of the person owing support in the amount previously ordered.This bill would instead require the child support obligation to resume on the first day of the 10th month after the release of the person from incarceration or involuntary institutionalization for persons who are released on or after January 1, 2024. The bill would authorize the person to whom the support is owed or the local child support agency to seek a court order reinstating child support obligations at the amount determined by a court.
CA AB 115 - House Budget Committee
Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: local control and accountability plan electronic template.
08/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 115, as amended, Committee on Budget. Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: local control and accountability plan electronic template. (1) Existing law, the Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 28 at the November 8, 2022, statewide general election, provides a minimum source of annual funding to K–12 public schools, including public charter schools, to supplement arts education programs for pupils attending those schools, as specified. Existing law requires the continuous appropriation for these purposes, without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund to the State Department of Education, of an amount equal to 1% of the total state and local revenues received by local educational agencies in the preceding fiscal year that are included in the calculation of the minimum funding guarantee established by the California Constitution, as provided. Existing law requires funds to be allocated by the department to local educational agencies based on a formula that includes, among other things, a calculation of 30% of the total funds appropriated for the above-described purposes multiplied by the school’s enrollment of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior fiscal year, divided by the total statewide enrollment of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior fiscal year of local educational agencies, as provided. Under existing law, a school serving preschool pupil’s enrollment of economically disadvantaged pupils equals the preschool’s enrollment times the same percentage of pupils that are economically disadvantaged at the closest elementary schoolsite within the preschool’s local educational agency, if applicable. Existing law defines a preschool pupil, for these purposes, as a pupil enrolled in the California state preschool program or a preschool for pupils with exceptional needs in a local educational agency. Existing law authorizes funds allocated to schoolsites to be available for use for up to 3 fiscal years after which the funds revert to the department, as provided. Proposition 28 authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions by a 2/3 vote of each house if the amendment furthers its purposes.This bill would revise and recast the provisions of Proposition 28 by, among other things, defining a preschool pupil as a pupil enrolled in the California state preschool program or a pupil 3 years of age through 5 years of age enrolled in a preschool program for pupils with exceptional needs in a local educational agency. The bill would deem the enrollment of economically disadvantaged preschool pupils to instead equal the enrollment of preschool pupils in the prior fiscal year times the same percentage of pupils that are economically disadvantaged at the elementary schoolsite with the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior year within the preschool’s local educational agency. If there is no elementary school within the preschool’s local educational agency, the enrollment of economically disadvantaged preschool pupils would instead be deemed to equal the enrollment of preschools pupils in the prior fiscal year times the same percentage of pupils that are economically disadvantaged at the elementary schoolsite with the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior year within the preschool’s county. The bill would also require unexpended funds to revert to the department, including in the event of a closure of a charter school, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies to report to the department, by October 1, the amount of unexpended funds following the conclusion of the 3-year-expenditure period, and would authorize the department to withhold the release of a local educational agency’s allocation for the fiscal year in which the expenditure report is due until that local educational agency has submitted the expenditure
CA AB 1151 - Tina McKinnor
Community colleges: civic centers: uses: insurance.
07/03/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 1151, McKinnor. Community colleges: civic centers: uses: insurance. (1) Existing law provides that there is a civic center at each and every community college within the state where the citizens, Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scout troops, farmers’ organizations, school-community advisory councils, senior citizens’ organizations, clubs, and associations formed for recreational, educational, political, economic, artistic, or moral activities of the public school districts may engage in supervised recreational activities, and where they may meet and discuss, from time to time, as they may desire, any subjects and questions that in their judgment appertain to the educational, political, economic, artistic, and moral interests of the citizens of the communities in which they reside. Existing law authorizes the governing boards of the community college districts to authorize the use, by citizens and organizations, of any other properties under their control, for supervised recreational activities.This bill would instead provide that there is a civic center at each and every community college within the state, and would instead authorize the governing board of a community college district to authorize the use, by the community and organizations, of any civic center or other properties under the control of the governing board of the community college district, as provided.(2) Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to grant without charge, except as otherwise provided, the use of any college facilities or grounds under its control, when an alternative location is not available, to nonprofit organizations and clubs and associations organized for general character building or welfare purposes, as specified.This bill would instead authorize the governing board of a community college district to grant without charge, except as otherwise provided, the use of those facilities, when an alternative location is not available, to nonprofit organizations and clubs and associations organized for athletic activities for youth, charitable purposes, educational purposes, or the civic well-being of the community.(3) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to permit the use, without charge, by organizations, clubs, or associations organized for senior citizens and for cultural activities and general character building or welfare purposes, when membership dues or contributions solely for the support of the organization, club, or association, or the advancement of its cultural, character building, or welfare work, are accepted.This bill would instead authorize the governing board of a community college district to permit the use, without charge, by organizations, clubs, or associations organized for youth or senior citizens and for cultural activities, without regard to whether membership dues are accepted.(4) This bill, notwithstanding any other law, and only if the governing board of a community college district authorizes the use of any of the community college district’s facilities or grounds pursuant to the above-described provisions, would require the community college district to give priority access to the use of those facilities or grounds to organizations, clubs, and associations, including athletic associations for youth, that serve people from socioeconomically disadvantaged communities.(5) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to require a person, group, or organization granted the use of community college property for purposes of athletic activities to obtain a certificate of insurance from a liability insurance carrier and to submit that certificate to the district for approval, as provided. Existing law requires the certificate to evidence a minimum coverage of $300,000 for liability for injury or damage to property which may arise out of that use of community college property and authorizes the governing board to require more than that
CA AB 1154 - Lori D. Wilson
Juveniles: mentoring programs.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1154, as amended, Wilson. Juveniles: mentoring programs. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law requires the status of every dependent child in foster care to be reviewed periodically, and requires the county welfare department social worker to prepare a supplemental report with supplemental information regarding the child for purposes of the status review hearing. Existing law also requires a probation officer to prepare a social study for purposes of the status review hearing of a ward who is placed in foster care or recommended for placement in foster care.This bill would require the social worker and probation officer to include in the supplemental report or social study, respectively, information on the likely emotional and social benefits from one-to-one mentoring services for the child or nonminmor dependant, and a recommendation for one-to-one mentoring, as specified. The bill would, if the supplemental report includes a referral for mentoring, require the court to ask the foster youth, at any status hearing, whether participation in a mentoring program has been offered to them and whether they are interested in participating in a mentoring program, and would specify that in this case the foster youth shall only be referred for mentoring if they agree to participate. The bill would, if the social study includes a referral for mentoring, require the court or probation officer to include a mentoring program in the foster youth’s case plan if the foster youth agrees to participate in such a program. The bill would specify that participation in the mentoring program is on a purely voluntary basis and would prohibit a foster youth from being subject to discipline or other adverse action based on the foster youth’s subsequent decision to discontinue participation in the mentoring program. The bill would authorize a court to refer or order the foster youth to participate in a one-to-one mentoring program through a nonprofit organization that meets specified criteria, including, among other things, having experience serving foster children and youth. The bill would require a social worker or probation officer to make their best efforts to identify and refer a foster youth for whom mentoring has been recommended and accepted or for whom mentoring has been ordered to a nonprofit organization. By imposing new duties on counties, 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.
CA AB 1157 - Lori D. Wilson
Rehabilitative and habilitative services: durable medical equipment and services.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1157, as amended, Ortega. Rehabilitative and habilitative services: durable medical equipment and services. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Other existing law requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Under existing law, essential health benefits includes, among other things, rehabilitative and habilitative services. Existing law requires habilitative services and devices to be covered under the same terms and conditions applied to rehabilitative services and devices under the plan contract or policy, and defines habilitative services to mean health care services and devices that help a person keep, learn, or improve skills and functioning for daily living.This bill would specify that coverage of rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices under a health care service plan or health insurance policy includes durable medical equipment, services, and repairs, if the equipment, services, or repairs are prescribed or ordered by a physician, surgeon, or other health professional acting within the scope of their license. The bill would define “durable medical equipment” to mean devices, including replacement devices, that are designed for repeated use, and that are used for the treatment or monitoring of a medical condition or injury in order to help a person to partially or fully acquire, improve, keep, or learn, or minimize the loss of, skills and functioning of daily living. The bill would prohibit coverage of durable medical equipment and services from being subject to financial or treatment limitations, as specified.The bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services to communicate to the federal Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight that the coverage of durable medical equipment is necessary to comply with federal requirements for purposes of being considered essential health benefits not subject to defrayal payments. If the center overrules the state’s determination that the additional coverage subjects the state to defrayal payments, the bill would require the secretary to reevaluate California’s essential health benefits benchmark plan to incorporate the coverage without triggering the defrayal requirement. The bill would require the secretary, no later than one year after the center makes its determination, to submit a report to the Legislature recommending the corresponding changes to the essential health benefits benchmarking process in order for the Legislature to approve submission of a new benchmark plan proposal to the center. Because a violation of the bill’s 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.
CA AB 116 - House Budget Committee
Early childcare and education.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
AB 116, Committee on Budget. Early childcare and education. (1) Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. Existing law requires an alternative payment program to reimburse a licensed provider for the childcare of a subsidized child based on the rate charged to nonsubsidized families or the rate established by the provider for prospective nonsubsidized families, as specified, and requires a licensed childcare provider to submit to the alternative payment program a copy of the provider’s rate sheet listing the rates charged and other specified policies and statements.This bill would provide that a license-exempt childcare provider is not required to submit rate sheets. The bill would, if a childcare provider’s reimbursement rate category could be construed as either full-time weekly or full-time monthly, require the alternative payment program, county, or contractor to reimburse the provider either (A) the applicable rate category that most closely corresponds to the rate category listed on the licensed childcare provider’s rate sheet, or (B) if the alternative payment program, county, or contractor cannot determine a single applicable rate category from the licensed childcare provider’s rate sheet, or if the license-exempt childcare provider does not have a rate sheet on file, the applicable rate category that results in the higher reimbursement.Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, and specifies the reimbursement rate for contractors. Existing law requires the reimbursement rate to be increased by the above-described cost-of-living adjustment.The bill would suspend the annual cost-of-living adjustment for the reimbursement rate for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that any adjustment in the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years related to reimbursement for programs funded pursuant to these provisions be subject to a ratified agreement and subject to future legislation, as specified.Under existing law, for purposes of establishing initial income eligibility for services under the act, “income eligible” means that a family’s adjusted monthly income is at or below 85% of the state median income, adjusted for family size. Existing regulations provide how to calculate a family’s adjusted monthly income for purposes of determining income eligibility and calculating a family fee, and require that when a family’s income fluctuates because of migrant, agricultural, or seasonal work, inconsistent or unstable employment; self-employment; or intermittent income, the adjusted monthly income be determined by averaging the total countable income from the preceding 12 months.This bill would codify that regulation, except the bill would require that when a family experiences income fluctuation due to any of those previously mentioned reasons, a family may choose to provide up to the 12 preceding months of income information as necessary for purposes of determining income eligibility or calculating a family fee. The bill would require that the monthly income be determined by averaging the total countable income from at least 2 months, as applicable based on the income provided, to determine income eligibility or calculating a family fee. The bill would authorize the department to implement and administer these provisions by all-county letters, bulletins, or similar written instructions until regulations are adopted. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations no later than Jul
CA AB 1165 - Kevin Michael McCarty
Pupil discipline: racist bullying, harassment, or intimidation: restorative justice practice.
06/29/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 22, Statutes of 2023.
AB 1165, McCarty. Pupil discipline: racist bullying, harassment, or intimidation: restorative justice practice. Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion unless the superintendent of the school district or principal of the school determines that the pupil has committed any of various specified acts. Existing law requires suspension to only be imposed when other means of correction, including, but not limited to, participation in a restorative justice program, fail to bring about proper conduct, except that the suspension of a pupil for a first offense is authorized if the principal or superintendent of schools determines that the pupil violated one of a certain subset of those enumerated acts or that the pupil’s presence causes a danger to persons.This bill would, for a pupil who has been suspended, or for whom other means of correction have been implemented, for an incident of racist bullying, harassment, or intimidation, encourage local educational agencies to have both the victim and perpetrator engage in a restorative justice practice that is found to suit the needs of both the victim and the perpetrator. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to regularly check on the victim of the racist bullying, harassment, or intimidation to ensure that the victim is not in danger of suffering from long-lasting mental health issues, and would also encourage local educational agencies to require perpetrators to engage in culturally sensitive programs, as provided.
CA AB 1169 - Lori D. Wilson
California School Employee Housing Assistance Grant Program.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1169, as amended, Wilson. California School Employee Housing Assistance Grant Program. Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHOME Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program.This bill would require the department to administer a program to provide financing assistance for the creation of affordable rental housing for employees of a qualified school district, as defined. The bill would require financing of rental housing assistance be in the form of specified types of loans. The bill would require the department, when making loans to qualified developers under these provisions, to establish and use a project selection process that meets specified requirements. The bill would create in the State Treasury the California School Employee Housing Assistance Fund for these purposes. The bill would make implementation of these provisions subject to appropriation by the Legislature.
CA AB 117 - House Budget Committee
Higher education trailer bill.
08/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 117, as amended, Committee on Budget. Higher education trailer bill. (1) Existing law establishes the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program to provide one-time grants for the construction of student housing or for the acquisition and renovation of commercial properties into student housing for the purpose of providing affordable, low-cost housing options for students enrolled in public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law appropriates $1,434,133,000 for the 2022–23 fiscal year from the General Fund for the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program for purposes of the one-time grants described above.This bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would require specified funding previously allocated, or planned to be allocated, to the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges for those construction grants to instead be funded by revenue bonds issued by the University of California and the California State University, and local revenue bonds issued by community college districts. The bill would require any General Fund support for those grants provided to the campuses of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges to revert to the General Fund. The bill would eliminate the 2022–23 fiscal year General Fund appropriation for the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program.(2) Existing law appropriates $650,000,000 from the General Fund to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund. Existing law requires the chancellor’s office to allocate those funds to community college districts on the basis of actual reported full-time equivalent students, as provided. Existing law authorizes the funds to be expended for certain purposes related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including student supports, reengagement strategies, faculty grants, and professional development opportunities.This bill would authorize the funds in the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund to be used for additional purposes, including scheduled maintenance and special repairs of facilities and efforts to increase student retention rates and enrollment by engaging former community college students who may have withdrawn due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.(3) Existing law, until June 30, 2023, authorizes the University of California to provide a scholarship as established by the university or a campus of the university, derived from nonstate funds received for that purpose, to any of its enrolled students who meet the eligibility requirements for that scholarship.This bill would extend that authorization by 4 years.(4) Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.Existing law requires each campus of the California Community Colleges, no later than July 1, 2022, to establish the position of Basic Needs Coordinator to assist students with on- and off-campus housing, food, mental health, and other basic needs services and resources, among other responsibilities, and to establish a Basic Needs Center where basic needs services, resources, and staff are made available to students, as specified. Existing law requires each community college campus to report certain information to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges related to basic needs services and resources. Existing law requires the chancellor’s office to annually develop and submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature based on the data and information received from campuses and information on the use of funds made available to implement these provisions.This bill would require each community college campus to report addit
CA AB 1178 - Luz Maria Rivas
School nutrition: guardian meal reimbursement.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1178, as amended, Luz Rivas. School nutrition: guardian meal reimbursement. Existing law requires school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide 2 school meals free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, with a maximum of one free meal for each meal service period, as provided. Existing law requires these meals to be nutritiously adequate meals that qualify for federal reimbursement. Existing law conditions these requirements upon an appropriation for these purposes by the Legislature, as specified.Notwithstanding any other law, existing law requires school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday. Existing law defines “schoolday” for these purposes to mean any day that pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, are attending school for purposes of classroom instruction, including, but not limited to, pupil attendance on minimum days, state-funded preschool, transitional kindergarten, summer school including incoming kindergarten pupils, extended school year days, and Saturday school sessions.This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes and to the extent authorized by federal law, require the State Department of Education to establish a process for state reimbursement, adjusted annually for inflation, for federal summer meal program operators, as defined, for meals served to guardians, as defined, of eligible pupils receiving a meal pursuant to a summer meal program, as defined. The bill would require the department to develop related guidance, as specified, and, if necessary, to apply for a waiver of federal law to secure federal reimbursement for these meals. The bill would require the department to distribute information about the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program to guardians whose children are eligible for specified summer food programs. The bill would require a guardian of an eligible pupil to be present at the summer meal program site in order for the summer meal program operator to receive state-funded reimbursement for that meal, unless noncongregate rules are in place. The bill would require participating summer meal program operators to report to the department the number of meals served to guardians by meal site no later than 30 days after the end of summer meal site operations.
CA AB 118 - House Budget Committee
Budget Act of 2023: health.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
AB 118, Committee on Budget. Budget Act of 2023: health. (1) 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 to provide disclosures regarding the benefits, services, and terms of the plan contract, as specified, to provide the public, subscribers, and enrollees with a full and fair disclosure of the provisions of the plan.This bill would require the department to develop standard templates for the disclosure form and evidence of coverage, to include, among other things, standard definitions, benefit descriptions, and any other information that the director determines, consistent with the goals of providing fair disclosures of the provisions of a health care service plan. The bill would require the department to consult with the Department of Insurance and interested stakeholders in developing the standard templates. The bill would require health care service plans, beginning January 1, 2025, to use the standard templates for any disclosure form or evidence of coverage published or distributed, except as specified. Because a willful violation of these requirements is a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would authorize the department to develop standard templates for a schedule of benefits, an explanation of benefits, a cost-sharing summary, or any similar document. The bill would authorize the department to require health care service plans to use the standard templates, except as specified, and would authorize the director to require health care service plans to submit forms the health care service plan created based on the department’s templates for the purpose of compliance review. The bill would additionally specify that the department may implement these provisions by issuing and modifying templates and all-plan letters or similar instructions, without taking regulatory action. The bill would also update cross-references in various provisions.(2) Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy to cover mental health and substance use disorder treatment, including medically necessary treatment of a mental health or substance use disorder provided by an in-network or out-of-network 988 center or mobile crisis team. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan or insurer from requiring prior authorization for medically necessary treatment of a mental health or substance use disorder provided by a 988 center or mobile crisis team.This bill would instead specify that mental health and substance use disorder treatment includes behavioral health crisis services that are provided by a 988 center, mobile crisis team or other provider of behavioral health crisis services. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer from requiring prior authorization for behavioral health crisis stabilization services and care, but would authorize prior authorization for medically necessary mental health or substance use disorder services following stabilization from a behavioral health crisis addressed by services provided through the 988 system.This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer that is contacted by a 988 center, mobile crisis team, or other provider of behavioral health crisis services to, within 30 minutes of initial contact, either authorize poststabilization care or inform the provider that it will arrange for the prompt transfer of the enrollee’s care to another provider. The bill would require the plan or insurer to reimburse a provider for poststabilization care in specified circumstances, including if the plan or insurer did not respond within 30 minutes to authorize care or arrange for transfer. The bill would require a plan or insurer to prominently display on its internet w
CA AB 1186 - Mia Bonta
Juveniles: restitution.
09/06/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Becker.
AB 1186, as amended, Bonta. Juveniles: restitution. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over minors who are between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who have violated a federal, state, or local law or ordinance, as specified, and over minors under 12 years of age who have been alleged to have committed specified crimes. Existing law authorizes a juvenile court to adjudge a person under these circumstances to be a ward of the court. Existing law authorizes a court, upon adjudicating a person to be a ward of the court, to require the minor to pay restitution to the victim or victims.This bill would remove the ability of the court to require the minor to pay monetary restitution to the victim. The bill would authorize the court to instead order the minor to make nonmonetary restitution by participating in a community-based restoration program, performing community service, or participating in an educational, employment, youth development, or mental health program, as specified. The bill would require the court to determine the amount of economic loss suffered as a result of the minor’s conduct and issue a restitution order, which would then be transmitted to the California Victim Compensation Board. The bill would require the California Victim Compensation Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes, to compensate the victim for the amount in the order.Existing law, for the purposes of determining victims for compensation from a ward, defines a victim for these purposes as including, among other things, a governmental entity responsible for repairing privately owned property that has been defaced or a corporation, partnership, association, government, or other legal or commercial entity when that entity is a direct victim of the crime.This bill would remove those entities from the definition of victim.The bill would additionally make other conforming changes.
CA AB 1187 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
California Victim Compensation Board: reimbursement for personal or technological safety devices or services.
09/12/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
AB 1187, Quirk-Silva. California Victim Compensation Board: reimbursement for personal or technological safety devices or services. Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the board. Existing law authorizes the board to grant for pecuniary loss, when the board determines that it will best aid the person seeking compensation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the board to reimburse the amount of outpatient psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health counseling-related expenses incurred by the victim or derivative victim, including peer counseling services provided by a rape crisis center and family psychiatric, psychological, or mental health counseling for the successful treatment of the victim provided to family members of the victim in the presence of the victim, subject to specified criteria.This bill would also authorize the board to reimburse the expense of counseling services provided by a Certified Child Life Specialist, certified by the Association of Child Life Professionals, who provides counseling under the supervision of a licensed provider, subject to the board’s approval, as specified. By expanding the authorizations for use of moneys in the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
CA AB 119 - House Budget Committee
Medi-Cal: managed care organization provider tax.
06/29/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 13, Statutes of 2023.
AB 119, Committee on Budget. Medi-Cal: managed care organization provider tax. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans.Existing law, inoperative on January 1, 2023, and to be repealed on January 1, 2024, imposed a managed care organization (MCO) provider tax, administered and assessed by the department, on licensed health care service plans and managed care plans contracted with the department to provide full-scope Medi-Cal services. Those provisions set forth taxing tiers and corresponding per enrollee tax amounts for the 2019–20, 2020–21, and 2021–22 fiscal years, and the first 6 months of the 2022–23 fiscal year. Under those provisions, all revenues, less refunds, derived from the tax were deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the Health Care Services Special Fund, and continuously appropriated to the department for purposes of funding the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal managed care rates, as specified.Those inoperative provisions authorized the department, subject to certain conditions, to modify or make adjustments to any methodology, tax amount, taxing tier, or other provision relating to the MCO provider tax to the extent the department deemed necessary to meet federal requirements, to obtain or maintain federal approval, or to ensure federal financial participation was available or was not otherwise jeopardized. Those provisions required the department to request approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as was necessary to implement those provisions.This bill would repeal those inoperative provisions. The bill would restructure the MCO provider tax, with certain modifications to the above-described provisions, including changes to the taxing tiers and tax amounts, for purposes of the tax periods of April 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023, and the 2024, 2025, and 2026 calendar years. The bill would create the Managed Care Enrollment Fund to replace the Health Care Services Special Fund. Under the bill, moneys deposited into the fund would, upon appropriation, be available to the department for the purpose of funding the following subcomponents to support the Medi-Cal program: (1) the nonfederal share of increased capitation payments to Medi-Cal managed care plans; (2) the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal managed care rates for health care services; and (3) transfers to the Medi-Cal Provider Payment Reserve Fund, as established pursuant to specified provisions.The bill would make these provisions operative on the effective date, certified in writing by the Director of Health Care Services, of the federal approval necessary for receipt of federal financial participation, as specified. The bill would make these provisions, except for the provision relating to the Managed Care Enrollment Fund, inoperative on January 1, 2027, or as otherwise specified, and would repeal them on January 1, 2028.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 XIII?A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 1192 - Kevin Michael McCarty
Kindergarten: admission: transitional kindergarten: professional development requirements.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1192, as amended, McCarty. Kindergarten: admission: transitional kindergarten: professional development requirements. (1) Existing law requires a school district to admit a child to a kindergarten maintained by the school district if the child will have their 5th birthday on or before September 1, as provided. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to admit to a kindergarten a child having attained the age of 5 years at any time during the school year, as provided.This bill would make the above provisions applicable to a charter school or a governing body of a charter school, as provided. To the extent this bill would add new requirements on a charter school, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires a school district or charter school to, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, commencing with the 2025–26 school year, and for each year thereafter, maintain an average of at least 1 adult for every 10 pupils for transitional kindergarten classrooms.This bill would require, commencing with the 2025–26 school year, that any adult, with certain exceptions, assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom be provided, or begin to be provided, at least 48 hours of professional development, as specified, and would require the school district or charter school to provide this professional development, as provided. The bill also would make conforming changes.(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.
CA AB 1194 - Wendy Maria Carrillo
California Privacy Rights Act of 2020: exemptions: abortion services.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1194, Wendy Carrillo. California Privacy Rights Act of 2020: exemptions: abortion services. Existing law, the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, grants a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to require the business to delete personal information about the consumer, as specified, unless those obligations restrict a business’s ability to, among other things, comply with federal, state, or local laws or comply with a court order or subpoena to provide information, or cooperate with a government agency request for emergency access to a consumer’s personal information if a natural person is at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury, as provided.This bill would, if the consumer’s personal information contains information related to accessing, procuring, or searching for services regarding contraception, pregnancy care, and perinatal care, including, but not limited to, abortion services, require a business to comply with the obligations imposed by the CPRA unless the personal information is used for specified business purposes, as defined, is only retained in aggregated and deidentified form, and is not sold or shared. The bill would specify that the requirement to comply without regard to the above-described exceptions does not alter the duty to preserve or retain evidence in an ongoing civil proceeding. The bill would further specify that a consumer accessing, procuring, or searching for those services does not constitute a natural person being at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury. The bill would also make nonsubstantive conforming changes.The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act by a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature, as specified.This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.
CA AB 12 - Scott D. Wiener
Tenancy: security deposits.
09/11/2023 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 12, as amended, Haney. Tenancy: security deposits. Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies, and prohibits a landlord from demanding or receiving security for a rental agreement for residential property, however denominated, in an amount or value in excess of an amount equal to 2 months’ rent, in the case of unfurnished residential property, and an amount equal to 3 months’ rent, in the case of furnished residential property, in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.This bill would, beginning July 1, 2024, instead prohibit a landlord from demanding or receiving security for a rental agreement for residential property in an amount or value in excess of an amount equal to one month’s rent, regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy. The bill, unless the prospective tenant is a service member, as defined, would prohibit a landlord from demanding or receiving security for a rental agreement for residential property in an amount or value in excess of 2 months’ rent, in addition to any rent for the first month, if the landlord (1) is a natural person or a limited liability corporation in which all members are natural persons and (2) owns no more than 2 residential rental properties that collectively include no more than 4 dwelling units offered for rent.
CA AB 120 - House Budget Committee
Human services.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
AB 120, Committee on Budget. Human services. (1) Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including group home facilities, short-term residential therapeutic programs (STRTPs), and adult residential facilities (ARFs), by the State Department of Social Services. Under existing law, the department similarly regulates residential care facilities for the elderly. A violation of provisions relating to these facilities is a misdemeanor. Existing law requires administrators of these facilities, with specified exemptions, to complete a department-approved certification program, uniformly referred to as administrator certification training programs. Under existing law, these programs require a specified minimum number of hours, depending on the facility type, of classroom instruction that provides training on a uniform core of knowledge in specified areas. Existing law also requires administrator certificates to be renewed every 2 years, conditional upon the certificate holder submitting documentation of a specified number of hours of continuing education, based on the facility type. Existing law permits up to one-half of the required continuing education hours to be satisfied through online courses, and the remainder to be completed in a classroom instructional setting, as prescribed.This bill would revise those provisions by deleting the classroom instruction requirement for initial certification and continuing education purposes, and instead would require instruction that is conducive to learning and allows participants to simultaneously interact with each other as well as with the instructor. The bill would authorize up to one-half of continuing education hours to be satisfied through self-paced courses, rather than online courses. The bill would make various conforming changes.Existing law authorizes the department to license as ARFs, subject to specified conditions, adult residential facilities for persons with special health care needs (ARFPSHNs), which provide 24-hour services to up to 5 adults with developmental disabilities who have special health care and intensive support needs, as defined. Existing law requires the department to ensure that an ARFPSHN meets specified administrative requirements, including requirements related to fingerprinting and criminal records.This bill additionally would require an ARFPSHN to meet the administrator certification requirements of an ARF, including, but not limited to, completing a department-approved administrator certification training program requiring a designated minimum number of hours of instruction conducive to learning, in which participants are able to simultaneously interact with each other as well as with the instructor, that provides training on the uniform core of knowledge applicable to ARFs, as specified. The bill would require an applicant for an administrator’s certificate to submit an application for certification to the department and pass an examination, as prescribed.Because a violation of the above-described requirements would be a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.Existing law includes within the definition of a community care facility, full-service adoption agencies and noncustodial adoption agencies, both of which are licensed entities authorized to provide specified adoption services. Under existing law, a facility is deemed to be an unlicensed community care facility and maintained and operated to provide nonmedical care if it is unlicensed, not exempt from licensure, and if it satisfies one of several specified conditions, including, among others, performing any of the functions of an adoption agency or holding itself out as performing any of the functions of an adoption agency, as specified. Existing law prohibits the operation of an unlicensed community care facility in the state and makes a violation of these provisions punishable as a misd
CA AB 1202 - Tom Lackey
Medi-Cal: health care services data: children and pregnant or postpartum persons.
02/12/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1202, Lackey. Medi-Cal: health care services data: children and pregnant or postpartum persons. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services through various health care delivery systems, including managed care pursuant to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2026, certain time or distance and appointment time standards for specified Medi-Cal managed care covered services, consistent with federal regulations relating to network adequacy standards, to ensure that those services are available and accessible to enrollees of Medi-Cal managed care plans in a timely manner, as specified. Existing law sets forth various limits on the number of miles or minutes from the enrollee’s place of residence, depending on the type of service or specialty and, in some cases, on the county.This bill would require the department, no later than January 1, 2025, to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature that includes certain information, including an analysis of the adequacy of each Medi-Cal managed care plan’s network for pediatric primary care, including the number and geographic distribution of providers and the plan’s compliance with the above-described time or distance and appointment time standards.Under the bill, the report would also include data, disaggregated as specified, on the number of children and pregnant or postpartum persons who are Medi-Cal beneficiaries receiving certain health care services during the 2021–22, 2022–23, and 2023–24 fiscal years. The report would also include additional information regarding the department’s efforts to improve access to pediatric preventive care, as specified. The bill would require that the report be made publicly available through its posting on the department’s internet website.The bill would repeal these reporting provisions on January 1, 2029.
CA AB 1205 - Melissa Hurtado
Water rights: sale, transfer, or lease: agricultural lands.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hurtado.
AB 1205, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. Water rights: sale, transfer, or lease: agricultural lands. Existing law declares that, because of the conditions prevailing in this state, the general welfare requires that the water resources of the state be put to beneficial use to the fullest extent of which they are capable, that the waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use of water be prevented, and that the conservation of the water is to be exercised with a view to the reasonable and beneficial use of the water in the interest of the people and for the public welfare.This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board to, on or before January 1, 2027, conduct a study and report to the Legislature and appropriate policy committees on the existence of speculation or profiteering by an investment fund in the sale, transfer, or lease of an interest in any surface water right or groundwater right previously put to beneficial use on agricultural lands, as specified. The bill would repeal this provision on January 1, 2031.
CA AB 1207 - Jacqui V. Irwin
Cannabis: labeling and advertising.
10/08/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 1207, Irwin. Cannabis: labeling and advertising. 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. 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, including retail commercial cannabis activity. MAUCRSA places specified requirements on the packaging of cannabis and cannabis products. MAUCRSA prohibits a licensee from engaging in specified advertising or marketing activities, including, among others, advertising or marketing in a manner that is false or untrue or tends to create a misleading impression.AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend by majority vote certain provisions of the act to implement specified substantive provisions, provided that the amendments are consistent with and further the purposes and intent of AUMA.This bill would implement provisions of AUMA by prohibiting the sale, distribution, or manufacture of cannabis, cannabis products, packaging, or labeling that are attractive to children, as defined. The bill would require the adoption of emergency regulations to implement these provisions.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 26001 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by AB 152 and SB 152 to be operative only if this bill and AB 152 or SB 152 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 1209 - Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr.
Criminal procedure: public defenders.
05/10/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 1209, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Criminal procedure: public defenders. (1) Existing law allows the board of supervisors of any county to establish the office of the public defender and requires the public defender to, among other duties, defend a person who is not financially able to employ counsel and who is charged with the commission of a crime. Existing law authorizes the court to make the final determination as to whether a defendant is financially able to employ counsel and qualifies for the services of the public defender.This bill would require this representation to commence as soon as feasible after being notified of a person’s arrest, but in any case within 24 hours after booking or sufficiently before the arraignment to allow the provision of meaningful representation, as specified. The bill would establish a presumption that a person detained when this representation begins is unable to financially employ counsel and eligible for indigent defense services. The bill would additionally require the public defender or indigent defense provider to, prior to the arraignment, individually and confidentially advise a person who has been cited or arrested for a misdemeanor or felony on the importance of the right to counsel, including potential collateral consequences and the right to the assistance of counsel at no expense if the defendant is not financially able to employ counsel. The bill would require the court to ensure this advisal has occurred prior to accepting a waiver of counsel.(2) Under existing law, immediately upon being booked and, except where physically impossible, no later than three hours after arrest, an arrested person has the right to make at least three completed telephone calls, as specified. Existing law requires that a sign informing the arrested person of this right be posted in a conspicuous place. Under existing law, if the arrested person is identified as a custodial parent with responsibility for a minor child, the arrested person is entitled to make 2 additional calls for the purpose of arranging for the care of the minor child in the parent’s absence, as specified.This bill would additionally require the arresting or booking officer to verbally inform the arrested person of this right. The bill would specify that the arrested person has the right to free telephone calls both during and outside of business hours. The bill would allow an arrested person to make 2 additional calls if they are responsible for providing care to another household member for the purpose of arranging for their care. The bill would require the arresting or booking officer to, immediately upon booking and no later than 2 hours after arrest, notify the public defender or indigent defense provider for the county that the arrested person is in custody.(3) Existing law prohibits the court from accepting a plea of guilty for a felony not punishable by death or life imprisonment from a defendant who does not appear with counsel unless the court fully informs the defendant of the right to counsel and finds that the defendant understands the right and freely waives it, as specified.This bill would expand this to misdemeanors, require an additional advisal prior to a person waiving the right to counsel, and require the court to inform the defendant through an individualized colloquy and in writing of their right to counsel, as specified. The bill would establish a presumption that a plea taken without counsel is not knowing, intelligent, and voluntary, as specified. The bill would prohibit a prosecutor and judge from communicating a plea offer, disposition, or resolution to a defendant unless counsel is present or the defendant has waived counsel, as specified.(4) Existing law requires a person arrested to be taken before a magistrate without delay and, in any event, within 48 hours after arrest, not including weekends and holidays, as specified. Existing law allows an attorney to visit a prisoner after their arrest upon th
CA AB 121 - House Budget Committee
Developmental services.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
AB 121, Committee on Budget. Developmental services. (1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Developmental Services, and vests in the department jurisdiction over various state developmental centers for the provision of care to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law establishes the State Department of State Hospitals within the California Health and Human Services Agency, and provides the department with jurisdiction over specified facilities for the care and treatment of persons with mental health disorders.Existing law requires that every individual with exceptional needs, as defined, who is eligible be provided with educational instruction, services, or both, at no cost to their parent or guardian or, as appropriate, to them. A free appropriate public education is required to be made available to individuals with exceptional needs in accordance with specified federal regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Existing law recognizes that individuals with exceptional needs of mandated schoolage residing in California’s state hospitals and developmental centers are entitled, under specified federal law, to have the same access to educational programs as is provided for individuals with exceptional needs residing in the community, and establishes contracting and funding provisions for that purpose. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Director of Developmental Services, and the Director of State Hospitals to develop written interagency agreements to carry out the provisions relating to educational programs for individuals with exceptional needs residing in those facilities.Existing law requires the transfer of pupils in state hospital school programs whose individualized education programs indicate that a community school program is appropriate to be transferred to schools located in the community. Existing law authorizes waivers to that requirement only when approved by both the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of Developmental Services. Existing law requires the State Department of Developmental Services, on the first day of each month, upon submission of an invoice by the county superintendent of schools, to pay to the county superintendent of schools 8% of the amount projected to cover the cost of hospital pupils educated in community school programs, as specified. Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to calculate the actual cost of educating those pupils and, if the actual cost is more or less than the projected amount, requires the following year’s distribution to be adjusted accordingly.This bill would authorize waivers described above to be approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and either the State Department of Developmental Services, for individuals receiving developmental disability services, or the State Department of State Hospitals, for individuals receiving mental health services, as specified. The bill would require the State Department of State Hospitals, rather than the State Department of Developmental Services, to make payments to county superintendents of schools with respect to pupils under the State Department of State Hospital’s jurisdiction who are being educated in community school programs. The bill additionally would revise those payment provisions to require the relevant department to pay the entire amount invoiced by the county superintendent of schools, and would require an adjustment to the county’s distribution to be adjusted in the following year only if the actual cost is greater than the amount invoiced by the county superintendent of schools. The bill would update existing references to state hospitals to also refer to developmental centers, and would make various other technical changes, and delete obsolete provisions.(2) Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (act), requires the State Departmen
CA AB 1220 - Steve Bennett
Foster care placement.
02/01/2024 - Died at Desk.
AB 1220, as introduced, Bennett. Foster care placement. Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature to preserve and strengthen a child’s family ties whenever possible, removing the child from the custody of their parents only when necessary for the child’s welfare or for the safety and protection of the public. Existing law declares the further intent of the Legislature that all children live with a committed, permanent, and nurturing family, with services and supports that are tailored to meet the needs of the individual child and family being served, with the ultimate goal of maintaining the family or, when this is not possible, transitioning the child or youth to a permanent family or preparing the child or youth for a successful transition into adulthood.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
CA AB 1226 - Matt Haney
Corrections: Placement of incarcerated persons.
07/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 1226, Haney. Corrections: Placement of incarcerated persons. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to conduct assessments and examinations of all inmates who are newly committed to a state prison that include investigation of all pertinent circumstances of the person’s life, including, but not limited to, data regarding the inmate’s history of substance abuse, medical and mental health, education, family background, criminal activity, and social functioning.Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assign a prisoner to the institution of the appropriate security level and gender population nearest the prisoner’s home, unless other classification factors make such a placement unreasonable.This bill, for an incarcerated person with a parent and child relationship with a child under 18 years of age, as specified, or who is a guardian or relative caregiver of a child, as defined, would require the secretary to place the person in the correctional institution or facility that is located nearest to the primary place of residence of the person’s child, provided that the placement would be suitable and appropriate, would facilitate increased contact between the person and their child, and the incarcerated parent gives their consent to the placement. The bill would authorize the department to reevaluate an incarcerated person’s placement to determine whether existing orders should be modified, including whether the person’s child has moved to a place significantly nearer to an otherwise suitable and appropriate institution. The bill would allow an incarcerated person to request a review of their housing assignment when there is a change in the primary place of residence of the person’s child upon which the person’s housing assignment was based.
CA AB 1245 - Kevin McCarty
Community colleges: childcare providers: course fee waivers.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1245, as amended, McCarty. Community colleges: childcare providers: course fee waivers. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district to charge students a fee of $46 per unit per semester, and requires or authorizes, as provided, the governing board to waive that fee for certain students.This bill would require community college districts to waive the fees for specified courses for students who are employed as childcare providers, as defined, at the time of enrollment. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on community college districts, 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, 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.
CA AB 1248 - Benjamin J. Allen
Local redistricting: independent redistricting commissions.
10/07/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 1248, Bryan. Local redistricting: independent redistricting commissions. Existing law generally requires county boards of supervisors, city councils, and the governing boards of school districts, community college districts, and other special districts, if those bodies are elected using district-based elections, to adopt new boundaries for the districts following each federal decennial census. Notwithstanding that requirement, existing law authorizes a local jurisdiction other than a charter city to establish an independent redistricting commission to adopt new boundaries for the local jurisdiction’s districts.This bill would require a county, general law city, charter city, or charter city and county that contains over 300,000 residents, and a school district or community college district that contains over 500,000 residents, to establish an independent redistricting commission to adopt district boundaries after each federal decennial census. The bill would require a county, general law city, charter city, or charter city or county with over 300,000 residents, and a school district or community college district with over 500,000 residents, that does not enact an ordinance, resolution, or charter amendment establishing an independent redistricting commission by January 1, 2030, and January 1 of every subsequent year ending in 0, to establish a 14-member independent redistricting commission according to specified procedures, including procedures for the random selection of the members of the commission from among applicants meeting certain qualifications. By requiring certain local jurisdictions to establish independent redistricting commissions to adopt district boundaries, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would prohibit a member of an independent redistricting commission from communicating with any individual or organization regarding redistricting matters, except as provided. The bill would require the State Auditor to provide the contact information of any applicant to serve on the Citizens Redistricting Commission, which is responsible for adjusting the boundary lines of the congressional, legislative, and State Board of Equalization districts, to any city or county that has established an independent or hybrid redistricting commission, provided that the applicant has consented to share this information and the city or county has requested to receive this information, and to inform those applicants of opportunities to serve on an independent or hybrid redistricting commission. The bill would require the State Auditor to establish a database and create and advertise a process for this exchange of information. Under existing law, independent redistricting commissions have been established for the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno, and Kern.The bill would exempt the Counties of Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Fresno, and Kern from the bill’s provisions requiring a county with over 300,000 residents to establish an independent redistricting commission, unless the existing law provisions establishing independent redistricting commissions for those counties are repealed or invalidated. The bill also would exempt a charter city with a population of at least 2,500,000 people from the bill’s provisions if specified conditions are met, including if both this bill and Senate Bill 52 are enacted and if the city complies with certain provisions in Senate Bill 52 that require such cities to establish independent redistricting commissions.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 23003 of the Elections Code proposed by Assembly Bill 764 to be operative only if this bill and Assembly Bill 764 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.The California Constitution requires the
CA AB 1260 - Joe Patterson
Parole: notice of release date.
01/22/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 1260, as amended, Joe Patterson. Parole: notice of release date. Existing law requires prisoners sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison to serve time on parole or postrelease community supervision after their release from prison. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release specified information about a person paroled or placed on postrelease community supervision to local law enforcement agencies.When a person is serving a term for a violent felony as defined or child abuse or a sex offense as defined, existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings to notify the sheriff or chief of police, or both, and the district attorney where the person was convicted and where the person is scheduled to be released at least 60 days prior to the scheduled release date.Existing law requires a facility that confines an inmate prior to being sentenced to award credits based on participation in programming and good behavior. Existing constitutional provisions, enacted by the voters as Proposition 57 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorize the department to award credits to prisoners that are earned for good behavior and approved rehabilitative or educational achievements.This bill would require the department to make an initial determination of the minimum eligible parole date for the inmate based on the sentence of the court and any credits awarded or expected to be awarded to the inmate during incarceration. The bill would require the department, if the department awards additional credits, revokes credits, or changes the rate of accrual of good conduct credits and the decision would result in an inmate’s minimum eligible parole date changing more than 6 months, to post the inmate’s new release date on the public inmate locator system.
CA AB 1261 - Miguel Santiago
Crime: witnesses and informants.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1261, Santiago. Crime: witnesses and informants. Existing state law requires, upon request by specified persons, that a certifying official from a certifying entity, as defined, certify “victim helpfulness” or “victim cooperation” on specified federal supplemental forms relating to immigration when the person was a victim of a qualifying criminal activity or human trafficking, and has, is, or is likely to be helpful or cooperative regarding the investigation or prosecution of that qualifying criminal activity, as specified.This bill would specify that a person submitting those forms does not have to be present in the United States at the time of filing, and would require the certifying entity to forward the form to the victim or other specified individuals without requiring the victim to provide government-issued identification. The bill would require a certifying entity that does not certify the form regarding “victim helpfulness” to provide a written explanation for the denial of the certification. The bill would require a certifying entity to certify that form for direct victims, indirect victims, and bystander or witness victims, as specified. The bill would prohibit a certifying entity from refusing to complete either of those forms for specified reasons, including, among others, the informant’s criminal history information or immigration history. The bill would require the certifying entities to process those forms within 7 days if the victim asserts a qualifying family member of the victim will lose eligibility for specified immigration statuses within 60 days. By imposing additional duties on local law enforcement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing federal law provides a petition form to request temporary immigration benefits for a person who is a witness or informant, as specified.This bill would authorize a certifying official from a certifying entity, as defined, to certify that a person is a witness or informant on that federal petition form when the person is an informant with reliable information about an important aspect of a crime or pending commission of a crime, the person is willing to share that information with law enforcement officials or become a witness in court, and the person’s presence in the United States is important and leads to the successful investigation or prosecution of that crime.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.
CA AB 127 - House Budget Committee
State government.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
AB 127, Committee on Budget. State government. (1) Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, among other things, requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, unless the business can demonstrate a compelling reason that a different setting is in the best interests of children, and to provide privacy information, terms of service, policies, and community standards concisely, prominently, and using clear language suited to the age of children likely to access that online service, product, or feature.Existing law establishes the California Children’s Data Protection Working Group to deliver a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2024, and every 2 years thereafter, regarding best practices for the implementation of these provisions, as specified. Existing law requires the working group to select a chair and a vice chair from among its members and requires the working group to consist of 10 members, as specified.This bill would specify that the working group is within the Office of the Attorney General, and would require the report to, instead, be delivered on or before July 1, 2024, and every 2 years thereafter. The bill would instead require the working group to consist of 9 members, as specified. The bill would permit meetings of the working group to be conducted by means of remote communication, as specified.(2) The California Constitution generally prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state and each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior fiscal year, adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in population, and prescribes procedures for making adjustments to the appropriations limit. The California Constitution defines “appropriations subject to limitation” of the state to mean any authorization to expend during a fiscal year the proceeds of taxes levied by or for the state, exclusive of, among other things, state subventions for the use and operation of local government, except as specified. The California Constitution defines “appropriations subject to limitation” of an entity of local government to mean any authorization to expend during a fiscal year the proceeds of taxes levied by or for that entity and the proceeds of state subventions to that entity, except as specified, exclusive of refunds of taxes.Existing statutory provisions implementing these constitutional provisions establish the procedure for establishing the appropriations limit of the state and of each local jurisdiction for each fiscal year. Under existing law, revenues and appropriations for a local jurisdiction include subventions and with respect to the state, revenues and appropriations exclude those subventions. Existing law defines, for those purposes, “state subventions” as only including money received by a local agency from the state, the use of which is unrestricted by the statute providing the subvention.For fiscal years commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year, existing law defines “state subventions” to additionally include money provided to a local agency pursuant to certain state programs and requires any money received by a local agency pursuant to that provision to be included within the appropriations limit of the local agency, up to the full appropriations limit of the local agency, as prescribed.This bill would require the Department of Finance to, no later than February 1 of each year, calculate the individual subvention amounts for each of those state programs and provide this information on an annual basis to the California State Association of Counties and the League of California Cities for distribution to local agencies. The bi
CA AB 1273 - Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Classified employees: Classified Employee Staffing Ratio Workgroup.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 12.).
AB 1273, as amended, Bonta. Classified employees: Classified Employee Staffing Ratio Workgroup. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to employ persons for positions not requiring certification qualifications and to classify those employees and positions, and requires that they be known as the classified service.This bill would require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Industrial Relations, the Labor Commissioner, representatives of employee organizations, and representatives of voluntary local educational agencies, as defined, to convene the Classified Employee Staffing Ratio Workgroup on or before December 31, 2024. The bill would require the workgroup to group classified assignments in a manner that reflects the environmental setting of the assignment, the type of work to be completed, the impact on the assignment made by enrollment at a schoolsite, specialized needs, including certifications or licenses, and other reasonable factors, as specified, and to recommend staffing ratios per grouping, as specified. The bill would require the workgroup to report its recommendations to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2025, as specified. The bill would become operative on July 1, 2024.
CA AB 1274 - Damon Connolly
California Youth Empowerment Commission: civil service workforce.
01/22/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
AB 1274, as amended, Connolly. California Youth Empowerment Commission: civil service workforce. Existing law establishes various social services and programs to address the needs of young people in this state, including the California Youth Empowerment Commission in the Office of Planning and Research. The commission consists of 13 voting commissioners between 14 and 25 years of age and 5 nonvoting members. Existing law charges the advisory commission with making recommendations to the Legislature, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Governor on issues that affect youth, including career preparation, civic engagement, and employment.This bill would add to the list of topics upon which the commission may offer its advice and recommendations fostering a new generation of young Californians to enter the civil service workforce.
CA AB 1275 - Akilah Faizah Weber
Health information.
09/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
AB 1275, as amended, Weber. Health information. Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which includes departments charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services. Existing law establishes the Center for Data Insights and Innovation within the California Health and Human Services Agency to ensure the enforcement of state law mandating the confidentiality of medical information. Existing law also establishes the State Department of Health Care Services and requires the department, among other things, to administer the Medi-Cal program.This bill would require the department, in collaboration with the agency, to collect appropriate data and identify indicators for tracking telehealth outcomes associated with impacting individual patient outcomes and overall population health. The bill would require the department to use the data collected to measure health outcomes of populations, as specified. The bill would make a related intent statement.
CA AB 1283 - Phillip Chen
Pupil health: emergency stock albuterol inhalers.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.).
AB 1283, as amended, Chen. Pupil health: emergency stock albuterol inhalers. Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided.This bill would authorize a school district, county office of education, or charter school to provide emergency stock albuterol inhalers, including, if necessary, single-use disposable holding chambers, as specified, to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and would authorize school nurses or trained personnel to use an emergency stock albuterol inhaler to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from respiratory distress, as provided. The bill would prohibit a local educational agency that elects to utilize stock albuterol inhalers for emergency aid from being liable for civil damages for this administration, except as provided, and would require those local educational agencies to provide defense and indemnity to an employee who volunteers under these provisions for any and all civil liability, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish, and post on the State Department of Education’s internet website, minimum standards of training for the administration of stock albuterol inhalers, as provided, and every 5 years or sooner, as provided, review those standards. The bill would define the terms, including, among others, “stock albuterol inhaler” and “respiratory distress” for purposes of these provisions.
CA AB 1285 - Buffy Wicks
Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program and Encampment Resolution Funding program.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 1285, Wicks. Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program and Encampment Resolution Funding program. Existing law establishes the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program, administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, to provide grant funds to cities, continuums of care, and tribes in 5 rounds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the effort of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. Existing law requires, to be eligible for a round 5 base program allocation, a jurisdiction that is not a tribe to apply as part of a region and to be signatory to a regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that has been approved by the council. Existing law requires the regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to include, among other things, an explanation of how each participating jurisdiction is utilizing local, state, and federal funding programs to end homelessness.Existing law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program, administered by the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, to increase collaboration between the council, local jurisdictions, and continuums of care for specified purposes. Existing law requires the council to award moneys pursuant to the program as competitive grants, as specified, to be used to support encampment resolution and rehousing efforts for local jurisdictions. Existing law requires the council to prioritize funding applicants that demonstrate a commitment to cross-systems collaboration and innovative efforts to resolve encampment issues or have 50 or more individuals living in the encampment.This bill would require the above-described regionally coordinated homelessness action plan to additionally include evidence and an explanation by a continuum of care that shares geographic boundaries with a city, county, or city and county that is using state funding allocated pursuant to the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program or is receiving state funding pursuant to the Encampment Resolution Funding program to provide services or housing for place-based encampment resolution, of collaboration with the city, county, or city and county that addresses how people served through encampment resolution have or will be included in prioritization for permanent housing within coordinated entry systems.
CA AB 1287 - David Alvarez
Density Bonus Law: maximum allowable residential density: additional density bonus and incentives or concessions.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1287, Alvarez. Density Bonus Law: maximum allowable residential density: additional density bonus and incentives or concessions. Existing law, referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other concessions or incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct specified percentages of units for lower income households or very low income households, and meets other requirements. Existing law defines the term “density bonus” for these purposes to mean a density increase over the otherwise maximum allowable gross residential density as of the date of the application, as described. Existing law defines the term “maximum allowable residential density” for these purposes to mean the maximum number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the maximum number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project. Existing law provides under that definition that if the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the general plan or specific plan, the greater density prevails.This bill would instead define “maximum allowable residential density” to mean the greatest number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the greatest number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project. The bill would also remove from that definition the provision stating that the greater density prevails if the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the general plan or specific plan.This bill would require a city, county, or city and county to grant an additional density bonus, calculated as specified, when (1) an applicant proposes to construct a housing development that conforms to specified requirements, (2) the applicant agrees to include additional rental or for-sale units affordable to very low income households or moderate-income households, as specified, and (3) the housing development conforms to specified requirements and provides 24% of the total units to lower income households, conforms to specified requirements and provides 15% of the total units to very low income households, or conforms to specified requirements and provides 44% of the total units to moderate-income units. The bill would require a city, county, or city and county to grant four incentives or concessions for a project that includes at least 16% of the units for very low income households or at least 45% for persons and families of moderate income in a development in which the units are for sale. The bill would increase the incentives or concessions for a project in which 100% of all units are for lower income households, as specified, from 4 to 5.The Density Bonus Law prohibits a local government from conditioning the submission, review, or approval of an application pursuant to the Density Bonus Law on the preparation of an additional report or study that is not otherwise required by state law, but provides that this provision does not prohibit a local government from requiring an applicant to provide reasonable documentation to establish eligibility for a requested density bonus, incentives or concessions, waivers or reductions of development standards, and parking ratios, as specified.This bill would instead provide that this provision does not prohibit a local government from requiring an applicant to provide reasonable documentation to establish eligibility for a requested density bonus and parking ratios, as specified.The Califo
CA AB 129 - House Budget Committee
Housing.
06/29/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 129, as amended, Committee on Budget. Housing. (1) Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for purposes of carrying out state housing policies and programs, and creates in HCD the California Housing Finance Agency.This bill would remove the California Housing Finance Agency from within HCD. This bill would continue the existence of the California Housing Finance Agency in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency.This bill would also make technical, conforming changes and would delete obsolete references.(2) Existing federal law authorizes the United States Secretary of Agriculture to extend financial assistance through multifamily housing direct loan and grant programs to serve very low, low-, and moderate-income households, including, among other programs, Section 515 Rural Rental Housing Loans, which are mortgages to provide affordable rental housing for very low, low-, and moderate-income families, elderly persons, and persons with disabilities.Existing law establishes a low-income housing tax credit program pursuant to which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee provides procedures and requirements for the allocation, in modified conformity with federal law, of state insurance, personal income, and corporation tax credit amounts to qualified low-income housing projects that have been allocated, or qualify for, a federal low-income housing tax credit and farmworker housing. Existing law requires not less than 20% of the low-income housing tax credits available annually to be set aside for allocation to rural areas. Existing law defines “rural area” for purposes of the low-income housing tax credit program as an area, which, on January 1 of any calendar year, satisfies any number of certain criteria, including being eligible for financing under the Section 515 program, or successor program, of the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. This bill would expand the above-described criteria relating to Section 515 eligibility to instead include eligibility for financing under a multifamily housing program, as specified, or successor program, of the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Existing law also includes in the definition of “rural area” an unincorporated area that adjoins a city having a population of 40,000 or less, provided that the city and its adjoining unincorporated area are not located within a census tract designated as an urbanized area by the United States Census Bureau.This bill would revise the definition of “rural area” to include an unincorporated area that adjoins a city having a population of 40,000 or less, provided that the unincorporated area is not located within a census tract, block group, or block designated as an urban area by the United States Census Bureau in the most recent decennial census. The bill would also include in the definition of “rural area” an unincorporated area that does not adjoin a city, provided that the unincorporated area is not located within a census tract, block group, or block designated as an urban area by the United States Census Bureau in the most recent decennial census.(3) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The law requires HCD to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. Existing law requires HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by HCD, as prescribed. Existing law awards jurisdictions that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions and that are prohousing additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs, including, among others, the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Prog
CA AB 1299 - Corey A. Jackson
School safety: school resource officers: school police officers: school safety plans.
02/01/2024 - Died on third reading file.
AB 1299, as amended, Jackson. School safety: school resource officers: school police officers: school safety plans. (1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a school police department under the supervision of a school chief of police and employ peace officers to ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils, as provided. This bill would require a police officer who is not employed or contracted as a school resource officer to notify the principal of a school, or the principal’s designee, before accessing school grounds or engaging with pupils, except as provided. The bill would require the governing board of a school district, if it provides training to a police officer employed by the school district, to provide that same training to a police officer with whom the governing board of the school district has contracted to perform law enforcement activities, as provided.(2) Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Existing law requires that the plan include identification of appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school’s procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety.This bill would additionally require, as part of the comprehensive school safety plan, the development of procedures and policies relating to use of police officers, including school resource officers, or any other law enforcement official acting as a school resource officer, on school campus, to include prohibitions on the use of handcuffs and pepper spray on a school campus, except as provided.Existing law prohibits a chartering authority from denying a petition for the establishment of a charter school unless it makes written factual findings supporting at least one of specified bases for denial. One of those bases for denying a petition is if the petition does not contain a reasonably comprehensive description of the development of a school safety plan that includes the same safety topics required in the comprehensive school safety plan of a school district or county office of education.This bill would authorize a chartering authority to deny a charter school petition that does not include in its proposed development of a school safety plan the same provisions on procedures and policies relating to use of police officers, including school resource officers, or any other law enforcement official acting as a school resource officer, as are required by the bill in a school district or county office of education comprehensive school safety plan.By creating new duties for local educational agencies, including charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(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.
CA AB 13 - Bill Essayli
Elections: Election Day holiday: voting by mail.
01/26/2023 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ELECTIONS. Read second time and amended.
AB 13, as amended, Essayli.
Elections: Election Day holiday: voting by mail.
(1) Existing law requires the statewide general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. Existing law designates specific days as holidays in this state. This bill would add the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of any even-numbered year to the list of state holidays. By increasing the duties of local officials in connection with the creation of a new state holiday, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law requires county elections officials to mail a ballot to every registered voter for all elections, as provided. Existing law authorizes any county to conduct an all-mailed ballot election if certain requirements are met.This bill would repeal the provisions requiring county elections officials to mail a ballot to every registered voter and authorizing a county to conduct an all-mailed ballot election. The bill would instead authorize a voter
to request a vote by mail ballot for any election, as specified. The bill would also authorize a voter to apply to become a permanent vote by mail voter, in which case the voter would receive a vote by mail ballot for every election.(3) Existing law authorizes a voter who is unable to return their ballot to designate any other person to return the ballot, as specified.This bill would restrict the persons a voter may authorize to return the voter’s ballot to only the voter’s spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or a person residing in the same household as the voter.(4) Under existing law, a ballot is timely cast if it is received by the elections official no later than 7 days after election day and postmarked on or before election day.This bill would reduce the deadline for receiving a ballot to 3 days after election day.(5) This bill would make various conforming and clarifying changes.(6) 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.
CA AB 1302 - Tom Lackey
Vital records: adopted persons and original birth certificates.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1302, as amended, Lackey. Vital records: adopted persons and original birth certificates. Existing law requires that a court report of adoption be filed with the original record of birth and that these records remain a part of the records of the State Registrar. Existing law provides that vital records related to adoptions, other than a newly issued birth certificate, shall be available only upon the order of the superior court of the county of residence of the adopted child or of the county granting the order of adoption. Existing law prohibits the order from being granted unless a verified petition setting forth facts showing the necessity of the order has been presented to the court and good and compelling cause is shown for granting the order.This bill would, beginning January 1, 2025, require a superior court to grant a petition and require the State Registrar to provide a copy of the original unredacted birth certificate of an adopted person upon receipt of a verified petition filed by that adopted person who is 18 years of age or older and was the subject of an adoption occurring before January 1, 2025. The bill would require, for an adoption occurring before January 1, 2025, the State Registrar to provide notice to each birth parent on the original birth certificate, as specified, informing them that the original and unredacted birth certificate of the adopted child has been requested by the adopted person. The bill would require the notice to include a form on which each birth parent may indicate that they authorize a copy of the original and unredacted birth certificate to be provided to the adopted person. The bill would prohibit the State Registrar from providing the original and unredacted birth certificate if either birth parent did not receive the notice, as specified, but would permit the State Registrar to provide the birth certificate with information identifying and pertaining to the birth parent that did not receive or did not respond to the notice redacted.This bill would require the State Registrar, for adoptions occurring on or after January 1, 2025, upon receiving notice that adoption proceedings have been completed, to provide notice to each birth parent named on the original birth certificate of an adopted person who is the subject of adoption proceedings informing each birth parent that the adopted person may request a copy of the original and unredacted birth certificate. The bill would require a superior court to grant a petition and require the State Registrar to provide a copy of the original unredacted birth certificate of an adopted person upon receipt of a verified petition filed by that adopted person who is 18 years of age or older and was the subject of an adoption occurring on or after January 1, 2025. The bill would require the State Registrar to provide notice to each birth parent on the original birth certificate, as specified, informing them that the original and unredacted birth certificate will be provided to the adopted person absent the parent’s refusal, as specified. The bill would prohibit the State Registrar from providing the original and unredacted birth certificate if either birth parent did not receive the notice, as specified, but would permit the State Registrar to provide the birth certificate with information identifying and pertaining to the birth parent that did not receive or did not respond to the notice redacted.This bill would also require a superior court to grant a petition and direct the State Registrar to provide a copy of the adopted person’s original and unredacted birth certificate if a verified petition is filed by an adopted person who is 18 years of age or older and both parents listed on a birth certificate of the adopted person are deceased, as verified by the Office of Vital Records.
CA AB 1306 - Scott D. Wiener
State government: immigration enforcement.
09/11/2023 - In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 1306, as amended, Wendy Carrillo. State government: immigration enforcement. Existing law, the California Values Act, prohibits a California law enforcement agency, defined as including both state and local agencies but excluding the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, from providing a person’s release date or responding to a request for notification of a release date, unless that information is available to the public.The bill would prohibit the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from detaining on the basis of a hold request, providing an immigration authority with release date information, or responding to a notification request, transferring to an immigration authority, or facilitating or assisting with a transfer request any individual who is eligible for release pursuant to specified provisions, including, among others, youth offender, elderly, and medical parole releases.Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to cooperate with the United States Department of Homeland Security by providing the use of prison facilities, transportation, and general support, as needed, for the purposes of conducting and expediting deportation hearings and subsequent placement of deportation holds on undocumented immigrants who are incarcerated in state prison.Existing law requires the department to identify inmates serving terms in state prison who are undocumented aliens subject to deportation. Existing law would require the department, upon the enactment of any federal law requiring these persons to be incarcerated in federal prison, to provide this information to the federal government, as specified.This bill would repeal these provisions.
CA AB 1314 - Joe Patterson
Gender identity: parental notification.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1314, as amended, Essayli. Gender identity: parental notification. Existing law provides that parents and guardians of children enrolled in public schools have the right, and should have the opportunity, as mutually supportive and respectful partners in the education of their children within the public schools, to be informed by the school, and to participate in the education of their children, as specified to include, among other things, having access to the school records of their child.Existing law authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling services, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if, in the opinion of the attending professional person, the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in those services, or to outpatient mental health treatment or counseling services if the foregoing is true and the minor would present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to self or to others without the mental health treatment or counseling or residential shelter services, or is the alleged victim of incest or child abuse. Existing law requires the mental health treatment or counseling of a minor authorized by these provisions to include involvement of the minor’s parent or guardian unless, in the opinion of the professional person who is treating or counseling the minor, the involvement would be inappropriate.This bill would, notwithstanding the consent provisions described above, provide that a parent or guardian has the right to be notified in writing within 3 days from the date any teacher, counselor, or employee of the school becomes aware that a pupil is identifying at school as a gender that does not align with the child’s sex on their birth certificate, other official records, or sex assigned at birth, using sex-segregated school programs and activities, including athletic teams and competitions, or using facilities that do not align with the child’s sex on their birth certificate, other official records, or sex assigned at birth. The bill would state legislative intent related to these provisions. By imposing additional duties on public school officials, 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, 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.
CA AB 132 - House Budget Committee
Income taxes: tax credits: motion pictures: occupational safety: California Film Commission.
08/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 132, as amended, Committee on Budget. Income taxes: tax credits: motion pictures: occupational safety: California Film Commission. (1) Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, with the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, requires employers to comply with certain standards ensuring healthy and safe working conditions, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Other existing law relating to occupational safety imposes special provisions on certain industries and charges the division with enforcement of these provisions. This bill would establish the Safety on Productions Pilot Program. The bill, commencing July 1, 2025, and until June 30, 2030, inclusive, would require that an employer for a motion picture production that receives a specified motion picture tax credit, for that motion picture production, hire or assign a qualified safety advisor for California filming activities to perform a risk assessment and, if required under the bill, a specific risk assessment, as specified. The bill would require a dedicated safety advisor to be present on every motion picture production in the pilot program who is assigned exclusively to that motion picture production. The bill would require assessments to be accessible to specified affected persons and safety advisor access to locations and relevant facilities and items to ensure safety. The bill would require production to conduct a daily safety meeting, including, but not limited to, a safety meeting required when firearms are involved in a scene. The bill would require a safety advisor to participate in daily safety meetings, as specified. The bill would require an employer to identify a person for performers, crew, labor organization representatives, and the division to contact for issues regarding compliance. The bill would require the safety advisor to prepare a final safety evaluation report based on the actual risk and compliance experience. The bill would require the safety advisor, within 60 days following completion of filming activities, to provide the final safety evaluation report to the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee and the California Film Commission. The bill would require the committee and the California Film Commission to jointly select an organization or firm to perform a written evaluation of the pilot program. The bill would require the selected organization or firm to review and assess the final safety evaluation reports on or before June 30, 2029, and make a nonbinding set of recommendations to the Legislature, as prescribed. These pilot program provisions would be repealed as of January 1, 2031. This bill would allow the use of a firearm or blank on motion picture productions only for specified purposes and under specified safety conditions. The bill would require a qualified property master, armorer, or assistant property master handling a firearm in the course of the motion picture production to have a specified state permit, to have completed certain training in firearms, and to have a specified federal document for the possession and custody of the firearm. The bill would specifically impose prescribed reporting requirements on employers engaged in motion picture production. The bill would specifically authorize the division to investigate, inspect, and cite employers, as prescribed. This bill would prohibit ammunition on a motion picture production, except in prescribed circumstances, subject to certain safety rules and laws. The bill would require an
CA AB 1321 - Mia Bonta
California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1321, as amended, Bonta. California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program. Existing law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to, among other things, plan and evaluate strategies for overcoming poverty in the state, mobilize resources in support of antipoverty and community services programs, and administer public and private funds designed to support antipoverty programs that are not currently administered by other departments.Existing law establishes the Cradle-to-Career Data System for the purpose of connecting individuals and organizations to trusted information and resources, as a source for actionable data and research on education, economic, and health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, and to provide for expanded access to tools and services that support the education-to-employment pipeline, as specified.This bill, the It Takes a Village Act of 2023, subject upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or another statute for these purposes, would establish the California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program to be administered by the State Department of Social Services or another department within the California Health and Human Services Agency. The bill would require the department to grant awards on a competitive basis for the 2025–26 through 2027–28 fiscal years to eligible entities that are Promise Neighborhoods, other community-based networks, or multineighborhood regional cradle-to-career networks, as those terms are defined, to either implement a comprehensive, integrated continuum of cradle-to-career solutions at the neighborhood level or support the civic infrastructure and backbone of cradle-to-career networks that support their network partners to accomplish systems change. The bill would define “cradle-to-career” to mean a system of integrated services that begins before birth and leads to appropriate postsecondary success, including academic, occupational, and independent living, that benefits the individual and community as a whole. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop an application process and would require the department to establish performance standards to measure progress on indicators and results relevant to the evaluation of the grant program. The bill would require grant recipients to contribute matching funds and prepare and submit an annual report to the department, as specified.
CA AB 1323 - Ash Kalra
School safety: mandatory notifications.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1323, as amended, Kalra. School safety: mandatory notifications. (1) Existing law provides that any person who willfully disturbs any public school or any public school meeting is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $500.The bill would exempt from those misdemeanor and fine provisions a person who, at the time of the disturbance, is a pupil of the school district.(2) Existing law requires, if any employee of a school district or county superintendent of schools is attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil, the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident are required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities. Under existing law, failure to make the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and acts by specified persons to inhibit or impede the making of the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000.This bill would delete those infraction provisions for a failure to report and for inhibiting or impeding the making of the report. The bill would authorize, instead of require, the employee who was the target of the incident to make that notification and prohibit the governing board of a school district, a member of the governing board, a county superintendent of schools, and an employee of a school district or of the office of any county superintendent of schools from imposing any sanctions against a person making that notification. The bill would strongly encourage an employee of a school district or of the office of a county superintendent of schools to employ other means of correction, as provided, before considering a law enforcement referral.(3) The federal Gun-Free Schools Act prohibits a local educational agency from receiving certain federal funds unless the local educational agency has a policy requiring referral to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system of any student who brings a firearm or weapon to a school served by the local educational agency.Existing state law requires the principal of a school or the principal’s designee to notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of the county or city in which the school is situated of certain acts committed by a pupil that may be unlawful, including, among others, the selling or possession of narcotics or other designated controlled or regulated substances, and acts of assault, as specified.This bill instead would require that notification only if the pupil’s acts require notification under that federal law, or a pupil or nonpupil’s acts include possessing, selling, or otherwise furnishing a firearm or possessing an explosive.
CA AB 1324 - Isaac G. Bryan
Child welfare agencies: enforcement.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1324, as amended, Bryan. Child welfare agencies: enforcement. Existing law delegates to the Department of Child Support Services and local child support agencies the responsibility for collecting and enforcing child support obligations, including child support delinquencies, as defined. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to promulgate regulations for county child welfare departments, including, but not limited to, any case of separation or desertion of a parent from a child that results in foster care assistance payments, payments for a minor child placed in the same home as a minor or nonminor dependent parent, and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) payments to a caretaker relative of a child who comes within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Existing law requires those regulations to require the county child welfare department to determine whether it is in the best interests of the child or nonminor to have the case referred to the local child support agency for child support services. Existing law, on or before October 1, 2023, further requires those regulations to require the county child welfare department to presume that the payment of support by the parent is likely to pose a barrier to the proposed reunification. This bill would, on or before January 1, 2025, require the Department of Child Support Services to identify all child support referrals made pursuant to the above-described provisions prior to January 1, 2023. The bill would require the department to direct local child support agencies to cease enforcement of arrearages assigned to the state for the reimbursement of foster care placements and seek modification of child support orders when necessary to eliminate ongoing obligations, including the cancellation of all arrears owed to the state and any accrued interest. The bill would also require the department, on or before June 1, 2024, to implement these provisions by means of departmental letters or similar written instructions.By increasing the duties of the county child welfare department and the local child support agency, 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.
CA AB 1327 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Interscholastic athletics: California Interscholastic Federation: racial discrimination, harassment, or hazing.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1327, Weber. Interscholastic athletics: California Interscholastic Federation: racial discrimination, harassment, or hazing. Existing law describes the California Interscholastic Federation as a voluntary organization that consists of school and school-related personnel with responsibility for administering interscholastic athletic activities in secondary schools, and sets forth the Legislature’s intent regarding the California Interscholastic Federation’s implementation of certain policies. Existing law requires the California Interscholastic Federation, on or before January 1, 2023, and on or before January 1 every 7 years thereafter, to report to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Governor on its evaluation and accountability activities undertaken pursuant to specified provisions. Upon receiving a report from the California Interscholastic Federation, existing law requires the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature to hold a joint hearing, and requires the California Interscholastic Federation to testify on information in the report, as provided.This bill would require the California Interscholastic Federation to, during years in which the California Interscholastic Federation is not required to submit a report, and at the request of the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature, make itself available for hearings regarding the information that is covered by the report. The bill would require the State Department of Education, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, a standardized incident form to track racial discrimination, harassment, or hazing, as defined, that occurs at high school sporting games or sporting events, and annually report the information from completed incident forms on the department’s internet website, as provided. The bill would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school that participates in the California Interscholastic Federation to, on or before April 1, 2025, post the standardized incident form on its internet website and upon request by the department, submit information related to any completed standardized incident forms received by that local educational agency.
CA AB 133 - House Budget Committee
Courts.
08/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 133, as amended, Committee on Budget. Courts. (1) The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts, and establishes the Judicial Council to, among other things, adopt rules of court and perform functions prescribed by statute. Existing law, the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law, authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of, among others, nonprofit public benefit corporations.This bill would establish the California Access to Justice Commission, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, and would authorize the commission to receive funding appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would specify the membership of the commission and terms of the members. The bill would specify the purposes for which the commission may receive and use funding including, among others, providing ongoing leadership in efforts to achieve full and equal access to justice for all Californians. The bill would make the commission subject to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law and would set the public meeting requirements for the commission.(2) Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation. Existing law requires an attorney or law firm receiving or disbursing trust funds to establish and maintain an Interest On Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) account in which the attorney or law firm is required to deposit or invest specified client deposits or funds. Existing law requires interest and dividends earned on IOLTA accounts to be paid to the State Bar of California and used for programs providing civil legal services without charge to indigent persons. Existing law requires the State Bar of California to distribute IOLTA funds and specified other funds to qualified legal service projects and qualified support centers, as defined, for the provision of civil legal services without charge to indigent persons in accordance with a specified statutory scheme. Existing law authorizes qualified legal services projects and qualified support centers to use the funds to provide work opportunities with pay and scholarships for disadvantaged law students to help defray their law school expenses, among other purposes.This bill would authorize qualified legal service projects and qualified support centers to also use the funds to provide loan repayment assistance for the purposes of recruiting and retaining attorneys in accordance with a loan repayment assistance program administered by the California Access to Justice Commission. The bill would appropriate $250,000 from the General Fund to the Judicial Council to provide funding to the California Access to Justice Commission to administer a tax advantaged student loan repayment assistance program for service providers employed by qualified legal service projects and support centers, as specified.(3) Existing law establishes the Appellate Court Trust Fund, the proceeds of which shall be used for the purpose of funding the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. Existing law requires the funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be apportioned by the Judicial Council to the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court taking into consideration all other funds available and the needs of each court in a manner that promotes equal access to the courts, ensures the ability of the courts to carry out their functions, and promotes implementation of statewide policies.This bill would authorize the funds to be apportioned by the Judicial Council to the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and the Judicial Council, taking into consideration all other funds available to each and the needs of each.(4) Existing law generally requires the superior court, as an employer, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to sit. Ex
CA AB 1333 - Christopher M. Ward
Residential real property: bundled sales.
01/12/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 1333, as amended, Ward. Residential real property: bundled sales. Existing law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust and prescribes a procedure for the exercise of that power. Existing law, until January 1, 2031, for purposes of the exercise of a power of sale, prohibits a trustee from bundling properties for the purpose of sale, instead requiring each property to be bid on separately, unless the deed of trust or mortgage provides otherwise. Existing law also prohibits specified institutions that, during their immediately preceding annual reporting period, as established with their primary regulator, foreclosed on 175 or more residential real properties, containing no more than 4 dwelling units, from conducting a sale of 2 or more parcels of real property containing one to 4 residential dwelling units, inclusive, at least 2 of which have been acquired through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust.This bill would prohibit a developer of residential one to 4 dwelling units, inclusive, from conducting a sale of 2 or more parcels of real property containing one to 4 residential dwelling units, inclusive, in a single transaction to an institutional investor, as defined, if the occupancy permit was issued on or after January 1, 2025.
CA AB 134 - House Budget Committee
Public safety trailer bill.
06/24/2023 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 134, as amended, Committee on Budget. Public safety trailer bill. (1) Existing law, the California Public Records Act, authorizes the inspection and copying of any public record except where specifically prohibited by law. Existing law, with specified exemptions, makes confidential and exempts from disclosure the personnel records of peace officers and custodial records and certain other records maintained by their employing agencies. Existing law provides that this exemption from disclosure does not apply to investigations of these officers or their employing agencies and related proceedings conducted by a grand jury, a district attorney’s office, or the Attorney General’s office.Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to, among other functions, certify the eligibility of those persons appointed as peace officers throughout the state. Existing law establishes the Peace Officer Standards Accountability Division within POST to review investigations conducted by law enforcement agencies and to conduct additional investigations into serious misconduct that may provide grounds for suspension or revocation of a peace officer’s certification.This bill would exempt from the aforementioned confidentiality provisions, investigations of peace officers and custodial officers or their employing agencies and related proceedings conducted by POST. This bill would provide that, until January 1, 2027, specified records in the possession of POST related to these functions are not public records subject to disclosure, although those same records may be subject to disclosure by the agency that employs or previously employed the peace officer.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.(2) Existing law requires the Department of Justice, on a monthly basis, to review the records in the statewide criminal justice databases and identify persons who are eligible for arrest record relief and automatic conviction record relief. Commencing on July 1, 2023, existing law makes arrest record relief available to a person who has been arrested for a felony, including a felony punishable in the state prison, as specified. Commencing on July 1, 2023, existing law makes conviction record relief available for a defendant convicted, on or after January 1, 2005, of a felony for which they did not complete probation without revocation if the defendant appears to have completed all terms of incarceration, probation, mandatory supervision, postrelease community supervision, and parole, and a period of 4 years has elapsed during which the defendant was not convicted of a new felony offense, except as specified.This bill would delay the implementation of these provisions until July 1, 2024. (3) Existing law authorizes the court, in its discretion and in the interest of justice in specified cases, to permit the defendant to withdraw their plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty, or, if the defendant has been convicted after a plea of not guilty, to set aside the verdict of guilty, and to dismiss the accusations or information against the defendant and release the defendant from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense for which they have been convicted. Existing law authorizes a person who was under 18 years of age at the time of commission of a misdemeanor to, in specified circumstances, petition the court for an order sealing the record of conviction and other official records in the case. Existing law authorizes the court to require the defendant or petitioner in these circumstances to reimburse the court, city, and county for actual costs of services rendered under these pr
CA AB 1344 - Miguel Santiago
Surviving child benefits.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1344, as amended, Santiago. Surviving child benefits. Existing federal law establishes the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program to provide monthly benefits to qualified retired and disabled workers and their spouses, dependents, and survivors. Existing federal law provides various benefits to veterans, their dependents, and their survivors administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (USDVA).This bill would require the Department of Child Support Services to issue guidance to local child support agencies directing them to, and would require local child support agencies to, inform a custodial parent or guardian of benefits under the federal OASDI program and benefits provided to survivors of veterans by the USDVA when the local child support agency becomes aware that a child’s noncustodial parent has died and the local child support agency has information that suggests that the child may be eligible for either of those programs. The bill would similarly require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Care Services to jointly issue guidance to county human services agencies directing them to, and would require county human services agencies to, inform a parent or guardian of benefits under the federal OASDI program and benefits provided to survivors of veterans by the USDVA when the county becomes aware that a child’s parent has died and the county has information that suggests that the child may be eligible for either of those programs. By imposing new duties on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to submit a report to the Legislature that includes information on the requirements and cost to establish a state-funded program to provide cash assistance to a child with a deceased parent who is not eligible for survivor benefits under the federal OASDI program and how many children in California would be eligible for that state-funded program.This bill would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature or a provision of federal or private funds for these purposes, require the State Department of Social Services to establish and oversee the California Survivor Benefit (CalSurvivor) Program, a county- or county consortia-administered program to provide cash assistance for a minor who is a California resident with a deceased parent, who was also a California resident upon their death, when the minor is not eligible for federal OASDI survivor benefits, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to authorize counties to establish an advocacy program to assist specified applicants and recipients of CalSurvivor benefits in the application process for federal OASDI survivor benefits if they do not meet certain verification requirements of the program. The bill would require participating counties, as part of the advocacy program, to inform the applicant of the potential impact of receiving benefits under the CalSurvivor Program on their eligibility for other assistance programs. The bill would require the department to report to the Legislature, by July 1, 2027, on the outcomes of the CalSurvivor Program and the advocacy programs. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions though all-county letters or similar instructions or emergency regulations. By requiring counties to administer the CalSurvivor Program, 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.
CA AB 135 - House Budget Committee
Public safety.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 135, as amended, Committee on Budget. Public safety. (1) Existing law, operative as of January 1, 2024, will, in a case in which the party bearing the burden of proof proffers expert testimony regarding medical causation and the party’s expert is required as a condition of testifying to opine that causation exists to a reasonable medical probability, allow the party not bearing the burden of proof to offer the testimony of a contrary expert only if the expert can testify that a proffered alternative cause exists to a reasonable medical probability or that a matter cannot meet a reasonable degree of probability in the applicable field, as specified.This bill would, operative as of January 1, 2024, specify that the above provision applies only to general civil actions, as defined in the California Rules of Court.(2) Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for the establishment and operation of separate community correctional reentry centers, as specified. Existing law authorizes the secretary to entertain proposals for the establishment and operation of community correctional reentry centers from public and private entities and requires that preference be given to community correctional reentry centers located near large population centers.This bill would authorize the department to enter into long-term contracts, not to exceed 10 years, for the transfer of prisoners to, or placement of prisoners in, facilities under contract pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require that the secretary advertise potential contracts under these provisions and would require that priority be given to certain community correctional reentry centers, as specified. The bill would prohibit the department, for contracts entered into on or after October 14, 2023, from contracting for the establishment of community correctional reentry centers located in current or former state prison facilities or on current or former state prison property.(3) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide subsequent state or federal arrest or disposition notification to the State Department of Social Services, the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and other authorized entities to assist in, among other things, fulfilling employment, licensing, or certification duties. Existing law requires an entity, other than a law enforcement agency, as defined, to enter into a contract with the Department of Justice in order to receive notification of subsequent state or federal arrests or dispositions for licensing, employment, or certification purposes.This bill would authorize the department to submit fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where they will be retained for the purpose of being searched against future submissions to the FBI, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to search latent fingerprint images against all retained fingerprint submissions. The bill would also authorize the department to collect fees for federal subsequent notification services and remit the fees to the FBI.Existing law authorizes a human resource agency or an employer to request from the Department of Justice records of all convictions or any arrest pending adjudication involving specified offenses of a person who applies for a license, employment, or volunteer position in which they would have supervisory or disciplinary power over a minor or any person under their care. Existing law requires a request for records to include the applicant’s fingerprints and any other data specified by the department. Existing law requires the department to furnish the information to the requesting employer and to send a copy of the information to the applicant.This bill would establish procedures for the department, human resource agency, and employer to follow when a request is made to the department for the conviction and arrest records described above, in
CA AB 1352 - Mia Bonta
Governing boards of school districts: censure or removal of members.
06/21/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
AB 1352, as amended, Bonta. Governing boards of school districts: censure or removal of members. Existing law prohibits a school district from sponsoring any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias on the basis of certain protected characteristics, including race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, or sexual orientation. Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district from adopting any textbooks or other instructional materials that contain any matter reflecting adversely upon persons on the basis of those characteristics. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, when adopting instructional materials, to include only materials that accurately portray the cultural and racial diversity of society, as specified.This bill would expressly prohibit the governing board of a school district from taking an action that contradicts any existing law requiring a school district to have inclusive policies, practices, and curriculum. The bill would authorize the governing board of a school district to censure a member or, by a 2/3 vote of the governing board, remove a member from office if the member prevents the governing board from conducting its business or adopts a policy that contradicts any existing law requiring a school district to have inclusive policies, practices, and curriculum.
CA AB 1356 - Ash Kalra
Relocations, terminations, and mass layoffs.
09/11/2023 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
AB 1356, as amended, Haney. Relocations, terminations, and mass layoffs. Existing law, the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act, governs relocations, terminations, and mass layoffs. Existing law prohibits an employer from ordering a mass layoff, relocation, or termination at a covered establishment unless, 60 days before the order takes effect, the employer gives prescribed written notice of the order to specified entities, including the local workforce investment board and the chief elected official of each city and county government within which the termination, relocation, or mass layoff occurs. Existing law exempts certain types of employment from the act, including seasonal employment where the employees were hired with the understanding that their employment was seasonal and temporary (seasonal employment exemption). Existing law makes an employer who fails to give notice as required liable to each employee entitled to notice who lost their employment for prescribed compensation, calculated for the period of the employer’s violation, up to a maximum of 60 days, or 1/2 the number of days that the employee was employed by the employer, whichever period is smaller. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to enforce specified provisions of existing law, as prescribed. Existing law defines terms for its purposes, including definitions for the terms “employer” and “employee.” Existing law defines “mass layoff” for purposes of the act to mean a layoff during any 30-day period of 50 or more employees at a covered establishment, and defines “covered establishment” as an industrial or commercial facility that employs, or has employed within the preceding 12 months, 75 or more persons.This bill would require the prescribed notice 75 days before the order takes effect, and would make a conforming change to the calculation of employer liability. The bill would modify the requirement for notice to the local workforce investment board and the chief elected official of each city and county government within which the termination, relocation, or mass layoff occurs to apply only to a termination, relocation, or mass layoff that impacts 50 or more employees at a single location. The bill would require a labor contractor to remit to the employee the payment provided to the client employer in the full amount calculated, as specified, for a violation of the notice requirement, and would define a “labor contractor” for purposes of the act.This bill would additionally require for the application of the seasonal employment exemption that the season be complete. The bill would also exempt from the act employees who are employed by a labor contractor to fulfill the needs of a temporary project with a defined end date and are laid off because of the completion of the temporary employment contract, as specified.This bill would include within the term “employer” a client employer of a labor contractor. The bill would include within the term “employee” a person employed by a labor contractor and performing labor with the client employer for at least 6 months of the 12 months and for at least 60 hours preceding the date on which notice is required. The bill would revise the definition of “covered establishment” to instead mean a place of employment that employs, or has employed within the preceding 12 months, 75 or more persons, and would specify that a “covered establishment” may be a single location or a group of locations, as specified. The bill would revise the definition of “mass layoff” to also include employees reporting to a covered establishment.This bill would prohibit an employer from utilizing compliance with the act in connection with a severance agreement and waiver of an employee’s right to claims. The bill would provide that any general release, waiver of claims, or nondisparagement or nondisclosure agreement that is made a condition of the payment of amounts for which the employer is liable is void as a matter of law
CA AB 1359 - Pilar Schiavo
Paid sick days: health care employees.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Stern.
AB 1359, as amended, Schiavo. Paid sick days: health care employees. Existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, entitles employees who satisfy specified requirements to sick leave. The act generally entitles an employee who, on or after July 1, 2015, works in California for the same employer for 30 or more days within a year to paid sick leave, subject to various use and accrual limits. The act also authorizes an employer to limit an employee’s use of accrued paid sick days to 24 hours or 3 days in each year of employment, calendar year, or 12-month period.This bill would grant an employee of a covered health care facility health care worker sick leave, as those terms are defined. The bill would permit accrued leave, and would prescribe for the use and carryover of that leave, including permitting health care worker sick leave to carry over to the following year of employment for those employees, subject to certain conditions. The bill would prohibit a covered health care facility from limiting an employee’s use of health care worker sick leave. The bill would exempt those employees from certain existing limits on the use of accrued paid sick days. The bill would authorize an employee of a covered health care facility to bring a civil action against an employer that violates this provision and would entitle the employee to collect specified legal and equitable relief to remedy a violation.
CA AB 1360 - Kevin Michael McCarty
Hope California: Secured Residential Treatment Pilot Program.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1360, McCarty. Hope California: Secured Residential Treatment Pilot Program. Existing law authorizes a court to grant pretrial diversion to a defendant in specified cases, including when the defendant is suffering from a mental disorder, specified controlled substances crimes, and when the defendant was, or currently is, a member of the United States military.This bill would, until July 1, 2029, authorize the Counties of Sacramento and Yolo to offer secured residential treatment pilot programs, known as Hope California, for individuals suffering from substance use disorders (SUDs) who have been convicted of qualifying drug-motivated felony crimes, as specified. The bill would require the program to meet certain conditions relating to, among other things, a risk, needs, and biopsychosocial assessment, a comprehensive curriculum, a determination by a judge of the length of treatment, data collection, licensing and monitoring of the facility by the State Department of Health Care Services, and reporting to the department and the Legislature.The bill would require the judge to offer the defendant voluntary participation in the pilot programs, as an alternative to a jail or prison sentence otherwise imposed, if the defendant’s crime was caused, in whole or in part, by the defendant’s SUD, the crime was not a sex crime, serious or violent felony, nonviolent drug possession, domestic violence, or driving under the influence, and the judge makes their determination based on the recommendations of the treatment providers, on a finding by the county health and human services agency that the defendant’s participation would be appropriate, and on a specified report prepared with input from interested parties. Under the bill, the defendant would be eligible to receive credits for participation in the program, as specified.The bill would set forth a procedure for the transfer of a participant out of the secured residential treatment program based on the recommendations of the treatment providers or program administrators or based on the participant’s request, as specified.If the participant successfully completes the court-ordered drug treatment, as determined by treatment providers pursuant to the pilot program, the bill would require the court to set aside the conviction and to dismiss the accusation or information against the defendant and would authorize the court to set aside the conviction and to dismiss the accusation or information of any previous drug possession or drug use crimes on the participant’s record.Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, if needed in the course of their duties. Existing law requires the Department of Justice, as part of the state summary criminal history information, to disseminate every conviction rendered against an applicant unless the conviction falls within an exception.This bill would exempt from dissemination a conviction that has been set aside pursuant to the above provisions.Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including mental health and substance use disorder services, pursuant to a schedule of benefits. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law, with certain exceptions based in part on the type and location of the service, provides for the suspension of Medi-Cal benefits to an inmate of a public institution.This bill would, to the extent permitted under federal and state law, make treatment provided to a participant during the program reimbursable under the Medi-Cal program, if the participant is a Medi-Cal beneficiary and the treatment is a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal pr
CA AB 137 - House Budget Committee
Health omnibus trailer bill.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 137, as amended, Committee on Budget. Health omnibus trailer bill. (1) The California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990 requires a person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health to provide hospice services to an individual who is experiencing the last phase of life due to a terminal disease, as defined, and their family, except as provided. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2024, to adopt emergency regulations to implement the recommendations in a specified report of the California State Auditor. Existing law requires the department to maintain the general moratorium on new hospice agency licenses until the department adopts the regulations, but in no event later than March 29, 2024. Existing law requires the moratorium to end on the earlier of 2 years from the date that the California State Auditor publishes a report on hospice agency licensure, or the date the emergency regulations are adopted.This bill would instead require the moratorium to end on the date the emergency regulations are adopted and would extend the deadline by which the department is required to adopt those regulations to January 1, 2025.(2) Under existing law, the Department of Health Care Services is responsible for licensing and certifying alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment programs and facilities, including both residential and nonresidential programs. Existing law requires the department to charge a fee for the licensure or certification of these facilities and to evaluate licensing and certification fees annually, taking into consideration the overall cost of specified residential and outpatient licensing and certification activities of the department, plus a reasonable reserve. Existing law requires the department to submit proposed new fees or fee changes to the Legislature for approval, as specified, and prohibits new fees or fee changes without legislative approval. Existing law establishes the Residential and Outpatient Program Licensing Fund, consisting of fees, fines, and penalties collected from residential and outpatient programs.This bill would require any excess fees remaining in the Residential and Outpatient Program Licensing Fund at the end of each fiscal year to be carried forward and taken into consideration in setting the amount of fees imposed in the immediately subsequent fiscal year. The bill would authorize the department, no sooner than July 1, 2027, to approve a fee increase, up to and including 5 percent on an annual basis, as needed to address the costs of the licensing and certification activities described above. The bill would require the department to submit any proposed new fees or fee increases in excess of 5 percent to the Legislature for approval and would prohibit new fees or fee changes in excess of 5 percent to be implemented without legislative approval. The bill would require the department to develop a process for programs and facilities to apply for a hardship fee waiver and issue a provider bulletin detailing the application process for the hardship fee waiver that includes eligibility requirements for demonstrated need by July 1, 2024.Existing law requires the department to implement the licensing and certification provisions for alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment programs and facilities through the Administrative Procedure Act. Existing law authorizes the department to implement new fees or fee changes by means of provider bulletins or similar action and to supersede the existing licensing and certification fees until the department amends the regulations. Existing law requires the department to notify and consult with interested parties and appropriate stakeholders regarding new fees or fee changes.This bill would remove the requirement that the department implement the licensing and certification provisions described above through the Administrative Procedures Act. The bill w
CA AB 1370 - Tri Ta
California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.
07/03/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 1370, as amended, Ta. California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program to, among other things, advance California’s economic growth and global competitiveness through education, training, and services that contribute to continuous workforce improvement. Existing law authorizes the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to award grants and project funds for the program, as specified. Existing law establishes the Job Development Incentive Training Program as a component of the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the Job Development Incentive Training Program provide training on a no-cost or low-cost basis to participating employers who create employment opportunities at an acceptable wage level for the attainment of self-sufficiency by specified groups. Existing law requires the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program to be implemented only during those fiscal years for which funds are appropriated for its purposes. Existing law repeals the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program on January 1, 2025.This bill would revise and recast several provisions of the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program. The bill would extend operation of the program indefinitely and would repeal the Job Development Incentive Training Program. The bill would revise and recast the principles governing the Economic and Workforce Development Program, provisions on the duties and membership of the program’s advisory committee, the decision criteria for allocating program funds to colleges, and the definitions that apply to the program’s provisions.
CA AB 1371 - Evan Low
Unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.
09/12/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
AB 1371, Low. Unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. Existing law makes it a crime, known as unlawful sexual intercourse, to commit an act of sexual intercourse with a person who is not the spouse of the perpetrator, if the person is a minor. Under existing law, if a person 21 years of age or older engages in an act of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor who is under 16 years of age they are guilty of either a misdemeanor or a felony, as specified.This bill would prohibit a person convicted of this crime who is granted probation from completing community service at a school or location where children congregate.
CA AB 1377 - Laura Friedman
Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.).
AB 1377, as amended, Friedman. Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program. Existing law establishes, among various other programs intended to address homelessness in this state, the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 4 rounds, which are to be administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness.This bill would require applications or planning materials for additional state funding appropriated on or after July 1, 2024, as specified, to include data and a narrative summary of specific and quantifiable steps that the applicant has taken to improve the delivery of housing and services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness on transit facilities owned and operated by a transit agency, as defined.
CA AB 138 - House Budget Committee
Human services.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 138, as amended, Committee on Budget. Human services. (1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Developmental Services and vests in the department jurisdiction over various state hospitals, referred to as developmental centers, to provide care to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law requires the department to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law requires a regional center to notify the appropriate regional resource development project when the regional center determines or is informed, as specified, that the community placement of a consumer is at risk of failing and that admittance to an acute crisis home operated by the department is a likelihood or the regional center is notified by a court of a potential admission to an acute crisis home operated by the department.Existing law requires the department to notify the court, in writing, if the regional resource development project determines that a consumer cannot be safely served in an acute crisis home operated by the department, as specified.This bill would require the department, when the regional resource development project determines that a consumer cannot be safely served in an acute crisis home operated by the department, to continue to work jointly with the regional center to identify or develop alternative services and supports and implement the alternative services and supports that are identified or developed.Existing law prohibits the regional resource development project, in consultation with specific parties, from making a determination that admittance to an acute crisis home operated by the department is necessary unless the determination includes a regional center report that details all considered community-based services and supports, including a crisis home and an explanation why the options could not meet the consumer’s needs.The bill would also require the determination that admittance to an acute crisis home is necessary to include consideration of a supported living arrangement, among other options. This bill would prohibit an acute crisis home operated by the department from utilizing specific interventions, including, among other things, prone restraints and seclusion, as defined.(2) Existing law requires the State Department of Developmental Services, no later than April 1, as specified, to submit a detailed plan to the Legislature whenever the department proposes the closure of a state developmental center. Existing law requires the department, in conjunction with the Governor’s proposed 2023–24 budget, to submit to the Legislature an updated version of a specified safety net plan regarding how the department will provide access to crisis services after the closure of a developmental center and how the state will maintain its role in providing residential services to those whom private sector vendors cannot or will not serve. Existing law requires the plan update, among other provisions, to evaluate the progress made to create a safety net, including services or residences intended to facilitate transitions or diversions from institutions for mental disease, the Canyon Springs Community Facility, the secure treatment program at Porterville Developmental Center, prisons or jails, or other restrictive settings.This bill would authorize the establishment of a residential program in the community for adolescents and adults with complex needs, as defined, as part of the safety net plan to provide access to crisis services, as described above. The bill would authorize the development of up to 3 complex needs homes, as defined, with a maximum capacity of 5 beds per home and would prohibit any stay in a complex needs home from exceeding 18 months, except as specified. The bill establishes certain procedures to be followed prior to, and following, a consumer’s admission to a complex needs home due to an acute crisis, as d
CA AB 1394 - Heath Flora
Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1394, Wicks. Commercial sexual exploitation: child sexual abuse material: civil actions. Existing law, in a civil action brought by, on behalf of, or for the benefit of a minor, or nonminor dependent, against a person who engaged in an act of commercial sexual exploitation, as defined, of a minor or nonminor dependent, authorizes the trier of fact to either impose a fine, civil penalty, or other penalty, or other remedy in an amount up to 3 times greater than authorized by the statute or to award a civil penalty not exceeding $50,000 and not less than $10,000 for each act of commercial sexual exploitation committed by the defendant if the tier of fact makes an affirmative finding regarding certain factors, including whether the defendant’s conduct was directed to more than one minor or nonminor dependent, as prescribed.This bill would, beginning January 1, 2025, prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from knowingly facilitating, aiding, or abetting commercial sexual exploitation, as specified. The bill would require a court to award statutory damages not exceeding $4,000,000 and not less than $1,000,000 for each act of commercial sexual exploitation facilitated, aided, or abetted by the social media platform. The bill would define “facilitate, aid, or abet” to mean to deploy a system, design, feature, or affordance that is a substantial factor in causing minor users to be victims of commercial sexual exploitation. The bill would prohibit a social media platform from being deemed to be in violation of this provision if it demonstrates certain mitigating facts, including that the social media platform instituted and maintained a program of at least biannual audits of its designs, algorithms, practices, affordances, and features to detect designs, algorithms, practices, affordances, or features that have the potential to cause or contribute to violations of that provision, as prescribed. Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer.This bill would, beginning January 1, 2025, require a social media platform to, among other things, provide, in a mechanism that is reasonably accessible to users, a means for a user who is a California resident to report material to the social media platform that the user reasonably believes meets certain criteria, including that the reported material is child sexual abuse material, as defined, in which the reporting user is an identifiable minor depicted in the reported material.This bill would, beginning January 1, 2025, require the social media platform to permanently block the instance of reported material and make reasonable efforts to remove and block other instances of the same reported material from being viewable on the social media platform, as prescribed, if there is a reasonable basis to believe that the reported material is child sexual abuse material that is displayed, stored, or hosted on the social media platform, and the report contains basic identifying information, as specified, sufficient to permit the social media platform to locate the reported material. The bill would make a violator of those provisions liable to the reporting user, including for statutory damages of no more than $250,000 per violation, $125,000 per violation, or $75,000 per violation, as specified.
CA AB 14 - Juan Alanis
Personal Income Tax: credit: childcare costs.
03/06/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
AB 14, as amended, Davies.
Personal Income Tax: credit: childcare costs.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. That law, in modified conformity to federal income tax law, authorizes a credit for household and dependent care expenses necessary for gainful employment, as provided.This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, in an amount equal to childcare costs, as defined, paid or incurred by the qualified taxpayer in this state. The bill would limit the total credit for each taxable year, as specified.Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure, as defined, to include tax credits, to contain, among other things, specific goals,
purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements.This bill would include findings and reporting requirements in compliance with this requirement.This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
CA AB 140 - House Budget Committee
Early childcare and education.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 140, as amended, Committee on Budget. Early childcare and education. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day developmentally and age-appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to coordinate with the State Department of Education and others to develop the state plan for purposes of the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates. Existing law requires the state and Child Care Providers United - California to establish a Joint Labor Management Committee to develop recommendations for a single reimbursement rate structure that addresses quality standards for equity and accessibility while supporting positive learning and developmental outcomes for children, as specified. Existing law also requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to develop and conduct an alternative methodology, as specified, in order to set reimbursement rates for state-subsidized childcare and development services.This bill would, among other things, require the State Department of Social Services to, no later than May 15, 2024, report the status of the draft CCDF state plan to specified budget subcommittees and the Legislative Analyst’s Office on the state’s proposed single rate structure, and to, no later than July 1, 2024, submit the necessary information to support use of a single rate structure utilizing the alternative methodology to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families in the state plan or an amendment to the state plan. The bill would also require the department to provide the same budget subcommittees and the Legislative Analyst’s Office with an outline of implementation components for the approved single rate structure within 60 days of federal approval of the single rate structure utilizing the alternative methodology in the state plan, and would require that single rate structure to apply to specified subsidized childcare and development programs under the department and state preschool programs under the State Department of Education.This bill would require, on or before March 1, 2024, a contractor operating a California state preschool program through a family childcare home education network and each county and contractor that reimburses childcare providers for the provision of state-funded subsidized childcare and development services to develop, implement, and publish a plan for timely payment to providers, as specified. This bill would allocate previously appropriated funds in the Budget Act of 2023 to the State Department of Social Services and State Department of Education to provide specified family childcare providers and childcare centers with a monthly cost of care plus rate commencing January 1, 2024, and through June 30, 2025, inclusive, and a flat-rate, one-time payment, as specified.Existing law previously appropriated funds for the establishment of the Joint Child Care Providers United - State of California Training Partnership Fund and to establish a health care benefits trust administered by Child Care Providers United - California, as specified.This bill would allocate additional funds for those purposes, as specified. The bill would also appropriate $100,0000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Social Services for a one-time cont
CA AB 1402 - Megan Dahle
Medical evidentiary examinations: reimbursement.
09/12/2023 - In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 1402, as amended, Megan Dahle. Medical evidentiary examinations: reimbursement. Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish medical forensic forms, instructions, and examination protocols for victims of child physical abuse or neglect based on the guidelines for those forms as they relate to sexual assault. Existing law requires the forms to have a place for notation of specified information, including, among other things, the performance of a physical examination for evidence of child physical abuse or neglect.This bill would require victims of child physical abuse or neglect to have access to medical evidentiary examinations, free of charge, by Local Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART), Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) teams, or other qualified medical evidentiary examiners. The bill would require each county’s board of supervisors to authorize a designee to approve the SART, SAFE teams, or other qualified medical evidentiary examiners to receive reimbursement through the Office of Emergency Services for the performance of medical evidentiary examinations for victims of child physical abuse or neglect and to notify the office of this designation. The bill would require that the costs associated with these medical evidentiary exams be funded by the state, subject to appropriation by the Legislature, and would require the Office of Emergency Services to establish a 60-day reimbursement process within one year upon initial appropriation.
CA AB 1408 - Joshua Hoover
Intradistrict and interdistrict transfers: low-performing pupils.
01/12/2024 - Read second time and amended.
AB 1408, as amended, Wallis. Intradistrict and interdistrict transfers: low-performing pupils. Existing law authorizes the governing boards of 2 or more school districts to enter into an agreement, for a term not to exceed 5 school years, for the interdistrict attendance of pupils who are residents of the school districts. Existing law requires a school district of residence to approve an intradistrict transfer request for a victim of an act of bullying, as provided. If there is no available school for an intradistrict transfer, existing law authorizes a victim of an act of bullying to apply for an interdistrict transfer and prohibits a school district of residence from prohibiting that transfer if the school district of proposed enrollment approves the application for transfer.This bill would require a school district of residence to also approve an intradistrict transfer request for a low-performing pupil, as defined, of that school district if the school of attendance has been identified for comprehensive support and improvement or identified as low performing pursuant to specified federal laws, as provided. If there is no available school for an intradistrict transfer, the bill would authorize a low-performing pupil of a school district, if the school of attendance has been identified for comprehensive support and improvement or identified as low performing pursuant to specified federal laws, to apply for an interdistrict transfer and would prohibit the school district of residence from prohibiting that transfer if the school district of proposed enrollment approves the application for transfer. The bill would prohibit a school district of proposed enrollment from approving those transfer requests if the requested school has been identified for comprehensive support and improvement or identified as low performing pursuant to specified federal laws. By requiring school districts to approve intradistrict transfers for certain pupils, 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, 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.
CA AB 141 - House Budget Committee
Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 141, as amended, Committee on Budget. Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill. (1) The Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. The act requires, from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, inclusive, at least 5% of funded enrollment to be reserved for children with exceptional needs, requires at least 7.5% of funded enrollment to be reserved for children with exceptional needs commencing July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, inclusive, and requires at least 10% of funded enrollment to be reserved for children with exceptional needs commencing July 1, 2026. On and after July 1, 2026, existing law provides that any agency that does not meet those requirements may be put on a conditional contract, as provided.This bill would reestablish the 5% requirement until June 30, 2025, and make any agency that does not meet that requirement eligible to be placed on a conditional contract as of July 1, 2026. For any agency that does not meet the 7.5% or 10% requirements, the bill would delay their eligibility to be placed on a conditional contract to July 1, 2027, and July 1, 2028, respectively.The act requires each state preschool program applicant or contracting agency to give priority for enrollment for part-day and full-day programs according to a specified priority ranking. Existing law requires the 3rd priority for services to be given to eligible 3- and 4-year old children who are not enrolled in a state-funded transitional kindergarten program. Within this priority, the act provides that if 2 or more families have the same income ranking according to the most recent schedule of income ceiling eligibility table, a child from a family in which the primary home language is a language other than English shall be enrolled first.This bill would revise the latter priority criteria to be based on whether those children are identified as dual language learners instead of whether they are from a family in which the primary home language is a language other than English.(2) Existing law establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education in both the 2021–22 fiscal year and the 2022–23 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to allocate or prorate unexpended funds returned by or collected from a grant recipient for grants to local educational agencies for costs associated with the educational expenses of current and future California state preschool program, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten professionals that support their attainment of required credentials, permits, or professional development in early childhood instruction or child development, including developing competencies in serving inclusive classrooms and dual language learners, as provided.This bill would extend the encumbrance period for those funds, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require any remaining unexpended funds to revert to the General Fund on June 30, 2028.(3) Existing law creates the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of receiving appropriations for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts related to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Former law initially appropriated $7,936,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency
CA AB 1412 - Michael A. Gipson
Pretrial diversion: borderline personality disorder.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 3.).
AB 1412, as amended, Hart. Pretrial diversion: borderline personality disorder. Existing law authorizes a court to grant pretrial diversion, for a period no longer than 2 years, to a defendant suffering from a mental disorder, on an accusatory pleading alleging the commission of a misdemeanor or felony offense, in order to allow the defendant to undergo mental health treatment. Existing law conditions eligibility on, among other criteria, a court finding that the defendant suffers from a mental disorder, as specified, excluding antisocal personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, and pedophilia.This bill would remove borderline personality disorder as an exclusion for pretrial diversion.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1001.36 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 455 to be operative only if this bill and AB 455 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 1413 - Luz Maria Rivas
Homelessness prevention programs: Department of Housing and Community Development: funding.
07/19/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 1413, as amended, Ting. Homelessness prevention programs: Department of Housing and Community Development: funding. Existing law requires the Governor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, renamed the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and specifies the duties of the coordinating council to include creating partnerships among state agencies and departments, local government agencies, and specified federal agencies and private entities, for the purpose of arriving at specific strategies to end homelessness.Existing law establishes, among various other programs intended to address homelessness in this state, the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program for the purpose of providing jurisdictions with one-time grant funds to support regional coordination and expand or develop local capacity to address their immediate homelessness challenges informed by a best-practices framework focused on moving homeless individuals and families into permanent housing and supporting the efforts of those individuals and families to maintain their permanent housing. Existing law provides for the allocation of funding under the program among continuums of care, cities, counties, and tribes in 4 rounds, which are to be administered by the Interagency Council on Homelessness.Existing law establishes the Encampment Resolution Funding program to assist cities, counties, and continuums of care in ensuring the safety and wellness of people experiencing homelessness in encampments, to provide encampment resolution grants to resolve critical encampment concerns and transition individuals into safe and stable housing, and to encourage a data-informed, coordinated approach to address encampment concerns. Existing law requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to administer the program in accordance with a specified timeline.Existing law establishes the Family Homelessness Challenge Grants and Technical Assistance Program to provide one-time grants and technical assistance to local jurisdictions for the purpose of addressing and ending family homelessness. Existing law requires the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to administer the program.This bill, commencing November 1, 2023, would transfer the duty to administer the 3 above-described programs to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would provide that the department is the successor to, and is vested with, all of the duties, powers, and responsibilities of the council with regard to the programs. The bill would provide that program awards or approvals issued by the council and in effect on October 31, 2023, will be deemed on and after November 1, 2023, to be an award or approval of the department. The bill would further provide that whenever any reference to the council appears in any regulation or contract with respect to any of the programs, it instead means the department.Existing law, in order to receive a round 3 or round 4 allocation from the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program, requires an applicant to submit an application to the council that includes outcome goals that set definitive metrics for, among other things, reducing the number of persons experiencing homelessness and reducing the number of persons who become homeless for the first time. Existing law requires 18%, or $180,000,000, of the funds allocated for rounds 3 and 4 of the program to be set aside for awarding bonus funds to recipients that have met their outcome goals.This bill would require the bonus funds described above that have not been awarded by November 1, 2023, to be made available for round 5 of the program. By reallocating round 3 and round 4 funding to the 5th program round, the bill would make an appropriation. This bill would delay the operative date of these provisions until November 1, 2023.This bill, for future rounds of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program, Encampment Resolutio
CA AB 142 - House Budget Committee
Higher education trailer bill.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 142, as amended, Committee on Budget. Higher education trailer bill. (1) Existing law establishes the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program to provide one-time grants for the construction of student housing or for the acquisition and renovation of commercial properties into student housing for the purpose of providing affordable, low-cost housing options for students enrolled in public postsecondary education in the state. In addition to funding provided for purposes of the program, existing law requires the University of California and the California Community Colleges to fund construction grants using revenue bonds issued by the University of California or community college districts for specified intersegmental projects. Existing law requires General Fund support for certain grants provided to the California Community Colleges to revert to the General Fund and instead be funded with local revenue bonds issued by community college districts, as specified.This bill would make various changes to these provisions. Among these changes, the bill would (A) authorize instead of request the University of California to fund capital outlay planning and construction grants, (B) increase the amounts specified for 2 existing intersegmental projects, (C) authorize instead of require the California Community Colleges to fund construction grants using local financing issued by community college districts, and (D) delete 2 intersegmental projects between the California Community Colleges and the University of California. The bill would require a community college that has already received an allocation of resources to revert those General Fund resources by June 29, 2024, or upon the enactment of the Budget Act of 2024, whichever is later.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that no later than the Budget Act of 2024, a statewide lease revenue bond or other statewide financing or fiscal approach be developed and included to support the community college affordable student housing projects that have been approved pursuant to the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program.(2) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for 4 years at a priority school or a California preschool program, as provided. Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to determine that a private postsecondary educational institution that offers a professional preparation program approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing qualifies for the program if the institution meets certain criteria, including that the institution is accredited by the Senior Colleges and Universities Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Existing law requires the Student Aid Commission to provide one-time grant funds of up to $10,000 to each enrolled student in a private postsecondary educational institution qualified for the program under these provisions, as specified.This bill would specify that the student be a California resident and that, of the funds appropriated in support of the Golden State Teacher Grant Program, no more than 8% of the total funding may be allocated for purposes of the one-time grants described above. The bill would require that the private postsecondary educational institution be accredited by either the Senior Colleges and Universities Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges or by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education. If the institution has no physical presence in California, the bill would require the institution to contract with the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education to respond to California resident student complaints, as provided.(3) Existing law establishes the California Kids
CA AB 1433 - Lena A. Gonzalez
Public contracts: school facility projects.
09/22/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 1433, Rendon. Public contracts: school facility projects. Existing law requires a prospective bidder for a construction contract for certain school facility projects to submit a prequalification questionnaire and financial statement, under oath, as part of the bidding process, and requires each prospective bidder to submit a bid by completing and executing a standardized proposal form. That law applies these requirements only to public projects, as defined, for which the governing board of the school district uses funds received pursuant to specified law or from future state school bonds, as specified. This bill would extend the above-referenced requirements to public projects for which the governing board of the school district uses state general funds. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would establish 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.
CA AB 1445 - Joaquin Arambula
The Neng Thao Drowning Prevention Safety Act.
09/12/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
AB 1445, Arambula. The Neng Thao Drowning Prevention Safety Act. Existing law requires the Division of Boating and Waterways, in cooperation with the State Department of Education and other appropriate entities involved with water safety, to develop an aquatic safety program to be made available for use at an appropriate grade level in public elementary schools at no expense to the schools. Existing law requires the division to notify schools and school districts of the availability of the aquatic safety program once it is developed.This bill would authorize specified organizations to provide informational materials, in electronic or hardcopy form, to a public school regarding specified topics relating to drowning prevention. The bill would authorize, beginning with the 2024–25 school year, upon receipt of the informational materials, a public school to provide the informational materials to parents, legal guardians, or caregivers of pupils at the time the pupil enrolls at the school and at the beginning of each school year.
CA AB 1469 - Ash Kalra
Santa Clara Valley Water District.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1469, Kalra. Santa Clara Valley Water District. The Santa Clara Valley Water District Act creates the Santa Clara Valley Water District, and authorizes the district to provide for the conservation and management of flood, storm, and recycled waters, and other waters, for beneficial uses and to enhance natural resources in connection with carrying out the purposes of the district.Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines terms for these purposes. Existing law defines “surplus land” to generally mean land owned in fee simple by a local agency for which the local agency’s governing body takes formal action in a public meeting declaring that the land is surplus and not necessary for the agency’s use. Existing law defines “agency’s use” to include land that is being used, is planned to be used pursuant to a written plan adopted by the local agency’s governing board, or is disposed of to support agency work or operations. Existing law excludes from “agency’s use” commercial or industrial uses or activities, or property disposed of for the sole purpose of investment or generation of revenue, unless the local agency is a district, except as specified, and the agency’s governing body takes specified actions in a public meeting.This bill would additionally authorize the district to take certain actions in order to assist unsheltered people living along streams, in riparian corridors, or otherwise within the district’s jurisdiction, in consultation with a city or the County of Santa Clara to provide solutions or improve outcomes for the unsheltered individuals. The bill would require, if the district elects to use the above-described authority, the district to provide a report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature on or before July 1, 2029, and a subsequent report on or before July 1, 2034, containing specified information, including, among other things, the district’s actions taken to assist unsheltered people. The bill would provide that the use of land by the district for these specified actions constitutes “agency’s use” for purposes of the prescribed requirements related to the disposal of surplus land by a local agency, and would make this provision operative only if SB 747 of the 2023–24 Regular Session is enacted as provided.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Santa Clara.
CA AB 1470 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Medi-Cal: behavioral health services: documentation standards.
09/13/2023 - In Senate. Held at Desk.
AB 1470, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Medi-Cal: behavioral health services: documentation standards. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including behavioral health services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative, subject to receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation, in order to, among other things, improve quality outcomes and reduce health disparities.The bill, as part of CalAIM, and with respect to behavioral health services provided under the Medi-Cal program, would require the department to standardize data elements relating to documentation requirements, including, but not limited to, medically necessary criteria, and would require the department to develop standard forms containing information necessary to properly adjudicate claims pursuant to CalAIM Terms and Conditions. The bill would require the department to consult with representatives of specified associations and programs for purposes of implementing these provisions.The bill would require the department to conduct, on or before July 1, 2025, regional trainings for personnel and provider networks of applicable entities, including county mental health plans, Medi-Cal managed care plans, and entities within the fee-for-service delivery system, on proper completion of the standard forms. The bill would require each applicable entity to distribute the training material and standard forms to its provider networks, and to commence, no later than July 1, 2025, using the standard forms. The bill would require providers of applicable entities to use those forms, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to restrict the imposition of additional documentation requirements beyond those included on standard forms, as specified.The bill would require the department to conduct an analysis on the status of utilization of the standard forms by applicable entities, and on the status of the trainings and training material, in order to determine the effectiveness of implementation of the above-described provisions. The bill would require the department to prepare a report containing findings from the analysis no later than July 1, 2026, and a followup report no later than July 1, 2028, and to submit each report to the Legislature and post it on the department’s internet website.
CA AB 1478 - Sabrina Cervantes
Maternal health: community-based comprehensive perinatal care: database of referral networks.
01/25/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1478, Cervantes. Maternal health: community-based comprehensive perinatal care: database of referral networks. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and maintain a statewide comprehensive community-based perinatal services program. Existing law also requires the department to enter into contracts, grants, or agreements with health care providers to deliver these services in a coordinated effort in medically underserved areas or areas with demonstrated need.This bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the department to develop and maintain on its internet website a database of referral networks of community-based mental health providers and support services addressing, among other topics, postpartum depression and prenatal care, as specified, in the above-described areas. The bill would require the database to include information on mental health providers and support groups that allow patient-driven care access, as specified. The bill would require the department to update the database annually to ensure the database contains up-to-date information.
CA AB 1479 - Eduardo Garcia
Pupil health: social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health supports.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1479, Garcia. Pupil health: social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health supports. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work, including school psychologists and counselors.This bill would establish the Pupil Social-Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Program, to be administered by the State Department of Education, to provide eligible local educational agencies with an allocation of moneys to provide Model Tier 1 Support, as defined, accessible to pupils and families. The bill would require all schools within a school district or county office of education, and charter schools that meet certain criteria and have a plan approved by the department to provide evidence-based, Tier 1 social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health support accessible to pupils and families, to be eligible for an apportionment of state funds under the program for those purposes, as provided. The bill would condition the implementation of these provisions upon an appropriation by the Legislature.
CA AB 1481 - Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
Medi-Cal: presumptive eligibility.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 2.).
AB 1481, as amended, Boerner. Medi-Cal: presumptive eligibility. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing federal law, as a condition of receiving federal Medicaid funds, requires states to provide health care services to specified individuals. Existing federal law authorizes states to provide presumptive eligibility to pregnant women or children, and existing state law requires the department to provide presumptive eligibility to pregnant women and children, as specified.This bill would expand the presumptive eligibility for pregnant women to all pregnant people, renaming the program “Presumptive Eligibility for Pregnant People” (PE4PP). For a pregnant person covered under PE4PP who applies for full-scope Medi-Cal benefits, if the application is submitted at any time from the date of their presumptive eligibility determination through the last day of the subsequent calendar month, the bill would require the department to ensure the pregnant person is covered under PE4PP until their full-scope Medi-Cal application is approved or denied, as specified. The bill would require the department to require providers participating in the PE4PP program to provide information to pregnant persons enrolled in PE4PP on how to contact the person’s county to expedite the county’s determination of a Medi-Cal application.The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. Because counties are required to make eligibility determinations, and this bill would expand Medi-Cal eligibility, 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, 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.
CA AB 1503 - Alexander T. Lee
Pupil attendance: excused absences: religious retreats.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1503, Lee. Pupil attendance: excused absences: religious retreats. Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, for certain justifiable personal reasons. Existing law includes attendance at a religious retreat among these justifiable personal reasons and prohibits attendance at religious retreats from exceeding 4 hours per semester for purposes of this provision.This bill, for purposes of the above-described provisions, would instead prohibit attendance at religious retreats from exceeding one schoolday per semester. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local educational entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 48205 of the Education Code proposed by SB 350 to be operative only if this bill and SB 350 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA AB 1506 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Foster youth.
09/11/2023 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1506, Quirk-Silva. Foster youth. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings and governs the provision of child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families, and restoring to their families children who have been removed.Existing law grants specified rights to all minors and nonminors in foster care, including, among others, the right to receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services, the right to be informed of these rights in an age and developmentally appropriate manner, and the right to receive a copy of these rights at specified intervals.This bill would expand these rights to include the opportunity for a child to return to their school to collect their belongings when a move or change in placement requires the child to change schools.
CA AB 1509 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Pupil instruction: State Board of Education: exam and course programs.
05/17/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 1509, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Pupil instruction: State Board of Education: exam and course programs. (1) Existing law appropriates, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, funds from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation for the A–G Completion Improvement Grant Program and makes these funds available for expenditure or encumbrance through the 2025–26 fiscal year. Existing law requires grants awarded by that program to be used for activities that directly support pupil access to, and successful completion of, the A–G course requirements, including, but not limited to, paying Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate fees for unduplicated pupils.This bill would authorize the State Board of Education, for purposes of authorized A–G Completion Improvement Grant fund activities, to expressly approve fees for unduplicated pupils for additional exam programs, and would require the state board to begin to develop the approval criteria, as provided. By expanding the purposes for which appropriated funds may be spent, the bill would make an appropriation.(2) Existing law authorizes a school district to evaluate a principal annually for the principal’s first and 2nd year of employment as a new principal and authorizes additional evaluations, as specified. Existing law authorizes the criteria for school principal evaluations to be based upon the California Professional Standards for Educational Leaders and to include evidence of, among other things, pupil academic growth. Existing law authorizes pupil academic growth to be evaluated pursuant to local and state academic assessments, including, among others, state standardized assessments and performance assessments.This bill would authorize the state board to expressly authorize additional exams that may be used to measure pupil academic growth for a principal evaluation, and would require the state board to begin to develop the approval criteria, as provided.(3) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide access to a comprehensive educational counseling program for all pupils enrolled in the school district. For schools that enroll pupils in grades 6 to 12, inclusive, existing law defines educational counseling to include, among other things, counseling to encourage participation in advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs.This bill would authorize the state board to approve additional exam programs that an educational counseling program is expressly authorized to encourage participation in, and would require the state board to begin to develop the approval criteria, as provided.(4) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan and to update its respective local control and accountability plan before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires a local control and accountability plan to include, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, for all pupils and certain subgroups of pupils. The state’s delineated priorities include, among others, pupil achievement as measured by, and as applicable, among other things, the percentage of pupils who have passed an advanced placement examination with a score of 3 or higher.This bill would authorize the state board to approve additional examinations, and their respective scores, for purposes of measuring pupil achievement, and would require the state board to begin to develop the approval criteria, as provided. To the extent the state board’s approval of additional examinations and scores would impose additional duties on school districts and county boards of education in regard to local control and accountability plans, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(5) Existing law establishes the Golden State Pathways Program to promote pathways in high-wage, high-skill, high-growth areas, including technology, he
CA AB 1510 - Juan Alanis
Fighting Fentanyl Bond Act of 2024.
07/13/2023 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. Read second time and amended.
AB 1510, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Fighting Fentanyl Bond Act of 2024. Existing law sets forth various programs relating to opioid overdose prevention and treatment, including, among others, standing orders for the distribution of an opioid antagonist, a naloxone grant program, and a grant program to reduce fentanyl overdoses and use throughout the state. Existing law prohibits a person from possessing for sale or purchasing for purposes of sale, specified controlled substances, including fentanyl.This bill would enact the Fighting Fentanyl Bond Act of 2024, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $____, for purposes of financing, among other things, substance use treatment, harm reduction programs, supportive services for students, programs targeting drug trafficking, substance use treatment programs in prisons and juvenile facilities, and recovery housing and transitional housing for previously incarcerated individuals, as specified.The bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election in accordance with specified law.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 1512 - Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
Foster care payments.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1512, Bryan. Foster care payments. Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement, including foster care placement, of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parents. Existing law, the federal Social Security Act, provides for benefits for eligible beneficiaries, including survivorship and disability benefits and supplemental security income (SSI) benefits for, among others, blind and disabled children. Existing law requires every youth who is in foster care and nearing emancipation to be screened by the county for potential eligibility for federal Supplemental Security Income and requires that screening to occur when the foster youth is at least 16 years and 6 months of age and not older than 17 years and 6 months of age.This bill, among other things, would require a placing agency to act in accordance with specified guidelines and pursuant to certain requirements when acting as the representative payee or in any other fiduciary capacity for a child or youth, including, among other requirements, ensuring that the child’s benefits are not used to pay for, or to reimburse, the placing agency for any costs of the child’s care and supervision, as defined. The bill would make these requirements operative January 1, 2024, or 30 days after the department issues the necessary all-county letters and informing materials to county placing agencies, whichever is later. By increasing county duties with respect to foster youth, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to convene a workgroup to develop best practice guidelines for county welfare departments to assist eligible children who are in the state’s or a county’s custody and are qualified in obtaining federal social security and supplemental security income benefits. Existing law requires that workgroup to make recommendations to the department, by December 31, 2006, regarding the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of reserving a designated amount of foster children’s social security and SSI/SSP benefits in lieu of reimbursing the county and the state for care and maintenance, and, in making those recommendations, to consider that the reserved benefits would be for the purpose of assisting the foster child in the transfer to self-sufficient living in a manner consistent with federal law.This bill would repeal the requirement for that workgroup to make the above-described recommendations regarding feasibility and cost-effectiveness.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.
CA AB 1517 - James M. Gallagher
Special education: special education local plan areas: local plans.
01/29/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1517, Gallagher. Special education: special education local plan areas: local plans. (1) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to adopt a local control and accountability plan, as provided. Existing law requires that certain things occur before a governing board of a school district considers the adoption of a local control and accountability plan or an annual update to the plan, including that the superintendent of the school district present the local control and accountability plan or annual update to the local control and accountability plan to the parent advisory committee, the English learner parent advisory committee, and the student advisory committee, as applicable, for review and comment, as provided.This bill would also require, before a governing board of a school district considers the plan described above, the superintendent of each school district to consult with its special education local plan area administrator or administrators to determine which specific actions are needed to support outcomes on the California School Dashboard when the school district is determined to be in need of differentiated assistance for performance of pupils with disabilities. Because this bill would impose new duties on a superintendent of a school district, the bill would impose a state-mandated program.(2) Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to provide technical assistance for a minimum of 2 years for any school district for which one or more identified pupil subgroups meets specified criteria, including assisting the school district to identify its strengths and weaknesses, as provided.When pupils with disabilities are the identified pupil subgroup meeting the criteria, this bill would require the county superintendent of schools to consult with and include its special education local plan area administrator or administrators as part of the expert technical assistance team. Because the bill would impose new duties on a county superintendent of schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated program.(3) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to develop a local plan relating to the education of individuals with exceptional needs residing in the school district, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish guidelines for the development of local plans, as provided. Existing law requires, commencing July 1, 2027, each local plan to include an annual assurances support plan. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop a template for the annual assurances support plan by July 1, 2026. Existing law requires the annual assurances support plan to include specified elements, including a description of how the governing board of the special education local plan area has determined that the special education local plan area will connect its participating agencies in need of technical assistance to the statewide system of support.This bill would require the annual assurances support plan to include additional detail and new elements, as specified. To the extent these changes would impose new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(4) Existing law requires each special education local plan area submitting a local plan to the Superintendent to ensure that it has in effect policies, procedures, and programs that are consistent with state laws, regulations, and policies governing specified things.This bill would require each special education local plan area submitting a local plan to the Superintendent to also ensure that the plan provides technical assistance to its member local educational agencies to support monitoring activities as directed by the department, as provided. By requiring new duties of a special education local plan area, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(5) The California Constitution requires the state to reimbur
CA AB 152 - House Budget Committee
Background checks and fingerprinting: state employment, licensing, and contracting.
09/13/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R.
AB 152, as amended, Committee on Budget. Background checks and fingerprinting: state employment, licensing, and contracting. (1) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to transmit fingerprint images and related information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining a federal criminal history information check pursuant to a referencing statute. Existing law requires the department to review the information returned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to compile and disseminate a response or a fitness determination to the agency or entity identified in the referencing statute.This bill would require the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, the State Department of State Hospitals, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, the California Horse Racing Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Department of Real Estate, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department of General Services, the Treasurer’s office, and the Controller’s office to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice for specified individuals, including employees, prospective employees, and contractors, as applicable.This bill would also require the State Department of Public Health to require an applicant for a human prescription drug manufacturing license to submit fingerprint images, and related information as required, to the Department of Justice.The bill would require the Department of Justice to provide a state- or federal-level response, as specified.This bill would require the Department of Real Estate and the Department of Housing and Community Development to require certain services contracts, interagency agreements, or public entity agreements to include a provision requiring the contractor to agree to perform criminal background checks on its employees and subcontractors who will have access to specified information.(2) Existing law establishes the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, headed by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation. Under existing law, the department has charge of the execution of specified laws relating to various financial institutions and financial services, including banks, trust companies, credit unions, finance lenders, and residential mortgage lenders. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies fingerprints taken of specified individuals, including, among others, an applicant for employment with the department.This bill would require the department to require fingerprint images from any department employee, prospective employee or applicant seeking employment within the department, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, or vendor who may have access to criminal offender record information. The bill would require the Department of Justice to forward a request for national-level criminal offender record information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and compile and disseminate the information returned, as specified.(3) Existing law requires the Department of FISCal to require fingerprint images and associated information from any employee, prospective employee, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, vendor, or partner agency employee whose duties include, or would include, having access to confidential or sensitive information or data on the network or computing infrastructure, as provided.This bill would instead require the Department of FISCal to require fingerprint images and associated related information from any department employee, pr
CA AB 1522 - Sabrina Cervantes
Foster Care: LGBTQ youth.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1522, as amended, Cervantes. Foster Care: LGBTQ youth. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings and governs the provision of child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families, and restoring to their families children who have been removed. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies and other specified entities, to implement a unified, family friendly, and child-centered resource family approval process to replace the existing multiple processes for licensing foster family homes, certifying foster homes by licensed foster family agencies, approving relatives and nonrelative extended family members as foster care providers, and approving guardians and adoptive families.This bill would require the department to convene a workgroup to create a report with recommendations to prevent housing instability among LGBTQ youth in foster care. The bill would require the workgroup to submit that report on or before January 1, 2025, as specified.
CA AB 1537 - James D. Wood
Skilled nursing facilities: direct care spending requirement.
09/07/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Stern.
AB 1537, as introduced, Wood. Skilled nursing facilities: direct care spending requirement. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of those provisions is a crime. Existing law requires health facilities to submit specified financial reports to the Department of Health Care Access and Information. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services.This bill would require, no later than July 1, 2024, the establishment of a direct patient-related services spending, reporting, and rebate requirement for skilled nursing facilities, with exceptions. Under the direct patient-related services spending requirement, the bill would require that a minimum of 85% of a facility’s total non-Medicare health revenues from all payer sources in each fiscal year be expended on residents’ direct patient-related services, as defined.The bill would require a facility to report total revenues collected from all revenue sources, along with the portion of revenues that are expended on all direct patient-related services and nondirect patient-related services, to the State Department of Health Care Services by June 30 of each calendar year, with certification signed by a duly authorized official, as specified.The bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to conduct an audit of the financial information reported by the facilities, to ensure its accuracy and to identify and recover any payments that exceed the allowed limit, as specified. The bill would require the department to conduct the audit every 3 years, at the same time as the facility’s Medi-Cal audit.If a skilled nursing facility fails to comply with the direct patient-related services spending requirement, the bill would require the facility to issue a pro rata dividend or credit to the state and to all individuals and entities making non-Medicare payments to the facility for resident services, as specified. The bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to ensure that those payments are made and to impose sanctions, as specified. The bill would also authorize the department to withhold certain payments from a skilled nursing facility licensee for failure to fully disclose information, as specified.Because a violation of these requirements 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.
CA AB 1544 - Thomas W. Lackey
Child Abuse Central Index.
06/14/2023 - Referred to Com. on PUB S.
AB 1544, as amended, Lackey. Child Abuse Central Index. Existing law designates certain individuals, such as teachers, peace officers, physicians, and clergy members, among others, as mandated reporters and requires them to report suspected child abuse or neglect to specified agencies whenever the mandated reporter, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, knows of, or observes, a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Existing law requires specified local agencies to forward those reports to the Department of Justice in writing of all cases the agencies investigate of known or suspected child abuse or severe neglect that are determined to be substantiated. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to be a repository of reports of suspected child abuse and severe neglect and to maintain those reports in the Child Abuse Central Index (CACI). Existing law prohibits a police or sheriff’s department from forwarding to the Department of Justice a report of a case the police or sheriff’s department investigates of known or suspected child abuse or neglect.This bill would authorize a police or sheriff’s department to which a report of suspected child abuse or severe neglect is made on or after January 1, 2024, to forward to the Department of Justice a report in writing of its investigation of known or suspected child abuse or severe neglect that is determined to be substantiated. The bill would require a police or sheriff’s department that forwards a report to comply with the same requirements placed on other reporting agencies and would require the police or sheriff’s department to adopt procedures to notify persons reported to the CACI. The bill would require the Department of Justice to create a grievance procedure for reports to the CACI submitted by police or sheriff’s departments, and would prescribe minimum requirements for the notification and grievance procedures, including specifying timelines and rules governing the grievance hearing. The bill would also make conforming changes.
CA AB 1552 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Healing arts: foreign dental schools.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1552, as amended, Reyes. Healing arts: foreign dental schools. Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants by the Dental Board of California. Existing law requires the board to grant a license to practice dentistry, and to register as a licensed dentist on the board register, a person who successfully passes a specified examination. Notwithstanding that provision, existing law authorizes the board to grant a license to practice dentistry to an applicant who submits specified information to the board including, among other things, satisfactory evidence of having graduated from a dental school approved by a national accrediting body approved by the board or by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association.This bill would remove the authority to grant a license to an applicant who submits evidence of having graduated from a dental school approved by a national accreditation body approved by the board.Existing law, until January 1, 2024, makes the board responsible for the approval of foreign dental schools based upon standards established by the board, as specified. Existing law authorizes the board to contract with outside consultants or a national professional organization to survey and evaluate foreign dental schools and requires the board to establish a technical advisory group to review and comment on the survey and evaluation of a foreign dental school pursuant to any contract before final action by the board regarding certification of the foreign dental school. Existing law provides that any foreign dental school that wishes to be approved to apply to the board. Existing law requires that periodic surveys and evaluations of all approved schools be made to ensure continued compliance with these provisions. Existing law requires a school to pay a registration fee or a renewal fee, as applicable. Exiting law requires a fully approved school to submit a renewal application every 7 years and specifies that an approval that is not renewed automatically expires.This bill would delete the January 1, 2024, repeal date, thereby making the provisions described above operative indefinitely.Existing law prohibits the board, from January 1, 2020, until January 1, 2024, from accepting new applications for schools seeking approval as a foreign dental school and instead requires the applicant to successfully complete the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board. Existing law requires that, by January 1, 2024, in order for a school to remain an approved foreign dental school, that it successfully complete the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board.This bill would delete those provisions.Existing law, to become operative on January 1, 2024, requires a school seeking approval as a foreign dental school to have successfully completed the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board and specifies that graduates of a foreign dental school whose programs were approved at the time of graduation are eligible for licensure.This bill would repeal those provisions.
CA AB 1555 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Transitional kindergarten: teacher assignments: qualification requirements.
07/03/2023 - In Senate. Held at Desk.
AB 1555, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Transitional kindergarten: teacher assignments: qualification requirements. Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires a school district or charter school, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, to ensure that credentialed teachers who are first assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom after July 1, 2015, have, by August 1, 2023, met one of the following 3 designated criteria establishing qualification for the position: (1) at least 24 units in early childhood education, or childhood development, or both, (2) professional experience in a classroom setting with preschool age children meeting the criteria established by the governing board or body of the local educational agency that is comparable to the 24 units of education, as determined by the local educational agency, or (3) a child development teacher permit, or an early childhood education specialist credential, issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, to withhold a school district’s or charter school’s entitlements if a school district or charter school fails to comply with certain requirements, including, among others, the above-described qualification requirements, as specified.This bill would delay until August 1, 2025, the deadline for a credentialed teacher first assigned to a transitional kindergarten classroom on or after July 1, 2015, to meet one of the designated criteria referenced above, and would make a conforming change to the above-described withholding provision.
CA AB 1565 - Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr.
California Cannabis Tax Fund: local equity program grants.
08/21/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 1565, as introduced, Jones-Sawyer. California Cannabis Tax Fund: local equity program grants. Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, 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. 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 establishes the Department of Cannabis Control within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act. Under existing law, the California Cannabis Equity Act, a local equity program is a program adopted or operated by a local jurisdiction that focuses on inclusion and support of individuals and communities in California’s cannabis industry who are linked to populations or neighborhoods that were negatively or disproportionately impacted by cannabis criminalization, as specified. The act authorizes the department to provide technical assistance to a local equity program that helps local equity applicants or local equity licensees, as defined. Under that act, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development is required to administer a grant program to assist a local jurisdiction with the development of a local equity program or to assist local equity applicants and local equity licensees through a local equity program, as specified.Existing law establishes the California Cannabis Tax Fund as a continuously appropriated special fund consisting of specified taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts related to commercial cannabis activity. Each fiscal year, AUMA requires the Controller to make disbursements from the fund pursuant to a specified schedule. Existing law authorizes the Legislature to amend, on and after July 1, 2028, the provisions relating to the disbursement and allocation of moneys in the fund by majority vote to further the purposes of AUMA, as specified.This bill would require, effective July 1, 2028, the Controller to disburse up to $15,000,000, as specified, to the department for the 2028–29 fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter. The bill would require the department to use the disbursements to support local equity programs in eligible local jurisdictions to assist local equity applicants and licensees gaining entry into, and to successfully operate in, the state’s regulated cannabis marketplace, as specified. By expanding the purposes for which continuously appropriated moneys may be used, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.
CA AB 1568 - James D. Wood
Developmental services: independent living skills services: rates.
07/05/2023 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1568, as amended, Wood. Developmental services: independent living skills services: rates. Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law requires regional centers to provide independent living skills services to an adult consumer that provide the consumer with functional skills training that enables the consumer to acquire or maintain skills to live independently or to achieve greater independence while living in the home of another person. Existing law requires the department to promulgate regulations establishing program standards and an equitable process for setting rates of state payment for community-based day programs, which include independent living programs, among other things.This bill would require that independent living skills services have functional skills training components, including, among others, cooking, money management, use of medical and dental services, and community resource awareness, and would prohibit those services from being conducted in a center-based environment. The bill would require the department, on or before April 1, 2024, to revise and implement an equitable and cost-effective ratesetting procedure for state payment for independent living skills services according to specified requirements, including that independent living skills services shall not be categorized as a community-based day program or adult day program and the ratesetting procedure shall reflect the reasonable cost of independent living skills services, as determined using the most up-to-date United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’s State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates for California, as specified.
CA AB 1584 - Akilah Faizah Weber
Criminal procedure: competence to stand trial.
08/21/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 1584, as amended, Weber. Criminal procedure: competence to stand trial. Existing law prohibits a person from being tried or adjudged to punishment while that person is mentally incompetent. Existing law establishes a process by which, if the mental competency of a defendant is in doubt, the defendant’s mental competency is evaluated and the defendant receives treatment with the goal of returning the defendant to competency, as specified. Existing law requires a court to appoint 2 mental health professionals to examine a defendant if the defendant is seeking a finding of mental incompetence.This bill would only require the appointment of a 2nd mental health professional if requested by the defendant. The bill would require the evaluating mental health professional to submit a report to the court within 30 days and would specify the required contents of the report. The bill would also clarify that any statements made by the defendant as part of the evaluation are inadmissible in subsequent proceedings.This bill would authorize the court, if no objection is made to the report, to make a finding of the defendant’s competence based on the report. The bill would, if any party objects to the report, require the court to hold a hearing to determine competence, as specified.Existing law, in the case of a defendant charged with a felony, requires that, upon a finding of mental incompetence, the proceedings be suspended until the defendant regains competence. Existing law prescribes a program of pretrial diversion for defendants with a diagnosed mental disorder whose disorder was a significant factor in the commission of their offense. Under existing law, persons charged with certain offenses, including murder, rape, sexual abuse of a child, and possession of a weapon of mass destruction, are ineligible for diversion.This bill would require the court, upon a finding of mental incompetence of a defendant charged with a felony that is not ineligible for diversion, to determine if it is in the interests of justice to restore the defendant to competence. The bill would require the court, if the restoration of the defendant’s mental competence is not in the interests of justice, to either grant mental health diversion to the defendant or dismiss the charges against the defendant, as specified.If a defendant is returned to court having not been restored to mental competence, this bill would require the defendant to be presumed incompetent and, if the charges are not dismissed, be returned to treatment, as specified.The bill would make other conforming changes.
CA AB 1603 - David Alvarez
Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program: qualified entities: consumer cooperatives.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1603, as introduced, Alvarez. Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program: qualified entities: consumer cooperatives. Existing law creates the Office of Farm to Fork within the Department of Food and Agriculture, and requires the office, to the extent that resources are available, to work with various entities, including, among others, the agricultural industry and other organizations involved in promoting food access, to increase the amount of agricultural products available to underserved communities and schools in the state. Existing law requires the office to, among other things, identify urban and rural communities that lack access to healthy food, and to coordinate with local, state, and federal agencies to promote and increase awareness of programs that promote greater food access. Existing law establishes the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program in the Office of Farm to Fork, and creates the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to collect matching funds received from a specified federal grant program and funds from other public and private sources. Under the program, the department is required to award moneys in the account to qualified entities, as defined, to encourage the purchase and consumption of California fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables by nutrition benefit clients, as defined. Existing law requires that grants only be provided upon the deposit of sufficient funds into the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Account. A violation of the laws governing fruit, nut, and vegetable standards is a crime. This bill would specify that a consumer cooperative, as defined, that sells California-grown fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables and is authorized to accept specified nutrition benefits from nutrition benefit clients is a qualified entity eligible to be awarded moneys through the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Program. By expanding the program to include consumer cooperatives, the bill would expand the scope of a crime and thereby 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.
CA AB 1604 - Mia Bonta
Charter schools: school facilities: Charter School Facility Grant Program: conduit financing.
01/29/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 1604, Bonta. Charter schools: school facilities: Charter School Facility Grant Program: conduit financing. Existing law requires the California School Finance Authority (authority) to administer the Charter School Facility Grant Program, and provides that the grant program is intended to provide assistance with facilities rent and lease costs for pupils in charter schools. Existing law requires the authority to, among other things, determine eligibility, as specified, including a requirement that the charter schoolsite either gives a preference in admission to pupils who are currently enrolled in a public elementary school in which 55% or more of the pupil enrollment is eligible for free or reduced-price meals and to pupils who reside in the elementary school attendance area where the charter schoolsite is located, or 55% or more of the pupil enrollment at the charter schoolsite is eligible for free or reduced-price meals.This bill would clarify the above preference in admissions, including for when the charter school is a dual immersion program, and require that changes to the preference in admissions be incorporated into a charter school’s charter petition during the next charter renewal cycle, as specified. The bill would also require the authority to update its regulations before opening the 2025–26 funding round to include specified requirements. The bill would require charter schools to identify their school type, confirm they are a classroom-based charter school, and include documentation confirming their status as nonprofit organizations in their applications.This bill would require the sale or lease of an educational facility, as defined, other than to the charter school occupying the educational facility or a nonprofit related-party entity of the charter school, where the charter school occupying the facility has received substantial funding, as defined, from the Charter School Facility Grant Program (program) for an educational facility acquired, financed, constructed, or modernized on or after January 1, 2025, and for which the property title is held by a related-party entity, as defined, to be consistent with specified requirements, including that the educational facility is offered to certain entities in a specified order. If, within 60 days of issuing a notice, as provided, none of the entities listed has submitted an offer for the educational facility, the bill would authorize the educational facility to then be sold or leased to another entity, as specified. If a charter school occupying an educational facility has received substantial funding from the program and the title to the property is held by a related-party entity and the educational facility is sold within 10 years of the charter school last receiving program funds to any entity not listed and the proceeds are not used for capital outlay in the state, the bill would require an amount equal to the program funds received by the charter school in the previous 10 years to be returned to the authority, as specified.This bill would require a charter school participating in a conduit financing program to notify the conduit issuer in certain situations, including, among others, when the charter school occupying the financed facility is closing. The bill would require a charter school to annually notify the conduit issuer of the status of a facility with outstanding conduit bonds when the charter school has closed or vacated the building but the building has not been sold, as provided. To the extent these provisions would impose additional duties on charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The Charter Schools Act of 1992 provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law requires a petition for the establishment of a charter school to contain comprehensive descriptions of various matters and procedures, including procedures to be used if the charter school closes, including a final audit of the charte
CA AB 1605 - James M. Gallagher
High schools: military services: United States Space Force.
08/29/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 1605, Gallagher. High schools: military services: United States Space Force. (1) Existing law prohibits each school district offering instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, that provides on-campus access to employers, from prohibiting access to the military services. Existing law defines “military services” for these purposes to include the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, or any reserve component of those federal forces, the National Guard, the State Guard, and the active militia.This bill would additionally prohibit each county office of education and charter school offering instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, that provides on-campus access to employers, from prohibiting access to the military services. The bill would expressly include the United States Space Force in that definition.(2) Existing law ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to, among other things, facilitate the enrollment, placement, advancement, and transfer of the academic records of the children of military families for the purpose of removing barriers to their educational success due to the frequent moves and deployment of their parents. The compact defines “Uniformed Services” to mean the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, as well as the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United States Public Health Services.This bill would include the United States Space Force in the definition of Uniformed Services for purposes of the compact. To the extent the change to the definition imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(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.
CA AB 1607 - Wendy Maria Carrillo
Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 1607, Wendy Carrillo. Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency. Existing law, the Los Angeles County Regional Housing Finance Act (act), establishes the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency (agency) to increase the supply of affordable housing in the County of Los Angeles. The act authorizes the agency to place funding measures on the ballot in the County of Los Angeles to raise and allocate funds to the County of Los Angeles, the cities in the county, and other public agencies and affordable housing projects within its jurisdiction for purposes of preserving and enhancing existing housing, funding renter protection programs, and financing new construction of affordable housing developments, as specified. The act limits the agency’s jurisdiction to acting in a supplemental capacity when a municipality has, as of January 1, 2022, an existing program that provides similar supports and services, and prohibits any functions of existing programs from being transferred to or undertaken by the agency. The act also prohibits the agency from performing or undertaking any functions related to supports and services provided to people experiencing homelessness, except as specified.The act requires the governing board of the agency to adopt an annual expenditure plan for the use of housing revenue that sets forth the share of revenue and estimated funding amount to be spent on certain categories within the annual programmatic budget, as specified.This bill would authorize the agency to transfer a portion of the revenue raised by a tax measure adopted pursuant to the act to the County of Los Angeles for programs that provide supports and services to prevent and combat homelessness. The bill would exclude those transferred revenues from the annual expenditure plan and the annual programmatic budget and make other conforming changes.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles.
CA AB 1616 - Thomas W. Lackey
California Cannabis Tax Fund: Board of State and Community Corrections grants.
06/26/2023 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB S. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on PUB S.
AB 1616, as introduced, Lackey. California Cannabis Tax Fund: Board of State and Community Corrections grants. Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure, 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. 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. Existing law establishes the California Cannabis Tax Fund as a continuously appropriated fund consisting of specified taxes, interest, penalties, and other amounts related to commercial cannabis activity. Each fiscal year, AUMA requires the Controller to make specified disbursements from the fund, including amounts to the Board of State and Community Corrections for making grants to local governments to assist with law enforcement, fire protection, and other local programs addressing public health and safety associated with the implementation of AUMA. AUMA prohibits the board from making grants to local governments that ban both indoor and outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation, or ban retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products.This bill would require the Board of State and Community Corrections to prioritize local governments whose programs seek to address the unlawful cultivation and sale of cannabis. The bill would also authorize the board to make grants to local governments that ban both indoor and outdoor commercial cannabis cultivation, or ban retail sale of cannabis or cannabis products.AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a 2/3 vote of both houses to further its purposes and intent, except as specified.This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of AUMA.
CA AB 1620 - Rick Chavez Zbur
Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act: permanent disabilities: comparable or smaller units.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 1620, Zbur. Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act: permanent disabilities: comparable or smaller units. The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act authorizes an owner of residential real property to establish the initial and subsequent rental rates for a dwelling or unit with respect to which certain criteria are met, including that the dwelling or unit is alienable separate from the title to any other dwelling unit or is a subdivided interest in a subdivision, as specified. The act exempts certain tenancies and dwelling units from these provisions, including a unit where the previous tenancy been terminated by the owner pursuant to specified law.This bill would authorize a jurisdiction to require the owner of a residential real property that is subject to an ordinance or charter provision that controls the rental rate to permit a tenant who is not subject to eviction for nonpayment and who has a permanent physical disability related to mobility to move to an available comparable or smaller unit, as defined, located on an accessible floor of the property if certain conditions are met. The bill would require an owner who grants a request pursuant to these provisions to allow the tenant to retain their lease at the same rental rate and terms of the existing lease if certain conditions are met, including, among others, the move is determined to be necessary to accommodate the tenant’s disability related to mobility and the new dwelling or unit is in the same building or on the same parcel with at least 4 other units.
CA AB 1633 - Philip Y. Ting
Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 1633, Ting. Housing Accountability Act: disapprovals: California Environmental Quality Act. Existing law, the Housing Accountability Act, prohibits a local agency from disapproving a housing development project, as described, unless it makes certain written findings based on a preponderance of the evidence in the record. The act defines “disapprove the housing development project” as including any instance in which a local agency either votes and disapproves a proposed housing development project application, including any required land use approvals or entitlements necessary for the issuance of a building permit, or fails to comply with specified time periods. Existing law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that the lead agency proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if the lead agency finds that the project will not have that effect.This bill, until January 1, 2031, would define “disapprove the housing development project” as also including any instance in which a local agency fails to make a determination of whether the project is exempt from CEQA or commits an abuse of discretion, as specified, or fails to adopt a negative declaration or addendum for the project, to certify an environmental impact report for the project, or to approve another comparable environmental document, if certain conditions are satisfied. Among other conditions, the bill would require a housing development project subject to these provisions to be located on a legal parcel or parcels within an urbanized area and to meet one or more of specified criteria, and to meet or exceed 15 dwelling units per acre. By imposing additional duties on local officials, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires a petition to enforce the Housing Accountability Act to be brought pursuant to a specified procedure and be filed no later than 90 days from the effective date of a decision of the local agency imposing conditions on, disapproving of, or any other final action taken on a housing development project.This bill, until January 1, 2031, would provide that a local agency’s failure to make a determination that the project is exempt from CEQA, abuse of discretion, as defined, or failure to adopt, approve, or certify a negative declaration, addendum, environmental impact report, or comparable environmental review document, is deemed final for purposes of filing a petition to enforce the provisions of the act if the local agency did not make a final decision on whether to approve or disapprove a statutory or categorical exemption or a negative declaration, addendum, environmental impact report, or comparable environmental review document under CEQA, as specified, within a specified time period of the applicant’s notice.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.
CA AB 1642 - Michael A. Gipson
School facilities: master plan for green schoolyards: greening programs.
09/05/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 1642, as amended, Gipson. School facilities: master plan for green schoolyards: greening programs. The Field Act requires the Department of General Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design and construction of any school building 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 building standards published in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life and property.This bill would require the State Department of Education and the Natural Resources Agency, in consultation with the Office of Planning and Research, the Division of the State Architect, the Office of Public School Construction, and any other appropriate state entities, as determined by the department and the agency, to facilitate an interagency and stakeholder engagement process to prepare, on or before December 1, 2024, a master plan for green schoolyards that, among other things, recommends a statewide goal for the number of schools with green schoolyards to be achieved by a specified date, recommends strategies to overcome identified barriers to green schoolyards, and identifies recommendations and best practices to prevent or mitigate the impacts of extreme heat in schools. The bill would require the Natural Resources Agency, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and the Department of Parks and Recreation to incorporate the recommendations and best practices from the master plan into the guidelines for specified state programs. The bill would provide that the master plan is advisory for local educational agencies, defined as school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. The bill would require the department and the agency to submit the master plan for green schoolyards to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before December 1, 2024.
CA AB 1643 - Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
Juveniles: informal supervision.
09/12/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
AB 1643, Bauer-Kahan. Juveniles: informal supervision. Existing law subjects a person between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who commits a crime, and a person under 12 years of age who commits specified crimes, to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge that person to be a ward of the court. Existing law authorizes a probation officer, in certain circumstances, to delineate a specific program of supervision for a minor who is alleged to have committed a crime. Existing law makes a minor ineligible for that program of supervision for specified reasons, including if the minor is alleged to have committed an offense in which the restitution owed to the victim exceeds $1,000, except in those unusual cases in where the interest of justice would best be served. This bill would instead prohibit a minor from participating in a program of supervision if the minor has committed an offense in which the restitution owed exceeds $5,000. Upon receipt of an application to commence proceedings in the juvenile court, as specified, existing law requires a probation officer to make any investigation the officer deems necessary to determine whether proceedings in the juvenile court should be commenced. Existing law requires the probation officer to commence proceedings within 48 hours if the minor has been referred to the probation officer for specified offenses, including if the minor is alleged to have committed an offense in which restitution owed to the victim exceeds $1,000.This bill would instead require the probation officer to commence proceedings within 48 hours if the minor is alleged to have committed an offense in which restitution owed to the victim exceeds $5,000.
CA AB 1645 - Rick Chavez Zbur
Health care coverage: cost sharing.
10/07/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 1645, Zbur. Health care coverage: cost sharing. 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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a group or individual nongrandfathered health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to provide coverage for, and prohibits a contract or policy from imposing cost-sharing requirements for, specified preventive care services and screenings.This bill would prohibit a group or individual health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, from imposing a cost-sharing requirement for office visits for the above-described preventive care services and screenings and for items or services that are integral to their provision. The bill would prohibit large group contracts and policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, and an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, from imposing a cost-sharing requirement, utilization review, or other specified limits on a recommended sexually transmitted infections screening, and from imposing a cost-sharing requirement for any items and services integral to a sexually transmitted infections screening, as specified. The bill would require a plan or insurer to directly reimburse a nonparticipating provider or facility of sexually transmitted infections screening that meets specified criteria for screening tests and integral items and services rendered, as specified, and would prohibit a nonparticipating provider from billing or collecting a cost-sharing amount for a sexually transmitted infections screening from an enrollee or insured. Because a violation of the bill’s requirements 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.
CA AB 1650 - James Norwood Patterson Jr.
Family law proceedings: custody, parentage, and adoption.
09/22/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 1650, Jim Patterson. Family law proceedings: custody, parentage, and adoption. (1) Under existing law, a superior court has jurisdiction under California law to make judicial determinations regarding the custody and care of children within the meaning of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act. Existing law requires the court to make specified findings when making an order regarding special immigrant juvenile status pursuant to the act. Existing law authorizes those findings to be made at any point in a proceeding, as specified. This bill, as of January 1, 2025, would, among other things, revise those provisions to allow the superior court jurisdiction regarding dependency and allow judicial determinations to be made for a child up to 21 years of age.(2) Existing law, the Uniform Parentage Act, defines the parent and child relationship as the legal relationship existing between a child and the child’s parents, and provides rebuttable presumptions as to the parentage of a child born under the circumstances of conception through assisted reproduction using donated ova, sperm, or both. The act defines “assisted reproduction” for these purposes to mean conception by any means other than sexual intercourse. This bill would authorize persons who are not married to one another and who share legal control over the disposition of embryos created through assisted reproduction to enter into a written agreement whereby one person renounces all legal interest in the embryos, with the specific intent to not be a legal parent of any child conceived with use of the embryos, as specified. The bill would provide that upon execution of the agreement, the person who retains legal interest in and control over disposition of the embryos would have the sole right to determine the use and disposition of the embryos, and the renouncing person would be treated in law as a donor, and not a legal parent. The bill would authorize either party to file the agreement with the court, and would require the court to issue an order establishing the nonparentage of the donor.(3) Existing law allows, in an adoption proceeding, for continuing contact between the birth relatives and a child if a postadoption contact agreement is entered into voluntarily and is in the best interests of the child at the time the adoption petition is granted. Existing law requires a petitioner who has entered into a postadoption contact agreement with the birth parent to attach the signed agreement to the adoption petition. This bill would require petitioners for adoption to inform the court in writing, on a specified form, whether a postadoption contact agreement has been, or will be, entered into and if a postadoption contact agreement has been entered into, to provide a file-marked copy, as specified. This bill would additionally require the petitioner to file the agreement with the court before the adoption is finalized. The bill also would apply those provisions with respect to independent adoptions.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8616.5 of the Family Code proposed by AB 20 to be operative only if this bill and AB 20 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 1651 - Kathryn Sanchez
Pupil health: emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors.
09/20/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 1651, Sanchez. Pupil health: emergency medical care: epinephrine auto-injectors. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. Existing law defines “volunteer” and “trained personnel” for these purposes to mean an employee who has volunteered to administer epinephrine auto-injectors, as provided.This bill would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to, among other things, store those emergency epinephrine auto-injectors in an accessible location upon need for emergency use and include that location in specified annual notices. This bill would extend the definition of “volunteer” and “trained personnel” to include the holder of an Activity Supervisor Clearance Certificate, as specified, who has volunteered to administer epinephrine auto-injectors, as provided. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 1652 - Kate Sanchez
Curriculum: right to examine.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1652, as introduced, Sanchez. Curriculum: right to examine. Existing law provides that parents and guardians of children enrolled in public schools have the right, and should have the opportunity, as mutually supportive and respectful partners in the education of their children within the public schools, to be informed by the school, and to participate in the education of their children, as specified to include, among other things, examining the curriculum materials of the class or classes in which their child is enrolled.This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to post the process for examining curriculum materials on their internet website. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would also delete an obsolete reference.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.
CA AB 1653 - Kathryn Sanchez
Interscholastic athletic programs: emergency action plans: heat illness: guidelines.
09/22/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 1653, Sanchez. Interscholastic athletic programs: emergency action plans: heat illness: guidelines. Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools operated by local educational agencies throughout this state. Existing law authorizes public and private secondary schools to participate in interscholastic sports, and authorizes schools to enter into associations or consortia to enact and enforce rules relating to eligibility for, and participation in, these activities.If a school district or charter school elects to offer any interscholastic athletic program, existing law requires the governing entity of the school district or charter school to ensure that there is a written emergency action plan in place that describes the location and procedures to be followed in the event of sudden cardiac arrest or other medical emergencies related to the athletic program’s activities or events.This bill would require the written emergency action plan to also include the location and procedures to be followed in the event of heat illness related to the athletic program’s activities or events, as provided. The bill would also require the California Interscholastic Federation, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to, no later than July 1, 2024, develop guidelines, procedures, and safety standards for the prevention and management of exertional heat illness, as provided.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 35179.4 of the Education Code proposed by AB 245 to be operative only if this bill and AB 245 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 1671 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Pupil mental health: services.
02/01/2024 - Died at Desk.
AB 1671, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Pupil mental health: services. Existing law requires a school of a school district or county office of education and a charter school to notify pupils and parents or guardians of pupils no less than twice during the school year on how to initiate access to available pupil mental health services on campus or in the community, or both, using at least 2 of specified methods, as provided.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
CA AB 1675 - Juan Alanis
Foster care: enrichment activities.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1675, as amended, Alanis. Foster care: enrichment activities. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings, and governs the provision of child welfare services. Existing law entitles every child adjudged a dependent of the juvenile court who is placed in foster care with the right to participate in age-appropriate extracurricular, enrichment, and social activities.Existing law requires a county social worker to create a case plan for foster youth within a specified timeframe, and requires the case plan to be developed considering the recommendations of the child and family team in accordance with certain requirements, including, that the case plan identifies specific goals and the appropriateness of the planned services in meeting those goals. Existing law requires a court to review the status of a dependent child in foster care at least once every 6 months until a subsequent dispositional hearing is completed, and requires the court to consider the safety of the child and make certain determinations, including, among other things, the continuing necessity for and appropriateness of the placement, and the extent of the agency’s compliance with the case plan in making efforts, as specified, to return the child to a safe home and to complete any steps necessary to finalize their permanent placement.This bill would require a caseworker to discuss enrichment and extracurricular activities with each child or nonminor dependent at the monthly caseworker visits in order to identify potential activities and funding for the activities, and would require specified information regarding the enrichment and extracurricular activities in the case plan. The bill would also require the court to make additional determinations regarding the enrichment and extracurricular activities that the child or nonminor dependent is participating in, among other things. By increasing the duties of county child welfare agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, State Department of Health Care Services, and State Department of Education to develop a plan to maximize and leverage the usage of any available funds to support participation in enrichment activities for children and youth in foster care. The bill would, if the State Department of Health Care Services’s application for a federal Medicaid demonstration project, known as the California Behavioral Health Community-Based Continuum Demonstration (CalBH-CBC), is granted by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, require the State Department of Health Care Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, to convene a stakeholder workgroup, as specified, to assist in developing how the activity stipend benefit for current and former foster youth and children who have received or are receiving family maintenance services under the project will be implemented.Existing law, the Budget Act of 2022, appropriates $50,000,000 to the State Department of Social Services to allocate funding to county and tribal entities to, among other things, cover costs to facilitate a foster caregiver’s and child’s participation in child and youth enrichment activities that are not covered by the caregiver-specif
CA AB 1680 - Kate Sanchez
Developmental services.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 1680, as introduced, Sanchez. Developmental services. Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers for the provision of community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law also vests in the department jurisdiction over various state developmental centers for the provision of care to persons with developmental disabilities.Existing law, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, requires foster care providers to be paid a per-child per-month rate, established by the State Department of Social Services, for the care and supervision of the child placed with the provider. Existing law establishes the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC), in counties that choose to participate, for the purpose of making the amount paid to relative caregivers for the in-home care of children placed with them who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments equal to the amount paid on behalf of children who are eligible for AFDC-FC payments. Existing law establishes the state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP), which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who are placed in the home of a relative guardian. Existing law establishes the state-funded Adoption Assistance Program (AAP), which provides financial and medical coverage to facilitate the adoption of children who would otherwise remain in long-term foster care. Existing law requires specified rates for children who are both regional center consumers and recipients of AFDC-FC, ARC, Kin-GAP, or AAP benefits. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Developmental Services to provide specified data related to the provision of those services to children who also receive AFDC-FC, ARC, Kin-GAP, or AAP benefits to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on an annual basis.This bill would, instead, require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Developmental Services to provide the specified data to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee 3 times a year, on March 1, July 1, and November 1 of each year.
CA AB 1683 - Isaac G. Bryan
Child welfare agencies: enforcement.
02/01/2024 - Died at Desk.
AB 1683, as introduced, Bryan. Child welfare agencies: enforcement. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to promulgate regulations for county child welfare departments, including, but not limited to, any case of separation or desertion of a parent from a child that results in foster care assistance payments, payments for a minor child placed in the same home as a minor or nonminor dependent parent, and California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) payments to a caretaker relative of a child who comes within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
CA AB 1685 - Isaac G. Bryan
Child welfare services.
02/01/2024 - Died at Desk.
AB 1685, as introduced, Bryan. Child welfare services. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to implement a single statewide Child Welfare Services Case Management System to administer and evaluate the state’s child welfare services and foster care programs. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature for the department to enhance the statewide child welfare information system to include information concerning the level of care required, educational accomplishments, and health history of children placed in foster care.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
CA AB 1697 - Pilar Schiavo
Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 1697, as amended, Schiavo. Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. Existing law, the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, provides that a record or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form. The act exempts from its provisions, among other things, specific transactions, including an authorization for the release of medical information by a provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, or contractor and an authorization for the release of genetic test results by a health care service plan under the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act.This bill would delete the exemption for the above-described authorizations under the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act and would make conforming changes.Existing law requires that the authorization for release of medical information contain a specific end date.This bill would, instead, require that the authorization contain an expiration date or event, as defined, and would limit the duration of the authorization to one year or less, except as provided. The bill would also require that the person to whom the medical information pertains receives a copy of the authorization for that authorization to be valid.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 56.05 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 254 to be operative only if this bill and AB 254 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 1701 - Akilah Faizah Weber
Black infant health: California Perinatal Equity Initiative.
09/08/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 174, Statutes of 2023.
AB 1701, Weber. Black infant health: California Perinatal Equity Initiative. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to establish the California Perinatal Equity Initiative to expand the scope of interventions provided under the Black Infant Health Program by fostering Community Centers of Excellence and promoting the use of interventions designed to fill gaps in current programming offered through the Black Infant Health Program. Existing law requires the department to develop a process to allocate funds to up to 15 county health departments, to work collaboratively with state and local Black Infant Health programs, for the purpose of improving Black infant birth outcomes and reducing infant mortality. This bill would expand the program to include city health departments, as specified.
CA AB 1707 - Blanca Pacheco
Health professionals and facilities: adverse actions based on another state’s law.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 1707, Pacheco. Health professionals and facilities: adverse actions based on another state’s law. Existing law establishes various boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs to license and regulate various health professionals. Existing law prohibits the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, the Board of Registered Nursing, and the Physician Assistant Board from denying an application for licensure or suspending, revoking, or otherwise imposing discipline upon a licensee because the person was disciplined in another state in which they are licensed solely for performing an abortion in that state or because the person was convicted in another state for an offense related solely to performing an abortion in that state.Existing law provides for the licensure of clinics and health facilities by the Licensing and Certification Division of the State Department of Public Health. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions punishable as a misdemeanor, except as specified.This bill would prohibit a healing arts board under the Department of Consumer Affairs from denying an application for a license or imposing discipline upon a licensee or health care practitioner on the basis of a civil judgment, criminal conviction, or disciplinary action in another state that is based on the application of another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to receive sensitive services, as defined, that would be lawful in this state, regardless of the patient’s location. The bill would similarly prohibit a health facility from denying staff privileges to, removing from medical staff, or restricting the staff privileges of a licensed health professional on the basis of such a civil judgment, criminal conviction, or disciplinary action imposed by another state. The bill also would also prohibit the denial, suspension, revocation, or limitation of a clinic or health facility license on the basis of those types of civil judgments, criminal convictions, or disciplinary actions imposed by another state. The bill would exempt from the above-specified provisions a civil judgment, criminal conviction, or disciplinary action imposed by another state based upon conduct in another state that would subject an applicant, licensee, or health care practitioner to a similar claim, charge, or action under the laws of this state. By imposing new prohibitions under the provisions related to clinics and health facilities, the violation of which is a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 1720 - Pilar Schiavo
Clinics: prenatal screening.
09/22/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 1720, Bauer-Kahan. Clinics: prenatal screening. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate clinics and health facilities. Existing law generally makes a violation of those licensing provisions a crime. Existing law requires a person or facility that offers a fetal ultrasound, or a similar procedure, for keepsake or entertainment purposes, to disclose to a client prior to performing the procedure, in writing, a specified statement.This bill would specify the settings in which an ultrasound or similar medical imaging device procedure may be offered. The bill would exempt a practice of a licensed midwife, or a practice of a certified nurse-midwife. The bill would impose a civil penalty for the violation of this provision in the amount of $2,500 for a first offense and $5,000 for each subsequent offense, defined as each ultrasound conducted outside of the specified settings. The bill would authorize the Attorney General, a district attorney, a city attorney, or a county counsel to bring an action to impose the civil penalty. The bill would specify how the civil penalty funds and related costs are to be paid.
CA AB 1722 - Megan Dahle
Pupil health: credentialed school nurses, registered nurses, and licensed vocational nurses.
09/22/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 1722, Megan Dahle. Pupil health: credentialed school nurses, registered nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. (1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils, and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law authorizes a school nurse, if authorized by the governing board of the school district, to perform various pupil health care services. Existing law requires a school nurse to be currently licensed as a registered nurse, as provided, and to have met the minimum requirements for a credential in school nursing, as specified.This bill would require a licensed vocational nurse, as defined, hired pursuant to this bill to be supervised by a credentialed school nurse, as defined, who is employed as a school nurse at the same local educational agency (LEA) or at another LEA. The bill would prohibit interpreting that provision to allow a licensed vocational nurse to go beyond the approved scope of practice pursuant to the Vocational Nursing Practice Act. The bill would require an LEA employing a credentialed school nurse who is supervising a licensed vocational nurse at another LEA, and a credentialed school nurse who is supervising a licensed vocational nurse at another LEA, pursuant to these provisions to have indemnification for the supervisorial liability, as specified. The bill would require certain LEAs to enter into a written agreement containing specified information, including, among other information, a communication policy delineating how the licensed vocational nurse and the credentialed school nurse are to communicate, as provided. The bill would require an LEA to only hire a licensed vocational nurse if a diligent search has been conducted for a suitable credentialed school nurse each school year, as provided. The bill would require a local educational agency to seek approval from its governing board or body before hiring a licensed vocational nurse, including by submitting a declaration to its governing board or body containing certain information. The bill would require a local educational agency electing to hire a licensed vocational nurse to certify to the State Department of Education, upon penalty of perjury, that a diligent recruitment effort to hire a credentialed school nurse was made. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would, if an LEA uses its authority pursuant to the above-mentioned provisions, require the local educational agency to report its use of that authority to the department. The bill would require the department to, on or before January 1, 2028, submit a report to the Legislature containing a list of the LEAs that have used that authority, as provided. The bill would repeal the above-mentioned provisions on January 1, 2029.(2) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to provide for the adequate testing of the sight and hearing of each pupil enrolled in the schools of the school district to be given only by specified persons, including, among others, certificated employees of the school district or of the county superintendent of schools who possess the qualifications prescribed by the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing.This bill would expand that described authorization to allow those tests to be additionally given by certificated employees, registered nurses, or licensed vocational nurses, under the supervision of a credentialed school nurse, of the school district, charter school, or the county superintendent of schools who possess the qualifications prescribed by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.(3) Existing law requires a school nurse or other authorized person to appraise the vision of a pupil during kindergarten, or upon first enrollment or entry of that pupil in a California school district at an elementary s
CA AB 1734 - Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr.
Local Government: Surplus Land Act: exemptions.
09/22/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 1734, Jones-Sawyer. Local Government: Surplus Land Act: exemptions. Existing law requires land to be declared surplus land or exempt surplus land, as supported by written findings, before a local agency takes any action to dispose of it consistent with the agency’s policies or procedures. Existing law sets forth procedures for the disposal of surplus land, including, but not limited to, specified notice requirements, and provides that these procedures do not apply to exempt surplus land.This bill, until January 1, 2034, would specify that land disposed of by a city with a population exceeding 2,500,000 for certain purposes, including low barrier navigation centers, supportive housing, transitional housing for youth and young adults, or affordable housing, as described, is not subject to the above-described requirements, if the city meets certain prescribed requirements and specified construction or development work meets prescribed requirements. The bill would require a city that disposes of land pursuant to these provisions to include prescribed information in a specified annual report. The bill would make a local agency that disposes of land in violation of these provisions liable for a civil penalty, as specified.
CA AB 1745 - Esmeralda Soria
Public postsecondary education: veterans: waiver of mandatory systemwide tuition and fees.
09/12/2023 - In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 1745, as introduced, Soria. Public postsecondary education: veterans: waiver of mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. Existing law establishes the segments of the public postsecondary education system in the state, including the University of California administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. The Donahoe Higher Education Act prohibits campuses of those segments from charging mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to specified students who apply for a waiver, including a child of any veteran of the United States military who has a service-connected disability, has been killed in service, or has died of a service-connected disability, where the annual income of the child, including the value of any support received from a parent, does not exceed the national poverty level.This bill would instead require that the annual income of the child not exceed the state poverty level, as defined. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to provisions relating to this waiver of mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. To the extent these provisions would add additional duties on community college districts, 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, 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.
CA AB 1748 - James C. Ramos
Logistics use projects: sensitive receptors.
05/17/2023 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 1748, as amended, Ramos. Logistics use projects: sensitive receptors. Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, sets forth various requirements relating to the review of development project permit applications and the issuance of development permits for specified classes of development projects.This bill would prohibit the County of Riverside, the County of San Bernardino, and any of the cities, joint powers authorities, or agencies with land use authority within those counties from approving the development or expansion of any logistics use, as defined, that is adjacent to sensitive receptors, as defined, unless the local agency imposes certain requirements, as specified, including a minimum setback on the logistics use of 300 feet if the logistics use consists of 400,000 or more square feet of building space, including, but not limited to, warehouses. By imposing new requirements on local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino, the cities located within those counties, and any joint powers authority or agency with land use authority in those counties.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.
CA AB 1754 - House Judiciary Committee
Maintenance of the codes.
07/25/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 1754, Committee on Judiciary. Maintenance of the codes. Existing law directs the Legislative Counsel to advise the Legislature from time to time as to legislation necessary to maintain the codes.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in various provisions of the law to effectuate the recommendations made by the Legislative Counsel to the Legislature.
CA AB 1755 - House Judiciary Committee
Child support.
09/13/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Skinner.
AB 1755, as amended, Committee on Judiciary. Child support. (1) Existing law requires a court to make an expedited support order if specified information is filed, including the minimum amount the obligated parent or parents are required to pay pursuant to the statewide uniform guideline for support or specified minimum basic standards for adequate care.This bill would repeal those provisions as of January 1, 2024.(2) Existing law sets a statewide uniform guideline for determining child support and requires the Judicial Council to periodically review that guideline to recommend appropriate revisions, including economic data on the cost of raising children and an analysis of guidelines and studies from other states. Existing law further requires a court to order, as additional child support, payment of reasonable uninsured health care costs for the child and payment of childcare costs, and may order costs related to the educational or other special needs of the child, and travel expenses for visitation. Existing law requires the court, in making an order pursuant to the uninsured health care costs, to follow specified protocols. This bill, commencing September 1, 2024, would, among other things, revise the statewide uniform guideline for determining child support, including the amount that establishes a rebuttable presumption that the obligor is entitled to a low-income adjustment. This bill would expand the above-referenced protocols with regard to issuing an order to pay uninsured health care costs to also include orders to pay for specified childcare costs, if those expenses are actually incurred.(3) Existing law requires counties to maintain a local child support agency to promptly and effectively establish, modify, and enforce child support obligations, to enforce spousal support obligations, and to determine paternity of a child born out of wedlock. Existing law requires that the local child support agency provide notice of the amount of child support that is sought pursuant to the statewide uniform guidelines based upon the income or income history of the support obligor and that a proposed judgment be provided. Existing law requires the Judicial Council, in consultation with specified others, to develop a simplified summons, complaint, and answer forms for any action brought pursuant to those provisions. Existing law requires the simplified complaint form to be based upon the income or income history of the support obligor.This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would, among other things, instead require that complaint form to require the local child support agency to use specified methods to calculate income, including using earning capacity if the local child support agency has sufficient evidence to establish earning capacity. The bill would also authorize the department to implement those provisions by a child support services letter or similar instruction until permanent regulations are adopted. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement those provisions by January 1, 2027. By imposing new duties on a local child support agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a judgment to be entered without hearing and without other specified requirements in an action filed by the local child support agency involving the simplified procedures described above. This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would among other things, expand that requirement to actions based on earning capacity, as specified. The bill would require a local child support agency to conduct a review of the case to determine if there is sufficient additional evidence available to establish actual income of the defendant, as specified. By imposing new duties on a local child support agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require the Judicial Council, no later than September 1, 2024, to adopt and approve any forms necessary to implement those provisio
CA AB 1756 - House Judiciary Committee
Committee on Judiciary: judiciary omnibus.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).
AB 1756, as amended, Committee on Judiciary. Committee on Judiciary: judiciary omnibus. (1) Existing law requires the Attorney General to maintain the Registry of Charitable Trusts, a register of charitable corporations, unincorporated associations, and trustees holding property for charitable purposes and fundraisers. Existing law also establishes the Registry of Charitable Trusts Fund in the State Treasury, and directs all registration fees, registration renewal fees, and late fees or other fees paid to the Department of Justice in relation to the Registry of Charitable Trusts be deposited into the fund. This bill would change the name of the Registry of Charitable Trusts to the Registry of Charities and Fundraisers. The bill would also change the name of the Registry of Charitable Trusts Fund to the Registry of Charities and Fundraisers Fund. The bill would also make conforming changes.(2) Existing law governs motor vehicle conditional sale contracts, as defined, and requires sellers of motor vehicles to make certain disclosures to buyers. Existing law authorizes a buyer to pay the entire indebtedness under the contract at any time before maturity without penalty, regardless of any contrary contract provision, as provided. Existing law provides for the determination of the outstanding obligation of the buyer if the indebtedness is satisfied before its maturity through surrender of the motor vehicle, repossession of the motor vehicle, redemption of the motor vehicle after repossession, or any judgment, and requires that the buyer’s outstanding obligation be computed as of the date the holder recovers the value of the motor vehicle through disposition thereof or judgment is entered or as of the date the holder takes possession of the motor vehicle, as applicable.This bill would make a technical change to these provisions relating to the determination of a buyer’s outstanding obligation if the indebtedness is satisfied by surrender of the motor vehicle, repossession of the motor vehicle, redemption of the motor vehicle after repossession, or any judgment.(3) Existing law governs the offer, sale, provision, or administration, in connection with a motor vehicle conditional sale contract, of a guaranteed asset protection waiver (GAP waiver), defined to mean an optional contractual obligation under which a seller agrees, for additional consideration, to cancel or waive all or part of amounts due on the buyer’s conditional sale contract subject to existing law in the event of a total loss or unrecovered theft of the motor vehicle specified in the conditional sale contract. Existing law also governs the termination of a GAP waiver, including the refund of GAP waiver costs on a termination, to be calculated as prescribed. Under existing law, if the termination occurs later than 30 days after the date the buyer purchased the GAP waiver, the buyer is entitled to a refund of the unearned GAP waiver charges, calculated on a pro rata basis according to a prescribed formula that uses figures relating to the period from the GAP waiver termination date to the original full term date of the conditional sale contract and to the original term of the conditional sale contract. A willful violation of these provisions is a crime.This bill, if the original full term of the conditional sale contract exceeded the original full term of the GAP waiver as of the date the buyer purchased the GAP waiver, would require in that case a formula that uses figures relating to the period from the GAP waiver termination date to the original full term date of the GAP waiver and to the original term of the GAP waiver. Because a willful violation of this provision would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law provides that, in a civil action, before filing a demurrer, motion to strike, or motion for judgment on the pleadings, a party is required to meet and confer, in person or by telephone, with the opposing party to try
CA AB 1766 - House Labor and Employment Committee
Division of Occupational Safety and Health: regulations.
07/25/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 1766, Committee on Labor and Employment. Division of Occupational Safety and Health: regulations. (1) Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, with the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards, including standards for the operation of passenger tramways. Under existing law, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. This bill would require the division to formulate and propose rules and regulations for adoption by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for the safe design, manufacture, installation, repair, maintenance, use, operation, and inspection of all passenger tramways as necessary to protect the public. The bill would require the division to adopt all other rules and regulations necessary for the administration and enforcement of these provisions on passenger tramways.(2) Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers’ compensation for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Existing law defines “employee” for those purposes.This bill would correct an obsolete cross-reference within the provision that defines “employee.”(3) Existing federal law, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, repeals and supersedes the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and provides for the establishment of a state workforce development board to develop strategies to support the use of career pathways for the purpose of providing individuals with workforce investment activities, education, and support services necessary for them to enter the workforce or retain employment. Existing law contains various programs for job training and employment investment.Conforming to the federal act, existing state law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, renames the California Workforce Investment Board the California Workforce Development Board and renames local workforce investment boards as local workforce development boards. Existing law establishes the Employment Training Panel within the Employment Development Department and prescribes the functions and duties of the panel with respect to certain employment training programs. Existing law relating to the panel references the superseded federal act and refers to the state and local boards by their former names. Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature that programs developed pursuant to these provisions not replace, parallel, supplant, compete with, or duplicate in any way already existing approved apprenticeship programs.This bill would delete the above-described intent provision. The bill would update statutory references in provisions relating to the panel to refer to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, the California Workforce Development Board, and local workforce development boards.
CA AB 1793 - Tri Ta
Student financial aid: Cal Grants: Middle Class Scholarship Program: eligibility: dependents of members of the armed services stationed outside of California.
01/05/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
AB 1793, as introduced, Ta. Student financial aid: Cal Grants: Middle Class Scholarship Program: eligibility: dependents of members of the armed services stationed outside of California. Existing law, the Cal Grant Program, establishes the Cal Grant A Entitlement Awards, the Cal Grant B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Expanded Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Existing law, the Cal Grant Reform Act revises and recasts the provisions establishing and governing the existing Cal Grant Program into a new Cal Grant Program. Existing law specifies that the act becomes operative only if General Fund moneys over the multiyear forecasts beginning in the 2024–25 fiscal year are available to support ongoing augmentations and actions, and if funding is provided in the annual Budget Act to implement the act. Under either Cal Program that is operative, existing law establishes eligibility requirements for awards under the program for participating students attending qualifying institutions, including, among others, California residency requirements, as provided.Existing law establishes the Middle Class Scholarship Program (MCSP) under the administration of the commission. Existing law makes an undergraduate student eligible for a scholarship award under the MCSP if the student is enrolled at the University of California or the California State University, or enrolled in upper division coursework in a community college baccalaureate program, and meets certain eligibility requirements, including, among others, that the applicant meets the eligibility requirements for a Cal Grant.This bill would extend Cal Grant and MCSP eligibility to a student who was not a resident of California at the time of high school graduation or its equivalent but meets all other applicable eligibility requirements and is a natural or adopted child, stepchild, or spouse who is a dependent of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed outside of California on active duty but otherwise maintains their residence in California. The bill also would make conforming changes.
CA AB 1796 - Juan Alanis
Pupil instruction: course offerings: parental notification.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 1796, as amended, Alanis. Pupil instruction: course offerings: parental notification. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to annually notify parents or guardians of minor pupils of specified rights and responsibilities of the parent or guardian and of specified school district policies and procedures. Existing law requires, as part of the annual notification, a school district offering any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to provide the parent or guardian of each minor pupil enrolled in any of those grades in the school district with written notification that includes, among other things, a brief explanation of college admission requirements and a brief description of what career technical education is, as provided.This bill would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to annually notify the parents or guardians of pupils admitted to, or advancing to, grades 7 to 12, inclusive, of specified courses offered by the local educational agency, as provided. The bill would require school districts to provide this notice as part of the annual notification required by the above-described provisions. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 1803 - James Norwood Patterson Jr.
Criminal procedure: restitution.
01/08/2024 - Read first time. To print.
AB 1803, as introduced, Jim Patterson. Criminal procedure: restitution. The California Constitution entitles the victim of a crime to restitution. Existing law requires the court to order a person who is convicted of a crime to pay restitution to the victim or victims for the full amount of economic loss. Existing law also requires that order to include noneconomic losses, including, but not limited to, psychological harm, for felony violations of specified crimes relating to child sexual abuse.This bill would expand those provisions to also include noneconomic losses from felony violations of the crime of human trafficking, as specified.
CA AB 1805 - Thomas J. Umberg
Instructional materials: history-social science: Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1805, as amended, Ta. Instructional materials: history-social science: Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt at least 5 basic instructional materials in specified subject areas, including, among others, social science, for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, as specified. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission, as specified, and requires the commission to, among other things, develop criteria for evaluating instructional materials.This bill would require the commission, when the state board adopts new instructional materials for history-social science on or after January 1, 2025, to consider providing for inclusion, in its evaluation criteria, content on the case of Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County.
CA AB 1808 - Laurie Davies
Childcare and development services: eligibility.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1808, as introduced, Stephanie Nguyen. Childcare and development services: eligibility. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, requires the department to administer childcare and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. Under the act, upon establishing initial eligibility or ongoing eligibility for services, a family is considered to meet all eligibility and need requirements for those services, is required to receive those services before having their eligibility or need recertified, and shall not be required to report changes to income or other changes, for at least 24 months, except as specified. Among other exceptions, a family receiving services under a CalWORKs Stage 1, Stage 2, or Stage 3 program is considered to meet all eligibility and need requirements for those services, is required to receive those services before having their eligibility or need recertified, and shall not be required to report changes to income or other changes, for at least 12 months.This bill would delete that 12-month exception for CalWORKs Stage 1, Stage 2, or Stage 3 programs.
CA AB 1812 - Jesse Gabriel
Budget Act of 2024.
01/16/2024 - Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
AB 1812, as introduced, Gabriel. Budget Act of 2024. This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA AB 1815 - Akilah Weber
Discrimination: race: hairstyles.
04/02/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1815, as amended, Weber. Discrimination: race: hairstyles. Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to full and equal accommodations in all business establishments regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status.Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it unlawful to engage in specified discriminatory employment practices based on certain protected characteristics, including race, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification or applicable security regulations, and prohibits housing discrimination based on specified personal characteristics, including race.Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state, and to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor.Existing law prohibits discrimination because of a perception that a person has one of those protected characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act and public school policy define the term race for purposes of those provisions to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, as defined.This bill would remove the term “historically” from the definitions of race, thus defining race to include traits associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, as defined, and would add those definitions for “race” and “protective hairstyle” to the Unruh Civil Rights Act.
CA AB 1819 - Marie Waldron
Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: public capital facilities: wildfires.
01/22/2024 - Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
AB 1819, as introduced, Waldron. Enhanced infrastructure financing districts: public capital facilities: wildfires. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance.This bill would additionally authorize an enhanced infrastructure financing district that are at least partially in high or very high fire hazard severity zones designated by the State Fire Marshal, as specified, to finance heavy equipment to be used for vegetation clearance and firebreaks, fortification of utilities against wildfires, and equipment used for fire watch, prevention, and fighting.
CA AB 1821 - Devon John Mathis
Pupil instruction: course of study: social sciences: treatment of Native Americans.
01/12/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 11.
AB 1821, as introduced, Ramos. Pupil instruction: course of study: social sciences: treatment of Native Americans. Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, and visual and performing arts, as specified.Commencing with the 2025–26 school year, this bill, with respect to both of the above-referenced adopted courses of study for social sciences, would require any instruction on the Spanish missions in California or the Gold Rush Era to also include instruction regarding the treatment of Native Americans during those periods. To the extent that this bill would create new duties for local educational agencies or local officials, it would constitute 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.
CA AB 1826 - Christopher R. Holden
Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2024.
01/12/2024 - Read first time. To print.
AB 1826, as introduced, Holden. Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2024. The Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 establishes a procedure for the Public Utilities Commission to issue state franchises for the provision of video service, defined as video programming services, cable service, or open-video system service, except any video programming provided by a commercial mobile service provider, as defined in federal law, or video programming provided as part of, and via, a service that enables users to access content, information, email, or other services offered over the public internet. The act provides that the holder of a state franchise is not a public utility as a result of providing video services and that the act does not authorize the commission to regulate the rates, terms, and conditions of video service, except as explicitly set forth in the act. The act establishes a state franchise fee to be remitted to a local entity based on the franchiseholder’s gross revenues, as defined, derived from the provision of cable or video service within that jurisdiction. The act prohibits a cable operator or video service provider that has been granted a state franchise from discriminating against, or denying access to service to, any group of potential residential subscribers because of the income of the residents in the local area in which the group resides. The act limits the maximum fine that could be assessed for a violation of the access requirement.This bill would revise and recast the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 to, among other things, rename the act as the Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2024, provide that the act does not authorize the commission to regulate the rates of video services, and authorize the commission to exercise the authority, jurisdiction, and powers authorized to be exercised by a franchise authority pursuant to certain federal law, as specified. The bill would require the commission to hold a public hearing related to each application for renewal of a state franchise, require the commission to issue a state franchise or a reject each application for a state franchise not more than 90 days after the public hearing, if required, or after the application is deemed complete, as specified, require a franchise applicant to submit a description of the households that are known to be unserved in the video service area footprint that the applicant proposes to serve, and extend deadlines related to the commission’s review of applications for state franchises.This bill also would require the commission to require video service providers to make video service available to all residences in its service area within 5 years of the issuance of a state-issued franchise renewal, except as specified, and would revise the revenues excluded from the definition of “gross revenue” for purposes of calculating the franchise fee for a local jurisdiction. The bill would establish a policy of the state that subscribers and potential subscribers of a state video franchiseholder should benefit from equal access, as defined, to video service within the franchise service area, expand the prohibition on certain cable operators or video service providers from discriminating against, or denying access to service to, any group of potential residential subscribers to include discrimination or denial of equal access because of any rationale, rather than only because of the income of the residents in the local area in which the group resides, and increase the maximum amount of a fine that could be assessed for a violation of the equal access requirement, as specified. The bill would require the commission to enforce customer service requirements for a holder of a state franchise and would increase the maximum amount of a penalty that a local entity may assess against a holder of a state franchise that materially breaches specified video service customer service and consumer
CA AB 1831 - Marc Berman
Crimes: child pornography.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 1831, as amended, Berman. Crimes: child pornography. Existing law prohibits the production, development, duplication, distribution, or possession, as specified, of matter, in specified formats, that depicts a person under 18 years of age engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, as defined. Existing law separately prohibits this conduct where it is done for consideration or where such matter is shared with a minor.Existing law also prohibits the employment or use of a minor, or the permitting by a parent guardian of the employment or use of a minor for the production of such matter.Existing law provides an enhanced punishment when these offenses are committed using government property.Existing law authorizes the forfeiture and destruction of such matter regardless of whether a conviction is sought or obtained.This bill would expand the scope of these provisions to include matter that is generated by the use of artificial intelligence, as such matter is defined.By expanding the scope of an existing crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 1847 - Bill Essayli
Child welfare services: report.
03/18/2024 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 1847, as introduced, Essayli. Child welfare services: report. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to report every 3rd year, commencing in 1989, to the Legislature on the operation and progress of the child welfare services program, and include specified child abuse case information.This bill would instead require the department to make that report annually.
CA AB 1848 - Laurie Davies
Controlled substances: fentanyl.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 1848, as amended, Davies. Controlled substances: fentanyl. Existing law makes it a crime to solicit or encourage a minor to commit specified crimes relating to controlled substances, to hire or employ a minor to transport or sell controlled substances, or to sell or give controlled substances to minors. Existing law makes a person who is 18 years of age or older who violates these provisions with respect to heroin, cocaine, or cocaine base on the grounds of specified buildings, including, among others, playgrounds and childcare facilities, subject to punishment with an additional enhancement in the state prison of one year.This bill would make that enhancement also apply to a violation of those provisions with respect to fentanyl if the person had knowledge that the specific controlled substance they possessed was fentanyl.By expanding the scope of crimes and creating new crimes, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 1851 - Christopher R. Holden
Drinking water: schoolsites: lead testing pilot program.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1851, as amended, Holden. Drinking water: schoolsites: lead testing pilot program. Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. The act requires the state board to establish a grant program, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to award grants to local educational agencies for the purposes of improving access to, and the quality of, drinking water in public schools serving kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and preschools and child daycare facilities located on public school property.This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, if an appropriation is made for this purpose, to establish a pilot program to test for and remediate lead contamination in drinking water at participating local educational agency facilities with plumbing that was installed before January 1, 2010. The bill would require the Superintendent to select no fewer than 6 and no more than 10 local educational agencies for participation in the pilot program and, if a selected local educational agency consents to participate in the pilot program, the bill would require the Superintendent to provide grants to the participating local educational agencies for testing and remediating drinking water lead levels at eligible facilities. If sampling results show lead levels in excess of 5 parts per billion for any potable water system outlet, the bill would require a participating local educational agency to notify the parents and guardians of pupils who attend the school of the elevated lead levels, as provided, to take immediate steps to shut down all potable water system outlets where excess lead levels may exist, and to ensure that a lead-free source of drinking water is provided for pupils at each potable water system outlet that has been shut down.The bill would require a public institution of higher education selected by the Superintendent to provide technical assistance to participating local educational agencies on the requirements of the pilot program, as provided. The bill would require participating local educational agencies to report specified information about the pilot program to the technical assistance provider on or before January 1, 2028. The bill would require the technical assistance provider to provide the Superintendent with a report containing a completed analysis of the pilot program’s results on or before July 1, 2028. The bill would require the Superintendent to provide the report to the Department of Finance and the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on or before July 15, 2028, and would require the Superintendent to make the report publicly available on the State Department of Education’s internet website.
CA AB 1858 - Christopher M. Ward
Comprehensive school safety plans: active shooters: armed assailants: drills.
03/13/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 1858, as amended, Ward. Comprehensive school safety plans: active shooters: armed assailants: drills. (1) Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Existing law requires that the plan include identification of appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school’s procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety. Existing law requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include the development of procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents, including procedures related to individuals with guns on school campuses and at school-related functions.This bill would additionally require, as part of the comprehensive school safety plan, if the plan includes procedures to prepare for active shooters or other armed assailants by conducting a drill, the development of specified procedures relating to that drill.Existing law prohibits a chartering authority from denying a petition for the establishment of a charter school unless it makes written factual findings supporting at least one of specified bases for denial. One of those bases for denying a petition is if the petition does not contain a reasonably comprehensive description of the development of a school safety plan that includes the same safety topics required in the comprehensive school safety plan of a school district or county office of education.This bill would authorize a chartering authority to deny a charter school petition that does not include in its proposed development of a school safety plan the same provisions on procedures and policies relating to active shooter and armed assailant drills as are required by the bill in a school district or county office of education comprehensive school safety plan. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on chartering authorities, which include governing boards of school districts and county boards of education, when reviewing the petition for the establishment of a charter school, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require, on or before June 15, 2025, the State Department of Education to curate and post on its internet website best practices pertaining to school shooter or other armed assailant drills for use by school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as provided. The bill would prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from conducting a school shooter or other armed assailant drill unless it adopts policies that conform to these best practices.(2) 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.
CA AB 1876 - Corey A. Jackson
Developmental services: individual program plans and individual family service plans: remote meetings.
04/09/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1876, as introduced, Jackson. Developmental services: individual program plans and individual family service plans: remote meetings. Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers for the provision of community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law, until June 30, 2024, requires a meeting regarding the provision of services and supports by the regional center, including a meeting to develop or revise a consumer’s individual program plan (IPP), to be held by remote electronic communications if requested by the consumer or, if appropriate, if requested by the consumer’s parents, legal guardian, conservator, or authorized representative. Existing law, the California Early Intervention Services Act, provides a statewide system of coordinated, comprehensive, family-centered, multidisciplinary, and interagency programs that are responsible for providing appropriate early intervention services and supports to all eligible infants and toddlers and their families. Under the act, direct services for eligible infants and toddlers and their families are provided by regional centers and local educational agencies. The act requires an eligible infant or toddler receiving services under the act to have an individualized family service plan (IFSP), as specified. Existing law, until June 30, 2024, requires, at the request of the parent or legal guardian, an IFSP meeting to be held by remote electronic communications. This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, would indefinitely extend the requirements that, if requested, IPP and IFSP meetings be held by remote electronic communications. By extending a requirement for local educational agencies, 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.
CA AB 1880 - Juan Alanis
Minors: artistic employment.
03/18/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 1880, as introduced, Alanis. Minors: artistic employment. Existing law regulates certain contracts for artistic employment between an unemancipated minor and third parties, including employment as an actor, dancer, musician, comedian, singer, stuntperson, voice-over artist, or other performer or entertainer, or sports participant. Existing law provides for the establishment of a Coogan Trust Account, as specified, for the purpose of preserving for the benefit of the minor 15% of the minor’s gross earnings or a greater percentage, if requested by the minor’s parent or guardian.This bill would specifically include a child influencer in paid online content on internet websites, social networks, and social media applications in these provisions.
CA AB 1884 - Christopher M. Ward
Pupil attendance: excused absences: uniformed services deployments.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 1884, as introduced, Ward. Pupil attendance: excused absences: uniformed services deployments. Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, for purposes of spending time with a member of the pupil’s immediate family who is an active duty member of the uniformed services, and has been called to duty for, is on leave from, or has immediately returned from, deployment to a combat zone or combat support position, as specified.This bill would remove the requirement that the deployment be to a combat zone or combat support position, thereby expanding the scope of that excused absence to encompass all deployments. The bill also would make nonsubstantive changes. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on school officials, 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, 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.
CA AB 1887 - Sabrina Cervantes
Student financial aid: application deadlines: extension.
03/21/2024 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 1887, as amended, Cervantes. Student financial aid: application deadlines: extension. Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. If the federal Free Application for Federal Student Aid is not available on or before October 1, 2023, existing law extends the application deadline for financial aid programs administered by the commission to April 2, 2024, for the 2024–25 award year only.This bill would extend the April 2, 2024, application deadline for financial aid programs administered by the commission by one month.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 19 - Liz Ortega
Pupil health: opioid antagonists.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 19, as amended, Joe Patterson. Pupil health: opioid antagonists. Existing law authorizes school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or voluntary trained personnel, and authorizes those nurses and voluntary trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose, as provided.This bill would require each individual public school operated by a school district, county office of education, or charter school that has elected to make a school nurse or trained personnel available at the school pursuant to those provisions to maintain at least two units of naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist for purposes of those authorizations.
CA AB 1907 - Gail Pellerin
California Child and Family Service Review System: Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 1907, as amended, Pellerin. California Child and Family Service Review System: Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment. Existing law requires the department to establish the California Child and Family Service Review System, in order to review all county child welfare systems, including child protective services, foster care, adoption, family preservation, family support, and independent living. Existing law requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to convene a workgroup, as prescribed, to establish a work plan by which child and family service reviews shall be conducted. Existing law requires the workgroup to consider, among other things, measurable outcome indicators, which shall be consistent with specified federal measures and standards.This bill would require the California Child and Family Service Review System to include data from the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) assessment tool.
CA AB 1913 - Dawn Addis
Pupil safety: child abuse prevention: training.
03/21/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 1913, as amended, Addis. Pupil safety: child abuse prevention: training. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services, to, among other things, (1) develop and disseminate information to all school districts, county offices of education, state special schools and diagnostic centers operated by the State Department of Education, and charter schools, and their school personnel in California, regarding the detection and reporting of child abuse, (2) establish best practices for school personnel to prevent abuse, including sexual abuse, of children on school grounds, by school personnel, or in school-sponsored programs, as provided, and (3) develop appropriate means of instructing school personnel in the detection of child abuse and neglect and the proper action that school personnel should take in suspected cases of child abuse and neglect, including, but not limited to, an online training module to be provided by the State Department of Social Services.This bill would revise and recast these provisions by requiring the department, in consultation with the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services, to (1) additionally develop and disseminate information to all school districts, county offices of education, state special schools and diagnostic centers operated by the State Department of Education, and charter schools, and their school personnel in California, regarding the prevention of abuse, including sexual abuse, of children on school grounds, by school personnel, or in school-sponsored programs, and (2) additionally develop appropriate means of instructing school personnel in the prevention of abuse, including sexual abuse, of children on school grounds, by school personnel, or in school-sponsored programs, including, but not limited to, an online training module to be provided by the State Department of Social Services, as provided. The bill would delete the above-described requirement that the department establish best practices for school personnel to prevent abuse, as provided.Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, state special schools and diagnostic centers operated by the State Department of Education, and charter schools, to provide annual training, using the online training module provided by the State Department of Social Services or an alternative training, to their employees and persons working on their behalf who are mandated reporters, as defined, on the mandated reporting requirements related to child abuse, as provided. Existing law also requires those entities to develop a process for all persons required to receive that training to provide proof of completing the training within the first 6 weeks of each school year or within the first 6 weeks of that person’s employment. Existing law encourages those entities to participate in training on the prevention of abuse, including sexual abuse, of children on school grounds, by school personnel, or in school-sponsored programs, and also encourages those entities to provide all school employees with that training at least once every 3 years.This bill would require school districts, county offices of education, state special schools and diagnostic centers operated by the State Department of Education, and charter schools to instead provide annual training, using the online training module provided by the State Department of Social Services or an alternative training, to their employees on the prevention of abuse, including sexual abuse, of children on school grounds, by school personnel, or in school-sponsored programs, as provided, and would apply the above-described proof of training requirements to this training. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agenc
CA AB 1915 - Joaquin Arambula
Pupil health: drug education: opioid overdose training program.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1915, as amended, Arambula. Pupil health: drug education: opioid overdose training program. Existing law requires instruction to be given in the elementary and secondary schools by appropriately trained instructors on drug education and the effects of the use of tobacco, alcohol, narcotics, dangerous drugs, as defined, and other dangerous substances. Existing law authorizes a public or private elementary or secondary school to determine whether or not to make emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained personnel available at its school, and to designate one or more volunteers to receive related training to address an opioid overdose, as specified.Commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, existing law appropriates $3,500,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to county offices of education for the purpose of purchasing and maintaining a sufficient stock of emergency opioid antagonists for school districts and charter schools within their jurisdiction to maintain a minimum of two units at each middle school, junior high school, high school, and adult school schoolsite, as provided. This bill would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that voluntarily determine to make naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist available on campus to ensure that the naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist is placed in an appropriate location that is widely known and easily accessible, during school hours and after school hours. The bill would require the naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to be located on campus in at least one of several specified locations.This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop an opioid overdose training program and program toolkit, as defined, to be made available to public high schools for public high school pupils to be trained on how to identify and respond to an opioid overdose, including by administering a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication, as provided. The bill would require the department, by July 1, 2026, to notify public high schools of the availability of the program toolkit. The bill would require the department to provide the program toolkit upon request to those public high schools that opt to host the program on their campuses, and to collaborate with local, state, and national organizations, as provided, to provide pupils with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased educational materials on opioid and drug overdose prevention, opioid and drug safety, and stigma reduction.
CA AB 1919 - Akilah Weber
Pupil discipline: suspension and expulsion: restorative justice practices.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 1919, as amended, Weber. Pupil discipline: suspension and expulsion: restorative justice practices. (1) Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop evidence-based best practices for restorative justice practice implementation on a school campus and to make these best practices available on the department’s internet website on or before June 1, 2024, as specified.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to adopt at least one of the best practices for restorative justice practice implementation developed by the department. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion unless the superintendent of the school district or principal of the school determines that the pupil has committed any of various specified acts. Existing law provides that suspension shall be imposed only when other means of correction, including, but not limited to, participation in a restorative justice program, fail to bring about proper conduct, except that the suspension of a pupil for a first offense is authorized if the principal or superintendent of schools determines that the pupil violated one of a certain subset of those enumerated acts or that the pupil’s presence causes a danger to persons.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, instead provide that certain specified suspensions and nonmandatory expulsions shall be imposed only when a restorative justice best practice, adopted as described in paragraph (1) above, fails to bring about proper conduct, except that the suspension of a pupil for a first offense is authorized if the principal or superintendent of schools determines that the pupil violated one of a certain subset of those enumerated acts or that the pupil’s presence causes a danger to persons. The bill also would make conforming changes.(3) Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, requires a petition to establish a charter school to include, among other things, a reasonably comprehensive description of the procedures by which pupils can be suspended or expelled from the charter school for disciplinary reasons or otherwise involuntarily removed from the charter school for any reason, as specified.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, provide that a charter school may impose a nonmandatory suspension or nonmandatory expulsion only when a restorative justice best practice, adopted as described in paragraph (1) above, fails to bring about proper conduct, unless the charter school principal or their designee determines that the pupil’s presence causes a danger to persons.(4) 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.
CA AB 1925 - Anthony Rendon
Childcare and development programs: eligibility.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1925, as introduced, Rendon. Childcare and development programs: eligibility. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, requires the department to administer childcare and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. The act requires that families meet specified requirements to be eligible for federal and state subsidized childcare and development services, including that a family is a current aid recipient or is income eligible, among other eligible statuses, and the family needs childcare services because, among other reasons, the family is homeless.This bill would extend eligibility for childcare and development programs to families whose child is eligible for services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and a family who needs the childcare services because the child is identified as eligible for services under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
CA AB 1927 - Juan Alanis
Golden State Teacher Grant Program: career technical education instructors.
04/04/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
AB 1927, as introduced, Alanis. Golden State Teacher Grant Program: career technical education instructors. Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for 4 years at a priority school or a preschool program, as provided.This bill would expand the program to also award grants to students who commit to work for 4 years as a credentialed career technical education instructor. The bill would make conforming changes.
CA AB 1930 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Teaching credentials: Child Development Associate Teacher Permit: renewal.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 1930, as introduced, Reyes. Teaching credentials: Child Development Associate Teacher Permit: renewal. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, by rule or regulation, establish requirements for the issuance and the renewal of permits authorizing, among other things, service in the care, development, and instruction of children in childcare and development programs, as specified. Existing law additionally requires the commission to, by rule or regulation, establish requirements for the periods of duration of the above-mentioned permit.This bill would, on or before April 30, 2025, require the commission to, by rule or regulation, authorize a holder of a Child Development Associate Teacher Permit to renew their permit without a limitation on the number of renewals if the permitholder completes specified hours of professional growth activities, as provided.
CA AB 1936 - Sabrina Cervantes
Maternal mental health screenings.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 1936, as amended, Cervantes. Maternal mental health screenings. 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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes, as specified.This bill would require the program to consist of at least one maternal mental health screening during pregnancy, and at least one additional screening during the first 6 months of the postpartum period, if determined medically necessary and clinically appropriate in the judgment of the treating provider. 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.
CA AB 1938 - James M. Gallagher
Special education: inclusive practices and strategies.
04/08/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 1938, as introduced, Gallagher. Special education: inclusive practices and strategies. Existing law finds and declares that all individuals with exceptional needs have a right to participate in free appropriate public education and special educational instruction and services for these persons are needed in order to ensure the right to an appropriate educational opportunity to meet their unique needs. Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that education programs are provided under an approved local plan for special education, as provided. This bill would require, for children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind, inclusive practices and strategies to improve pupil outcomes to mean placement in settings that provide full access to language and specialized services, as provided. The bill would require any discussion of deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind pupils in the local educational agency setting to ensure the input and participation of the deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind communities, as provided. To the extent that this bill would require a new duty of a local educational agency, 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, 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.
CA AB 1939 - Brian K. Maienschein
Pupil attendance: county and local school attendance review boards: pupil consultation.
04/04/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 1939, as amended, Maienschein. Pupil attendance: county and local school attendance review boards: pupil consultation. Existing law authorizes the establishment of county school attendance review boards and local school attendance review boards, and, if established, requires those boards to be composed of at least a parent and 12 representatives of specified entities and community groups, as provided.This bill would require each county school attendance review board and each local school attendance review board to, at least annually, consult with specified pupils for the purpose of soliciting input that will assist board members in gaining a better understanding of, and proposing interventions for, pupil attendance challenges and behavioral challenges.
CA AB 1947 - Luz Rivas
California state preschool programs: contracting agencies: staff training days.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1947, as amended, Luz Rivas. California state preschool programs: contracting agencies: staff training days. Existing law, the Early Education Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. The act requires part-day and full-day California state preschool programs to operate specified minimum numbers of days per year. The act requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, which vary with the length of the program year and the hours of service, as specified. The act authorizes an agency contracting with the State Department of Education to provide California state preschool program services to schedule up to 2 days of staff training, per contract period, using state reimbursement funding, as provided.This bill would instead authorize up to 6 days of staff training, per contract period, using state reimbursement funding. The bill would require a contractor with an enrollment of at least 25% dual language learner children that schedules a minimum of 3 days of staff training to ensure that at least one scheduled staff training day is used to provide staff development that is specific to supporting dual language learner children. The bill would require a day of staff training scheduled during a contractor’s regular hours of operation to count toward the minimum number of days a California state preschool program is required to operate per year.
CA AB 1948 - Miguel Santiago
Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams.
04/08/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 1948, as amended, Rendon. Homeless multidisciplinary personnel teams. Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team with the goal of facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of homeless individuals to housing and supportive services within that county, and to allow provider agencies and members of the personnel team to share confidential information for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to ensure continuity of care.Existing law, until January 1, 2025, authorizes the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Clara, and Ventura to expand the goals of the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team to include facilitating the expedited identification, assessment, and linkage of individuals at risk of homelessness, as defined, to housing and supportive services, and the expedited prevention of homelessness.This bill would additionally authorize the County of San Mateo to expand the goals of the homeless adult and family multidisciplinary personnel team, as specified above. The bill would also delete the January 1, 2025, repeal of these provisions, thereby making the provisions operative indefinitely.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Ventura.
CA AB 1949 - Josh Lowenthal
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020: collection of personal information of a consumer less than 18 years of age.
04/08/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1949, as amended, Wicks. California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020: collection of personal information of a consumer less than 18 years of age. Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 (CCPA), approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, requires a consumer, as defined, to have various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected or sold by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about a consumer to third parties to not sell or share the consumer’s personal information. The act prohibits a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, as applicable, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information. This bill would remove the condition that the business have actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age and would revise the above-described prohibition to prohibit a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer less than 18 years of age, unless the consumer, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, as applicable, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information, as specified.The CCPA requires the Attorney General to solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations, as specified, to further the purposes of the act, including, but not limited to, regulations to establish technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal that allows the consumer, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, to specify that the consumer is less than 13 years of age, or at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age. The act requires the California Privacy Protection Agency, as specified, to adopt regulations under the authority assigned to the Attorney General under the act.This bill would instead require the Attorney General to solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations, as described above, including, but not limited to, regulations to establish technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal that allows the consumer, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, to specify that the consumer is less than 13 years of age, or at least 13 years of age and less than 18 years of age. The bill would require the California Privacy Protection Agency, on or before July 1, 2025, to solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations, as specified, to further the purposes of the act, including, but not limited to, issuing regulations to establish technical specifications for an opt-out preference signal that allows the consumer, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, to specify that the consumer is less than 13 years of age, or at least 13 years of age and less than 18 years of age, and issuing regulations regarding age verification and when a business must treat a consumer as being less than 13 or 18 years of age for purposes of the CCPA.The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020 authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act by a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature, as specified.This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020.
CA AB 1952 - Juan Alanis
Foster care: infant supplement.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 1952, as introduced, Dixon. Foster care: infant supplement. Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. Existing law establishes a schedule of basic rates to be paid for the care and supervision of each foster child. Existing law also establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP), which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who have a kinship guardianship, and the Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC), which provides payments to approved relative caregivers who are caring for children and nonminor dependents who are ineligible for AFDC-FC payments.Existing law requires, when a child is living with a parent who receives AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP benefits, or ARC payments, that the rate paid to the foster care provider on behalf of the parent include an additional amount, known as an infant supplement, for the care and supervision of the child.This bill would increase the infant supplement by $517.24 monthly, to be adjusted as specified for inflation and subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act. To the extent the bill would impose new requirements on counties administering the AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP benefits or ARC payments, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 1956 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Victim services.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 1956, as amended, Reyes. Victim services. Existing federal law, the Victims of Crime Act of 1984, creates the Crime Victims Fund and authorizes federal financial assistance to states for the purpose of supporting eligible crime victim assistance programs. Existing law creates various programs under the Office of Emergency Services related to crime prevention and education, including, among other things, programs concerning family violence prevention and domestic violence prevention.This bill would require the office to allocate funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fill the gap in the federal Victims of Crime Act funding and to prioritize continuity and stability of crime victim services if the federal grant funding that is awarded to the office is 10% or more lower than the amount awarded in the prior year. The bill would require the office to regularly consult, collaborate with, and consider the recommendations regarding allocation of funding from the Victims of Crime Act Steering Committee.
CA AB 1961 - Buffy Wicks
End Hunger in California Act of 2024.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI.
AB 1961, as amended, Wicks. End Hunger in California Act of 2024. Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council in state government consisting of various state agency heads and 3 public members. Existing law requires the council to identify and review activities and funding programs of state agencies that may be coordinated to improve air and water quality, improve natural resource protection, increase the availability of affordable housing, improve transportation, meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, encourage sustainable land use planning, and revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainable manner. Existing law requires the council to manage and award grants and loans to support the planning and development of sustainable communities.Under existing law, the policy of the state is that every human being has the right to access sufficient, affordable, and healthy food. Existing law establishes various food assistance programs, including, among others, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. This bill would require the Strategic Growth Council, in consultation with specified entities, to appoint and convene the End Hunger in California Master Plan Task Force to make recommendations for future comprehensive strategies aimed at addressing access to healthy and culturally relevant food for all Californians. The bill would require the task force to meet at least quarterly and to be composed of up to 40 members, from specified agencies and with specified knowledge and expertise in various food-related subject matters. The bill would authorize the council, subject to an appropriation from the Legislature for this purpose, to provide members with a reasonable per diem allowance for each day of attendance and reimbursement for actual and necessary travel expenses incurred in connection with their official duties involving the task force. The bill would also authorize the task force to form ad hoc advisory committees to learn more about specific issues regarding recommending future comprehensive strategies aimed at addressing access to healthy and culturally relevant food.The bill would require the council to serve as the lead agency for developing the End Hunger in California Master Plan and assist the task force in carrying out its duties. The bill would authorize the council to use existing resources and to accept and expend nongovernmental funds for its work with the task force.The bill would require the plan to be distributed to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2026, and to include specified actions, among others, identification of barriers to bringing retailers to specific locations, inclusion of a strategy to maximize eligible individuals’ participation in specified federal and state nutritional programs, identification and facilitation of stakeholder engagement, and analysis of state programs currently investing in regional food systems. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
CA AB 1971 - Dawn Addis
Student Online Personal Information Protection Act: administration of standardized tests.
04/08/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
AB 1971, as amended, Addis. Student Online Personal Information Protection Act: administration of standardized tests. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to opt out of the selling or sharing of personal information about the consumer to third parties. Additionally, the CCPA prohibits a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, in the case of a consumer at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, in the case of consumers who are less than 13 years of age, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information.The Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA) prohibits an operator of an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application with actual knowledge that the site, service, or application is used primarily for K–12 school purposes and was designed and marketed for K–12 school purposes from knowingly engaging in certain activities with respect to the operator’s site, service, or application, including selling a student’s information, including covered information, as defined, or using information, including persistent unique identifiers, created or gathered by the operator’s site, service, or application, to amass a profile about a K–12 student except in furtherance of K–12 school purposes. SOPIPA also prohibits an operator from disclosing covered information unless the disclosure is made for certain purposes, including to ensure legal and regulatory compliance. SOPIPA defines “K–12 school purposes” to mean purposes that customarily take place at the direction of the K–12 school, teacher, or school district or aid in the administration of school activities, as specified.The Student Test Taker Privacy Protection Act prohibits a business providing proctoring services in an educational setting from collecting, retaining, using, or disclosing personal information, as defined, except to the extent necessary to provide those proctoring services and in other specified circumstances.This bill would additionally define “K–12 school purposes” to mean the administration in the state of a standardized test that a K–12 student has paid to take that is used for the purpose of bolstering the K–12 student’s application for admission to a postsecondary educational institution or a postsecondary institution’s program or a test used for preparation for a standardized test. The bill would additionally authorize an operator to disclose covered information if the disclosure is to a postsecondary institution for the purpose of facilitating a K–12 student’s admission to that institution only if the K–12 student, or the K–12 student’s legal guardian, has consented to the disclosure.
CA AB 1974 - Cottie Petrie-Norris
Family conciliation courts: evaluator training.
04/04/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 1974, as introduced, Petrie-Norris. Family conciliation courts: evaluator training. Existing law establishes the family conciliation court, which may be implemented by the superior court in each county, to provide means for the reconciliation of spouses and the amicable settlement of domestic and family controversies. In each county in which a family conciliation court is established, the superior court may appoint one supervising counselor of conciliation and one secretary to assist the family conciliation court in disposing of its business and carrying out its functions. Existing law defines an “evaluator” for purposes of family reconciliation court proceedings to include a supervising or associate counselor, a mediator, a court-connected or private child custody evaluator, or a court-appointed investigator or evaluator, as described. Existing law requires an evaluator to participate in specified training requirements, including 16 hours of advanced training within a 12-month period. Existing law requires 12 hours of that advanced training to include, among other topics, the unique issues in a family and psychological assessment in a domestic violence case, such as the nature and extent of domestic violence, and the relationship of gender, class, race, culture, and sexual orientation to domestic violence, and the influence of alcohol and drug use and abuse on the incidence of domestic violence.This bill would require the risks associated with access to firearms and ways to reduce those risks to be included on the list of issues in a family and psychological assessment in a domestic violence case for purposes of the advanced training.
CA AB 1984 - Akilah Weber
Transfer reporting for alternative schools, county community schools, and continuation schools.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 1984, as amended, Weber. Transfer reporting for alternative schools, county community schools, and continuation schools. Existing law authorizes a county board of education to establish and maintain one or more community schools and to enroll specified categories of pupils, including pupils expelled from a school district, among others. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to maintain one or more alternative schools, as defined, and requires the governing board of each high school district and each unified school district to establish and maintain within its boundaries special continuation education classes.Existing law requires enrollment in an alternative school to be voluntary, and authorizes both the voluntary and involuntary transfers of pupils to county community schools and to continuation schools, as specified.This bill would require the State Department of Education to collect and publish on its DataQuest internet website, and school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide to the department, data on pupil transfers, disaggregated by those initiated by the pupil or their parent or guardian and those initiated by the local educational agency, to alternative schools, continuation schools or classes, or county community schools. The bill would require the department to systematically review suspension and expulsion data and that transfer data, and include reducing the use of those transfers in any guidance to local educational agencies relating to ending the disproportionate discipline of pupil subgroups, including African American pupils. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 20 - Michael A. Gipson
Postadoption contact agreements: reinstatement of parental rights.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 20, as amended, Gipson. Postadoption contact agreements: reinstatement of parental rights. Existing law provides that a child may be adjudged to be a dependent of the juvenile court because of abuse or neglect. Existing law requires the court to review the status of certain dependent children no less frequently than once every 6 months and requires a supplemental report to be filed as part of that review. Existing law requires, when the report is regarding a child for whom the court has ordered parental rights terminated and who has been ordered placed for adoption, or, for an Indian child for whom parental rights are not being terminated and a tribal customary adoption is being considered, the report to include, among other things, a description of whether the final adoption order should include provisions for postadoptive sibling contact. This bill would instead require the report to include a description, if applicable, of the status of the postadoptive sibling agreement.Existing law provides a procedure for permanently terminating parental rights with regard to a child who has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court. Existing law requires the social worker or probation officer to give notice of a hearing to terminate parental rights to specified individuals, including, among others, any known sibling of the child who is the subject of the hearing if the sibling is either the subject of a dependency proceeding or has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court.This bill would also require that notice be provided to siblings who are nonminor dependents as well as to the child’s Court-Appointed Special Advocate, if one has been appointed. The bill would establish a procedure for certain children and nonminor dependents for whom the parental rights of their biological parent or parents were terminated to petition the court to reinstate or modify their biological parent’s or parents’ parental rights, as specified.Existing law requires, if parental rights are terminated and the court orders a dependent child or ward to be placed for adoption, the county, to the extent practicable, to convene a meeting with the child, the sibling or siblings of the child, the prospective adoptive parent or parents, and a facilitator for the purpose of deciding whether to voluntarily execute a postadoption sibling contact agreement. Existing law provides that the county placing agency is not required to convene a meeting to decide whether to voluntarily execute a postadoption sibling contact agreement if specified circumstances occur. This bill would instead specify that the purpose of the meeting is to discuss a postadoption sibling contact agreement within 90 days after termination of parental rights and prior to finalization of the adoption, as specified.Existing law allows, in an adoption proceeding, for continuing contact between the birth relatives and a child if a postadoption contact agreement is entered into voluntarily and is in the best interests of the child at the time the adoption petition is granted. Existing law specifies that a postadoption contact agreement with siblings with whom the child does not have a preexisting relationship may only include provisions for the sharing of information about the child.This bill would permit a postadoption contact agreement with siblings with whom the child does not have a preexisting relationship to also include provisions for visitation and for future contact.The bill would make conforming changes.By increasing the duties of county placing agencies, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 8616.5 of
CA AB 2002 - Dawn Addis
Vehicles: public safety: Blue Envelope Program.
03/19/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2002, as amended, Sanchez. Vehicles: public safety: Blue Envelope Program. Existing law establishes the Department of Motor Vehicles, tasked with issuance and renewal of licenses to drivers. Existing law requires the department to prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of ownership, registration cards, driver’s licenses, and all other forms that are deemed necessary.This bill would, by January 1, 2026, require the department, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to develop a Blue Envelope Program. Under the program, the bill would require the blue envelope to contain specified information for requesters with a condition or disability, as specified. The bill would also authorize others, including a parent or legal guardian of a passenger with a disability, to request a blue envelope.
CA AB 2009 - Anthony Rendon
School districts: public contracts.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2009, as amended, Rendon. School districts: public contracts. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to let contracts for public projects, as defined, involving an expenditure of $15,000 or more, to the lowest responsible bidder who gives security as the governing board requires.This bill would instead require the governing board to let contracts for public projects when the expenditure is $34,500 or more to the above-described lowest responsible bidder. The bill would additionally require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually adjust the $34,500 amount, commencing on January 1, 2026.Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district having an average daily attendance of 35,000 or greater to make repairs to school buildings, grounds, apparatus, or equipment and perform maintenance by day labor or force account, whenever the total numbers of hours on the job does not exceed 750 hours or when the total cost of material does not exceed $21,000, as specified.This bill would instead authorize the governing board of a school district to make repairs and perform maintenance by day labor or force account, as described above, when the total cost of material does not exceed $43,000. The bill would require adjustment of the $43,000 amount to reflect the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index, beginning on January 1, 2026, and each January 1 thereafter.Existing law authorizes local agencies to elect to become subject to uniform construction accounting procedures, which provides alternative bidding procedures, by adopting a resolution and notifying the Controller.This bill would authorize a governing board of a school district to elect, by adopting a resolution, to evaluate the uniform construction cost accounting procedures if (1) the governing board of the school district has not already elected to be subject to the uniform construction cost accounting procedures; (2) the school district has an average daily attendance of 35,000 or more pupils; and (3) the governing board of a school district has entered into a project labor agreement for all of its public projects, as specified. The bill would, if the governing board of a school district adopts the resolution, increase for one year the threshold for letting contracts for public projects to $220,000 and for repairs and perform maintenance by day labor or force account to $70,000.
CA AB 2019 - Vince Fong
Early and middle college high schools and programs.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2019, as amended, Vince Fong. Early and middle college high schools and programs. Existing law provides for the establishment of early and middle college high schools. Existing law requires each middle college high school to be structured as a broad-based, comprehensive instructional program focusing on college preparatory and school-to-work curricula, among other things. Under existing law, pupils in early college high schools begin taking college courses as soon as they demonstrate readiness and the college credit earned may be applied toward completing an associate or bachelor’s degree, transfer to a 4-year university, or obtaining a skills certificate.This bill would expand the definition of early and middle college high schools to include early and middle college programs established within a high school. The bill would require each school district, county office of education, or charter school with a middle college high school or program or an early college high school or program, to, beginning on or before March 1, 2027, and each March 1 thereafter, prepare and submit an annual report to the State Department of Education with specified information. The bill would require the department, on or before May 1, 2027, and each May 1 thereafter, to aggregate that reported information and submit a report of the information to the Legislature and the Department of Finance.Existing law provides that the minimum schoolday in any high school is 240 minutes, except as provided, including that a day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in grades 11 and 12 at an early college high school or middle college high school is 180 minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, classes of the California State University, or classes of the University of California, as specified.This bill would additionally exempt a pupil enrolled in an early college program or a middle college program from the 240-minute minimum schoolday if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, classes of the California State University, or classes of the University of California, as specified.
CA AB 2026 - Devon John Mathis
Disabilities: person-first terminology.
03/12/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2026, as introduced, Mathis. Disabilities: person-first terminology. Existing law makes various references to the terms “autistic children,” “developmentally disabled children,” “developmentally disabled adults,” “disabled adults,” “severely disabled children,” and “seriously emotionally disturbed children” in provisions of the Health and Safety Code and Welfare and Institutions Code.This bill would make technical changes to those terms to put the person first, and would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes.
CA AB 2034 - Michael A. Gipson
Crimes: loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.
02/02/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
AB 2034, as introduced, Rodriguez. Crimes: loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, prohibited loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, and made that crime a misdemeanor.This bill would make it a misdemeanor to loiter in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, and make other conforming changes. By creating a new crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 2045 - Josh Hoover
Controlled substances: fentanyl trafficking penalties.
02/02/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
AB 2045, as introduced, Hoover. Controlled substances: fentanyl trafficking penalties. Existing law makes it a crime to solicit or encourage a minor to commit specified crimes relating to controlled substances, to hire or employ a minor to transport or sell controlled substances, or to sell or give controlled substances to minors and imposes a punishment of imprisonment for a period of 3, 6, or 9 years. Existing law makes a person who is 18 years of age or older who violates these provisions with respect to heroin, cocaine, or cocaine base on the grounds of, or within 1,000 feet of, public or private schools, as specified, subject to punishment with an additional enhancement in the state prison of 2 years.This bill would increase the penalty for that crime as it relates to fentanyl to 5, 8, or 11 years and would make the above-described enhancement applicable to offenses involving fentanyl.Existing law, the Juvenile Drug Trafficking and Schoolyard Act of 1988, subjects a person 18 years of age or over who is convicted of possession for sale, sale or transportation, or manufacturing offenses involving specified controlled substances, including cocaine base, heroin, or methamphetamine, to an additional term of imprisonment for 3, 4, or 5 years if the offense takes place upon the grounds of, or within 1,000 feet of, a public or private elementary, vocational, junior high, or high school during hours that the school is open for classes or school-related programs, or at any time when minors are using the facility where the offense occurs.This bill would make the above-described enhancement applicable to those offenses as they relate to fentanyl.By increasing the penalties for a crime, this bill would create 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.
CA AB 2046 - Isaac Bryan
Educational programs: single gender schools and classes.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 2046, as introduced, Bryan. Educational programs: single gender schools and classes. Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2025, a school district with an average daily attendance of 250,000 or more pupils to maintain any single gender schools and classes that were enrolling pupils as of July 1, 2017, if certain requirements are met and authorizes a charter school authorized by a school district with an average daily attendance of 250,000 or more pupils that was operating as a single gender school or with single gender classes as of July 1, 2017, to be maintained as a single gender school or to maintain single gender classes, if those same requirements are met. Existing law requires, until January 1, 2025, a school district that maintains a single gender school or class, and a charter school maintained as a single gender school or that maintains a single gender class to conduct certain evaluations at least once every 2 years, and to report the findings of those evaluations to the State Department of Education and specified legislative committees.This bill would extend the operation of these provisions through June 30, 2035.
CA AB 2052 - Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr.
School-Based Health and Education Partnership Program.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2052, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. School-Based Health and Education Partnership Program. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, in cooperation with the State Department of Education, to establish a Public School Health Center Support Program to assist health centers in schools and school districts. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation, to establish a grant program to provide funding for, among other things, expansion, renovation, and retrofitting of existing school health centers. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop a request for proposal process in order to collect information on applicants and determine which proposals shall receive funding. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to give preference to, among others, schools with a high percentage of low-income and uninsured children and youth or schools with a shortage of health professionals. Existing law defines, among other things, a “school health center” for those purposes to mean a center or program, located at or near a local educational agency, that provides age-appropriate health care services at the program site or through referrals. This bill would instead define a “school-based health center” for those purposes to mean a student-focused health center or clinic that, among other things, is located at or near a school and is organized through school, community, and health provider relationships. The bill would instead require, on or before January 1, 2026, the State Department of Public Health to collaborate with the Office of School-Based Health Programs within the State Department of Education in order to award grant funding, as specified, to applicants. This bill would revise and reorganize the above-described preferred recipients and give preference to school-based health centers, as defined, serving, among others, schools in which more than 55% of pupils serviced are unduplicated pupils, as defined, or areas experiencing health disparities in child and adolescent access to primary care, behavioral health, preventive health, or oral health services.Existing law requires the above-described Public School Health Center Support Program to perform various functions, including, serving as a liaison between organizations within the department, as specified.This bill would instead require the State Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Office of School-Based Health Programs within the State Department of Education, to provide the above-described assistance to school-based health centers. The bill would also repeal a related provision requiring the Public School Health Center Support Program, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to act as a liaison for school-based health centers.Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, upon appropriation, to establish standardized data collection procedures and collect certain data, relating to services and funding, from school health centers on an ongoing basis.This bill would require the school-based health centers to report data to the State Department of Public Health if they receive grant funding. The bill would eliminate the requirement on the State Department of Public Health to collect data on health services provided at a local educational agency outside a school health center.This bill would make other conforming changes.
CA AB 2053 - Josh Hoover
Pupil instruction: abusive relationships.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 2053, as introduced, Mathis. Pupil instruction: abusive relationships. Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. Under the act, this instruction includes, among other things, information about adolescent relationship abuse and intimate partner violence, including the early warning signs thereof.This bill would require the comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education to also include information about resources available to pupils related to adolescent relationship abuse and intimate partner violence, including the National Domestic Violence Hotline and local domestic violence hotlines, as provided. By imposing additional duties on school districts, 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, 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.
CA AB 2071 - Juan Carrillo
Pupil instruction: English Learner Roadmap: grant program: parent toolkit.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 2071, as introduced, Juan Carrillo. Pupil instruction: English Learner Roadmap: grant program: parent toolkit. Existing law establishes the State Board of Education, and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, to govern the public elementary and secondary schools of the state. Existing law requires the state board to determine all questions of policy within its powers. Pursuant to these powers, the state board has adopted a policy known as the California English Learner Roadmap State Board of Education Policy: Educational Programs and Services for English Learners, also known as the EL Roadmap Policy, for the stated purpose of assisting the State Department of Education in providing guidance to local educational agencies with respect to educating English learners attending California public schools.Existing law establishes the State Department of Education, under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and assigns the department numerous duties relating to the governance and funding of local educational agencies.This bill would require the state board to, on or before December 31, 2025, develop and adopt a “California English Learner Roadmap: Parent Toolkit” that will be made available to families served by school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that are implementing the EL Roadmap Policy. The bill would require the state board to convene a workgroup to assist in the development of the parent toolkit, as provided. The bill would require the department to develop forms that may be used by parents of English learner pupils to request services from the pupil’s teacher or administrator as it relates to the parent toolkit.The bill would establish the English Learner Roadmap Implementation Grant Program with the goal of locally planning and implementing the EL Roadmap Policy. The bill would appropriate $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation pursuant to the program. The bill would require the department, commencing September 1, 2025, to award 25 one-time grants of up to $1,500,000 per grant to school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools, as provided. The bill would require the department to, among other things, determine application procedures and selection criteria for grant awards, review applications, identify and determine how data will be collected and shared with the public, and meet quarterly with leaders from the grant recipients for specified purposes. The bill would require grant recipients to submit to the department specified data as it relates to the grant received. The bill would require the department to submit to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature an annual progress report and, on or before December 1, 2028, a final report, with specified information about, among other things, the successes and challenges of the grant program, as provided.Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
CA AB 2074 - David A. Alvarez
Pupil instruction: English Learner Roadmap Policy: statewide implementation plan.
03/21/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2074, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Pupil instruction: English Learner Roadmap Policy: statewide implementation plan. Existing law establishes the State Board of Education, and requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, to govern the public elementary and secondary schools of the state. Existing law requires the state board to determine all questions of policy within its powers. Pursuant to these powers, the state board has adopted a policy known as the California English Learner Roadmap State Board of Education Policy: Educational Programs and Services for English Learners, also known as the EL Roadmap Policy, for the stated purpose of assisting the State Department of Education in providing guidance to local educational agencies with respect to educating English learners attending California public schools.This bill would require the department to develop a statewide implementation plan for the EL Roadmap Policy. In developing the plan, the bill would require the department to identify 3 positions within the department, as provided, to develop the plan and to subsequently support school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in implementing the plan. The bill would require the department to include in the plan, among other things, clear and measurable statewide goals of implementation and a system of monitoring and accountability of the implementation of the plan. The bill would require the department to, on or before November 1, 2025, submit a report with the statewide implementation plan for the EL Roadmap Policy to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the department to annually report, commencing January 1, 2027, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on local educational agencies that are engaged in the implementation of the plan, as provided.
CA AB 2097 - Lori D. Wilson
Pupil instruction: high schools: computer science courses: graduation requirements.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2097, as amended, Berman. Pupil instruction: high schools: computer science courses: graduation requirements. (1) Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, science and mathematics.This bill would require school districts and charter schools maintaining any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to offer computer science courses pursuant to a specified timeline. The bill would require a computer science course offered for these purposes to be provided pursuant to in-person instruction, as defined, except as provided. The bill would, among other things, require school districts and charter schools make efforts to increase the computer science course enrollment of female pupils, pupils with disabilities, pupils who belong to ethnic and racial groups, and pupils eligible for free or reduced-priced meals that are underrepresented in the field of computer science. The bill would require school districts and charter schools, on or before June 30, 2027, and by each June 30 thereafter, to report specified computer science course-related data to the department, as specified. By imposing additional duties on school districts and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law requires a pupil to complete designated coursework while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school. These graduation requirements include, among others, the completion of 3 years of courses in English, 2 years of courses in mathematics, 2 years of courses in science, and 3 years of courses in social studies, as specified.This bill would, commencing with pupils graduating in the 2030–31 school year, including for pupils enrolled in a charter school, add the completion of a course in computer science to the above-described graduation requirements, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law creates the California Computer Science Coordinator, as a position within the State Department of Education, to provide statewide coordination in, among other things, implementing the computer science content standards and leading the implementation of the Computer Science Strategic Implementation Plan, as provided.This bill would require the department, under the direction of the California Computer Science Coordinator, to develop a computer science implementation guide that would include specified information regarding computer science standards-aligned courses, as provided, and would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to review the computer science implementation guide developed by the department for guidance regarding courses through which a pupil may fulfill the computer science graduation requirement. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(4) 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.
CA AB 2108 - James C. Ramos
Foster care: missing children and nonminor dependents.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2108, as amended, Ramos. Foster care: missing children and nonminor dependents. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of the failure or inability of their parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. Existing law requires the court to review the status of every dependent child in foster care periodically, but no less frequently than once every 6 months. Existing law subjects a minor between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who violates any federal, state, or local law or ordinance to, and a minor under 12 years of age who is alleged to have committed specified serious offenses to, the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings and governs the provision of child welfare services, as specified. Existing law requires county child welfare agencies and probation departments to develop and implement specific protocols to expeditiously locate any child or nonminor dependent missing from foster care, including, but not limited to, the timeframe for reporting missing youth and the individuals or entities entitled to notice that a youth is missing. Existing law requires the social worker or probation officer to determine the primary factors that contributed to the child or nonminor dependent running away or otherwise being absent from care, among other things.This bill, the Luke Madrigal Act, would, among other things, additionally require the social worker or probation officer, when they receive information that a child receiving child welfare services is absent from foster care, to immediately, but in no case later than 24 hours from the receipt of that information, notify specified entities or persons, including the local law enforcement agency and the child’s or nonminor dependent’s parents or guardians, except as specified.The bill would define “absent from foster care” to mean when the whereabouts of a child receiving child welfare services are unknown to the county child welfare agency or probation department or when the county child welfare agency or probation department has located the child receiving child welfare services in a location not approved by the court that may pose a risk to the child. The bill would also define “child receiving child welfare services” to include a child or nonminor dependent placed in a specified foster care placement or in the home of an emergency caregiver, and dependents, nonminor dependents, and minors who have been taken into temporary custody pursuant to specified provisions and who are in foster care.By increasing the duties of county child welfare agencies and probation departments, this bill would create 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.
CA AB 2112 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Expanded Learning Opportunities Program: minimum allocation and stakeholder working group.
03/21/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2112, as amended, Muratsuchi. Expanded Learning Opportunities Program: minimum allocation and stakeholder working group. Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. Existing law authorizes a local educational agency that elects to operate an expanded learning opportunity program to operate a before school component of a program, an after school component of a program, or both, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate a specified amount of the funding appropriated for purposes of the program to local educational agencies with an enrollment in the prior fiscal year that was at least 75% English learners, pupils who are eligible for a free or reduced-price meal, and foster youth. Existing law requires the Superintendent to allocate the remainder of the funding appropriated for purposes of the program to all other local educational agencies on a per-unit basis of the local educational agency’s prior year reported kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, classroom-based average daily attendance attributable to pupils who are either English learners, eligible for a free or reduced-price meal, or foster youth.This bill would provide that the per-pupil amount of funding allocated to local educational agencies that did not have an enrollment in the prior fiscal year that was at least 75% English learners, pupils who are eligible for a free or reduced-price meal, and foster youth shall not be less than the amount allocated to that local educational agency in the 2022–23 fiscal year.This bill would require, on or before February 1, 2025, the Superintendent to convene an Expanded Learning Opportunities Program stakeholder working group, or leverage an existing expanded learning workgroup in the State Department of Education, to provide recommendations on the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program to the relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature no later than November 1, 2025, as provided. The bill would require the working group or workgroup to include, but not be limited to, department staff, expanded learning providers, local educational agency representatives, parents, pupils, and community partners. The bill would repeal these requirements related to the working group or workgroup on January 1, 2026.
CA AB 2119 - Akilah Weber
Mental health.
03/19/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2119, as amended, Weber. Mental health. Existing law makes various references to the descriptive terms “persons with a mental health disorder,” “minors with a mental health condition,” and “children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance” in various provisions of the Welfare and Institutions Code.This bill would make conforming changes to these provisions for consistency with those descriptor terms to, among other things, put the person first. The bill would also make other technical changes.
CA AB 2121 - Diane B. Dixon
Substance use disorder treatment: licensing.
03/19/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2121, as amended, Dixon. Substance use disorder treatment: licensing. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to issue a license to operate an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility if specified conditions are met, including submission of a written application and licensing fee.This bill would additionally require the facility to confirm that it is located more than 300 feet from any alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or any community care facility, as specified, and would require the department to notify in writing the city or the county in which the facility is located of the issuance of a license, as specified.
CA AB 2134 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
School employees: transfer of leave of absence for illness or injury.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R.
AB 2134, as amended, Muratsuchi. School employees: transfer of leave of absence for illness or injury. (1) Existing law provides that a certificated employee of a school district and a classified employee of a school district, county superintendent of schools, or community college district who meets specified criteria involving employment with another school district, county superintendent of schools, or community college district is entitled to have their total earned amount of leave of absence for illness or injury transferred to the 2nd employing school district, county superintendent of schools, or community college district, as specified. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules and regulations related to these provisions, as specified.This bill would delete the requirement on the state board to adopt those rules and regulations. The bill would require the employing school district, county superintendent of schools, or community college district receiving an employee’s transfer of leave of absence for illness or injury to honor the transfer request at any time during the employee’s employment with the subsequent employing district or county superintendent of schools. The bill would require charter schools and state special schools to comply with these requirements. The bill would require the former employing school district, county superintendent of schools, charter school, state special school, or community college district to provide certain information in response to a request for the transfer of the total number of days, or the total amount, of leave of absence for illness or injury from the subsequent employing entity, as provided. By imposing additional duties on school districts, community college districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law provides that a certificated employee of a school district or an office of a county superintendent of schools who accepts a position requiring certification qualifications in another school district or office of a county superintendent of schools to have their total amount of leave of absence for illness or injury transferred to that subsequent employing school district or office of a county superintendent of schools. Existing law provides that a person employed by the State Department of Education in a position requiring certification qualifications, and an employee of the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and a certificated employee of the Commission on Teacher Credentialing who accepts a position requiring certification qualifications, in any school district or office of a county superintendent of schools to have their total number of days of leave of absence for illness or injury transferred with the employee to the subsequent position. Existing law requires a person employed by a school district or county superintendent of schools in a position requiring certification qualifications who accepts a professional education position in the department that is, or is intended to be, permanent, to have their accumulated leave of absence for illness or injury transferred with the employee to the department.This bill would require the total number of days of leave of absence for illness or injury of an employee described above transferred to the subsequent position. The bill would apply the provisions described in this paragraph to charter schools and state special schools, as specified. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(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
CA AB 2137 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Homeless and foster youth.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2137, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Homeless and foster youth. (1) Existing law establishes the Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program, under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to provide supplemental funding to county offices of education, or a consortium of county offices of education, to coordinate and ensure that local educational agencies within its jurisdiction are providing services to foster youth pupils pursuant to a foster youth services coordinating plan with the purpose of ensuring positive educational outcomes. The program authorizes a county office of education, or a consortium of county offices of education, to apply to the Superintendent for grant funding to operate an education-based foster youth services coordinating program. If sufficient funds are available, existing law requires each foster youth services coordinating program to identify at least one person as the foster youth educational services coordinator, who is responsible for facilitating educational support, as specified, to any pupil in foster care residing or attending school in the county or consortium of counties. As a condition of receiving funds, existing law requires a foster youth services coordinating program to develop and implement a foster youth services plan that includes, among other things, authorization of a school district, when specified conditions apply, to enter into a temporary agreement with the foster youth services coordinating program to provide tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services to pupils, as provided.This bill instead would authorize a foster youth services coordinating program to provide tutoring, mentoring, and counseling services to a foster youth pupil, if a foster youth educational services coordinator determines, as specified, that the foster youth services coordinator is unable to secure those services provided by the foster youth pupil’s school district and if those services are established as needed and identified by the foster youth educational services coordinator.(2) Existing law requires the governing body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to confirm that a grade 12 pupil who has not opted out, as specified, completes and submits a Free Application for Federal Student Aid or, if the pupil is exempt from paying nonresident tuition under existing law, completes and submits a specified form for purposes of the California Dream Act, as provided. If a school district, county office of education, or charter school determines that pupil is unable to complete and submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a form for purposes of the California Dream Act, or an opt-out form, existing law requires the local educational agency to exempt the pupil from these requirements and requires the local educational agency to complete and submit an opt-out form on the pupil’s behalf.This bill would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to submit to the foster youth services coordinating program completed opt-out forms, no later than 14 calendar days following completion, whether received from the parent, guardian, or pupil or prepared on behalf of the pupil by the local educational agency, for pupils who are foster youth, as defined. To the extent that these provisions would impose additional duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan, as provided. Existing law requires that certain things occur before a governing board of a school district or county board of education considers the adoption of a local control and accountability plan or an annual update to the plan, including that the superintendent of the school district or county superintendent of schools present the local cont
CA AB 2154 - Marc Berman
Mental health: involuntary treatment.
04/08/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2154, as amended, Berman. Mental health: involuntary treatment. Under existing law, a person who, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others or is gravely disabled, may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment. Existing law provides that each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment, as specified, or admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as specified, and each person who is committed to a state hospital, has certain rights, including the right to receive a copy of the State Department of Health Care Services prepared patients’ rights handbook.This bill would require a facility to which a person is brought for involuntary detention to provide a copy of the State Department of Health Care Services’ prepared patients’ rights handbook to a family member of the detained person, as specified. The bill would define “family member” for these purposes to include, among others, the spouse or domestic partner of the person and the parent or legal guardian of the person.
CA AB 2156 - Blanca Pacheco
Vital records: diacritical marks.
04/08/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2156, as amended, Pacheco. Vital records: diacritical marks. Existing law prescribes the duties of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics (State Registrar) and local registrars of births and deaths with respect to the registration of certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death, and marriage licenses. Existing law requires the State Registrar to prescribe and furnish all record forms for use in carrying out the provisions governing vital records and prohibits the use of any record form or format other than those prescribed by the State Registrar. Existing law requires every live birth, fetal death, death, and marriage that occurs in the state to be registered with the local registrar. Existing law requires certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death, and a marriage license to include specified information, such as the full name of the child on a certificate of live birth and the full names of the parties to be married on a marriage license. Existing law also requires the county clerk to issue a confidential marriage license, as specified, on a form prescribed by the State Registrar. Commencing January 1, 2027, this bill would require the State Registrar to require the use of a diacritical mark on an English letter within a name to be properly recorded, when applicable, on a certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, marriage license and certificate, or confidential marriage license and certificate, and would require the use of a diacritical mark to be deemed an acceptable entry by the State Registrar. The bill would provide that the absence of a diacritical mark on a certificate of live birth, fetal death, or death, or a marriage license does not render the document invalid nor affect any constructive notice imparted by proper recordation of the document. The bill would authorize, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter in any certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage already registered, the person asserting the omission, or the person’s conservator, or if a minor, the person’s parent or guardian, to submit a written request to the State Registrar for the issuance of a corrected certificate of birth, fetal death, death, or marriage stating the changes necessary to make the name correct. The bill would require the State Registrar to review the request and, if the request is accompanied with the payment of a specified fee, to issue a corrected certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage with the accurate name identified in the request. The bill would also authorize, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter on any confidential license and certificate of marriage already registered, the party asserting the omission to make an affidavit, under oath, stating the changes necessary to make the record correct and file it with the county clerk. The bill would require the county clerk to review the amendment for acceptance for filing, and if accepted, replace the original confidential marriage certificate with records that do not indicate that they were amended. By requiring the affidavit to be under oath, the bill would expand the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. By increasing duties on county clerks, 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted
CA AB 2160 - Tina McKinnor
California Women’s Care Act.
02/29/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 2160, as amended, McKinnor. California Women’s Care Act. Existing law gives a judge discretion when deciding various matters in a criminal proceeding, including, among other things, issuing bail or releasing a defendant on their own recognizance, accepting a diversion or deferred entry of judgment agreement, and imposing sentences and granting probation.This bill would, when a court is exercising its discretion with regard to these matters, make a rebuttable presumption against detention and incarceration of a pregnant or postpartum defendant, as defined, if the defendant provides the court and district attorney with notice of the defendant’s status as a pregnant or postpartum defendant at each applicable stage of the proceedings. The bill would require a court that decides to detain or incarcerate a defendant after this consideration to make specific findings on the record that the risk to public safety or any other factor the court is required to consider is substantial enough to outweigh the risk of incarceration, as specified.The bill would authorize any pregnant or postpartum defendant to request a stay of execution of their sentence by filing a written request to the court if the pregnant or postpartum defendant is detained or incarcerated in a county jail or state prison for any period of time through the end of the pregnancy or the postpartum period, except as specified. The bill would require the court to apply the rebuttable presumption above when considering whether to grant that stay of execution. The bill would authorize a court to order a stay of execution of the sentence for any period of time through the end of the pregnancy or the postpartum period.The bill would authorize a person who may be pregnant or postpartum and who is arrested or in custody in a county jail or state prison to request a pregnancy test upon or following admission to the county jail or state prison, and would require the county jail or state prison to provide a pregnancy test upon request and allow the person to take the pregnancy test within 24 hours after the request. By imposing additional duties on county jails, 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.
CA AB 2165 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Pupil instruction: financial aid application.
04/03/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2165, as amended, Reyes. Pupil instruction: financial aid application. Existing law requires the governing body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to confirm that a grade 12 pupil who has not opted out, as specified, completes and submits a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or, if the pupil is exempt from paying nonresident tuition under existing law, completes and submits a form for purposes of the California Dream Act, as provided. Under existing law, a local educational agency that determines that a pupil is unable to complete these requirements is required to (1) exempt the pupil or, if applicable, the pupil’s parent or legal guardian, from completing and submitting the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a form for purposes of the California Dream Act, or an opt-out form, and (2) complete and submit an opt-out form on the pupil’s behalf.This bill would require a local educational agency to facilitate a meeting between a school guidance counselor and a pupil before exempting that pupil from the above-described requirement to complete and submit a FAFSA, a form for purposes of the California Dream Act, or an opt-out form, as provided. The bill would also require a local educational agency that exempts the pupil from the above-described requirement to notify the parent’s pupil or legal guardian. The bill would require each schoolsite within a school district, and each charter school, to annually report to the school district, or chartering authority, as applicable, the total number of submitted opt-out forms, as provided. The bill would also require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to publish data about the total number of submitted opt-out forms and the completion rates for the FAFSA or a form for the purposes of the California Dream Act for each schoolsite on its internet website, as provided. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 2173 - Dawn Addis
Special education: emotional disability.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 2173, as introduced, Addis. Special education: emotional disability. Existing federal law defines the term “emotional disturbance” for purposes of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Existing state law uses the term “emotional disturbance” for certain purposes relating to the provision of special education services.This bill would provide that the term “emotional disturbance” as described above may also be known as “emotional disability” under state law.
CA AB 2179 - Laurie Davies
Pupil services: local apprenticeship programs and preapprenticeship programs: notification of parents or guardians.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 2179, as amended, Davies. Pupil services: local apprenticeship programs and preapprenticeship programs: notification of parents or guardians. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to annually notify parents or guardians of minor pupils of specified rights and responsibilities of the parent or guardian and of specified school district policies and procedures. Existing law requires, as part of the annual notification, a school district offering any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to provide the parent or guardian of each minor pupil enrolled in any of those grades in the school district with written notification that includes, among other things, a brief explanation of college admission requirements and a brief description of what career technical education is, as provided.This bill would require a school district to, at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term, provide information on local apprenticeship programs and preapprenticeship programs to the parents or guardians of pupils admitted to, or advancing to, grades 11 and 12, as part of the annual notification required by the above-described provisions. By imposing additional duties on school districts, 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, 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.
CA AB 2206 - Dawn Addis
Child daycare facilities: fire clearance requirements.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9).
AB 2206, as introduced, Addis. Child daycare facilities: fire clearance requirements. Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of child daycare facilities, daycare centers, and family daycare homes by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires an applicant, prior to obtaining licensure, to secure and maintain a fire clearance approval for the applicant’s facility from the local fire enforcing agency or the State Fire Marshal, whichever has primary fire protection jurisdiction. Existing law requires the department to notify prospective applicants of this requirement and other information related to fire clearance approval when the prospective applicant initially requests information regarding application for licensure.This bill, on or before July 1, 2025, would require the department to revise its regulations to permit children with exceptional needs, as defined, to be accepted to and attend a licensed childcare or child development program before the program obtains a revised fire safety clearance if specified requirements are met. The bill also would require the regulations to allow the childcare or child development program up 6 months to obtain a revised fire safety clearance after accepting a nonambulatory child with exceptional needs, and provide that the program may be required to temporarily terminate service to the child after the 6 months until the revised fire safety clearance is obtained. The bill would require the regulations to provide that the fire safety clearance required to include only the number of nonambulatory children the provider is approved to serve and the plan for evacuating nonambulatory children in case of fire.
CA AB 221 - Philip Y. Ting
Budget Act of 2023.
01/26/2023 - Referred to Com. on BUDGET.
AB 221, as introduced, Ting.
Budget Act of 2023.
This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA AB 2224 - Miguel Santiago
Human services: special immigrant juvenile status.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
AB 2224, as amended, Santiago. Human services: special immigrant juvenile status. Existing federal law establishes a procedure for providing certain immigrants with the classification of special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS) and authorizes those persons to apply for an adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident within the United States. Under federal law, SIJS criteria include, among other things, that the immigrant’s reunification with one or both parents is not viable due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, or a similar basis found under state law, and for whom it would not be in their best interest to be returned to their or their parent’s previous country of nationality or country of last habitual residence. Under existing state law, a superior court has jurisdiction to make the factual findings necessary to enable a child to petition the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services for classification as a special immigrant juvenile under those federal provisions.If the court issues an order making the necessary determinations regarding SIJS, this bill would require that a certified copy of the order be provided to the petitioner on the same day the order was issued by the court.Existing law authorizes the probate court to appoint a guardian of the person of an unmarried individual who is 18 years of age or older, but who has not yet attained 21 years of age, in connection with a petition to make the necessary findings regarding SIJS, as specified, if the proposed ward consents. Existing law authorizes the petition for guardianship to be filed by parent, relative, or any other person on behalf of the proposed ward, or by the proposed ward. Existing law authorizes a relative or any other person on behalf of a ward, or the ward, to file a petition to extend the guardianship of the person for a period of time not to extend beyond the ward reaching 21 years of age.This bill would authorize a court to appoint a parent as the guardian of the person of their unmarried child who is 18 years of age or older, but who has not yet attained 21 years of age, under those provisions. The bill would clarify that a parent is authorized to file a petition to extend the guardianship of the ward under those provisions. The bill would also make technical and conforming changes to related provisions.Under existing state law, noncitizen victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes, as defined, are eligible for certain public social services and health care services to the same extent as individuals who are admitted to the United States as refugees. Existing law requires the discontinuance of those services if there is a final administrative denial of a visa application, as specified. Existing law requires that benefits and services under those provisions be paid from state funds to the extent federal funding is unavailable.This bill would expand those services to individuals who have filed a petition with the appropriate federal agency for SIJS, and to individuals who received, or who made or are preparing to make a request for, an order from the superior court making the necessary determinations to enable them to file that petition for SIJS. The bill would require the discontinuance of the services if there is a final administrative denial of all pending applications or petitions by an individual, as specified. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. By increasing duties for counties to administer and determine eligibility for public social services and health care services, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program.This bill would instead provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing these provisions.The California Constitution requires the
CA AB 2226 - Susan Rubio
Elementary education: kindergarten.
02/26/2024 - Referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2226, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Elementary education: kindergarten. Under existing law, a person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not exempted by law is subject to compulsory full-time education. Existing law excludes a child under 6 years of age from the public schools, subject to specified exceptions.Existing law requires a school district maintaining a kindergarten to admit a child who will have their 5th birthday on or before September 1 of the school year. Existing law also requires a child who will have their 6th birthday on or before September 1 of the school year to be admitted to the first grade of an elementary school. Existing law authorizes a child who has been lawfully admitted to a public school kindergarten or a private school kindergarten in California and who is judged by the administration of the school district to be ready for first-grade work to be admitted to the first grade, as specified.This bill, beginning with the 2026–27 school year, would require a child to have completed one year of kindergarten before that child may be admitted to the first grade at a public elementary school, except for a child who has been lawfully admitted to a public school kindergarten or a private school kindergarten in California, but has not yet completed one school year, and is judged to be ready for first-grade work, as specified, thereby imposing 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.
CA AB 223 - Toni G. Atkins
Change of gender and sex identifier.
09/23/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 221, Statutes of 2023.
AB 223, Ward. Change of gender and sex identifier. Existing law authorizes a person to file a petition with the superior court seeking a judgment recognizing their change of gender to female, male, or nonbinary, including a person who is under 18 years of age. Existing law authorizes a person to file a single petition to simultaneously change the petitioner’s name and recognize the change to the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier, as specified. This bill would require any petition for a change of gender and sex identifier or a petition for change of gender, sex identifier, and name filed by a person under 18 years of age, and any papers associated with the proceeding, to be kept confidential by the court. The bill would require the court to limit access to these records to specified individuals, including, among others, the minor, the minor’s parents, and their attorneys.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
CA AB 2237 - Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry
Children and youth: transfer of specialty mental health services.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 9).
AB 2237, as amended, Aguiar-Curry. Children and youth: transfer of specialty mental health services. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services (department), under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, specialty mental health services include federal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services provided to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries under 21 years of age.This bill would require, when a child or youth 18 years of age or younger changes residence from one county to another, the receiving county to provide specialty mental health services while the receiving county conducts its investigation and casework transfer process, if specified conditions are met, including, but not limited to, that the child or youth has been identified by the county of original residence as high risk or coming from a vulnerable population. The bill also would require the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Social Services to collaborate to create a system of standardized communication between counties that respects the procedures of the receiving county and the needs of the child that is without mental health services, and require the State Department of Social Services to establish care teams to help counties coordinate and expedite the transfer between counties. By increasing duties of counties administering the Medi-Cal program, 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.
CA AB 2242 - Wendy Carrillo
Dentistry: dental assistants.
04/04/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2242, as introduced, Wendy Carrillo. Dentistry: dental assistants. (1) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, establishes the Dental Board of California for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants.Existing law sets forth requirements for licensure as a registered dental assistant and as a registered dental assistant in extended functions, and sets forth duties and functions that a registered dental assistant or a registered dental assistant in extended function is authorized to perform.This bill would revise and recast those provisions.(2) Existing law specifies a dental assistant is an individual who, without a license, may perform basic supportive dental procedures, as specified, and sets forth the responsibilities of a supervising licensed dentist, including ensuring that a dental assistant has completed specified courses. Existing law sets forth the duties and functions a dental assistant is authorized to perform.This bill would revise the responsibilities of a supervising dentist relating to an unlicensed dental assistant, and the functions and duties that an unlicensed dental assistant is authorized to perform. The bill would revise the course requirements for an unlicensed dental assistant, including by requiring verification that the dental assistant has completed specified preceptorship and work experience requirements by an affidavit signed under penalty of perjury by the preceptor or the supervising dentist, as provided. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require an unlicensed dental assistant to obtain a certificate of completion of radiation safety to perform radiographic procedures.(3) Existing law establishes requirements for obtaining an orthodontic assistant permit or a dental sedation assistant permit from the board, including licensure as a registered dental assistant, and sets forth the duties and functions that a person holding an orthodontic assistant permit or a dental sedation assistant permit may perform.This bill would revise the requirements to obtain an orthodontic assistant permit and would revise the duties and functions that a person holding an orthodontic assistant permit is authorized to perform.This bill would revise and recast the requirements to obtain a dental sedation assistant permit, including requiring licensure as a dental assistant, registered dental assistant, or registered dental assistant in extended functions and would revise the duties and functions that a person holding a dental sedation assistant permit is authorized to perform.(4) 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.
CA AB 2251 - Damon Connolly
Graduation requirements: local requirements: exemptions.
04/08/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 2251, as amended, Connolly. Graduation requirements: local requirements: exemptions. Existing law requires a pupil to complete designated coursework while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school. These graduation requirements include, among others, the completion of 3 years of courses in English, 2 years of courses in mathematics, 2 years of courses in science, and 3 years of courses in social studies, as specified. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to also adopt its own additional coursework requirements.This bill would clarify that the governing board of a school district is expressly authorized, at its discretion, to adopt a policy to exempt pupils from its additional coursework requirements, as provided.
CA AB 2255 - Joe Patterson
Adoption Assistance Program: eligibility.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2255, as amended, Joe Patterson. Adoption Assistance Program: eligibility. Existing law establishes the Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) for the purpose of benefiting children residing in foster homes by providing the stability and security of permanent homes. Under existing law, a child is eligible for AAP benefits if they meet, among other requirements, an age requirement wherein the child is (1) under 18 years of age, (2) under 21 years of age with a mental or physical handicap, or (3) under 21 years of age, has attained 16 years of age before the adoption assistance agreement became effective, and one or more of specified conditions are met.This bill would expand that 3rd category of the age requirement for AAP benefits by removing the requirement that the child has attained 16 years of age before the adoption assistance agreement became effective, and by increasing the eligible age to under 26 years of age. The bill would also require a county to include an application for extension of benefits when notifying adoptive parents of a child under 21 years of age of the expiration of benefits due to age. By expanding eligibility of a county-administered program, thereby imposing duties on counties, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 2258 - Rick Chavez Zbur
Health care coverage: cost sharing.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2258, as amended, Zbur. Health care coverage: cost sharing. 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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a group or individual nongrandfathered health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to provide coverage for, and prohibits a contract or policy from imposing cost-sharing requirements for, specified preventive care services and screenings.This bill would prohibit a group or individual nongrandfathered health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, from imposing a cost-sharing requirement for items or services that are integral to the provision of the above-described preventive care services and screenings. The bill would require those contracts and policies to cover items and services for those preventive care services and screenings, including home test kits for sexually transmitted diseases and specified cancer screenings. Because a willful violation of this provision 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.
CA AB 228 - Akilah Faizah Weber
Infant formula stockpile.
01/26/2023 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 228, as introduced, Wilson.
Infant formula stockpile.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health to implement various programs throughout the state relating to public health. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health and the Office of Emergency Services, in coordination with other state agencies as appropriate, to, upon appropriation and as necessary, establish an infant formula stockpile. The bill would require the department to establish guidelines for the procurement, management, and distribution of infant formula, taking into account, among other things, the amount of each type of infant formula that would be required to meet shortages, as specified. The bill would also establish the Infant Formula Advisory Committee to make recommendations for the development of guidelines for the procurement, management, and distribution of infant formula, as specified.
CA AB 2282 - Tina McKinnor
Family reunification services.
04/09/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2282, as introduced, McKinnor. Family reunification services. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of the child’s parents or guardian, and requires the court to order the social worker to provide designated child welfare services, including family reunification services, as prescribed. Existing law provides that reunification services do not need to be provided to a parent or guardian when the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, certain circumstances exist, including that the parent or guardian of the child has been convicted of a violent felony, as defined.This bill would instead provide that reunification services do not need to be provided to a parent or guardian when the court finds that the parent or guardian of the child has been convicted of a violent felony against a child. By expanding the scope of individuals requiring reunification services, the bill would impose additional duties on county child welfare departments, thereby imposing 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.
CA AB 2316 - Jesse Gabriel
Pupil nutrition: substances: prohibition.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
AB 2316, as amended, Gabriel. Pupil nutrition: substances: prohibition. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain nutrition guidelines for school lunches and breakfasts, and for all food and beverages sold on public school campuses. Existing law requires those nutrition guidelines to be consistent with the requirements for a nutritionally adequate breakfast and a nutritionally adequate lunch. Existing law defines a nutritionally adequate breakfast and a nutritionally adequate lunch for these purposes to mean those that qualify for reimbursement under the most current meal pattern for the federal School Breakfast Program and the federal National School Lunch Program, respectively.Existing law requires a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to make available a nutritionally adequate breakfast and a nutritionally adequate lunch, free of charge, during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal. Existing law authorizes a school, from the midnight before to 30 minutes after the end of the official schoolday, to sell food and beverages other than meals reimbursed by specified federal nutrition programs, only if the food or beverages meet dietary guidelines, as specified, depending on grade level.This bill, notwithstanding any other law, commencing July 1, 2025, would prohibit a public school, defined as a school operated by a school district or county office of education, a charter school, and the state special schools, from offering, selling, or otherwise providing any food, except for food items sold as part of a school fundraising event, as specified, containing specified substances, including, among others, red 40 and titanium dioxide, as provided. To the extent this bill would impose additional requirements on public schools, 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, 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.
CA AB 2317 - Stephanie Nguyen
Child day care facilities: anaphylactic policy.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2317, as amended, Stephanie Nguyen. Child day care facilities: anaphylactic policy. Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of child day care facilities by the State Department of Social Services. Under the act, “child day care facility” is defined to mean a facility that provides nonmedical care to children under 18 years of age in need of personal services, supervision, or assistance essential for sustaining the activities of daily living or for the protection of the individual on less than a 24-hour basis. For purposes of the act, a child day care facility includes a day care center, an employer-sponsored child care center, and a family day care home. Under existing law, a violation of the act is a crime.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, on or before July 1, 2027, to establish an anaphylactic policy that sets forth guidelines and procedures recommended for child day care personnel to prevent a child from suffering from anaphylaxis and to be used during a medical emergency resulting from anaphylaxis. The bill would require the anaphylactic policy to include, among other things, a requirement that a parent or guardian demonstrate an understanding of the protections provided for individuals who provide emergency medical or nonmedical care without compensation by signing an acknowledgment of the Good Samaritan Law. The bill would authorize a child day care facility to implement the anaphylactic policy on or before January 1, 2028, and would, on and after January 1, 2028, require a child day care facility that adopts the anaphylactic policy to notify the parent or guardian of a child of the policy upon enrollment. The bill would also require an anaphylactic policy for family child care providers to be developed in consultation and coordination with the Joint Labor Management Committee established by the state and Child Care Providers United - California (CCPU). The bill would require the department’s Community Care Licensing Division to review minimum standards of training for the administration of epinephrine auto-injectors.The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to create informational materials detailing the anaphylactic policy and would require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Education, on or before September 1, 2027, to post the informational materials each of their internet websites.Because a willful or repeated violation of the bill by a child day care facility 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.
CA AB 2319 - Christopher R. Holden
California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2319, as amended, Wilson. California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to maintain a program of maternal and child health, which may include, among other things, facilitating services directed toward reducing infant mortality and improving the health of mothers and children. Existing law requires the Office of Health Equity within the department to serve as a resource for ensuring that programs collect and keep data and information regarding ethnic and racial health statistics, and strategies and programs that address multicultural health issues, including, but not limited to, infant and maternal mortality. Existing law makes legislative findings relating to implicit bias and racial disparities in maternal mortality rates. Existing law requires a hospital that provides perinatal care, and an alternative birth center or a primary clinic that provides services as an alternative birth center, to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program, as specified, for all health care providers involved in perinatal care of patients within those facilities. Existing law requires the health care provider to complete initial basic training through the program and a refresher course every 2 years thereafter, or on a more frequent basis if deemed necessary by the facility. Existing law requires the facility to provide a certificate of training completion upon request, to accept certificates of completion from other facilities, and to offer training to physicians not directly employed by the facility. Existing law requires the department to track and publish data on pregnancy-related death and severe maternal morbidity, as specified.This bill would make a legislative finding that the Legislature recognizes all birthing people, including nonbinary persons and persons of transgender experience. The bill would extend the evidence-based implicit bias training requirements to also include hospitals that provide perinatal care, as defined. The bill would require an implicit bias program to include recognition of intersecting identities and the potential associated biases. The bill would require initial basic training for the implicit bias program to be completed by June 1, 2025, for current health care providers, and within 6 months of their start date for new health care providers, unless exempted. The bill would require specified facilities to document each employee’s implicit bias training in accordance with regulations adopted by the department for documenting staff development programs. The bill would require the department to assess each hospital’s compliance with this requirement during periodic inspections. The bill would authorize the department to issue an administrative penalty if it determines that a facility has violated these provisions, and would require the department to annually post on its internet website a list of facilities that have been issued administrative penalties. The bill would vest the State Department of Public Health with full administrative power, authority, and jurisdiction to implement and enforce the California Dignity in Pregnancy and Childbirth Act. The bill would require the department to solicit participation and adopt regulations to further the purposes of the act, as specified. The bill would make the provisions of the act severable.
CA AB 2340 - Mia Bonta
Medi-Cal: EPSDT services: informational materials.
04/08/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2340, as amended, Bonta. Medi-Cal: EPSDT services: informational materials. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive medically necessary health care services, through fee-for-service or managed care delivery systems. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment (EPSDT) services are covered under Medi-Cal for an individual under 21 years of age in accordance with certain federal provisions.Existing federal regulations require the state to provide for a combination of written and oral methods designed to inform individuals eligible for EPSDT services, or their families, about the EPSDT program, within 60 days of the individual’s initial Medicaid eligibility determination and, in the case of families that have not utilized EPSDT services, annually thereafter, as specified. Under those regulations, required information includes, among other components, the benefits of preventive health care and the services available under the EPSDT program and where and how to obtain those services.This bill would require the department to prepare written informational materials that effectively explain and clarify the scope and nature of EPSDT services, as defined, that are available under the Medi-Cal program. Under the bill, the materials would include, but would not be limited to, the information required in the above-described federal regulations or their successor. Under the bill, the informational materials would also include content designed for youth, for purposes of delivery of that content to a beneficiary who is 12 years of age or older but under 21 years of age.The bill would authorize the department to standardize the materials, as specified, and would require the department to regularly review the materials to ensure that they are up to date. The bill would require the department to test the quality, clarity, and cultural concordance of translations of the informational materials with Medi-Cal beneficiaries, in order to ensure that the materials use clear and nontechnical language that effectively informs beneficiaries.The bill would require the department or a Medi-Cal managed care plan, depending on the delivery system, to provide to a beneficiary who is eligible for EPSDT services, or to the parent or other authorized representative of that beneficiary, as applicable, the informational materials within 60 calendar days after that beneficiary’s initial Medi-Cal eligibility determination and annually thereafter.
CA AB 2345 - James Norwood Patterson Jr.
Short-term staff permits: provisional intern permits: teaching permits for statutory leave: designated subjects career technical education teaching credentials: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2345, as amended, Jim Patterson. Short-term staff permits: provisional intern permits: teaching permits for statutory leave: designated subjects career technical education teaching credentials: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification. (1) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other things, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits, as specified. Existing law imposes minimum requirements for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, including satisfactory completion of an accredited program of professional preparation that, among other things, provides experience that addresses health education, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Existing law requires that training in CPR to meet the standards established by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.Existing law specifies minimum requirements for the 3-year preliminary designated subjects career technical education teaching credential and the 5-year clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2025, add certification in CPR that meets the standards established by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross to the minimum requirements for the 3-year preliminary designated subjects career technical education teaching credential and the 5-year clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential, as specified.(2) Existing law authorizes the commission to issue or renew emergency teaching or specialist permits in accordance with regulations adopted by the commission for the corresponding credential type, including, among others, basic teaching credentials and credentials for teaching specialties, as provided.Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, for positions requiring certification qualifications, to employ only those persons who possess the qualifications for those positions prescribed by law. Existing law requires teachers in charter schools to hold the commission certificate, permit, or other document required for the teacher’s certificated assignment.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2025, prohibit a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school from hiring any person for purposes of a short-term staff permit, provisional internship permit, or a teaching permit for statutory leave unless that person has a certification in CPR that meets the standards established by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
CA AB 2351 - Josh Lowenthal
Suspensions and expulsions: acts occurring outside of school hours.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
AB 2351, as amended, Lowenthal. Suspensions and expulsions: acts occurring outside of school hours. Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed an act from a list of specified acts. Existing law authorizes suspension or expulsion for one of those acts if the act is related to a school activity or school attendance occurring at any time, including while going to and coming from school. Existing law also authorizes suspension or recommendation for expulsion if the superintendent or the principal of the school determines that a pupil enrolled in any of grades 4 to 12, inclusive, has committed sexual harassment, as defined; a pupil enrolled in any of grades 4 to 12, inclusive, has caused, attempted to cause, threatened to cause, or participated in an act of, hate violence, as defined; a pupil enrolled in any of grades 4 to 12, inclusive, has intentionally engaged in harassment, threats, or intimidation, directed against school district personnel or pupils, that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to have the actual and reasonably expected effect of materially disrupting classwork, creating substantial disorder, and invading the rights of either school personnel or pupils by creating an intimidating or hostile educational environment; or a pupil, of any grade, has made terroristic threats against school officials or school property, or both.This bill would authorize suspension or recommendation for expulsion if the above-described acts occur during or outside of school hours, provided that, when engaged in outside of the campus, the act is sufficiently severe or pervasive to have the actual and reasonably expected effect of materially disrupting classwork, creating substantial disorder, or creating an intimidating or hostile educational environment.Existing law encourages, for a pupil who has been suspended, or for whom other means of correction have been implemented, for an incident of racist bullying, harassment, or intimidation, local educational agencies to have both the victim and perpetrator engage in a restorative justice practice that is found to suit the needs of both the victim and the perpetrator.This bill would specify that an incident of racist bullying, harassment, or intimidation may occur during or outside of school hours provided that the above-described conditions are met.
CA AB 2352 - Jacqui V. Irwin
Behavioral health and psychiatric advance directives.
04/10/2024 - Read second time and amended.
AB 2352, as amended, Irwin. Behavioral health and psychiatric advance directives. (1) Existing law establishes the requirements for executing a written advance health care directive that is legally sufficient to direct health care decisions. Existing law provides a form that an individual may use or modify to create an advance health care directive. Under existing law, a written advance health care directive is legally sufficient if specified requirements are satisfied, may be revoked by a patient having capacity at any time, and is revoked to the extent of a conflict with a later executed directive. Existing law requires a supervising health care provider who knows of the existence of an advance health care directive or its revocation to record that fact in the patient’s health record. Existing law sets forth requirements of witnesses to a written advance health care directive. A written advance health care directive or similar instrument executed in another jurisdiction is valid and enforceable in this state under existing law. A person who intentionally falsifies, forges, conceals, defaces, or obliterates an individual’s advance health care directive or its revocation without the individual’s consent is subject to liability of up to $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater, plus reasonable attorney’s fees.Existing law authorizes an appeal of specified orders relating to an advance health care directive. Existing law generally prohibits involuntary civil placement of a ward, conservatee, or person with capacity in a mental health treatment facility, subject to a valid and effective advance health care directive. Existing law prohibits specified entities, including a provider, health care service plan, or insurer, from requiring or prohibiting the execution or revocation of an advance health care directive as a condition for providing health care, admission to a facility, or furnishing insurance. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to establish a registry system for written advance health care directives, but failure to register does not affect the directive’s validity and registration does not affect a registrant’s ability to revoke the directive.Under existing law, an advance psychiatric directive is a legal document, executed on a voluntary basis by a person who has the capacity to make medical decisions and in accordance with the requirements for an advance health care directive, that allows a person with mental illness to protect their autonomy and ability to direct their own care by documenting their preferences for treatment in advance of a mental health crisis. An individual may execute both an advance health care directive and a voluntary standalone psychiatric advance directive.This bill would extend the above-described advance health care directive provisions to psychiatric advance directives and would make conforming changes. The bill would specify that a psychiatric advance directive is a legal written or digital document, executed as specified, that allows a person with behavioral health illness to document their preferences for treatment and identify a health care advocate in advance of a behavioral health crisis. Under the bill, a written or digital psychiatric advance directive may include the individual’s nomination of a health care advocate who is in agreement to uphold the person’s preferences for treatment in the case of a behavioral health crisis. If the health care advocate is informed of the directive’s revocation, the bill would require them to promptly communicate that fact to the supervising health care provider and any health care institution where the patient is receiving care. The bill would specify that a psychiatric advance directive is legally sufficient if it contains the date of its execution and is signed by the individual, their health care advocate or another adult in the individual’s presence and at the individual’s direction, and one additional, unrelated witness.(2) Exi
CA AB 2360 - Anthony Rendon
Developmental services: family services: counseling.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2360, as amended, Rendon. Developmental services: family services: counseling. Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. In order to provide opportunities for children to live with their families, existing law requires the department and regional centers to give a very high priority to the development and expansion of services and supports designed to assist families that are caring for their children at home, including respite for parents, homemaker services, counseling, and mental health services.This bill would require the department to establish a Family Wellness Pilot Program under which regional centers shall provide counseling and peer support group services to the families of regional center consumers, as specified. The bill would require the department to evaluate the program and submit a report on the evaluation to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2029.
CA AB 237 - Gregory Wallis
Intradistrict and interdistrict transfers: low-performing pupils.
01/13/2023 - Read first time. To print.
AB 237, as introduced, Wallis.
Intradistrict and interdistrict transfers: low-performing pupils.
Existing law authorizes the governing boards of 2 or more school districts to enter into an agreement, for a term not to exceed 5 school years, for the interdistrict attendance of pupils who are residents of the school districts. Existing law requires a school district of residence to approve an intradistrict transfer request for a victim of an act of bullying, as provided. If there is no available school for an intradistrict transfer, existing law authorizes a victim of an act of bullying to apply for an interdistrict transfer and prohibits a school district of residence from prohibiting that transfer if the school district of proposed enrollment approves the application for transfer. This bill would require a school district of residence to also approve an intradistrict transfer request for a low-performing pupil, as defined, of that school
district if the school of attendance is in the red or orange performance band in 2 or more of the state measures for 3 consecutive years on the California School Dashboard, as provided. If there is no available school for an intradistrict transfer, the bill would authorize a low-performing pupil of a school district, if the school of attendance is in the red or orange performance band in 2 or more of the state measures for 3 consecutive years on the California School Dashboard, to apply for an interdistrict transfer and would prohibit the school district of residence from prohibiting that transfer if the school district of proposed enrollment approves the application for transfer. By requiring school districts to approve intradistrict transfers for certain pupils, 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, 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.
CA AB 2376 - Jasmeet Bains
Chemical dependency recovery hospitals.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2376, as amended, Bains. Chemical dependency recovery hospitals. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of certain health facilities, including a chemical dependency recovery hospital, which is defined to mean a health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient care for persons who have a dependency on alcohol or other drugs, or both alcohol and other drugs. Existing law requires all beds in a chemical dependency recovery hospital to be designated for chemical dependency recovery services, as specified. Existing law authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided in a freestanding facility, within a hospital building that only provides chemical recovery services, or within a distinct part of a hospital, as defined. Existing law also authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided within a hospital building that has been removed from general acute care use. Existing law requires chemical dependency recovery services to comply with specified regulatory requirements for basic services, and optional services if the facility is approved by the department to provide them. Existing law only authorizes the colocation of chemical dependency recovery services as a distinct part with other services or distinct parts of its parent hospital, as specified. Existing law requires a separately licensed chemical dependency recovery hospital that is not a distinct part of a general acute care hospital to have agreements with one or more general acute care hospitals to provide specified additional services.This bill would expand the definition of “chemical dependency recovery services” to include medications for addiction treatment and medically managed voluntary inpatient detoxification. The bill would delete the requirement for chemical dependency recovery as a supplemental service to be provided in a distinct part of a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, and instead would authorize those facilities to provide chemical dependency recovery services as a supplemental service within the same building or in a separate building on campus that meets specified structural requirements of a freestanding chemical dependency recovery hospital. The bill would delete the requirements for chemical dependency services to be provided in a hospital building that provides only chemical dependency recovery services, or has been removed from general acute care use.
CA AB 2377 - Luz Rivas
Pupil instruction: physical education: religious exemption: fasting.
04/09/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2377, as amended, Luz Rivas. Pupil instruction: physical education: religious exemption: fasting. Existing law requires the adopted courses of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction in specified areas of study, including physical education. Existing law imposes specified minimum instructional time requirements for physical education of pupils. Existing law authorizes certain exemptions from these physical education requirements. This bill would require a pupil in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to be excused from engaging in any physical activity components of a physical education course during a period of religious fasting upon the submission to the school principal of written notification from the pupil’s parent or guardian, if the pupil is less than 18 years of age, or from the pupil, if the pupil is 18 years of age or older, that the pupil is participating in religious fasting. The bill would, for purposes of calculating compliance with physical education instructional time requirements, require a pupil to be credited with instructional time for any time for which the pupil was excused from engaging in any physical activity components of a physical education course pursuant to that religious exemption process, upon completion of alternative assignments or activities by the pupil. By imposing new obligations on local educational agencies, the bill would create 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.
CA AB 2381 - Mia Bonta
California state preschool programs: reimbursement rates.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2381, as amended, Bonta. California state preschool programs: reimbursement rates. Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, which vary with the length of the program year and the hours of service, for purposes of the act. Existing law requires those contractors who, as of December 31, 2021, received the established standard reimbursement rate to be reimbursed at the greater of the 75th percentile of the?2018?regional market rate survey or the contract per-child reimbursement amount as of December 31, 2021, as increased by a specified cost-of-living adjustment.This bill would instead require, for a contract whose period of performance begins on and after July 1, 2025, the contract reimbursement to be based on the lesser of the maximum reimbursable amount stated in the contract, the net reimbursable program costs, or the product of the adjusted child days of enrollment for certified children times the contract rate set forth in the above-described provisions.
CA AB 2383 - Wendy Carrillo
State Department of Developmental Services: services for medically fragile children: training program.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2383, as amended, Wendy Carrillo. State Department of Developmental Services: services for medically fragile children: training program. Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, makes the State Department of Developmental Services (department) responsible for providing various services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities, and for ensuring the appropriateness and quality of those services and supports. Pursuant to that law, the department contracts with regional centers to provide services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities. The services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan (IPP), developed in accordance with prescribed requirements.Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income persons receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing federal law provides for various home- and community-based services, as part of a waiver or a state plan amendment under the Medicaid program, to promote coverage and services that enable an individual who would otherwise be institutionalized to live at home or in the community.This bill would require the State Department of Developmental Services to develop or contract the development of, and to implement by July 1, 2025, a required training program for specified hospital and regional center care management professionals, to provide those care management professionals with an understanding of Medi-Cal home- and community-based waivers, as specified, and information on how to identify a newborn who is likely to qualify for any of those waivers. The bill would require a care management professional to provide the family of a medically fragile child, as defined, with information and a navigation plan for Medi-Cal home- and community-based waiver programs when the care management professional has reason to believe that it is more likely than not that the child would qualify under one or more waiver. The bill would require the information and navigation plan to be provided upon discharge from the hospital or as part of the regional center’s IPP process, as applicable. The bill would specify the timeframe for completion of the initial training by a care management professional. The bill would require the department to solicit and consider stakeholder input when developing the training program, and would authorize the department to consult or collaborate with the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Public Health, as specified.
CA AB 2385 - Juan Alanis
Driver’s licenses: instruction permits and provisional licenses.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 2385, as amended, Alanis. Driver’s licenses: instruction permits and provisional licenses. (1) Existing law, the Brady-Jared Teen Driver Safety Act of 1997, establishes a provisional licensing program and generally requires that a driver’s license issued to a person at least 16 years of age, but under 18 years of age be issued pursuant to that provisional licensing program. Existing law requires a person to hold an instruction permit for not less than 6 months prior to applying for a provisional license. During the first 12 months after issuance of a provisional license, existing law prohibits the licensee from driving between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. and transporting passengers who are under 20 years of age, as specified. Existing law provides limited exceptions to these restrictions under which a licensee is authorized to drive under specified circumstances. A violation of these provisions is punishable as an infraction.This bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, expand the scope of the provisional licensing program by expanding the applicable age range for the program to persons at least 16 years of age, but under 21 years of age. The restrictions on provisional licensees described above would apply during the first 6 months after issuance of a provisional license to a licensee who is 18, 19, or 20 years of age, subject to specified exemptions. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2027, require a person at least 18 years of age, but under 21 years of age, to hold an instruction permit for at least 60 days before applying for a provisional license. The bill would make other technical and conforming changes and related findings and declarations. By expanding the scope of the provisional licensing program, the violation of which constitutes an infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law generally authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles, for good cause, to issue an instruction permit to any physically and mentally qualified person who applies to the department for an instruction permit and who meets any one of 5 specified requirements, including that the person is 17 years and 6 months of age or older.The bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, raise the age for the above requirement to 20 years and 6 months.Existing law provides that a person, while having in the person’s immediate possession a valid permit issued pursuant to the above provisions, may operate a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle or a motorized bicycle, when accompanied by, and under the immediate supervision of, a California-licensed driver with a valid license of the appropriate class, 18 years of age or over, whose driving privilege is not on probation, as specified. A violation of this provision is punishable as an infraction.The bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, for purposes of supervising a person issued a valid permit as described above, raise the required age of the California-licensed driver to 21 years of age. By changing the definition of an existing infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law prohibits a person from owning or operating a driving school or giving driving instruction for compensation without a license issued by the department.The bill would require, on and after January 1, 2025, an owner or operator of a driving school or an independent driving instructor, as a condition of obtaining a new license or renewed license from the department to offer and accept installment payments, as specified, for the compensation to provide the instruction required by the Brady-Jared Teen Driver Safety Act of 1997. The bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, also authorize the department to charge a driving school, as specified, a fee not to exceed $1 for each driver education or driver training certificate of completion furnished by the department and issued to a person who has demonstrated satisfactory completion of a certified driver education and drive
CA AB 2397 - Brian K. Maienschein
Child support: special needs trusts.
04/10/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
AB 2397, as amended, Maienschein. Child support: special needs trusts. Existing law continues the parental duty to support an unmarried child who has attained 18 years of age, is a full-time high school student, and who is not self-supporting, until the time the child completes grade 12 or attains 19 years of age, whichever occurs first. Existing law provides that both parents have an equal responsibility to support their child in the manner suitable to the child’s circumstances. Existing law also provides that both parents have an equal responsibility to maintain, to the extend of their ability, a child of whatever age who is incapacitated from earning a living and without sufficient means. Existing law authorizes the establishment of a special needs trust if a court makes specific determinations, including that the minor or person with a disability has a disability that substantially impairs the individual’s ability to provide for their own care.This bill would authorize a court to order that a support payment be paid to a special needs trust, as specified.
CA AB 2403 - Mia Bonta
Community colleges: student equity plan.
04/04/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
AB 2403, as amended, Bonta. Community colleges: student equity plan. Existing law, the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, provides that the purpose of the act is to increase California community college student access and success by providing effective core matriculation services, including orientation, assessment and placement, counseling, other education planning services, and academic interventions. Existing law establishes the Student Equity and Achievement Program and requires a community college district, as a condition of the receipt of funds under the program, to comply with specified requirements, including the maintenance of a student equity plan to ensure equal educational opportunities and promote student success for all students, regardless of race, gender, age, disability, or economic circumstances. Existing law requires a student equity plan to be developed with the active involvement of all groups on campus as required by law, including, but not limited to, the academic senate, academic faculty and staff, student services, and students, and with the involvement of appropriate people from the community.This bill would require a student equity plan to also include a description of the active involvement of all groups on campus in developing the student equity plan for each community college in the community college district. To the extent that the bill would impose new duties on community college districts, it would constitute 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.
CA AB 243 - Juan Alanis
Child abduction survivors: address confidentiality program.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 243, Alanis. Child abduction survivors: address confidentiality program. Existing law authorizes victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and elder or dependent adult abuse, and members of their households, to complete an application to be approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of enabling state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing a program participant’s changed name or location, subject to specified conditions. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to make a false statement in an application. This bill, beginning on July 1, 2024, would make victims of child abduction, as defined, and members of their households eligible for the protections of this address confidentiality program. By expanding the scope of the program to include victims of child abduction and their household members, this bill would impose new duties on local public officials and expand the scope of an existing crime, thereby imposing 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
CA AB 244 - Lori D. Wilson
Specialized Inclusivity Training for Childcare Staff Grant Program.
02/02/2023 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 244, as introduced, Wilson.
Specialized Inclusivity Training for Childcare Staff Grant Program.
The Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law also requires the department to ensure that eligible children with exceptional needs are given equal access to all child care and development programs and requires all child care and development programs to include plans or programs, or both, for the care of the children when they are sick.This bill would, upon appropriation, establish the Specialized Inclusivity Training for Child Care Staff Grant Program, to be administered by the department. The bill would require the department, in administering the program, to award grants to child care centers and family child care homes to fund staff training on including children with disabilities
and to collect data from child care centers and family child care homes that receive grants to determine whether the training provides better access to childcare for children with disabilities. The bill would make a related finding and declaration.
CA AB 2441 - Ash Kalra
School safety: mandatory notifications.
02/26/2024 - Referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2441, as introduced, Kalra. School safety: mandatory notifications. (1) Existing law provides that any person who willfully disturbs any public school or any public school meeting is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $500.The bill would exempt from those misdemeanor and fine provisions a person who, at the time of the disturbance, is a pupil of the school district.(2) Existing law requires, if any employee of a school district or county superintendent of schools is attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil, the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident are required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities. Under existing law, failure to make the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and acts by specified persons to inhibit or impede the making of the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000.This bill would delete those infraction provisions for a failure to report and for inhibiting or impeding the making of the report. The bill would authorize, instead of require, the employee who was the target of the incident to make that notification and prohibit the governing board of a school district, a member of the governing board, a county superintendent of schools, and an employee of a school district or of the office of any county superintendent of schools from imposing any sanctions against a person making that notification. The bill would strongly encourage an employee of a school district or of the office of a county superintendent of schools to employ other means of correction, as provided, before considering a law enforcement referral.(3) The federal Gun-Free Schools Act prohibits a local educational agency from receiving certain federal funds unless the local educational agency has a policy requiring referral to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system of any student who brings a firearm or weapon to a school served by the local educational agency. Existing law, the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1995, provides that any person who possesses a firearm in a place that the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a school zone is guilty of a crime, as provided.Existing state law requires the principal of a school or the principal’s designee to notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of the county or city in which the school is situated of certain acts committed by a pupil that may be unlawful, including, among others, the selling or possession of narcotics or other designated controlled or regulated substances, and acts of assault, as specified. Under existing law, a principal, the principal’s designee, or any other person reporting certain known or suspected acts is not civilly or criminally liable as a result of making any report authorized by these provisions unless it can be proven that a false report was made and that the person knew the report was false or the report was made with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the report, as provided.This bill instead would require that notification only if the pupil’s acts require notification under the federal Gun Free Schools Act, a pupil’s acts violate the Gun-Free School Zone Act of 1995, or a pupil or nonpupil’s acts include possessing, selling, or otherwise furnishing a firearm or possessing an explosive. The bill would no longer provide the above-described exemption from civil or criminal liability for the making of a report under these provisions.
CA AB 245 - Tina McKinnor
High school athletics: California High School Coaching Education and Training Program: emergency action plan.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 245, McKinnor. High school athletics: California High School Coaching Education and Training Program: emergency action plan. Existing law, the 1998 California High School Coaching Education and Training Program, declares the intent of the Legislature to establish a California High School Coaching Education and Training Program to be administered by school districts with emphasis on specific components, including training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid. Existing law requires every high school sports coach to complete, at their own expense, a coaching education program that meets the guidelines established by the California High School Coaching Education and Training Program.This bill would revise and recast the program’s requirements for training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid by, among other things, by July 1, 2024, requiring training in recognizing and responding to the signs and symptoms of cardiac arrest. The bill would also add certification in the use of an automated external defibrillator to the training component of that program.Existing law requires, if a school district or charter school elects to offer any interscholastic athletic program, the governing board of the school district or the governing body of the charter school to ensure that there is a written emergency action plan, as specified, in place.This bill would require, by July 1, 2024, the emergency action plan to include a description of the manner and frequency at which the procedures to be followed in the event of sudden cardiac arrest and other medical emergencies related to the athletic program’s activities or events will be rehearsed.
CA AB 2456 - Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr.
Criminal law: civil compromise.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 2456, as amended, Jones-Sawyer. Criminal law: civil compromise. Existing law allows for the civil compromise of a misdemeanor offense which has a remedy by a civil action if the person injured by the commission of the misdemeanor appears before the court and acknowledges that they have received satisfaction for the injury. On payment of the costs incurred, existing law allows the court to order all proceedings stayed and discharge the defendant from prosecution. Existing law prohibits civil compromise in certain cases, including, among others, crimes committed riotously, with the intent to commit a felony, or cases involving domestic violence, elder abuse, and child abuse.This bill would extend civil compromise to be available for any felony that is not violent and that does not require registration as a sex offense, and remove the requirement that the underlying offense has a remedy by a civil action. The bill would additionally remove the prohibition on civil compromise for offenses committed riotously or with the intent to commit a felony, and for offenses involving elder abuse through theft, embezzlement, forgery, or fraud. The bill would prohibit civil compromise for any crime that results in death. The bill would extend civil compromise to include nonmonetary resolutions as a form of satisfaction for the injury, as specified.
CA AB 2458 - Tasha Boerner
Public postsecondary education: student parents.
04/08/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2458, as amended, Berman. Public postsecondary education: student parents. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California as the 3 public segments of postsecondary education in the state. The missions and functions of these segments are set forth in the Donahoe Higher Education Act.Existing law requires each campus of the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and requests each campus of the University of California, to host on its internet website a student parent internet web page that contains information that clearly lists all on- and off-campus student parent services and resources, as specified, including, among other student parent services and resources, information on the California Earned Income Tax Credit and the Young Child Tax Credit.This bill would require the information on student parent internet web pages to include additional information on student parent services and resources, including several other federal and state tax credits, state and federal financial aid applications and programs, and the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program. The bill would require each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and would request each campus of the University of California, among other things, to, on or before the start of the 2026–27 academic year, (1) implement a policy for estimating and adjusting cost of attendance information for student parents, as specified, (2) establish a data field in the campus’s data management information system to identify student parents for certain purposes, and (3) update its campus net price calculator to include a baseline student parent cost estimate, as specified. By imposing new duties on community college districts, 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, 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.
CA AB 2459 - Michael A. Gipson
Juveniles: mentoring programs.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9).
AB 2459, as introduced, Wilson. Juveniles: mentoring programs. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law requires the status of every dependent child in foster care to be reviewed periodically, and requires the county welfare department social worker to prepare a supplemental report with supplemental information regarding the child for purposes of the status review hearing. Existing law also requires a probation officer to prepare a social study for purposes of the status review hearing of a ward who is placed in foster care or recommended for placement in foster care.This bill would require the social worker and probation officer to include in the supplemental report or social study, respectively, information regarding voluntary one-to-one mentoring services for the foster youth, as specified. By increasing the duties on county staff, 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.
CA AB 2468 - Luz Rivas
Crimes: child neglect.
03/27/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2468, as introduced, Luz Rivas. Crimes: child neglect. Existing law makes it a crime for a person who has the care or custody of any child to willfully cause or permit the person or health of that child to be injured, or willfully cause or permit that child to be placed in a situation where the child’s health may be endangered.This bill would additionally make it a crime for a person to willfully cause or permit the child to be exposed to the unlawful use of force or violence against any person having care or custody of that child. By expanding the scope of a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 247 - Lori D. Wilson
Education finance: school facilities: Transitional Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2024.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 247, as amended, Muratsuchi. Education finance: school facilities: Transitional Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2024. (1) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (1) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (2) has been passed by a 2/3 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (3) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (4) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election.This bill would set forth the Transitional Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2024 as a state general obligation bond act that would provide $14,000,000,000 to construct and modernize education facilities, as specified. This bond act would become operative only if approved by the voters at an unspecified 2024 statewide election. The bill would also provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that election.(2) The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 provides for the adoption of rules, regulations, and procedures, under the administration of the Director of General Services, for the allocation of state funds by the State Allocation Board for the construction and modernization of public school facilities.This bill would require the Department of General Services to process all applications received under the act on and after an unspecified date and to present those applications to the State Allocation Board within 120 days of receipt. The bill would require a school district that applies for bond funding under the act to supply designated information about the facilities at each school in the school district to the State Department of Education. The bill would amend the methodology for calculating the local contribution a school district is required to make in order to be eligible to receive state funding under the act, as specified.The bill would authorize the allocation of state funds under the act for the replacement of school buildings that are at least 50 years old, for specified assistance to school districts with a school facility located on a military installation, as specified, and small school districts, as defined, and for the testing and remediation of lead levels in water fountains and faucets used for drinking or preparing food on schoolsites, as provided. The bill would authorize new construction and modernization grants to be used for seismic mitigation purposes, certain health and safety projects, and, among other things, to establish schoolsite-based infrastructure to provide broadband internet access. The bill would also authorize modernization grants to be used for the control, management, or abatement of lead. The bill would increase the maximum level of total bonding capacity, as defined, that a school district could have in order to be eligible for financial hardship assistance under the act from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000. The bill, commencing in the 2025–26 fiscal year, would increase that $15,000,000 maximum by a specified inflation adjustment. The bill would authorize the State Allocation Board to provide assistance for purposes of procuring interim housing to school districts and county offices of education impacted by a natural disaster for which the Governor has declared a state of emergency. The bill would also make conforming changes.The bill would make these provisions effective upon the adoption of the Transitional Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2024 by the voters at the unspecified 2024 statewide election.
CA AB 2473 - House Education Committee
English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program repeal, elementary authorization with a concentration in art, music, dance, or theater, and emergency elementary arts education teaching permit.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2473, as amended, Committee on Education. English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program repeal, elementary authorization with a concentration in art, music, dance, or theater, and emergency elementary arts education teaching permit. (1) Existing law establishes the English Language Learner Acquisition and Development Pilot Program, under the administration of the State Department of Education, as a 3-year competitive grant pilot project of 25,000 or more English language learners to be conducted during the 2007–08 to 2009–10, inclusive, school years. Under the program, grants are made to local educational agencies, as defined, to identify existing best practices regarding topics including, but not limited to, curriculum, instruction, and staff development for teaching English language learners and promoting English language acquisition and development. The program requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a 13-to-20 member advisory committee, with specified responsibilities.This bill would repeal the statutes that establish the program.(2) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to issue only teaching and service credentials, with specified authorizations. Existing law authorizes the commission to issue or renew emergency teaching and specialist permits if certain conditions are met.This bill would require the commission to issue an elementary authorization with a concentration in art, music, dance, or theater, or any combination of these subjects, aligning with an applicant’s industry experience, to an applicant who holds a clear designated subjects career technical education teaching credential with an authorization in the arts, media, and entertainment industry sector and meets specified coursework requirements. The bill would authorize a teacher who holds this authorization to serve as the teacher of record in a departmentalized general education classroom in preschool, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, or for a noncore, academic course in art, music, dance, or theater. The bill would authorize the commission to issue a one-year emergency elementary arts education teaching permit that authorizes teaching in art, dance, music, or theater, or any combination of these subjects, as described above, provided that specified conditions are met.
CA AB 2476 - Mia Bonta
Childcare services: alternative payment programs.
03/04/2024 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2476, as introduced, Bonta. Childcare services: alternative payment programs. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. Existing law establishes a payment schedule for those programs. Existing law requires the alternative payment program to reimburse childcare providers based upon specified criteria, including the actual days and hours of attendance for those families with variable schedules. This bill would remove the requirement that alternative payment programs reimburse childcare providers based on specified criteria. The bill would require the department to ensure that childcare providers are reimbursed at the applicable regional market rate ceiling. The bill would also require that, commencing on May 1, 2025, alternative payment programs provide payment to childcare providers prior to the day the childcare begins for the child and require the department to compensate the alternative payment programs that reimburse childcare providers for the provision of state-funded subsidized childcare and development services no later than February 1, 2025.
CA AB 2477 - Rick Chavez Zbur
Foster care: independent living.
04/08/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2477, as amended, Zbur. Foster care: independent living. Existing law establishes the Independent Living Program (ILP), which has among its purposes providing training in daily living skills, budgeting, locating and maintaining housing, and career planning for foster youth up to 21 years of age. Existing federal law authorizes a state, under certain circumstances, to expand eligibility for the ILP to former foster youth who have not attained 23 years of age. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, with the approval of the federal government, to amend the foster care state plan to permit all eligible children to be served by the ILP up to 21 years of age.Existing law authorizes a child who is declared a ward or dependent child of the court who is 16 years of age or older, or a nonminor dependent, as defined, who is participating in a transitional independent living case plan to retain resources with a combined value of $10,000, consistent with federal law, and still remain eligible to receive public social services. Existing law requires the written approval of a child’s probation officer or social worker for withdrawal of the child’s savings, as specified.Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care.This bill would remove that monetary value limit and instead allow those nonminor dependents to retain resources consistent with federal law. The bill would prohibit those resources from being evaluated after the initial determination for the same foster care episode to determine continued eligibility for a foster care maintenance payment. The bill would also authorize a nonminor dependent who reenters foster care, as specified, and is ineligible for federal financial participation due to cash savings in an amount that is greater than allowed, to receive aid in the form of state AFDC-FC if certain requirements are met. Because counties would administer these extended benefits, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 248 - Buffy Wicks
Individuals with disabilities: The Dignity for All Act.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.).
AB 248, as amended, Mathis. Individuals with disabilities: The Dignity for All Act. Existing law includes the terms “mentally retarded persons,” “mentally retarded children,” “retardation,” and “handicap.”This bill, The Dignity for All Act, would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions to eliminate this obsolete terminology. The bill would repeal obsolete provisions of law.
CA AB 2484 - Isaac Bryan
Courts: juveniles: remote proceedings.
04/01/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 2484, as amended, Bryan. Courts: juveniles: remote proceedings. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes a party to appear remotely and a court to conduct conferences, hearings, proceedings, and trials in civil cases, in whole or in part, through the use of remote technology. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, allows any juvenile dependency proceeding to be conducted in whole or in part through the use of remote technology subject to certain conditions, including that a witness may appear through remote technology only with the consent of all parties and if the witness has access to appropriate technology.This bill would exempt parents in juvenile dependency proceedings from obtaining the consent of all parties in order to utilize remote technology for the appearance of an expert witness.
CA AB 249 - Robert A. Rivas
Water: schoolsites: lead testing.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 249, as amended, Holden. Water: schoolsites: lead testing. Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. The act requires the state board to establish a grant program, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to award grants to local educational agencies for the purposes of improving access to, and the quality of, drinking water in public schools serving kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and preschools and child daycare facilities located on public school property.This bill would require a community water system that serves a schoolsite, as defined, to test for lead in the potable water system outlets of the schoolsite before January 1, 2027, except as provided. The bill would require the community water system to report its findings to the applicable schoolsite or local educational agency and to the state board. The bill would require the local educational agency or schoolsite, if the lead level exceeds a specified level at a schoolsite, to notify the parents and guardians of the pupils who attend the schoolsite, take immediate steps to make inoperable and shut down from use all potable water system outlets where the excess lead levels may exist, and work to ensure that a lead-free source of drinking water is provided for pupils, as specified. The bill would require a community water system to test a potable water system outlet that replaces an outlet that is found to have excess levels of lead. The bill would require a community water system to prepare a sampling plan for each schoolsite where lead sampling is required under these provisions, as specified. The bill would require the schoolsite, local educational agency, and state board to make the results of schoolsite lead sampling publicly available by posting the results on its internet website. The bill would require a schoolsite and a local educational agency, if an internet website is not maintained, to provide the results upon request. By imposing additional duties on local agencies, 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.
CA AB 25 - Miguel Santiago
Student financial aid: Middle Class Scholarship Program.
07/13/2023 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 25, as amended, McCarty. Student financial aid: Middle Class Scholarship Program. Existing law establishes the Middle Class Scholarship Program (MCSP) under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. Existing law, subject to an available and sufficient appropriation, makes an undergraduate student eligible for a scholarship award under the MCSP if the student is enrolled at the University of California or the California State University, or enrolled in upper division coursework in a community college baccalaureate program, and meets certain eligibility requirements.This bill would require the Department of Finance, following a growth of General Fund revenues for 2 consecutive fiscal years, to fund the cost of the MCSP, as determined by the commission, over the 5 fiscal years following that growth, as provided.
CA AB 2508 - Kevin McCarty
Student financial aid: California Kids Investment and Development Savings (KIDS) Program: foster youth.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2508, as amended, McCarty. Student financial aid: California Kids Investment and Development Savings (KIDS) Program: foster youth. Existing law establishes the California Kids Investment and Development Savings (KIDS) Program, under the administration of the Scholarshare Investment Board (board), for purposes of expanding access to higher education through savings. Existing law, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, requires a KIDS Account to be established for all unduplicated pupils enrolled at a school district, public charter school, state special school, or other local educational agency, if one has not already been established for them, and requires the account to receive an enhanced deposit of $500. Existing law, for the 2021–22 fiscal year, requires an eligible pupil who is also a foster youth, as defined, to receive an additional enhanced deposit of $500.Existing law, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, requires a KIDS Account to be opened for all unduplicated pupils enrolled at a school district, public charter school, state special school, or other local educational agency when the pupil is enrolled in first grade, if an account has not already been established for them, and requires the account to receive an enhanced deposit of $500. Existing law, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, requires an eligible first grade pupil who is also a foster youth, as defined, to receive an additional enhanced deposit of $500.This bill, commencing with the 2025–26 fiscal year and subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, would (1) require a KIDS Account to be opened for a pupil who is a foster youth and is enrolled in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at a school district, public charter school, state special school, or other local educational agency, if an account has not already been established for them, and would require the account to receive a one-time enhanced deposit of $500, and (2) authorize an additional enhanced deposit of $500 for those foster youth who did not previously receive the above-described deposits for unduplicated pupils in the 2021–22 fiscal year and unduplicated pupils in the first grade commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, as provided. The bill would limit the one-time enhanced deposits provided by the bill to the KIDS Accounts of those foster youth that had not already received one of the above-described enhanced deposits for foster youth. The bill would, commencing with the 2025–26 fiscal year, require the board to collaborate with the State Department of Education to establish a process to enable a foster youth pupil who met any of the above-described eligibility criteria related to enhanced deposits for foster youth, but who did not receive the applicable enhanced deposit due to a failure in the identification process, to subsequently receive the enhanced deposit. Existing law authorizes the board to consider marketing the program to California residents, as provided, and requires the board to annually report to the Department of Finance and the Legislature information pertaining to the program’s implementation, as provided. This bill would require any marketing efforts developed by the board to include specific strategies to reach foster youth, and would require the annual reports to include specified information about foster pupils or homeless youth, as provided.
CA AB 2527 - Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
Incarceration: pregnant persons.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 2527, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. Incarceration: pregnant persons. Existing law requires an incarcerated person in a state prison or county jail who is identified as possibly pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant during an intake health examination or at any time during incarceration to be offered a pregnancy test upon intake or request. Existing law requires an incarcerated person who is confirmed to be pregnant to be scheduled for pregnancy examination with a physician, nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or physician assistant within 7 days. Existing law requires incarcerated pregnant persons to be provided with access to, among other things, prenatal vitamins. Existing law prohibits incarcerated pregnant persons from being tased, pepper sprayed, or exposed to other chemical weapons.This bill would additionally require incarcerated pregnant persons to be provided with free and clean bottled water and daily high-quality and high caloric nutritional meals, as specified. The bill would also prohibit incarcerated pregnant persons from being placed in solitary confinement or restrictive housing units during their pregnancy or for 12 weeks postpartum.Existing law, for a pregnant person incarcerated in the state prison, requires that person to be provided access to community-based programs serving pregnant, birthing, or lactating incarcerated persons, and authorizes that person to elect to have a support person present during labor, childbirth, and during postpartum recovery while hospitalized. Existing law requires, if that person’s request for access to community-based programs or a support person is denied, the reason for the denial to be provided in writing to the incarcerated person within 15 working days of receipt of the request.This bill would require the reasons for that denial to be provided in writing to the incarcerated person within 2 working days of receipt of the request, and would extend these requirements to county jails.This bill would additionally extend the requirements on county jails to detention facilities generally, and would define detention facilities as including any city, county, or regional facility used for the confinement of any person, including those under 18 years of age, for more than 24 hours. By imposing additional duties on local governments, 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.
CA AB 2529 - Josh Lowenthal
Social media platforms: video games: minors.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
AB 2529, as amended, Lowenthal. Social media platforms: video games: minors. Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about the consumer to third parties not to sell or share the consumer’s personal information. Existing law prohibits a business from selling or sharing the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, in the case of a consumer at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, in the case of a consumer who is less than 13 years of age, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information.Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, prohibits a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children from collecting, selling, sharing, or retaining any personal information that is not necessary to provide an online service, product, or feature with which a child is actively and knowingly engaged, or as specified, unless the business can demonstrate a compelling reason that the collecting, selling, sharing, or retaining of the personal information is in the best interests of children likely to access the online service, product, or feature.This bill would prohibit a social media platform or video game from collecting the personal information of a minor unless otherwise required by law to do so. The bill would define “minor” to mean a person who is no more than 18 years of age.
CA AB 253 - Brian K. Maienschein
Child death investigations: review teams.
05/18/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 253, as amended, Maienschein. Child death investigations: review teams. Existing law authorizes each county to establish an interagency child death review team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing suspicious child deaths and facilitating communication among persons who perform autopsies and the various persons and agencies involved in child abuse or neglect cases. Existing law requires each child death review team to, no less than once each year, make available to the public findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the team, including aggregate statistical data on the incidences and causes of child deaths.This bill would instead require each child death review team to meet these requirements no later than July 1 of each year and to post this report on the internet website of the county.Existing law requires the Attorney General, subject to available funding, to develop a protocol for the development and implementation of interagency child death teams that could be used by counties.This bill would require the Attorney General to complete and publish the protocol on their internet website and to update it every 4 years no later than January 1, regardless of the available funding.Existing law requires multiple state departments to share data and other information necessary to establish accurate information on the nature and extent of child abuse- or neglect-related fatalities in California as those documents relate to child fatality cases. Existing law also requires the California State Child Death Review Council, among other things, to oversee the statewide coordination and integration of state and local efforts.This bill would require the Department of Justice and other agencies and organizations involved to collaborate on allocating statewide responsibilities for these provisions between, at a minimum, the State Department of Public Health, the State Department of Social Services, and the Department of Justice. The bill would require the Attorney General to submit a budget to the Governor and the Legislature that is sufficient to fund the council, among other things.
CA AB 2534 - Heath Flora
Certificated employees: disclosures: egregious misconduct.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2534, as amended, Flora. Certificated employees: disclosures: egregious misconduct. Existing law prohibits a permanent school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes, including egregious misconduct, as defined. Existing law requires the superintendent of a school district or county office of education, or the administrator of a charter school, employing a person with a credential, to report any change in the employment status of the credentialholder to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing not later than 30 days after the change in employment status, if the credentialholder, while working in a position requiring a credential, and as a result of an allegation of misconduct or while an allegation of misconduct is pending, is dismissed, is nonreelected, resigns, is suspended or placed on unpaid administrative leave for more than 10 days as a final adverse action, retires, or is otherwise terminated by a decision not to employ or reemploy.Existing law prohibits school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools from entering into an agreement that would prevent a mandatory report of egregious misconduct, as defined, or expunging from an employee’s personnel file, or entering in an agreement that would authorize expunging from an employee’s personnel file, credible complaints of, substantiated investigations into, or discipline for, egregious misconduct. Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, or charter school that has made a report of an employee’s egregious misconduct to the commission to disclose this fact to a school district, county office of education, or charter school considering an application for employment from the employee, upon inquiry.This bill would add state special schools to the above-described prohibitions regarding preventing mandatory reporting of, or expunging from an employee’s personnel file information on, egregious misconduct, and to the above-described requirement regarding disclosure of a report of an employee’s egregious misconduct. The bill would require any person applying for a certificated position at a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school to provide that prospective employer with a complete list of every school district, county office of education, charter school, and state special school that the applicant has previously been an employee of, and would require school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and state special schools considering an applicant for a certificated position to inquire with each of those local educational agencies that previously employed the applicant as to whether the applicant, while previously employed by the local educational agency, was the subject of any credible complaints of, substantiated investigations into, or discipline for, egregious misconduct that were required to be reported to the commission. The bill would require those local educational agencies, when responding to an inquiry as to whether it has made a report of egregious misconduct to the commission, to also provide the inquiring local educational agency with a copy of all relevant information that was reported to the commission within its possession. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agency officials, 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, 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.
CA AB 254 - Laura Friedman
Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: reproductive or sexual health application information.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 254, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: reproductive or sexual health application information. The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, a contractor, or a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, except as provided. The CMIA makes a business that offers software or hardware to consumers, including a mobile application or other related device that is designed to maintain medical information in order to make the information available to an individual or a provider of health care at the request of the individual or a provider of health care, for purposes of allowing the individual to manage the individual’s information or for the diagnosis, treatment, or management of a medical condition of the individual, a provider of health care subject to the requirements of the CMIA. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions that results in economic loss or personal injury to a patient punishable as a misdemeanor.This bill would revise the definition of “medical information” to include reproductive or sexual health application information, which the bill would define to mean information about a consumer’s reproductive or sexual health collected by a reproductive or sexual health digital service, as specified. The bill would make a business that offers a reproductive or sexual health digital service to a consumer for the purpose of allowing the individual to manage the individual’s information, or for the diagnosis, treatment, or management of a medical condition of the individual, a provider of health care subject to the requirements of the CMIA. Because the bill would expand the scope of a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 56.05 of the Civil Code proposed by AB 1697 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1697 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA AB 2544 - Evan Low
Background checks.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 2544, as amended, Low. Background checks. Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of community care facilities, including foster family homes and foster family agencies, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law requires a criminal record check of applicants for a license, special permit, or certificate of approval for a foster family home or certified family home, and other persons, including nonclients who reside in those homes and staff and employees. Existing law requires the department to check the child abuse and neglect registry of a different state for a licensee of a community care facility who has lived in another state in the preceding 5 years. Existing law generally makes violations of these requirements a crime.This bill would authorize a licensee of a community care facility to approve an individual to care for children before the completion of another state’s child abuse and neglect registry check if certain specified conditions are met, including that the community care facility has submitted a request for the out-of-state abuse and neglect registry check to the department. The bill would require a licensee to remove an applicant from the community care facility immediately upon receipt of information that would disqualify the applicant from approval and notify the department of the removal within 3 business days. By expanding the scope of a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 2548 - Tri Ta
Transitional kindergarten: enrollment.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2548, as amended, Ta. Transitional kindergarten: enrollment. Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires a school district or charter school, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, to ensure that, in the 2024–25 school year, a child who will have their 5th birthday between September 2 and June 2 is admitted to a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to enroll a child whose 4th birthday is between June 3 and September 1 preceding the school year if specified conditions are met, including that the transitional kindergarten classroom maintains at least one adult for every 10 pupils and maintains a classroom enrollment that does not exceed 20 pupils. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold a specified amount of funding from a school district or charter school that fails to comply with those conditions. Existing law requires the Controller to incorporate verification of compliance with those conditions in a specified audit guide for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years.This bill would specify that the provision requiring the Superintendent to withhold funding from a school district or charter school that fails to comply with those conditions does not apply for the 2024–25 school year. The bill would eliminate the requirement for the Controller to incorporate verification of compliance with those conditions in the audit guide for the 2024–25 fiscal year.
CA AB 2549 - James M. Gallagher
Patient visitation.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2549, as amended, Gallagher. Patient visitation. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of health facilities, as defined. Existing law requires a health facility to allow a patient’s domestic partner, the children of the patient’s domestic partner, and the domestic partner of the patient’s parent or child to visit unless no visitors are allowed, the facility reasonably determines that the presence of a particular visitor would endanger the health or safety of a patient, member of the health facility staff, or other visitor to the health facility, or would significantly disrupt the operations of a facility, or the patient has indicated to the health facility staff that the patient does not want this person to visit. A violation of this provision is a misdemeanor.This bill would require a health facility to allow specified persons to visit, including the patient’s children and grandparents. The bill would require the health facility to develop alternate visitation protocols, if circumstances require the health facility to restrict visitor access to the facility due to health or safety concerns, that allow visitation to the greatest extent possible while maintaining patient, visitor, and staff health and safety. Notwithstanding the requirement mentioned above, the bill would prohibit a health facility from prohibiting in-person visitation in end-of-life situations unless the patient has indicated to the health facility staff that the patient does not want this person to visit. By expanding an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to, no later than January 1, 2026, provide specific clinical guidance related to safe visitation during a pandemic event for hospitals. The bill would, among other things, prohibit the guidance provided from including a prohibition on visitation rights, and requires the guidance to explicitly consider the potential negative impacts of restrictive visitation policies on patient well-being, mental health, and the overall quality of care.This bill would require all hospitals to adopt visitation policies in compliance with the department’s guidance no later than July 1, 2026.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.
CA AB 2563 - Bill Essayli
Newborn screening program.
03/25/2024 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 2563, as introduced, Essayli. Newborn screening program. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a program for the development, provision, and evaluation of genetic disease testing. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Genetic Disease Testing Fund (GDTF), consisting of fees paid for newborn screening tests, and states the intent of the Legislature that all costs of the genetic disease testing program be fully supported by fees paid for newborn screening tests, which are deposited in the GDTF. Existing law also authorizes moneys in the GDTF to be used for the expansion of the Genetic Disease Branch Screening Information System to include cystic fibrosis, biotinidase, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and exempts the expansion of contracts for this purpose from certain provisions of the Public Contract Code, the Government Code, and the State Administrative Manual, as specified.This bill would require the department to expand statewide screening of newborns to include screening for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. By expanding the purposes for which moneys from the fund may be expended, this bill would make an appropriation.
CA AB 2565 - Kevin McCarty
School facilities: interior locks.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 2565, as amended, McCarty. School facilities: interior locks. Existing law requires all new construction projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 to include locks that allow doors to classrooms and rooms with an occupancy of 5 or more persons to be locked from the inside, except as specified.Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, if the governing board of the school district elects to seek state funding pursuant to the act for a school modernization project for a school facility constructed before January 1, 2012, to include, as part of the modernization project, locks that allow doors to classrooms and any room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons to be locked from the inside of the room, except as provided.Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to furnish, repair, insure against fire, and in its discretion rent, the school property of its school district.This bill would require a charter school, school district, or county office of education serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that undertakes an addition, alteration, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or retrofit of a school building, to install interior locks on each door of any room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons in that school building, except as provided. By placing a new requirement on local educational agencies, the bill would constitute 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.
CA AB 2571 - Diane Papan
School district and community college district bonds: school facilities.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2571, as amended, Papan. School district and community college district bonds: school facilities. Existing law authorizes, and in some instances requires, the governing board of a school district or community college district to, by majority vote of the governing board, order an election and submit to the electors of the school district or community college district, as applicable, the question whether the bonds of the district should be issued and sold for the purpose of raising money for specified purposes, including, among other things, the repairing, restoring, or rebuilding of a school building damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire or other public calamity. Existing law generally requires, to pass a school bond measure, that at least 2/3 of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds.Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or community college district, as an alternative method to issuing bonds pursuant to the above authority, to, by a 2/3 vote of the governing board and subject to specified requirements, pursue the authorization and issuance of bonds through an election pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution that only require at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds.This bill would broaden the specified purposes for which school bonds may be issued to include, among other purposes, the acquisition or lease of real property for school facilities, the construction or acquisition of school facilities, the reconstruction, rehabilitation, or replacement of school facilities, the repairing, restoring, or rebuilding of school facilities damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire or other public calamity, and the supplying of school facilities. The bill would define, for these purposes, “school facilities” to mean buildings, facilities, structures, or real property improvements used or operated in conjunction with one or more public schools or community colleges, including, but not limited to, classrooms, academic buildings, auditoriums, libraries, laboratories, research or training facilities, administrative offices or buildings, health offices or facilities, dormitories, dining halls, student centers or unions, housing for students, faculty, or school or district employees, sports facilities, maintenance, storage, or utility facilities, other related buildings, facilities, structures, or real property improvements used for student instruction, conducting research, or training, or for operating a school facility, and all necessary, usual, or useful attendant and related buildings, facilities, structures, or real property improvements, including, but not limited to, streets, parking, and supportive services facilities or structures, required or useful for the operation of another school facility. The bill would declare that its provisions are severable and are to be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.To the extent the bill creates additional duties for school districts, community college districts, and local elections officials, 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, 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.
CA AB 2595 - Luz Rivas
School nutrition: guardian meal reimbursement.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 2595, as introduced, Luz Rivas. School nutrition: guardian meal reimbursement. Existing law requires each school district, county superintendent of schools, and charter school to make available a nutritionally adequate breakfast, as defined, and a nutritionally adequate lunch, as defined, free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal, without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, as provided. Existing law defines “schoolday” for these purposes to mean any day that pupils in kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, are present at a schoolsite for purposes of instruction or educational activities, including, among other things, pupil attendance at summer school, including incoming kindergarten pupils, as provided.This bill would, contingent upon an appropriation for its purposes and to the extent authorized by federal law, require the State Department of Education to establish a pilot process for state reimbursement, adjusted annually for inflation, for federal summer meal program operators, as defined, for meals served to guardians of eligible pupils receiving a meal pursuant to a summer meal program that is hosted at a public library, as provided. The bill would require the department to develop related guidance, as specified, and, if necessary, to apply for a waiver of federal law to secure federal reimbursement for these meals. The bill would require the department to distribute information about the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program to guardians whose children are eligible for specified summer food programs. The bill would require a guardian of an eligible pupil to be present at the summer meal program site hosted at a public library in order for the summer meal program operator to receive state-funded reimbursement for that meal, unless noncongregate rules are in place. The bill would require participating summer meal program operators to report to the department the number of meals served to guardians by a meal site hosted at a public library no later than 30 days after the end of summer meal site operations.
CA AB 262 - Christopher R. Holden
Children’s camps: safety and regulation.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Assembly Member Holden.
AB 262, as amended, Holden. Children’s camps: safety and regulation. Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, generally provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including child daycare facilities, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law also requires the State Public Health Officer to establish rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for organized camps, defined as a site with a program and facilities established for the primary purposes of providing an outdoor group living experience with social, spiritual, educational, or recreational objectives, for 5 days or more during one or more seasons of the year, except as specified.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to convene and consult with a stakeholder group on children’s camp safety. The bill would require the stakeholder group to be composed of representatives of designated state entities, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Education, and other stakeholders, such as parent advocate groups, children’s advocates and safety groups, and local parks and health departments. The bill would require the department, following consultation with the stakeholder group, and within 24 months after funds are appropriated, to submit its recommendations in a report to the Legislature, as specified. The bill would require the recommendations to address, among other things, a definition for a children’s camp, child supervision requirements, requirements for camp licensure and regulation, and the government agency or agencies necessary to establish and enforce rules and regulations relating to children’s camps, as specified. The bill would require the report to include costs estimates for implementation of the recommendations included in the report. The bill also would require the department to draft preliminary regulations based on the recommendations provided to the Legislature, as specified.
CA AB 2637 - Pilar Schiavo
Health Facilities Financing Authority Act.
03/26/2024 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 2637, as introduced, Schiavo. Health Facilities Financing Authority Act. The California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act authorizes the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to, among other things, make loans from the continuously appropriated California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund to participating health institutions for financing or refinancing the acquisition, construction, or remodeling of health facilities. Under existing law, participating health institutions are specified entities authorized by state law to provide or operate a health facility and undertake the financing or refinancing of the construction or acquisition of a project or of working capital, as defined. Existing law defines “working capital” as moneys to be used by, or on behalf of, a participating health institution for specified expenses in connection with the ownership or operation of a health facility, including interest not to exceed two years on any loan for working capital made pursuant to these provisions. Existing law requires a participating health institution that is a private nonprofit corporation or association and that borrows money to finance working capital to repay and discharge the loan within 24 months of the loan date.This bill would change the definition of “working capital” to remove the 2-year cap on interest on any loan for working capital. The bill would delete the provision requiring a participating health institution that is a private nonprofit corporation or association to repay and discharge a loan for working capital within 24 months.By expanding the purpose for which the above-described continuously appropriated fund may be used, the bill would make an appropriation from that fund. The bill would make legislative findings relating to the purpose of the bill.
CA AB 2640 - Ash Kalra
Pupil instruction: animal dissection.
04/11/2024 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 2640, as amended, Kalra. Pupil instruction: animal dissection. Existing law authorizes a pupil with a moral objection to dissecting or otherwise harming or destroying an animal to refrain from participation in an educational project that involves the harmful or destructive use of animals. Existing law authorizes, if the pupil chooses to refrain and a teacher believes that an adequate alternative education project is possible, the teacher to work with the pupil to develop and agree upon an alternative education project in order to obtain the knowledge, information, or experience required by the course of study in question. Existing law requires each teacher teaching a course that utilizes live or dead animals or animal parts to inform the pupils of their rights pursuant to these provisions. Existing law applies these provisions to all levels of instruction in all public schools operating programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs.This bill, if a pupil chooses to refrain from participation in an assessment, education project, or test involving the dissection of animals, would require a teacher to provide an alternative assessment, education project, or test. The bill would prohibit a pupil’s grades from being impacted as a means of penalizing the pupil for exercising their rights. The bill would require the State Department of Education to develop a template that a teacher would be required to use to provide written notice that includes specified information, including, among other things, where the animals are sourced from and the environmental impacts of sourcing and dissecting the animals. The bill would strongly encourage, by July 1, 2028, public schools to phase out utilizing live or dead animals or animal parts in a course of study, except as provided, and to use alternative methods to deliver the same instructional material. The bill would require the Uniform Complaint Procedures to apply to pupils’ rights to refrain from participation in an assessment, education project, or test involving the dissection of animals and to choose an alternative assessment, education project, or test. By imposing additional duties on public schools, 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, 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.
CA AB 2657 - Joaquin Arambula
Social Media Commission.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2657, as amended, Arambula. Social Media Commission. Existing law regulates social media platforms, through various acts, including the Cyberbullying Protection Act, which requires a social media platform to, among other things and subject to specified exceptions, disclose all cyberbullying reporting procedures in the terms of service, and the Online Violence Prevention Act, which requires a social medial platform to, except as specified, clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the platform. This bill would establish the Social Media Commission for the purpose of bringing together a diverse group of experts and invested stakeholders to provide a comprehensive report with formal recommendations for regulation of social media as it relates to child and adolescent mental health and well-being. The bill would require the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, or the secretary’s designee, to chair the commission. The bill would require that the commission be composed of 7 subcommittees, including among others, a subcommittee of parents, a subcommittee of adolescents, a subcommittee of educators, and subcommittees of researchers and subject matter experts, as specified. This bill would request the University of California to send an informational briefing to committee members containing, among other things, a review of research on the outcomes of enacted legislation on adolescent social media use and mental health. The bill would require the commission to meet for the first time on or before March 30, 2025. The bill would require the commission to submit its report to the Legislature and the Governor on or before April 1, 2026.
CA AB 2664 - Isaac Bryan
Foster youth.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
AB 2664, as introduced, Bryan. Foster youth. Existing law requires a child to be deemed to have entered foster care on the earlier of the date of a jurisdictional hearing or the date 60 days following when the child was initially removed from the physical custody of their parent or guardian.This bill would require that, when a child is returned to the home of the parent or guardian at a dispositional hearing, as provided, and then subsequently removed through a subsequent petition, the child be deemed to have entered foster care on the earlier of the jurisdictional hearing held as a result of the subsequent petition or the date that is 60 days after the child was initially removed from the physical custody of their parent or guardian via the subsequent petition. By allowing additional reunification services and increasing the duties on county social workers, this bill would create 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.
CA AB 2671 - Akilah Weber
Family daycare homes: filtered water.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M.
AB 2671, as introduced, Weber. Family daycare homes: filtered water. Under existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, the State Department of Social Services licenses and regulates various types of child care facilities, including, but not limited to, family daycare homes. Existing law authorizes a small family daycare home to provide care for up to 8 children, and a large family daycare home to provide care for up to 14 children, as specified. Existing law makes a willful or repeated violation of the act a misdemeanor, and also authorizes the department to levy civil penalties against a family daycare home for failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations, as specified. Existing law requires a family daycare home to comply with specified safety requirements, including, but not limited to, requiring the facility to contain a fire extinguisher or smoke detector device, or both, as specified, that meet standards established by the State Fire Marshal, and a carbon monoxide detector. This bill would require a licensed family daycare home to only serve water to children, or use water in food preparation for the family daycare home, that has been filtered with a point-of-use water filtration device certified to meet specified standards for water safety, and that explicitly claims to remove lead. The bill would require the family daycare home to maintain records and receipts demonstrating that the water filtration device has been maintained, and its filters replaced, as specified. The bill would authorize funds from a specified grant program to be used to provide lead-removing water filters to family daycare homes. Because a violation of this requirement by a family daycare home 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.
CA AB 2690 - Joe Patterson
Pupil safety: parental notification: synthetic drugs.
04/11/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2690, as introduced, Joe Patterson. Pupil safety: parental notification: synthetic drugs. Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, and charter school to annually inform parents or guardians, at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term, of the dangers associated with using synthetic drugs and the possibility that dangerous synthetic drugs can be found in counterfeit pills, as provided. Existing law requires a local educational agency and each of their schools to post this information on their respective internet websites, as specified.This bill would require a local educational agency to, as part of the above-described annual notification to parents or guardians, also include the risk of social media platforms being used as a way to market and sell synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 2709 - Mia Bonta
Prison visitation.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2709, as introduced, Bonta. Prison visitation. Under existing law, a person sentenced to imprisonment in a state prison or in a county jail for a felony offense, as specified, may, during that period of confinement, be deprived of only those rights as is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. This bill would prohibit a person sentenced to imprisonment in a state prison or in a county jail for a felony offense from being prevented from receiving personal visits, including, but not limited to, noncontact and family visits, unless necessary and narrowly tailored to further a legitimate security interest. The bill would specify conduct that could be deemed necessary and for a legitimate security interest if the conduct occurs within visiting areas during visiting hours or the conduct poses a clear and imminent risk of physical violence within visiting areas and during visiting hours. By increasing duties on county jails, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would prohibit the department from infringing on a family member’s or intimate partner’s right to visit unless the incarcerated person freely withholds consent or as necessary and narrowly tailored to further legitimate security interests. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons. Existing law requires these regulations to recognize and consider the value of inmate visitation as a means of increasing safety in prisons, maintaining family and community connections, and preparing inmates for successful release and rehabilitation. Existing regulations create the framework for establishing a visitation process in prisons that is conducted in as accommodating a manner as possible, subject to the need to maintain order, the safety of persons, the security of institutions and facilities, and required prison activities and operations. The bill would require the department’s regulations to recognize and consider the constitutional right of association of an incarcerated person’s family member, among other things. The bill would prohibit the department from denying or restricting in-person contact and noncontact visits, except as specified. The bill would require the department to inform both the visitor and the incarcerated person of the specific reason for any denial of a visit, as specified. The bill would require the department to provide at least 3 days of in-person visiting per week, with a minimum of 7 visiting hours per day. The bill would require all infrastructure and areas initially erected for the purposes of providing family visits for incarcerated persons to be used only for the purpose of family visits.Existing law requires the department to develop policies related to its contraband interdiction efforts for individuals entering department detention facilities, including, but not limited to, the establishment of unpredictable, random search efforts and methods, as specified.This bill would prohibit the department from using strip searches, visual body cavity searches, and physical body searches of visitors, except as specified. The bill would require the department to issue a written notice detailing the reason for denial or restriction, as specified, if a visitor is denied vitiation or has visitation restricted. 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.
CA AB 2711 - James C. Ramos
Suspensions and expulsions: controlled substances: tobacco: alcohol: plans and protocols.
03/22/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 2711, as introduced, Ramos. Suspensions and expulsions: controlled substances: tobacco: alcohol: plans and protocols. Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, that the pupil (1) unlawfully possessed, used, sold, or otherwise furnished, or had been under the influence of, a controlled substance, an alcoholic beverage, or an intoxicant of any kind, or (2) possessed or used tobacco, or products containing tobacco or nicotine products, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, miniature cigars, clove cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, chew packets, and betel.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, remove unlawfully possessing, using, or being under the influence of a controlled substance, an alcoholic beverage, or an intoxicant of any kind from the list of acts for which a pupil, regardless of their grade of enrollment, may be suspended or recommended for expulsion for. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, prohibit a charter school pupil in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, from being suspended or recommended for expulsion solely on the basis of those acts.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, remove having possessed or used tobacco, or products containing tobacco or nicotine products, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, miniature cigars, clove cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, chew packets, and betel from the list of acts for which a pupil, regardless of their grade of enrollment, may be suspended or recommended for expulsion for. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, prohibit a charter school pupil in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, from being suspended or recommended for expulsion solely on the basis of those acts.The bill would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to adopt, on or before July 1, 2026, a plan to address pupils who possess or use tobacco, a controlled substance, or alcohol on school property. The bill would require the plan to be youth informed, include specific information on where on campus and in the community pupils can receive education, treatment, or support for substance use, and to require specified protocols after an incident involving a pupil using or in possession of tobacco, a controlled substance, or alcohol on school property occurs, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would also make Legislative findings and declarations relating to these provisions, make conforming changes, and delete obsolete provisions.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.
CA AB 2714 - Greg Wallis
Pupil health: epinephrine delivery systems.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2714, as introduced, Wallis. Pupil health: epinephrine delivery systems. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to, among other things, store those emergency epinephrine auto-injectors in an accessible location upon need for emergency use and include that location in specified annual notices.Existing law authorizes a pupil to carry and self-administer prescription auto-injectable epinephrine if the school district receives specified written statements from a physician and surgeon or a physician assistant, and from the parent, foster parent, or guardian of the pupil, as specified.This bill would replace all references to epinephrine auto-injectors or auto-injectable epinephrine with references instead to epinephrine delivery systems, as defined. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 2724 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
High school pupils: voter registration.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ELECTIONS.
AB 2724, as amended, Reyes. High school pupils: voter registration. (1) Existing law authorizes the administrator of a high school to appoint one or more pupils who are enrolled at that high school to be voter outreach coordinators, as provided.This bill would specify that the administrator of a public or private high school may appoint one or more pupils who are enrolled at that high school to be voter outreach coordinators, as provided.(2) Existing law declares the last two full weeks in April and the last two full weeks in September as “high school voter education weeks,” during which time persons authorized by the county elections official are allowed to register students and school personnel on any high school campus, as provided.Existing law establishes the California School for the Deaf, Northern California, the California School for the Deaf, Southern California, and the California School for the Blind, known as the state special schools, under the administration of the State Department of Education, as provided.This bill would, commencing with the 2026–27 school year, require the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, a state special school, and the governing body of a charter school to ensure that each of its pupils receives, at least once before the pupil completes grade 11, information on how to properly preregister to vote, as provided. The bill would also require those educational entities to ensure that, upon request of a pupil or a pupil’s parent or guardian, a paper copy of a voter registration card is provided to that pupil. To the extent that this bill would create new duties for local educational agencies or local officials, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize those educational entities to contract with a third-party nonprofit organization, with demonstrated experience providing nonpartisan youth civic engagement, to implement the requirements of this provision.(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.
CA AB 273 - James C. Ramos
Foster care: missing children and nonminor dependents.
01/03/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto pending.
AB 273, Ramos. Foster care: missing children and nonminor dependents. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of the failure or inability of their parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. Existing law requires the court to review the status of every dependent child in foster care periodically, but no less frequently than once every 6 months. Existing law subjects a minor between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who violates any federal, state, or local law or ordinance to, and a minor under 12 years of age who is alleged to have committed specified serious offenses to, the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings and governs the provision of child welfare services, as specified. Existing law requires county child welfare agencies and probation departments to develop and implement specific protocols to expeditiously locate any child or nonminor dependent missing from foster care, including, but not limited to, the timeframe for reporting missing youth and the individuals or entities entitled to notice that a youth is missing, and requires the social worker or probation officer to determine the primary factors that contributed to the child or nonminor dependent running away or otherwise being absent from care, among other things.This bill, the Luke Madrigal Act, would, among other things, additionally require the social worker or probation officer, when they receive information that a child receiving child welfare services is absent from foster care to, among other things, engage in ongoing and intensive due diligence efforts, as defined, to locate, place, and stabilize the child, request that the juvenile court schedule a hearing to review the placement and the ongoing and intensive due diligence efforts to locate and return the child, notify specified individuals whose whereabouts are known about the hearing, and prepare, submit, and serve a report at the hearing and any subsequent hearings describing their ongoing and intensive due diligence efforts to locate, place, and stabilize the child. The bill would require the court to consider the safety of the child receiving child welfare services who is absent from foster care to determine the extent of the activities and compliance of the county with the case plan in making ongoing and intensive due diligence efforts to locate and return the child to a safe placement, and to continue to periodically review their case at least every 30 calendars days, as specified. The bill would define “absent from foster care” to mean when the whereabouts of a child receiving child welfare services is unknown to the county child welfare agency or probation department or when the county child welfare agency or probation department has located the child receiving child welfare services in a location not approved by the court that may pose a risk to the child. The bill would also define “child receiving child welfare services” to include a child or nonminor dependent placed in a specified foster care placement or in the home of an emergency caregiver, and dependents, nonminor dependents, wards, and minors who have been taken into temporary custody pursuant to specified provisions and who are in foster care. By increasing the duties of county child welfare agencies and probation departments, this bill would create 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 reim
CA AB 2730 - Tom Lackey
Sexual assault: medical evidentiary examinations.
02/16/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
AB 2730, as introduced, Lackey. Sexual assault: medical evidentiary examinations. Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish a protocol for the examination and treatment of victims of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault and the collection of evidence therefrom. Existing law requires a qualified health care professional who conducts an examination for evidence of a sexual assault or an attempted sexual assault to use the standard form and to make those observations and perform those tests required to record the data required by the form. Existing law defines qualified health care professional for this purpose to include a physician and surgeon, or a currently licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant who is working in consultation with a physician and surgeon who conducts examinations or provides treatment in a general acute care hospital or in a physician and surgeon’s office.This bill would revise the definition of a qualified health care professional as it pertains to a nurse or nurse practitioner by removing the requirement that the consulting physician and surgeon conduct examinations or provide treatment. The bill would also define a licensed nurse midwife who is working in consultation with a licensed physician and surgeon as a qualified health care professional. The bill would no longer require a physician assistant to work in consultation with a physician and surgeon when conducting the above examination in order to be defined as a health care professional for these purposes.
CA AB 2732 - Diane Papan
Grant Information Act of 2018: internet web portal: climate-related grants: childcare sector.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2732, as amended, Papan. Grant Information Act of 2018: internet web portal: climate-related grants: childcare sector. Existing law, the Grant Information Act of 2018, requires the California State Library to create a funding opportunities internet web portal that provides a centralized location for grant seekers to find state grant opportunities. Existing law requires the Natural Resources Agency to update every 3 years the state’s climate adaptation strategy, known as the Safeguarding California Plan, and to coordinate with other state agencies to identify vulnerabilities to climate change by sectors, including, among others, transportation and public health.This bill would require the library, in consultation with the agency, to include on the above-described internet web portal the category “childcare” under the category tab, in order to ensure that the childcare sector has the ability to search for climate-related grants applicable to childcare providers.
CA AB 2740 - Marie Waldron
Incarcerated persons: prenatal and postpartum care.
04/10/2024 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 2740, as introduced, Waldron. Incarcerated persons: prenatal and postpartum care. Existing law requires an incarcerated person in a state prison who is identified as possibly pregnant or capable of becoming pregnant during an intake health examination or at any time during incarceration to be offered a test upon intake or request. Existing law requires an incarcerated person who is confirmed to be pregnant to be scheduled for pregnancy examination with a physician, nurse practitioner, certified nurse midwife, or physician assistant within 7 days. Existing law requires incarcerated pregnant persons to be provided specified prenatal services and a referral to a social worker. Existing law requires incarcerated pregnant persons be given access to community-based programs serving pregnancy, birthing, or lactating inmates. Existing law allows an incarcerated pregnant person to be provided with a postpartum examination within one week, and as needed up to 12 weeks, postpartum.This bill would require, within 7 days of arriving at a prison, each incarcerated pregnant person to be referred to a social worker to discuss options for parenting classes and other classes relevant to caring for newborns and options for placement and visiting the newborn. The bill would require a prenatal plan of care to include additional meals and beverages. The bill would also require that the incarcerated mother and newborn child remain at a medical facility after delivery for recovery, postpartum medical care, and bonding time for no fewer than 3 days before the child is removed. The bill would require that the incarcerated mother be permitted to breastfeed the newborn and pump breast milk to be stored and taken with the child upon removal from the medical facility. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons, and requires regulations, which are adopted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, that may impact the visitation of inmates to recognize and consider the value of inmate visitation as a means of increasing safety in prisons, maintaining family and community connections, and preparing inmates for successful release and rehabilitation. Existing regulations establish the framework for establishing a visiting process in prisons that is conducted in as accommodating a manner as possible, subject to the need to maintain order, the safety of persons, the security of institutions and facilities, and required prison activities and operations.This bill would require the department to expedite a family visitation application process for incarcerated pregnant persons in order to prevent delays for visitation for the incarcerated mother and newborn child following delivery. The bill would prohibit limiting family visitation for the incarcerated mother to see their newborn child unless the incarcerated mother was convicted of a sex offense and the victim was a minor or family member.
CA AB 275 - Christopher M. Ward
School governance: governing boards: pupil members: compensation.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 275, Ward. School governance: governing boards: pupil members: compensation. Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state, and provides for their governance. Existing law establishes county boards of education and school districts throughout the state to administer the public elementary and secondary schools within their respective jurisdictions. Existing law requires county boards of education and the governing board of each school district to prescribe and enforce rules not inconsistent with state law for their own government. Existing law requires a petition to establish a charter school to include, among other things, a reasonably comprehensive description of the governance structure of the charter school. Existing law requires county boards of education, school district governing boards, and, commencing July 1, 2023, the governing body of a charter school or of an entity managing multiple charter schools to appoint at least one high school pupil as a pupil member of the board or body, as applicable, in response to a petition from high school pupils requesting the appointment of one or more pupil members.Existing law authorizes the members of city or county boards of education or the governing boards of school districts to receive compensation, as provided. Existing law, on an annual basis, authorizes the county board of education or school district governing board to increase the compensation of individual board members beyond these limits in an amount not to exceed 5% based on the present monthly rate of compensation. Existing law authorizes any member who does not attend all meetings held in any month to receive, as compensation for their services, an amount not greater than the maximum amount allowed by law divided by the number of meetings held, and multiplied by the number of meetings actually attended. Existing law also authorizes an absent member to be paid for any meeting if the county board of education or school district governing board, by resolution, makes specified findings. Existing law does not entitle a pupil member of a county board of education, school district governing board, or governing body of a charter school or of an entity managing multiple charter schools to compensation pursuant to these provisions, except that the county board of education, the school district governing board, or the governing body of a charter school or of an entity managing multiple charter schools may award a pupil member elective course credit, as provided.This bill would revise and recast provisions related to the compensation of regular members and pupil members, as defined, of county boards of education, school district governing boards, and governing bodies of charter schools and of entities managing multiple charter schools. The bill would authorize the county board of education, the governing board of a school district, and the governing body of a charter school or of an entity managing multiple charter schools to award a pupil member elective course credit or monthly financial compensation, or both, as provided. For county boards of education and school district governing boards, the bill would authorize a pupil member to also receive partial monthly compensation, as described above, and would authorize an absent pupil member or an absent regular member to be paid for any meeting if the county board of education or school district governing board, by resolution, makes specified findings.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1000 of the Education Code proposed by AB 417 to be operative only if this bill and AB 417 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 2752 - Lisa Calderon
Juvenile court: visitation.
04/11/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2752, as amended, Calderon. Juvenile court: visitation. Existing law establishes a system of statewide child welfare services, administered by the State Department of Social Services and county child welfare agencies, with the intent that all children are entitled to be safe and free from abuse and neglect. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of their parents or guardian, and establishes procedures to determine placement of a dependent child. Existing law establishes procedures for an initial petition hearing by the juvenile court if a child is being taken into temporary custody, and requires the court to review the status of every dependent child in foster care no less frequently than once every 6 months Existing law requires any order placing a child in foster care, and ordering reunification services, to provide for visitation between the parent or guardian and the child, but prohibits a visitation from jeopardizing the safety of a child. Existing law also requires the court to continue to permit the parent or legal guardian to visit the child pending status hearings unless it finds that visitation would be detrimental to the child.This bill would remove the above-described prohibition on visitations that jeopardize the safety of a child. The bill would, during the initial petition hearing, require the court to make an order regarding visitation between the child and the parent or guardian that sets forth a frequency and duration that is most conducive to quality family time and specifies whether the visitation shall be supervised. This bill would, with any order placing a child in foster care and ordering reunification services and during subsequent review hearings, require a court to order unsupervised visitation between a parent or legal guardian and a child or children, unless unsupervised visitation is contrary to the child’s welfare and there is a substantial danger to the physical health of the child or the child is suffering severe emotional damage and the child’s physical or emotional health cannot reasonably be protected without supervised visitation, or there is substantial evidence that the parent or legal guardian may flee the jurisdiction with the child. The bill would define unsupervised visitation for these purposes. The bill would require a court, if the court orders supervised visitation, to specify the factual basis for its order and to order that the agency has discretion to liberalize the visitation to unsupervised unless the court finds that granting this discretion would be contrary to the child’s safety. The bill would also require the county child welfare agency or their designee to supervise visits in specified circumstances when an alternate individual has not been approved to supervise visits.Existing law requires social workers to create reports and recommendations to be reviewed by the court as part of a review hearing.This bill would require social workers to specify why the return of the child would be detrimental to the child and, if visitation has not been liberalized, what efforts were put in place to liberalize the parent or legal guardian’s visits and why liberalization was contrary to the child’s welfare.By increasing the duties of counties, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for
CA AB 2753 - Liz Ortega
Rehabilitative and habilitative services: durable medical equipment and services.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2753, as introduced, Ortega. Rehabilitative and habilitative services: durable medical equipment and services. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Other existing law requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Under existing law, essential health benefits include, among other things, rehabilitative and habilitative services. Existing law requires habilitative services and devices to be covered under the same terms and conditions applied to rehabilitative services and devices under the plan contract or policy, and defines habilitative services to mean health care services and devices that help a person keep, learn, or improve skills and functioning for daily living.This bill would specify that coverage of rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices under a health care service plan or health insurance policy includes durable medical equipment, services, and repairs, if the equipment, services, or repairs are prescribed or ordered by a physician, surgeon, or other health professional acting within the scope of their license. The bill would define “durable medical equipment” to mean devices, including replacement devices, that are designed for repeated use, and that are used for the treatment or monitoring of a medical condition or injury in order to help a person to partially or fully acquire, improve, keep, or learn, or minimize the loss of, skills and functioning of daily living. The bill would prohibit coverage of durable medical equipment and services from being subject to financial or treatment limitations, as specified.The bill would make related findings and declarations, including that coverage of durable medical equipment is necessary to comply with federal requirements for purposes of being considered essential health benefits not subject to defrayal payments. Because a violation of the bill’s 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.
CA AB 2768 - Marc Berman
Golden State Teacher Grant Program: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2768, as amended, Berman. Golden State Teacher Grant Program: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools. Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for 4 years at a priority school or a California preschool program, as provided. Existing law defines a “priority school” as a school with 55% or more of its pupils being unduplicated pupils, as defined, and requires the commission, in coordination with the State Department of Education, to publish a list of priority schools by April 15 of each year.This bill would expand the definition of a “priority school” to also include a nonpublic, nonsectarian school that enrolls individuals with exceptional needs pursuant to an individualized education program and is certified by the department, with 55% or more of its pupils being unduplicated pupils, as defined.
CA AB 2771 - Brian K. Maienschein
Pupil attendance: schoolsite absence intervention teams.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2771, as introduced, Maienschein. Pupil attendance: schoolsite absence intervention teams. Existing law authorizes the establishment of county and local school attendance review boards that may promote the use of alternatives to the juvenile court system if available public and private services are insufficient or inappropriate to correct school attendance or school behavioral problems, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to coordinate and administer a state school attendance review board, as provided.This bill would require the State Department of Education, by the beginning of the 2026–27 school year, to post information on its internet website about methods of reducing chronic absenteeism, including through the formation of schoolsite absence intervention teams composed of specified members, as provided.
CA AB 2774 - Timothy S. Grayson
Childcare for Working Families Act.
04/11/2024 - Read second time and amended.
AB 2774, as amended, Grayson. Childcare for Working Families Act. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age.Existing law establishes the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to 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. Existing law authorizes the office to recommend to the Governor and the Legislature, among other things, new state policies, programs, and actions, and amendments to existing programs. This bill, the Childcare for Working Families Act, would establish the Childcare for Working Families Task Force for the purpose of submitting a report to the Legislature and the executive branch administration of the state, as specified, that recommends future comprehensive strategies aimed at addressing challenges faced by working families in accessing flexible, affordable, and quality childcare options. The bill would require the report to be completed by January 1, 2026. The bill would require the office to invite and convene the task force, as specified. The bill would require the office to assist the task force in carrying out its duties to the extent that funding is available. The bill would create the Childcare for Working Families Fund to receive moneys from nongovernment sources to support the implementation of the task force.This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2026, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2027.
CA AB 278 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
High Schools: Dream Resource Center Grant Program.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 278, Reyes. High Schools: Dream Resource Center Grant Program. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide a comprehensive educational counseling program for all pupils enrolled in the school district. Existing law provides that educational counseling may include counseling in developing pupil knowledge of financial aid planning for postsecondary education, including, among others, financial aid programs and resources for foster and homeless youth.This bill would establish the Dream Resource Center Grant Program for the purpose of providing pupils, including undocumented pupils, in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, with specified resources. The bill would require the State Department of Education, in administering the program, to review applications and award grants based off of a tiered point system that prioritizes applications for funding, as provided. The bill would authorize a school district, county office of education, or charter school, including those that have already established a Dream Resource Center at one or more schoolsites, to apply to the department to be eligible to receive a grant, as provided.The bill would require a local educational agency that receives a grant under the program to use it for creating a Dream Resource Center or for supplementing, but not supplanting, an existing Dream Resource Center, as provided. The bill would require the department, on or before June 1, 2026, to submit a report to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature detailing the successes, best practices, barriers or constraints, and outcomes of Dream Resource Centers funded with these grants.The bill would condition the implementation of these provisions on an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or other statute.
CA AB 2784 - Jesse Gabriel
Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools: waivers.
02/16/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
AB 2784, as introduced, Gabriel. Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools: waivers. Existing law authorizes a local educational agency, nonpublic, nonsectarian school, or nonpublic, nonsectarian agency to petition the Superintendent of Public Instruction to waive specified laws relating to special education services for pupils provided by nonpublic, nonsectarian schools.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the law relating to the petition described above.
CA AB 2786 - Mia Bonta
Mobile farmers’ markets.
03/04/2024 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2786, as introduced, Bonta. Mobile farmers’ markets. (1) Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for mobile food facilities and various types of food venues. Existing law authorizes local health agencies to be primarily responsible for enforcing the code, but requires the State Department of Public Health to provide technical assistance, training, and standardization. A person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided. This bill would revise the California Retail Food Code to include a mobile farmers’ market, as defined, and impose upon the mobile farmers’ market the uniform health and sanitation standards for mobile food facilities and general food safety requirements. The bill would authorize mobile farmers’ markets to sell or provide a variety of foods, including shell eggs, honey, and refrigerated fresh meats. The bill would authorize a mobile farmers’ market to be operated by a third party, including a nonprofit organization incorporated in California that buys, aggregates, sells, or distributes foods grown by local farmers. The bill would also require that agricultural products sold by the mobile farmers’ market be grown or produced by local farmers, with an emphasis on small- and medium-sized farms, socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers, as defined, and food grown using regenerative, organic, or other climate-smart practices. The bill would also require packaged agricultural products to be labeled with the name and address of the farm of origin. By imposing new enforcement requirements on local health agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law, the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program), authorizes establishment of a statewide program, administered by the State Department of Public Health, for providing nutritional food supplements to low-income pregnant women, low-income postpartum and lactating women, and low-income infants and children under 5 years of age, who have been determined to be at nutritional risk. Existing law requires the department, in order to effectively manage and administer the federal and state requirements for the vendors in the WIC Program, to establish criteria used for vendor authorization. This bill would require the department to establish criteria for the authorization of mobile farmers’ markets when establishing criteria for vendor authorization.(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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 28 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Firearms and ammunition: excise tax.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 28, as amended, Gabriel. Firearms and ammunition: excise tax. Existing law establishes the California Violence Intervention and Prevention (CalVIP) Grant Program, administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, to award competitive grants for the purpose of violence intervention and prevention.Existing law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges.This bill, the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Act, would, commencing July 1, 2024, impose an excise tax in the amount of 11% of the gross receipts from the retail sale in this state of a firearm, firearm precursor part, and ammunition, as specified. The tax would be collected by the state pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law. The bill would require that the revenues collected be deposited in the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury. The bill would require the moneys received in the fund to be used to fund various gun violence prevention, education, research, response, and investigation programs, as specified. The bill would require the Director of Finance to transfer, as a loan, $2,400,000 from the General Fund to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to implement these provisions, as specified. The bill would require each licensed firearms dealer, firearms manufacturer, and ammunition vendor to register with the department for a certificate, as specified. The bill would also provide procedures for the issuance, revocation, and reinstatement of a permit.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 XIII?A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.Because this bill would expand the scope of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 2802 - Brian K. Maienschein
Transitional housing placement providers.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2802, as amended, Maienschein. Transitional housing placement providers. Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate transitional housing placement providers pursuant to the act. Under existing law, a transitional housing placement provider is an organization licensed by the department to provide transitional housing to foster children at least 16 years of age and not more than 18 years of age and to nonminor dependents to promote their transition to adulthood. Existing law requires a transitional housing unit to include, among other things, a host family certified by a transitional housing placement provider or other designated entity, as prescribed. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations governing transitional housing placement living arrangements requirements for minors and nonminor dependents, as prescribed. Under existing law, a violation of the act is a misdemeanor.This bill would require those regulations to include allowing a minor or nonminor dependent participant to share a bedroom or unit in a transitional housing placement with a nonparticipant roommate, sibling, or coparent, as specified. The bill would also require the regulations to allow a minor or nonminor dependent with children to share their living arrangement with a coparent or participant sibling. The bill would require the regulations to require counties and program contracts to allow individual program participants and individuals sharing their living arrangements to share bedrooms, bathrooms, and units together, regardless of gender identity and would require county program contracts to allow providers and participants to make best matches to allow for gender flexibility. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific the requirements of the bill by means of all-county letters or similar instructions from the department until regulations are adopted. By changing requirements for transitional housing placement program providers, a violation of which would be a crime, and by increasing related county duties, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
CA AB 2803 - Avelino Valencia
Campaign expenditures: criminal convictions: fees and costs.
02/16/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
AB 2803, as introduced, Valencia. Campaign expenditures: criminal convictions: fees and costs. Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, deems all campaign contributions to be held in trust for expenses associated with seeking or holding office, and generally authorizes expenditures associated therewith if they are reasonably related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose. Existing law prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay or reimburse fines, penalties, judgments, or settlements, except as specified. Existing law provides that the expenditure of campaign funds for attorney’s fees and other costs in connection with administrative, civil, or criminal litigation are not related to a political, legislative, or governmental purpose unless the litigation is directly related to activities of a committee that are consistent with its primary objectives or arises directly out of a candidate’s or elected officer’s activities, duties, or status as a candidate or elected officer, as specified. This bill would prohibit campaign funds from being used to reimburse expenditures for attorney’s fees and other costs in connection with criminal litigation if the litigation results in a conviction of the candidate or elected officer for a felony or an offense that involves moral turpitude, dishonesty, or fraud. The bill would prohibit the use of campaign funds to pay or reimburse a fine, penalty, judgment, or settlement relating to a conviction for a felony or an offense that involves moral turpitude, dishonesty, or fraud. The bill would require the candidate or elected officer, if convicted, to reimburse the campaign for all funds used in connection with other legal costs and expenses related to claims of criminal acts.A violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 is punishable as a misdemeanor. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act’s purposes upon a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements.This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
CA AB 2816 - Michael A. Gipson
School safety: School Mapping Data Grant Program.
04/04/2024 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 2816, as amended, Gipson. School safety: School Mapping Data Grant Program. Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that all public schools, in kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, operated by school districts, in cooperation with specified entities and individuals, develop a comprehensive school safety plan, as provided. Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools, as provided.Existing law, the Charter Schools Act of 1992, provides for the establishment and operation of charter schools, including countywide charter schools, and requires a petition for the establishment of a charter school to contain comprehensive descriptions of various matters and procedures, including procedures that the charter school will follow to ensure the health and safety of pupils and staff. The act requires those procedures to also require the development of a school safety plan, as provided.This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would establish the School Mapping Data Grant Program under the administration of the Office of Emergency Services to provide one-time grants to participating school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to enter into contracts with qualified vendors providing school mapping data, as provided, for purposes of assisting public safety agencies in efficiently responding to on-campus emergencies at schools.
CA AB 2828 - Jasmeet Bains
Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
AB 2828, as introduced, Bains. Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” special license plates and imposes additional fees, as specified, for their issuance, renewal, replacement, and transfer. Existing law requires that those additional fees be deposited in the Child Health and Safety Fund, less specified amounts. Existing law requires that 50% of the funds derived from the “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plates be available, upon appropriation, to the State Department of Social Services for administering various provisions related to childcare licensing, as specified. Existing law requires that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the balance be available, as described, for programs that address other categories of potential childhood injury, as specified. Existing law requires counties to create local childcare resource and referral programs to identify childcare resources and establish a referral process for parents, among other things. Existing law also creates the California Children and Families Commission to promote, support, and improve early childhood development. Existing law provides for funding to county commissions that develop, adopt, promote, and implement local early childhood development programs consistent with specified goals and objectives.This bill would increase the fees for the initial issuance and renewal of the “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plates. The bill would allocate, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, 50% of the fees collected on or after January 1, 2026, to local childcare resource and referral programs, for specified purposes, including recruitment and training of new childcare providers, and to the State Department of Social Services for administering the above-described childcare licensing provisions, in equal measure except that in no case shall the allocation to the department be less than the amount appropriated in the 2022–2023 fiscal year. The bill would require a portion of the funds to be allocated to the agency having oversight of new and continuing childcare provider health and safety education and training program curriculum for specified purposes. Of the fees collected on or after January 1, 2026, the bill would allocate a portion to the State Department of Public Health in support of addressing childhood injury prevention and a portion to county commissions, as prescribed, that elect to receive funding and would limit the spending of those funds for certain purposes, including administering the California Unintentional Injury Prevention Strategic Plan Project. The bill would require that no more than 5% of the funds allocated to address childhood injury prevention be available to the nonprofit organization that provides administrative and staff support to the California Unintentional Injury Prevention Strategic Plan Project and would require the nonprofit organization to report annually to the State Department of Public Health on its activities and support evidence-based technical assistance and training for childhood unintentional injury prevention programs to the county commissions.
CA AB 283 - James Norwood Patterson Jr.
Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission.
09/07/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Niello.
AB 283, as introduced, Jim Patterson. Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, establishes the Mental Health Oversight and Accountability Commission to oversee the implementation of the MHSA. Existing law specifies the composition of the 16-member commission, including the Attorney General or their designee, the Superintendent of Public Instruction or their designee, specified members of the Legislature, and 12 members appointed by the Governor, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes the MHSA to be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendments are consistent with, and further the purposes of, the MHSA, or by a majority vote to clarify procedures and terms. This bill would urge the Governor, in making appointments, to consider ensuring geographic representation among the 10 regions of California defined by the 2020 census.
CA AB 2830 - Robert A. Rivas
Foster care: relative placement: family finding.
03/04/2024 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2830, as introduced, Robert Rivas. Foster care: relative placement: family finding. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of the failure or inability of their parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. Existing law requires a county social worker to conduct an investigation, within 30 days of a child’s removal, to identify and locate adult relatives of the child, as specified, and to provide them with a notification that the child has been removed from the custody of the child’s parents, guardians, or Indian custodian, and an explanation of the various options to participate in the care and placement of the child. Existing law also requires the notice to provide information about, among other things, additional services and support that are available in out-of-home placements.This bill would specify that the additional services and support that are available in out-of-home placements in the notice from the social worker include, but are not limited to, mental health supports, childcare, and financial assistance intended to aid in the costs of providing care. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated 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.
CA AB 2845 - Robert A. Rivas
Migrant education: California Mini-Corps program and currently migratory children.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2845, as amended, Robert Rivas. Migrant education: California Mini-Corps program and currently migratory children. (1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Education under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Existing law assigns numerous duties and responsibilities to the department, including, among others, the management of the federally funded Migrant Education Program (MEP), which includes the California Mini-Corps (CMC) program, a statewide program designed to provide direct instructional services for currently migratory children in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, through a cadre of trained college tutors with the goals of increasing currently migratory children’s academic achievement and developing future bilingual-bicultural, credentialed teachers. The Budget Act of 2023, among other things, appropriates $287,157,000 to the department from the Federal Trust Fund for migrant education. Of that amount, existing law requires the department to use no less than $6,500,000 and up to $8,000,000 for the CMC program.This bill would codify the CMC program and would require the department to, through a competitive grant process, annually select one county office of education to administer the CMC program for the next fiscal year and would require the chosen county office of education to operate not less than 20 program sites at institutions of higher education, as provided. The bill would require the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, on or before July 31 of each year, report to the chosen county office of education the number of tutors from the prior fiscal year’s cohort who subsequently enrolled in an educator preparation program or who subsequently earned a preliminary teaching credential. The bill would require the department to, on or before December 1 of each year, provide an annual report to the Legislature and the Department of Finance that includes the number of currently migratory children served by the program statewide and includes the data reported by the commission, as provided. The bill would require the department to annually report on its internet website the total number of currently migratory children enrolled in schools statewide, as provided.(2) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for 4 years at a priority school or a California preschool program, as provided. Existing law defines a “priority school” as a school with 55% or more of its pupils being unduplicated pupils, as defined, and requires the commission, in coordination with the State Department of Education, to publish a list of priority schools by April 15 of each year.This bill would expand the definition of a “priority school” to also include a school in a school district with a high number of pupils who are currently migratory children, as specified.
CA AB 285 - Christopher M. Ward
Pupil instruction: science requirements: climate change.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 285, as amended, Luz Rivas. Pupil instruction: science requirements: climate change. (1) Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, and visual and performing arts, as specified.This bill, with respect to both of the above-referenced adopted courses of study, would require the science area of study to include an emphasis on the causes and effects of climate change and methods to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The bill would require that appropriate coursework including this material be offered to pupils as soon as possible, commencing no later than the 2024–25 school year.Because the bill would impose new duties on school districts, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.(2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 51210 of the Education Code proposed by AB 446 and SB 509 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.(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.
CA AB 2865 - Wendy Carrillo
Pupil instruction: excessive alcohol use.
03/27/2024 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 2865, as amended, Wendy Carrillo. Pupil instruction: excessive alcohol use. Existing law prescribes required courses of study in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires instruction upon the nature of alcohol, narcotics, restricted dangerous drugs, and other dangerous substances to be included in the curriculum of all elementary and secondary schools, and instruction on the effects of those substances upon prenatal development to be included in the curriculum of all secondary schools, as provided. Existing law requires the governing board of the school district to adopt regulations specifying the grade or grades and the course or courses in which that instruction shall be included, as provided.This bill would require the above-described instruction on the nature and effects of alcohol to include information about excessive alcohol use and the short-term and long-term health risks of excessive alcohol use. The bill would require this instruction to include information about excessive drinking, the immediate effects of alcohol that increase the risks of harmful health conditions, and how excessive alcohol use can lead to the development of chronic diseases and other serious problems, including mental health problems. By imposing obligations on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 2866 - Gail Pellerin
Pool safety: State Department of Social Services regulated facilities.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2866, as introduced, Pellerin. Pool safety: State Department of Social Services regulated facilities. Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of child day care facilities by the State Department of Social Services. For purposes of the act, a child day care facility includes a day care center and a family day care home, defined as a facility that regularly provides care, protection, and supervision for 14 or fewer children, in the provider’s own home, for periods of less than 24 hours per day. Under existing law, a violation of the act is a crime.Existing law, the Swimming Pool Safety Act, among other requirements, requires a pool or spa to be equipped with at least 2 of 7 specified drowning prevention safety features when a building permit is issued for (1) the construction of a new swimming pool or spa or (2) the remodeling of an existing pool or spa at a private single-family home, except as provided. Existing law requires the 7 safety features to include, among others, an enclosure isolating the swimming pool from the home, a removable mesh fencing around the swimming pool with a self-closing and self-latching gate, a safety pool cover, and an alarm that sounds upon an accidental or unauthorized entrance into the water. Existing law exempts certain facilities regulated by the State Department of Social Services from the requirements of the Swimming Pool Safety Act.This bill would repeal this exemption, making certain facilities regulated by the department subject to the Swimming Pool Safety Act, except as provided. The bill would require a child day care facility licensed by the department with a swimming pool to have either the mesh fence or enclosure and either a pool cover or safety alarm. The bill would require the child day care facility to perform a daily inspection of the safety features and maintain a log to be provided to the department during scheduled inspections. The bill would require the department to update its regulations accordingly. Because a willful or repeated violation of these provisions by a child day care facility would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires a local building code official to, before the issuance of a final approval for the completion of permitted construction or remodeling work, inspect the drowning safety prevention features for compliance with the Swimming Pool Safety Act. By imposing additional duties on local officials relating to previously exempted pool or spa facilities, 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
CA AB 2884 - Gregg Hart
Parenting classes working group.
03/11/2024 - Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD.
AB 2884, as introduced, Hart. Parenting classes working group. Existing law provides various services and resources to support the welfare of children who are abused, including establishing the Office of Child Abuse Prevention. Existing law authorizes a court to order a criminal defendant who is a parent or legal guardian of a minor child to attend a parenting class under certain conditions.This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2025, the Judicial Council and the State Department of Social Services, with the advice and assistance of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, to cooperatively form a working group, composed of specific representatives, to make recommendations and set standards for authorized parenting classes to fulfill court-required parenting classes, among other duties. The bill would require the working group, on or before August 1, 2026, to report its findings and recommendations to the Senate Committee on Human Services, the Assembly Committee on Human Services, the Legislature, and the Judicial Council.
CA AB 2887 - Brian K. Maienschein
School safety plans: medical emergency procedures.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2887, as amended, Maienschein. School safety plans: medical emergency procedures. (1) Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature, for all public schools teaching kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, that are operated by a school district to develop, in cooperation with identified partners and other persons who may be interested in the prevention of campus crime and violence, a comprehensive school safety plan, as defined.This bill would revise that statement of intent to include local emergency medical services personnel and other persons who may be interested in the health and safety of pupils among the identified cooperating partners, and would revise the definition of “safety plan” for purposes of the statement of intent to expand its scope, as specified.Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Existing law requires that the plan include identification of appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school’s procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety.This bill would additionally require, as part of the comprehensive school safety plan, procedures to respond to incidents involving an individual experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening medical emergency while on school grounds, as provided. By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law prohibits a chartering authority from denying a petition for the establishment of a charter school unless it makes written factual findings supporting at least one of specified bases for denial. One of those bases for denying a petition is if the petition does not contain a reasonably comprehensive description of the development of a school safety plan that includes the same safety topics required in the comprehensive school safety plan of a school district or county office of education.This bill would authorize a chartering authority to deny a charter school petition that does not include in its proposed development of a school safety plan the same provisions on procedures relating to the response to incidents involving an individual experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening medical emergency while on school grounds as are required by the bill in a school district or county office of education comprehensive school safety plan. The bill also would make a change to conform a certain requirement for the approval of charter petitions by school districts and for the approval of countywide charters by county offices of education. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on chartering authorities, which include governing boards of school districts and county boards of education, when reviewing the petition for the establishment of a charter school, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) 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.
CA AB 2903 - Josh Hoover
Homelessness.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
AB 2903, as amended, Hoover. Homelessness. Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California by creating partnerships between federal, state, local, and nonprofit entities. Existing law sets forth the composition of the council, which includes, among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council.This bill would add a representative from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to the council described above.
CA AB 2906 - Isaac Bryan
Foster care payments.
04/11/2024 - Read second time and amended.
AB 2906, as amended, Bryan. Foster care payments. Existing law provides for the out-of-home placement, including foster care placement, of children who are unable to remain in the custody and care of their parents. Existing law, the federal Social Security Act, provides for benefits for eligible beneficiaries, including survivorship and disability benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for, among others, blind and disabled children. Existing law requires every youth who is in foster care and nearing emancipation to be screened by the county for potential eligibility for SSI and requires that screening to occur when the foster youth is at least 16 years and 6 months of age and not older than 17 years and 6 months of age.This bill, among other things, would require a placing agency to act in accordance with specified guidelines and pursuant to certain requirements when acting as the representative payee or in any other fiduciary capacity for a child or youth, including, among other requirements, ensuring that the child’s federal Social Security Administration survivors’ benefits, as defined, are not used to pay for, or to reimburse, the placing agency for any costs of the child’s care and supervision, as defined. The bill would make these requirements operative January 1, 2025, or 30 days after the department issues the necessary all-county letters and informing materials to county placing agencies, whichever is later. By increasing county duties with respect to foster youth, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to convene a workgroup to develop best practice guidelines for county welfare departments to assist eligible children who are in the state’s or a county’s custody and are qualified in obtaining federal social security and SSI benefits. Existing law requires that workgroup to make recommendations to the department, by December 31, 2006, regarding the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of reserving a designated amount of foster children’s social security and SSI/SSP benefits in lieu of reimbursing the county and the state for care and maintenance, and, in making those recommendations, to consider that the reserved benefits would be for the purpose of assisting the foster child in the transfer to self-sufficient living in a manner consistent with federal law.This bill would repeal the requirement for that workgroup to make the above-described recommendations regarding feasibility and cost-effectiveness.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.
CA AB 2914 - Mia Bonta
Health care coverage: essential health benefits.
04/11/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2914, as amended, Bonta. Health care coverage: essential health benefits. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans. Existing law requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to cover the same health benefits that the benchmark plan, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Small Group HMO 30 plan, offered during the first quarter of 2014, as specified.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to review California’s essential health benefits benchmark plan and establish a new benchmark plan for the 2027 plan year. The bill would limit the applicability of the current benchmark plan benefits to plan years on or before the 2027 plan year.
CA AB 2917 - Rick Chavez Zbur
Firearms: restraining orders.
03/04/2024 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 2917, as introduced, Zbur. Firearms: restraining orders. Existing law authorizes a court to issue a gun violence restraining order to prohibit a person from purchasing or possessing a firearm or ammunition for a period of one to 5 years, subject to renewal for additional one- to 5-year periods, if the subject of the petition poses a significant danger of self-harm or harm to another in the near future by having a firearm and the order is necessary to prevent personal injury to the subject of the petition or another. Existing law requires the court, in determining whether grounds for a gun violence restraining order exist, to consider evidence of, among other things, a recent threat of violence or act of violence by the subject directed toward another and a past history of those threats or acts within the last 12 months. Existing law also authorizes a court to consider the unlawful and reckless use, display, or brandishing of a firearm by the subject of the petition.This bill would require the court to additionally consider a recent threat of violence or act of violence directed toward another group or location, or a past history of those threats or acts. The bill would also authorize the court to consider, among other things, the reckless use, display, or brandishing of a firearm by the subject of the petition, evidence of stalking, evidence of cruelty to animals, or evidence of the respondent’s threats of violence to advance a political objective. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to specified entities, including city attorneys pursuing civil gang injunctions or drug abatement actions. Existing law requires a local criminal justice agency to furnish local summary criminal history information to specified entities, including city attorneys pursuing civil gang injunctions or drug abatement actions. Under existing law, the disclosure of state summary criminal history information to an unauthorized person is a crime. Existing law defines “criminal justice agencies” as agencies that perform activities that relate to the apprehension, prosecution, adjudication, incarceration, or correction of criminal offenders, including city attorneys pursuing civil gang injunctions or drug abatement actions. Under existing law, a criminal justice agency, among other things, compiles records and data for the purpose of identifying criminal offenders and maintaining specified information pertaining to each offender, including a summary of arrests and pretrial proceedings.This bill would include city attorneys pursuing gun violence restraining orders in those provisions. By expanding the scope of the crime of unlawful disclosure of state summary criminal history information, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 2924 - Lori D. Wilson
Marriage: prohibition on minors.
03/04/2024 - Referred to Com. on JUD.
AB 2924, as introduced, Petrie-Norris. Marriage: prohibition on minors. Existing law authorizes an unmarried person who is under 18 years of age to marry upon obtaining a court order granting permission and the written consent of at least one of the parents or the guardian of each underage party to the marriage, as specified. Existing law requires the court, if it considers it necessary, as part of the court order granting permission to marry, to require the parties to the prospective marriage of a minor to participate in premarital counseling, as specified.Existing law provides that 2 unmarried, unrelated adults who have chosen to share one another’s lives in an intimate and committed relationship of mutual caring may establish a domestic partnership by filing a declaration with the Secretary of State, if certain requirements are met. Existing law provides that a person under 18 years of age who, together with the person with whom the person proposes to establish a domestic partnership, meets the requirements for a domestic partnership other than the requirement of being at least 18 years of age, is capable of consenting to and establishing a domestic partnership upon obtaining a court order granting permission to the underage person or persons to establish a domestic partnership. Under existing law, registered domestic partners have the same rights, protections, and benefits as spouses.This bill would repeal the authorization for a person under 18 years of age to be issued a marriage license or to establish a domestic partnership, thereby prohibiting a person under 18 years of age from being issued a marriage license or from establishing a domestic partnership. The bill would make conforming changes.Existing law required the State Registrar to create a document, no later than March 1, 2020, concerning marriage certificates in which one or both of the parties were minors at the time of solemnization of the marriage. Existing law requires the State Registrar to update that document annually, as specified. Existing law requires the local registrar to submit specified information for the purposes of that report.This bill would repeal those provisions.
CA AB 2925 - Josh Lowenthal
Postsecondary education: Equity in Higher Education Act: prohibition on discrimination: training.
04/11/2024 - Read second time and amended.
AB 2925, as amended, Friedman. Postsecondary education: Equity in Higher Education Act: prohibition on discrimination: training. The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California’s public and independent segments of higher education and their respective institutions of higher education. A provision of the act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make the provision applicable.A portion of the Donahoe Higher Education Act, known as the Equity in Higher Education Act, provides, among other things, that all students have the right to participate fully in the educational process, free from discrimination and harassment, and that California’s postsecondary educational institutions have an affirmative obligation to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of bias, and a responsibility to provide equal educational opportunity. For purposes of the Equity in Higher Education Act, existing law defines “nationality” to include citizenship, country of origin, and national origin and defines “religion” to include all aspects of religious belief, observance, and practice, as provided.This bill would instead provide that California’s postsecondary educational institutions have an affirmative obligation to combat discrimination on the basis of disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and other specified characteristics, and a responsibility to provide equal educational opportunity. For purposes of the Equity in Higher Education Act, the bill would define “discrimination on the basis of nationality” to include, but not be limited to, discrimination against persons who are from, perceived to be from, or identify as being from the State of Israel or a Palestinian territory. For purposes of the Equity in Higher Education Act, the bill would define “discrimination on the basis of religion” to include, but not be limited to, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. The bill would also state that it is the intent of the Legislature that each postsecondary educational institution undertake supportive measures to help students who have encountered discriminatory incidents, regardless of the location of the discriminatory incident, if the student feels the incident impairs their access to equal educational opportunities.This bill would require the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and independent institutions of higher education and private postsecondary educational institutions that receive state financial assistance, and would request the University of California, to include training to address discrimination against the 5 most targeted groups in the state, as provided, as part of any antidiscrimination training or diversity, equity, and inclusion training that is offered by the institution. By imposing new requirements on community college districts, 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, 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.
CA AB 2929 - Juan Carrillo
Dependents: family finding.
04/02/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 2929, as introduced, Juan Carrillo. Dependents: family finding. Existing law provides that a child may be adjudged to be a dependent of the juvenile court because of abuse or neglect, and generally provides for the placement of dependent children in various foster care placement settings. Existing law requires the court to review the status of every dependent child in foster care no less frequently than once every 6 months and requires the county social worker to file a supplemental report as part of that review.This bill would additionally require the court, in conducting the periodic status review for a child or nonminor dependent who is not residing with their relatives, kin, or an Indian custodian, to determine whether the social worker has continued efforts, and in the case of an Indian child, the active efforts, to locate any relatives or kin who could provide family support or possible placement of the child and the names of those relatives or kin. The bill would also require the supplemental report for a child or nonminor dependent who does not reside with their relatives, kin, or an Indian custodian to additionally include the efforts, and in the case of an Indian child, the active efforts, and findings that the social worker has made to locate any relatives or kin who could provide family support or possible placement of the child or nonminor dependent and the name of those relatives or kin. By imposing additional duties on county officials, 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.
CA AB 2932 - Joe Patterson
Pupil instruction: sextortion prevention.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2932, as amended, Joe Patterson. Pupil instruction: sextortion prevention. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education. This bill would require the Instructional Quality Commission, when the health curriculum framework is next revised on or after January 1, 2025, to consider providing for inclusion, in that curriculum framework, content on sextortion, as defined.
CA AB 2935 - Brian K. Maienschein
Foster children: consumer credit reports.
04/02/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.
AB 2935, as amended, Maienschein. Foster children: consumer credit reports. Existing law requires a consumer credit reporting agency to place a security freeze for a protected consumer if it receives a request from a protected consumer’s representative for the placement of a security freeze, as specified, or if the protected consumer’s representative submits the request to the consumer credit reporting agency in accordance with certain requirements. For purposes of these provisions, a “protected consumer” includes an individual who is under the jurisdiction of a county welfare department or county probation department, has been placed in a foster care setting, and is under 16 years of age at the time a request for placement of a security freeze is made. Existing law authorizes a consumer credit reporting agency to remove a security freeze for a protected consumer, or to delete a record of a protected consumer or to delete a record of a protected consumer if the security freeze was placed or the record was created based upon a material misrepresentation of fact by the protected consumer or the protected consumer’s representative.Existing law requires a county welfare department, county probation department, or the State Department of Social Services to inquire of each of the 3 major credit reporting agencies as to whether a child in foster care placement who reaches their 14th birthday has any consumer credit history, as specified. Existing law, with respect to a nonminor dependent, requires the county welfare department or county probation department to assist the young adult, on a yearly basis while the nonminor dependent is under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, with requesting the consumer credit report from each of the 3 major credit reporting agencies, as specified. Existing law requires the county social worker or county probation officer to ensure that the child or nonminor dependent receives assistance with interpreting the consumer credit report and resolving any inaccuracies, including, but not limited to, referring the youth to a governmental or nonprofit agency that provides consumer credit.This bill would deem the requirements for the placement or removal of a security freeze for a protected consumer to be met if the inquiry is verifiably from the county welfare department, county probation department, or the State Department of Social Services. If an inquiry received by one of those entities indicates that the child placed in a foster care setting has a consumer credit history, the bill would require any information that appears on the protected consumer’s credit report to be promptly blocked and not reported, in the same manner as if the credit reporting agency had received a police report pursuant to a specified provision relating to identity theft. The bill also would require the credit reporting to comply with additional requirements relating to the blocking and unblocking of credit history information that is subject to investigation by the police or the Department of Motor Vehicles.The bill would require the freeze to automatically expire on the consumer’s 18th birthday unless the consumer instructs the agency to maintain the freeze beyond that date directly or through their representative. Notwithstanding that limitation, the bill also would permit the freeze to be removed at the request of the representative of a protected consumer placed in a foster care setting after the protected consumer’s 16th birthday.
CA AB 2941 - Timothy S. Grayson
Parents and youth: helpline and online support.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2941, as amended, Grayson. Parents and youth: helpline and online support. Existing law provides for various programs and services to support parents, children, and families, including the Home Visiting Program under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, which provides case management and evidence-based home visiting for the purpose of family support, and family preservation services, which are services for children and families designed to help families at risk or in crisis.This bill would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, require the State Department of Social Services to contract with a nonprofit organization to operate and maintain the California Parent Youth Helpline to provide emotional support through calls, live chats, and texts 7 days a week and weekly online groups for parents, children, and youth to strengthen their families. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to meet specified qualifications and would specify the responsibilities of the nonprofit organization to also include, among other things, providing statewide marketing and outreach to parents, children, and youth and distributing parenting, child development, and resiliency program materials. The bill would make findings and declarations related to these provisions.
CA AB 2948 - James C. Ramos
Adoption Assistance Program: tribal court order.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
AB 2948, as introduced, Ramos. Adoption Assistance Program: tribal court order. Existing law establishes the Adoption Assistance Program (AAP), administered by the State Department of Social Services, to benefit children residing in foster homes by providing the stability and security of permanent homes. Existing law requires the department or the county, whichever is responsible for determining the child’s AAP eligibility, to assess the needs of the child and the circumstances of the family, with the amount of a cash benefit being determined based on those factors. Existing law requires the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency to inform the prospective adoptive family regarding the county responsible for providing financial aid to the adoptive family in the determined amount.Under existing law, a child is eligible for AAP benefits if certain criteria are met, including, among others, that adoptive placement without financial assistance is unlikely because of certain special needs, and that it has been determined that the child cannot or should not be returned to the home of the child’s parents as evidenced by any of certain circumstances. Under existing law, those circumstances include, among others, a court order terminating parental rights, a signed relinquishment, or, in the case of a tribal customary adoption, the court has given full faith and credit to a tribal customary adoption order, as specified.This bill would add, as a qualifying circumstance for purposes of those AAP benefits, a final order of adoption issued by the tribal court of the child’s tribe, in the case of an Indian child who was a dependent of the juvenile court immediately prior to the transfer of the Indian child’s case. The bill would authorize the department to implement the provisions relating to all of those qualifying circumstances through all-county letters or similar written instructions until regulations are adopted.Because the bill would expand the qualifying circumstances under the above-described criteria for AAP benefits, thereby creating new duties for counties, 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.
CA AB 2949 - Anthony Rendon
Family childcare home education networks.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2949, as amended, Rendon. Family childcare home education networks. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. The act requires the department to contract with entities organized to operate family childcare home education networks that support educational objectives for children in licensed family childcare homes that serve families eligible for subsidized care. Existing law requires the family childcare home education network programs to include certain components, including an assessment of each family childcare home provider to ensure that services are of high quality and are educationally and developmentally appropriate. Existing law also imposes various requirements on family childcare home education network contractors, including ensuring that a developmental profile is completed for each child.This bill would require that tools used to make the family assessments be appropriate to family childcare home settings, and would require a family childcare home education network program to maintain a developmental portfolio for each child, as provided, and include opportunities for parent involvement. This bill would impose additional requirements on family childcare home education network contractors, including that the developmental profiles specified above be completed in accordance with the provider’s observations and that the contractors conduct a parent survey. The bill would also impose various duties on family childcare home education network providers, including requiring providers to adopt and use a curriculum and to provide age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate educational activities for children.
CA AB 2960 - Alexander T. Lee
Sexually transmitted diseases: testing.
04/03/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 2960, as amended, Lee. Sexually transmitted diseases: testing. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including primary care clinics and general acute care hospitals, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to investigate conditions affecting the prevention and control of venereal diseases, as defined, and approved procedures for prevention and control, and to disseminate educational information relating to venereal disease. Existing law requires the department to cooperate with specified entities, including clinics and public and private hospitals, to prevent, control and cure venereal diseases, including syphilis. Existing law requires every licensed physician and surgeon or other person engaged in prenatal care of a pregnant woman, or attending the woman at the time of delivery, to obtain or cause to be obtained a blood specimen of the woman to test for syphilis. This bill would require a licensed primary care clinic or hospital emergency department to offer a syphilis test at least once a year to all patients who can become pregnant. The bill would exempt the patient’s primary care clinic from these provisions if the patient has been tested, or if they have been offered the test and declined it in the past 12 months. The bill would specifically provide that a primary care clinic or hospital emergency department is not prohibited from charging a patient to cover the cost of the test. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature to first offer bicillin, the preferred treatment for pregnant persons with syphilis, to those who are pregnant in the case of a shortage of the medication. The bill would exempt a violation of these provisions from being a crime.
CA AB 2961 - Dawn Addis
Employment of minors: training on sexual harassment.
04/11/2024 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 2961, as amended, Addis. Employment of minors: training on sexual harassment. Existing law authorizes specific school administrators to issue a work permit to pupils subject to specific requirements, including requiring certain information to be included on a notification of intent to employ a minor, provided to the administrator by an employer. Existing law requires that the notification of intent to employ a minor be signed by the parent or guardian, the minor, and the employer. Existing law relating to the employment of minors makes it a crime for any person, firm, corporation, or agent or officer of a firm or corporation to violate or to omit to comply with its provisions.This bill would require that the notification of intent to employ a minor include a certification that the minor has completed a mandatory training on sexual harassment prevention, retaliation, and reporting resources using an online training course made available on the internet website of the Civil Rights Department. The bill would require the minor’s parent or legal guardian to certify that they accompanied the minor for the training and that the training has been completed. The bill would require that training for the minor and their parent or legal guardian be in the language understood by that person, whenever reasonably possible. Because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 2967 - Philip Y. Ting
Teacher Housing Act of 2016: definitions.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.
AB 2967, as amended, Ting. Teacher Housing Act of 2016: definitions. Existing law, the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, authorizes a school district to establish and maintain programs, as provided, that address the housing needs of teachers and school district employees who face challenges in securing affordable housing. The act defines the term “teacher or school district employee” to mean any person employed by a unified school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, an elementary school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, or a high school district maintaining grades 9 to 12, inclusive, including, but not limited to, certificated and classified staff.This bill would expand the definition of a teacher or school district employee to include a person employed by a nonprofit organization operating early childhood, prekindergarten, or school-aged childcare classrooms and programs on school district property with funding from the State Department of Education, the federal Head Start program, or other public funding targeted to children from families of low and moderate income.
CA AB 2968 - Damon Connolly
School safety and fire prevention: fire hazard severity zones: communication and evacuation plans.
04/11/2024 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10).
AB 2968, as amended, Connolly. School safety and fire prevention: fire hazard severity zones: communication and evacuation plans. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones, and, by regulation, designate fire hazard severity zones and assign to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in the zone. Existing law also requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas.Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that all public schools, in kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, operated by school districts, in cooperation with specified entities and individuals, develop a comprehensive school safety plan, as provided. Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools, as provided. Existing law requires a schoolsite council to write and develop a comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school, in consultation with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities, as provided. This bill would, commencing with the 2026–27 fiscal year, require each school in a high-risk zone to comply with specified defensible space zone fire safety standards, applicable to the area from school buildings to the area 100 feet from school buildings, as provided. The bill would define a high-risk zone as land identified by the State Fire Marshal as a high or very high fire hazard severity zone. The bill would require the fire department having jurisdiction within the school’s boundary to annually certify school compliance with those defensible space standards. The bill would also require each school in a high-risk zone to coordinate with the fire department having jurisdiction within the school’s boundary to identify appropriate refuge shelter for all pupils, students, and staff to be used in the event of a shelter-in-place order by local authorities. The bill would require each school in a high-risk zone to develop a communication and evacuation plan, to be used in the event of an early notice evacuation warning, that allows enough time to evacuate all pupils, students, and staff, as provided. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 2971 - Brian K. Maienschein
Classified Employee Staffing Ratio Workgroup: community college districts.
04/03/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
AB 2971, as introduced, Maienschein. Classified Employee Staffing Ratio Workgroup: community college districts. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions and to classify those employees and positions, and requires that they be known as the classified service.Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Industrial Relations, the Labor Commissioner, representatives of employee organizations, and representatives of voluntary local educational agencies to convene the Classified Employee Staffing Ratio Workgroup on or before December 31, 2024, as provided.Existing law defines, for the purposes of the above provision, “voluntary local educational agencies” to mean school districts, county offices of education, and special education local plan areas electing to participate in the workgroup.This bill would broaden the definition of “voluntary local educational agencies” to include community college districts. Existing law requires the above-mentioned workgroup to group classified assignments in a manner that reflects the environmental setting of the assignment, the type of work to be completed, the impact on the assignment made by enrollment at a schoolsite, specialized needs, including certifications or licenses, and other reasonable factors, as specified, and to recommend staffing ratios per grouping, as specified. Existing law requires the workgroup to report its recommendations to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2025, as specified.This bill would require the workgroup to group those classified assignments described above for both K–12 and community colleges.
CA AB 2977 - Corey A. Jackson
Personal Income Tax Law: young child tax credit.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
AB 2977, as amended, Jackson. Personal Income Tax Law: young child tax credit. (1) The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a young child tax credit to a qualified taxpayer in a specified amount multiplied by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor, as provided. That law also allows a payment from the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account for an amount in excess of tax liability. Existing law defines “qualified taxpayer” for this purpose to include an eligible individual, as defined, who has a qualifying child, defined to be a child younger than 6 years of age as of the last day of the taxable year, and who meets other specified criteria. Under existing law, the young child tax credit phases out by reducing the amount of the credit by $20 for each $100, or fraction thereof, that the taxpayer’s earned income, as defined, exceeds a specified amount. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, instead define a “qualifying child” to mean a child younger than 18 years of age as of the last day of the taxable year. The bill would establish the Child Tax Credit Expansion Fund in the State Treasury, and continuously appropriate the moneys in that fund to the Franchise Tax Board, as provided. The bill would also require the Franchise Tax Board, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, to recalculate the phaseout provisions for the young child tax credit such that the credit reaches $0 as earned income reaches $50,000. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to first utilize the moneys in the Child Tax Credit Expansion Fund for the purpose of the above-described expansion of the young child tax credit. By establishing and funding a new continuously appropriated fund, and by increasing the payments from the Tax Relief and Refund Account, a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.(2) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows an earned income tax credit against personal income tax and a payment from the Tax Relief and Refund Account, a continuously appropriated fund, for an allowable credit in excess of tax liability to an eligible individual that is equal to that portion of the earned income tax credit allowed by federal law, as determined by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor, as specified. Under existing law, the earned income tax credit phases out for taxpayers that earn over a specified amount and, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, the credit reaches $0 when the taxpayer’s income reaches $30,000, as adjusted. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, adjust the phaseout of the earned income tax credit so that the credit reaches $0 when the taxpayer’s income reaches $20,000, as adjusted. The bill would direct that any increase in revenue or savings from this change be deposited into the Child Tax Credit Expansion Fund.(3) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, provides for the taxation of the gain or loss from the disposition of property. Existing law generally calculates gain for this purpose as the difference of the amount realized from the disposition of property over the adjusted basis of the property, and calculates loss for this purpose as the difference of the adjusted basis of the property over the amount realized from the disposition of the property. Under existing law, where property is received from a decedent, the basis of the property becomes the fair market value of the property as of the date of the decedent’s death, except as provided.This bill would eliminate the rule that allows the basis of property to automatically become the fair market value of the property as of the date of a decedent’s death. The bill would direct that any increase in revenue generated due to this change be deposited into the Ch
CA AB 2982 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Prenatal-to-3 working group.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 2982, as amended, Reyes. Prenatal-to-3 working group. The California Children and Families Act of 1998, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 10 at the November 3, 1998, statewide general election, requires that the California Children and Families Program, established by the act, be funded by certain surtaxes imposed on the sale and distribution of cigarettes and tobacco products and deposited into the California Children and Families Trust Fund, and that the fund be used for the implementation of comprehensive early childhood development and smoking prevention programs. Existing law establishes a state commission, the California Children and Families Commission, also known as First 5 California, with specified powers and duties relating to the administration of the act on a state level. Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which includes departments charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services. Existing law establishes the Early Childhood Policy Council to advise on statewide early learning and care policy.This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency to establish, by March 1, 2025, a workgroup with specified membership, including members from First 5 county commissions, to create recommendations for a statewide comprehensive, equity-focused prenatal-to-3 system agenda, as specified. The bill would require the workgroup to submit its recommendations to the administration and to the Legislature by January 31, 2026, and to provide updates to the Early Childhood Policy Council before that date.
CA AB 2998 - Tina McKinnor
Minors: consent to medical care.
03/11/2024 - Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.
AB 2998, as introduced, McKinnor. Minors: consent to medical care. Existing law authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care and counseling relating to the diagnosis and treatment of a drug- or alcohol-related problem. Existing law exempts replacement narcotic abuse treatment, except as specified, from these provisions.This bill would authorize a minor to consent to receiving, and to carry and administer, naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist if approved by a physician and surgeon or physician assistant, as specified. The bill would prohibit a minor permitted to carry and administer naloxone hydrochloride pursuant to these provisions from being held liable in a civil action or from being subject to a criminal prosecution if they administer naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist in good faith and not for compensation to a person who appears to be experiencing an opioid overdose.
CA AB 2999 - Pilar Schiavo
Pupil instruction: homework policy.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on ED.
AB 2999, as amended, Schiavo. Pupil instruction: homework policy. Existing law grants pupils, parents, and guardians certain rights regarding the delivery of educational services, including, among others, rights regarding primary supplemental instruction materials. Existing law provides that none of these rights shall be construed as restricting teachers in the assignment of homework.This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school, on or before January 1, 2026, to develop and adopt, across at least 2 public meetings, a homework policy to create guidelines for clearer practices on assigning homework in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as specified. The bill would, among other things, require the adopted homework policy to be annually distributed at the beginning of the school year to all certificated staff and administrators, to all pupils and parents or legal guardians, as specified, and by publication on the local educational agency’s internet website and on the internet websites of the individual schools operated by the local educational agency. The bill would require the adopted policy to be updated at least once every 5 years. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill also would encourage private schools to adopt homework policies with guidelines consistent with these provisions.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.
CA AB 3032 - Josh Hoover
Crimes: child neglect: serious felony.
03/11/2024 - Referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 3032, as introduced, Hoover. Crimes: child neglect: serious felony. Existing law prohibits plea bargaining in a case in which a serious felony is charged and imposes a 5-year enhancement for conviction of a serious felony if the person has previously been convicted of a serious felony. Existing law makes a felony in which the defendant personally inflicts great bodily injury on a person a serious felony.Existing law makes it a crime for a person who has the care or custody of a child to willfully cause or permit the person or health of that child to be injured or willfully cause or permit that child to be placed in a situation where the child’s health may be endangered, as specified. Existing law imposes a 4-year enhancement on a person who violates that provision and who willfully causes or permits a child to suffer, inflicts thereon unjustifiable physical pain or injury that results in death, or, having the care or custody of a child, willfully causes or permits that child to be injured or harmed, as specified, and that injury or harm results in death.Existing law requires a person who, having the care or custody of a child who is under 8 years of age, assaults the child by means of force that to a reasonable person would be likely to produce great bodily injury, resulting in the child’s death, to be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for 25 years to life.This bill, Ryla’s Law, would make the child abuse crimes described above serious felonies for the above-specified purposes. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Under existing law, a prisoner can reduce their term of imprisonment by earning credit for, among other things, continuous incarceration, good behavior, and participation in approved rehabilitative programming. Existing law prohibits a prisoner convicted of specified felony offenses from earning credit if the prisoner previously has been convicted of one of those felony offenses 2 or more times and has served 2 or more separate prior prison terms.Existing law makes an inmate of a state prison, or of a county jail, who has completed training for assignment to a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, or who is assigned to a correctional institution as an inmate firefighter, eligible to earn 2 days of credit for every one day served in that assignment or after completing that training.This bill would make a person convicted of specific child abuse crimes ineligible to earn 2 days of credit for every one day served as an inmate firefighter or after completing inmate firefighting training. By reducing the amount of credits an inmate sentenced to county jail can earn, this bill would create 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.
CA AB 304 - Christopher R. Holden
Domestic violence: probation.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 304, as amended, Holden. Domestic violence: probation. Existing law specifies that the terms of probation granted to a person who has been convicted of domestic violence are required to include, among other things, successful completion of a batterer’s program, as defined, or, if such a program is not available, another appropriate counseling program designated by the court, for a period of not less than one year, and a protective order protecting the victim from further acts of violence, threats, stalking, sexual abuse, and harassment. Existing law requires the court to order the defendant to comply with all probation requirements, including the payment of program fees based upon the ability to pay. If the court finds that a defendant does not have the ability to pay the program fee, existing law authorizes the court to reduce or waive the program fee. Existing law requires a batterer’s program to develop and utilize a sliding fee schedule based on a defendant’s ability to pay. The bill would require program providers, as defined, to publicly post, including on an internet website, a comprehensive description of their sliding fee scales. The bill would require the court to inform the defendant of the availability of a program fee waiver, if they do not have the ability to pay for the program, and to provide each defendant with a selection of available program providers and those providers’ standard fees and sliding fee scales before the defendant agrees to the conditions of probation. Existing law requires the probation department, when investigating the appropriate batterer’s program for a defendant, to take into account, among other factors, the defendant’s age, medical history, and educational background. Existing law requires a program to meet certain requirements, including immediately reporting any violation of the terms of the protective order to the court, the prosecutor, and, if formal probation has not been ordered, to the probation department. The bill would require the probation department, when investigating the appropriate program, to also take into account the defendant’s sexual orientation, gender identity, and financial means and to promptly notify each program in which the defendant is required to participate the defendant’s other required, court-mandated programs and probation violations pertaining to a domestic violence offense. The bill would require a program provider to report a violation of the protective order within 7 business days. Existing law requires the court to refer persons to batterer’s programs that have been approved by the probation department. Existing law requires the probation department to design and implement an approval and renewal process for batterer’s programs, to regulate those programs, as specified, and to fix a yearly fee, not to exceed $250 to approve an application or renewal.The bill would place these requirements, instead, in the Department of Justice.The bill, when referencing a batterer’s program, would specifically indicate another appropriate counseling program if a batterer’s program is not available. The bill would, by April 1, 2024, to ensure compliance with state law, make the Department of Justice responsible for collaborating with the Judicial Council and relevant stakeholders to set program provider standards, approving, monitoring, and renewing approvals of program providers, conducting periodic audits of program providers, and developing, in consultation with the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch of the State Department of Public Health, comprehensive statewide standards through regulations, among other responsibilities. The bill would, by April 1, 2024, require the Judicial Council to establish guidelines and training for judges to ensure the consistent adjudication of probation violations.Existing law requires the Judicial Council to establish judicial training programs for individuals who perform duties in domestic violence matters. Existing law requ
CA AB 3049 - Isaac Bryan
Dependency: court hearings.
04/04/2024 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
AB 3049, as amended, Bryan. Dependency: court hearings. Existing law entitles a minor who is the subject of a juvenile court hearing to be present at that hearing. Existing law requires the court to inform the minor, if the minor is present at the hearing, of their right to address the court and participate in the hearing. Existing law requires the court, if the minor is 10 years of age or older and not present at the hearing, to determine whether the minor was properly notified of their right to attend the hearing and inquire whether they were given an opportunity to attend. Existing law requires the court to continue the hearing to allow the minor to be present, if they were not properly notified or if they wished to present, but were not given the opportunity, unless the court finds that it is in the minor’s best interest not to continue the hearing. Existing law requires the court to continue the hearing only for the period of time necessary to provide the child notice and secure their presence.This bill would expand the above provisions to include nonminor dependents. The bill would also require a court, if the child or nonminor dependent is not present at the hearing, to ask counsel for the child or nonminor dependent to state, on the record, the date of counsel’s most recent personal contact with the child or nonminor dependent. The bill would require the court, if the court finds that counsel had no contact with the child or nonminor dependent in the last 6 months, to continue the hearing to allow counsel time to do so to assess their well-being and determine their wishes with respect to the issues presently before the court, unless the court finds that it is in the best interest of the child or nonminor dependent not to continue the hearing. The bill would require the court to continue the hearing only for the period of time necessary to provide counsel with a reasonable amount of time to contact the child or nonminor dependent.
CA AB 3053 - Ash Kalra
State-supported fairs: exhibits: regulations.
03/11/2024 - Referred to Com. on AGRI.
AB 3053, as introduced, Kalra. State-supported fairs: exhibits: regulations. Existing law governs the apportionment of state funds to fairs within the network of California fairs, which includes, in general, the California Exposition and State Fair, district agricultural association fairs, county fairs, and citrus fruit fairs. For purposes of these provisions, existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to prescribe regulations for judging exhibits and the maximum amount of premiums paid for exhibits.This bill would also require the department, for these purposes, to prescribe regulations for the entry of junior exhibits. The bill would require those regulations to include a requirement that all junior exhibit entries be received only with the approval of a parent or guardian and to authorize those entries to be withdrawn at the request of the parent or guardian at any time before offsite transport, as specified. The bill would also require those regulations to include a provision that, in the case of a junior livestock exhibit, any bidder may elect for live animal pickup, regardless of any characterization as a terminal sale.
CA AB 3059 - Akilah Weber
Human milk.
03/12/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 3059, as amended, Weber. Human milk. Existing law licenses and regulates tissue banks and generally makes a violation of the requirements applicable to tissue banks a crime. Existing law exempts a “mothers’ milk bank,” as defined, from paying a licensing fee to be a tissue bank.This bill would specify that a general acute care hospital is not required to have a license to operate a tissue bank to store or distribute pasteurized human milk that was obtained from a mothers’ milk bank.Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Other existing law requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers, as specified, to provide certain health benefits and services, including, among others, maternity hospital stays, inpatient hospital and ambulatory maternity services, and maternal mental health programs. This bill would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, to cover the same health benefits for human milk and human milk derivatives covered under the Medi-Cal program as of 1988.Because a violation of the bill’s 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.
CA AB 3072 - Cottie Petrie-Norris
Child custody: ex parte orders.
04/08/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 3072, as amended, Petrie-Norris. Child custody: ex parte orders. Existing law requires the court to refrain from making an order granting or modifying a child custody order on an ex parte basis unless there has been a showing of immediate harm to the child, as defined, or immediate risk that the child will be removed from the State of California.This bill would require a court to consider a parent’s illegal access to firearms and ammunition when determining whether there is a showing of immediate harm to the child, as specified. The bill would also require a court to consider whether the safety and best interest of the child requires the suspension, denial, or limitation of visitation if there is a showing of immediate harm.
CA AB 3074 - David A. Alvarez
School or athletic team names: California Racial Mascots Act.
04/10/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
AB 3074, as amended, Schiavo. School or athletic team names: California Racial Mascots Act. Existing law establishes the California Racial Mascots Act, which prohibits public schools from using the term Redskins as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs.This bill would exempt public schools operated by an Indian tribe or a tribal organization from this prohibition. The bill would prohibit, beginning July 1, 2026, public schools, except for public schools operated by an Indian tribe or tribal organization, from using any derogatory Native American term, as defined, as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname, except as provided. The bill would require the Uniform Complaint Procedures to apply to school or athletic team names, mascots, or nicknames pursuant to the bill. To the extent that the bill would impose new duties on public schools, 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, 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.
CA AB 3080 - Juan Alanis
Age verification: obscene and indecent material.
03/21/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended.
AB 3080, as amended, Alanis. Age verification: obscene and indecent material. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2025, prohibits a social media platform, as defined, from knowingly facilitating, aiding, or abetting commercial sexual exploitation, as defined. Existing law prohibits a social media platform from being deemed to be in violation of this provision if it demonstrates certain mitigating facts, including that the social media platform instituted and maintained a program of at least biannual audits of its designs, algorithms, practices, affordances, and features to detect designs, algorithms, practices, affordances, or features that have the potential to cause or contribute to violations of that provision, as prescribed. Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer.This bill would require a covered platform, as defined, that publishes or distributes material harmful to minors, as defined, to perform reasonable age verification methods, as defined, to verify the age of each individual attempting to access the material and to prevent access by minors to the material. The bill would prohibit a covered platform, or any third party, that performs age verification pursuant to these provisions from retaining any identifying information of the individual after access has been granted to the material, general purpose unless otherwise required by law. The bill would state that its provisions do not apply to, among other things, an internet service provider, a general purpose search engine, or a cloud service provider. This bill would state that, except as provided, any attempted waiver or estoppel of a person’s right to bring a civil action under these provisions is void as unlawful and against public policy, as specified, and would provide that any contract, agreement, or other arrangement made or entered in violation of these provisions is contrary to law and public policy, void, and unenforceable. The bill would authorize a parent or legal guardian of a minor to bring a civil action, as specified, against any covered platform for violating these provisions with respect to the minor. The bill would also authorize any individual, after access to the material harmful to minors has been granted to the individual, to bring a civil action, as specified, against a covered platform for a violation of the prohibition against retaining any identifying information of the individual.This bill would state that its provisions are severable.
CA AB 310 - Joaquin Arambula
CalWORKs.
06/27/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 310, as amended, Arambula. CalWORKs. Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states. Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the TANF program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Existing law imposes various eligibility requirements for the CalWORKs program, including that a child is deprived of parental support or care, a child has received all age-appropriate immunizations, and specified applicants or recipients who are apparently eligible for unemployment insurance shall meet the conditions of eligibility for and accept any unemployment insurance benefits for which they are eligible.This bill would, among other things, repeal the parental deprivation and immunization requirements, and would instead only require that those specified applicants and recipients whom the county has evidence that they are eligible for unemployment insurance to apply for, but not meet the conditions of, unemployment insurance benefits. By expanding eligibility for the CalWORKs program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law generally requires a recipient of CalWORKs benefits to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid, except if they are exempt or excused from participation for good cause. Existing law requires a participant to enter into a written welfare-to-work plan with the county, and specifies the work activities that may be included in a participant’s plan, including mental health, substance abuse, and domestic violence services that are necessary to obtain and retain employment. Existing law also requires participants to participate in job search activities for a period of up to 4 consecutive weeks, as specified. This bill would, among other things, revise and recast the welfare-to-work program, by renaming it as the family assistance program, repealing the provision that makes participation in work activities a condition of eligibility for CalWORKs aid, and instead requiring that every recipient be provided with an opportunity to participate in family assistance activities. The bill would expand the list of work activities by including home visiting services and financial literacy classes and coaching that are necessary to obtain and retain employment or improve family or financial well-being, activities that develop and enhance workplace skills, and activities that build foundations for employment, as specified. The bill would repeal the job search requirements. The bill would require a county to provide the participant with a plan form within 60 days after the date that a participant’s eligibility for aid is determined or the date the participant chooses to participate in work activities wherein the recipient may select the activities and the number of hours they want to participate in, including any and all available support services. By increasing the duties of counties administering the CalWORKs program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Under existing law, when an individual fails or refuses to comply with specified components of the CalWORKs program without good cause, and conciliation efforts have failed, the individual is subject to a financial sanction that requires the family’s grant to be reduced by removing the noncomplying family member from the assistance unit. Existing law prohibits sanctions from being applied for a failure or refusal to comply with program requirements if, among other reasons, the employment, offer of employment, activity, or other training, or for employment discriminates on specified bases or involves conditions that are in violation of applicable health and safety standards, among other
CA AB 3103 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Dependent children: health screenings.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 3103, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Dependent children: health screenings. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of the failure or inability of their parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. Existing law authorizes a peace officer, probation officer, or social worker, without a warrant, to take a minor into temporary custody for various reasons, including when the child has been declared a dependent of the juvenile court or there is reasonable cause to believe the minor comes within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Existing law permits a social worker or the juvenile court to authorize the performance of medical, surgical, dental, or other remedial care needed by a child who is in temporary custody, who is a dependent of the juvenile court and placed under the supervision of a social worker, or for whom a dependency petition has been filed after notifying the parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of the child.This bill would additionally permit, in the absence of a standing court order, a social worker to authorize a noninvasive initial medical, dental, and mental health screening of a child in temporary custody. The bill would require the social worker to make reasonable attempts to notify the parent that the child will be undergoing a screening and to provide the parent with a reasonable opportunity to object. The bill would provide that if the parent objects, the screening may be conducted only upon the order of the court. The bill would also add mental health care, as defined, to the medical and dental care that may be authorized for a child who is in temporary custody, who is a dependent of the juvenile court and placed under the supervision of a social worker, or for whom a dependency petition has been filed.
CA AB 311 - Melissa Hurtado
California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits.
06/15/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 311, as introduced, Santiago. California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits. Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a food assistance program, known as the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), to provide assistance to a noncitizen of the United States if the person’s immigration status meets the eligibility criteria of SNAP in effect on August 21, 1996, but the person is not eligible for SNAP benefits solely due to their immigration status, as specified. Existing law also makes eligible for the program an applicant who is otherwise eligible for the program, but who entered the United States on or after August 22, 1996, if the applicant is sponsored and the applicant meets one of a list of criteria, including that the applicant, after entry into the United States, is a victim of the sponsor or the spouse of the sponsor if the spouse is living with the sponsor.Existing law, to become operative on the date that the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS) has been updated to perform the necessary automation, and subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, makes an individual 55 years of age or older eligible for the program if the individual’s immigration status is the sole basis for their ineligibility for CalFresh benefits.This bill would remove that age limitation and make any individual eligible for the program if the individual’s immigration status is the sole basis for their ineligibility for CalFresh benefits. By extending eligibility for CFAP, which is administered by the counties, 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.
CA AB 3110 - Mike Fong
Community colleges: preapprenticeship programs.
03/11/2024 - Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
AB 3110, as introduced, Mike Fong. Community colleges: preapprenticeship programs. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Under existing law, community college districts throughout the state have established campuses where they provide instruction to students. Existing law establishes a system through which state funds are apportioned to community college districts based on specified formulas and identifies certain noncredit community college courses and classes that are eligible for that state apportionment funding.Existing law requires the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to establish a preapprenticeship program for the purpose of establishing eligibility for any state apprenticeship programs, and to establish standards and procedures for the approval of a preapprenticeship program, such as requiring the program to include specified elements.This bill would provide that courses associated with these preapprenticeship programs are eligible for state apportionment funding.
CA AB 3127 - Tina McKinnor
Reporting of crimes: mandated reporters.
04/11/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 3127, as amended, McKinnor. Reporting of crimes: mandated reporters. Existing law requires a health practitioner, as defined, to make a report to law enforcement when they suspect a patient has suffered physical injury that is either self-inflicted, caused by a firearm, or caused by assaultive or abusive conduct, including elder abuse, sexual assault, or torture. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor.This bill would remove the requirement that a health practitioner make a report to law enforcement when they suspect a patient has suffered physical injury caused by assaultive or abusive conduct. The bill would instead require that a health practitioner make a report when the injury is life threatening or results in death, as specified, or is the result of child abuse or elder or dependent adult abuse. The bill would require the health practitioner to additionally make a report when a person is seeking care for injuries related to domestic, sexual, or any nonaccidental violent injury if the patient requests a report be sent, as specified.The bill would also require a health practitioner who suspects that a patient has suffered physical injury that is caused by domestic violence, as defined, to provide brief counseling and a referral to local and national domestic violence or sexual violence advocacy services, as specified.This bill would make other conforming changes.Because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 3145 - Isaac Bryan
Family preservation services: standards.
03/11/2024 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 3145, as introduced, Bryan. Family preservation services: standards. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services (department) and county welfare departments to establish and support a public system of statewide child welfare services available in each county, as specified.Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature to encourage the continuity of the family unit by providing family preservation services, which may include counseling, mental health treatment, and transportation, among other things. Existing law requires an authorized participating county to provide specific programs of direct services based on individual family needs, as specified. Existing law authorizes a county to establish family preservation programs that serve one or more geographic areas of the county, subject to the approval of the department. Existing law requires that the services selected by a participating county be reasonable and meritorious, as specified.This bill, the Foster Care Justice through Meaningful Help for Parents Act, would also require that those services be evidence based, as defined, and culturally competent, as provided through qualified professionals. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. The bill would require the department, by January 1, 2026, to define, by regulation, the terms “culturally competent” and “qualified professional.” The bill would make related findings and declarations.Under existing law, the program in each county is deemed successful if certain standards are met, including that at least 60% of the children receiving services remain at home one year, and 2 years, after services are terminated.This bill would add as a standard that, during the first year after services are terminated, no more than 25% of children whose parents or guardian received services are children who meet any of specified circumstances, including removal from the physical custody of their parents or guardians. The bill would also add, among other standards, 2 years after termination of the services, that no more than 10% of the children meet any of those circumstances.Existing law requires the Office of Child Abuse Prevention within the department to require counties to submit annual reports on program services and children and families served.This bill would require that the annual reports include certain information, including, among other things, a description of how a county’s contracts with providers ensure minimum qualifications. The bill would require the department to post the annual report to its internet website within 30 business days of receipt of an annual report from a county.
CA AB 315 - Rebecca Bauer-Kahan
False advertising: abortion.
01/27/2023 - From printer. May be heard in committee February 26.
AB 315, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan.
False advertising: abortion.
Existing law makes it unlawful for a person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim. Existing law, the Unfair Competition Law, makes various practices unlawful and provides that a person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty, as specified.Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with an individual’s fundamental right to choose or obtain an abortion. Existing law, which was previously held unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, requires a covered facility to disseminate to its clients a specified notice regarding abortion. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General, city attorney, or county counsel to bring an action to impose a specified civil penalty against covered
facilities that fail to comply with these requirements.This bill would prohibit a person doing business in California who is performing, has performed, or intends to perform a pregnancy-related service from advertising using a false or misleading statement related to the person’s provision, or lack of provision, of abortion. The bill would make a violation of that prohibition an unfair business practice, and would authorize the Attorney General, a district attorney, or a city attorney to file for injunctive relief or seek a civil penalty, as specified. The bill would also authorize a private right of action seeking injunctive relief, a monetary penalty of at least $1,000, and reasonable attorney’s fees.
CA AB 3168 - Michael A. Gipson
Department of Motor Vehicles: confidential records.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
AB 3168, as amended, Gipson. Department of Motor Vehicles: confidential records. Existing law prohibits the disclosure of the home addresses of certain public employees and officials that appear in records of the Department of Motor Vehicles, except to a court, a law enforcement agency, an attorney in a civil or criminal action under certain circumstances, and certain other official entities. Existing law requires that following termination of office or employment, a confidential home address be withheld from public inspection for 3 years, unless the termination is the result of conviction of a criminal offense. Existing law provides that if a termination or separation from office or employment is the result of the filing of a criminal complaint, the confidential home address shall be withheld from public inspection during the time in which the terminated individual may file an appeal from termination, while an appeal from termination is ongoing, and until the appeal process is exhausted. If the termination or separation is upheld, existing law grants employing agencies with discretion to maintain the confidentiality of the terminated individual’s home address.This bill would authorize an employing agency to request that the department remove the confidentiality protections described above following the termination of employment if no appeal to the termination is filed or if the termination or separation is upheld. If the terminated individual files an appeal from termination, this bill would require that the individual’s home address be withheld from public inspection while the appeal from termination is ongoing and until the appeal process is exhausted. The bill would require the department to comply with these requests within 30 days of receipt. The bill would specify that these provisions shall not apply to terminations of employment resulting from the filing of a criminal complaint. This bill would make conforming changes.
CA AB 3170 - Liz Ortega
Public health: maternal substance abuse.
03/27/2024 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
AB 3170, as amended, Ortega. Public health: maternal substance abuse. Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires certain persons specified as “mandated reporters” to report suspected child abuse or child neglect, as specified. The act provides that a positive toxicology screen at the time of the delivery of an infant is not in and of itself a sufficient basis for reporting child abuse or neglect but requires an indication of maternal substance abuse to lead to an assessment of the needs of the mother and child pursuant to a specified provision of law, and, if other factors are present that indicate risk to a child, a report is required to be made, as specified.Existing law requires each county to establish protocols between county health departments, county welfare departments, and public and private hospitals in the county, regarding the application and use of a needs assessment of, and a referral for, certain substance-exposed infants to a county welfare department.Existing law requires a clinic, health facility, home health agency, or hospice to prevent unlawful or unauthorized access to, and use or disclosure of, patients’ medical information, as defined. Existing law authorizes a health care provider to disclose medical information to a county social worker, probation officer, foster care public health nurse, or any other person authorized to have custody or care of a minor for purposes of coordinating health care services and medical treatment. Existing law authorizes those individuals to receive medical information and protected health information, as specified. A violation of these provisions may be punished as a misdemeanor. Existing law exempts specific medical and mental health evidence from a civil proceeding, including medical-dental staff committee findings and recommendations, as specified, or that a person suffered or experienced excited delirium.This bill would prohibit the releasing, reporting, or providing of a perinatal person’s or a newborn’s drug test or alcohol test or screen results, or information about drug or alcohol use in a pregnant or perinatal person’s or newborn’s medical records or otherwise known to a medical provider, as specified. The bill would also require a licensed clinic, health facility, home health agency, or hospice to prevent unlawful or unauthorized access to, and use or disclosure of, among other information, a perinatal person’s or newborn’s drug test or alcohol test or screen results. This bill would prohibit the admission of those results or information in a civil proceeding.By expanding the scope of an existing crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 3172 - Josh Lowenthal
Social media platforms: injuries to children: damages.
04/01/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
AB 3172, as amended, Lowenthal. Social media platforms: injuries to children: damages. Existing law provides that everyone is responsible not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person.This bill would make a social media platform, as defined, liable for specified damages in addition to any other remedy provided by law, if the platform fails to exercise ordinary care or skill toward a child. The bill would declare that its provisions are severable.
CA AB 3182 - Tom Lackey
Land conservation: California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act: County of San Bernardino.
04/09/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
AB 3182, as amended, Lackey. Land conservation: California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act: County of San Bernardino. (1) The California Wildlife, Coastal, and Park Land Conservation Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters in the June 7, 1988, statewide primary election, provided bond funds for wildlife, coastal, and parkland conservation. The initiative measure may be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendment is consistent with the purposes of the act. Existing law requires an applicant receiving state funds under the act to maintain any property acquired in perpetuity, as specified, and use the property only for the purposes stated in the act and to make no other use, sale, or other disposition of the property except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. Existing law authorizes the County of San Bernardino to sell or exchange property it owns within the Chino Agricultural Preserve that was purchased with grant funds if it meets certain conditions.Among those conditions, existing law requires the county to preserve all lands and conservation easements acquired or dedicated as authorized by the act in perpetuity for open-space conservation purposes or agricultural preservation, and specifies that open-space conservation includes community gardens, agricultural heritage projects, agricultural and wildlife education or wildlife habitat.This bill would additionally authorize preservation of those lands or easements for park and recreational purposes, and would explicitly include, to the extent they are consistent with the purposes of the act, playgrounds, recreational venues, sporting venues, amphitheaters, and preservation of historical resources as appropriate purposes.(2) Existing law prohibits the county from selling, exchanging, or otherwise acquiring replacement land or conservation easements unless and until the board of supervisors for the county adopts a detailed land plan. Existing law requires the land plan to, among other things, identify each parcel of property acquired with grant funds and show which specific parcels the county will sell, exchange, purchase, or retain. Existing law required the land plan to be approved by the Department of Parks and Recreation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the county to propose a plan to the department for the expenditure of any unexpended proceeds from the sale or exchange of land under the land plan for the acquisition of land or easements, or capital improvements to land or easements purchased with grant funds.This bill would eliminate the explicit authorization and procedures specifically applicable to the expenditure of these unexpended proceeds.Existing law authorizes the county to use all income generated from the properties it owns within the preserve that were purchased with grant funds, or that were acquired by exchange or purchase as authorized, except revenues from the sale or exchange of land, for the acquisition of additional replacement land within the preserve pursuant to the land plan or for the improvement, operation, and maintenance of existing or replacement land within the preserve.This bill would authorize the county to use the revenues from the sale or exchange of land for these purposes, and would specify new purposes for which that revenue, and all income generated from the properties the county owns within the preserve that were purchased with grant funds or that were acquired by exchange or purchase, may be used.Existing law requires the department to approve all proposed uses of the funds from the sale or exchange of land pursuant to these provisions.The bill would eliminate the requirement for department approval of proposed uses of funds from the sale or exchange of this land.The bill would declare that these requirements are an amendment of the act within the meaning of Section 6 of the act and is consistent with the act.
CA AB 3199 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Comprehensive school safety plans: schoolsite councils.
03/11/2024 - Referred to Com. on ED.
AB 3199, as introduced, Muratsuchi. Comprehensive school safety plans: schoolsite councils. Existing law makes each school district and county office of education responsible for the overall development of comprehensive school safety plans for its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires a schoolsite council to write and develop a comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school, as provided. Existing law authorizes the schoolsite council to delegate this responsibility to a school safety planning committee made up of specified members. Existing law requires these members to serve as the school safety planning committee in the absence of a schoolsite council. This bill would add as a member of a school safety planning committee to which this responsibility may be delegated, or to which that responsibility is assigned in the absence of a schoolsite council, one pupil, if the school enrolls pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive.Existing law requires the schoolsite council to consult with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities in the writing and development of the comprehensive school safety plan, and requires that the plan and any updates to the plan be shared with those represented entities.This bill would specify that those other first responder entities with which consultation and sharing of the plans and updates are required are those having jurisdiction within the school’s boundary.To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on a school district and county office of education in developing of a comprehensive school safety plan, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would also update related code references. 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.
CA AB 3216 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Pupils: use of smartphones.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 3216, as amended, Hoover. Pupils: use of smartphones. Existing law authorizes the governing body of a school district, a county office of education, or a charter school to adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school. Existing law, however, specifies circumstances in which a pupil could not be prohibited from possessing or using a smartphone.This bill would instead require, no later than July 1, 2026, the governing body of a school district, a county office of education, or a charter school to adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would constitute 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.
CA AB 3217 - Isaac Bryan
Juveniles: Justice Through Placing Foster Children with Families Act.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 3217, as amended, Bryan. Juveniles: Justice Through Placing Foster Children with Families Act. Existing law requires a county social worker to investigate the circumstances of each child taken into temporary custody by a peace officer under specified circumstances. Existing law requires the social worker to conduct an investigation, within 30 days of the child’s removal, to identify and locate adult relatives of the child, as specified, and to provide them with a notification that the child has been removed from the custody of the child’s parents, guardians, or Indian custodian, and an explanation of the various options to participate in the care and placement of the child.This bill, the Justice Through Placing Foster Children with Families Act, would require each county, by January 30 of each year, to review publicly available data comparing the statewide national average rate of placing children with relatives in the prior year for comparison with the county’s placement rate during the same period. The bill would require that, if the county’s placement rate is less than the statewide average, the county welfare director, or their designee, shall, no later than December 1, communicate at least once with the county welfare directors of the 3 counties with the highest placement rates or their designees to compare best practices for family finding. The bill would require that each year a county has a rate of placing children with relatives that is less than the statewide average, the county board of supervisors of that county shall, at least once, include the topic for discussion on the agenda at a regularly noticed meeting of the full board. By increasing the duties of county welfare departments and county boards of supervisors, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make related findings and declarations.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.
CA AB 3223 - Lori D. Wilson
Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 3223, as introduced, Wilson. Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program. Existing law establishes the Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program, under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to provide supplemental funding to county offices of education to coordinate and ensure that local educational agencies within a county office of education’s jurisdiction are providing services to pupils in foster care pursuant to a foster youth services coordinating plan with the purpose of ensuring positive educational outcomes. Existing law defines “pupil in foster care” for these purposes.This bill would add to the definition of “pupil in foster care” a child who is the subject of a juvenile court petition and has been identified as being at imminent risk of removal and placement into foster care, as provided.
CA AB 3226 - Lori D. Wilson
Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act.
03/19/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 3226, as amended, Wilson. Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act. Existing law, the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act, imposed a penalty of $4 until December 31, 2022, upon every conviction for a violation of the Vehicle Code or a local ordinance adopted pursuant to the Vehicle Code, other than a parking offense. The act requires the court that imposed the fine to transfer the revenues collected to the Treasurer for deposit into the Emergency Medical Air Transportation and Children’s Coverage Fund. Existing law requires the assessed penalty to continue to be collected, administered, and distributed until exhausted or until December 31, 2023, whichever occurs first. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2025, and repeals those provisions as of January 1, 2026.This bill would recast the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act, operative as of July 1, 2025, to continue the Emergency Medical Air Transportation and Children’s Coverage Fund in the State Treasury. The bill would require the fund to be administered by the Director of Health Care Services, and further require moneys in the fund to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the State Department of Health Care Services for emergency medical air transportation provider payments and children’s health care coverage.
CA AB 3229 - Alexander T. Lee
California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project: report.
03/19/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 3229, as amended, Lee. California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project: report. Existing federal law establishes the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law establishes a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits, including CalFresh benefits.Existing law establishes the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project and requires the department, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture and specified stakeholders, to include within the EBT system a supplemental benefits mechanism that allows an authorized retailer to deliver and redeem supplemental benefits. Existing law requires the department to submit a report to the Legislature by March 1, 2026, regarding the transition of the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project to a supplemental benefits program that is fully state managed, without grantee intermediaries, as specified. Existing law specifies that the pilot project is to remain in effect until January 1, 2027, and is repealed as of that date.This bill would instead require the department to submit the report to the Legislature regarding the transition of the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project to a supplemental benefits program that is fully state managed, without grantee intermediaries, by January 1, 2025.
CA AB 323 - Christopher R. Holden
Density Bonus Law: purchase of density bonus units by nonprofit housing organizations: civil actions.
09/11/2023 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
AB 323, as amended, Holden. Density Bonus Law: purchase of density bonus units by nonprofit housing organizations: civil actions. Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct, among other options, specified percentages of units for moderate-, lower, or very low income households and meets other requirements.Existing property tax law establishes a welfare exemption under which property is exempt from taxation if the property is owned and operated by a nonprofit corporation that is organized and operated for the purpose of building and rehabilitating single-family or multifamily residences for sale, as provided, at cost to low-income families.Existing law requires the developer and the city or county to ensure that (1) a for-sale unit that qualified the developer for the award of the density bonus is initially occupied by a person or family of the required income, offered at an affordable housing cost, as defined, and includes an equity sharing agreement, as specified, or (2) a qualified nonprofit housing organization that is receiving the above-described welfare exemption purchases the unit pursuant to a specified recorded contract that includes an affordability restriction, an equity sharing agreement, as specified, and a repurchase option that requires a subsequent purchaser that desires to sell or convey the property to first offer the nonprofit corporation the opportunity to repurchase the property.This bill would instead require the developer and the city or county to ensure that the for-sale unit that qualified the developer for the award of the density bonus is (1) initially sold to and occupied by a person or family of the required income, or (2) if the unit is not purchased by an income-qualified person or family within 180 days after the issuance of the certificate of occupancy, the qualified nonprofit housing organization that is receiving the above-described welfare exemption meets specified requirements, including having a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service affirming its tax-exempt status, as specified, being based in California, and the primary activity of the nonprofit corporation being the development and preservation of affordable home ownership housing in California that incorporates within their contracts for initial purchase a repurchase option that requires a subsequent purchaser that desires to sell or convey the property to first offer the nonprofit corporation the opportunity to repurchase the property pursuant to an equity sharing agreement or a specified recorded contract that includes an affordability restriction. By imposing these requirements on local agencies with respect to density bonuses, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would prohibit a developer from selling a unit constructed pursuant to a local inclusionary zoning ordinance that is intended for owner-occupancy by persons or families of extremely low, very low, low, or moderate income to a purchaser that is not a person or family of extremely low, very low, low, or moderate income, but would authorize a developer to sell that unit to a qualified nonprofit housing corporation, as defined, that will ensure owner occupancy pursuant to the income limitation recorded on the deed or other instrument defining the terms of conveyance eligibility, if the unit has not been purchased by an income-qualifying person or family within 180 days of the issuance of the certificate of occupancy. The bill would specify that every unit offered in a manner inconsistent with this requirement is a violation and that violators are exclusively subject to a civil penalty of not more than $15,000. The bill would authorize the civil penalty to be assessed and recovered in a civil action br
CA AB 3234 - Liz Ortega
Employers: social compliance audit.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 3234, as amended, Ortega. Employers: social compliance audit. Existing law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations and authorizes the division to enforce the provisions of the Labor Code and all labor laws of the state which are not specifically vested in any other officer, board, or commission. Existing law regulates the wages, hours, and working conditions of any man, woman, and minor employed in any occupation, trade, or industry, whether compensation is measured by time, piece, or otherwise, except as specified.This bill would require an employer to post a clear and conspicuous link to a report detailing the findings of its most recent social compliance audit on the internet website for their business, if the employer has voluntarily subjected that business to a social compliance audit. The bill would define the term “social compliance audit” to mean an inspection of any production house, factory, farm, or packaging facility of a business to verify whether it complies with social and ethical responsibilities, health and safety regulations, and labor laws, including those regarding child labor. The bill would require that report to include, among other things, whether the business does or does not engage in, or support the use of, child labor and a copy of any written policies and procedures the business has regarding child employees.
CA AB 325 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Human services: noncitizen victims.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 325, as introduced, Reyes. Human services: noncitizen victims. Under existing law, noncitizen victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes, as defined, are eligible for certain public social services and health care services to the same extent as individuals who are admitted to the United States as refugees. Existing law requires that those services discontinue if there is a final administrative denial of a visa application, as specified. Existing law requires that benefits and services under those provisions be paid from state funds to the extent federal funding is unavailable.This bill would prohibit the discontinuance of those services due to the denial of a visa application if the individual is eligible for those services on another basis. The bill would also expand those services to noncitizen victims of parental maltreatment, noncitizen children who have been abused, neglected, or abandoned, and noncitizens who fear persecution. The bill would add to the categories of eligible noncitizen victims for the services individuals who have filed a formal application or petition with the appropriate federal agency for status or relief under the federal Violence Against Women Act, for special immigrant juvenile status, for asylum status, or for parole as family members of victims of severe trafficking, as specified. The bill would also make nonsubstantive conforming changes. By increasing duties for counties to administer and determine eligibility for public social services and health care services, the bill would create a state-mandated local program.The bill would require the Director of Social Services to adopt regulations, which may be emergency regulations, to implement these provisions no later than July 1, 2024. The bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to implement and administer these provisions through an all-county letter or similar instructions from the director until regulations are adopted.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.
CA AB 3271 - Joe Patterson
Pupil health: opioid antagonists.
04/04/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 3271, as introduced, Joe Patterson. Pupil health: opioid antagonists. Existing law authorizes school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or voluntary trained personnel, and authorizes those nurses and voluntary trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose, as provided.This bill would require each individual public school operated by a school district, county office of education, or charter school that has elected to make a school nurse or trained personnel available at the school pursuant to those provisions to maintain at least 2 units of naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist for purposes of those authorizations.
CA AB 3281 - House Judiciary Committee
Judiciary omnibus.
04/09/2024 - From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 9).
AB 3281, as amended, Committee on Judiciary. Judiciary omnibus. (1) Existing law establishes the Department of Justice in the state government, under the direction and control of the Attorney General. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to arrange and classify the work of the Department of Justice and to consolidate, abolish, or create divisions, bureaus, branches, sections, or units within the department. Various provisions of existing law governing contracts in restraint of trade; false advertising; the regulation of telephonic sellers, sellers of travel, and discount buying organizations, as those terms are defined; and the payment of eligible claims by the Consumer Motor Recovery Corporation, refer to the Consumer Law Section within the Department of Justice.This bill would update obsolete references to the Consumer Law Section within the Department of Justice in the above-described provisions to instead refer to the Consumer Protection Section. The bill would also make various nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.(2) Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), generally prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor from disclosing medical information regarding a patient, enrollee, or subscriber without first obtaining an authorization, unless a specified exception applies. The CMIA requires every provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, or contractor who, among other things, maintains or stores medical information to do so in a manner that preserves the confidentiality of the information contained therein. Existing law requires specified businesses that electronically store or maintain medical information on the provision of sensitive services on behalf of a provider of health care, health care service plan, pharmaceutical company, contractor, or employer to develop capabilities, policies, and procedures, on or before July 1, 2024, to enable certain security features, including limiting user access privileges and segregating medical information related to gender affirming care, abortion and abortion-related services, and contraception, as specified. Existing law provides that this requirement does not apply to a provider of health care, as defined.This bill would provide that the requirement for specified businesses to enable certain security features as described above does not apply to a contractor or health service plan, as defined.(3) Existing law authorizes a plaintiff, who prevails in a cause of action against a defendant pursuant to specified federal law on the preservation of consumer claims and defenses, to claim attorney’s fees, costs, and expenses, as prescribed.Existing law requires a person engaged in a trade or business who negotiates primarily in specified languages in the course of engaging in certain business agreements to provide the other party to the contract or agreement a translation of the contract or agreement in the language in which it was negotiated.Existing law, the Educational Debt Collection Practices Act, prohibits a school, as defined, from refusing to provide a transcript for a current or former student on the grounds that the student owes a debt and from taking related debt collection actions.Existing law regarding student loans prohibits a person from engaging in certain abusive acts or practices when servicing a student loan in this state and provides various remedies for a violation of these provisions.Existing law, the Automobile Sales Finance Act, authorizes a guaranteed asset protection waiver, as specified, to be offered, sold, or provided to a buyer or administered in connection with a conditional sale contract only in compliance with specified provisions.Existing law makes a legislative finding that all protections, rights, and remedies available under state law, except as specified, are available to all individuals regardless of immigration status who have applied for emp
CA AB 3291 - House Human Services Committee
Developmental services.
04/01/2024 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
AB 3291, as introduced, Committee on Human Services. Developmental services. (1) Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (act), requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Under existing law, the regional centers purchase needed services and supports for individuals with developmental disabilities through approved service providers, or arrange for their provision through other publicly funded agencies. The services and supports to be provided to a regional center consumer are contained in an individual program plan (IPP), which is developed by the planning team according to specified procedures. Existing law requires the planning process for the IPP to include various components and guidelines, such as a statement of goals, based on the needs, preferences, and life choices of the individual with developmental disabilities, a review of the general health status of the individual, and a transportation access plan, as specified.This bill additionally would require the IPP planning process to include, when a regional center consumer is being cared for by a parent, a discussion regarding caregiver succession and, if determined to be necessary, development of a caregiver succession plan, as specified. The bill would define “caregiver succession” as the transition between one caregiver and the caregiver that assumes responsibility to care for a regional center consumer.(2) Existing law requires the department and regional centers to provide specified supported living services for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law lists the range of supported living services and supports to include, among other things, recruiting, training, and hiring individuals to provide personal care and other assistance. Existing law also authorizes regional centers to make rent, mortgage, or lease payments under specified circumstances, including when the regional center executive director verifies in writing that making the rent, mortgage, or lease payments or paying for household expenses is required to meet the specific care needs unique to the individual consumer, as specified, and is required when a consumer’s demonstrated medical, behavioral, or psychiatric condition presents a health and safety risk to the consumer or another.This bill would additionally authorize a regional center to make rent, mortgage, or lease payments or pay for household expenses when the executive director certifies in writing that the consumer’s demonstrated risk of homelessness presents a health and safety risk to the consumer or another.(3) Existing law authorizes the removal of a child from the custody of a parent or guardian under specified conditions, including the neglect or abuse of that child or the finding by the juvenile court that the minor is a dependent child of the court. Existing law requires that, regardless of the person or persons currently holding the right to make educational decisions for the child, a foster parent, relative caregiver, nonrelated extended family member, or resource family will retain rights and obligations regarding accessing and maintaining health and education information for the child.This bill would require, regardless of the person or persons currently holding the right to make educational decisions for the child, the court to ensure that the educational rights holder has provided authorizations required for the commencement of regional center services.
CA AB 34 - David K. Min
Elections: County of Orange Citizens Redistricting Commission.
09/11/2023 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 34, as amended, Valencia. Elections: County of Orange Citizens Redistricting Commission. Existing law requires the board of supervisors, following a county’s decision to elect its board using district-based elections or following each decennial federal census for a county whose board is already elected using district-based elections, by ordinance or resolution, to adjust the boundaries of all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the districts are as nearly equal in population as possible and comply with applicable federal law, and specifies the procedures the board of supervisors must follow in adjusting those boundaries. Existing law establishes the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Riverside and the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Fresno, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for their respective counties.This bill would establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Orange, which would be charged with adjusting the boundary lines of the districts of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Orange in accordance with specified criteria. The commission would consist of 14 voting members and 2 nonvoting, alternate members who meet specified qualifications. The bill would require each commission member to attend all public hearings and meetings of the commission, except as specified, and would create specified procedures by which the commission may remove a member for substantial neglect of duty, gross misconduct of office, inability to discharge the duties of the office, or if it is later discovered that the commission member did not meet the required qualifications at the time of appointment or no longer meets those qualifications while serving on the commission. The bill would provide that if the commission is unable to act because it does not have nine voting members to constitute a quorum, then the Auditor-Controller of the County of Orange and the commission must fill the vacancies to bring the commission to nine voting members, as specified. By increasing the duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.If Assembly Bill 1248 of the 2023–24 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2024, this bill would provide that the provisions of AB 1248 do not apply to the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Orange, which instead would be governed by the provisions of this bill.If Assembly Bill 764 of the 2023–24 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2024, this bill would make conforming changes as specified.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the unique circumstances facing the County of Orange.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.
CA AB 365 - Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry
Medi-Cal: diabetes management.
09/12/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Limón.
AB 365, as amended, Aguiar-Curry. Medi-Cal: diabetes management. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law sets forth a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program. This bill would add continuous glucose monitors and related supplies required for use with those monitors as a covered benefit under the Medi-Cal program for the treatment of diabetes when medically necessary, subject to utilization controls. The bill would require the department, by July 1, 2024, to review, and update as appropriate, coverage policies for continuous glucose monitors, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to require a manufacturer of a continuous glucose monitor to enter into a rebate agreement with the department. The bill would limit its implementation to the extent that any necessary federal approvals are obtained and federal financial participation is available. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
CA AB 366 - Cottie Petrie-Norris
County human services agencies: workforce development.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Ashby.
AB 366, as amended, Petrie-Norris. County human services agencies: workforce development. Existing law generally provides for various human services programs, including, but not limited to, child welfare services. Existing law requires the state, through the department and county welfare departments, to establish and support a public system of statewide child welfare services to be available in each county of the state, and requires all counties to establish and maintain specialized organizational entities within the county welfare department, which have sole responsibility for the operation of the child welfare services program.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to establish a stipend program, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing grants in the form of educational stipends to community college students who have an interest in public child welfare work. The bill would require the department to administer the program through existing mechanisms applicable to other postsecondary education stipend programs administered by the department for which the state receives matching funds pursuant to specified federal law. The bill would require the program to provide stipends to students who either reside in, or are enrolled in a community college in, counties with a population of 500,000 or less, and who are in a relevant program of coursework, as specified.Existing law vests the Department of Human Resources with the jurisdiction and responsibility of establishing and maintaining personnel standards on a merit basis, and administering merit systems for local government agencies where those merit systems of employment are required by statute or regulation as a condition of a state-funded program or a federal grant-in-aid program established under federal law, including, but not limited to, the Social Security Act, as specified. Existing law requires the department, for the purposes of administering those state or federally supported programs, by regulation, to establish and maintain personnel standards on a merit basis for local agencies, as specified, as necessary for proper and efficient administration, and to ensure state conformity with applicable federal requirements. Existing law requires the department to administer the merit system for employees engaged in administering state-funded and federal grant-in-aid programs in a local agency not administering its own merit system, as specified.This bill, notwithstanding those provisions, would require the department, for specified local agencies with an employment vacancy rate of 20% or greater for 30 consecutive days in any state-funded or federal grant-in-aid program, to allow those agencies to use alternate processes to screen applications and establish eligibility lists for recruitment of new staff, and advancement of existing staff, until the vacancy rate falls below 20 percent continuously for 3 consecutive months. The bill would authorize those alternatives to include allowing counties to screen and establish eligibility lists directly with oversight by the department, implementing alternative examination requirements without advance approval by the department, and waiving examination components. If the employees are represented by an employee organization, as specified, the bill would authorize a local agency to implement alternative examination requirements or waive examination components only after meeting and conferring with, and obtaining mutual agreement from, the employee organization. The bill would authorize the alternative processes to be implemented until January 1, 2029. The bill would require the department, by July 1, 2026, to convene representatives of local agencies and applicable state departments, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Social Services, the Department of Child Support Services, and representatives from employee organizations that represent local agency employees,
CA AB 368 - Christopher R. Holden
College and Career Access Pathways partnerships.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).
AB 368, as amended, Holden. College and Career Access Pathways partnerships. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership with the governing board of a school district or a county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school for the purpose of offering or expanding dual enrollment opportunities for pupils who may not already be college bound or who are underrepresented in higher education, with the goal of developing seamless pathways from high school to community college for career technical education or preparation for transfer, improving high school graduation rates, or helping high school pupils achieve college and career readiness. Existing law requires the CCAP partnership agreement to outline the terms of the CCAP partnership, as specified, and to establish protocols for information sharing, joint facilities use, and parental consent for high school pupils to enroll in community college courses. Existing law authorizes a community college district participating in a CCAP partnership to assign priority for enrollment and course registration to a pupil seeking to enroll in a community college course that is required for the pupil’s CCAP partnership program, as specified. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district participating in a CCAP partnership to exempt special part-time students from certain fee requirements.This bill would delineate the meaning of the term “underrepresented in higher education” for these purposes, as specified. The bill would require the governing board of a community college district participating in a CCAP partnership to enroll high school pupils in any course that is part of a CCAP partnership offered at a community college campus, and would expressly authorize courses to be offered at the community college campus or the participating high school campus. The bill would require a community college district to assign priority for enrollment and course registration to a pupil seeking to enroll in a community college course that is required for the pupil’s CCAP partnership program. The bill would also exempt all pupils seeking to enroll in a community college course that is required for the pupil’s CCAP partnership program from specified fee requirements.Existing law requires, for each CCAP partnership agreement, the affected community college district and school district or county office of education to report annually to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges specified information.This bill would require, on or before May 1 of each year, the chancellor to aggregate that information and submit a report of that information to the Legislature, the Director of Finance, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
CA AB 369 - Rick Chavez Zbur
Foster care: independent living.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 369, as amended, Zbur. Foster care: independent living. Existing law establishes the Independent Living Program (ILP), which has among its purposes providing training in daily living skills, budgeting, locating and maintaining housing, and career planning for foster youth up to 21 years of age. Existing federal law authorizes a state, under certain circumstances, to expand eligibility for the ILP to former foster youth who have not attained 23 years of age. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, with the approval of the federal government, to amend the foster care state plan to permit all eligible children to be served by the ILP up to 21 years of age.This bill would require, by June 30, 2025, the department to develop a plan, in consultation with, among others, county ILP administrators, to, among other things, update and upgrade curriculum to facilitate successful transitions to adulthood. This bill would expand the age for all eligible children to be served by the ILP up to 23 years of age, in those counties that opt to provide those extended services.Existing law authorizes a child who is declared a ward or dependent child of the court who is 16 years of age or older, or a nonminor dependent, as defined, who is participating in a transitional independent living case plan to retain resources with a combined value of $10,000, consistent with federal law, and still remain eligible to receive public social services. Existing law requires the written approval of a child’s probation officer or social worker for withdrawal of the child’s savings, as specified.Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care.This bill would remove that monetary value limit and instead allow those nonminor dependents to retain resources consistent with federal law. The bill would prohibit those resources from being evaluated after the initial determination for the same foster care episode to determine continued eligibility for a foster care maintenance payment. The bill would also authorize a nonminor dependent who reenters foster care, as specified, and is ineligible for federal financial participation due to cash savings in an amount that is greater than allowed, to receive aid in the form of state AFDC-FC if certain requirements are met. Because counties would administer these extended benefits, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 372 - Sabrina Cervantes
CalWORKs: eligibility: income exclusions.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 372, as amended, Stephanie Nguyen. CalWORKs: eligibility: income exclusions. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Under existing law, certain types of payments received by recipients of aid under the CalWORKs program, including income from a college work-study program, as specified, are exempt from consideration as income for purposes of determining eligibility and aid amount.This bill would, commencing January 1, 2025, or on the date that the State Department of Social Services notifies the Legislature that the California Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform the necessary automation to implement this change, additionally exempt income up to 200% of the federal poverty level that is received by an apprentice or preapprentice for performing work as part of a specified apprenticeship program or preapprenticeship program from consideration as income for purposes of determining eligibility or calculating grant amounts under the CalWORKs program. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to implement these provisions through an all-county letter or similar instruction until regulations are adopted. By expanding the scope of eligibility for CalWORKs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program.This bill would instead provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the above provisions.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 11157 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 274 to be operative only if this bill and AB 274 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA AB 373 - Michael A. Gipson
Intersession programs: foster children and homeless youth: priority access.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 373, as amended, Gipson. Intersession programs: foster children and homeless youth: priority access. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature to ensure that all pupils in foster care and those who are homeless, as defined, have a meaningful opportunity to meet the challenging state pupil academic achievement standards to which all pupils are held. Existing law requires educators, county placing agencies, care providers, advocates, and the juvenile courts to work together to maintain stable school placements and to ensure that each pupil is placed in the least restrictive educational programs, and has access to the academic resources, services, and extracurricular and enrichment activities that are available to all pupils, as provided.Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district to initiate and carry on any program, activity, or to otherwise act in any manner that is not in conflict with or inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law and that is not in conflict with the purposes for which school districts are established.This bill would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school, if the local educational agency operates an intersession program, as defined, to grant priority access to foster children and homeless youth, as provided. The bill would, notwithstanding any other law, provide that if a foster child or homeless youth will be moving during an intersession period, the pupil’s parent, guardian, educational rights holder, or Indian custodian, as defined, in the case of an Indian child, or, if there is no parent, guardian, educational rights holder, or Indian custodian, the unaccompanied homeless youth, as applicable, shall determine which school the pupil attends for the intersession period, if applicable.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 48853.5 of the Education Code proposed by AB 723 to be operative only if this bill and AB 723 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 386 - Stephanie Nguyen
California Right to Financial Privacy Act.
07/10/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
AB 386, as amended, Stephanie Nguyen. California Right to Financial Privacy Act. Existing law, the California Right to Financial Privacy Act, generally provides for the confidentiality of, and restricts access to, the financial records of people who transact business with, or use the services of, financial institutions or for whom a financial institution has acted as a fiduciary. Existing law establishes an exception by authorizing various state and local agencies, when certification is made to a bank, credit union, or savings association by specified law enforcement entities that a crime report has been filed that involves the alleged fraudulent use of orders drawn upon a bank, credit union, or savings association in this state, to request from such a bank, credit union, or savings association, and requires the bank, credit union, or savings association to furnish, a statement setting forth certain information with respect to a customer account specified by the requesting party, for a period of 30 days before, and up to 30 days following, the date of occurrence of the alleged illegal act involving the account.This bill would expand the period covered by that statement of information to a period 90 days before, and up to 60 days following, the date of occurrence. The bill would require specified additional items of information to be included in the statement about the account.
CA AB 391 - Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr.
Child abuse and neglect: nonmandated reporters.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 391, Jones-Sawyer. Child abuse and neglect: nonmandated reporters. Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. The act requires certain professionals, including specified health practitioners and social workers, known as mandated reporters, to report known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. The act authorizes any other person, known as a nonmandated reporter, to report a known or suspected instance of child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Existing law authorizes a nonmandated reporter to make a report anonymously.This bill would require an agency receiving a report from a nonmandated reporter to ask the reporter to provide specified information, including their name, telephone number, and the information that gave rise to the knowledge or reasonable suspicion of child abuse or neglect. If the reporter refuses to provide their name or telephone number, the bill would require the agency receiving the report to make an effort to determine the basis for the refusal and advise the reporter that the identifying information would remain confidential. By requiring local agencies to gather additional information from nonmandated reporters, 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.
CA AB 393 - Luz Maria Rivas
Childcare: dual language learners.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 393, as amended, Luz Rivas. Childcare: dual language learners. Existing law, the Early Education Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program. Existing law requires the Superintendent to develop procedures for state preschool contractors to identify and report data on dual language learners enrolled in a preschool program. Existing law requires these procedures, at minimum, to include a distribution and collection of a family language instrument, as specified, and a family language and interest interview. Existing law requires the reported data to include, among other things, a child’s home language and the language composition of the program staff.Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age, which includes various programs and services, including, among others, general childcare and development programs and migrant childcare and development programs.This bill would similarly require the Director of Social Services to develop procedures for general or migrant childcare and development contractors to identify and report data on dual language learners enrolled in a general childcare and development program or migrant childcare and development program, as specified, and requires the director to develop informal directives and adopt regulations to implement these provisions. The bill would require the Superintendent and the director to coordinate efforts to implement these provisions.The bill would prohibit the use of these provisions to compel a parent or guardian to participate in the data collection procedures described above. The bill would further clarify that a family’s decision to decline to complete the family language instrument or family language and interest interview shall not affect the contract of a state preschool contractor or general or migrant childcare and development contractor. The bill would also specify that these provisions shall not affect the eligibility of a child to enroll in a state preschool program or a general or migrant childcare and development program.
CA AB 398 - Gail Pellerin
Voting: replacement ballots.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 398, Pellerin. Voting: replacement ballots. Existing law requires an elections official to provide a 2nd vote by mail voter ballot to any voter upon receipt of a statement under penalty of perjury that the voter has failed to receive, lost, or destroyed their original ballot.This bill would remove the requirement that the voter provide a statement under penalty of perjury, and instead require the elections official to provide a replacement ballot upon request. The bill would require the voter making the request to provide the elections official with specified personal identifying information. The bill would also require the elections official, prior to issuing the replacement ballot, to advise the requester that a request for a replacement ballot made by a person other than the registered voter is a criminal offense. By imposing new duties on local elections officials, the bill would create 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.
CA AB 408 - Damon Connolly
Climate-resilient Farms, Sustainable Healthy Food Access, and Farmworker Protection Bond Act of 2024.
08/21/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 408, as amended, Wilson. Climate-resilient Farms, Sustainable Healthy Food Access, and Farmworker Protection Bond Act of 2024. Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state. Existing law under Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters.This bill would enact the Climate-resilient Farms, Sustainable Healthy Food Access, and Farmworker Protection Bond Act of 2024, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $3,650,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, to finance programs related to, among other things, agricultural lands, food and fiber infrastructure, climate resilience, agricultural professionals, including farmers, ranchers, and farmworkers, workforce development and training, air quality, tribes, disadvantaged communities, nutrition, food aid, meat processing facilities, and fishing facilities.The bill would make its provisions severable.The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 41 - Christopher R. Holden
Telecommunications: The Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2023.
09/07/2023 - In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
AB 41, as amended, Holden. Telecommunications: The Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2023. The Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 establishes a procedure for the Public Utilities Commission to issue state franchises for the provision of video service, defined as video programming services, cable service, or open-video system service, except any video programming provided by a commercial mobile service provider, as defined in federal law, or video programming provided as part of, and via, a service that enables users to access content, information, email, or other services offered over the public internet. The act provides that the holder of a state franchise is not a public utility as a result of providing video services and that the act does not authorize the commission to regulate the rates, terms, and conditions of video service, except as explicitly set forth in the act. The act establishes a state franchise fee to be remitted to a local entity based on the franchiseholder’s gross revenues, as defined, derived from the provision of cable or video service within that jurisdiction. The act prohibits a cable operator or video service provider that has been granted a state franchise from discriminating against, or denying access to service to, any group of potential residential subscribers because of the income of the residents in the local area in which the group resides, as specified. The act limits the maximum amount of a penalty that a local entity is authorized to assess on a holder of a state franchise for a material breach of certain customer service and consumer protection standards, as specified.This bill would revise and recast the Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2006 to, among other things, rename the act as the Digital Equity in Video Franchising Act of 2023, require the commission to conduct any hearings and issue a state franchise or a reject each application for a state franchise not more than 120 days after the commission has deemed the application complete, and extend deadlines related to the commission’s review of applications for state franchises. This bill would establish a policy of the state that subscribers and potential subscribers of a state video franchiseholder should benefit from equal access, as defined, to video service within the franchise service area, and expand the prohibition on certain cable operators or video service providers from discriminating against, or denying access to service to, any group of potential residential subscribers to include denial of equal access, as specified. The bill would require the commission to enforce customer service requirements for a holder of a state franchise and would increase the maximum amount of a penalty that a local entity is authorized to assess on a holder of a state franchise for a material breach of certain customer service and consumer protection standards, as specified.Under existing law, a violation of any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime.Because a violation of a commission action implementing this bill’s requirements 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.
CA AB 417 - Steve Bennett
County boards of education: pupil members.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 417, Bennett. County boards of education: pupil members. Existing law authorizes governing boards of county boards of education to appoint one or more high school pupils enrolled in a school that is under the jurisdiction of the county board of education as members in response to a petition from high school pupils of the county board requesting the governing board to appoint one or more pupil members. Existing law authorizes a pupil who is enrolled in a high school that is under the jurisdiction of a school district, and who may be less than 18 years of age, to be selected to serve as a pupil member of the county board of education, if no petition is submitted to select a pupil who is enrolled in a high school that is under the jurisdiction of the county board of education.This bill would additionally authorize a pupil who is enrolled in a high school that is under the jurisdiction of the county board of education, and who may be less than 18 years of age, to be selected to serve as a pupil member of the county board of education, if no petition is submitted to select a pupil who is enrolled in a high school that is under the jurisdiction of the county board of education.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1000 of the Education Code proposed by AB 275 to be operative only if this bill and AB 275 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 425 - David Alvarez
Medi-Cal: pharmacogenomic testing.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 425, Alvarez. Medi-Cal: pharmacogenomic testing. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law sets forth a schedule of covered benefits under the Medi-Cal program.This bill would, commencing on July 1, 2024, add pharmacogenomic testing as a covered benefit under Medi-Cal, as specified. The bill would define pharmacogenomic testing as laboratory genetic testing that includes, but is not limited to, a panel test, to identify how a person’s genetics may impact the efficacy, toxicity, and safety of medications.The bill would condition implementation of this benefit coverage on receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions through all-county letters or similar instructions.The bill would also make related legislative findings.
CA AB 426 - Corey A. Jackson
Unlicensed residential foster care facilities: temporary placement management.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1.).
AB 426, as amended, Jackson. Unlicensed residential foster care facilities: temporary placement management. Existing law prohibits an unlicensed community care facility, as defined, from operating in the state, and prohibits a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation within the state, or state or local public agency, from operating, establishing, managing, conducting, or maintaining a community care facility in this state, without a current, valid community care facility license. Existing law authorizes the department to assess an immediate civil penalty in the amount of $200 per day for a violation of either or both of those prohibitions, as specified.This bill would additionally authorize the department to assess an immediate civil penalty in the amount of $1,000 for each day of the violation on a person, as defined, who provides residential care to children.Existing law requires the Director of Social Services to follow specified procedures if the director believes that a county is substantially failing to comply with specified provisions of law or any regulation pertaining to any program administered by the department, including, among other things, taking formal action to secure compliance and providing counties with written notice of that action and a minimum of 30 days to correct its failure to comply.This bill would additionally apply these procedures when a county has failed to comply with the California Community Care Facilities Act. The bill would additionally require the director to inform the county welfare director and the board of supervisors by written notice if the director is informed a county is failing to comply with any provision of law or regulation pertaining to any program administered by the department.
CA AB 430 - Steve Bennett
Community land trusts: welfare exemption: assessment: foreclosure sales: financial assistance.
08/21/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 430, as amended, Bennett. Community land trusts: welfare exemption: assessment: foreclosure sales: financial assistance. (1) Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization, provides for a “welfare exemption” for property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and that is owned or operated by certain types of nonprofit entities, if certain qualifying criteria are met. For the 2022–23 fiscal year through the 2027–28 fiscal year, in the case of an owner of property that is a community land trust, as defined, existing property tax law requires that a unit continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household for these purposes if the occupants were lower income households on the lien date in the fiscal year in which their occupancy of the unit commenced and the unit continues to be rent restricted, notwithstanding an increase in the income of the occupants of the unit to 140% of area median income, adjusted for family size. Existing law requires that a lease between a community land trust and a lower income household satisfy specified requirements in order for these provisions to apply, including being a renewable 99-year ground lease and a public agency or official must make a finding that the contract serves the public interest of creating or preserving affordable housing, as provided. This bill would eliminate specified requirements of a lease agreement between a lower income household and a community land trust in order for the unit to continue to be treated as occupied by a lower income household, as described above.(2) Existing property tax law requires the assessor to consider in the assessment of land the effect of any enforceable restrictions to which the use of the land may be subjected, including, among others, a renewable 99-year ground lease between a community land trust and the qualified owner, as defined, of an owner-occupied single-family dwelling or an owner-occupied unit in a multifamily dwelling that meets certain other conditions. Existing property tax law defines the term “community land trust” for these and other purposes to mean a nonprofit corporation that satisfies specified requirements, including a requirement that all dwellings and units located on property owned by the nonprofit are either sold to a qualified owner, as defined, or leased to low- or moderate-income persons or families, and the land owned by the nonprofit corporation, on which a dwelling or unit sold to a qualified owner is situated, is leased by the nonprofit corporation to the qualified owner for the convenient occupation and use of that dwelling or unit for a renewable term of 99 years.This bill would amend the definition of community land trust to extend these requirements to a wholly owned subsidiary of the trust that is solely directed and managed by the trust.(3) Existing law prescribes various requirements to be satisfied before the exercise of a power of sale under a mortgage or deed of trust and prescribes a procedure for the exercise of that power. Existing law prescribes certain requirements that apply in the case of sales of real property containing one to 4 residential units, inclusive, that is acquired through foreclosure under a mortgage or deed of trust by an institution or that is acquired at a foreclosure sale by an institution, as defined, including requiring that the institution only accept offers from eligible bidders during the first 30 days after the property is listed for sale. Existing law defines “eligible bidder” for the purposes to include, among others, a community land trust, defined by reference to the above-described provisions relating to the assessment of real property for taxation.Existing law creates the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program, administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, for the purpose of preserving affordable housing and promoting resident ownership or nonprofit organizatio
CA AB 438 - Blanca E. Rubio
Pupils with exceptional needs: individualized education programs: postsecondary goals and transition services.
09/12/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Portantino.
AB 438, as amended, Blanca Rubio. Pupils with exceptional needs: individualized education programs: postsecondary goals and transition services. Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those pupils with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law requires, beginning not later than the first individualized education program to be in effect when a pupil is 16 years of age, or younger if determined appropriate by the individualized education program team, and updated annually thereafter, the individualized education program to include appropriate measurable postsecondary goals and transition services, as defined, needed to assist the pupil in reaching those goals.This bill would instead require an individualized education program, commencing July 1, 2025, to include measurable postsecondary goals and transition services beginning when an individual with exceptional needs enters grade 9. By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies in relation to individualized education programs, 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, 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.
CA AB 44 - James C. Ramos
California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System: tribal police.
09/14/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 44, as amended, Ramos. California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System: tribal police. Existing law establishes the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (CLETS) within the Department of Justice to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information between law enforcement agencies in the state.This bill would require the department to grant access to the system to the law enforcement agency or tribal court of a federally recognized Indian tribe meeting certain qualifications, as specified.
CA AB 440 - Buffy Wicks
Density Bonus Law: maximum allowable residential density.
09/06/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Wiener.
AB 440, as amended, Wicks. Density Bonus Law: maximum allowable residential density. Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing. Existing law provides for the calculation of the amount of density bonus for each type of housing development that qualifies under these provisions.Existing law defines the term “density bonus” for these purposes to mean a density increase over the otherwise maximum allowable gross residential density as of the date of the application, as described. Existing law defines the term “maximum allowable residential density” for these purposes to mean the maximum number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the maximum number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project. Existing law provides under that definition that if the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the general plan or specific plan, the greater density prevails.This bill would instead define “maximum allowable residential density” to mean the greatest number of units allowed under the zoning ordinance, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan, or, if a range of density is permitted, the greatest number of units allowed by the specific zoning range, specific plan, or land use element of the general plan applicable to the project. The bill would also remove from that definition the provision stating that the greater density prevails if the density allowed under the zoning ordinance is inconsistent with the density allowed under the land use element of the general plan or specific plan.
CA AB 441 - Matt Haney
Temporary food facilities: permitting: farmers’ markets and night markets.
08/17/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
AB 441, as amended, Haney. Temporary food facilities: permitting: farmers’ markets and night markets. Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for temporary food facilities, and defines a temporary food facility to mean a food facility approved by an enforcement officer to operate at a fixed location for the duration of a community event, as specified. Existing law defines a community event as an event conducted for not more than 25 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 90-day period and that is of a civic, political, public, or educational nature, including state and county fairs, city festivals, circuses, and other public gathering events approved by the local enforcement agency. Existing law prohibits a temporary food facility from being open for business without a valid permit. Existing law requires an enforcement agency to issue a permit when investigation has determined a proposed facility meets the specifications of approved plans or conforms to the requirements of the California Retail Food Code. Existing law provides that a permit is only valid for the person, location, type of food sales, or distribution activity and, unless suspended or revoked for cause, for the time period indicated. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is a misdemeanor.This bill would include in the definition of a community event a farmers’ market or night market conducted for not more than 90 consecutive or nonconsecutive days in a 12-month period. The bill would require a permit issued for a temporary food facility that operates at a farmers’ market or night market to be valid for all locations of that community event. The bill would designate a permit issued pursuant to these provisions as a farmers’ market or night market temporary food facility permit. By creating a new type of permit to be issued, thereby imposing duties on local enforcement agencies, and by changing the definition of 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
CA AB 442 - Carlos Villapudua
State summary criminal history information.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 442, as amended, Villapudua. State summary criminal history information. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, if needed in the course of their duties, including public defenders or attorneys of record when representing a person in criminal appeals and postconviction motions. Existing law makes it a crime for a person authorized by law to receive state summary criminal history information to knowingly furnish that information to a person who is not authorized to receive it.This bill would additionally authorize the department to provide a state summary criminal history information to a public defender or an attorney with a qualified legal services project or nonprofit, if the information is requested in the course of consultation or representation, on behalf of a prospective client or client who is the subject of state summary criminal history information, and the subject of the information gives informed written consent to the information being furnished. By expanding the scope of a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 446 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Pupil instruction: handwriting.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 446, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Pupil instruction: handwriting. (1) Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, and visual and performing arts, as specified. With respect to the study of English, existing law requires that instruction to include knowledge of, and appreciation for, literature and the language, as well as the skills of speaking, reading, listening, spelling, handwriting, and composition.This bill would require handwriting instruction for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to include instruction in cursive or joined italics in the appropriate grade levels. To the extent that this bill would impose new duties on local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.(2) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 51210 of the Education Code proposed by AB 285 and SB 509 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.(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.
CA AB 447 - David D. Cortese
Public postsecondary education: students with disabilities: inclusive college programs.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 447, as amended, Arambula. Public postsecondary education: students with disabilities: inclusive college programs. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that public higher education in California strive to provide educationally equitable environments that give each Californian, regardless of age, economic circumstance, or certain specified characteristics, including mental disability, a reasonable opportunity to develop fully their potential.This bill, subject to an appropriation for its purposes, would expressly authorize the California State University, and request the University of California, to establish and maintain inclusive college programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities at 4-year public postsecondary educational institutions, as provided. The bill would request inclusive college programs operated by the California State University, and inclusive college programs operated by the University of California, to do certain things, including, among other things, provide students with a person-centered planning process and the opportunity to pursue an educational credential, including, but not limited to, a degree, certificate, or nondegree credential issued by the institution.
CA AB 448 - Juan Carrillo
Juveniles: relative placement: family finding.
01/30/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 448, Juan Carrillo. Juveniles: relative placement: family finding. (1) Existing law requires a county social worker to investigate the circumstances of each child taken into temporary custody by a peace officer under specified circumstances. Existing law requires the social worker to conduct an investigation, within 30 days of the child’s removal, to identify and locate adult relatives of the child, as specified, and to provide them with a notification that the child has been removed from the custody of the child’s parents, guardians, or Indian custodian, and an explanation of the various options to participate in the care and placement of the child. This bill would require the social worker to conduct the investigation to identify and locate adult relatives, immediately, and no later than 30 days, after the child has been taken into temporary custody.(2) Existing law establishes procedures for an initial petition hearing by the juvenile court if a child is being taken into temporary custody. Existing law requires a social worker to report to the court the reasons the child was removed from the parent’s, guardian’s, or Indian custodian’s physical custody and the need, if any, for continued detention, available services, and if there are any relatives who are willing and able to take temporary physical custody of the child.This bill would additionally require the social worker to report to the court what efforts, and in the case of an Indian child, the active efforts, as defined, and findings the social worker has made to locate any relatives or kin who could provide family support or possible placement of the child or nonminor dependent and the names of those relatives or kin.(3) Existing law provides that a child may be adjudged to be a dependent of the juvenile court because of abuse or neglect, and that after this determination, the court is required to hear evidence on the question of the proper disposition to be made of the child. Existing law requires that before determining the appropriate disposition, the court receive in evidence, among other things, the social study of the child made by the social worker and evaluation made by a child advocate appointed by the court. Existing law further prescribes the information that is required to be included in that social study or evaluation, including the appropriateness of any relative placement. Existing law requires the court to review the status of every dependent child in foster care no less frequently than once every 6 months and requires a supplemental report to be filed as part of that review.This bill would additionally require the social study, and any supplemental report, to include the efforts, and in the case of an Indian child, the active efforts, as defined, and findings that the social worker has made to locate any relatives or kin who could provide family support or possible placement of the child or nonminor dependent and the name of those relatives or kin. The bill would also require the court, in conducting the periodic status review, to additionally determine whether the social worker has continued efforts, and in the case of an Indian child, the active efforts, as defined, to locate any relatives or kin who could provide family support or possible placement of the child and the names of those relatives or kin.(4) Existing law requires a probation officer, upon delivery of a minor who has been taken into temporary custody, to immediately investigate the circumstances of the minor and the facts surrounding the minor being taken into custody and to immediately release the minor to the custody of their parent, legal guardian, or responsible relative, including a grandparent, adult sibling, or other relative, unless evidence before the court demonstrates that continuance in the home is contrary to the child’s welfare, as specified.This bill would additionally require that the probation officer, if it is known or there is reason to know the child is an Indian
CA AB 455 - Diane Papan
Firearms: prohibited persons.
09/11/2023 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 455, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Firearms: prohibited persons. Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of a felony offense or a specified misdemeanor domestic violence offense from possessing or receiving a firearm. Existing law prohibits a person who has been convicted of specified misdemeanor offenses within the previous 10 years from possessing or receiving a firearm. Existing law prohibits a person who has been taken into custody because that person is a danger to themselves or others, or has been certified for intensive treatment due to a mental disorder or mental illness, from possessing or receiving a firearm, as specified. Existing law prohibits a person who has been placed under conservatorship by a court, has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial, has been found not guilty of specified crimes due to reason of insanity, has been adjudicated by a court to be a danger to others as a result of a mental disorder or mental illness, or who has been adjudicated to be a mentally disordered sex offender from possessing or receiving a firearm, as specified. A violation of any of the prohibitions is punishable as a crime.Existing law authorizes a court to grant pretrial diversion, for a period no longer than 2 years, to a defendant suffering from a mental disorder, on an accusatory pleading alleging the commission of a misdemeanor or felony offense, in order to allow the defendant to undergo mental health treatment.This bill would, on July 1, 2024, authorize the prosecution to request an order from the court, as specified, to prohibit a defendant subject to pretrial diversion from owning or possessing a firearm because they are a danger to themselves or others until they successfully complete diversion or their firearm rights are restored, as specified.By expanding the application of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1001.36 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 1412 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1412 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA AB 459 - Matt Haney
Contracts against public policy: personal or professional services: digital replicas.
09/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
AB 459, as amended, Kalra. Contracts against public policy: personal or professional services: digital replicas. Existing law prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or applicant for employment to agree, in writing, to any term or condition that is known by the employer to be illegal. Existing law provides that certain contractual agreements between an employer and employee are against public policy, including specified provisions affecting an employee’s membership in a labor organization and the protection of state law in employment. Under existing law, enforcement of state labor laws is generally committed to the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations, under the direction of the Labor Commissioner.This bill would provide that a provision in an agreement between an individual and any other person for the performance of personal or professional services is contrary to public policy and deemed unconscionable if the provision meets specified conditions relating to the use of a digital replica of the voice or likeness of an individual in lieu of the work of the individual or to train a generative artificial intelligence system. The bill would provide that it shall apply retroactively. The bill would require any person who is currently under, or has entered into, an agreement with an individual performing personal or professional services containing such a provision, by February 1, 2024, to notify that individual in writing that the provision is unenforceable.
CA AB 467 - Jesse Gabriel
Domestic violence: restraining orders.
06/29/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 14, Statutes of 2023.
AB 467, Gabriel. Domestic violence: restraining orders. Existing law allows the court to issue a protective order restraining a defendant from any contact with the victim if the defendant has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence, human trafficking, a crime in furtherance of a criminal street gang, or a registerable sex offense. Under existing law, the protective order may be valid for up to 10 years, as determined by the court.This bill would clarify that the order may be modified by the sentencing court in the county in which it was issued throughout the duration of the order.
CA AB 473 - Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry
Motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 473, as amended, Aguiar-Curry. Motor vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. Existing law establishes the New Motor Vehicle Board in the Department of Motor Vehicles, and requires the board to hear and decide certain protests presented by a motor vehicle franchisee in regard to a dispute with the vehicle manufacturer.Existing law prohibits a franchisor from engaging in specified proscribed business practices. A violation of the Vehicle Code is punishable as an infraction.This bill would prohibit additional acts, including allocating vehicles and parts inconsistent with specified standards.Existing law prohibits a licensed manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, or affiliate from engaging in specified proscribed business practices, including establishing or maintaining a performance standard, sales objective, or program for measuring a dealer’s sales, service, or customer service performance, unless specified requirements are satisfied. A violation of the Vehicle Code is punishable as an infraction.This bill would prohibit additional acts, including exercising a right of first refusal in bad faith and implementing or modifying a vehicle reservation system for the sale or lease of motor vehicles that does not comply with specified requirements.This bill would additionally provide that a licensed manufacturer, manufacturer branch, distributor, distributor branch, or affiliate is not unlawfully competing with a franchise by providing an update or repair of motor vehicle software over-the-air at no cost or by creating a new line of motor vehicles and using new or existing franchisees to sell and service those vehicles. The bill would also declare the severability of its provisions.Because a violation of these new provisions would be punishable as a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill includes legislative findings and declarations and would make other conforming changes.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.
CA AB 481 - Wendy Maria Carrillo
Dentistry: dental assistants.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 481, as amended, Wendy Carrillo. Dentistry: dental assistants. (1) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, establishes the Dental Board of California for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants.Existing law sets forth requirements for licensure as a registered dental assistant and as a registered dental assistant in extended functions, and sets forth duties and functions that a registered dental assistant or a registered dental assistant in extended function is authorized to perform.This bill would revise and recast those provisions.(2) Existing law specifies a dental assistant is an individual who, without a license, may perform basic supportive dental procedures, as specified, and sets forth the responsibilities of a supervising licensed dentist, including ensuring that a dental assistant has completed specified courses. Existing law sets forth the duties and functions a dental assistant is authorized to perform.This bill would revise the responsibilities of a supervising dentist relating to an unlicensed dental assistant, and the functions and duties that an unlicensed dental assistant is authorized to perform. The bill would revise the course requirements for an unlicensed dental assistant, including by requiring the verification that the dental assistant has completed specified preceptorship and work experience requirements by an affidavit signed under penalty of perjury by the preceptor or the supervising dentist, as provided. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require an unlicensed dental assistant to obtain a certificate of completion of radiation safety to perform radiographic procedures.(3) Existing law establishes requirements for obtaining an orthodontic assistant permit or a dental sedation assistant permit from the board, including licensure as a registered dental assistant, and sets forth the duties and functions that a person holding an orthodontic assistant permit or a dental sedation assistant permit may perform.This bill would revise the requirements to obtain an orthodontic assistant permit and would revise the duties and functions that a person holding an orthodontic assistant permit is authorized to perform.This bill would revise and recast the requirements to obtain a dental sedation assistant permit, including requiring licensure as a dental assistant, registered dental assistant, or registered dental assistant in extended functions and would revise the duties and functions that a person holding a dental sedation assistant permit is authorized to perform.(4) 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.
CA AB 483 - David D. Cortese
Local educational agency: Medi-Cal billing option.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 483, Muratsuchi. Local educational agency: Medi-Cal billing option. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed by, and funded pursuant to, federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes the Administrative Claiming process under which the department is authorized to contract with local governmental agencies and local educational consortia for the purpose of obtaining federal matching funds to assist with the performance of administrative activities relating to the Medi-Cal program that are provided by a local governmental agency or local educational agency (LEA).Existing law requires the department to engage in specified activities relating to the LEA Medi-Cal Billing Option, including amending the Medicaid state plan to ensure that schools are reimbursed for all eligible services, consulting with specified entities in formulating state plan amendments, examining methodologies for increasing school participation in the LEA Medi-Cal Billing Option, and conducting an audit of a Medi-Cal Billing Option claim consistent with prescribed requirements, such as generally accepted accounting principles. Existing law requires the department to issue and regularly maintain a program guide for the LEA Medi-Cal Billing Option program. Existing law requires the department to file an annual report with the Legislature that includes, among other things, a summary of department activities.This bill would require the department, when conducting an audit of a Medi-Cal Billing Option claim, to complete the audit and notify the LEA of the findings within 18 months of the date that the Cost and Reimbursement Comparison Schedule (CRCS) is submitted. The bill would require the department to provide an interim settlement or final settlement within 12 months of the March 1 due date for the CRCS. The bill would require the department to update and distribute the program guide to all participating LEAs by July 1, 2024, as specified. The bill would require the department’s summary of activities in the above-described report to also include training for LEAs and a summary of the number of audits conducted of Medi-Cal Billing Option claims, as specified. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
CA AB 491 - Greg Wallis
Local government: fines and penalties.
09/25/2023 - Measure version as amended on September 13 corrected.
AB 491, as amended, Wallis. Local government: fines and penalties. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, to make, by ordinance, a violation of an ordinance subject to an administrative fine or penalty, as specified. Existing law requires the local agency to set forth by ordinance the administrative procedures that govern the imposition, enforcement, collection, and administrative review by the local agency of those administrative fines or penalties. Existing law authorizes a person contesting a final administrative order or decision to seek review by filing an appeal to be heard by the superior court, as specified.This bill would authorize a local agency to establish, by ordinance, a procedure to collect those administrative fines or penalties by lien upon the parcel of land on which the violation occurred, as specified.This bill would authorize a local agency, after the exhaustion of the administrative and appeal procedures referenced above, to file with the clerk of the superior court of any county a certified copy of a final decision of the local agency that directs the payment of an administrative fine or penalty and, if applicable, a copy of an order of the superior court rendered on an appeal from the local agency’s decision. The bill would require the clerk to enter the judgment immediately and prohibit the clerk from charging fees related to that requirement.This bill would make the above-described appeal the exclusive means of judicial review for an administrative fine or penalty that does not exceed a specified amount and that is imposed for violation of a local law regulating or prohibiting commercial cannabis activity, as specified.This bill would make the remedies and penalties provided by the above-described provisions governing the imposition, enforcement, collection, administrative review, and appeal of administrative fines and penalties cumulative to the remedies or penalties available under other law.
CA AB 497 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Special education: braille instructional aide: notice of teacher credentialing programs.
06/29/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 15, Statutes of 2023.
AB 497, Quirk-Silva. Special education: braille instructional aide: notice of teacher credentialing programs. Existing law authorizes a local educational agency to reinforce braille instruction using a braille instructional aide who meets specified criteria under the supervision of a teacher who holds an appropriate credential to teach pupils who are functionally blind or visually impaired. Existing law requires a local educational agency to provide a braille instructional aide with information regarding certain teacher credentialing programs, including the Wildman-Keeley-Solis Exemplary Teacher Training Act of 1997 and the Teacher Education Internship Act of 1967.Existing law establishes the California Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program as a grant program for purposes of encouraging classified school employees to enroll in teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as teachers in the public schools, as specified.This bill would require a local educational agency to provide a braille instructional aide with information regarding the California Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program, which substantially revised and renamed the Wildman-Keeley-Solis Exemplary Teacher Training Act of 1997.
CA AB 505 - Philip Y. Ting
The Office of Youth and Community Restoration.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 505, as amended, Ting. The Office of Youth and Community Restoration. (1) Existing law creates the Office of Youth and Community Restoration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to promote trauma-responsive, culturally informed services for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, as specified. Existing law grants the office the responsibility and authority to report on youth outcomes, identify policy recommendations, identify and disseminate best practices, and provide technical assistance to develop and expand local youth diversion opportunities.Existing law requires the office to have an ombudsperson and authorizes the ombudspersons to, among other things, investigate complaints from youth and access facilities serving youth involved in the juvenile justice system with advanced notice of a minimum of 48 hours to the agency in control of the facility. Existing law requires the ombudsperson to publish and provide regular reports to the Legislature regarding data collected concerning, among other things, investigations performed by the ombudsperson.This bill would authorize an ombudsperson to access a facility at any time without prior notice to the operator of the facility. The bill would require the ombudsperson to have access to, review, receive, and make copies of any record of a local agency, including all juvenile facility records at all times, expect as otherwise prohibited. The bill would authorize the ombudsperson to meet or communicate privately with any youth, personnel, or volunteer in a juvenile facility and interview any relevant witnesses. The bill would authorize the ombudsperson to interview sworn probation personnel in accordance with applicable federal and state law, local probation department policies, and collective bargaining agreements. The bill would require the ombudsperson to be granted access to youth at all times, and would require the ombudsperson to be able to take notes, audio or video recording, or photographs during the meeting or communication with youth, to the extent not otherwise prohibited by applicable federal or state law. The bill would also require the ombudsperson to include recommendations for improving the juvenile justice system in their regular reports regarding data annually collected and made publicly available on the office’s internet website. (2) Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections, with the mission of providing statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California’s adult and juvenile criminal justice system. Existing law requires the judge of the juvenile court of a county to inspect any jail, juvenile hall, or special purpose juvenile hall that was used for the confinement of a juvenile for more than 24 hours in the preceding calendar year, as specified. Existing law requires the court to notify the operator of the facility of any observed noncompliance, and make a finding of suitability of the facility for the confinement of juveniles. Existing law requires the board to conduct a biennial inspection of each jail, juvenile hall, lockup, special purpose juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or secure youth treatment facility, as specified.This bill would additionally require a judge of the juvenile court to inspect any lockup, camp, ranch, or secure youth treatment facility that was used for the confinement of any juvenile for more than 24 hours in the preceding calendar year, as specified.(3) Existing law generally provides for the confidentiality of information regarding a minor in proceedings in the juvenile court and related court proceedings and limits access to juvenile case files. Existing law authorizes only certain individuals to inspect a juvenile case file, including, among others, the minor, the minor’s parents or guardian, and the attorneys for the parties. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to disseminate information obtained pu
CA AB 51 - Mia Bonta
Early childcare and education.
09/13/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Ashby.
AB 51, as amended, Bonta. Early childcare and education. (1) Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. Existing law authorizes a local educational agency that elects to operate an expanded learning opportunity program to operate a before school component of a program, an after school component of a program, or both, and requires the local educational agency to comply with specified requirements, including the development of a program plan based on specified things, including that programs serving transitional kindergarten or kindergarten pupils maintain a pupil-to-staff ratio of no more than 10 to 1.This bill would also include, as part of the program plan, a requirement that an extended learning opportunity program serving transitional kindergarten pupils be developmentally appropriate for pupils in transitional kindergarten.(2) The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program. The act requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Social Services and the executive director of the State Board of Education, to convene a statewide interestholder workgroup, as provided, to provide recommendations on best practices for increasing access to high-quality universal preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children offered through a mixed-delivery model that provides equitable learning experiences across a variety of settings and recommendations to update preschool standards, as provided.This bill would request the University of California to study the impact of transitional kindergarten on the early childcare and education ecosystem, as provided, and to submit the preliminary results of that study to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature on or before December 31, 2025, and the final results on or before December 31, 2027.(3) The Early Education Act authorizes school districts and charter schools that administer a California state preschool program to place 4-year-old children in a transitional kindergarten, as provided. The act also establishes the California Universal Preschool Planning Grant Program with the goal of expanding access universally to preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children across the state through a mixed-delivery system, as defined. The act requires the Superintendent to establish rules and regulations for the staffing of all preschool programs under contract with the State Department of Education.This bill would, notwithstanding any provision of the act to the contrary, require the Superintendent to establish rules and regulations for the commingling of children participating in California state preschool programs with children supported through other state- or federally subsidized programs and private funding. The bill would, until such time as the Superintendent establishes those rules and regulations, authorize children in California state preschool programs to be commingled with children from other state- or federally subsidized programs and private funding, as provided.This bill would, notwithstanding any provision of the act to contrary, require the State Department of Education to, among other things, provide prospective California state preschool program providers an equitable opportunity to establish a trained workforce and administrative systems, and technical assistance on how to meet the requirements of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, including applicants that have either not received a California state preschool program contract within the last 5 years or can demonstrate a negative financial impact due to the implementation of transitional kindergarten expansion. The bill would, among other things, require the department to develop early learning resources, as specified, and to develop and implement a proactive one-time 3-year outreach, capacity building, training, and technical assistance plan that targets prospective and new contr
CA AB 518 - Buffy Wicks
Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons.
09/13/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Durazo.
AB 518, as amended, Wicks. Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons. Existing unemployment compensation disability law requires workers to pay contribution rates based on, among other things, wages received in employment and benefit disbursement, for payment into the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund, a special fund in the State Treasury. That fund is continuously appropriated for the purpose of providing disability benefits and making payment of expenses in administering those provisions.Existing law establishes, within the above state disability insurance program, a family temporary disability insurance program, also known as the paid family leave program, for the provision of wage replacement benefits for up to 8 weeks to workers who take time off work for prescribed purposes, including to care for a seriously ill family member. Existing law defines terms for its purposes, including “family care leave” and “family member.”This bill would expand eligibility for benefits under the paid family leave program to include individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill designated person. The bill would define “designated person” to mean any individual related by blood or whose association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship. The bill would authorize the employee to identify the designated person when they file a claim for benefits. The bill would make conforming changes to the definitions of the terms “family care leave” and “family member.” The bill would make these changes operative on and after November 1, 2024.By authorizing expenditures from the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund for a new purpose, this bill would make an appropriation.This bill would incorporate additional substantive changes to Sections 3301, 3302, and 3303 of the Unemployment Insurance Code proposed by AB 575 to be operative only if this bill and AB 575 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 524 - Buffy Wicks
Discrimination: family caregiver status.
01/29/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 524, Wicks. Discrimination: family caregiver status. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), which is enforced by the Civil Rights Department, prohibits various forms of employment discrimination and recognizes the opportunity to seek, obtain, and hold employment without specified forms of discrimination as a civil right. The act also makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, among other things, to refuse to hire or employ a person because of various personal characteristics, conditions, or traits.This bill would prohibit employment discrimination on account of family caregiver status, as defined, and would recognize the opportunity to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination because of family caregiver status as a civil right, as specified.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 12926 of the Government Code proposed by SB 403 to be operative only if this bill and SB 403 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 527 - Lisa Calderon
Urban forestry: school greening projects: grants.
07/10/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
AB 527, as amended, Calderon. Urban forestry: school greening projects: grants. The California Urban Forestry Act of 1978 has a purpose of, among other things, promoting the use of urban forest resources for purposes of increasing integrated projects with multiple benefits in urban communities. The act requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to implement a program in urban forestry to encourage better tree management and planting in urban areas to increase integrated, multiple-benefit projects by assisting urban areas with innovative solutions to problems, as provided. The act authorizes the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection to make grants to provide assistance of 25% to 90% of costs for projects, as provided.This bill would require funds appropriated or allocated to the department for the bill’s purposes to be administered to support school greening, as defined, by providing grants to eligible local educational agencies, as defined, nonprofit organizations, cities, counties, and districts, including special districts, through a competitive grant process that the bill would require the department to develop, including guidelines and selection criteria, as specified, on or before July 1, 2024. The bill would require the department, before developing the grant process, to hold at least 2 public hearings to gather public input on the grant process development. The bill would, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, require funding for these purposes to be transferred to the School Greening and Resiliency Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury.
CA AB 533 - Vince Fong
Charter schools: establishment of a charter school.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 533, as introduced, Vince Fong. Charter schools: establishment of a charter school. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to grant or deny a charter petition within 90 days of receipt of the petition unless the petitioner and school district agree to a 30-day extension. Existing law authorizes a petitioner to submit the petition to the county board of education on appeal within 30 days of a governing board’s denial of a petition. Under existing law, if either the county board of education or the state board fails to act on the appeal of a charter petition within 180 days of receipt, the decision of the governing board of the school district to deny the charter is subject to judicial review.This bill would additionally authorize a petitioner to submit a charter petition to the county board of education on appeal within 30 days if the governing board of the school district fails to take action on the charter within the prescribed time period. To the extent these provisions would impose additional duties on county boards of education, 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, 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.
CA AB 551 - Steve Bennett
Medi-Cal: specialty mental health services: foster children.
07/05/2023 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 551, as amended, Bennett. Medi-Cal: specialty mental health services: foster children. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services (department), under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, specialty mental health services include federal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) services provided to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries under 21 years of age. Existing law requires each local mental health plan to establish a procedure to ensure access to outpatient specialty mental health services, as required by the EPSDT program standards, for youth in foster care who have been placed outside their county of adjudication, as described.Existing law requires the department to issue policy guidance on the conditions for, and exceptions to, presumptive transfer of responsibility for providing or arranging for specialty mental health services to a foster youth from the county of original jurisdiction to the county in which the foster youth resides, as prescribed. On a case-by-case basis, and when consistent with the medical rights of children in foster care, existing law authorizes the waiver of presumptive transfer, with the responsibility for the provision of specialty mental health services remaining with the county of original jurisdiction if certain exceptions exist. Under existing law, the county probation agency or the child welfare services agency is responsible for determining whether waiver of the presumptive transfer is appropriate, with notice provided to the person requesting the exception.Under existing law, commencing July 1, 2023, in the case of placement of foster children in short-term residential therapeutic programs, community treatment facilities, or group homes, or in the case of admission of foster children to children’s crisis residential programs, the county of original jurisdiction is required to retain responsibility and presumptive transfer provisions apply only if certain circumstances exist.This bill, for purposes of foster children placed or admitted in those specific settings, would delay, until July 1, 2024, the requirement on the county of original jurisdiction to retain responsibility and the limitation on the presumptive transfer provisions. By extending the period during which a county agency is responsible for making determinations about presumptive transfer waivers and making certain notifications, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law conditions implementation of the above-described provisions on the availability of federal financial participation and receipt of all necessary federal approvals. If the department makes the determination that it is necessary to seek federal approval, existing law requires the department to make an official request for approval from the federal government no later than July 1, 2024.This bill would delay the deadline for any necessary federal approval requests to July 1, 2025.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 bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 555 - Juan Carrillo
California state preschool programs: reimbursement amounts: adjustment factors.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 555, as amended, Juan Carrillo. California state preschool programs: reimbursement amounts: adjustment factors. Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law requires each state preschool program applicant or contracting agency to give priority for part-day and full-day programs according to a specified priority ranking. Existing law requires the 3rd priority for services to be given to eligible 4-year-old children who are not enrolled in a state-funded transitional kindergarten program and requires the 4th priority to be given to eligible 3-year-old children.This bill would instead require the 3rd priority for services to be given to eligible 3- and 4-year old children who are not enrolled in a state-funded transitional kindergarten program, and would revise the remaining priorities accordingly.Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, which vary with the length of the program year and the hours of service, for purposes of the act. Existing law requires those contractors who, as of December 31, 2021, received the established?standard reimbursement rate to be reimbursed at the greater of the 75th percentile of the?2018?regional market rate survey or the contract per-child reimbursement amount as of December 31, 2021, as increased by a specified cost-of-living adjustment.This bill would instead require, for a contract whose period of performance begins on and after July 1, 2023, the contract reimbursement to be based on the lesser of the maximum reimbursable amount stated in the contract, the net reimbursable program costs, or the product of the adjusted child days of enrollment for certified children times the contract rate set forth in the above-described provisions. Existing law establishes adjustment factors to reflect the additional expense of serving full-day and part-day preschool children who have exceptional needs, are being provided with early childhood mental health consultation services, or are 47 months or younger, as provided. Existing law additionally establishes adjustment factors to reflect the additional expense of serving full-day preschool children who are at risk of neglect, abuse, or exploitation or who are dual language learners. Existing law prohibits days of enrollment for children who meet more than one of the criteria eligible for adjustment from being reported under more than one of those categories. This bill would, on and after July 1, 2024, additionally apply those adjustment factors for children who are at risk of neglect, abuse, or exploitation or who are dual language learners to part-day preschool children. The bill would also eliminate the prohibition on reporting children under more than one of the above-specified categories eligible for adjustment and make conforming changes.
CA AB 557 - Gregg Hart
Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 557, Hart. Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences. (1) Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body of a local agency, as those terms are defined, be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act contains specified provisions regarding providing for the ability of the public to observe and provide comment. The act allows for meetings to occur via teleconferencing subject to certain requirements, particularly that the legislative body notice each teleconference location of each member that will be participating in the public meeting, that each teleconference location be accessible to the public, that members of the public be allowed to address the legislative body at each teleconference location, that the legislative body post an agenda at each teleconference location, and that at least a quorum of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the local agency’s jurisdiction. The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined.Existing law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use teleconferencing without complying with those specified teleconferencing requirements in specified circumstances when a declared state of emergency is in effect. Those circumstances are that (1) state or local officials have imposed or recommended measures to promote social distancing, (2) the legislative body is meeting for the purpose of determining whether, as a result of the emergency, meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety of attendees, or (3) the legislative body has previously made that determination. If there is a continuing state of emergency, or if state or local officials have imposed or recommended measures to promote social distancing, existing law requires a legislative body to make specified findings not later than 30 days after the first teleconferenced meeting, and to make those findings every 30 days thereafter, in order to continue to meet under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures.Existing law requires a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures to give notice of the meeting and post agendas, as described, to allow members of the public to access the meeting and address the legislative body, to give notice of the means by which members of the public may access the meeting and offer public comment, including an opportunity for all persons to attend via a call-in option or an internet-based service option. Existing law prohibits a legislative body that holds a teleconferenced meeting under these abbreviated teleconferencing procedures from requiring public comments to be submitted in advance of the meeting and would specify that the legislative body must provide an opportunity for the public to address the legislative body and offer comment in real time.This bill would revise the authority of a legislative body to hold a teleconference meeting under those abbreviated teleconferencing procedures when a declared state of emergency is in effect. Specifically, the bill would extend indefinitely that authority in the circumstances under which the legislative body either (1) meets for the purpose of determining whether, as a result of the emergency, meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety of attendees, or (2) has previously made that determination. The bill would also extend the period for a legislative body to make the above-described findings related to a continuing state of emergency to not later than 45 days after the first teleconferenced meeting, and every 45 days thereafter, in order to continue to meet under the abbreviated teleconferencing procedures.The bill would additionally make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions and correct erroneous cross-references.(2) T
CA AB 56 - Thomas W. Lackey
Victim’s compensation: emotional injuries.
09/13/2023 - In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 56, as amended, Lackey. Victim’s compensation: emotional injuries. Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes, including emotional injuries where the crime was a violation of specified provisions.This bill would expand eligibility for compensation to include emotional injuries from felony violations of, among other things, attempted murder, rape and sexual assault, mayhem, and stalking.By expanding the authorization for the use of moneys in the continuously appropriated Restitution Fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
CA AB 575 - Diane Papan
Paid family leave.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 575, as amended, Papan. Paid family leave. (1) Existing law authorizes the Employment Development Department to administer the disability insurance compensation program, which includes family temporary disability insurance benefits or paid family leave. Existing law requires the department to develop a certification form for an employee taking leave to bond with a minor child within the first year of the child’s birth or placement in connection with foster care or adoption. Commencing February 1, 2025, this bill would instead require the department to develop a certification form for an employee taking leave to bond with a minor child within one year of the child’s birth, placement of the child in connection with foster care or adoption, or an individual’s assumption of responsibilities for the child in loco parentis. (2) Under existing law, the family temporary disability insurance program provides up to 8 weeks of wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off work to care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, domestic partner, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or parent-in-law, to bond with a minor child within one year of the birth or placement of the child in connection with foster care or adoption, or who take time off to participate in a qualifying exigency related to the covered active duty or call to covered active duty of the individual’s spouse, domestic partner, child, or parent in the Armed Forces of the United States. Existing law defines certain terms for these purposes. Existing law provides that a worker is not eligible for those benefits in specified circumstances, including, among others, if another family member is ready, willing, and able and available for the same period of time in a day that the individual is providing care or participating in the above-described qualifying exigency, as specified. Existing law authorizes an employer to require a worker to take up to 2 weeks of earned but unused vacation leave before receiving benefits under the program. Commencing February 1, 2025, this bill would expand the program to provide benefits to workers who take time off work to bond with a minor child within one year of assuming responsibilities of a child in loco parentis, as defined. For periods of disability commencing on or after February 1, 2025, the bill would prohibit the application of the above-described eligibility restriction relating to another family member being ready, willing, and able and available for the same period of time. For periods of disability commencing on or after February 1, 2025, the bill would prohibit the application of the authorization for an employer to require a worker to take vacation leave before receiving benefits. The bill would make conforming changes.(3) Under existing law, workers are required to pay contributions to the Unemployment Compensation Disability Fund, a special fund in the State Treasury, and those funds are continuously appropriated for the purpose of providing disability benefits and making payment of administrative expenses.By authorizing expenditure of these funds for a new purpose, this bill would make an appropriation.(4) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2708 of the Unemployment Insurance Code proposed by SB 667 to be operative only if this bill and SB 667 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.(5) This bill would incorporate additional substantive changes to Sections 3301, 3302, and 3303 of the Unemployment Insurance Code proposed by AB 518 to be operative only if this bill and AB 518 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 578 - Marc Berman
Multifamily Housing Program: No Place Like Home Program.
08/21/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 578, as amended, Berman. Multifamily Housing Program: No Place Like Home Program. (1) Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to administer various programs intended to promote the development of housing, including the Multifamily Housing Program, pursuant to which the department provides financial assistance in the form of deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development for specified activities.Under existing law, the principal and accumulated interest of a loan issued under the Multifamily Housing Program is due and payable upon the completion of the term of the loan. Existing law prohibits the amount of the required loan payments from exceeding 0.42% per annum for the first 30 years of the loan term.This bill would prohibit, for the first 30 years of the loan term, the amount of the required loan payments from exceeding 0.42% per annum or $260 per assisted unit, whichever is less. The bill would authorize the department to adjust the $260 cap for inflation based on the California Consumer Price Index, as specified.(2) Existing law, known as the No Place Like Home Program, requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to award $2,000,000,000 among counties to finance capital costs, including, but not limited to, acquisition, design, construction, rehabilitation, or preservation, and to capitalize operating reserves, of permanent supportive housing for the target population, as specified. Existing law establishes the No Place Like Home Fund, requires specified moneys to be deposited in the fund, and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund for the program. Existing law requires loans for capital costs made by the department under the program to be in the form of secured deferred payment loans to pay for the eligible costs of development. Existing law prohibits the amount of the required loan payments from exceeding 0.42% per annum for the first 15 years of the loan term.This bill would prohibit, for the first 15 years of the loan term, the amount of the required loan payments from exceeding 0.42% per annum or $260 per assisted unit, whichever is less. The bill would authorize the department to adjust the $260 cap for inflation based on the California Consumer Price Index, as specified.The No Place Like Home Program was ratified and amended by the No Place Like Home Act of 2018, approved by the voters as Proposition 2 at the November 6, 2018, statewide general election. Existing law authorizes the Legislature to amend Proposition 2 by a 2/3 vote, so long as the amendment is consistent with and furthers the intent of that measure.The bill would state the finding of the Legislature that these provisions are consistent with, and further the intent of, the No Place Like Home Act of 2018.
CA AB 583 - Buffy Wicks
Birthing Justice for California Families Pilot Project.
05/03/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 583, as amended, Wicks. Birthing Justice for California Families Pilot Project. Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information, which administers, among other programs, the California Reproductive Health Equity Program to ensure abortion and contraception services are affordable for and accessible to all patients and to provide financial support for safety net providers of these services. Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services pursuant to a schedule of benefits. Existing law requires the department to convene a workgroup to examine the implementation of the Medi-Cal doula benefit, as specified, and, no later than July 1, 2024, to publish a report that addresses the number of Medi-Cal recipients utilizing doula services and identifies barriers that impede access to doula services, among other things. This bill would establish the Birthing Justice for California Families Pilot Project, which would include a 3-year grant program administered by the Department of Health Care Access and Information to provide grants to specified entities, including community-based doula groups, to provide full-spectrum doula care to pregnant and birthing people who are low income and do not qualify for Medi-Cal or who are from communities that experience high rates of negative birth outcomes. The bill would require the department to take specified actions with regard to awarding grants, including awarding grants to selected entities on or before January 1, 2025. The bill would require a grant recipient to use grants funds to pay for the costs associated with providing full-spectrum doula care to eligible individuals and establishing and managing doula services. The bill would require a grant recipient, in setting the payment rate for a doula being paid with grant funds, to comply with specified parameters, including that the payment rate not be less than the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for doulas or the median rate paid for doula care in existing local pilot projects providing doula care in California, whichever is higher. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2028, to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the expenditure of funds and relevant outcome data for the pilot project. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029.
CA AB 589 - Tasha Boerner
Homeless youth: transitional housing.
01/25/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 589, Boerner. Homeless youth: transitional housing. Existing law establishes homeless youth emergency service pilot projects in the City of Los Angeles and the City and County of San Francisco providing services to homeless minors, including food and access to an overnight shelter and counseling to address immediate emotional crises or problems. Existing law also requires similar programs to be established in the Counties of San Diego and Santa Clara, and all of these programs to be operated by an agency in accordance with a grant award agreement with the Office of Emergency Services.Existing law requires the Governor to create the California Interagency Council on Homelessness and specifies the duties of the council. Existing law requires agencies and departments administering state programs to collaborate with the council to adopt guidelines and regulations to incorporate core components of Housing First, which include, among other things, a tenant screening process that accepts applicants regardless of sobriety, not rejecting applicants based on poor credit or financial history, and prohibiting participation in services or program compliance from being a requirement for permanent housing.This bill, until January 1, 2027, and upon appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes, would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish the Unicorn Homes Transitional Housing for Homeless LGBTQ+ Youth Program, to be administered by local community-based organizations that provide a majority of its services to the LGBTQ+ community. The bill would require the department to fund community-based organizations in the participating Counties of San Diego and Sacramento that provide transitional housing for LGBTQ+ youth, 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, experiencing homelessness due to family rejection, with the ultimate goal of reunification with the youth’s original family. The bill would require the community-based organization to place eligible youth with volunteer host families who meet specified criteria, pursuant to the results of a background check, and who are able to provide crisis intervention with a trauma-informed approach, as defined, to their care. The bill would also require the program to comply with the existing core components of Housing First.The bill would require each community-based organization to prepare and submit an annual report to the department, with the first report due on or before December 1, 2024, and a final report due on or before June 30, 2026, which would be required to include specified information, including the number of times the organization was contacted by youths, how many of those contacts became participants in the program, and how many of those initial contacts became repeat contacts. The bill would also require the department to compile the annual reports into a final report, to be submitted to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2026.
CA AB 596 - S. Monique Limon
Early learning and care: rate reform.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 596, as amended, Reyes. Early learning and care: rate reform. (1) Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, as specified. Existing law requires the state and Child Care Providers United - California to establish a Joint Labor Management Committee to develop recommendations for a single reimbursement rate structure that has specified characteristics, and requires the Joint Labor Management Committee to present those recommendations to the Department of Finance no later than November 15, 2022. Existing law also requires the department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to convene a working group to assess the existing quality standards for childcare and development and preschool programs and the methodology for establishing reimbursement rates for those programs, and requires the working group to provide recommendations relating to specified topics to a specified Joint Labor Management Committee, the Department of Finance, and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee no later than August 15, 2022.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to develop an alternative methodology for calculating subsidy payment rates for child care and development services and California state preschool program services that build upon and align with the recommendations of the working group and Joint Labor Management Committee, and that uses a cost estimation model, as specified. The bill would require the department to develop an interim transition plan, if necessary, to implement the alternative methodology, as specified, and to seek preapproval from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to amend the state’s current Child Care and Development Fund State Plan to change its current methodology for determining childcare and development and preschool subsidy payment rates to the alternative methodology. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Education to implement the alternative methodology upon notice, in writing, to the Legislature that the alternative methodology has been adopted, as specified.(2) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to establish a fee schedule for families using preschool and child care and development services and requires families who utilize those services to be assessed a family fee that is based on income, certified family need for full-time or part-time care services, and enrollment. Existing law prohibits those family fees from exceeding 10% of the family’s monthly income and prohibits family fees from being collected for the 2022–23 fiscal year.The bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop an equitable sliding scale for the payment of family fees, and would suspend the collection of family fees until the new equitable sliding scale is implemented.(3) The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt rules, regulations, and guidelines to facilitate the funding and reimbursement required by the act. Existing law requires, for the 2022–23 fiscal year only, contracting agencies operating a California
CA AB 598 - Buffy Wicks
Sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education: school climate and safety: California Healthy Kids Survey.
07/05/2023 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 598, as amended, Wicks. Sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education: school climate and safety: California Healthy Kids Survey. Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. Under the act, this instruction includes, among other things, information about local resources related to sexual and reproductive health, pregnancy prevention and care, and assistance with sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and information about pregnancy, including parenting, adoption, and abortion, as provided.This bill would revise the information included in this instruction related to local resources, as specified, and would require that pupils receive a physical or digital resource detailing certain local resources upon completion of the applicable instruction. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law authorizes anonymous, voluntary, and confidential research and evaluation tools to measure pupils’ health behaviors and risks, including tests, questionnaires, and surveys containing age-appropriate questions about the pupil’s attitudes concerning or practices relating to sex, to be administered to any pupil in grades 7 to 12, inclusive. The California Healthy Kids Survey is an anonymous, confidential survey of school climate and safety, student wellness, and youth resiliency.This bill would require the State Department of Education to ensure the California Healthy Kids Survey includes questions about sexual and reproductive health care as a core survey module for pupils in grades 7, 9, and 11. The bill would require each school district serving pupils in any of grades 5, 7, 9, or 11 to administer the California Healthy Kids Survey to pupils in the applicable grades, as provided. By imposing new requirements on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA AB 599 - Christopher M. Ward
Suspensions and expulsions: tobacco.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 599, as amended, Ward. Suspensions and expulsions: tobacco. Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, that the pupil possessed or used tobacco, or products containing tobacco or nicotine products, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, miniature cigars, clove cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, chew packets, vaping products, and betel.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2025, remove having possessed or used tobacco, or products containing tobacco or nicotine products, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, miniature cigars, clove cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff, chew packets, vaping products, and betel from the list of acts for which a pupil, regardless of their grade of enrollment, may be suspended or recommended for expulsion for. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2025, prohibit a charter school pupil in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, from being suspended or recommended for expulsion solely on the basis of those acts.Existing law requires the principal or superintendent of schools to recommend the expulsion of a pupil for certain acts committed at school or at a school activity off school grounds, including, among others, the unlawful possession of certain controlled substances, unless the principal or superintendent determines that expulsion should not be recommended under the circumstances or that an alternative means of correction would address the conduct.This bill, commencing July 1, 2025, would instead no longer require the principal or superintendent of schools to recommend the expulsion of a pupil for the unlawful possession of certain controlled substances under any circumstance.This bill would require the State Department of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to develop and make available a model policy for a public health approach to addressing pupil possession and use of illicit drugs on school property, as specified. The bill would require the department to collaborate with stakeholders, including treatment providers, local educational agencies, and community-based organizations in the development of the model policy. The bill would require local educational agencies, as defined, to adopt, on or before July 1, 2025, a plan to address pupils who possess or use drugs on school property. The bill would require the plan to be youth-informed, reduce criminalization, and to include specific information on where on campus and in the community pupils can receive education, treatment, or support for substance abuse. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would also make Legislative findings and declarations relating to these provisions, make conforming changes, and delete obsolete provisions.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.
CA AB 60 - Isaac G. Bryan
Restorative justice program.
09/12/2023 - In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 60, as amended, Bryan. Restorative justice program. Existing law establishes specified rights for victims and witnesses of crimes, including to be notified or informed regarding specified court proceedings and inmate placement or parole eligibility. Existing law requires the Attorney General to, by June 1, 2025, create and distribute a “Victim Protections and Resources” card, which contains information about victim rights and resources, as specified.This bill would give a victim the right to be notified of the availability of community-based restorative justice programs and processes available to them, including programs serving their community, county, county jails, juvenile detention facilities, and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as specified. The bill would additionally require the Attorney General to include this information in the “Victim Protections and Resources” card, as specified.Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a minor or nonminor to be a dependent or ward of the court under certain circumstances. Existing law requires the probation officer to inform the victim of a crime in a juvenile proceeding of the final disposition of the case and of any victim-offender conferencing program or victim impact class available in the county.This bill would remove the requirement that the victim be notified of a victim-offender conferencing program, but would require the victim to be notified of the availability of community-based restorative justice programs and processes available to them. By increasing the duties of probation officers, 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.
CA AB 602 - Gail Pellerin
False advertising: pregnancy-related services.
09/13/2023 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.
AB 602, as amended, Schiavo. False advertising: pregnancy-related services. Existing law makes it unlawful for a person doing business in California and advertising to consumers in California to make any false or misleading advertising claim. Existing law, the Unfair Competition Law, makes various practices unlawful and provides that a person who engages, has engaged, or proposes to engage in unfair competition is liable for a civil penalty, as specified. Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with an individual’s fundamental right to choose or obtain an abortion.This bill would prohibit a person doing business in California from advertising using a statement that a reasonable person would believe indicates that the person provides a pregnancy-related service if the person does not provide that pregnancy-related service or does not make a timely referral to a provider of that pregnancy-related service. The bill would make a violation of that prohibition an unfair business practice, and would authorize an entity authorized to enforce unfair competition laws, a district attorney, a county counsel, or a city attorney to file for injunctive relief or seek a civil penalty, as specified. The bill would authorize a court to impose statutory penalties of up to $10,000 per violation, order injunctive relief, award restitution, and award reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.
CA AB 608 - Sabrina Cervantes
Medi-Cal: comprehensive perinatal services.
10/07/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 608, Schiavo. Medi-Cal: comprehensive perinatal services. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, including comprehensive perinatal services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, a pregnant individual or targeted low-income child who is eligible for, and is receiving, health care coverage under any of specified Medi-Cal programs is eligible for full-scope Medi-Cal benefits for the duration of the pregnancy and for a period of one year following the last day of the individual’s pregnancy.This bill, during the one-year postpregnancy eligibility period, and as part of comprehensive perinatal services under Medi-Cal, would require the department to cover additional comprehensive perinatal assessments and individualized care plans and to provide additional visits and units of services in an amount, duration, and scope that are at least proportional to those available on July 27, 2021, during pregnancy and the initial 60-day postpregnancy period in effect on that date. The bill would require the department, in coordination with the State Department of Public Health, to consider input from certain stakeholders, as specified, in determining the specific number of additional comprehensive perinatal assessments, individualized care plans, visits, and units of services to be covered.The bill would require the department to cover comprehensive perinatal services that are rendered by a nonlicensed perinatal health worker in a beneficiary’s home or other community setting away from a medical site, as specified. The bill would also require the department to allow a nonlicensed perinatal health worker rendering those services to be supervised by a community-based organization (CBO) or a local health jurisdiction (LHJ). For these purposes, the bill would require a CBO or LHJ supervising a nonlicensed perinatal health worker to provide those services under contract with a Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program provider.The bill would condition implementation of the provisions above on receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions by all-county letters or similar instructions until regulations are adopted.
CA AB 611 - Akilah Faizah Weber
Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies: change in certification status: parental notification.
07/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 611, Weber. Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies: change in certification status: parental notification. Existing law sets forth a method for providing special education and related services to pupils with exceptional needs. Existing law permits, under certain circumstances, contracts to be entered into for the provision of those services by nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies, as defined. Existing law authorizes a master contract for special education and related services provided by a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency only if the school or agency has been certified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction as meeting specified standards. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent to revoke or suspend the certification of a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency for specified reasons and requires the Superintendent to notify contracting local educational agencies and the special education local plan area in which the nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency is located of the determination to suspend or revoke state certification.This bill would require a contracting local educational agency and charter school, within 14 days of becoming aware of any change to the certification status of a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency, as provided, to notify parents, as defined, of pupils of the local educational agency or charter school who attend the nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency of the change in certification status, as specified, and to include in that notice, a copy of certain procedural safeguards. The bill would require those notices to be maintained and made available for inspection upon request of the State Department of Education.
CA AB 614 - James D. Wood
Medi-Cal.
09/30/2023 - Approved by the Governor.
AB 614, Wood. Medi-Cal. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.This bill would make a change to an obsolete reference to the former Healthy Families Program, whose health services for children have been transitioned to the Medi-Cal program. The bill would make a change to an obsolete reference to the former Access for Infants and Mothers Program and would revise a related provision to instead refer to the successor Medi-Cal Access Program. The bill would delete, within certain Medi-Cal provisions, obsolete references to a repealed provision relating to nonprofit hospital service plans.Existing law establishes, under Medi-Cal, the County Health Initiative Matching Fund, a program administered by the department, through which an applicant county, county agency, local initiative, or county organized health system that provides an intergovernmental transfer, as specified, is authorized to submit a proposal to the department for funding for the purpose of providing comprehensive health insurance coverage to certain children. The program is sometimes known as the County Children’s Health Initiative Program (CCHIP).This bill would revise certain provisions to rename that program as CCHIP.Existing law requires the Director of Health Care Services to enter into contracts with managed care plans under Medi-Cal and related provisions, including health maintenance organizations, prepaid health plans, or other specified entities, for the provision of medical benefits to all persons who are eligible to receive medical benefits under publicly supported programs.This bill would delete that list of entities and would instead specify that the director would be required to enter into contracts with managed care plans licensed pursuant to the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, except as otherwise authorized under the Medi-Cal program. The bill would require the director, prior to issuing a new request for proposal or entering into new contracts, to provide an opportunity for interested stakeholders to provide input to inform the development of contract provisions.The bill would also make technical changes to some of the provisions described above.
CA AB 618 - Luz Maria Rivas
State parks: reservations.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 618, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. State parks: reservations. Existing law establishes the Department of Parks and Recreation and vests the department with control of the state park system. Existing law authorizes the department, whenever significant savings can be achieved, to enter into a contract with any natural person, corporation, partnership, or association for the operation of a reservation system for the state park system and for the collection of state park fees in connection therewith.This bill would require any contract the department enters into, on and after January 1, 2024, for purposes of managing the department’s reservation system, to reflect specified rules, authorizations, and requirements, including, among other things, that a reservationholder who cancels a reservation within 2 to 6 calendar days before the reservation start date may forfeit the cost of the reservation for the first night plus any reservation fees. The bill would require the department to, on or before January 1, 2025, and until January 1, 2029, implement a reservation drawing for up to 5 of the most popular units of the state park system, as provided. The bill would require the department to report, on or before January 1, 2028, on the outcomes of the reservation drawing to the Legislature.
CA AB 637 - Corey A. Jackson
Zero-emission vehicles: fleet owners: rental vehicles.
09/14/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
AB 637, as amended, Jackson. Zero-emission vehicles: fleet owners: rental vehicles. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. Existing law also generally designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency with the primary responsibility for the control of vehicular air pollution. Existing law requires the state board to adopt and implement motor vehicle emission standards, in-use performance standards, and motor vehicle fuel specifications for the control of air contaminants and sources of air pollution the state board has found to be necessary, cost effective, and technologically feasible, to carry out specified purposes, unless preempted by federal law.This bill would, if the state board requires a fleet owner to acquire zero-emission vehicles as part of its fleet, require the state board to authorize the rental of a zero-emission vehicle or vehicles for a cumulative total of 260 days in a calendar year to be deemed ownership of one zero-emission vehicle for purposes of meeting that obligation.
CA AB 645 - Scott D. Wiener
Vehicles: speed safety system pilot program.
09/11/2023 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 645, as amended, Friedman. Vehicles: speed safety system pilot program. Existing law establishes a basic speed law that prohibits a person from driving a vehicle upon a highway at a speed greater than is reasonable or prudent given the weather, visibility, traffic, and highway conditions and in no event at a speed that endangers the safety of persons or property.This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2032, the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco to establish a Speed Safety System Pilot Program if the system meets specified requirements. The bill would require a participating city or city and county to adopt a Speed Safety System Use Policy and a Speed Safety System Impact Report before implementing the program, and would require the participating city or city and county to engage in a public information campaign at least 30 days before implementation of the program, including information relating to when the systems would begin detecting violations and where the systems would be utilized. The bill would require a participating city or city and county to issue warning notices rather than notices of violations for violations detected within the first 60 calendar days of the program. The bill would also require a participating city or city and county to develop uniform guidelines for, among other things, the processing and storage of confidential information. The bill would designate all photographic or administrative records, not including data about the number of violations issued or the speeds at which they were issued for, made by a system as confidential, and would only authorize public agencies to use and allow access to these records for specified purposes.This bill would specify that any violation of a speed law recorded by a speed safety system authorized by these provisions would be subject only to the provided civil penalties. The bill would, among other things, provide for the issuance of a notice of violation, an initial review, an administrative hearing, and an appeals process, as specified, for a violation under this program. The bill would require any program created pursuant to these provisions to offer a diversion program for indigent speed safety system violation recipients, as specified. The bill would require a city or city and county participating in the pilot program to submit a report to evaluate the speed safety system to determine the system’s impact on street safety and economic impact on the communities where the system is utilized.Existing law establishes a $25 filing fee for specified appeals and petitions.This bill would require a $25 filing fee for an appeal challenging a notice of violation issued as a result of a speed safety system until January 1, 2032.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Cities of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland, Glendale, and Long Beach, and the City and County of San Francisco.
CA AB 649 - Lori D. Wilson
Developmental services.
07/03/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 649, as amended, Wilson. Developmental services. The Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act makes the State Department of Developmental Services responsible for providing various services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities, and for ensuring the appropriateness and quality of those services and supports. Pursuant to that law, the department contracts with regional centers to provide services and supports to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law prohibits regional centers from purchasing any service that would otherwise be available from Medi-Cal, Medicare, and private insurance, among other sources, when a consumer or a consumer’s family meets the criteria of this coverage, but chooses not to pursue that coverage. Existing law also prohibits regional centers from purchasing medical or dental services for a consumer 3 years of age or older unless the regional center is provided with documentation of a Medi-Cal, private insurance, or health care service plan denial, and the regional center determines that an appeal of the denial by the consumer or the consumer’s family does not have merit.This bill would remove the requirement for the regional center to determine that the appeal of the denial by the consumer or the consumer’s family does not have merit. The bill also would specify that a consumer or family is not required to appeal the denial of services from another agency that has a legal responsibility to serve all members of the general public and is receiving public funds for providing those services in order for a regional center to purchase those services as part of a consumer’s individual program plan.
CA AB 657 - Corey A. Jackson
Child Welfare Funding Act.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 657, as amended, Jackson. Child Welfare Funding Act. (1) Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state of, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including an exemption for the sale of, or the storage, use, or consumption of, food products for human consumption. Proposition 163, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 3, 1992, general election, amended the California Constitution to prohibit the State of California or any of its political subdivisions from levying or collecting a sales or use tax on the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in the state of, food products for human consumption except as provided by statute as of the effective date of that provision and in statute defined, for purposes of the sales and use tax exemption described above, “food products” to mean, among other things, sugar and sugar products, candy, gum, confectionery, and cocoa and cocoa products.This bill would delete “candy” from the definition of “food products,” described above, that are exempt from tax.The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to amend or repeal an initiative statute by another statute that becomes effective when approved by the electors.This bill would provide that the deletion provision described above would become effective only upon approval of the voters. It would also provide for submission of this measure to the voters for approval at the next statewide general election.(2) This bill would also enact the Child Welfare Funding Act that would require a sales tax return filed with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) to report gross receipts for sales tax purposes to segregate the taxable sales attributable to the sale of candy, as defined, on a line or a separate form, as prescribed by the department. The bill would require an amount equal to the total amount of gross receipts, or adjusted gross receipts, attributable to the sale of candy for the prior fiscal year as reported to the Department of Finance (DOF) by the CDTFA, as specified, to be deposited into the Candy Tax Fund, created by the bill, as soon as reasonably possible and would require all amounts in the fund to be distributed to the Child Welfare Grant Program Fund, a continuously appropriated fund that the bill would create for the purpose of funding the Child Welfare Grant Program grants described below. By creating a continuously appropriated fund and allocating moneys to that fund, this bill would make an appropriation.This bill would also establish the Child Welfare Grant Program and would require the State Department of Social Services to annually, on or before December 31, distribute to any qualified recipient with dependent minors a Child Welfare Grant Program grant, as prescribed. The bill would define “qualified recipient” to mean an individual who is a resident of the state and either filed a joint income tax return for the preceding taxable year that reported gross income in an amount not exceeding $150,000 or filed an individual income tax return for the preceding taxable year that reported gross income in an amount not exceeding $112,000.This bill would provide that the provisions described above relating to the Child Welfare Funding Act and the Child Welfare Grant Program would become operative only if the amendment to Proposition 163 described above is approved by the voters and takes effect.The bill would make the operation of its provisions contingent upon approval by the voters of an unspecified Assembly Constitutional Amendment of the 2023–24 Regular Session.
CA AB 659 - Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry
Cancer Prevention Act.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 659, as amended, Aguiar-Curry. Cancer Prevention Act. Existing law prohibits the governing authority of a school or other institution from unconditionally admitting any person as a pupil of any private or public elementary or secondary school, childcare center, day nursery, nursery school, family daycare home, or development center, unless prior to their admission to that institution they have been fully immunized. Existing law requires the documentation of immunizations for certain diseases, including, among others, measles, mumps, pertussis, and any other disease deemed appropriate by the State Department of Public Health, as specified. Existing law authorizes certain exemptions from these provisions subject to specified conditions.This bill, the Cancer Prevention Act, would declare that pupils in the state are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as recommended by specified health entities, regarding full human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization before admission or advancement to the 8th grade level of any private or public elementary or secondary school. The bill would, upon a pupil’s admission or advancement to the 6th grade level, require the governing authority to submit to the pupil and their parent or guardian a notification containing a statement about that public policy and advising that the pupil adhere to current HPV immunization guidelines before admission or advancement to the 8th grade level, as specified. The bill would require that the notification also include a statement containing certain health information. The bill would incorporate that notification into existing provisions relating to notifications by school districts. By creating new notification duties for school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires the Trustees of the California State University and, subject to a resolution, the Regents of the University of California to require the first-time enrollees at those institutions who are 18 years of age or younger to provide proof of full immunization against the hepatitis B virus prior to enrollment, with certain exemptions.This bill would declare the public policy of the state that students who are 26 years of age or younger are advised to adhere to current immunization guidelines, as specified, regarding full HPV immunization before first-time enrollment at an institution of the California State University, the University of California, or the California Community Colleges. The bill would make a conforming change to a consultation-related provision.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 provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2002, as specified, to provide coverage for an annual cervical cancer screening test, including an HPV screening test that is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).This bill would expand the coverage requirement for an annual cervical cancer screening test to disability insurance policies that provide coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical benefits and would require a health care service plan contract, or a disability insurance policy that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical benefits, issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage without cost sharing for the HPV vaccine for persons for whom the vaccine is FDA approved. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and schoo
CA AB 660 - Jacqui V. Irwin
Food and beverage products: labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell by dates: recycling.
08/17/2023 - From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI.
AB 660, as amended, Irwin. Food and beverage products: labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell by dates: recycling. (1) Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, to publish information to encourage food manufacturers, processors, and retailers responsible for the labeling of food products to voluntarily use specified uniform terms on food product labels to communicate quality dates, as defined, and safety dates, as defined. Existing law also requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to encourage food distributors and retailers to develop alternatives to consumer-facing “sell by” dates, defined to mean a date on a label affixed to the packaging or container of food that is intended to communicate primarily to a distributor or retailer for purposes of stock rotation and that is not a quality date or a safety date. The Food and Agricultural Code provides that, unless a different penalty is expressly provided, a violation of any provision of that code is a misdemeanor.This bill would instead require, on and after January 1, 2025, a food manufacturer, processor, or retailer responsible for the labeling of food items for human consumption that chooses, or is otherwise required by law, to display a date label to communicate a quality or safety date on a food item manufactured on or after January 1, 2025, to use one of the specified terms on the date label, as provided. The bill would prohibit a person from selling or offering for sale in the state a food item for human consumption manufactured on or after January 1, 2025, that displays a quality or safety date label that is not labeled in accordance with these terms. The bill would prohibit a person from selling or offering for sale in the state a food item for human consumption manufactured on or after January 1, 2025, that is labeled with the phrase “sell by,” as specified. The bill would also require the State Department of Public Health to make certain updates to its regulations involving the California Retail Food Code, as provided. The bill would specify that, unless otherwise required by law, nothing in these provisions shall be construed to require the use or display of a date label on a food item for human consumption unless the food item displays a date label, and would provide that these provisions do not prohibit a label that allows consumers to view online information about a food item for human consumption. The bill would not apply the above-mentioned provisions to infant formula, eggs, and pasteurized in-shell eggs. By creating new requirements regarding the labeling of food items, the violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities for regulation by the State Department of Public Health, and requires local enforcement agencies to enforce those provisions.Existing law, located within the California Retail Food Code, requires a food facility that packages food using a reduced-oxygen packaging method and Clostridium botulinum to have an approved plan, as specified, that, among other things, limits the refrigerated shelf life to no more than 30 calendar days from packaging to consumption, except the time product is maintained frozen, or the original manufacturer’s “sell by” or “use by” date, whichever occurs first. This bill would retain that requirement before January 1, 2025, and, on and after January 1, 2025, would limit the refrigerated shelf life to no more than 30 calendar days from packaging to consumption, except the time the product is maintained frozen, or the original safety date, as specified, whichever occurs first.Existing law, located within the California Retail Food Code, requires raw shucked shellfish to be obtained in nonreturnable packages that bear a legible label that identifies the name,
CA AB 665 - Scott D. Wiener
Minors: consent to mental health services.
10/07/2023 - Approved by the Governor.
AB 665, Wendy Carrillo. Minors: consent to mental health services. Existing law, for some purposes, authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services, if the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or residential shelter services, as specified, and either the minor would present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to themselves or to others or if the minor is the alleged victim of incest or child abuse. For other purposes, existing law authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment or counseling services if the minor is mature enough to participate intelligently in the outpatient services or counseling services. This bill would align the existing laws by removing the additional requirement that, in order to consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services, the minor must present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to themselves or to others, or be the alleged victim of incest or child abuse.Existing law, for some purposes, requires that the mental health treatment or counseling include involvement of the minor’s parent or guardian unless the professional person treating or counseling the minor determines that the involvement would be inappropriate. For other purposes, existing law requires the involvement of the parent or guardian unless the professional person who is treating or counseling the minor, after consulting with the minor, determines that the involvement would be inappropriate. This bill would also align the existing laws by requiring the professional person treating or counseling the minor to consult with the minor before determining whether involvement of the minor’s parent or guardian would be inappropriate.Existing law defines professional person for these purposes to include, among other things, a mental health professional, a marriage and family therapist, a licensed educational psychologist, a clinical psychologist, the chief administrator of an agency, and a licensed professional clinical counselor, as defined.This bill would add a registered psychologist, a registered psychological assistant, a psychological trainee, an associate clinical social worker, a social work intern, a clinical counselor trainee working under the supervision of a licensed professional, and a board-certified psychiatrist to the definition of professional person for these purposes.This bill would make all of the above changes operative on July 1, 2024.
CA AB 672 - Corey A. Jackson
Teacher credentialing: Teacher Credentialing Task Force.
07/05/2023 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 672, as amended, Jackson. Teacher credentialing: Teacher Credentialing Task Force. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that includes a teaching performance assessment that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the commission, as provided.This bill would require the commission to convene a Teacher Credentialing Task Force, as provided, by no later than March 1, 2024. The bill would require the task force to examine, among other things, the available research on factors that enable and constrain recruitment, credentialing, and retention of a diverse teaching workforce and the experiences of student candidates in various credentialing pathways, as provided, and to report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature, on or before March 1, 2027, on any policy recommendations based on those findings, for increasing the number of, and diversity of, qualified teachers in California. The bill would require the commission to contract with a nationally recognized, neutral, nonpartisan, nonprofit education policy organization to facilitate the task force’s work, including completing the required report.This bill would make these provisions inoperative on March 1, 2031, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2032.
CA AB 679 - Buffy Wicks
Family childcare homes: meals: reimbursement rates.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 679, as amended, Wicks. Family childcare homes: meals: reimbursement rates. Existing law, the Early Education Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to, among other things, provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program, and declares the policy of the state that no child shall be hungry while in attendance in a preschool facility and that preschool programs have an obligation to provide for the nutritional needs of children in attendance. Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide a needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, and two school meals free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, and sets the reimbursement rate for meals served by family daycare homes at 75 percent of the meals served.This bill would increase the reimbursement rate for meals served in family childcare homes to instead be 100 percent of the eligible meals served. The bill would define “family childcare homes” to mean the same as “family daycare homes,” as provided.
CA AB 68 - Christopher M. Ward
Housing.
01/04/2023 - Read first time.
AB 68, as introduced, Ward.
Housing.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each city, county, and city and county to prepare and adopt a general plan that contains certain mandatory elements, including a housing element. Existing law defines several terms for the purposes of these provisions.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.
CA AB 694 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Teachers: teacher residency apprenticeship programs.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 694, as amended, Gipson. Teachers: teacher residency apprenticeship programs. Under existing law, it is the public policy of this state to encourage the utilization of apprenticeship as a form of on-the-job training, that such training is cost-effective in developing skills needed to perform public services. Existing law requires state and local public agencies to make a diligent effort to establish apprenticeship programs for apprenticeable occupations in their respective workforces. Existing law establishes the Teacher Residency Grant Program and appropriates funds from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to make one-time grants to develop new, or expand, strengthen, or improve access to existing, teacher residency programs that support, among other things, a list of designated shortage fields.This bill would require the commission to submit the Teacher Residency Grant Program standards for approval as a registered apprenticeship program through the Division of Apprenticeship Standards and the United States Department of Labor and to act as the sponsoring authority for purposes of the state applying for United States Department of Labor grant funding. The bill would authorize a local educational agency with a commission-approved teacher residency program, or a local educational agency, in partnership with an institution of higher education, with a teacher residency apprenticeship program that is not approved by the commission as a teacher residency program, to submit these programs for approval as registered apprenticeship programs with Division of Apprenticeship Standards, the United States Department of Labor, or both of those entities, as provided. The bill would require these approved teacher residency apprenticeship programs to, among other things, work with one or more commission-accredited teacher preparation programs to develop and implement programs of preparation and mentoring for apprentices who will be supported through program funds and subsequently be employed by the local educational agency, and to ensure and provide apprentices with certain instruction and support. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029.
CA AB 702 - Corey A. Jackson
Local government financing: juvenile justice.
12/20/2023 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
AB 702, as amended, Jackson. Local government financing: juvenile justice. Under existing law, there is established in each county treasury a Supplemental Law Enforcement Services Account (SLESA) to receive all amounts allocated to a county for specified purposes. In any fiscal year for which a county receives moneys to be expended for implementation, existing law requires the county auditor to allocate the moneys in the county’s SLESA within 30 days of the deposit of those moneys into the fund. Existing law requires the moneys to be allocated in specified amounts, including, but not limited to, 50% to a county or city and county to implement a comprehensive multiagency juvenile justice plan, as specified. Existing law requires the juvenile justice plan to be developed by the local juvenile justice coordinating council in each county and city and county. Existing law requires the plan to be annually reviewed and updated by the council and submitted to the Board of State and Community Corrections. Existing law requires the multiagency juvenile justice plan to include certain components, including, but not limited to, a local juvenile justice action strategy that provides for a continuum of responses to juvenile crime and delinquency. Existing law also requires each council to annually report to their board of supervisors and the board information on the effectiveness of the programs and strategies funded under these provisions, and requires the board to annually report this information to the Governor and the Legislature and post it on its internet website.This bill would revise and recast required components of the multiagency juvenile justice plan to, among other things, additionally require a plan to include an assessment of existing community-based youth development services, identification and prioritization of areas of the community that are vulnerable to court system involvement due to high rates of poverty and the incarceration of at-promise youth’s family members, among other things, and a description of the target population funded under these provisions. The bill would require programs and strategies funded under these provisions to, among other things, be modeled on healing-centered, restorative, trauma-informed, and positive youth development approaches and in collaboration with community-based organizations. The bill would require no less than 95% of the funds allocated under these provisions to be distributed to community-based organizations and other public agencies or departments that are not law enforcement entities, as specified, and prohibits this portion of the funds from being used for law enforcement activities or personnel. The bill would require a council to include additional information in its annual report to the board of supervisors and the board relating to their programs, including data on youth participants and council members.Existing law requires a juvenile justice coordinating council to consist of certain members, including, but not limited to, the chief probation officer, as chair, and a representative from the district attorney’s office, the public defender’s office, and the sheriff’s department, among others.This bill would revise and recast those membership provisions, and instead require each juvenile justice coordinating council to, at a minimum, consist of 7 members with at least 50% community representatives with the remainder of the seats allocated to representatives from government agencies, as specified. The bill would require a council to select 2 cochairs from amongst its members, at least one of whom shall be a community representative. The bill would require a council to meet no less than 3 times per year and announce its meetings at least 10 days in advance of a meeting.
CA AB 709 - Tina McKinnor
Criminal history information.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 709, as amended, McKinnor. Criminal history information. Existing law requires a local criminal justice agency to record and store specified arrest and identification data, also known as local summary criminal history information, regarding persons arrested by the agency. Existing law requires the agency to furnish that information to, among other entities, a public defender or attorney of record when representing a person in a criminal case, or a parole, mandatory supervision, or postrelease community supervision revocation or revocation extension hearing, and when authorized access by statutory or decisional law. Existing law makes a person, authorized to receive this information and who knowingly furnishes this information to a person not authorized to receive the information, guilty of a misdemeanor.This bill would authorize a public prosecutor to provide a list containing only the names of the peace officer and defendant and the corresponding case number to a public defender’s office, an alternative public defender’s office, or a licensed attorney of record in a criminal case to facilitate and expedite notifying counsel representing other criminal defendants whose cases may involve testimony by that peace officer of exculpatory evidence or impeachment evidence involving that peace officer.By expanding the scope of a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA AB 714 - Kevin Michael McCarty
Pupil instruction: newcomer pupils: curriculum frameworks: high school coursework and graduation requirements: exemptions and alternatives.
09/13/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 714, as amended, McCarty. Pupil instruction: newcomer pupils: curriculum frameworks: high school coursework and graduation requirements: exemptions and alternatives. (1) Existing law, subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, requires the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to administer the California Newcomer Education and Well-Being Program (CalNEW) to provide services for newcomer pupils, English learners, and immigrant families by allocating funding to school districts and county offices of education, as specified. Existing law, for the purposes of CalNEW, defines “newcomer pupils” as individuals 3 through 21 years of age who were not born in any state and have not been attending one or more schools in any one or more states for more than 3 full academic years.This bill would require the State Department of Education to (A) curate and maintain on its internet website information regarding requirements, best practices, and available state and federally funded programs for newcomer pupils and (B) publicly report on an annual basis on its internet website the enrollment of newcomer pupils, as provided.(2) Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.This bill would require the commission to consider including content designed to provide teachers with resources to meet the unique academic and English language development needs of newcomer pupils at all grade levels at the next regularly scheduled revision of the curriculum framework in English Language Arts and English Language Development. The bill would also require the commission to ensure that the instructional materials for pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, that it recommends to the state board for adoption include resources to help teachers meet the needs of newcomer pupils.(3) Existing law defines “a pupil participating in a newcomer program” as a pupil who is participating in a program designed to meet the academic and transitional needs of newly arrived immigrant pupils that has as a primary objective the development of English language proficiency. Existing law requires local educational agencies to exempt a pupil participating in a newcomer program and who is in their 3rd or 4th year of high school from all coursework and other requirements adopted by the governing body of the local educational agency that are in addition to the statewide coursework requirements necessary to receive a diploma of graduation from high school, unless the local educational agency makes a finding that the pupil is reasonably able to complete the local educational agency’s graduation requirements in time to graduate from high school by the end of the pupil’s 4th year of high school. Existing law requires local educational agencies to comply with other procedures in relation to pupils participating in newcomer programs, including, among other things, consultation and notice provisions. Existing law requires local educational agencies to issue, and new local educational agencies to accept, full or partial credit for all full or partial coursework satisfactorily completed by a pupil participating in a newcomer program while attending a public school, a juvenile court school, a charter school, a school in a country other than the United States, or a nonpublic, nonsectarian school, as provided.This bill would require that local educational agencies comply with the above-described coursework exemptions, pupil consultation and notice requirements, acceptance of coursework completed at other schools, and other requirements for newcomer pupils, as defined, instead of for pupils participating in a newcomer program. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(4) Existing law prohibits a middle or high school pupil who is classified as
CA AB 715 - Megan Dahle
Rural Education Task Force.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 715, as amended, Megan Dahle. Rural Education Task Force. Existing law establishes the State Board of Education and the State Department of Education to provide guidance and support to local educational agencies and other entities that operate schools and preschool programs, and further authorizes the establishment and operation of numerous educational programs on the state level that are administered by the state board, the department, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or other state agencies. Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature to create 3 levels of educational advisory bodies, as specified.This bill would create the Rural Education Task Force in the department that includes members from specified categories. The bill would require that each member of the task force be selected to ensure that the task force is representative of very rural areas of the state. The bill would require the task force to provide assistance and advice to the Superintendent on the needs and challenges of very rural elementary and secondary schools.
CA AB 719 - Tasha Boerner Horvath
Medi-Cal: nonmedical and nonemergency medical transportation.
10/07/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 719, Boerner. Medi-Cal: nonmedical and nonemergency medical transportation. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law establishes a schedule of benefits under the Medi-Cal program, including medical transportation and nonmedical transportation for a beneficiary to obtain covered Medi-Cal services. Existing law requires nonmedical transportation to be provided by the beneficiary’s managed care plan or by the department for a Medi-Cal fee-for-service beneficiary.This bill would require the department to require Medi-Cal managed care plans that are contracted to provide nonmedical transportation or nonemergency medical transportation to contract with public paratransit service operators who are enrolled Medi-Cal providers for the purpose of establishing reimbursement rates for nonmedical and nonemergency medical transportation trips provided by a public paratransit service operator. The bill would require the rates reimbursed by the managed care plan to the public paratransit service operator to be based on the department’s fee-for-service rates for nonmedical and nonemergency medical transportation service, as specified. The bill would condition implementation of these provisions on receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation.
CA AB 720 - Dawn Addis
California Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Program: grants for local programs.
07/03/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 720, as amended, Addis. California Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Program: grants for local programs. The Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Act requires the Wildlife Conservation Board to carry out the California Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Program to protect California’s rangeland, grazing land, and grasslands through the use of conservation easements. Under existing law, the program provides for grants for the acquisition of conservation easements to protect, restore, or enhance rangeland, grazing land, or grassland, and sustain the character of specified property.This bill would expand the California Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Program by requiring the board to administer a program to award grants to eligible entities, as defined, to administer, plan, and implement local programs to enhance or restore California’s private rangelands, as specified. The bill would authorize the board to develop program grant guidelines. The bill would require the board and any program grantee, in evaluating proposed projects, to evaluate the ability of the project to meet the purposes of the California Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Program and to consider specified selection criteria. The bill would permit the board to authorize a program grantee to use not more than 30% of the grant moneys for specified administrative, outreach, and assistance purposes relating to the grant program. The bill would require each program grantee, on or before a date determined by the board in the grant agreement, to submit to the board an annual report describing and evaluating the implementation of the project and the use of the grant moneys for the project during the previous year, as specified. This bill would recast certain provisions of the Rangeland, Grazing Land, and Grassland Protection Act and make conforming changes.
CA AB 721 - Avelino Valencia
School districts: budgets: public hearings: notice.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 721, as amended, Valencia. School districts: budgets: public hearings: notice. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to hold a public hearing on the proposed budget of the school district in a school district facility, or some other place conveniently accessible to the residents of the school district, as specified. Existing law requires notification of the dates and location or locations at which the proposed budget may be inspected by the public, and the date, time, and location of the public hearing on the proposed budget, to be published by the county superintendent of schools in a newspaper of general circulation in the school district or, if there is no newspaper of general circulation in the school district, in any newspaper of general circulation in the county, at least 3 days before the availability of the proposed budget for public inspection.This bill, on January 1, 2027, would repeal the requirement to publish that information in a newspaper of general circulation and instead require the information to be posted prominently on the homepage of the internet website of the school district at least 3 days before the availability of the proposed budget for public inspection. The bill would require each county superintendent of schools to verify the posting or publishing requirement, as applicable, is met for all school districts in their jurisdiction. By imposing additional duties on local educational agency officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require the State Department of Education to select 3 school districts that agree to provide information to the department regarding how the school district communicates with the school community within the school district, as provided. The bill would require the participating school districts to provide specified information to the department on or before December 31, 2024, on or before December 31, 2025, and on or before December 31, 2026.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.
CA AB 722 - Mia Bonta
Alameda Health System Hospital Authority.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 722, Bonta. Alameda Health System Hospital Authority. Existing law authorizes the Board of Supervisors of Alameda County to establish the Alameda Health System Hospital Authority for the management, administration, and control of the medical center in that county. Existing law prohibits the hospital authority, before January 1, 2024, from entering into a contract with any other person or entity to replace services being provided by physicians and surgeons who are employed by the hospital authority and in a recognized collective bargaining unit, with services provided by that other person or entity without clear and convincing evidence that the needed medical care can only be delivered cost effectively by that other person or entity. This bill would prohibit the hospital authority, before January 1, 2035, from entering into those contracts.
CA AB 723 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Pupil placement: special education: foster children: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies: school of origin.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.).
AB 723, as amended, Quirk-Silva. Pupil placement: special education: foster children: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies: school of origin. Existing law requires a local educational agency serving a foster child to allow the foster child to remain at the child’s school of origin upon the initial detention or placement, any subsequent change in placement, or the termination of the court’s jurisdiction, or pending resolution of a dispute regarding school of origin placement, as provided. Existing law defines “school of origin” as the school that the foster child attended when permanently housed or the school in which the foster child was last enrolled, except as specified. Existing law sets forth a method for providing special education and related services to pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs, as defined. Existing law permits, under certain circumstances, contracts to be entered into for the provision of those services by nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies, as defined. Existing law authorizes a master contract for special education and related services provided by a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency only if the school or agency has been certified as meeting specified standards. Existing law sets forth the certification process and procedures for the nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies that seek certification from the Superintendent of Public Instruction.This bill would, for a foster child who is an individual with exceptional needs, define “school of origin” as also including a placement in a certified nonpublic, nonsectarian school, as provided. The bill would require, commencing with the 2024–25 school year, a nonpublic, nonsectarian school or agency seeking certification or already certified to agree in writing, for any foster child it serves, to be designated as the school of origin of the foster child and to allow the foster child to continue their education in the school, as specified.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 48853.5 of the Education Code proposed by AB 373 to be operative only if this bill and AB 373 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 724 - Vincent Karchi Fong
Firearms: safety certificate instructional materials.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 724, as amended, Vince Fong. Firearms: safety certificate instructional materials. Existing law requires a person who purchases or receives a firearm to possess a valid and unexpired firearm safety certificate or handgun safety certificate, as applicable. Existing law prohibits the sale, delivery, or transfer of a firearm to a person who does not possess a valid and unexpired firearm safety certificate or handgun safety certificate, as applicable.Existing law requires an applicant for a firearm safety certificate to pass an objective test, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide instructional and testing materials in English and Spanish.This bill would also require these instructional and testing materials to be available in Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Korean, Dari, and Armenian.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 31640 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 1598 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1598 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 731 - Blanca Pacheco
Pupil literacy: home book delivery: grant program.
02/13/2023 - Read first time. To print.
AB 731, as introduced, Pacheco.
Pupil literacy: home book delivery: grant program.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and authorizes local educational agencies throughout the state to operate schools and provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law establishes in the state government a State Department of Education and the department is responsible for various ongoing activities involving the public schools.This bill would, upon appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, establish the Home Book Delivery and School Connection Grant Program for the purpose of increasing access to books that are culturally relevant and reflect the diversity of the state, and build connections between school and home to support pupils in achieving grade-level reading by 3rd grade. The bill would require the department to select a county
office of education or a consortium of county offices of education, as specified, to administer the grant program. The bill would require the selected entity or entities, to identify one or more entities to contract with in order to help administer the grant program and would require the selected entity or entities to target those school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that have high proportions of pupils that are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, classified as English learners, or classified as foster youth, or are reading substantially below grade level to participate in the program.The bill would authorize local educational agencies to opt-in their eligible schools for participation in the program and upon being chosen to participate, would require the local educational agencies to notify parents and families about the option to access and select books for home delivery and would require those local educational agencies to
provide an annual report on an unspecified date to the selected entity or entities that are chosen to administer the program, as provided.
CA AB 734 - Kevin Michael McCarty
Youth tackle football.
01/12/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 734, as amended, McCarty. Youth tackle football. Existing law requires a youth sports organization that elects to offer an athletic program to comply with specified concussion and sudden cardiac arrest prevention protocols. Existing law, the California Youth Football Act, requires a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program to comply with specified protocols, including a coach receiving certain health-related certification and a parent or guardian of a youth tackle football participant receiving concussion and head injury information and an opioid-related factsheet. The act also requires a youth tackle football league, as defined, to retain information for the tracking of youth sports injuries, as specified.This bill would, on and after January 1, 2025, prohibit a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or a youth tackle football league, from allowing a person younger than 6 years of age to be a youth tackle football participant through the organization or league. On and after January 1, 2027, and January 1, 2029, the bill would not allow a person younger than 10 and 12 years of age, respectively, to be a youth tackle football participant through the organization or league.
CA AB 751 - Pilar Schiavo
Elder abuse.
06/29/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 18, Statutes of 2023.
AB 751, Schiavo. Elder abuse. Existing law requires every local law enforcement agency to, when the agency next undertakes the policy revision process, revise or include specified information about the elements of elder abuse crimes in the portion of its policy manual relating to elder and dependent adult abuse, if that policy manual exists. Existing law requires a municipal police department or county sheriffs’ department that adopts or revises a policy regarding elder and dependent adult abuse or senior and disability victimization on or after April 13, 2021, to include specified provisions regarding procedures for investigating elder abuse in that policy. This bill would clarify that a department that complied or complies with the requirements above regarding including specified information about the elements of elder abuse crimes in their policy manuals on or after April 13, 2021, is required to include the specified provisions regarding procedures for investigating elder abuse in their policy.
CA AB 757 - Sabrina Cervantes
Teacher credentialing: out-of-state prepared teachers.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 757, as amended, Cervantes. Teacher credentialing: out-of-state prepared teachers. (1) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to issue a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential to an out-of-state applicant who satisfies specified requirements and, as part of one of those requirements, authorizes the commission to require an applicant to meet California subject matter requirements before issuing a clear credential if the subject area listed on the out-of-state credential does not correspond to a California subject area, as specified. Existing law requires the commission to issue a clear multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential to an applicant who satisfies specified requirements, including, among other things, providing 2 satisfactory performance evaluations for verification of 2 or more years of teaching experience.This bill would eliminate the provision that authorizes the commission to require an out-of-state preliminary teaching credential applicant to meet California subject matter requirements before issuing a clear credential and would require the commission to instead issue a preliminary multiple subject teaching credential to an out-of-state prepared teacher in general education and issue a preliminary education specialist credential in mild to moderate support needs to an out-of-state prepared teacher in special education, as provided. The bill would eliminate the provision that requires an out-of-state clear teaching credential applicant to provide 2 satisfactory performance evaluations and would instead authorize those out-of-state applicants to provide an experience verification letter, as specified, or a copy of a signed teaching contract to meet the requirement of verifying 2 or more years of teaching experience.(2) Existing law requires an out-of-state applicant who is issued a preliminary or clear teaching credential pursuant to the above-described provisions to meet the basic skills proficiency requirement within one year of the date the credential is issued or the credential becomes invalid.The bill would eliminate the requirement that an out-of-state applicant meet the basic skills proficiency requirement within one year of the date the credential is issued.
CA AB 77 - Blanca Pacheco
Vital records: diacritical marks.
01/26/2023 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
AB 77, as introduced, Pacheco.
Vital records: diacritical marks.
Existing law prescribes the duties of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics (State Registrar) and local registrars of births and deaths with respect to the registration of certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death, and marriage licenses. Existing law requires the State Registrar to prescribe and furnish all record forms for use in carrying out the provisions governing vital records and prohibits the use of any record form or format other than those prescribed by the State Registrar. Existing law requires every live birth, fetal death, death, and marriage that occurs in the state to be registered with the local registrar. Existing law requires certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death, and a marriage license to include specified information, such as the full name of the child on a certificate of live birth and the full names of the parties to be married on a marriage
license.This bill would require the State Registrar to require the use of a diacritical mark on an English letter to be properly recorded, when applicable, on a certificate of live birth, fetal death, or death, and a marriage license and would require the use of a diacritical mark to be deemed an acceptable entry by the State Registrar. The bill would provide that the absence of a diacritical mark on a certificate of live birth, fetal death, or death, or a marriage license does not render the document invalid nor affect any constructive notice imparted by proper recordation of the document. The bill would authorize, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter in any certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage already registered, the person asserting the omission, or the person’s conservator, or if a minor, the person’s parent or guardian, to submit a written request to the State Registrar for
the issuance of a new certificate of birth, fetal death, death, or marriage stating the changes necessary to make the name correct. The bill would require the State Registrar to review the request and, if the request is accompanied with the payment of a specified fee, to issue a new certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage with the accurate name identified in the request.
CA AB 772 - Corey A. Jackson
Child day care facilities.
01/18/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 772, as amended, Jackson. Child day care facilities. Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of daycare centers by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law generally requires child daycare facilities that are licensed by the State Department of Social Services to require proof of each child’s immunizations, including tuberculosis testing, and to maintain files of this proof on the premises, but exempts from these requirements any child daycare center that exclusively offers a program of services for which there is no contract or agreement between the parent and the center for the regular care of the child, and there is no prearranged schedule of care for any child. Existing law requires parents using these exempt child daycare centers to sign a form acknowledging that they understand the center is not required to verify immunizations and tuberculosis testing for any children accepted for care.This bill would include physician’s assessments in the list of documents that the child daycare centers described above are exempt from verifying and maintaining. The bill would also require the parental acknowledgment form described above to also include physician’s assessments.
CA AB 785 - Miguel Santiago
California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: City of Los Angeles: County of Los Angeles: affordable housing and transitional housing.
09/08/2023 - Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
AB 785, as amended, Santiago. California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: City of Los Angeles: County of Los Angeles: affordable housing and transitional housing. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.Existing law, until January 1, 2025, exempts from the requirements of CEQA certain activities approved or carried out by the City of Los Angeles and other eligible public agencies, as defined, related to supportive housing and emergency shelters, as defined, in the City of Los Angeles. Under existing law, this exemption requires the lead agency, if it determines that an activity is not subject to CEQA and approves or carries out that activity, to file a notice of exemption with the Office of Planning and Research and the county clerk for the County of Los Angeles.This bill would instead exempt from the requirements of CEQA certain activities undertaken by the City of Los Angeles and other eligible public agencies related to affordable housing, low barrier navigation centers, supportive housing, and transitional housing for youth and young adults, as those terms are defined, within the City of Los Angeles and certain activities undertaken by the County of Los Angeles related to affordable housing, low barrier navigation centers, supportive housing, and transitional housing for youth and young adults within the unincorporated areas of the County of Los Angeles and parcels owned by the County of Los Angeles within the City of Los Angeles. The bill would define the Los Angeles County Development Authority as an eligible public agency. The bill would broaden the definition of “supportive housing.” The bill would also change the term “emergency shelter” to “low barrier navigation center” and broaden the definition of that term. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2030.Because the bill would impose additional duties on local public agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles.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.
CA AB 787 - Jesse Gabriel
Pupil instruction: digital citizenship and media literacy: survey.
07/03/2023 - In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file.
AB 787, as amended, Gabriel. Pupil instruction: digital citizenship and media literacy: survey. Existing law provides for a system of public schools and requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction in specified areas of study. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, on or before July 1, 2019, to make available to school districts on its internet website a list of resources and instructional materials on media literacy, including media literacy professional development programs for teachers.This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2025, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the state board, to survey teacher librarians, principals, and technology directors to understand how they are currently integrating digital citizenship and media literacy education into their curriculum, as provided. The bill would require the superintendent to convene and consult with an advisory committee consisting of specified representatives to develop best practices and recommendations for instruction in digital citizenship and media literacy. The bill would also require the superintendent to share the results of the survey with the advisory committee. The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2026, the superintendent, in consultation with the State Board of Education, to submit a report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature on strategies to implement those best practices and recommendations statewide.
CA AB 798 - Akilah Faizah Weber
Female genital mutilation.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 798, as amended, Weber. Female genital mutilation. Existing law prohibits, as specified, the infliction of pain or suffering or the willful neglect of a child. Existing law imposes a penalty enhancement if the act constituting a violation of this prohibition was an act of female genital mutilation. Existing law defines female genital mutilation as the excision or infibulation of the labia majora, labia minora, clitoris, or vulva, performed for nonmedical purposes.This bill would specify that for the purposes of that enhancement and other crimes it is not a defense that the conduct is required as a matter of religion, custom, ritual, or standard practice, or that the individual on whom it is performed, or the individual’s parent or guardian, consented to the procedure. The bill would state that evidence that a person removes or causes, permits, or facilitates the removal of a minor from this state may be used as circumstantial evidence to establish a violation of any crime arising from the commission of female genital mutilation. The bill would define female genital mutilation as any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for nonmedical reasons. By expanding the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law, the Child Abuse Neglect and Reporting Act, designates certain persons mandated reporters and requires them to report suspected child abuse or neglect to certain specified agencies whenever the mandated reporter, in their professional capacity or within the scope of their employment, has knowledge of or observes a child whom the mandated reporter knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of child abuse or neglect.This bill would specify that female genital mutilation is child abuse for these purposes.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.
CA AB 799 - Lori D. Wilson
Homelessness: financing plan.
09/12/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Blakespear.
AB 799, as amended, Luz Rivas. Homelessness: financing plan. Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California by creating partnerships between federal, state, local, and nonprofit entities. Existing law requires the coordinating council to conduct, or contract with an entity to conduct, a statewide assessment to identify state programs that provide housing or services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, as defined, and collect and analyze data to provide a comprehensive view of the homeless response system.This bill would require the council, in collaboration with continuums of care, counties, and big cities, as defined, and other stakeholders, to establish and regularly update a financing plan to solve homelessness by the year 2035. The bill would require the council to establish and update statewide performance metrics to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in homelessness and to increase successful exits from homelessness to permanent housing by updating the Statewide Action Plan for Preventing and Ending Homelessness in California, no later than January 1, 2025, and would require the council to publish these goals on its internet website, as specified.
CA AB 800 - Liz Ortega
Workplace Readiness Week: work permits.
09/30/2023 - Approved by the Governor.
AB 800, Ortega. Workplace Readiness Week: work permits. Existing law deems the month of May to be Labor History Month throughout the public schools, and encourages school districts to commemorate that month with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.This bill would require the week of each year that includes April 28 to be known as “Workplace Readiness Week.” The bill would require all public high schools, including charter schools, to annually observe that week by providing information to pupils on their rights as workers, and would specify the topics to be covered. The bill would require the observances to be integrated into the regular school program in grades 11 and 12, consistent with the history-social science framework. By imposing additional duties on public school officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually send a written notice to every public high school, including charter schools, with certain information relating to Workplace Readiness Week, as provided.Existing law authorizes specific school administrators to issue a work permit to pupils subject to specific requirements, including requiring certain information to be included on the work permit.This bill would require, beginning August 1, 2024, any minor seeking the signature of a verifying authority on a Statement of Intent to Employ a Minor and Request for a Work Permit-Certificate of Age to be issued, before or at the time of receiving the signature of the verifying authority, a document clearly explaining basic labor rights extended to workers, as provided. The bill would encourage the University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education to produce, with input from bona fide labor organizations, a draft template for the document to be provided to minors, including translations into languages other than English, as specified. The bill would require the document to express those labor rights in plain, natural terminology easily understood by the pupil. The bill would require the document, in English, to be in a physical form and include a Uniform Resource Locator for, and a quick response code linked to, an internet website with electronic versions of the document, including any translated versions of the document, produced by the University of California Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education. To the extent these requirements would impose additional duties on public school officials, 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, 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.
CA AB 801 - Joe Patterson
Student privacy: online personal information.
01/18/2024 - In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
AB 801, as amended, Joe Patterson. Student privacy: online personal information. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to request that a business delete personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer. The act establishes a variety of exceptions to the obligations imposed on a business under these provisions. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA.Existing law, the Early Learning Personal Information Protection Act and the Student Online Personal Information Protection Act, prohibits the operator of specified internet websites, online services, online applications, or mobile applications from knowingly engaging in targeted advertising to amass a profile about a preschool or prekindergarten pupil or K–12 student, selling a pupil’s or student’s information, or disclosing covered information, except as otherwise provided. Existing law defines “covered information” as personally identifiable information or materials, in any media or format that, among other things, is gathered by an operator through the operation of a site, service, or application and is descriptive of a pupil or student or otherwise identifies a pupil or student.This bill would instead refer to a K–12 student as a “pupil,” and make conforming changes. The bill would additionally provide that, when applied to K–12 pupils, “covered information” does not include mandatory pupil records, official records, files, and data directly related to a pupil and maintained by the school or local educational agency, including information within records encompassing all the material kept in the pupil’s cumulative folder.Existing law requires an operator to take specified other actions relating to the protection of a pupil’s or student’s covered information, including implementing and maintaining reasonable security procedures and practices, and deleting a pupil’s or student’s covered information if the school or district requests deletion of data under the control of the school or district.This bill would require an operator to delete a preschool, prekindergarten, or K–12 pupil’s covered information that is not subject to the CCPA if the pupil’s parent or legal guardian, the pupil’s education rights holder, or the pupil, as provided, requests an operator to delete the covered information under the operator’s control if the pupil is no longer enrolled in the local educational agency, preschool, prekindergarten, or district, as applicable, and would require an operator to require documentation that the pupil is no longer enrolled. The bill would also specify that these provisions shall not be interpreted to limit or supersede any rights or requirements under specified federal law.
CA AB 802 - Kate Sanchez
Curriculum: right to examine.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 802, as amended, Joe Patterson. Curriculum: right to examine. Existing law provides that parents and guardians of children enrolled in public schools have the right, and should have the opportunity, as mutually supportive and respectful partners in the education of their children within the public schools, to be informed by the school, and to participate in the education of their children, as specified to include, among other things, examining the curriculum materials of the class or classes in which their child is enrolled.This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide written notice to a pupil’s parent or guardian of their right to examine the curriculum materials of the class or classes in which their child is enrolled, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize each of those local educational agencies to post information on that right to their internet website if they maintain an internet website.This bill would also delete an obsolete reference.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.
CA AB 806 - Brian K. Maienschein
Criminal procedure: crimes in multiple jurisdictions.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 806, as amended, Maienschein. Criminal procedure: crimes in multiple jurisdictions. Under existing law, if more than one violation of specified crimes, including unlawful intercourse with a minor and child abuse, occurs in more than one jurisdictional territory and the defendant and the victim are the same for all offenses, the jurisdiction of any of those offenses, and for any other offenses properly joinable with that offense, is in any jurisdiction where at least one of the offenses occurred. Existing law makes joinder of other specified crimes, including rape and rape of a minor, in any jurisdiction where at least one of the offenses occurred, subject to a hearing on consolidation of the offenses.This bill would also make this provision applicable to any crime of domestic violence, as defined, and would also make the joinder in the jurisdiction where at least one of the crimes occurred subject to a hearing on consolidation of the offenses.
CA AB 81 - James C. Ramos
Indian children: child custody proceedings.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Limón.
AB 81, as amended, Ramos. Indian children: child custody proceedings. Existing federal law, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), governs the proceedings for determining the placement of an Indian child when that child is removed from the custody of the child’s parent or guardian. Existing law states findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding Indian children, including that the state is committed to protecting the essential tribal relations and best interest of an Indian child by promoting practices in accordance with the ICWA, and it is in the interest of an Indian child that the child’s membership or citizenship in the child’s Indian tribe and connection to the tribal community be encouraged and protected, and requires the court to consider those findings in all Indian child custody proceedings.This bill would add to those findings and declarations by stating that the State of California is committed to protecting essential tribal relations by recognizing a tribe’s right to protect the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens. The bill would also declare that provisions of the Family Code, Health and Safety Code, Probate Code, and the Welfare and Institutions Code that apply to proceedings involving an Indian child, as defined, are to be collectively known as the California Indian Child Welfare Act. Existing provisions of state law govern child custody proceedings, adoption proceedings, dependency proceedings, including termination of parental rights, the voluntary relinquishment of a child by a parent, and guardianship proceedings. Existing law provides various definitions for these purposes, including “Indian child,” as provided in the ICWA.This bill would define various terms, including “Indian child,” consistent with provisions of the ICWA. The bill would also make conforming changes and cross-references throughout various provisions.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 816 - Matt Haney
Minors: consent to medical care.
09/12/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 6.).
AB 816, as amended, Haney. Minors: consent to medical care. Existing law authorizes a minor who is 12 years of age or older to consent to medical care and counseling relating to the diagnosis and treatment of a drug- or alcohol-related problem. Existing law exempts replacement narcotic abuse treatment, as specified, from these provisions.This bill would authorize a minor who is 16 years of age or older to consent to replacement narcotic abuse treatment that uses buprenorphine at a physician’s office, clinic, or health facility, by a licensed physician and surgeon or other health care provider, as specified, whether or not the minor also has the consent of their parent or guardian. The bill would authorize a minor 16 years of age or older to consent to any other medications for opioid use disorder from a licensed narcotic treatment program as replacement narcotic therapy without the consent of the minor’s parent or guardian only if, and to the extent, expressly permitted by federal law.
CA AB 820 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
State boards and commissions: seniors.
07/13/2023 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
AB 820, as amended, Reyes. State boards and commissions: seniors. Existing law requires the Governor and every other appointing authority to, in making appointments to state boards and commissions, be responsible for nominating a variety of persons of different backgrounds, abilities, interests, and opinions in compliance with the policy that the composition of state boards and commissions shall be broadly reflective of the general public including ethnic minorities and women.This bill would require the composition of various advisory groups and bodies to include a state agency official responsible for administering programs that serve, or state commission official that advocates on behalf of, older adults, as defined, or a representative from an organization that serves or advocates on behalf of older adults.
CA AB 839 - Dawn Addis
Residential care facilities for the elderly: financing.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 839, as amended, Addis. Residential care facilities for the elderly: financing. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs) by the State Department of Social Services.Under existing law, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority is authorized to make and fund loans through the issuance of revenue bonds, and award grants, to finance or refinance projects by participating health institutions, as defined. Under the act, projects include construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing, or equipping, or funding, financing, or refinancing of a health facility, as defined, or acquisition of a health facility to be financed or refinanced with funds provided in whole or in part pursuant to the act. Under the act, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund is created, with moneys in the fund continuously appropriated to the authority for carrying out the purposes of the act.This bill would expand the above-described program to include RCFEs by adding an RCFE to the definition of “health facility” under the program. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. The bill would clarify that other provisions under existing law relating to health facilities would not be affected by the expanded definition, as specified. Under existing law, an RCFE is defined as a housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by persons 60 years of age or over, or their authorized representative, where varying levels and intensities of care, supervision, and certain services are provided, and whereby persons under 60 years of age with compatible needs may be allowed to be admitted or retained in an RCFE, as specified.Under the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act, one of the types of health facilities is a multilevel facility, which is an institutional arrangement where an RCFE is operated as a part of, or in conjunction with, an intermediate care facility, a skilled nursing facility, or a general acute care hospital. Under that provision, “elderly” means a person 62 years of age or older.This bill would modify that definition of “elderly” to mean a person 60 years of age or older.By expanding the purpose for which the above-described continuously appropriated fund may be used, with regard to RCFE projects, the bill would make an appropriation from that fund. The bill would make legislative findings relating to the purpose of the bill.
CA AB 847 - Luz Maria Rivas
Medi-Cal: pediatric palliative care services.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 847, Luz Rivas. Medi-Cal: pediatric palliative care services. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.Existing law requires the department to develop a pediatric palliative care benefit as a pilot program to Medi-Cal beneficiaries under 21 years of age, to be implemented only to the extent that any necessary federal approvals are obtained and federal financial participation is available. Existing law requires that program to include, among other things, hospice services to individuals whose conditions may result in death, regardless of the estimated length of the individual’s remaining period of life.Pursuant to the above-described provisions, the department established the Pediatric Palliative Care (PPC) Waiver in 2009, upon receiving federal approval in December 2008. After the waiver ended on December 31, 2018, the department implemented a plan in 2019 to transition some pediatric palliative care services to the Early and Periodic, Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT) benefit, which is available to Medi-Cal beneficiaries under 21 years of age, as specified.This bill, Sophia’s Act, would authorize extended eligibility for pediatric hospice services and palliative care services for those individuals who have been determined eligible for those services prior to 21 years of age to after 21 years of age, as specified. To the extent that these provisions would alter the eligibility of individuals for these services, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department to seek any federal approvals it deems necessary to implement these provisions. The bill would implement these provisions only to the extent that necessary federal approvals are obtained and federal financial participation is available and not otherwise jeopardized.This bill would state the Legislature’s intent to investigate future legislation to make pediatric palliative and hospice care more accessible to families.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.
CA AB 866 - Blanca E. Rubio
Food assistance for nonminor dependents.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 866, as amended, Blanca Rubio. Food assistance for nonminor dependents. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which nutrition assistance benefits are distributed to eligible individuals by the counties. Existing law establishes eligibility and benefit level requirements for receipt of CalFresh benefits.Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers on behalf of qualified children in foster care. The program is funded by a combination of federal, state, and county funds. In order to be eligible for AFDC-FC, existing law requires a child or nonminor dependent to be placed in one of several specified placements, including, for nonminor dependents, a supervised independent living placement or a transitional living setting.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to establish a state-funded food assistance program to provide assistance for a nonminor dependent, as defined, who is residing in a supervised independent living placement or a transitional living setting, as specified. The bill would require the program to utilize the existing CalFresh and electronic benefits transfer system infrastructure to implement the program, to the extent permissible under federal law. The bill would specify the amount of assistance a nonminor dependent would receive, based on whether or not the nonminor dependent is a custodial parent. The bill would authorize counties to screen the nonminor dependent for eligibility for CalFresh benefits and if the nonminor dependent is eligible for those benefits, the amount of assistance pursuant to the bill would be the difference between the nonminor dependent’s CalFresh payment and the maximum benefit allotted for their household size. The bill would terminate food assistance payments to the minor on the last day of the month in which the nonminor dependent no longer lives in a supervised independent living placement or transitional living setting, as specified. The bill would require the department to work with the County Welfare Directors Association of California and the California Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS) to develop and implement the necessary system changes to implement its provisions, and would require the payment to be automated on the later of January 1, 2025, or the date the department notifies the Legislature that CalSAWS can perform the necessary automation. By increasing county duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize the State Department of Social Services to implement and administer its provisions through all-county letters or similar instructions without taking regulatory action until final regulations are adopted, as specified.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.
CA AB 867 - Laura Friedman
Foster youth.
10/08/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 867, Friedman. Foster youth. (1) Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which is permitted to adjudge certain children to be a ward or a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, and authorizes the juvenile court to retain jurisdiction over those persons until they attain 21 years of age. Existing law authorizes nonminors who have not yet attained 21 years of age and who exited foster care at or after the age of majority to petition the court to resume dependency jurisdiction or to assume transition jurisdiction over the nonminor.Under existing law, the county welfare department is required to submit reports at the first regularly scheduled review hearing after a dependent child has attained 16 years of age, at the last regularly scheduled review hearing before a dependent child attains 18 years of age, and at every regularly scheduled review hearing thereafter, verifying that specified information, documents, and services have been provided to the child or nonminor.This bill would require certain additional verifications to be included in those reports, including, among other things, verification that specified information has been included in the child’s or nonminor’s case plan.Existing law prohibits the court from terminating jurisdiction over a nonminor dependent who has attained 18 years of age until the county welfare department has submitted a report verifying that it has provided all of the information, documents, and services referred to above to the nonminor dependent, or in the case of a nonminor dependent who, after reasonable efforts by the county welfare department, cannot be located, verifying the efforts made to make that information and those documents and services available to the nonminor dependent.This bill would authorize the court to retain jurisdiction over a nonminor dependent who has attained 21 years of age until the county welfare department has provided the nonminor dependent that information and those documents and services and, if the nonminor dependent has not secured housing, until the county welfare department has submitted a report to the court verifying that specified requirements have been met. The bill would extend the authority of the court to retain jurisdiction over a nonminor dependent who has attained 21 years of age for the limited purpose of complying with those requirements. The bill would authorize a nonminor dependent over whom jurisdiction has been extended pursuant to that authorization to continue receiving the support and services they were entitled to receive immediately prior to attaining 21 years of age, and benefits equal to the amount of Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care program benefits, until jurisdiction has been terminated. By imposing additional duties on county welfare departments, this bill would impose a state-mandated program.(2) 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.
CA AB 87 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Pupils: Section 504 plans: meetings and team meetings.
07/14/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
AB 87, Quirk-Silva. Pupils: Section 504 plans: meetings and team meetings. Existing law requires a special education local plan area submitting a local plan to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that it has in effect policies, procedures, and programs that are consistent with state laws, regulations, and policies governing, among other things, compliance assurances, including general compliance with Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973. That federal law prohibits an otherwise qualified individual with a disability, solely by reason of their disability, from being excluded from the participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those pupils with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law authorizes the parent, guardian, or local educational agency of those pupils to audio record the proceedings of individualized education program team meetings.This bill would similarly authorize a parent, guardian, or local educational agency to audio record meetings and any team meetings for pupils held pursuant to Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as provided.
CA AB 870 - Joaquin Arambula
Public social services: benefits for students.
05/17/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 870, as introduced, Arambula. Public social services: benefits for students. Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services administers various social services programs, such as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program and the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, to provide benefits to eligible individuals. Existing law requires counties to administer these programs. Existing law requires a county human services agency to designate at least one employee as a staff liaison, as provided. Existing law requires the staff liaison to serve as a point of contact for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at a campus of an institution of public higher education located within the county and provide information on programs and services offered by the agency that may be available to students attending a campus of an institution of public higher education within the county.This bill would require the department to convene a workgroup that meets quarterly, comprised of relevant stakeholders as needed to share best practices, updates, challenges, or other topics related to programs and services offered by the department that may be available to students attending a campus of an institution of public higher education. The bill would require the department, with input from relevant stakeholders, to, among other things, discuss and examine different approaches or activities that could increase enrollment in programs of eligible students. The bill would require the department, in collaboration with stakeholders, to submit a report, on or before June 30, 2024, and every 3 years thereafter, to the Legislature with findings and recommendations relating to increasing enrollment in programs and services offered by the department that may be available to students, as specified.
CA AB 872 - House Education Committee
Elementary and secondary education: omnibus bill.
09/30/2023 - Approved by the Governor.
AB 872, Committee on Education. Elementary and secondary education: omnibus bill. (1) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prohibits a person who does not possess a valid credential issued by the State Board of Education, as provided, from being elected or appointed to office as county superintendent of schools. Existing law requires all county superintendents of schools to possess a valid certification document authorizing administrative services.This bill would instead prohibit a person who does not possess a valid credential issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing from being elected or appointed to office as county superintendent of schools and would require all county superintendents of schools to instead possess a valid administrative credential issued by the commission, as provided.(2) Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities by the State Department of Social Services, including various residential care facilities for children who require out-of-home placement under certain circumstances. Existing law declares the policy of the state to facilitate the proper placement of every child in residential care facilities where the placement is in the best interests of the child. Existing law authorizes children with varying designations and varying needs, including nonminor dependents, as defined, to be placed in the same facility, licensed foster family home, or with a foster family agency, as provided.This bill would explicitly authorize community care facilities, licensed foster family homes, and foster family agencies to include nonminors who are individuals with exceptional needs, as defined, within the group of children with varying designations and varying needs that may be placed in the applicable facility, home, or agency, as provided.Under the Community Care Facilities Act, references to a “child” include nonminor dependents and nonminor former dependents or wards.This bill would, for purposes of the Community Care Facilities Act, explicitly state that references to a “child” include nonminors who are individuals with exceptional needs.
CA AB 876 - Robert A. Rivas
Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project: environmental laws: exemptions.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 876, Robert Rivas. Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project: environmental laws: exemptions. Existing law provides for funding for the project for flood control on the Pajaro River in the Counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz, authorized by the federal Flood Control Act of 1966. Existing law also requires a flood management project that receives financial assistance, as provided, to meet specified requirements, and requires the Department of Water Resources or a specified state entity to submit a report to the Legislature that indicates whether the project meets those requirements.This bill would exempt the Pajaro River flood control project from various state and local environmental laws and regulations, only if specified criteria are met and only until a specified date, and as of that date would repeal these provisions. The bill would provide, among other exemptions, that a specified report, as described, shall be conclusively presumed to satisfy the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act for the Pajaro River Project, including to support the issuance of any permit, funding, or other approval by a state or local agency for the Pajaro River Project when implementing the California Environmental Quality Act. The bill would also require the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency to consult with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding the avoidance, minimization, or mitigation of specified environmental impacts, on or before March 1, 2024, as provided.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 88 - Marie Alvarado-Gil
Criminal procedure: victims’ rights.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 88, Sanchez. Criminal procedure: victims’ rights. Existing law authorizes a court, under specified circumstances, to resentence a defendant convicted of a felony offense. Under existing law, resentencing can be granted without a hearing upon stipulation of the parties.This bill would require a victim of the crime who wishes to be heard regarding the resentencing to notify the prosecution of their request for a hearing within 15 days of being notified that resentencing is being sought, and would require the court to provide an opportunity for the victim to be heard.Existing law requires any person, except the victim, who is entitled to attend a parole hearing and intends to do so, to provide at least 30 days’ notice to the Board of Parole Hearings. Existing regulations of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation require victims, the victim’s next of kin, members of the victim’s family, victim representatives, counsel for any of these persons, and victim support persons to give notice of their intention to attend, to the department, as specified.This bill would limit the amount of notice that the department may require from any of these persons to no more than 15 days.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 1172.1 of the Penal Code proposed by AB 600 to be operative only if this bill and AB 600 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 889 - Joe Patterson
Pupil safety: parental notification: synthetic drugs.
07/25/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
AB 889, Joe Patterson. Pupil safety: parental notification: synthetic drugs. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of each school year, to notify parents or guardians of minor pupils of specified rights and responsibilities of the parent or guardian and of specified school district policies and procedures. This bill would require a school district, county office of education, and charter school to annually inform parents or guardians of the dangers associated with using synthetic drugs, as provided, at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term. The bill would require a local educational agency and each of their schools to post this information on their respective internet websites, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated 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.
CA AB 890 - Joe Patterson
Controlled substances: probation.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 890, Joe Patterson. Controlled substances: probation. Existing law prohibits the possession, sale, and transport, as specified, of certain controlled substances. Existing law requires a person granted probation for controlled substance offenses to, as a condition of probation, secure education or treatment from a local community agency designated by the court, if the service is available and the person is likely to benefit from the service.This bill would require the court to order a person granted probation pursuant to those provisions for a violation of specified laws involving any amount of fentanyl, carfentanil, benzimidazole opiate, or any analog thereof, to successfully complete a fentanyl and synthetic opiate education program, if one is available. The bill would prohibit a defendant from being charged a fee for enrollment in that education program.The bill would require a court ordering a defendant to complete those courses to only order the defendant to participate in programs that include, among other things, information regarding the nature and addictive elements of fentanyl and other synthetic opiates and their danger to a person’s life and health. The bill would require program providers to report an unexcused absence by a defendant from a fentanyl and synthetic opiate education program to the court and the probation department within 2 business days. The bill would require the court to only refer defendants to programs that are available at no cost to the participants.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 11373 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by SB 46 to be operative only if this bill and SB 46 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 893 - Diane Papan
Personal vehicle sharing programs.
09/08/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 0.).
AB 893, Papan. Personal vehicle sharing programs. (1) Existing law generally governs the transactions between a rental car company, also referred to as a rental company, and its customers, including, among other provisions, required disclosures by a rental company, mandatory contract provisions for a vehicle rental agreement, restrictions on a rental company’s use of electronic surveillance technology, and authorization for a rental company to collect specific types of fees and charges from its customers. Existing law defines “rental company,” among other terms, for purposes of those provisions.This bill would define the term “personal vehicle sharing program” for purposes of these provisions as a person or entity that, for monetary compensation, facilitates the rental of passenger vehicles to the public, including via a peer-to-peer internet website, application, or other platform, that connects a vehicle owner with a vehicle driver to facilitate sharing or renting a vehicle for consideration, as specified.This bill would, on and after July 1, 2024, prohibit a personal vehicle sharing program from allowing a vehicle to be placed on a digital network or software application of the personal vehicle sharing program for the purpose of making the vehicle available for rental through the personal vehicle sharing program unless certain conditions are satisfied, including specified certifications regarding tax-related matters pertaining to the motor vehicle.(2) Existing law authorizes an airport operated by a city and county to require a rental car company to collect a customer facility charge from its customers on behalf of the airport for the use of airport-mandated common use facilities, as specified.This bill would make those provisions applicable to a personal vehicle sharing program, as defined, and require that any customer facility charges collected be proportionate to the services and infrastructure utilized. The bill, beginning on July 1, 2024, would require that before facilitating sharing or renting of vehicles, any program, person, or entity that is a personal vehicle sharing program obtain a permit or other written authorization from the airport operator that sets forth the terms, standards, regulations, procedures, fees, and access requirements for the activity.(3) Existing law, the California Tourism Marketing Act, authorizes the California Travel and Tourism Commission to require businesses to pay an assessment for the purpose of increasing the number of persons traveling to and within California, implementing a tourism marketing plan, administration, and collecting assessments, as specified. Existing law provides that for purposes of calculating the assessment for a business within the passenger car rental category, the assessment shall be collected only on each rental transaction that commences at either an airport or at a hotel or other overnight lodging with respect to which a city, city and county, or county is authorized to levy a tax as specified.This bill would specify that these provisions apply to a personal vehicle sharing program in the same manner as a business in the passenger car rental category for each sharing or rental transaction that begins at an airport.
CA AB 899 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Food safety: baby food.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 899, Muratsuchi. Food safety: baby food. Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, provides for the regulation of various subjects relating to the manufacturing, processing, labeling, advertising, and sale of food, drugs, and cosmetics, under the administration and enforcement of the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor.This bill would require a manufacturer of baby food for sale or distribution in this state, beginning on January 1, 2024, to test a representative sample of each production aggregate of the manufacturer’s final baby food product, at a proficient laboratory meeting certain criteria, for toxic elements, as defined, at least once per month. The bill would require a manufacturer to provide test results to any authorized agent of the department upon their request, as specified. The bill would require a manufacturer of a final baby food product sold, manufactured, delivered, held, or offered for sale in the state on and after January 1, 2025, to provide specified information disclosures to consumers, including making publicly available on its internet website the name and level of each toxic element present in each production aggregate of the final baby food product.If a product is tested for a certain toxic element subject to an action level, regulatory limit, or tolerance established by the United States Food and Drug Administration, the bill would require manufacturers to include on the product label a quick response (QR) code that links to a page on the manufacturer’s internet website containing, among other information, test results for the toxic element and a link to related FDA guidance, as specified.The bill would prohibit a person or entity from selling in the state or manufacturing, delivering, holding, or offering for sale in the state any baby food that does not comply with these provisions. By creating a new 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.
CA AB 904 - Sabrina Cervantes
Health care coverage: doulas.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 904, Calderon. Health care coverage: doulas. 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’s requirements a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan or health insurer to develop a maternal mental health program designed to promote quality and cost-effective outcomes. Existing law encourages a plan or insurer to include coverage for doulas.This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer, on or before January 1, 2025, to develop a maternal and infant health equity program that addresses racial health disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes through the use of doulas. Under the bill, a Medi-Cal managed care plan would satisfy that requirement by providing coverage of doula services so long as doula services are a Medi-Cal covered benefit. The bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care, in consultation with the Department of Insurance, to collect data and submit a report describing the doula coverage and the above-described programs to the Legislature by January 1, 2027. Because a willful violation of the provisions relative to health care service plans 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.
CA AB 908 - House Education Committee
Education finance: National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program: local control funding formula.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 908, Committee on Education. Education finance: National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program: local control funding formula. (1) Existing law includes average daily attendance as a component of the calculation under the local control funding formula. For each school district that operates a school where one or more state-operated migrant housing projects are located within the attendance area of the school, and at least 1/3 of the maximum number of pupils enrolled in the school in the relevant fiscal year are migratory children, existing law requires the school district’s fiscal year average daily attendance to be increased, as specified.This bill would repeal the latter provision.(2) Existing law establishes the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program to award grants to teachers who have, among other things, attained certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Under the program, a teacher who has attained a national board certification is eligible for an award of up to $25,000, upon agreeing to teach for 5 years at a high-priority school, and a teacher who initiates the process of attaining national board certification when teaching at a high-priority school is eligible for an award of $2,500, as provided. Existing law defines a high-priority school for these purposes as a school with 55% or more of its pupils being unduplicated pupils, determined as of the date of the teacher’s agreement. Existing law appropriates $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for purposes of the program and makes those moneys available for encumbrance until June 30, 2026, as provided.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2023, authorize a teacher who initiates the process of maintenance of certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards when teaching at a high-priority school to receive an award of $495. By expanding the allowable purposes of funds appropriated for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require the State Department of Education to disburse these funds to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and would require unused funds to be applied to future candidates. The bill would revise the definition of a high-priority school to be a school with 55% or more of its pupils being unduplicated pupils, as determined by the department.(3) Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.(4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA AB 91 - Eduardo Garcia
Community colleges: exemption from nonresident tuition fee: residence near the California-Mexico border.
09/11/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 12.).
AB 91, as amended, Alvarez. Community colleges: exemption from nonresident tuition fee: residence near the California-Mexico border. (1) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state and authorizes them to operate campuses and provide instruction to students.Existing law authorizes community college districts to admit nonresident students, and requires that nonresident students be charged a nonresident tuition fee unless an exemption applies. Existing law includes among these exemptions any nonresident who is both a citizen and resident of a foreign country if the nonresident has demonstrated a financial need, as specified. Existing law authorizes the attendance of certain exempted, nonresident students to be reported as resident full-time equivalent students (FTES) for state apportionment purposes. This bill would additionally exempt from the nonresident tuition fee a nonresident, low-income student who: (1) is a resident of Mexico, (2) registers for lower division courses at Cuyamaca College, Grossmont College, Imperial Valley College, MiraCosta College, Palomar College, San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego Miramar College, or Southwestern College, and (3) has residence within 45 miles of the California-Mexico border, as provided. The bill would, in any academic year, prohibit more than 150 FTES at each of these community colleges from being exempted from payment of the nonresident tuition fee.The bill would require the governing boards of the community colleges that choose to use this exemption to adopt one uniform policy to determine a student’s residence classification, establish procedures for an appeal and review of the residence classification, and determine whether a student is low income. The bill also would require the governing boards of the community colleges that choose to use this exemption, as a condition of its students receiving the exemption described above, to collaborate with each other to ensure the adoption of the uniform policy.The bill would additionally authorize the attendance of nonresident students who receive this exemption to be reported as resident FTES for state apportionment purposes, as specified. The bill would provide that a nonresident student exempted under the above-mentioned exemption is not exempted pursuant to the existing provision involving any nonresident who is both a citizen and resident of a foreign country. The bill would require the governing boards of the community colleges that choose to use this exemption, on or before January 1, 2028, to jointly submit a report to the Legislature that includes, but is not limited to, the demographics, attendance rate, and class completion rate of nonresident students who receive the exemption described above.The bill’s provisions would become inoperative on July 1, 2028, and would be repealed on January 1, 2029, as specified. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.(2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Cuyamaca College, Grossmont College, Imperial Valley College, MiraCosta College, Palomar College, San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego Miramar College, and Southwestern College.(3) This bill would not become operative unless the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges enters into an attendance agreement that provides reciprocal rights to California residents attending a university in the State of Baja California that reasonably conforms to the benefits conferred upon residents of Mexico pursuant to certain provisions of the bill, as provided.
CA AB 912 - Reginald Byron Jones-Sawyer Sr.
Strategic Anti-Violence Funding Efforts Act.
10/08/2023 - Vetoed by Governor.
AB 912, Jones-Sawyer. Strategic Anti-Violence Funding Efforts Act. (1) Existing law establishes the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program within the Board of State and Community Corrections to grant funds, upon appropriation, to local jurisdictions and Indian tribes for the purpose of implementing trauma-informed diversion programs for minors, as specified. This bill would repeal these provisions. The bill would reestablish the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program, to be administered by the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, for the purpose of implementing a mixed-delivery system of trauma-informed health and development diversion programs for youth, as specified. The bill would create the Youth Reinvestment Fund to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, by the office for the purposes of the program. The bill would require applicants for the program to be nongovernmental agencies or tribal governments, as specified. The bill would provide that an applicant under this program be awarded no less than $50,000, and no more than $2,000,000, and would specify the requirements of diversion programs to qualify for funding under these provisions.(2) Existing law establishes, until January 1, 2025, the California Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program, administered by the Board of State and Community Corrections, to award competitive grants for the purpose of violence intervention and prevention. This bill would establish, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Department of Justice Violence Reduction Grant Program to be administered by the department for the purpose of supporting evidence-based, focus-deterrence collaborative programs that conduct outreach to targeted gangs and offer supportive services to preemptively reduce and eliminate violence and gang involvement. The bill would require the department to award grants on a competitive basis, with preference given to cities and local jurisdictions that are disproportionately impacted by violence and gang involvement. The bill would require the department to form a grant selection advisory committee, as specified. The bill would require grantees to report to the department, in a form and at intervals prescribed by the department, regarding the progress in achieving the grant objectives, and would require the department to report to the Legislature on the impact of violence prevention initiatives supported by the grant program.(3) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for the work. Existing law requires a school of a school district or county office of education and a charter school to notify pupils and parents or guardians of pupils no less than twice during the school year on how to initiate access to available pupil mental health services on campus or in the community, or both, as provided.This bill would also establish, upon appropriation by the Legislature, within the California Health and Human Services Agency a program to evaluate applications and award grants, in 5-year cycles, to schools to implement the Trauma Intervention Program to implement evidence-based interventions for pupils impacted by trauma. The bill would give the priority to the Counties of Alameda, Fresno, Merced, Tulare, Kern, and Los Angeles, as specified. The bill would require the agency to open eligibility for grants every 5 years, with priority to the top 6 counties that have the highest rate of violent crime and homicide, as reported by the Department of Justice’s annual crime data report. The bill would also require grants to be awarded to a research organization to conduct a study on the effects of the treatment, including any effect on subsequent criminality.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Counties of Alameda, Fresno
CA AB 915 - James C. Ramos
Pupil health: drug education: opioid overdose training program.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 915, as amended, Arambula. Pupil health: drug education: opioid overdose training program. Existing law requires instruction to be given in the elementary and secondary schools by appropriately trained instructors on drug education and the effects of the use of tobacco, alcohol, narcotics, dangerous drugs, as defined, and other dangerous substances. Existing law authorizes a public or private elementary or secondary school to determine whether or not to make emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained personnel available at its school, and to designate one or more volunteers to receive related training to address an opioid overdose, as specified.This bill would require those school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools that voluntarily determine to make naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist available on campus to ensure that the naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist is placed in an appropriate location that is widely known and easily accessible, both during school hours and after school hours. The bill would require the naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to be located on campus grounds in at least one of several specified locations.This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to develop an opioid overdose training program and program toolkit, as defined, to be made available to public high schools for public high school pupils to be trained on how to identify and respond to an opioid overdose, including by administering a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication, as provided. The bill would require the department, by April 1, 2025, to notify public high schools of the availability of the program toolkit. The bill would require the department to provide the program toolkit upon request to those public high schools that opt to host the program on their campuses and to consider making its representatives available to provide the training onsite at public schools upon request. The bill would require the department to collaborate with local, state, and national organizations, as provided, to provide pupils with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased educational materials on opioid and drug overdose prevention, opioid and drug safety, and stigma reduction. The bill would require the department to collect, on an annual basis, data on the number of pupils participating in the program and to share this information with the Legislature and the Senate and Assembly Budget Subcommittees on Education, Health, and Human Services, as provided.
CA AB 920 - Isaac G. Bryan
Discrimination: housing status.
02/01/2024 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
AB 920, as introduced, Bryan. Discrimination: housing status. Existing law prohibits discrimination in any program or activity that is conducted, operated, or administered by the state, or by any state agency, that is funded directly by the state, or that receives any financial assistance from the state, based upon specified personal characteristics.This bill would also prohibit discrimination based upon housing status, as defined.
CA AB 937 - Tina McKinnor
Dependency: family reunification services.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
AB 937, McKinnor. Dependency: family reunification services. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of the failure or inability of their parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of the child’s parents or guardian and generally requires the court to order the social worker to provide designated child welfare services, including family reunification services, which are to be provided up to 12 months from the date the child entered foster care.Existing law authorizes the court-ordered services to be extended up to another 6 months at the 12-month permanency hearing if the court finds that there is a substantial probability that the child will be returned to the physical custody of the parent or guardian within the extended time period, or that reasonable services have not been provided to the parent or guardian, and requires the court to specify the factual basis for its conclusion that there is that substantial probability. Existing law similarly authorizes the court-ordered services to be extended up to another 6 months at the 18-month permanency hearing for specified parents if the court finds that it is in the best interest of the child to have the time extended and there is a substantial probability that the child will be returned to the physical custody of the parent or guardian within the extended time period, or that reasonable services have not been provided to the parent or guardian, and requires the court to specify the factual basis for its conclusion that there is that substantial probability.This bill would clarify that the court shall also specify its factual basis for its conclusion that either reasonable services have not been provided to the parent or guardian or, in the case of an Indian child, that active efforts to reunite the child with their family have not been made if the court extends the services on either basis. The bill would also require the court to extend reunification services for an additional 6 months if the court determines at the 18-month permanency hearing that reasonable services have not been provided, except as specified, or that, in the case of an Indian child, active efforts to reunite the child with their family have not been made. By imposing additional duties on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 366.22 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by SB 463 to be operative only if this bill and SB 463 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA AB 945 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Criminal procedure: expungement of records.
01/29/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 945, Reyes. Criminal procedure: expungement of records. Existing law allows a defendant who successfully participated in the California Conservation Camp program as an incarcerated individual hand crew member, or successfully participated as a member of a county incarcerated individual hand crew, or participated at an institutional firehouse, except as specified, to petition the court to have the pleading dismissed, thus releasing the person of any penalties and disabilities of conviction, except as otherwise provided.This bill would require, beginning May 1, 2026, and every other year thereafter, each superior court to report to the Judicial Council specified data regarding petitions seeking relief pursuant to the above-described provisions. The bill would require the Judicial Council to report the statewide data regarding these petitions beginning June 1, 2026, and every other year thereafter. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2036.
CA AB 947 - Jesse Gabriel
California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: sensitive personal information.
07/05/2023 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
AB 947, as amended, Gabriel. California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: sensitive personal information. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) grants to a consumer various rights with respect to personal information, as defined, that is collected by a business, as defined, including the right to direct a business that collects sensitive personal information about the consumer to limit its use of the consumer’s sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services, to perform the certain other services, and as authorized by certain regulations. The CCPA defines “sensitive personal information to mean personal information that reveals, among other things, a consumer’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, approved by the voters as Proposition 24 at the November 3, 2020, statewide general election, amended, added to, and reenacted the CCPA.This bill would define “sensitive personal information” for purposes of the CCPA to additionally include personal information that reveals a consumer’s citizenship or immigration status.The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act by a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature, as specified.This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.
CA AB 949 - Heath Flora
Parent and child relationship.
02/01/2024 - Died at Desk.
AB 949, as introduced, Flora. Parent and child relationship. Existing law, the Uniform Parentage Act, prescribes various circumstances under which an action may be brought for the purpose of determining the existence or nonexistence of a parent and child relationship, and specifies by whom the action may be brought, including, but not limited to, the child, the Department of Child Support Services, or a presumed parent, as specified.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
CA AB 95 - Joshua Hoover
Pupil nutrition: pupil meals.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
AB 95, Hoover. Pupil nutrition: pupil meals. Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide 2 school meals free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, with a maximum of one free meal for each meal service. The meals provided under this provision are required to be nutritiously adequate meals that qualify for federal reimbursement.Existing law authorizes a school, from the midnight before to 30 minutes after the end of the official schoolday, to sell food other than meals reimbursed by specified federal nutrition programs, only if the food meets dietary guidelines, as specified, depending on grade level.This bill would provide that nothing in those provisions are required to be construed to prohibit a school from selling to a pupil, after the pupil has been provided a school meal pursuant the provisions described above, the entrée from an additional nutritiously adequate meal that qualifies for federal reimbursement, from the same meal service.
CA AB 954 - Isaac G. Bryan
Dependency: court-ordered services.
09/07/2023 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
AB 954, as amended, Bryan. Dependency: court-ordered services. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law authorizes a court to make reasonable orders for the care, supervision, and support of a dependent child, as specified. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of the child’s parents or guardian, and requires the court to order the social worker to provide designated child welfare services, including family reunification services, as prescribed. Existing law also requires family maintenance services to be provided or arranged for by county welfare department staff in order to maintain a child in their own home, and requires the services to be available without regard to income to specified families, including families in which the child is in the care of a previously noncustodial parent under the supervision of the juvenile court.This bill would require a court to inquire whether a parent or guardian can afford court-ordered services when making reasonable orders for a dependent child. The bill would prohibit a court from declaring at specified review hearings that a parent or guardian is noncompliant with a court-ordered case plan when the court finds that the parent or guardian is unable to pay for a service or that payment for a service would create an undue financial hardship for them, and the social worker did not provide a comparable free service that was accessible and available to them, as specified.
CA AB 957 - Scott D. Wiener
Family law: gender identity.
01/29/2024 - Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.
AB 957, Wilson. Family law: gender identity. Existing law governs the determination of child custody and visitation in contested proceedings and requires the court, for purposes of deciding custody, to determine the best interests of the child based on certain factors, including, among other things, the health, safety, and welfare of the child.This bill, for purposes of this provision, would include a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 3011 of the Family Code proposed by SB 599 to be operative only if this bill and SB 599 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA AB 958 - Maria Elena Durazo
Prisons: visitation.
09/01/2023 - In committee: Held under submission.
AB 958, as amended, Santiago. Prisons: visitation. (1) Under existing law, a person sentenced to imprisonment in a state prison or in a county jail for a felony offense, as specified, may, during that period of confinement, be deprived of only those rights as is reasonably related to legitimate penological interests. Existing law enumerates certain civil rights of these prisoners, including the right to purchase, receive, and read newspapers, periodicals, and books accepted for distribution by the United States Post Office.This bill would include the right to personal visits by an intimate partner or a family member, as those terms are defined, as a civil right, as specified. The bill would provide that these civil rights may not be infringed, except as necessary and only if narrowly tailored to further a compelling security interest of the government, and would provide that any governmental action related to these civil rights may be reviewed in court for legal or factual error.(2) Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of prisons and requires regulations, which are adopted by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and may impact the visitation of inmates. Existing law requires these regulations to recognize and consider the value of inmate visitation as a means of increasing safety in prisons, maintaining family and community connections, and preparing inmates for successful release and rehabilitation. Existing regulations create the framework for establishing a visitation process in prisons that is conducted in as accommodating a manner as possible, subject to the need to maintain order, the safety of persons, the security of institutions and facilities, and required prison activities and operations.This bill would additionally require those regulations pertaining to inmate visits to recognize and consider the right to personal visits as a civil right. The bill would prohibit the department from denying or restricting in-person contact visits except as specified, including as a disciplinary sanction against the incarcerated person who has committed a listed offense during a personal visit. The bill would require the department to inform both the visitor and the incarcerated person of the specific reason for any denial of a visit, as specified. The bill would require the department to provide at least 3 days of in-person visiting per week, with a minimum of 7 visiting hours per day.
CA AB 963 - Pilar Schiavo
The End the Foster Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline Act.
05/17/2023 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
AB 963, as amended, Schiavo. The End the Foster Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline Act. Existing law, Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act, establishes the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (I-Bank) in the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, that is governed by a board of directors. The act, among other things, authorizes the I-Bank to make loans, issue bonds, and provide financial assistance for various types of projects that qualify as economic development or public development facilities.This bill, the End the Foster Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline Act, would establish the End the Foster Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline Program within the I-Bank to guarantee qualified loans made by financial institutions to qualified nonprofit and for-profit businesses for the construction, acquisition, and renovation of housing for current and former foster youth between 18 and 25 years of age and who qualify for specified programs. The bill would authorize the bank, in determining whether to guarantee a qualified loan, to give preference to counties with high housing inelasticity and high rates of foster youth, as specified. The bill would authorize the bank to reimburse up to 80% of the guaranteed portion of principal and interest that result from a qualified loan that is in default, not to exceed $250,000,000, and would require the Controller to transfer moneys from the General Fund to the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Fund, at the direction of the bank, for that purpose. By requiring the Controller to transfer moneys into a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.
CA SB 10 - Thomas J. Umberg
Pupil health: opioid overdose prevention and treatment: Melanie’s Law.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 856, Statutes of 2023.
SB 10, Cortese. Pupil health: opioid overdose prevention and treatment: Melanie’s Law. (1) Existing law authorizes a public or private elementary or secondary school to determine whether or not to make emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist and trained personnel available at its school, and to designate one or more volunteers to receive related training to address an opioid overdose, as specified.This bill would state the Legislature’s encouragement of county offices of education to establish a County Working Group on Fentanyl Education in Schools, as provided, for the purposes of outreach, building awareness, and collaborating with local health agencies regarding fentanyl overdoses. The bill would require the State Department of Education to curate and maintain on its internet website, among other things, informational materials containing awareness and safety advice, for school staff, pupils, and parents or guardians of pupils, on how to prevent an opioid overdose.(2) Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Existing law requires that the plan identify appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school’s procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety. Existing law requires a petition to establish a charter school to include, among other things, a reasonably comprehensive description of the procedures that the charter school will follow to ensure the health and safety of pupils and staff, including requiring the development and annual update of a school safety plan that includes certain safety topics and procedures.This bill would additionally require a comprehensive school safety plan, and the school safety plan of a charter school, for a school serving pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include the development of a protocol in the event a pupil is suffering or is reasonably believed to be suffering from an opioid overdose. By creating new duties for local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that alternatives to suspension or expulsion be imposed against a pupil who is truant, tardy, or otherwise absent from school activities. Existing law further states legislative intent that the Multi-Tiered System of Supports, which includes restorative justice practices, among other things, may be used to help pupils, as specified.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that a school use alternatives to a referral of a pupil to a law enforcement agency in response to an incident involving the pupil’s misuse of an opioid, to the extent not in conflict with any other law requiring that referral. The bill would state legislative intent that the above-described Multi-Tiered System of Supports may be used to achieve these alternatives.(4) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 32282 of the Education Code proposed by SB 323 and SB 671 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1604 and SB 671 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605.6 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1604 and SB 671 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.(5) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish proc
CA SB 100 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022.
05/08/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.
SB 100, as amended, Skinner. Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022. The Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes.The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 1005 - Angelique V. Ashby
Juveniles.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1005, as amended, Ashby. Juveniles. Existing law authorizes a probation officer who, after investigation of an application for a petition or any other investigation the probation officer is authorized to make, concludes that a minor is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, or will probably soon be within that jurisdiction, to, in lieu of filing a petition to declare a minor a dependent child of the court or a ward of the court, or requesting that a petition be filed by the prosecuting attorney to declare a minor a ward of the court, as specified, with consent of the minor and the minor’s parent or guardian, delineate specific programs of supervision for the minor, not to exceed 6 months, and attempt to adjust the situation that brings the minor within the jurisdiction of the court or creates the probability that the minor will soon be within that jurisdiction. In lieu of filing a petition, existing law also authorizes the probation officer, with the consent of the minor and the minor’s parent or guardian, to provide or contract for services including sheltered-care facilities, crisis resolution homes, or counseling and educational centers.For certain offenses, this bill would additionally authorize a probation officer, with the consent of the minor and the minor’s parent, to refer an offense to youth court, as specified.
CA SB 101 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Act of 2023.
06/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:20 a.m.
SB 101, Skinner. Budget Act of 2023. This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 102 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Act of 2023.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 102, as amended, Skinner. Budget Act of 2023. The Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2023 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 1022 - Nancy Skinner
Enforcement of civil rights.
04/11/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 1022, as amended, Skinner. Enforcement of civil rights. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), establishes the Civil Rights Department under the direction of an executive officer known as the Director of Civil Rights, to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based upon specified characteristics or status. The FEHA makes certain discriminatory employment and housing practices unlawful, and authorizes a person claiming to be aggrieved by an alleged unlawful practice to file a verified complaint with the department. The FEHA requires the department to make an investigation in connection with a filed complaint alleging facts sufficient to constitute a violation of the FEHA, and requires the department to endeavor to eliminate the unlawful practice by conference, conciliation, and persuasion.Existing law defines terms for purposes of these provisions, in connection with unlawful practices, as specified. This bill would define the term “group or class complaint” for these provisions to include any complaint alleging a pattern or practice.Existing law prohibits a complaint alleging a violation of specified civil rights provisions from being filed after specified timeframes following the date that the alleged unlawful practice, or refusal to cooperate with remediation of the alleged unlawful practice, occurred. Existing law allows those filing periods to be extended under specified circumstances. Existing law provides that notwithstanding other tolling or limitations period, the time for a complainant to file a civil action alleging a violation of specified civil right provisions shall be tolled during the period beginning with the filing of a complaint with the department until either the department files a civil action or one year after the department issues a written notice to a complainant that it has closed its investigation without electing to file a complaint.This bill would make the filing deadlines for a complaint alleging a violation of those specified civil rights or alleging housing discrimination inapplicable to a complaint filed by the director or their authorized representative, or treated by the director or their authorized representative, as a group or class complaint that is alleged to have occurred within a period of 7 years or fewer before the date the complaint was filed. This bill would provide that notwithstanding any other tolling or limitations period, the time for a complainant to file a civil action under these provisions shall be tolled during the period beginning with the filing of a complaint with the department until either the department files a civil action or one year after the department issues a written notice to a complainant that it has closed its investigation without electing to file a complaint, or if the complainant timely appeals within the department the closure of their complaint, written notice to the complainant that it has remained closed following the appeal.Existing law authorizes the director to bring a civil action in the name of the department, acting in the public interest, on behalf of an aggrieved person if conference, conciliation, mediation, or persuasion fails to eliminate an unlawful practice. Existing law specifies deadlines under which a civil action shall be brought, if it is to be brought, after the filing of the complaint, including deadlines for a complaint that is treated by the director as a group or class complaint for purposes of investigation, conciliation, mediation, or civil action, as specified, and a complaint alleging specified violations. Existing law requires those deadlines to be tolled during a dispute resolution proceeding.This bill would require those deadlines for filing a civil action to be tolled during a dispute resolution proceeding, for the amount of time specified in any written agre
CA SB 103 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 103, as amended, Skinner. Budget Acts of 2021 and 2022. The Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2021 and Budget Act of 2022 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes. The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 104 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 189, Statutes of 2023.
SB 104, Skinner. Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023. The Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 1043 - Aisha Wahab
Short-term residential therapeutic programs: dashboard: seclusion or behavioral restraints.
04/16/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 1043, as amended, Grove. Short-term residential therapeutic programs: dashboard: seclusion or behavioral restraints. Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including short-term residential therapeutic programs, by the State Department of Social Services. The act defines a short-term residential therapeutic program as a residential facility licensed by the department and operated by any public agency or private organization that provides an integrated program of specialized and intensive care and supervision, services and supports, treatment, and short-term, 24-hour care and supervision to children that is trauma-informed.Existing law requires specified facilities, including community care facilities, to conduct a clinical and quality review for each episode of the use of seclusion or behavioral restraints, as defined. Existing law requires the facility to conduct a debriefing regarding the incident with the person, and other specified individuals upon the person’s request, to discuss how to avoid a similar incident in the future. Under existing law, the person’s participation in the debriefing is voluntary.This bill, in the case of an incident involving the use of seclusion or behavioral restraints in a short-term residential therapeutic program, would require the facility to provide a description of the incident, in both oral and written forms, to the person subject to the seclusion or behavioral restraint and, as applicable, to the person’s foster parent, guardian, or other authorized representative. The bill would require that the description contain certain information, including the actions taken during the incident and its duration, the rationale for the actions, and the personnel approving and implementing the actions. The bill would require the facility to provide a copy of the written description to the department.Existing law requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services or their designee to take steps to establish a system of mandatory, consistent, timely, and publicly accessible data collection regarding the use of seclusion and behavioral restraints in specified facilities, including community care facilities, that utilize seclusion and behavioral restraints. Existing law requires that data collected include, among other information, the number of incidents, the duration of time spent per incident, and the number of serious injuries or deaths occurring while the person is in seclusion or subject to behavioral restraints.Existing law requires the secretary to develop a mechanism for making this information, as it becomes available, publicly available on the internet. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services and other specified departments to annually provide information to the Legislature about the progress made in implementing the above-described provisions on data collection, clinical and quality review, and debriefing.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, by January 1, 2026, to create and post, on its internet website, a public dashboard that is specific to short-term residential therapeutic programs. The bill would require the dashboard to display the above-described data on seclusion or behavioral restraints as applicable to those programs and to display the above-described written descriptions of the incidents. The bill would require the department to update the information on a quarterly basis.Under the bill, copies of the written descriptions and the dashboard would exclude any personally identifiable information, as specified, and the provisions of the bill would be implemented to the extent not in conflict with any applicable federal or state privacy laws.
CA SB 105 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 862, Statutes of 2023.
SB 105, Skinner. Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023. The Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 1056 - Albert Y. Muratsuchi
Elementary education: kindergarten.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1056, as introduced, Rubio. Elementary education: kindergarten. Under existing law, a person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not exempted by law is subject to compulsory full-time education. Existing law excludes a child under 6 years of age from the public schools, subject to specified exceptions.Existing law requires a school district maintaining a kindergarten to admit a child who will have their 5th birthday on or before September 1 of the school year. Existing law also requires a child who will have their 6th birthday on or before September 1 of the school year to be admitted to the first grade of an elementary school. Existing law authorizes a child who has been lawfully admitted to a public school kindergarten or a private school kindergarten in California and who is judged by the administration of the school district to be ready for first-grade work to be admitted to the first grade, as specified.This bill, beginning with the 2026–27 school year, would require a child to have completed one year of kindergarten before that child may be admitted to the first grade at a public elementary school, except for a child who has been lawfully admitted to a public school kindergarten or a private school kindergarten in California, but has not yet completed one school year, and is judged to be ready for first-grade work, as specified, thereby imposing 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.
CA SB 106 - Scott D. Wiener
Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023.
04/08/2024 - Ordered to second reading.
SB 106, as amended, Wiener. Budget Acts of 2022 and 2023. The Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23 and 2023–24 fiscal years.This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2022 and the Budget Act of 2023 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 1063 - Shannon L. Grove
Pupil safety: identification cards.
04/11/2024 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
SB 1063, as amended, Grove. Pupil safety: identification cards. Existing law requires a public school or private school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards to have printed on the pupil identification cards the telephone numbers for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and the National Domestic Violence Hotline, and authorizes those schools to have printed on the identification cards certain other suicide-prevention and emergency-response numbers, as provided.This bill, commencing July 1, 2025, would require a public school or private school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for the mental health resources internet website of the county in which the public or private school is located. The bill would require schools subject to this requirement that, as of January 1, 2025, have a supply of unissued identification cards that are noncompliant with this requirement to issue the noncompliant identification cards until that supply is depleted. The bill would authorize those schools subject to these requirements to replace any or all of the required information mentioned above with a quick response (QR) code that links to the information being replaced.
CA SB 1099 - Janet Q. Nguyen
Newborn screening: genetic diseases: blood samples collected.
04/16/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
SB 1099, as amended, Nguyen. Newborn screening: genetic diseases: blood samples collected. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to administer a statewide program for prenatal testing for genetic disorders and birth defects, including, but not limited to, ultrasound, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, and blood testing. Existing law requires the department to expand prenatal screening to include all tests that meet or exceed the current standard of care as recommended by national recognized medical or genetic organizations. Existing law requires the department to set guidelines for invoicing, charging, and collecting fee amounts from approved researchers in order to cover the costs of, among other things, data linkage, retrieval, and data processing. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Birth Defects Monitoring Program Fund, consisting of fees paid for prenatal screening, and states the intent of the Legislature that all costs of the genetic disease testing program be fully supported by fees paid for prenatal screening tests, which are deposited in the fund. Existing law requires funds to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in order to support pregnancy blood sample storage, testing, and research activities of the Birth Defects Monitoring Program.This bill would require the department, commencing July 1, 2026, and each July 1 thereafter, as part of its research activities, to report various data to the Legislature, including the number of research projects utilizing residual screening samples from the program and the number of inheritable conditions identified by the original screening tests the previous calendar year. The bill would require the department to additionally set fee guidelines to cover the costs of reporting. The bill would also require the annual report to be made available to the public on the department’s internet website.This bill would make other conforming changes.
CA SB 110 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Early childcare and education.
05/08/2023 - Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.
SB 110, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Early childcare and education. Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with the State Department of Social Services, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates for purposes of the act, and specifies the reimbursement rate for contractors. Existing law requires $184,794,000 in one-time funding to be made available to address inequities between the standard reimbursement rate and the regional market rate ceiling for center-based childcare providers in the California state preschool program, among other programs, by providing reimbursement rate supplements.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2022, and subject to available funding, authorize the department to issue temporary rate increases to contractors that exceed the existing specified rates and the previously described reimbursement rate supplements.Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, and specifies the reimbursement rate for contractors. Existing law also specifies the reimbursement rates for childcare services provided to CalWORKs recipients.This bill would, commencing July 1, 2022, and subject to available funding, authorize the department to issue temporary rate increases to contractors and childcare providers that exceed those existing specified rates.Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to establish a fee schedule for families using preschool and child care and development services and requires families who utilize those services to be assessed a family fee that is based on income, certified family need for full-time or part-time care services, and enrollment. Existing law prohibits those family fees from being collected for the 2022–23 fiscal year.Existing law allocates $519,000,000 in previously appropriated federal funds, and appropriates $60,000,000 in federal funds, to the State Department of Education, and requires the State Department of Education to transfer most of those funds to State Department of Social Services to provide subsidized childcare and preschool providers with COVID-19 pandemic-related assistance, including, among other things, reimbursement for childcare and preschool contractors for family fees that are waived, as specified. Existing law also appropriates $739,025,000 in federal funds to the State Department of Education to, upon order of the Department of Finance, be transferred to the State Department of Social Services for the purpose of expanding childcare access by funding additional slots under the alternative payment program and the general childcare and development program.This bill would extend the prohibition on the collection of those family fees through September 30, 2023, and would require contractors to reimburse subsidized childcare providers for the full amount of the certificate or voucher without deducting family fees during this extended period. The bill would also make the above-described previously appropriated federal funds to expand childcare access slots and provide for family fee waivers and the reimbursement for waived family fees available in the 2023–24 fiscal year in an amount that is equal to the cost to extend f
CA SB 1111 - David K. Min
Public officers: contracts: financial interest.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22 in E. & C.A. pending receipt.
SB 1111, as amended, Min. Public officers: contracts: financial interest. Existing law prohibits Members of the Legislature, and state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees from being financially interested in a contract, as specified, made by them in their official capacity or by any body or board of which they are members, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law identifies certain remote interests that are not subject to this prohibition if, among other things, the member or officer discloses the fact of that interest to the body or board, including, among others, that of a parent in the earnings of the parent’s minor child for personal services. Existing law imposes a criminal penalty on every officer or person who willfully violates these provisions.This bill, on and after January 1, 2026, would include within the definition of remote interest that of a public officer in the financial interest of that public officer’s child, parent, or sibling, or the spouse of the child, parent, or sibling if the interest is actually known to the public officer. By expanding these provisions, this bill would create a new crime and thus 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.
CA SB 1112 - Caroline Menjivar
Medi-Cal: families with subsidized childcare.
04/16/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 1112, as amended, Menjivar. Medi-Cal: families with subsidized childcare. Existing law establishes a system of childcare and development services, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for children from infancy to 13 years of age. Existing law authorizes, upon departmental approval, the use of appropriated funds for alternative payment programs to allow for maximum parental choice. Existing law authorizes those programs to include, among other things, a subsidy that follows the family from one childcare provider to another, or choices among hours of service. Existing law requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs so that services are provided throughout the state.Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services, through managed care or fee-for-service delivery systems. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment (EPSDT) services are covered Medi-Cal benefits for individuals under 21 years of age.This bill, subject to any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal funding, would require the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Social Services to develop a model memorandum of understanding (MOU), and would require the department to require Medi-Cal managed care plans and alternative payment agencies to enter an MOU that includes, at a minimum, the provisions included in the model.For purposes of children of families receiving subsidized childcare services through an alternative payment program, and upon the consent of the parent or guardian, the bill would require the plans and agencies to collaborate on assisting the family with the Medi-Cal enrollment of a child who is eligible but not a beneficiary, and on referring a Medi-Cal beneficiary to developmental screenings that are available under EPSDT services and administered through the plan. The bill would authorize the agency to perform certain related functions.
CA SB 1115 - Monique Limon
Professional learning: mathematics and literacy.
04/09/2024 - Set for hearing April 24.
SB 1115, as amended, Limón. Professional learning: mathematics and literacy. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to issue a request for proposals to contract for the development of standards for professional development for educators and instructional leaders. Existing law requires those standards to, among other things, present a vision of ongoing, high-quality professional development, give special attention to high-need schools and school districts, and build on existing work on quality professional development, including the Designs for Learning system. Existing law requires the entity contracted by the department for these purposes to submit the standards to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for approval, and requires the Superintendent to submit the standards to the State Board of Education for approval, as specified.This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, to identify and recommend high-quality professional learning programs for certificated and classified staff that support pupil development in mathematics and literacy and that meet specified requirements. The bill would, among other things, appropriate an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and the state special schools for these purposes, and would authorize those local educational agencies to use those allocated funds for any high-quality professional learning programs for certificated and classified staff that support pupil development in mathematics and literacy, including, but not limited to, those identified and recommended by the department, if they comply with the specified requirements. The bill would authorize the department to, among other things, establish, where appropriate, project partnerships with other public and private agencies, to support the use of high-quality professional learning programs for certificated and classified staff that support pupil development in mathematics and literacy, as specified.Certain funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
CA SB 1126 - David K. Min
Child abuse and neglect.
04/10/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
SB 1126, as amended, Min. Child abuse and neglect. Existing law defines “child abuse or neglect” for the purposes of the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act to include, among other things, physical injury or death inflicted by other than accidental means and the willful harming or injuring of a child.This bill would provide that the fact that a child witnessed domestic violence or was present during a domestic violence incident does not require a mandated reporter to report child abuse or neglect. The bill would also provide that the definition of child abuse or neglect does not apply to how a child witnessing domestic violence or residing in a household where domestic violence exists is relevant to, among other things, a determination of child custody or visitation.
CA SB 1137 - Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Discrimination claims: intersectionality of characteristics.
04/10/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 1137, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas. Discrimination claims: intersectionality of characteristics. (1) Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to full and equal accommodations in all business establishments regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status. Existing law defines “sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status” for these purposes as including a perception that the person has any particular characteristic or characteristics within the listed categories or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any particular characteristic or characteristics within the listed categories.This bill would revise that definition to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics, as specified.(2) Existing law declares that it is the policy of the state to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of specified characteristics, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state, and states that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies. This bill would revise that policy statement to include remedies that will eliminate those discriminatory acts, including discrimination not just because of one protected trait, but also because of the intersection of 2 or more protected bases.For purposes of certain related educational equity provisions, existing law defines “disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes” to include a perception that the person has any of those characteristics or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.This bill would revise that definition to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics, as specified.(3) Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), establishes the Civil Rights Department to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment, as prescribed. The FEHA recognizes and declares to be a civil right the opportunity to seek, obtain, and hold employment and housing without discrimination because of a specified characteristic. The FEHA makes certain discriminatory practices based on those characteristics unlawful. The FEHA also declares that its purpose is to provide effective remedies that will eliminate these discriminatory practices.This bill would revise the above-described declaration on providing effective remedies to specify that it includes discrimination not just because of one protected trait, but also because of the intersection of 2 or more protected bases.The FEHA defines terms used in connection with unlawful practices. These include “race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, reproductive health decisionmaking, or veteran or military status,” which includes a perception that the person has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics. This bill would revise that definition to include any intersection or combination of those characteristics, as specified. This bill would also state that the above provisions are declaratory of existing law.
CA SB 1138 - Josh Newman
Pupil attendance: excused absences: military entrance processing.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1138, as amended, Newman. Pupil attendance: excused absences: military entrance processing. Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, an absence for purposes of spending time with a member of the pupil’s immediate family who is an active duty member of the uniformed services, and has been called to duty for, is on leave from, or has immediately returned from deployment to a combat zone or combat support position, as specified.This bill would add a pupil’s participation in military entrance processing to the list of excused absences. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on school officials, 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, 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.
CA SB 114 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
SB 114, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill. (1) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually calculate a county local control funding formula for each county superintendent of schools that includes, among other things, an alternative education grant, as specified. Existing law includes, among other things, a base grant based upon average daily attendance as a component of that alternative education grant.This bill would revise the alternative education grant by, among other things, increasing the base grant component of the alternative education grant, revising the calculation of average daily attendance for purposes of the alternative education grant, as specified, and establishing add-ons of $200,000 for each county office of education that operates a juvenile court school and $200,000 for each county office of education that operates a county community school. The bill would require the Superintendent to allocate $3,000 per unit of average daily attendance for a Student Support and Enrichment Block Grant, as provided. The bill would make these provisions applicable commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year.(2) Existing law, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add $200,000 and other specified amounts, that are dependent upon the number and size of school districts under its jurisdiction and that are determined to be in need of differentiated assistance, to a county superintendent of school’s local control funding formula allocation, as specified.This bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would increase the above-described add-on by $100,000.(3) Existing law, commencing with the 2015–16 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to add $2,000,000 to the Los Angeles County Office of Education’s local control funding formula allocation for the purpose of supporting statewide professional development and leadership training for education professionals related to antibias education and the creation of inclusive and equitable schools.This bill would, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, increase that add-on for the Los Angeles County Office of Education by $1,000,000 to instead be $3,000,000.(4) The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent to administer the California state preschool program. The act also requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the Director of Social Services and the executive director of the State Board of Education, to convene a statewide interest holder workgroup to provide recommendations on best practices for increasing access to high-quality universal preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children offered through a mixed-delivery model that provides equitable learning experiences across a variety of settings. The act requires the Superintendent, in consultation with the director, to provide a report to the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance with the recommendations of the workgroup no later than January 15, 2023.This bill would delay the reporting of those recommendations described above to instead be no later than March 31, 2024.(5) Existing law establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education in both the 2021–22 fiscal year and the 2022–23 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants, as specified.The bill would authorize the department to allo
CA SB 115 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: local control and accountability plan electronic template.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
SB 115, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: local control and accountability plan electronic template. (1) Existing law, the Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 28 at the November 8, 2022, statewide general election, provides a minimum source of annual funding to K–12 public schools, including public charter schools, to supplement arts education programs for pupils attending those schools, as specified. Existing law requires the continuous appropriation for these purposes, without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund to the State Department of Education, of an amount equal to 1% of the total state and local revenues received by local educational agencies in the preceding fiscal year that are included in the calculation of the minimum funding guarantee established by the California Constitution, as provided. Existing law requires funds to be allocated by the department to local educational agencies based on a formula that includes, among other things, a calculation of 30% of the total funds appropriated for the above-described purposes multiplied by the school’s enrollment of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior fiscal year, divided by the total statewide enrollment of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior fiscal year of local educational agencies, as provided. Under existing law, a school serving preschool pupil’s enrollment of economically disadvantaged pupils equals the preschool’s enrollment times the same percentage of pupils that are economically disadvantaged at the closest elementary schoolsite within the preschool’s local educational agency, if applicable. Existing law defines a preschool pupil, for these purposes, as a pupil enrolled in the California state preschool program or a preschool for pupils with exceptional needs in a local educational agency. Existing law authorizes funds allocated to schoolsites to be available for use for up to 3 fiscal years after which the funds revert to the department, as provided. Proposition 28 authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions by a 2/3 vote of each house if the amendment furthers its purposes.This bill would revise and recast the provisions of Proposition 28 by, among other things, defining a preschool pupil as a pupil enrolled in the California state preschool program or a pupil 3 years of age through 5 years of age enrolled in a preschool program for pupils with exceptional needs in a local educational agency. The bill would deem the enrollment of economically disadvantaged preschool pupils to instead equal the enrollment of preschool pupils in the prior fiscal year times the same percentage of pupils that are economically disadvantaged at the elementary schoolsite with the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior year within the preschool’s local educational agency. If there is no elementary school within the preschool’s local educational agency, the enrollment of economically disadvantaged preschool pupils would instead be deemed to equal the enrollment of preschools pupils in the prior fiscal year times the same percentage of pupils that are economically disadvantaged at the elementary schoolsite with the highest percentage of economically disadvantaged pupils in the prior year within the preschool’s county. The bill would also require unexpended funds to revert to the department, including in the event of a closure of a charter school, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies to report to the department, by October 1, the amount of unexpended funds following the conclusion of the 3-year-expenditure period, and would authorize the department to withhold the release of a local educational agency’s allocation for the fiscal year in which the expenditure report is due until that local educational agency has submitt
CA SB 116 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Early childcare and education.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 116, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Early childcare and education. (1) Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the department to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. Existing law requires an alternative payment program to reimburse a licensed provider for the childcare of a subsidized child based on the rate charged to nonsubsidized families or the rate established by the provider for prospective nonsubsidized families, as specified, and requires a licensed childcare provider to submit to the alternative payment program a copy of the provider’s rate sheet listing the rates charged and other specified policies and statements.This bill would provide that a license-exempt childcare provider is not required to submit rate sheets. The bill would, if a childcare provider’s reimbursement rate category could be construed as either full-time weekly or full-time monthly, require the alternative payment program, county, or contractor to reimburse the provider either (A) the applicable rate category that most closely corresponds to the rate category listed on the licensed childcare provider’s rate sheet, or (B) if the alternative payment program, county, or contractor cannot determine a single applicable rate category from the licensed childcare provider’s rate sheet, or if the license-exempt childcare provider does not have a rate sheet on file, the applicable rate category that results in the higher reimbursement.Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, and specifies the reimbursement rate for contractors. Existing law requires the reimbursement rate to be increased by the above-described cost-of-living adjustment.The bill would suspend the annual cost-of-living adjustment for the reimbursement rate for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that any adjustment in the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years related to reimbursement for programs funded pursuant to these provisions be subject to a ratified agreement and subject to future legislation, as specified.Under existing law, for purposes of establishing initial income eligibility for services under the act, “income eligible” means that a family’s adjusted monthly income is at or below 85% of the state median income, adjusted for family size. Existing regulations provide how to calculate a family’s adjusted monthly income for purposes of determining income eligibility and calculating a family fee, and require that when a family’s income fluctuates because of migrant, agricultural, or seasonal work, inconsistent or unstable employment; self-employment; or intermittent income, the adjusted monthly income be determined by averaging the total countable income from the preceding 12 months.This bill would codify that regulation, except the bill would require that when a family experiences income fluctuation due to any of those previously mentioned reasons, a family may choose to provide up to the 12 preceding months of income information as necessary for purposes of determining income eligibility or calculating a family fee. The bill would require that the monthly income be determined by averaging the total countable income from at least 2 months, as applicable based on the income provided, to determine income eligibility or calculating a family fee. The bill would authorize the department to implement and administer these provisions by all-county letters, bulletins, or similar written instructions until regulations are adopted. The bill would require the department to adopt
CA SB 1161 - Josh Becker
Juveniles.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1161, as introduced, Becker. Juveniles. (1) Existing law subjects a minor between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who violates any federal, state, or local law or ordinance, and a minor under 12 years of age who is alleged to have committed specified serious offenses, to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court. Under existing law, juvenile court proceedings to declare a minor a ward of the court are commenced by the filing of a petition by the probation officer, the district attorney after consultation with the probation officer, or the prosecuting attorney, as specified. Existing law requires the juvenile court to order the petition of a minor who is subject to the jurisdiction of the court dismissed if the minor satisfactorily completes a term of probation or an informal program of supervision, as specified, and requires the court to seal all records pertaining to that dismissed petition in the custody of the juvenile court and in the custody of law enforcement agencies, the probation department, or the Department of Justice in accordance with a specified procedure.Existing law also generally authorizes a person who is the subject of a juvenile court record, or the county probation officer, to petition the court to seal the person’s records, including records of arrest, relating to the person’s case in the custody of the juvenile court and the probation officer and any other agencies, including law enforcement agencies and public officials. Existing law prohibits the sealing of records under this provision if, following termination of the juvenile court’s jurisdiction, the person has been convicted of a felony or of any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.This bill would prohibit defense counsel for a minor from being ordered to seal their records pursuant to these provisions. The bill would additionally authorize a person to petition for record sealing under these provisions if their felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude has been dismissed, vacated, pardoned, or reduced to misdemeanors that do not involve moral turpitude.(2) Existing law requires the probation officer to immediately make any investigation the probation officer deems necessary to determine whether proceedings in the juvenile court shall be commenced. Existing law authorizes the probation officer, if they deem it appropriate, to recommend services to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the minor from the minor’s home. Existing law authorizes the prosecutory attorney, rather than instituting proceedings, to refer the matter to the probation officer for whatever action the probation officer may deem appropriate.This bill would require, when the probation officer determines proceedings should not be commenced, or the prosecutor refers the matter to the probation officer, the probation officer to promptly release, upon request, copies of the juvenile probation record, as defined, to the minor who is the subject of the juvenile probation record, their parent or guardian, or their counsel. The bill would require the removal of information pertaining to any other juvenile, except as specified.(3) Existing law authorize a probation officer who concludes that a minor is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court or would come within the jurisdiction of the court if a petition was filed, in lieu of filing a petition to declare a minor a ward of the court or requesting that a petition be filed by the prosecuting attorney to declare a minor a ward of the court, as specified, to refer the minor to services provided by a health agency, community-based organization, local educational agency, an appropriate non-law-enforcement agency, or the probation department.This bill would specify that a minor is eligible for informal probation pursuant to these provisions regardless of whether the minor lives in the county where the offense occurred.(4) Existing law authorizes a person who has been arre
CA SB 117 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Higher education trailer bill.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
SB 117, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Higher education trailer bill. (1) Existing law establishes the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program to provide one-time grants for the construction of student housing or for the acquisition and renovation of commercial properties into student housing for the purpose of providing affordable, low-cost housing options for students enrolled in public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law appropriates $1,434,133,000 for the 2022–23 fiscal year from the General Fund for the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program for purposes of the one-time grants described above.This bill, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, would require specified funding previously allocated, or planned to be allocated, to the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges for those construction grants to instead be funded by revenue bonds issued by the University of California and the California State University, and local revenue bonds issued by community college districts. The bill would require any General Fund support for those grants provided to the campuses of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges to revert to the General Fund. The bill would eliminate the 2022–23 fiscal year General Fund appropriation for the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program.(2) Existing law appropriates $650,000,000 from the General Fund to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund. Existing law requires the chancellor’s office to allocate those funds to community college districts on the basis of actual reported full-time equivalent students, as provided. Existing law authorizes the funds to be expended for certain purposes related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including student supports, reengagement strategies, faculty grants, and professional development opportunities.This bill would authorize the funds in the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund to be used for additional purposes, including scheduled maintenance and special repairs of facilities and efforts to increase student retention rates and enrollment by engaging former community college students who may have withdrawn due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.(3) Existing law, until June 30, 2023, authorizes the University of California to provide a scholarship as established by the university or a campus of the university, derived from nonstate funds received for that purpose, to any of its enrolled students who meet the eligibility requirements for that scholarship.This bill would extend that authorization by 4 years.(4) Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.Existing law requires each campus of the California Community Colleges, no later than July 1, 2022, to establish the position of Basic Needs Coordinator to assist students with on- and off-campus housing, food, mental health, and other basic needs services and resources, among other responsibilities, and to establish a Basic Needs Center where basic needs services, resources, and staff are made available to students, as specified. Existing law requires each community college campus to report certain information to the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges related to basic needs services and resources. Existing law requires the chancellor’s office to annually develop and submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature based on the data and information received from campuses and information on the use of funds made available to implement these provisions.This bill would require each community college camp
CA SB 1170 - Caroline Menjivar
Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 30.
SB 1170, as introduced, Menjivar. Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds. Under existing law, campaign funds may not be used for to pay health-related expenses for a candidate, elected officer, or any individual or individuals with authority to approve the expenditure of campaign funds held by a committee, or members of their households.This bill would apply that rule to physical health-related expenses only. This bill would also expressly permit campaign funds to be used to pay or reimburse a non-incumbent candidate for reasonable and necessary mental healthcare expenses if the candidate does not have health insurance or has been denied coverage for mental healthcare expenses by their health insurance, as specified.The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act’s purposes upon a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements.This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
CA SB 118 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Budget Act of 2023: health.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 118, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Budget Act of 2023: health. (1) 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 to provide disclosures regarding the benefits, services, and terms of the plan contract, as specified, to provide the public, subscribers, and enrollees with a full and fair disclosure of the provisions of the plan.This bill would require the department to develop standard templates for the disclosure form and evidence of coverage, to include, among other things, standard definitions, benefit descriptions, and any other information that the director determines, consistent with the goals of providing fair disclosures of the provisions of a health care service plan. The bill would require the department to consult with the Department of Insurance and interested stakeholders in developing the standard templates. The bill would require health care service plans, beginning January 1, 2025, to use the standard templates for any disclosure form or evidence of coverage published or distributed, except as specified. Because a willful violation of these requirements is a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would authorize the department to develop standard templates for a schedule of benefits, an explanation of benefits, a cost-sharing summary, or any similar document. The bill would authorize the department to require health care service plans to use the standard templates, except as specified, and would authorize the director to require health care service plans to submit forms the health care service plan created based on the department’s templates for the purpose of compliance review. The bill would additionally specify that the department may implement these provisions by issuing and modifying templates and all-plan letters or similar instructions, without taking regulatory action. The bill would also update cross-references in various provisions.(2) Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy to cover mental health and substance use disorder treatment, including medically necessary treatment of a mental health or substance use disorder provided by an in-network or out-of-network 988 center or mobile crisis team. Existing law prohibits a health care service plan or insurer from requiring prior authorization for medically necessary treatment of a mental health or substance use disorder provided by a 988 center or mobile crisis team.This bill would instead specify that mental health and substance use disorder treatment includes behavioral health crisis services that are provided by a 988 center, mobile crisis team or other provider of behavioral health crisis services. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer from requiring prior authorization for behavioral health crisis stabilization services and care, but would authorize prior authorization for medically necessary mental health or substance use disorder services following stabilization from a behavioral health crisis addressed by services provided through the 988 system.This bill would require a health care service plan or health insurer that is contacted by a 988 center, mobile crisis team, or other provider of behavioral health crisis services to, within 30 minutes of initial contact, either authorize poststabilization care or inform the provider that it will arrange for the prompt transfer of the enrollee’s care to another provider. The bill would require the plan or insurer to reimburse a provider for poststabilization care in specified circumstances, including if the plan or insurer did not respond within 30 minutes to authorize care or arrange for transfer. The bill would require a plan or insurer to promine
CA SB 119 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Medi-Cal: managed care organization provider tax.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 119, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Medi-Cal: managed care organization provider tax. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts with various types of managed care plans.Existing law, inoperative on January 1, 2023, and to be repealed on January 1, 2024, imposed a managed care organization (MCO) provider tax, administered and assessed by the department, on licensed health care service plans and managed care plans contracted with the department to provide full-scope Medi-Cal services. Those provisions set forth taxing tiers and corresponding per enrollee tax amounts for the 2019–20, 2020–21, and 2021–22 fiscal years, and the first 6 months of the 2022–23 fiscal year. Under those provisions, all revenues, less refunds, derived from the tax were deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the Health Care Services Special Fund, and continuously appropriated to the department for purposes of funding the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal managed care rates, as specified.Those inoperative provisions authorized the department, subject to certain conditions, to modify or make adjustments to any methodology, tax amount, taxing tier, or other provision relating to the MCO provider tax to the extent the department deemed necessary to meet federal requirements, to obtain or maintain federal approval, or to ensure federal financial participation was available or was not otherwise jeopardized. Those provisions required the department to request approval from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as was necessary to implement those provisions.This bill would repeal those inoperative provisions. The bill would restructure the MCO provider tax, with certain modifications to the above-described provisions, including changes to the taxing tiers and tax amounts, for purposes of the tax periods of April 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023, and the 2024, 2025, and 2026 calendar years. The bill would create the Managed Care Enrollment Fund to replace the Health Care Services Special Fund. Under the bill, moneys deposited into the fund would, upon appropriation, be available to the department for the purpose of funding the following subcomponents to support the Medi-Cal program: (1) the nonfederal share of increased capitation payments to Medi-Cal managed care plans; (2) the nonfederal share of Medi-Cal managed care rates for health care services; and (3) transfers to the Medi-Cal Provider Payment Reserve Fund, as established pursuant to specified provisions.The bill would make these provisions operative on the effective date, certified in writing by the Director of Health Care Services, of the federal approval necessary for receipt of federal financial participation, as specified. The bill would make these provisions, except for the provision relating to the Managed Care Enrollment Fund, inoperative on January 1, 2027, or as otherwise specified, and would repeal them on January 1, 2028.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 XIII?A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 2/3 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 1194 - Scott Thomas Wilk
State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Parent Advisory Council.
04/11/2024 - Set for hearing April 23.
SB 1194, as amended, Wilk. State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Parent Advisory Council. Existing law establishes the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who serves as the director of the State Department of Education and has numerous other duties. Existing law requires the Superintendent to develop specified information, and to submit that information to the State Board of Education for its approval, for distribution to school districts and, to the extent feasible, for posting on the department’s internet website, to strengthen and promote the opportunity for quality involvement by parents and guardians in schoolsite councils, as specified.This bill would require the department, on or before January 31, 2025, to publicly post on its internet website the membership of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Parent Advisory Council, as specified, and to update the membership list on its internet website within 30 days of a membership change.
CA SB 1197 - Marie Alvarado-Gil
In-home respite services.
04/15/2024 - April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
SB 1197, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. In-home respite services. Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to allocate funds to private nonprofit regional centers for the provision of community services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law permits regional centers to purchase in-home respite services for regional center clients. Existing law defines in-home respite services as intermittent or regularly scheduled temporary nonmedical care and supervision provided in the client’s own home, for a regional center client who resides with a family member.Existing law, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, requires foster care providers to be paid a per-child per-month rate, established by the State Department of Social Services, for the care and supervision of the child placed with the provider.Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law provides for the implementation of the resource family approval process and defines a resource family as an individual or family who has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and permanency assessment criteria, as specified, necessary for providing care for a child placed by a public or private child placement agency by court order, or voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian. Existing law prohibits children who receive both AFDC-FC benefits and regional center services and who reside with a relative, nonrelative extended family member, or specified community care facility that is not vendored by the regional center as a residential facility from being prohibited from receiving in-home respite services. This bill would add children who receive both AFDC-FC benefits and regional center services and who reside with a resource family to the above-described prohibition. The bill would also add Indian children who receive both AFDC-FC benefits and regional center services and who reside with an extended family member, as defined, or a tribally approved home, as defined, to the above-described prohibition. To the extent that the bill increases the duties of the county in administering the AFDC-FC program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make other technical changes.This bill would clarify that, for purposes of the provisions relating to children who receive both AFDC-FC benefits and regional center services, the terms “child” and “children” include a nonminor dependent, as defined. The bill would find and declare that this provision is declaratory of existing law. 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.
CA SB 120 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Human services.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 120, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Human services. (1) Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensing and regulation of community care facilities, including group home facilities, short-term residential therapeutic programs (STRTPs), and adult residential facilities (ARFs), by the State Department of Social Services. Under existing law, the department similarly regulates residential care facilities for the elderly. A violation of provisions relating to these facilities is a misdemeanor. Existing law requires administrators of these facilities, with specified exemptions, to complete a department-approved certification program, uniformly referred to as administrator certification training programs. Under existing law, these programs require a specified minimum number of hours, depending on the facility type, of classroom instruction that provides training on a uniform core of knowledge in specified areas. Existing law also requires administrator certificates to be renewed every 2 years, conditional upon the certificate holder submitting documentation of a specified number of hours of continuing education, based on the facility type. Existing law permits up to one-half of the required continuing education hours to be satisfied through online courses, and the remainder to be completed in a classroom instructional setting, as prescribed.This bill would revise those provisions by deleting the classroom instruction requirement for initial certification and continuing education purposes, and instead would require instruction that is conducive to learning and allows participants to simultaneously interact with each other as well as with the instructor. The bill would authorize up to one-half of continuing education hours to be satisfied through self-paced courses, rather than online courses. The bill would make various conforming changes.Existing law authorizes the department to license as ARFs, subject to specified conditions, adult residential facilities for persons with special health care needs (ARFPSHNs), which provide 24-hour services to up to 5 adults with developmental disabilities who have special health care and intensive support needs, as defined. Existing law requires the department to ensure that an ARFPSHN meets specified administrative requirements, including requirements related to fingerprinting and criminal records.This bill additionally would require an ARFPSHN to meet the administrator certification requirements of an ARF, including, but not limited to, completing a department-approved administrator certification training program requiring a designated minimum number of hours of instruction conducive to learning, in which participants are able to simultaneously interact with each other as well as with the instructor, that provides training on the uniform core of knowledge applicable to ARFs, as specified. The bill would require an applicant for an administrator’s certificate to submit an application for certification to the department and pass an examination, as prescribed.Because a violation of the above-described requirements would be a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.Existing law includes within the definition of a community care facility, full-service adoption agencies and noncustodial adoption agencies, both of which are licensed entities authorized to provide specified adoption services. Under existing law, a facility is deemed to be an unlicensed community care facility and maintained and operated to provide nonmedical care if it is unlicensed, not exempt from licensure, and if it satisfies one of several specified conditions, including, among others, performing any of the functions of an adoption agency or holding itself out as performing any of the functions of an adoption agency, as specified. Existing law prohibits the operation of an unlicensed community care facility in the state and makes a violation of these p
CA SB 1203 - Shannon L. Grove
Education expenses: Education Flex Account Act of 2024.
02/29/2024 - Referred to Coms. on ED. and REV. & TAX.
SB 1203, as introduced, Grove. Education expenses: Education Flex Account Act of 2024. (1) Existing law establishes a system of elementary and secondary education in this state. This system consists of the public and private schools that provide instruction in kindergarten and in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would enact the Education Flex Account Act of 2024 and establish the Education Flex Account (EFA) Trust, to be known as the EFA Trust, as a fund within the State Treasury to be administered by the EFA Trust Board. During the first 4 school years following the operative date of the act, the bill would authorize certain children eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten, or in an elementary or secondary school, in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an EFA or Special Education Flex Account (SEFA), based on parent or guardian income. The bill would remove these income eligibility limits after 4 school years following the operative date of the act, thereby entitling every child eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten, or in an elementary or secondary school, in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an EFA or SEFA. The bill would specify that every child enrolled in an eligible school shall be entitled, pursuant to this act, to a credit to the child’s account for tuition and elementary and secondary eligible education expenses, as defined. Commencing with the first fiscal year following the operative date of the act, the bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, on July 1 of each year, the annual EFA and SEFA deposit amounts for the upcoming school year. The bill would specify the procedure for calculating the EFA and SEFA deposit amounts and would require the Controller to transfer an amount of money from the General Fund to the EFA Trust equal to the sum of (1) the EFA deposit amount multiplied by the number of EFAs established, and (2) the SEFA deposit amount multiplied by the number of SEFAs established, as provided. The bill would require any unused funds remaining in an EFA or SEFA account on June 30 to be returned to the state for the benefit of elementary and secondary education, upon appropriation by the Legislature.The bill would require the EFA Trust Board to be composed of specified members and would vest the EFA Trust Board with certain powers and duties. The bill would establish 2 accounts within the EFA Trust, the EFA Trust Program Account and the EFA Trust Administrative Account, and would continuously appropriate the moneys in the program account to the EFA Trust Board for purposes of the bill, thereby making an appropriation.The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a procedure for the parents and legal guardians of eligible students to apply to establish an EFA or SEFA and submit an executed participation agreement. The bill would authorize the EFA Trust Board to disburse funds from EFAs or SEFAs to eligible schools, defined as full-time private schools. The bill would specify the procedures for participating eligible schools to receive funds disbursed by the EFA Trust Board.(2) The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, set forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts based on one of 3 tests in any given fiscal year, one of which is based on the percentage of General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts and community college districts, respectively, in the 1986–87 fiscal year, and 2 of which are based on, among other things, changes in enrollment.This bill would require the Legislature to recalculate that minimum education funding guarantee by including eligible students not enrolled in a public elementary or se
CA SB 121 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Developmental services.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 121, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Developmental services. (1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Developmental Services, and vests in the department jurisdiction over various state developmental centers for the provision of care to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law establishes the State Department of State Hospitals within the California Health and Human Services Agency, and provides the department with jurisdiction over specified facilities for the care and treatment of persons with mental health disorders.Existing law requires that every individual with exceptional needs, as defined, who is eligible be provided with educational instruction, services, or both, at no cost to their parent or guardian or, as appropriate, to them. A free appropriate public education is required to be made available to individuals with exceptional needs in accordance with specified federal regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Existing law recognizes that individuals with exceptional needs of mandated schoolage residing in California’s state hospitals and developmental centers are entitled, under specified federal law, to have the same access to educational programs as is provided for individuals with exceptional needs residing in the community, and establishes contracting and funding provisions for that purpose. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Director of Developmental Services, and the Director of State Hospitals to develop written interagency agreements to carry out the provisions relating to educational programs for individuals with exceptional needs residing in those facilities.Existing law requires the transfer of pupils in state hospital school programs whose individualized education programs indicate that a community school program is appropriate to be transferred to schools located in the community. Existing law authorizes waivers to that requirement only when approved by both the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of Developmental Services. Existing law requires the State Department of Developmental Services, on the first day of each month, upon submission of an invoice by the county superintendent of schools, to pay to the county superintendent of schools 8% of the amount projected to cover the cost of hospital pupils educated in community school programs, as specified. Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to calculate the actual cost of educating those pupils and, if the actual cost is more or less than the projected amount, requires the following year’s distribution to be adjusted accordingly.This bill would authorize waivers described above to be approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and either the State Department of Developmental Services, for individuals receiving developmental disability services, or the State Department of State Hospitals, for individuals receiving mental health services, as specified. The bill would require the State Department of State Hospitals, rather than the State Department of Developmental Services, to make payments to county superintendents of schools with respect to pupils under the State Department of State Hospital’s jurisdiction who are being educated in community school programs. The bill additionally would revise those payment provisions to require the relevant department to pay the entire amount invoiced by the county superintendent of schools, and would require an adjustment to the county’s distribution to be adjusted in the following year only if the actual cost is greater than the amount invoiced by the county superintendent of schools. The bill would update existing references to state hospitals to also refer to developmental centers, and would make various other technical changes, and delete obsolete provisions.(2) Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (act)
CA SB 1216 - Catherine S. Blakespear
Transportation projects: Class III bikeways: prohibition.
04/02/2024 - April 9 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 1216, as introduced, Blakespear. Transportation projects: Class III bikeways: prohibition. (1) Existing law establishes 4 classifications of bikeways and defines a “Class III bikeway” as a bikeway that provide a right-of-way on-street or off-street, designated by signs or permanent markings and shared with pedestrians and motorists.This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, an agency responsible for the development or operation of bikeways or highways where bicycle travel is permitted from installing a Class III bikeway or restriping a Class III bikeway on a highway that has a posted speed limit greater than 30 miles per hour.(2) Existing law establishes the Active Transportation Program in the Department of Transportation for the purpose of encouraging increased use of active modes of transportation, such as biking and walking, with specified available funds to be allocated to eligible projects by the California Transportation Commission and regional transportation agencies. Existing law requires the commission to develop guidelines and project selection criteria for the program, as provided. Existing law requires the guidelines regarding project eligibility to include, among other guidelines, the development of new bikeways and walkways, or improvements to existing bikeways and walkways, that improve mobility, access, or safety for nonmotorized users. Existing law requires the guidelines regarding project selection to include, among other guidelines, increasing and improving connectivity and mobility of nonmotorized users.This bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, funds appropriated to the program from being allocated to a project that creates a Class III bikeway. The bill would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, the commission’s guidelines with regard to project eligibility from including the development of Class III bikeways. The bill also would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, the commission’s guidelines with regard to project selection from including the connection of a bikeway connecting to a Class III bikeway as increasing and improving connectivity and mobility of nonmotorized users.
CA SB 1219 - Kelly Seyarto
Crimes: prostitution.
03/08/2024 - Set for hearing April 2.
SB 1219, as introduced, Seyarto. Crimes: prostitution. Existing law, until January 1, 2023, prohibited loitering in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, and made that crime a misdemeanor. Existing law defines specified behavior as disorderly conduct and prohibits that behavior. Under existing law, disorderly conduct includes, among other things, soliciting prostitution, prowling, peeping, surreptitious photographing or filming of an identifiable person, and the distribution of certain images of another person taken under circumstances in which the person understands that the image shall remain private, the distribution of which causes serious emotional distress.This bill would make it a misdemeanor to loiter in a public place with the intent to commit prostitution, as defined, and would make other conforming changes. The bill would make a person guilty of disorderly conduct if they operate a motor vehicle in any public place and repeatedly beckon to, contact, or attempt to contact or stop pedestrians or other motorists, or impede traffic, with the intent to solicit prostitution. The bill would authorize a court to suspend, for not more than 30 days, the privilege of a person to operate a motor vehicle for a first conviction of these offenses. The bill would, for a 2nd or subsequent conviction, require the vehicle used in the commission of the crime to be impounded for 30 days, as specified.By creating a new crime and expanding the scope of an existing crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 1257 - Catherine S. Blakespear
Geographic Managed Care Pilot Project: County of San Diego: advisory board.
04/16/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1257, as amended, Blakespear. Geographic Managed Care Pilot Project: County of San Diego: advisory board. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions.Existing law authorizes the department, upon approval by the board of supervisors of the County of San Diego, to implement a multiplan managed care pilot project for the provision of Medi-Cal services. Existing law authorizes the County of San Diego to establish 2 advisory boards, with certain compositions, to advise the Department of Health Services of the County of San Diego and review and comment on the implementation of the multiplan project. Existing law requires that at least one member of each board be appointed by the board of supervisors and requires the board of supervisors to establish the number of members on each board.This bill would instead authorize the County of San Diego to establish one board, as specified, and would require the board to advise the Health and Human Services Agency of the County of San Diego on the implementation of the state Medi-Cal policy as it pertains to Medi-Cal managed care plans in the county. The bill would require each supervisor of the board to appoint at least one member to the advisory board, with each supervisor appointing an equal number of members.Existing law prohibits the compensation of the advisory board members for activities relating to their duties, but requires that members who are Medi-Cal recipients be reimbursed an appropriate amount by the county for travel and child care expenses incurred in performing their duties in the pilot project.This bill would also authorize advisory board members who are Medi-Cal recipients to be reimbursed by the county for their time in performing their duties in the pilot project, at the discretion of the county.
CA SB 1263 - Josh Newman
Teacher credentialing: teaching performance assessments: repeal.
02/29/2024 - Referred to Com. on ED.
SB 1263, as introduced, Newman. Teacher credentialing: teaching performance assessments: repeal. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that includes a teaching performance assessment that meets specified requirements and has been approved by the commission, as provided. Existing law requires a program for professional preparation to include a teaching performance assessment that is aligned with the California Standards for the Teaching Profession and that is congruent with state content and performance standards for pupils adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the commission, by July 1, 2025, to ensure that an approved teaching performance assessment for a preliminary multiple subject credential and for a preliminary education specialist credential assesses all candidates for competence in instruction in literacy, including, but not limited to, evidence-based methods of teaching foundational reading skills, as provided.This bill would repeal those requirements relating to a teaching performance assessment, delete obsolete provisions, and make conforming changes.
CA SB 127 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
State government.
06/26/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 127, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. State government. (1) Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, among other things, requires a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, unless the business can demonstrate a compelling reason that a different setting is in the best interests of children, and to provide privacy information, terms of service, policies, and community standards concisely, prominently, and using clear language suited to the age of children likely to access that online service, product, or feature.Existing law establishes the California Children’s Data Protection Working Group to deliver a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2024, and every 2 years thereafter, regarding best practices for the implementation of these provisions, as specified. Existing law requires the working group to select a chair and a vice chair from among its members and requires the working group to consist of 10 members, as specified.This bill would specify that the working group is within the Office of the Attorney General, and would require the report to, instead, be delivered on or before July 1, 2024, and every 2 years thereafter. The bill would instead require the working group to consist of 9 members, as specified. The bill would permit meetings of the working group to be conducted by means of remote communication, as specified.(2) The California Constitution generally prohibits the total annual appropriations subject to limitation of the state and each local government from exceeding the appropriations limit of the entity of government for the prior fiscal year, adjusted for the change in the cost of living and the change in population, and prescribes procedures for making adjustments to the appropriations limit. The California Constitution defines “appropriations subject to limitation” of the state to mean any authorization to expend during a fiscal year the proceeds of taxes levied by or for the state, exclusive of, among other things, state subventions for the use and operation of local government, except as specified. The California Constitution defines “appropriations subject to limitation” of an entity of local government to mean any authorization to expend during a fiscal year the proceeds of taxes levied by or for that entity and the proceeds of state subventions to that entity, except as specified, exclusive of refunds of taxes.Existing statutory provisions implementing these constitutional provisions establish the procedure for establishing the appropriations limit of the state and of each local jurisdiction for each fiscal year. Under existing law, revenues and appropriations for a local jurisdiction include subventions and with respect to the state, revenues and appropriations exclude those subventions. Existing law defines, for those purposes, “state subventions” as only including money received by a local agency from the state, the use of which is unrestricted by the statute providing the subvention.For fiscal years commencing with the 2020–21 fiscal year, existing law defines “state subventions” to additionally include money provided to a local agency pursuant to certain state programs and requires any money received by a local agency pursuant to that provision to be included within the appropriations limit of the local agency, up to the full appropriations limit of the local agency, as prescribed.This bill would require the Department of Finance to, no later than February 1 of each year, calculate the individual subvention amounts for each of those state programs and provide this information on an annual basis to the California State Association of Counties and the League of California Cities for distribu
CA SB 1274 - Aisha Wahab
Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates.
04/09/2024 - April 10 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 1274, as amended, Eggman. Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates. Existing law prohibits an agency from disclosing personal information that would link the information to the individual unless, among other things, the information is provided to a governmental entity by law, or the disclosure is to the individual to whom the information pertains.This bill would authorize disclosure of an original birth certificate, as defined, to an adopted person, or child or grandchild of an adopted person.Existing law requires the clerk of the court to report the decree to the State Registrar within 5 days after a decree of adoption. Existing law requires the State Registrar to generate a new birth certificate when the State Registrar receives a report of adoption from a specified court or when the State Registrar receives a specified court order.Existing law requires the new birth certificate to bear certain information and be identical to the certificate issued to the natural parents, except, when requested by the adopting parents, the certificate is required to omit the facility of birth and the race and color of the parents.This bill would remove the adopted parents exception described above that required the certificate to omit the facility of birth and the race and color of the parents.Existing law authorizes the adopting parents to request an amended certificate that omits, among other things, the city and county of birth, or the color and race of the parents.This bill would repeal that authorization.Existing law makes vital records related to adoptions, other than a newly issued birth certificate, available only upon the order of the superior court of the county of residence of the adopted child or of the county granting the order of adoption. Existing law prohibits the court from granting the records order unless a verified petition setting forth facts showing the necessity of the order has been presented to the court and good and compelling cause is shown for granting the order.This bill would similarly prohibit the court from granting a records order releasing an original birth certificate. The bill would also require the State Registrar to create and make available to a birth parent a contact preference form containing certain elections that would be available for release when a request for an original birth certificate is made.
CA SB 129 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Housing.
06/26/2023 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.
SB 129, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Housing. (1) Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency for purposes of carrying out state housing policies and programs, and creates in HCD the California Housing Finance Agency.This bill would remove the California Housing Finance Agency from within HCD. This bill would continue the existence of the California Housing Finance Agency in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency.This bill would also make technical, conforming changes and would delete obsolete references.(2) Existing federal law authorizes the United States Secretary of Agriculture to extend financial assistance through multifamily housing direct loan and grant programs to serve very low, low-, and moderate-income households, including, among other programs, Section 515 Rural Rental Housing Loans, which are mortgages to provide affordable rental housing for very low, low-, and moderate-income families, elderly persons, and persons with disabilities.Existing law establishes a low-income housing tax credit program pursuant to which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee provides procedures and requirements for the allocation, in modified conformity with federal law, of state insurance, personal income, and corporation tax credit amounts to qualified low-income housing projects that have been allocated, or qualify for, a federal low-income housing tax credit and farmworker housing. Existing law requires not less than 20% of the low-income housing tax credits available annually to be set aside for allocation to rural areas. Existing law defines “rural area” for purposes of the low-income housing tax credit program as an area, which, on January 1 of any calendar year, satisfies any number of certain criteria, including being eligible for financing under the Section 515 program, or successor program, of the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. This bill would expand the above-described criteria relating to Section 515 eligibility to instead include eligibility for financing under a multifamily housing program, as specified, or successor program, of the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development. Existing law also includes in the definition of “rural area” an unincorporated area that adjoins a city having a population of 40,000 or less, provided that the city and its adjoining unincorporated area are not located within a census tract designated as an urbanized area by the United States Census Bureau.This bill would revise the definition of “rural area” to include an unincorporated area that adjoins a city having a population of 40,000 or less, provided that the unincorporated area is not located within a census tract, block group, or block designated as an urban area by the United States Census Bureau in the most recent decennial census. The bill would also include in the definition of “rural area” an unincorporated area that does not adjoin a city, provided that the unincorporated area is not located within a census tract, block group, or block designated as an urban area by the United States Census Bureau in the most recent decennial census.(3) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. The law requires HCD to determine whether the housing element is in substantial compliance with specified provisions of that law. Existing law requires HCD to designate jurisdictions as prohousing pursuant to emergency regulations adopted by HCD, as prescribed. Existing law awards jurisdictions that are in substantial compliance with specified provisions and that are prohousing additional points or preference in the scoring of applications for specified state programs, including, among others, the Affordable Housing and Sustainabl
CA SB 1290 - Richard Dale Roth
Health care coverage: essential health benefits.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1290, as introduced, Roth. Health care coverage: essential health benefits. Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, requires the Department of Managed Health Care to license and regulate health care service plans and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Other existing law requires the Department of Insurance to regulate health insurers. Existing law requires an individual or small group health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2017, to include, at a minimum, coverage for essential health benefits pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy to cover the same health benefits that the benchmark plan, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Small Group HMO 30 plan, offered during the first quarter of 2014, as specified.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to review California’s essential health benefits benchmark plan and establish a new benchmark plan for the 2027 plan year. The bill would limit the applicability of the current benchmark plan benefits to plan years on or before the 2027 plan year.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.
CA SB 1307 - Josh Becker
Childcare and development services: eligibility and priority.
04/04/2024 - Set for hearing April 15.
SB 1307, as introduced, Becker. Childcare and development services: eligibility and priority. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, requires the department to administer childcare and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive. The act requires that families meet specified requirements to be eligible for federal and state subsidized childcare and development services, including that a family is a current aid recipient or is income eligible, among other eligible statuses, and the family needs childcare services because, among other reasons, the family is homeless. This bill would extend eligibility for subsidized childcare and development services, to the extent funds are available in the next state plan, to families with a family member who has verified employment of at least 20 hours or more per week at a childcare center or family childcare home, regardless of household income. Existing law establishes priority for federal and state subsidized child development services with first priority given to neglected or abused children who are recipients of child protective services and 2nd priority given to income eligible families, as specified. This bill would give 3rd priority, to the extent funds are available in the next state plan, to families that are eligible due to a family member’s employment at a childcare center or family childcare home.
CA SB 1318 - Aisha Wahab
Pupil health: suicide prevention policies: pupil suicide crisis.
04/15/2024 - April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
SB 1318, as amended, Wahab. Pupil health: suicide prevention policies: pupil suicide crisis. Existing law requires the governing board or body of a county office of education, school district, state special school, or charter school that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to adopt a policy on pupil suicide prevention that specifically addresses, among other things, procedures relating to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention, and any training on suicide awareness and prevention to be provided to teachers of pupils in all of the grades served by the local educational agency. Existing law requires the governing board or body of a local educational agency that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to review, at minimum every 5th year, its policy on pupil suicide prevention and, if necessary, update its policy.This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2026, the policy to also address crisis intervention protocols that local educational agencies are required to follow in the event of a pupil suicide crisis, as defined, including the process by which staff and external agencies are deployed to address a pupil suicide crisis, limiting the involvement and notification of law enforcement to situations in which a pupil’s life is in imminent danger and their needs cannot be addressed by a mental health professional, and the process for informing the parent or guardian of the pupil experiencing the suicide crisis, as provided. The bill would require, at each meeting of the governing board or body of a local educational agency when the governing board or body reviews its policy on pupil suicide prevention, if the local educational agency does not have a school mental health professional, as defined, or contract with a mental health professional, as defined, the governing board or body to discuss whether funding should be identified for purposes of hiring a school mental health professional. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA SB 132 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Income taxes: tax credits: motion pictures: occupational safety: California Film Commission.
06/27/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
SB 132, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Income taxes: tax credits: motion pictures: occupational safety: California Film Commission. (1) Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, with the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, requires employers to comply with certain standards ensuring healthy and safe working conditions, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Other existing law relating to occupational safety imposes special provisions on certain industries and charges the division with enforcement of these provisions. This bill would establish the Safety on Productions Pilot Program. The bill, commencing July 1, 2025, and until June 30, 2030, inclusive, would require that an employer for a motion picture production that receives a specified motion picture tax credit, for that motion picture production, hire or assign a qualified safety advisor for California filming activities to perform a risk assessment and, if required under the bill, a specific risk assessment, as specified. The bill would require a dedicated safety advisor to be present on every motion picture production in the pilot program who is assigned exclusively to that motion picture production. The bill would require assessments to be accessible to specified affected persons and safety advisor access to locations and relevant facilities and items to ensure safety. The bill would require production to conduct a daily safety meeting, including, but not limited to, a safety meeting required when firearms are involved in a scene. The bill would require a safety advisor to participate in daily safety meetings, as specified. The bill would require an employer to identify a person for performers, crew, labor organization representatives, and the division to contact for issues regarding compliance. The bill would require the safety advisor to prepare a final safety evaluation report based on the actual risk and compliance experience. The bill would require the safety advisor, within 60 days following completion of filming activities, to provide the final safety evaluation report to the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee and the California Film Commission. The bill would require the committee and the California Film Commission to jointly select an organization or firm to perform a written evaluation of the pilot program. The bill would require the selected organization or firm to review and assess the final safety evaluation reports on or before June 30, 2029, and make a nonbinding set of recommendations to the Legislature, as prescribed. These pilot program provisions would be repealed as of January 1, 2031. This bill would allow the use of a firearm or blank on motion picture productions only for specified purposes and under specified safety conditions. The bill would require a qualified property master, armorer, or assistant property master handling a firearm in the course of the motion picture production to have a specified state permit, to have completed certain training in firearms, and to have a specified federal document for the possession and custody of the firearm. The bill would specifically impose prescribed reporting requirements on employers engaged in motion picture production. The bill would specifically authorize the division to investigate, inspect, and cite employers, as prescribed. This bill would prohibit ammunition on a motion picture production, except in prescribed circumstances, subject to certain safety rules and laws. The bill
CA SB 1320 - Aisha Wahab
Mental health and substance use disorder treatment.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1320, as amended, Wahab. Mental health and substance use disorder treatment. 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 provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for medically necessary treatment of mental health and substance use disorders, as defined, under the same terms and conditions applied to other medical conditions.This bill would require a plan or insurer subject to the above-described coverage requirement, and its delegates, to establish a process to reimburse providers for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services that are integrated with primary care services and provided under a contract or policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after July 1, 2025. 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.
CA SB 1329 - Senate Education Committee
Elementary and secondary education: omnibus.
04/08/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
SB 1329, as amended, Committee on Education. Elementary and secondary education: omnibus. (1) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law makes various references to credentials and other authorizations issued by the State Board of Education or the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, or just the Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, as specified.This bill would instead only reference the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for those credentials and other authorizations.(2) Existing law authorizes county superintendents of schools, with the approval of the county board of education, to employ one or more supervisors of health, contract with the county board of supervisors or with any local health district, or enter an agreement with the governing board of any school district under their jurisdiction to provide health services to pupils in certain elementary school districts, high school districts, and unified school districts, as specified. Existing law requires those services to be performed by persons who hold a valid health and development credential, or life diploma based thereon, or a services credential with a specialization in health, as provided, but authorizes a psychologist to be employed to perform psychological services or to perform psychological services under contract if they are the holder of a valid school psychologist credential issued by the state board.This bill would, among other things, delete that latter authorization regarding psychologists.(3) Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, in order to expedite the application process for the benefit of applicants for credentials, certificates, permits, or other documents, to receive from, or transmit to, the agency that submitted the application, either electronically or by printed copy, the information set forth in that application. For purposes of these provisions, existing law defines “agency” to mean a school district, county office of education, or institution of higher education having a commission-approved program of professional preparation.This bill would include the status of the application in those authorized transmissions, and would add charter schools to the definition of “agency” for purposes of those provisions.(4) Existing law requires the commission to waive the requirements for completion of a program of professional preparation for any individual with a minimum of 6 years of full-time teaching experience in an accredited private school, as determined by the commission, in the subject and level of the credential sought, who complies with specified requirements.This bill would require the teaching experience in an accredited private school to instead be at a regionally accredited private school.(5) Existing law prescribes the minimum requirements for the preliminary services credential with a specialization in administrative services, including, among other requirements, (A) the completion of a minimum of 3 years of successful, full-time classroom teaching experience in the public schools, including, but not limited to, service in state- or county-operated schools, or in private schools of equivalent status or 3 years of experience in the fields of pupil personnel, health, clinical or rehabilitative, or librarian services, and (B) current employment in an administrative position after completion of professional preparation, whether full or part time, in a public school or private school of equivalent status.This bill would require the classroom teaching experience at a private school, and current employment in an administrative position at a private school, to instead have been at or be at, a regionally accredited private school.(6) Existing law, for the 2023–24 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate $10,000,000
CA SB 133 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Courts.
06/30/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 34, Statutes of 2023.
SB 133, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Courts. (1) The California Constitution vests the judicial power of the state in the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and superior courts, and establishes the Judicial Council to, among other things, adopt rules of court and perform functions prescribed by statute. Existing law, the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law, authorizes and regulates the formation and operation of, among others, nonprofit public benefit corporations.This bill would establish the California Access to Justice Commission, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, and would authorize the commission to receive funding appropriated by the Legislature. The bill would specify the membership of the commission and terms of the members. The bill would specify the purposes for which the commission may receive and use funding including, among others, providing ongoing leadership in efforts to achieve full and equal access to justice for all Californians. The bill would make the commission subject to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law and would set the public meeting requirements for the commission.(2) Existing law, the State Bar Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation. Existing law requires an attorney or law firm receiving or disbursing trust funds to establish and maintain an Interest On Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) account in which the attorney or law firm is required to deposit or invest specified client deposits or funds. Existing law requires interest and dividends earned on IOLTA accounts to be paid to the State Bar of California and used for programs providing civil legal services without charge to indigent persons. Existing law requires the State Bar of California to distribute IOLTA funds and specified other funds to qualified legal service projects and qualified support centers, as defined, for the provision of civil legal services without charge to indigent persons in accordance with a specified statutory scheme. Existing law authorizes qualified legal services projects and qualified support centers to use the funds to provide work opportunities with pay and scholarships for disadvantaged law students to help defray their law school expenses, among other purposes.This bill would authorize qualified legal service projects and qualified support centers to also use the funds to provide loan repayment assistance for the purposes of recruiting and retaining attorneys in accordance with a loan repayment assistance program administered by the California Access to Justice Commission. The bill would appropriate $250,000 from the General Fund to the Judicial Council to provide funding to the California Access to Justice Commission to administer a tax advantaged student loan repayment assistance program for service providers employed by qualified legal service projects and support centers, as specified.(3) Existing law establishes the Appellate Court Trust Fund, the proceeds of which shall be used for the purpose of funding the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. Existing law requires the funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be apportioned by the Judicial Council to the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court taking into consideration all other funds available and the needs of each court in a manner that promotes equal access to the courts, ensures the ability of the courts to carry out their functions, and promotes implementation of statewide policies.This bill would authorize the funds to be apportioned by the Judicial Council to the Supreme Court, courts of appeal, and the Judicial Council, taking into consideration all other funds available to each and the needs of each.(4) Existing law generally requires the superior court, as an employer, to provide employees with the use of a lactation room or other location for employees to express milk in private, including, among other things, a clean and safe place to s
CA SB 135 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Public safety.
09/12/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
SB 135, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Public safety. (1) Existing law, operative as of January 1, 2024, will, in a case in which the party bearing the burden of proof proffers expert testimony regarding medical causation and the party’s expert is required as a condition of testifying to opine that causation exists to a reasonable medical probability, allow the party not bearing the burden of proof to offer the testimony of a contrary expert only if the expert can testify that a proffered alternative cause exists to a reasonable medical probability or that a matter cannot meet a reasonable degree of probability in the applicable field, as specified.This bill would, operative as of January 1, 2024, specify that the above provision applies only to general civil actions, as defined in the California Rules of Court.(2) Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract for the establishment and operation of separate community correctional reentry centers, as specified. Existing law authorizes the secretary to entertain proposals for the establishment and operation of community correctional reentry centers from public and private entities and requires that preference be given to community correctional reentry centers located near large population centers.This bill would authorize the department to enter into long-term contracts, not to exceed 10 years, for the transfer of prisoners to, or placement of prisoners in, facilities under contract pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require that the secretary advertise potential contracts under these provisions and would require that priority be given to certain community correctional reentry centers, as specified. The bill would prohibit the department, for contracts entered into on or after October 14, 2023, from contracting for the establishment of community correctional reentry centers located in current or former state prison facilities or on current or former state prison property.(3) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide subsequent state or federal arrest or disposition notification to the State Department of Social Services, the Medical Board of California, the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, and other authorized entities to assist in, among other things, fulfilling employment, licensing, or certification duties. Existing law requires an entity, other than a law enforcement agency, as defined, to enter into a contract with the Department of Justice in order to receive notification of subsequent state or federal arrests or dispositions for licensing, employment, or certification purposes.This bill would authorize the department to submit fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where they will be retained for the purpose of being searched against future submissions to the FBI, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to search latent fingerprint images against all retained fingerprint submissions. The bill would also authorize the department to collect fees for federal subsequent notification services and remit the fees to the FBI.Existing law authorizes a human resource agency or an employer to request from the Department of Justice records of all convictions or any arrest pending adjudication involving specified offenses of a person who applies for a license, employment, or volunteer position in which they would have supervisory or disciplinary power over a minor or any person under their care. Existing law requires a request for records to include the applicant’s fingerprints and any other data specified by the department. Existing law requires the department to furnish the information to the requesting employer and to send a copy of the information to the applicant.This bill would establish procedures for the department, human resource agency, and employer to follow when a request is made to the department for the conviction and arrest records d
CA SB 1353 - Aisha Wahab
Youth Bill of Rights.
04/08/2024 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
SB 1353, as introduced, Wahab. Youth Bill of Rights. Existing law establishes the Youth Bill of Rights for all youth confined in a juvenile facility, which includes the right to live in a safe, healthy, and clean environment conducive to treatment and rehabilitation, to contact attorneys, ombudspersons, and other advocates regarding conditions of confinement or violations of rights, and to receive a quality education.This bill would add to the Youth Bill of Rights the right to not be deprived of mental health resources, including daily access to counselors, therapists, mentors, or any related services necessary for mental well-being, rehabilitation, and the promotion of positive youth development while detained in a juvenile facility.
CA SB 1356 - Aisha Wahab
Judiciary: training: gender bias.
04/10/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
SB 1356, as amended, Wahab. Judiciary: training: gender bias. Existing law authorizes the Judicial Council to provide by rule of court for racial, ethnic, and gender bias, and sexual harassment training and training for any other bias based on sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, ethnic group identification, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, or sexual orientation for judges and subordinate judicial officers.This bill would require the Judicial Council, when developing any training on gender bias, to consider the role of gender in court proceedings and meeting the needs of litigants in unique situations of vulnerability.The bill would make related findings and declarations.
CA SB 1368 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
School curriculum: sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education: health framework: pregnancy centers.
02/29/2024 - Referred to Com. on ED.
SB 1368, as introduced, Ochoa Bogh. School curriculum: sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education: health framework: pregnancy centers. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.This bill would require the commission, when the Health Framework for California Public Schools is next revised after January 1, 2025, to include information on pregnancy centers as a resource in that health framework.Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. Under the act, this instruction includes, among other things, information about local resources related to sexual and reproductive health and pregnancy prevention and care, as provided.This bill would require the department to make information about pregnancy centers available on its internet website and would require pregnancy centers to be included by school districts in the above-described information about local resources. By imposing additional duties on school districts, 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, 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.
CA SB 137 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Health omnibus trailer bill.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 191, Statutes of 2023.
SB 137, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Health omnibus trailer bill. (1) The California Hospice Licensure Act of 1990 requires a person, political subdivision of the state, or other governmental agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health to provide hospice services to an individual who is experiencing the last phase of life due to a terminal disease, as defined, and their family, except as provided. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2024, to adopt emergency regulations to implement the recommendations in a specified report of the California State Auditor. Existing law requires the department to maintain the general moratorium on new hospice agency licenses until the department adopts the regulations, but in no event later than March 29, 2024. Existing law requires the moratorium to end on the earlier of 2 years from the date that the California State Auditor publishes a report on hospice agency licensure, or the date the emergency regulations are adopted.This bill would instead require the moratorium to end on the date the emergency regulations are adopted and would extend the deadline by which the department is required to adopt those regulations to January 1, 2025.(2) Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services is responsible for licensing and certifying alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment programs and facilities, including both residential and nonresidential programs. Existing law requires the department to charge a fee for the licensure or certification of these facilities and to evaluate licensing and certification fees annually, taking into consideration the overall cost of specified residential and outpatient licensing and certification activities of the department, plus a reasonable reserve. Existing law requires the department to submit proposed new fees or fee changes to the Legislature for approval, as specified, and prohibits new fees or fee changes without legislative approval. Existing law establishes the Residential and Outpatient Program Licensing Fund, consisting of fees, fines, and penalties collected from residential and outpatient programs.This bill would require any excess fees remaining in the Residential and Outpatient Program Licensing Fund at the end of each fiscal year to be carried forward and taken into consideration in setting the amount of fees imposed in the immediately subsequent fiscal year. The bill would authorize the department, no sooner than July 1, 2027, to approve a fee increase, up to and including 5 percent on an annual basis, as needed to address the costs of the licensing and certification activities described above. The bill would require the department to submit any proposed new fees or fee increases in excess of 5 percent to the Legislature for approval and would prohibit new fees or fee changes in excess of 5 percent to be implemented without legislative approval. The bill would require the department to develop a process for programs and facilities to apply for a hardship fee waiver and issue a provider bulletin detailing the application process for the hardship fee waiver that includes eligibility requirements for demonstrated need by July 1, 2024.Existing law requires the department to implement the licensing and certification provisions for alcoholism and drug abuse recovery and treatment programs and facilities through the Administrative Procedure Act. Existing law authorizes the department to implement new fees or fee changes by means of provider bulletins or similar action and to supersede the existing licensing and certification fees until the department amends the regulations. Existing law requires the department to notify and consult with interested parties and appropriate stakeholders regarding new fees or fee changes.This bill would remove the requirement that the department implement the licensing and certification provisions described above through the Administrative Procedures Act
CA SB 138 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Human services.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 192, Statutes of 2023.
SB 138, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Human services. (1) Existing law establishes the State Department of Developmental Services and vests in the department jurisdiction over various state hospitals, referred to as developmental centers, to provide care to persons with developmental disabilities. Existing law requires the department to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law requires a regional center to notify the appropriate regional resource development project when the regional center determines or is informed, as specified, that the community placement of a consumer is at risk of failing and that admittance to an acute crisis home operated by the department is a likelihood or the regional center is notified by a court of a potential admission to an acute crisis home operated by the department.Existing law requires the department to notify the court, in writing, if the regional resource development project determines that a consumer cannot be safely served in an acute crisis home operated by the department, as specified.This bill would require the department, when the regional resource development project determines that a consumer cannot be safely served in an acute crisis home operated by the department, to continue to work jointly with the regional center to identify or develop alternative services and supports and implement the alternative services and supports that are identified or developed.Existing law prohibits the regional resource development project, in consultation with specific parties, from making a determination that admittance to an acute crisis home operated by the department is necessary unless the determination includes a regional center report that details all considered community-based services and supports, including a crisis home and an explanation why the options could not meet the consumer’s needs.The bill would also require the determination that admittance to an acute crisis home is necessary to include consideration of a supported living arrangement, among other options. This bill would prohibit an acute crisis home operated by the department from utilizing specific interventions, including, among other things, prone restraints and seclusion, as defined.(2) Existing law requires the State Department of Developmental Services, no later than April 1, as specified, to submit a detailed plan to the Legislature whenever the department proposes the closure of a state developmental center. Existing law requires the department, in conjunction with the Governor’s proposed 2023–24 budget, to submit to the Legislature an updated version of a specified safety net plan regarding how the department will provide access to crisis services after the closure of a developmental center and how the state will maintain its role in providing residential services to those whom private sector vendors cannot or will not serve. Existing law requires the plan update, among other provisions, to evaluate the progress made to create a safety net, including services or residences intended to facilitate transitions or diversions from institutions for mental disease, the Canyon Springs Community Facility, the secure treatment program at Porterville Developmental Center, prisons or jails, or other restrictive settings.This bill would authorize the establishment of a residential program in the community for adolescents and adults with complex needs, as defined, as part of the safety net plan to provide access to crisis services, as described above. The bill would authorize the development of up to 3 complex needs homes, as defined, with a maximum capacity of 5 beds per home and would prohibit any stay in a complex needs home from exceeding 18 months, except as specified. The bill establishes certain procedures to be followed prior to, and following, a consumer’s admission to a complex needs home due to an acute crisis
CA SB 1380 - Bill M. Dodd
Charter schools: establishment.
04/04/2024 - Set for hearing April 17.
SB 1380, as introduced, Dodd. Charter schools: establishment. (1) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment and operation of charter schools. Existing law generally requires a petition to establish a charter school to be submitted to the governing board of a school district.Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district from denying a petition to establish a charter school unless it makes written factual findings in support of one or more specific findings including, among others, a finding that the school district is not positioned to absorb the fiscal impact of the proposed charter school. Existing law identifies specific conditions that subject a proposed charter school to a rebuttable presumption of denial for this reason, including, among others, the school district being under state receivership.Existing law authorizes a school district to request emergency apportionment, subject to requirements and repayment provisions including the appointment of a trustee, if the school district determines that the school district’s revenues are less than the amount necessary to meet the school district’s current year expenditure obligations.This bill would eliminate being “under state receivership” as a basis for a school district to show it is not positioned to absorb the fiscal impact of a proposed charter school, and would instead specify that a school district may demonstrate that the school district is not positioned to absorb that fiscal impact if, among other conditions, the school district has (A) received an emergency apportionment as described above and: (i) the school district has an outstanding balance of its emergency loan and has not met the conditions to terminate the trustee’s appointment; or (ii) during the first five fiscal years after fully repaying an emergency apportionment and having the appointment of a trustee terminated, the school district’s enrollment has declined, as specified; or (B) the school district has, within the immediately preceding five fiscal years, adopted necessary budgetary solutions to maintain or improve the school district’s fiscal solvency. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on school districts and county offices of education relating to charter petitions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law authorizes a charter school petitioner, if the governing board of a school district denies a petition, to submit the petition for the establishment of a charter school to the county board of education on appeal. Separately, existing law authorizes a county board of education to approve a petition for the operation of a countywide charter school, a charter school that operates at one or more sites within the geographic boundaries of the county and that provides instructional services that are not generally provided by a county office of education, only if it finds, in addition to other requirements, that the educational services to be provided by the charter school will offer services to a pupil population that will benefit from those services and that cannot be served as well by a charter school that operates in only one school district in the county.This bill would, if the governing board of a school district denies a petition, prohibit any person from submitting a substantially similar petition to the county board of education as a countywide charter school and would require a county office of education to deny any petition that it finds to be substantially similar to a petition that has been submitted to and denied by the governing board of the school district in which the charter school proposes to operate, locate, or place its facilities.(3) Existing law requires, at the public hearing at which the county board of education will either grant or deny the charter, the charter school petitioners to have equivalent time and procedures to present evidence and testimony to respond to the county office of education
CA SB 1381 - Michael McGuire
Property crimes: regional property crimes task force.
04/09/2024 - From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 9).
SB 1381, as amended, McGuire. Property crimes: regional property crimes task force. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol to coordinate with the Department of Justice to convene a regional property crimes task force to identify geographic areas experiencing increased levels of property crimes, including, among other property crimes, organized retail theft and vehicle burglary, and assist local law enforcement with resources, such as personnel and equipment.This bill would include the sale of stolen goods as a property crime to be considered in the identification of geographic areas experiencing increased levels of property crimes.
CA SB 1391 - Susan Rubio
Teachers: preparation and retention data.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 1391, as amended, Rubio. Teachers: preparation and retention data. Under existing law, the California Cradle-to-Career Data System is established to be a source for actionable data and research on education, economic, and health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, and is established to provide for expanded access to tools and services that support the navigation of the education-to-employment pipeline. Existing law establishes a governing board to govern the data system and the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data as the managing entity required to implement and manage the data system.This bill would require the managing entity, under the direction of the governing board, to create a teacher training and retention dashboard within the data system on or before January 1, 2026. The bill would require the dashboard to provide information on California’s teacher workforce, including, among other things, trends regarding teacher training pipelines, teacher credentialing, teacher hiring, and teacher retention, as provided.Existing law establishes the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program, under the administration of the State Department of Education, to award grants to teachers who have, among other things, attained certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program, under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs who commit to work for 4 years at a priority school or a preschool program, as provided.This bill would require the department to annually collect data on award recipients pursuant to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program, and would require the commission to annually collect demographic data on grant recipients pursuant to the Golden State Teacher Grant Program, as provided.
CA SB 1396 - Marie Alvarado-Gil
CalWORKs: Home Visiting Program.
04/16/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 1396, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. CalWORKs: Home Visiting Program. Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals. If a family does not include a needy child qualified for aid under CalWORKs, existing law requires aid to be paid to a pregnant person as of the date of the application for aid, as specified. Existing law, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, requires the State Department of Social Services to award funds to participating counties in order to provide voluntary evidence-based home visiting services to assistance units that meet specified requirements.Existing law establishes the CalWORKs Home Visiting Program, a voluntary program for the purpose of supporting positive health, development, and well-being outcomes for pregnant and parenting people, families, and infants born into poverty. Existing law requires the program to provide high-quality, evidence-based, culturally competent services to pregnant people, parents or caretaker relatives, and children for 24 months or until the child’s 2nd birthday, whichever is later, that meet the needs of at-risk assistance units, as specified.This bill would extend those provisions to apply to children for at least 24 months, and not to exceed the duration of the applicable home visiting program model.Existing law requires a voluntary participant in the program to meet specified criteria, including that the individual is either a member of a CalWORKs assistance unit, a parent or caretaker relative for a child-only case, or an individual who is apparently eligible for CalWORKs aid, and that the individual is pregnant or the individual is a parent or caretaker relative of a child less than 24 months of age at the time the individual enrolls in the program, except as specified.This bill would revise that requirement to apply to a child less than 36 months of age. The bill would authorize a voluntary participant whose participation would otherwise be terminated because the participant no longer meets CalWORKs income, eligibility, or need criteria to continue through the duration of the home visiting program or for up to an additional 12 months.
CA SB 14 - Miguel Santiago
Serious felonies: human trafficking.
09/11/2023 - Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
SB 14, as amended, Grove. Serious felonies: human trafficking. Existing law defines the term “serious felony” for various purposes, including, among others, enhancing the punishment for felonies pursuant to existing sentencing provisions commonly known as the Three Strikes Law.This bill would include human trafficking of a minor within the definition of a serious felony for all purposes, including for purposes of the Three Strikes Law, except as specified. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 140 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Early childcare and education.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 193, Statutes of 2023.
SB 140, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Early childcare and education. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day developmentally and age-appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to coordinate with the State Department of Education and others to develop the state plan for purposes of the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates. Existing law requires the state and Child Care Providers United - California to establish a Joint Labor Management Committee to develop recommendations for a single reimbursement rate structure that addresses quality standards for equity and accessibility while supporting positive learning and developmental outcomes for children, as specified. Existing law also requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to develop and conduct an alternative methodology, as specified, in order to set reimbursement rates for state-subsidized childcare and development services.This bill would, among other things, require the State Department of Social Services to, no later than May 15, 2024, report the status of the draft CCDF state plan to specified budget subcommittees and the Legislative Analyst’s Office on the state’s proposed single rate structure, and to, no later than July 1, 2024, submit the necessary information to support use of a single rate structure utilizing the alternative methodology to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families in the state plan or an amendment to the state plan. The bill would also require the department to provide the same budget subcommittees and the Legislative Analyst’s Office with an outline of implementation components for the approved single rate structure within 60 days of federal approval of the single rate structure utilizing the alternative methodology in the state plan, and would require that single rate structure to apply to specified subsidized childcare and development programs under the department and state preschool programs under the State Department of Education.This bill would require, on or before March 1, 2024, a contractor operating a California state preschool program through a family childcare home education network and each county and contractor that reimburses childcare providers for the provision of state-funded subsidized childcare and development services to develop, implement, and publish a plan for timely payment to providers, as specified. This bill would allocate previously appropriated funds in the Budget Act of 2023 to the State Department of Social Services and State Department of Education to provide specified family childcare providers and childcare centers with a monthly cost of care plus rate commencing January 1, 2024, and through June 30, 2025, inclusive, and a one-time payment, as specified.Existing law previously appropriated funds for the establishment of the Joint Child Care Providers United - State of California Training Partnership Fund and to establish a health care benefits trust administered by Child Care Providers United - California, as specified.This bill would allocate additional funds for those purposes, as specified. The bill would also appropriate $100,0000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Social Services for a one-time contribut
CA SB 1401 - Catherine S. Blakespear
Family childcare home: United States Armed Forces.
04/16/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
SB 1401, as introduced, Blakespear. Family childcare home: United States Armed Forces. Existing law generally requires the State Department of Social Services to license and regulate various types of child daycare facilities, including, among others, daycare centers and family daycare homes. Under existing law, a willful or repeated violation of those provisions is a crime. Existing law exempts from those provisions various entities, including, among others, community care facilities, certain program facilities administered by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and extended daycare programs operated by public or private schools.This bill would also exempt, from the above-described licensing and regulation provisions, a family childcare home administered by a person certified as a family childcare provider by a branch of the United States Armed Forces and that exclusively provides care for children of eligible federal personnel, as defined, and surviving spouses.
CA SB 141 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 194, Statutes of 2023.
SB 141, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Education finance: education omnibus budget trailer bill. (1) The Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. The act requires, from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023, inclusive, at least 5% of funded enrollment to be reserved for children with exceptional needs, requires at least 7.5% of funded enrollment to be reserved for children with exceptional needs commencing July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, inclusive, and requires at least 10% of funded enrollment to be reserved for children with exceptional needs commencing July 1, 2026. On and after July 1, 2026, existing law provides that any agency that does not meet those requirements may be put on a conditional contract, as provided.This bill would reestablish the 5% requirement until June 30, 2025, and make any agency that does not meet that requirement eligible to be placed on a conditional contract as of July 1, 2026. For any agency that does not meet the 7.5% or 10% requirements, the bill would delay their eligibility to be placed on a conditional contract to July 1, 2027, and July 1, 2028, respectively.The act requires each state preschool program applicant or contracting agency to give priority for enrollment for part-day and full-day programs according to a specified priority ranking. Existing law requires the 3rd priority for services to be given to eligible 3- and 4-year old children who are not enrolled in a state-funded transitional kindergarten program. Within this priority, the act provides that if 2 or more families have the same income ranking according to the most recent schedule of income ceiling eligibility table, a child from a family in which the primary home language is a language other than English shall be enrolled first.This bill would revise the latter priority criteria to be based on whether those children are identified as dual language learners instead of whether they are from a family in which the primary home language is a language other than English.(2) Existing law establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education in both the 2021–22 fiscal year and the 2022–23 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to allocate or prorate unexpended funds returned by or collected from a grant recipient for grants to local educational agencies for costs associated with the educational expenses of current and future California state preschool program, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten professionals that support their attainment of required credentials, permits, or professional development in early childhood instruction or child development, including developing competencies in serving inclusive classrooms and dual language learners, as provided.This bill would extend the encumbrance period for those funds, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require any remaining unexpended funds to revert to the General Fund on June 30, 2028.(3) Existing law creates the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of receiving appropriations for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts related to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Former law initially appropriated $7,936,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emer
CA SB 142 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Higher education trailer bill.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 195, Statutes of 2023.
SB 142, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Higher education trailer bill. (1) Existing law establishes the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program to provide one-time grants for the construction of student housing, or for the acquisition and renovation of commercial properties into student housing for the purpose of providing affordable, low-cost housing options for students enrolled in public postsecondary education in the state. In addition to funding provided for purposes of the program, existing law requires the University of California and the California Community Colleges to fund construction grants using revenue bonds issued by the University of California or community college districts for specified intersegmental projects. Existing law requires General Fund support for certain grants provided to the California Community Colleges to revert to the General Fund and instead be funded with local revenue bonds issued by community college districts, as specified.This bill would make various changes to these provisions. Among these changes, the bill would (A) authorize instead of request the University of California to fund capital outlay planning and construction grants, (B) increase the amounts specified for 2 existing intersegmental projects, (C) authorize instead of require the California Community Colleges to fund construction grants using local financing issued by community college districts, and (D) delete 2 intersegmental projects between the California Community Colleges and the University of California. The bill would require a community college that has already received an allocation of resources to revert those General Fund resources by June 29, 2024, or upon the enactment of the Budget Act of 2024, whichever is later.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature that no later than the Budget Act of 2024, a statewide lease revenue bond or other statewide financing or fiscal approach be developed and included to support the community college affordable student housing projects that have been approved pursuant to the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program.(2) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to award grants to students enrolled in professional preparation programs leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential who commit to work for 4 years at a priority school or a California preschool program, as provided. Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to determine that a private postsecondary educational institution that offers a professional preparation program approved by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing qualifies for the program if the institution meets certain criteria, including that the institution is accredited by the Senior Colleges and Universities Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Existing law requires the Student Aid Commission to provide one-time grant funds of up to $10,000 to each enrolled student in a private postsecondary educational institution qualified for the program under these provisions, as specified.This bill would specify that the student be a California resident and that, of the funds appropriated in support of the Golden State Teacher Grant Program, no more than 8% of the total funding may be allocated for purposes of the one-time grants described above. The bill would require that the private postsecondary educational institution be accredited by either the Senior Colleges and Universities Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges or regionally accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education. If the institution has no physical presence in California, the bill would require the institution to contract with the Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education to respond to California resident student complaints, as provided.(3) Existing law est
CA SB 1421 - Henry I. Stern
Educational equity: Uniform Complaint Procedures: Office of Civil Rights.
04/11/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
SB 1421, as amended, Stern. Educational equity: Uniform Complaint Procedures: Office of Civil Rights. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs, and requires the State Department of Education to review those regulations pertaining to uniform complaint procedures for specified types of complaints, including those that allege unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying against any protected group, as provided. Existing law requires the department to, on or before March 31, 2019, commence rulemaking proceedings to revise those regulations, as necessary, to conform to specified provisions.This bill would require the department to establish the Office of Civil Rights within the department to (1) receive and investigate these complaints reported pursuant to the uniform complaint procedures that allege unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying, as specified, (2) assume the department’s duties as it pertains to these complaints, as provided, (3) develop procedures to optimize complaint reporting and response, (4) report to the department on the frequency of incidents of unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying at school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, (5) advise the department on the office’s investigations, and (6) provide other recommendations to the department, as specified. The bill would also require this office to receive and investigate complaints relating to access to a high-quality education, instruction, instructional materials, and other matters as determined independently by the department or the State Board of Education.
CA SB 1435 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Books and other school materials: obscene matter.
04/16/2024 - Set for hearing April 23 in JUD. pending receipt.
SB 1435, as amended, Ochoa Bogh. Books and other school materials: obscene matter. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt standards, rules, and regulations for school library services. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to exclude from schools and school libraries all books, publications, or papers of a sectarian, partisan, or denominational character.This bill would require the governing board of a school district to exclude from schools and school libraries serving pupils in preschool, transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, all books, publications, or papers that contain harmful matter, as defined. The bill would require the harmful matter to be removed on or before July 31, 2025. To the extent these provisions would add new duties on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize a parent, guardian, or resident of a school district to commence a civil action to obtain appropriate injunctive and declaratory relief for violations of these provisions after the governing board of the school district’s refusal to remove any harmful matter requested of it.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.
CA SB 1443 - Brian W. Jones
California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
04/02/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HOUSING with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on HOUSING.
SB 1443, as introduced, Jones. California Interagency Council on Homelessness. Existing law requires the Governor to establish the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California, and promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness while focusing on designing systems to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Existing law sets forth the composition of the council, which includes, among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council.This bill would add a representative from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to the council described above.
CA SB 1444 - Henry I. Stern
Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2024.
02/29/2024 - Referred to Com. on JUD.
SB 1444, as introduced, Stern. Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2024. Existing law establishes various online privacy rights for minors, including prohibiting the operator of an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application from marketing or advertising specified types of products or services to a minor, and requires an operator to permit a registered user who is a minor to remove content or information posted.This bill, beginning July 1, 2025, would require large social media platform providers, as defined, to create, maintain, and make available to specified third-party safety software providers a set of third-party-accessible application programming interfaces to allow a third-party safety software provider, upon authorization by a child or a parent or legal guardian of a child, to manage a child’s online interactions, content, and account settings and initiate secure transfers of the child’s user data for these purposes, as provided. The bill would prohibit the third-party safety software provider from disclosing user data unless specified exceptions apply, and would authorize the child or the parent or legal guardian, as applicable, to revoke the authorization with the third-party safety software provider or disable the account with the large social media provider.The bill would require the third-party safety software provider to register with the Attorney General’s office as a condition of accessing an application programming interface from a large social media platform provider and would require the Attorney General to affirm that the third-party safety software provider meets specified requirements, including that it is solely engaged in the business of internet safety. The bill would also require a large social media platform to register with the Attorney General’s office within 30 days of meeting specified requirements, including that it enables a child to share images, text, or video through the internet with other users of the service, as provided, and has more than 100,000,000 monthly global active users or generates more than $1,000,000,000 in gross revenue per year, as provided. The bill would authorize the Attorney General to deregister or issue a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 per violation to a third-party safety software provider if specified conditions occur. The bill would require the Attorney General to post both registration lists on its internet website, and to establish processes to deregister third-party safety software providers and large social media platform providers if certain criteria is met. The bill would provide that a large social media platform provider is not liable for damages arising out of the transfer of user data to a third-party safety software provider in accordance with these provisions if the large social media platform provider has in good faith complied with specified requirements.The bill would require the Department of Technology, before July 1, 2025, to issue guidance for large social media providers and third-party software providers regarding the implementation and maintenance of technical standards to protect user data, as specified, and would require the Department of Technology to biennially update that guidance.The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act by a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature, as specified.This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.
CA SB 1445 - David D. Cortese
Governing boards: pupil members: expulsion hearing recommendations.
04/04/2024 - Set for hearing April 17.
SB 1445, as amended, Cortese. Governing boards: pupil members: expulsion hearing recommendations. Existing law requires county boards of education and school district governing boards to appoint at least one high school pupil as a pupil member of the board, as applicable, in response to a petition from high school pupils requesting the appointment of one or more pupil members, as provided. Existing law gives each pupil member the right to attend every meeting of the governing board, except closed sessions, and to receive all materials received by regular members, except for materials that pertain to closed session items, as provided. Existing law requires the governing boards of school districts to establish rules and regulations governing procedures for the expulsion of pupils, and requires county boards of education to adopt rules and regulations establishing procedures for expulsion appeals, as specified. Existing law requires pupils to be entitled to a hearing to determine whether the pupil should be expelled, conducted in a session closed to the public, except as provided. Existing law also requires, if a pupil is expelled from school, a right to an appeal to the county board of education and an appeal hearing, conducted in a closed session, as provided.This bill would authorize county boards of education and school district governing boards to allow each pupil member to make restorative justice recommendations that would be considered in closed session expulsion hearings. The bill would require, if the county board of education or school district governing board authorizes those pupil member recommendations, limited case information that pertains to those closed session items to be disclosed to the pupil member, subject to pupil and parental consent, as specified.
CA SB 1447 - Maria Elena Durazo
Hospitals: seismic compliance: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
04/03/2024 - Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
SB 1447, as amended, Durazo. Hospitals: seismic compliance: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals. Existing law requires, by January 1, 2030, owners of all acute care inpatient hospitals to either seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospitals, or demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with regulations and standards developed by the department in accordance with the act, as specified.This bill would extend the deadline to January 1, 2040, for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles.
CA SB 1477 - Angelique V. Ashby
School accountability: independent study, educational enrichment activities, oversight, and audit requirements.
04/15/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
SB 1477, as amended, Ashby. School accountability: independent study, educational enrichment activities, oversight, and audit requirements. (1) Under existing law, once the Controller or county superintendent of schools makes a final determination that specified audits performed by a certified public accountant or public accountant were not performed in substantial conformity with provisions of an audit guide, or that the audit reports do not conform to the provisions of an audit guide, the certified public accountant or public accountant is ineligible to conduct specified audits for 3 years. Existing law requires the Controller to notify each school district and county office of education of those certified public accountants or public accountants determined to be ineligible pursuant to these provisions.This bill would extend the above-described rules related to the ineligibility of the certified public accountant or public accountant to audits of a nonclassroom-based charter school, as provided, and would additionally require the Controller to notify charter schools of those certified public accountants or public accountants determined to be ineligible to conduct these audits, as provided.(2) The Charter Schools Act of 1992 specifies the procedures for the submission, review, and approval or denial of a petition to establish a charter school. The act requires a petition for the establishment of a charter school to contain specified information, including a reasonably comprehensive description of the manner in which annual, independent financial audits will be conducted. Existing law, by not later than May 1 of each fiscal year, requires the governing board of each local educational agency to provide for an audit of the books and accounts of the local educational agency, as specified, or make arrangements with the county superintendent of schools to provide for that auditing.By January 31, 2025, and by January 31 of each year thereafter, this bill would require the governing body of a charter school to review, at a public meeting as an item on the agenda, the annual audit of the charter school for the prior fiscal year, any audit exceptions identified in that audit, the recommendations or findings of any management letter issued by the auditor, and any description of correction or plans to correct any exceptions or management letter issue. By imposing additional requirements on charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require an auditor of a nonclassroom-based charter school, when performing certain audits, to take certain actions, including the sampling of certain financial documents, the identification of transfers of funds or assets exceeding prescribed amounts, the identification of transactions that do not meet certain standards, and the preparation of a letter to be included with the audit report, as specified.(3) Existing law prohibits a school district, county office of education, or charter school from being eligible to receive apportionments for independent study by pupils unless the local educational agency has adopted written policies, and implemented those policies, in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as specified, including a requirement that a current written agreement with specified content for each independent study pupil is maintained on file.Commencing July 1, 2025, this bill would authorize the State Department of Education to assess an administrative penalty of $10,000 on a local educational agency if an employee of the local educational agency, as part of the independent study written agreement, willfully states as true any material fact that the employee knows to be false.(4) Commencing July 1, 2025, this bill would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to only enter into an agreement for the provision or arrangement of educational enrichment activities with a vendor t
CA SB 1482 - Steven M. Glazer
Commercial financing.
04/09/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F.I.
SB 1482, as amended, Glazer. Commercial financing. The California Financing Law (CFL) provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation, including by regulating the provision of commercial loans, as defined. A willful violation of the CFL is a crime, except as specified.This bill would, beginning January 1, 2026, generally provide for the regulation under the CFL of commercial financing, which the bill would define to mean an accounts receivable purchase transaction, including factoring, asset-based lending transaction, commercial loan, commercial open-end credit plan, or lease financing, intended by the recipient for use primarily for a purpose other than a personal, family, or household purpose, as specified. The bill would prohibit a person from engaging in the business of a commercial financing provider, as defined, or commercial financing broker, as defined, without obtaining a license from the commissioner. The bill would prohibit a commercial financing provider or a commercial financing broker from, among other things, taking an instrument in which blanks are left to be filled in after execution. The bill would require a licensed commercial financing provider to do certain things, including permitting payment to be made in advance in any amount on any commercial financing transaction at any time. The bill would require a licensed commercial financing broker to do certain things, including delivering to the recipient at the time the final negotiation or arrangement is made a statement showing in clear and distinct terms the name, address, and license number of the commercial financing broker and the commercial financing provider, as prescribed. By expanding the scope of the crime of willfully violating the CFL, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make various conforming changes to the CFL.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.
CA SB 1484 - Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Jurisdiction of juvenile court.
04/16/2024 - From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 16).
SB 1484, as introduced, Smallwood-Cuevas. Jurisdiction of juvenile court. Existing law provides that a juvenile hearing officer may hear and dispose of any case in which a minor under the age of 18 years is alleged to have committed any one of specified misdemeanors or infractions. In those cases, the juvenile court is known as the Informal Juvenile and Traffic Court. Existing law establishes the Expedited Youth Accountability Program, operative in Los Angeles County, and in other counties upon approval of the board of supervisors, as specified. The program provides for the issuance of citations requiring the appearance of minors not detained for any felony or misdemeanor offense, and not cited to the Informal Juvenile and Traffic Court, before the juvenile court.This bill would modify the ages that a person must be to fall under the jurisdiction of the Informal Juvenile and Traffic Court and Expedited Youth Accountability Program to between 12 years of age and 17 years of age, inclusive.
CA SB 1498 - Angelique V. Ashby
Cannabis: advertising: private right of action.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 23.
SB 1498, as amended, Ashby. Cannabis: advertising: private right of action. Existing law, the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA), an initiative measure, 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 and requires the Department of Cannabis Control to administer its provisions. Under MAUCRSA, the Department of Cannabis Control has sole authority to license and regulate commercial cannabis activity, which MAUCRSA defines to include, among other activities, the sale of cannabis and cannabis products.Existing law places various advertising and marketing restrictions on licensees, including prohibiting a licensee from publishing or disseminating advertising or marketing that is attractive to children, and from advertising or marketing cannabis or cannabis products in a manner intended to encourage underage consumption or on an advertising sign within 1,000 feet of a daycare center, school, or youth center. Existing law also prohibits a licensee from advertising or marketing on a billboard or similar advertising device located on an interstate highway or on a state highway that crosses the California border.This bill would authorize a parent or guardian of a minor child to bring and maintain an action to redress a violation of the above-described advertising and marketing restrictions. The bill would require a plaintiff who prevails in an action to be awarded injunctive relief and would authorize a prevailing plaintiff to be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees and costs and civil penalties of not more than $5,000 per violation, as specified. The bill would require civil penalties awarded in an action to be distributed 50% to the plaintiff and 50% to the Treasurer for deposit into the General Fund. The bill would prohibit a defendant from being subject to more than one action in connection with the same, or substantially similar, advertising or marketing, except as provided. The bill would prohibit these provisions from being construed to limit or otherwise alter, in any way, any authority conferred by law upon the Attorney General, the department, or any other state or local officer or agency, as specified.
CA SB 152 - Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Background checks and fingerprinting: state employment, licensing, and contracting.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 198, Statutes of 2023.
SB 152, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Background checks and fingerprinting: state employment, licensing, and contracting. (1) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and other prescribed entities, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to transmit fingerprint images and related information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining a federal criminal history information check pursuant to a referencing statute. Existing law requires the department to review the information returned from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to compile and disseminate a response or a fitness determination to the agency or entity identified in the referencing statute.This bill would require the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, the State Department of State Hospitals, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, the California Horse Racing Board, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the Department of Real Estate, the Department of Housing and Community Development, the Department of General Services, the California Conservation Corps, the Treasurer’s office, and the Controller’s office to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information required by the Department of Justice for specified individuals, including employees, prospective employees, and contractors, as applicable.This bill would also require the State Department of Public Health to require an applicant for a human prescription drug manufacturing license to submit fingerprint images, and related information as required, to the Department of Justice.The bill would require the Department of Justice to provide a state- or federal-level response, as specified.This bill would require the Department of Real Estate and the Department of Housing and Community Development to require certain services contracts, interagency agreements, or public entity agreements to include a provision requiring the contractor to agree to perform criminal background checks on its employees and subcontractors who will have access to specified information.(2) Existing law establishes the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, headed by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation. Under existing law, the department has charge of the execution of specified laws relating to various financial institutions and financial services, including banks, trust companies, credit unions, finance lenders, and residential mortgage lenders. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to local, state, or federal law enforcement agencies fingerprints taken of specified individuals, including, among others, an applicant for employment with the department.This bill would require the department to require fingerprint images from any department employee, prospective employee or applicant seeking employment within the department, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, or vendor who may have access to criminal offender record information. The bill would require the Department of Justice to forward a request for national-level criminal offender record information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and compile and disseminate the information returned, as specified.(3) Existing law requires the Department of FISCal to require fingerprint images and associated information from any employee, prospective employee, contractor, subcontractor, volunteer, vendor, or partner agency employee whose duties include, or would include, having access to confidential or sensitive information or data on the network or computing infrastructure, as provided.This bill would instead require the Department of FISCal to require fingerprint images and associated related inf
CA SB 1525 - Senate Judiciary Committee
Maintenance of the codes.
03/18/2024 - Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
SB 1525, as introduced, Committee on Judiciary. Maintenance of the codes. Existing law directs the Legislative Counsel to advise the Legislature from time to time as to legislation necessary to maintain the codes.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in various provisions of the law to effectuate the recommendations made by the Legislative Counsel to the Legislature.
CA SB 1526 -
Consumer affairs.
04/03/2024 - Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D.
SB 1526, as introduced, Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. Consumer affairs. (1) Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. Existing law establishes various entities within the department for the licensure, regulation, and discipline of various professions and vocations.Existing law establishes the Professions and Vocations Fund in the State Treasury, which consists of specified special funds and accounts. Other existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, establishes the Naturopathic Doctor’s Fund in the State Treasury.This bill would include the Naturopathic Doctor’s Fund in those special funds and accounts in the Professions and Vocations Fund.(2) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dental hygienists by the Dental Hygiene Board of California. Existing law defines “dental hygiene board” to mean the Dental Hygiene Board of California and “dental board” to mean the Dental Board of California.This bill would correct references to these boards.(3) Existing law, the Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers Licensure Act, provides for the licensure and regulation by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board of, among others, speech-language pathology assistants, hearing aid dispensers, and dispensing audiologists.Existing law requires a person applying for approval as a speech-language pathology assistant to have graduated from a speech-language pathology assistant associate of arts degree program, or equivalent course of study, approved by the board.This bill would require graduation from a speech-language pathology assistant associate degree program, or equivalent course of study, approved by the board.Existing law, as it relates to hearing aid dispensers and dispensing audiologists, refers to a “hearing aid dispenser’s license.”This bill would instead refer to a “hearing aid dispenser license.”(4) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing to license and regulate the practice of nursing.Existing law requires an applicant for licensure as a registered nurse to comply with prescribed requirements, including a requirement to have successfully completed the courses of instruction prescribed by the board for licensure, in a program in this state accredited by the board for training registered nurses, or to have successfully completed courses of instruction in a school of nursing outside of this state that, in the opinion of the board at the time the application is filed, are equivalent to the minimum requirements of the board for licensure established for an accredited program in this state.This bill would replace references to an “accredited program” with “approved program.”Existing law prohibits an individual from holding themselves out as a public health nurse or using a title that includes the term “public health nurse” unless that individual is in possession of a valid California public health nurse certificate. Existing law establishes minimum and maximum amounts for a fee for an evaluation of qualifications to use the title “public health nurse,” a fee for an application for renewal of the certificate to practice as a public health nurse, and a penalty fee for failure to renew a certificate to practice as a public health nurse within the prescribed time.This bill would delete the minimum amounts for those public health nurse fees.(5) Existing law, the Physician Assistant Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of physician assistants by the Physician Assistant Board.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in that act.(6) Existing law, the Naturopathic Doctors Act, establishes the California Board of Naturopathic Medicine. Existing law changed the name of the former Naturopathic Medicine Committee to the board and former law changed the name of the Bureau of
CA SB 2 - Buffy Wicks
Firearms.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 2, as amended, Portantino. Firearms. Existing law prohibits a person from carrying a concealed firearm or carrying a loaded firearm in public. Existing law authorizes a licensing authority, as specified, if good cause exists for the issuance, and subject to certain other criteria including, among other things, the applicant is of good moral character and has completed a specified course of training, to issue a license to carry a concealed handgun or to carry a loaded and exposed handgun, as specified. Under existing law, the required course of training for an applicant is no more than 16 hours and covers firearm safety and laws regarding the permissible use of a firearm.This bill would require the licensing authority to issue or renew a license if the applicant is not a disqualified person for the license and the applicant is at least 21 years of age. The bill would remove the good character and good cause requirements from the issuance criteria. Under the bill, the applicant would be a disqualified person if they, among other things, are reasonably likely to be a danger to self, others, or the community at large, as specified. This bill would add the requirement that the applicant be the recorded owner, with the Department of Justice, of the pistol, revolver, or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person. This bill would change the training requirement to be no less than 16 hours in length and would add additional subjects to the course including, among other things, the safe storage and legal transportation of firearms. The bill would require an issuing authority, prior to that issuance, renewal, or amendment to a license, if it has direct access to the designated department system to determine if the applicant is the recorded owner of the pistol, revolver, or other firearm. The bill would require an issuing authority without access to that system to confirm the ownership with the sheriff of the county in which the agency is located. By requiring local agencies to issue licenses for concealed firearms, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.The bill would require a licensing authority to provide the applicant notice if a new license or license renewal is denied or revoked. If an application is denied or a license is revoked based on a determination that the applicant is a disqualified person, the bill would permit the applicant to request a hearing to challenge the license denial or revocation, and require the licensing authority to inform the applicant of the ability to seek a hearing. If a new license or license renewal is denied or revoked for any other reason, the bill would authorize the applicant to seek a writ of mandate from a superior court within 30 days of receipt of notice of denial or revocation, and require the licensing authority to inform the applicant of the ability to seek a writ of mandate. By imposing new duties on local licensing authorities, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires an agency issuing a license described above to set forth specified information on the license, including, among other things, the licensee’s name, occupation, and reason for desiring a license to carry the weapon.This bill would revise that information to include, among other things, the licensee’s driver’s license or identification number, fingerprints, and information relating to the date of expiration of the license, and would remove the requirement that the license detail the reason for desiring a license to carry the weapon.Existing law requires an applicant for a license described above to provide fingerprints, as specified. Existing law exempts an applicant from this requirement if they have previously applied to the same licensing authority and the applicant’s fingerprints have previously been forwarded to the department, as specified, and instead requires that authority to note data that would provide positive identification in the files of the depart
CA SB 21 - Thomas J. Umberg
Civil actions: remote proceedings.
06/13/2023 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 21, as amended, Umberg. Civil actions: remote proceedings. Existing law authorizes, until July 1, 2023, a party to appear remotely and a court to conduct conferences, hearings, proceedings, and trials in civil cases, in whole or in part, through the use of remote technology.This bill would extend these provisions until January 1, 2026. The bill would exempt specific types of proceedings from these provisions. The bill would authorize, until January 1, 2026, a court to conduct an adoption finalization hearing, in whole or in part, through the use of remote technology, without the court making specific findings and would prohibit a court from requiring a party to appear through the use of remote technology. The bill would require each superior court to report to the Judicial Council on or before October 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, and would require the Judicial Council to report to the Legislature on or before December 31, 2023, and annually thereafter, to assess the impact of technology issues or problems affecting civil remote proceedings and purchases and leases of technology and equipment to facilitate civil remote conferences, hearings, or proceedings.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 223 - Caroline Menjivar
Pupil personnel services: child welfare and attendance services.
09/08/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 175, Statutes of 2023.
SB 223, Menjivar. Pupil personnel services: child welfare and attendance services. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Under existing law, the services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services authorizes the holder to perform, at all grade levels, the pupil personnel service approved by the commission as designated on the credential, including, among others, in child welfare and attendance services, as provided.Existing law establishes the minimum requirements for the services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services, which include, among others, completion of a commission-approved program of supervised field experience that includes direct classroom contact, jointly sponsored by a school district and a college or university.This bill would instead require, for a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services in the area of child welfare and attendance services, the completion of (1) the above-described college- or university-sponsored supervised field experience requirement or (2) a commission-approved program of professional preparation offered by a local educational agency, as provided.
CA SB 227 - Miguel Santiago
Unemployment: Excluded Workers Program.
08/16/2023 - August 16 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 227, as amended, Durazo. Unemployment: Excluded Workers Program. (1) Existing law authorizes the payment of unemployment compensation benefits and requires that they be made in accordance with regulations of the Director of Employment Development. Existing law generally requires the Employment Development Department to promptly pay benefits if claimants are eligible or to promptly deny benefits if they are ineligible. Existing law prohibits payment of unemployment compensation benefits for services performed by a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States, unless that person is an individual who was lawfully admitted for permanent residence at the time the services were performed, was lawfully present for purposes of performing the services, or was permanently residing in the United States under color of law at the time the services were performed, as specified.This bill would establish, until January 1, 2027, the Excluded Workers Program, to be administered by the Employment Development Department upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing income assistance to excluded workers who are ineligible for the existing state or federal benefits administered by the department and who are unemployed. The bill would make individuals eligible to receive $300 per week for each week of unemployment, if the Director of Employment Development makes certain findings, as defined and specified. The bill would require the department to promulgate regulations to implement the program, including regulations providing for an application process, as specified.The bill would prohibit the department from requesting or compelling certain information from individuals in connection with administering the program and would prohibit the department from retaining specified documents for longer than necessary to administer benefits. The bill would also prohibit, except as specified, disclosures of personal information, as defined. The bill would require the department, on or before April 1, 2025, and until all funds have been exhausted, or January 1, 2027, whichever comes first, to release quarterly reports on the progress of the program. The bill would also require the department, on or before March 1, 2026, to submit a report to the Legislature that includes specified information about the program, including, program participation, benefit amounts paid, weeks of benefits paid per participant, specified demographic information on program participants, outreach efforts, and administrative costs.(2) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, generally defines “gross income” as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income for purposes of computing tax liability. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements.This bill, for the taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2027, would provide an exclusion from gross income for benefits received under the program. The bill would require the Employment Development Department to submit, on or before June 15, 2026, a report to the Legislature on the total number of benefits paid and the average amount allowed, and would provide findings and declarations relating to the goals, purposes, and objectives of this exclusion.(3) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
CA SB 234 - Blanca Pacheco
Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 234, as amended, Portantino. Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2016, to award funding to local health departments, local governmental agencies, or on a competitive basis to other organizations, as specified, to support or establish programs that provide naloxone or another opioid antagonist to first responders and at-risk opioid users through programs that serve at-risk drug users. Existing law exempts from civil liability a person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmedical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency other than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct, as provided.This bill would require each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to maintain unexpired doses of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist on its premises at all times, and to ensure that at least 2 employees are aware of the location of the naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist. The bill would exempt from civil or criminal liability a person who, in good faith, administers naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist by nasal spray or auto-injector on the premises of a stadium, concert venue, or amusement park, other than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct, except as specified. The bill would exempt from civil or criminal liability a stadium, concert venue, or amusement park, or its employees, or an entity that owns, occupies, or operates a stadium, concert venue, or amusement park, or its employees, for the administration of naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist, or the failure to administer naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist, on the premises of the stadium, concert venue, or amusement park, as provided.
CA SB 238 - Scott D. Wiener
Health care coverage: independent medical review.
08/23/2023 - August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
SB 238, as amended, Wiener. Health care coverage: independent medical review. 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 provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days.This bill, commencing July 1, 2024, would require a health care service plan or a disability insurer that modifies, delays, or denies a health care service, based in whole or in part on medical necessity, to automatically submit within 24 hours a decision regarding a disputed health care service to the Independent Medical Review System, as well as the information that informed its decision, without requiring an enrollee or insured to submit a grievance, if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified services relating to mental health or substance use disorder conditions for an enrollee or insured up to 26 years of age. The bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer, within 24 hours after submitting its decision to the Independent Medical Review System to provide notice to the appropriate department, the enrollee or insured or their representative, if any, and the enrollee’s or insured’s provider. The bill would require the notice to include notification to the enrollee or insured that they or their representative may cancel the independent medical review at any time before a determination, as specified.The bill would apply specified existing provisions relating to mental health and substance use disorders for purposes of its provisions, and would be subject to relevant provisions relating to the Independent Medical Review System that do not otherwise conflict with the express requirements of the bill. With respect to health care service plans, the bill would specify that its provisions do not apply to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts. The bill would authorize the Insurance Commissioner to promulgate regulations subject to the Administrative Procedure Act to implement and enforce the bill, and to issue interim guidance, as specified. Because a willful violation of this provision 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.
CA SB 242 - Nancy Skinner
California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program.
06/08/2023 - Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
SB 242, as amended, Skinner. California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program. Existing law establishes the California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program to provide a trust fund account to an eligible child, defined to include minor California residents who are specified dependents or wards under the jurisdiction of juvenile court in foster care with reunification services terminated by court order, or who have a parent, Indian custodian, or legal guardian who died due to COVID-19 during the federally declared COVID-19 public health emergency and meet the specified family household income limit. Under the program, all assets of the fund and moneys allocated to individual HOPE trust accounts shall be considered to be owned by the state until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers money from their HOPE trust account.Existing law establishes various means-tested public social services programs administered by counties to provide eligible recipients with certain benefits, including, but not limited to, cash assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, nutrition assistance under the CalFresh program, and health care services under the Medi-Cal program.This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, prohibit funds deposited and investment returns accrued in a HOPE trust fund account from being considered as income or assets when determining eligibility and benefit amount for any means-tested program until an eligible youth withdraws or transfers the funds from the HOPE trust fund account, as specified. The bill would make these provisions operative on July 1, 2024, or on the date that the State Department of Social Services notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform the necessary automation to implement these provisions or no automation is necessary, whichever date is later. To the extent this bill would expand county duties, 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, 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.
CA SB 245 - Miguel Santiago
California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits.
06/20/2023 - June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 245, as amended, Hurtado. California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits. Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish a food assistance program, known as the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP), to provide assistance to a noncitizen of the United States if the person’s immigration status meets the eligibility criteria of SNAP in effect on August 21, 1996, but the person is not eligible for SNAP benefits solely due to their immigration status, as specified. Existing law also makes eligible for the program an applicant who is otherwise eligible for the program, but who entered the United States on or after August 22, 1996, if the applicant is sponsored and the applicant meets one of a list of criteria, including that the applicant, after entry into the United States, is a victim of the sponsor or the spouse of the sponsor if the spouse is living with the sponsor.Existing law, to become operative on the date that the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS) has been updated to perform the necessary automation, and subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, makes an individual 55 years of age or older eligible for the program if the individual’s immigration status is the sole basis for their ineligibility for CalFresh benefits.This bill would remove that age limitation and make any individual eligible for the program if the individual’s immigration status is the sole basis for their ineligibility for CalFresh benefits. By extending eligibility for CFAP, which is administered by the counties, 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.
CA SB 246 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
California Interagency Council on Homelessness.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 246, as introduced, Ochoa Bogh. California Interagency Council on Homelessness. Existing law requires the Governor to establish the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, and requires the council to, among other things, identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California, and promote systems integration to increase efficiency and effectiveness while focusing on designing systems to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Existing law sets forth the composition of the council, which includes, among others, the Secretary of Business, Consumer Services, and Housing and the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who serve as cochairs of the council.This bill would add a representative from the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to the council described above.
CA SB 260 - Caroline Menjivar
CalWORKs: aid payments.
07/12/2023 - July 12 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
SB 260, as amended, Menjivar. CalWORKs: aid payments. Existing federal law provides for allocation of federal funds through the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program to eligible states. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the TANF program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits, including allowances for other purposes such as pregnancy, homeless assistance, and recurring special needs, to qualified low-income families.This bill would, beginning April 1, 2025, make a menstruating person who is qualified for aid under the CalWORKs program and between 10 and 55 years of age, inclusive, entitled to $20 per month to assist with menstrual product costs. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to work with the County Welfare Directors Association of California and the California Statewide Automated Welfare System (CalSAWS) to develop and implement the necessary system changes on or before April 1, 2025. By increasing the duties of counties administering the CalWORKs program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program.This bill would instead provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill.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.
CA SB 261 - Scott D. Wiener
Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk.
09/13/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 8.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 261, as amended, Stern. Greenhouse gases: climate-related financial risk. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of statewide greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor and enforce compliance with the act. The act requires the state board to make available, and update at least annually, on its internet website the emissions of greenhouse gases, criteria pollutants, and toxic air contaminants for each facility that reports to the state board, as provided.This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2026, and biennially thereafter, a covered entity, as defined, to prepare a climate-related financial risk report disclosing the entity’s climate-related financial risk and measures adopted to reduce and adapt to climate-related financial risk. The bill would require the covered entity to make a copy of the report available to the public on its own internet website.The bill would require the state board to contract with a climate reporting organization, as defined, to biennially prepare a public report that contains specified information, including a review of the disclosure of climate-related financial risk contained in a subset of publicly available climate-related financial risk reports and an analysis of the systemic and sectorwide climate-related financial risks facing the state. The bill would require the state board to adopt regulations that authorize it to seek administrative penalties from covered entities for failing to make the report publicly available on its internet website or publishing an inadequate or insufficient report, as specified.The bill would require covered entities to pay an annual fee for the state board’s actual and reasonable costs to administer and implement the bill. The bill would create the Climate-Related Financial Risk Disclosure Fund, require the proceeds of the fees to be deposited in the fund, and continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the state board for purposes of the bill. By creating a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.
CA SB 263 - Bill M. Dodd
Insurance: annuities and life insurance policies.
08/16/2023 - August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
SB 263, as amended, Dodd. Insurance: annuities and life insurance policies. Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including life insurance and annuities. Existing law requires insurers to establish a system to supervise recommendations and set standards and procedures for recommendations for annuity products, which applies to any recommendation to purchase, exchange, or replace an annuity made to a consumer that results in the purchase, exchange, or replacement that was recommended. Existing law requires an insurance producer recommending the purchase or exchange of an annuity to have reasonable grounds for believing that the recommendation is suitable for the consumer, as specified.This bill would revise and recast those provisions beginning January 1, 2025, with respect to annuities issued on or after January 1, 2025. The bill would require insurance producers to act in the best interest of the consumer when making a recommendation of an annuity. The bill would require an insurer to establish, maintain, and utilize a system to supervise recommendations for annuities, which would apply to any sale of or recommendation made to a consumer to purchase, exchange, or replace an annuity. The bill would set forth various duties of an insurer and producer to ensure that recommended annuities are in the consumer’s best interest, and would specify obligations that ensure a producer has acted in the best interest of a consumer, including the provision of specified information to the consumer. The bill would require a life insurer to provide a buyer’s guide to all consumers who purchase an annuity.This bill would require a life agent, licensed on or after January 1, 2024, who engages in the sale of specified life insurance policies on or after January 1, 2025, to complete specified hours of life insurance training courses before soliciting consumers to sell these life insurance policies. The bill would require any life agent, who engages in the sale of variable life insurance policies, to complete specified hours of training before renewing their license. The bill would apply these training provisions to licenses that are issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2025. The bill would require an insurance producer to complete an annuity training course approved by the Insurance Commissioner before transacting annuities on or after January 1, 2025.
CA SB 268 - Sabrina Cervantes
Crimes: serious and violent felonies.
06/27/2023 - June 27 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 268, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Crimes: serious and violent felonies. Existing law classifies certain criminal offenses as a “violent felony” for the purposes of various provisions of the Penal Code, including sentencing enhancements for prior convictions, as well as numerous other provisions.Existing law includes among the list of violent felonies rape accomplished against a person’s will by means of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear, or rape accomplished against the victim’s will by threat of violent retaliation, but does not include rape of a person unable to give consent due to disability, intoxication, or unconsciousness, rape under false pretenses, or rape accomplished by threat of incarceration, arrest, or deportation.This bill would also include the rape of an intoxicated person wherein the defendant drugged the victim, as specified, in the list of violent felonies. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 27 - Ash Kalra
University of California: vendors.
09/11/2023 - In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
SB 27, as amended, Durazo. University of California: vendors. Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust and require the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California (regents), a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including any competitive bidding procedures as may be applicable to the university by statute for specified purposes, including the purchasing of materials, goods, and services. Existing law requires the regents, except as provided, to let all contracts involving an expenditure of $100,000 or more annually for goods and materials or services, excepting personal or professional services, to the lowest responsible bidder meeting certain specifications, or to reject all bids. Existing policy of the regents establishes a general prohibition on contracting out for services and functions that can be performed by university staff, with certain exceptions, establishes employment standards for contract employees, and provides for the conversion of contract employees to university employment under prescribed circumstances.This bill would make it unlawful for any vendor, as defined, to accept payment from the university pursuant to a contract for prescribed services if the vendor is performing services or supplying the university with employees to perform services who are paid less than the higher of the total compensation rate specified in the vendor’s contract with the university or as required by university policy. The bill would require a vendor to provide those employees with prescribed written notice relating to compensation. The bill would require a vendor, twice yearly, to provide basic payroll information, as defined, to the university and members of any joint labor-management committee, as defined. The bill would also require a vendor to provide specified additional written notice, including specific text, relating to the release of basic payroll information, to all employees who agree to perform services for the university or continue doing so. The bill would also require basic payroll information for an individual employee who performs services for the university, on request, to be made available for inspection by that individual employee or that individual employee’s authorized representative or to be furnished to that individual employee or that individual employee’s authorized representative. The bill would require an auditor, vendor, the university, or any other person who conducts or receives an audit or other finding with regard to whether a vendor has compensated employees at the total compensation rate required by the vendor’s contract with the university or university policy to provide that audit or other finding to the university and members of any joint labor-management committee.This bill would authorize an aggrieved employee, as defined, to bring a civil action against a vendor if an aggrieved employee first provides a vendor with written notice of an alleged violation of these provisions, as specified, and provides the vendor the opportunity to correct and cure the violation and the vendor fails to provide prescribed documentation. The bill would require a vendor who receives written notice from an aggrieved employee to provide a copy of that notice to the president of the university within 5 business days. The bill would establish remedies, including penalties and restitution, for prevailing claimants. The bill would require a prevailing claimant to notify the president of the university of the decision. The bill would make its provisions severable.
CA SB 274 - Nancy Skinner
Suspensions and expulsions: willful defiance: interventions and supports.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 274, Skinner. Suspensions and expulsions: willful defiance: interventions and supports. (1) Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed an act from a list of specified acts, including, among other acts, disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties. Existing law authorizes a teacher to suspend any pupil from class for any of the listed acts, including willful defiance, for the day of the suspension and the day following.Existing law prohibits the suspension of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 5, inclusive, and recommending the expulsion of a pupil enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of those school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties. Existing law, until July 1, 2025, prohibits the suspension of a pupil enrolled in any of grades 6 to 8, inclusive, for those acts. Existing law applies these same provisions to charter schools. This bill would extend the prohibition against the suspension of pupils enrolled in any of grades 6 to 8, inclusive, including those pupils enrolled in a charter school, for disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties to all grades, by 4 years to instead be until July 1, 2029, and, commencing July 1, 2024, would prohibit the suspension of pupils enrolled in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, including those pupils enrolled in a charter school, for those acts until July 1, 2029, but would retain a teacher’s existing authorization to suspend any pupil in any grade from class for any of the listed acts, including willful defiance, for the day of the suspension and the day following, as provided.(2) Existing law authorizes suspension to be imposed only when other means of correction, including, among other things, a conference between school personnel, the pupil’s parent or guardian, and the pupil, or participation in a restorative justice program, fail to bring about proper conduct, except as provided.This bill would authorize certificated and classified employees, including certificated and noncertificated employees at charter schools, to refer pupils to school administrators for appropriate and timely in-school interventions or supports, from the specified list of other means of correction, for willful defiance, and would require school administrators, including charter school administrators, within 5 business days, to document the actions taken and to place that documentation in the pupil’s record, as specified. The bill would also require the school administrator, by the end of the 5th business day, to inform the referring employee, verbally or in writing, what actions were taken and, if none, the rationale used for not providing any appropriate or timely in-school interventions or supports. By imposing additional duties on public school administrators, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that alternatives to suspension or expulsion be imposed against a pupil who is truant, tardy, or otherwise absent from school activities.This bill would instead prohibit a suspension or expulsion from being imposed against a pupil based solely on the fact that they are otherwise absent from school activities.(4) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedu
CA SB 28 - Steven M. Glazer
Education finance: school facilities: Public Preschool, K–12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2024.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing postponed by committee.
SB 28, as introduced, Glazer. Education finance: school facilities: Public Preschool, K–12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2024. (1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district or community college district to order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question of whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold to raise money for specified purposes. Existing law generally requires, to pass a school bond measure, that either at least 2/3 of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds to pass the measure, or, if certain conditions are met, at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds. Existing law prohibits the total amount of bonds issued by a school district or community college district from exceeding 1.25% of the taxable property of the district, as provided.This bill would raise that limit to 2%.(2) Existing law also authorizes a unified school district to issue bonds receiving at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing the bonds that, in aggregation with bonds issued with a 2/3 favorable vote, do not exceed 2.5% of the taxable property of the district, as provided.This bill would raise that limit to 4%. The bill would make a similar percentage increase for community college districts.(3) The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 provides for the adoption of rules, regulations, and procedures, under the administration of the Director of General Services, for the allocation of state funds by the State Allocation Board for the construction and modernization of public school facilities.This bill would, among other things, require a school district to submit to the Department of General Services a 5-year school facilities master plan or updated 5-year school facilities master plan, as provided, as a condition of participating in the school facilities program under the act, would require the school district to submit specified information in the school district’s application for an apportionment of state funds, and would make other changes to requirements a school district is required to comply with before participating in programs under the act. The bill would require the department to process applications to participate in the program, as specified, and would make other changes to the method by which the board makes apportionments of moneys under the act.This bill would establish the 2024 State School Facilities Fund, and authorize the board to apportion, and make disbursements of, moneys in the fund, as provided. The bill would require, for bonds approved by voters in 2024 or thereafter, the board to adjust a school district’s required local and state contribution, as specified. The bill would authorize new construction and modernization grants to be used for seismic mitigation purposes and, among other things, to establish schoolsite-based infrastructure to provide broadband internet access. The bill would also authorize modernization grants to be used, among other things, for the control, management, or abatement of lead and for the demolition and construction of a building on an existing schoolsite that meets specified conditions. The bill would prohibit the use of new construction and modernization grants for the purchase of portable electronic devices with a useful life of less than 3 years.This bill would authorize funding for health and safety projects by a school district, as provided.This bill would authorize the board to provide a grant to test for lead in water outlets used for drinking or preparing food on schoolsites serving kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, as provided. The bill would specify procedures that small school districts, as defined, may use to obtain project and construction management, new construction grants, and modernization grants.The bill would also make conforming changes in, and remove inopera
CA SB 283 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Pupil health: individualized asthma action plan.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 283, as amended, Ochoa Bogh. Pupil health: individualized asthma action plan. Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils.This bill would, commencing with the 2024–25 school year, require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to, upon receiving notice from a parent or guardian that a pupil has asthma, create an individualized asthma action plan for that pupil. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to provide professional development for school staff that includes, among other things, information about symptoms and common triggers of asthma. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA SB 287 - Nancy Skinner
Features that harm child users: civil penalty.
06/01/2023 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Skinner.
SB 287, as amended, Skinner. Features that harm child users: civil penalty. Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, prohibits a business from selling the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, in the case of a consumer at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, in the case of a consumer who is less than 13 years of age, has affirmatively authorized the sale of the consumer’s personal information.Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, requires, beginning July 1, 2024, a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, as prescribed, and requires a business, before any new online services, products, or features are offered to the public, to complete a Data Protection Impact Assessment for any online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children and maintain documentation of this assessment as long as the online service, product, or feature is likely to be accessed by children.This bill would prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from using a design, algorithm, or feature that the platform knows, or which by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, causes child users, as defined, to do any of certain things, including experience addiction to the social media platform.This bill would provide that a social media platform is not in violation of the bill if the social media platform instituted and maintained a program of at least quarterly audits, as defined, of its designs, algorithms, and features that have the potential to cause violations of the provision described above, and the social media platform corrected, within 30 days of the completion of the audit, any design, algorithm, or feature discovered by the audit to present more than a de minimis risk of violating that provision.This bill would subject a social media platform that knowingly and willfully violates these provisions to a civil penalty not to exceed $250,000 per violation, an injunction, and an award of litigation costs and attorney’s fees in an action brought only by certain public attorneys, including the Attorney General.
CA SB 290 - David K. Min
Domestic violence documentation: victim access.
07/05/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 290, Min. Domestic violence documentation: victim access. Existing law requires state and local law enforcement agencies to provide, upon request and without charging a fee, one copy of all incident report face sheets, one copy of all incident reports, or both, to a victim, or the representative of a victim, of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or abuse of an elder or dependent adult, as specified. Existing law requires the copy of the incident report to be made available during business hours, within 5 working days after a request, unless the state or local law enforcement agency informs the victim or the victim’s representative of the reasons why the incident report is not available, as specified. Under existing law, these provisions apply to requests for domestic violence face sheets or incident reports made within 5 years from the date of the completion of the incident report, or within 2 years of the completion of the incident report for sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or abuse of an elder or dependent adult.This bill would extend those provisions to additionally require the state or local law enforcement agency to make available to a victim or representative any accompanying or related photographs of a victim’s injuries, property damage, or any other photographs that are noted in the incident report, and 911 recordings, if any. The bill would require the additional documentation to be provided within the same time periods as required for providing an incident report. The bill would extend the time limit for victims of sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, or abuse of an elder or a dependent adult, and their representatives, to request the documents described in the bill, from 2 years to 5 years. By increasing the duties of local law enforcement, 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.
CA SB 292 - Shannon L. Grove
Education expenses: Education Savings Account Act of 2024.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
SB 292, as amended, Grove. Education expenses: Education Savings Account Act of 2024. (1) Existing law establishes a system of elementary and secondary education in this state. This system consists of the public and private schools that provide instruction in kindergarten and in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law establishes a system of higher education in this state, consisting of 4 segments: the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California; the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University; the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges; and independent institutions of higher education.This bill would enact the Education Savings Account Act of 2024 and establish the Education Savings Account (ESA) Trust, to be known as the ESA Trust, as a fund within the State Treasury to be administered by the ESA Trust Board. During the first 4 school years following the operative date of the act, the bill would authorize certain children eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten, or in an elementary or secondary school, in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an ESA, based on parent or guardian income. The bill would remove these income eligibility limits after 4 school years following the operative date of the act, thereby entitling every child eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten, or in an elementary or secondary school, in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an ESA. The bill would specify that every child enrolled in an eligible school shall be entitled, pursuant to this act, to a credit to the child’s account for tuition, elementary and secondary eligible education expenses, and undergraduate or graduate eligible education expenses, as defined. Commencing with the first fiscal year following the operative date of the act, the bill would require the Department of Finance to determine, on July 1 of each year, the annual ESA deposit amount for the upcoming school year. The bill would specify the procedure for calculating the ESA deposit amount and would require the Controller to transfer an amount of money from the General Fund to the ESA Trust equal to the ESA deposit amount multiplied by the number of ESAs established, as provided.The bill would require the ESA Trust Board to be composed of specified members and would vest the ESA Trust Board with certain powers and duties. The bill would establish 2 accounts within the ESA Trust, the ESA Trust Program Account and the ESA Trust Administrative Account, and would continuously appropriate the moneys in the program account to the ESA Trust Board for purposes of the bill, thereby making an appropriation.The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a procedure for the parents and legal guardians of eligible students to apply to establish an ESA and submit an executed participation agreement. The bill would authorize the ESA Trust Board to disburse funds from ESAs to eligible schools. The bill would define “eligible school” as a campus of the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California, a full-time private school, a private college or university, a public college or university, or a vocational educational or training institution, as specified. The bill would specify the procedures for participating eligible schools to receive funds disbursed by the ESA Trust Board. Once an eligible student graduates from high school or obtains a high school equivalency certification, the bill would impose a $60,000 cap on the balance in any ESA available for an eligible student’s use for tuition, undergraduate or graduate eligible education expenses, or expenses associated with vocational education. The bill would require the Department of Finance to adjust this limit annually for inflation using the California Con
CA SB 293 - Shannon L. Grove
Pupil assessments: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress: statewide results.
09/08/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 177, Statutes of 2023.
SB 293, Grove. Pupil assessments: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress: statewide results. Existing law establishes the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) as the statewide system of pupil assessments under which certain assessments are required or authorized to be administered in public schools, as specified, including a consortium summative assessment in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 to 8, inclusive, and grade 11 that measures content standards adopted by the State Board of Education.Existing law requires the state board to adopt regulations that outline a calendar for delivery and receipt of summative CAASPP results at the pupil, school, grade, district, county, and state levels, and requires the calendar to, among other things, include delivery dates to the State Department of Education and to local educational agencies, provide for the timely return of assessment results, and ensure that individual assessment results are reported to local educational agencies within 8 weeks of receipt by the contractor for scoring.This bill would require the department to make statewide summative CAASPP results publicly available on or before October 15 each year and would require the state board’s calendar for delivering results to the department to be consistent with that deadline.
CA SB 294 - Scott D. Wiener
Health care coverage: independent medical review.
01/12/2024 - Set for hearing January 16.
SB 294, as amended, Wiener. Health care coverage: independent medical review. 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 provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law establishes the Independent Medical Review System within each department, under which an enrollee or insured may seek review if a health care service has been denied, modified, or delayed by a health care service plan or disability insurer and the enrollee or insured has previously filed a grievance that remains unresolved after 30 days.This bill, commencing July 1, 2025, would require a health care service plan or a disability insurer that upholds its decision to modify, delay, or deny a health care service in response to a grievance or has a grievance that is otherwise pending or unresolved upon expiration of the relevant timeframe to automatically submit within 24 hours a decision regarding a disputed health care service to the Independent Medical Review System, as well as the information that informed its decision, if the decision is to deny, modify, or delay specified services relating to mental health or substance use disorder conditions for an enrollee or insured up to 26 years of age. The bill would require a health care service plan or disability insurer, within 24 hours after submitting its decision to the Independent Medical Review System to provide notice to the appropriate department, the enrollee or insured or their representative, if any, and the enrollee’s or insured’s provider. The bill would require the notice to include notification to the enrollee or insured that they or their representative may cancel the independent medical review at any time before a determination, as specified.This bill, commencing July 1, 2025, would require a health care service plan or disability insurer that provides coverage for mental health or substance use disorders to treat a modification, delay, or denial issued in response to an authorization request for coverage of treatment for a mental health or substance use disorder for an insured up to 26 years of age as if the modification, delay, or denial is also a grievance submitted by the enrollee or insured. The bill would require a plan or insurer to provide a written acknowledgment of a grievance that is automatically generated and would specify the circumstances under which that grievance is required to be submitted automatically to independent medical review.The bill would apply specified existing provisions relating to mental health and substance use disorders for purposes of its provisions, and would be subject to relevant provisions relating to the Independent Medical Review System that do not otherwise conflict with the express requirements of the bill. With respect to health care service plans, the bill would specify that its provisions do not apply to Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts.Because a willful violation of this provision 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.
CA SB 3 - Bill M. Dodd
Discontinuation of residential water service: covered water system.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 855, Statutes of 2023.
SB 3, Dodd. Discontinuation of residential water service: covered water system. (1) Existing law establishes the Safe Drinking Water Account to be available to the State Water Resources Control Board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing funds necessary to administer the California Safe Drinking Water Act.This bill would expand the use of available funds in the account to be used by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to include the administration of the Water Shutoff Protection Act. The bill would, subject to the availability of funding, require the state board to make funds available for providing training statewide to community water systems with between 15 and 200 service connections to assist in compliance with the Water Shutoff Protection Act.(2) Existing law, the Water Shutoff Protection Act, prohibits an urban and community water system, defined as a public water system that supplies water to more than 200 service connections, from discontinuing residential service for nonpayment, as specified, and requires specified procedures before it can discontinue residential service for nonpayment. Existing law defines a community water system as a public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by yearlong residents or regularly serves at least 25 yearlong residents of the area served by the system. Existing law requires an urban and community water system to have a written policy on discontinuation of residential service for nonpayment available in English, other designated languages, and any other language spoken by at least 10% of the people residing in its service area.This bill would expand the scope of the Water Shutoff Protection Act by requiring that it instead apply to a covered water system, defined to include specified water systems and suppliers, including a community water system. The bill would require a community water system, that is not otherwise required to comply, to comply with the act’s provisions on and after August 1, 2024. The bill would instead apply the above-described language requirements for the written policy of discontinuation of residential service for nonpayment to a covered water system that serves 200 or more service connections. The bill would require a covered water system that serves fewer than 200 service connections to have a written policy on disconnection of residential service for nonpayment available in English, any language spoken by at least 10% of the people residing in its service area, and, upon request of a customer, other designated languages. The bill would authorize, as part of the act, the Attorney General, at the request of the board or upon the Attorney General’s own motion, to bring an action in state court to restore to any person in interest any money or property, real or personal, that may have been acquired by any method, act, or practice prohibited by the act. The bill would make related changes.
CA SB 314 - Angelique Ashby
County of Sacramento Redistricting Commission.
09/11/2023 - In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
SB 314, as amended, Ashby. County of Sacramento Redistricting Commission. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of each county, following each decennial federal census, and using that census as a basis, to adjust the boundaries of any or all of the supervisorial districts of the county so that the districts are as nearly equal in population as possible and comply with applicable federal law, and specifies the procedures the board of supervisors must follow in adjusting those boundaries. Existing law establishes the Independent Redistricting Commission in the County of San Diego, the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Los Angeles, and the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Riverside, which are charged with adjusting the supervisorial district boundaries for those counties.This bill would establish the Citizens Redistricting Commission in the County of Sacramento, which would be charged with adjusting the boundary lines of the districts of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Sacramento. The commission would consist of 14 members and 2 non-voting alternates who meet specified qualifications. This bill would require the commission to adjust the boundaries of the supervisorial districts in accordance with specified criteria and adopt a redistricting plan in accordance with existing deadlines for the adoption of county supervisorial district boundaries. The bill would prohibit a member of an independent redistricting commission from communicating with any individual or organization regarding redistricting matters, as specified. By increasing the duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.If AB 1248 of the 2023–24 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2024, this bill would permit the County of Sacramento to establish a redistricting commission in accordance with the provisions of that bill that pertain to county redistricting commissions instead of establishing a commission in accordance with the provisions of this bill.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the unique circumstances facing the County of Sacramento.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.
CA SB 321 - Angelique Ashby
Literacy: libraries: Local Public Library Partnership Program.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 321, Ashby. Literacy: libraries: Local Public Library Partnership Program. Existing law declares that it is in the interest of the people and of the state that there be a general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence through the establishment and operation of public libraries. Existing law authorizes the State Librarian to give advisory, consultive, and technical assistance with respect to public libraries to librarians and library authorities, and assist all other authorities, state and local, in assuming their full responsibility for library services.This bill would establish the Local Public Library Partnership Program, under the administration of the State Librarian, for purposes of ensuring that all pupils have access to a local public library by 3rd grade.The bill would require the State Librarian to offer resources to assist each local public library, as defined, to find student success card dispensing strategies that work best for their communities, coordinate with each local public library to determine the most effective means to ensure each pupil in each local educational agency, as defined, is issued a student success card by 3rd grade, and, ensure, on or before January 1, 2026, that partnerships between local public libraries and local educational agencies have been established to enable each pupil enrolled at a schoolsite of each local educational agency to be issued a student success card by 3rd grade, as provided. To the extent these provisions impose additional duties on public libraries and local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require, on or before January 1, 2029, and each year thereafter, the State Librarian to report to the Legislature on the Local Public Library Partnership Program, as provided.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.
CA SB 322 - Josh Becker
Zero-Emission Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Block Grants Program.
08/23/2023 - August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
SB 322, as amended, Becker. Zero-Emission Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Block Grants Program. Existing law creates the Clean Transportation Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to provide, among other things, competitive grants and revolving loans to specified entities for those entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California’s fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state’s climate change policies. Under existing law, a project, as defined, that develops in-state production of raw materials and the manufacturing supply chain for zero-emission vehicle components is eligible to receive funding under that program. As part of that program, the commission has awarded grant moneys through a zero-emission vehicle battery manufacturing block grant to promote in-state battery manufacturing for zero-emission vehicles and related infrastructure.This bill would require the commission, or an entity it contracts with, to administer its Zero-Emission Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Block Grant Program, and would impose eligibility, application scoring, workforce, and reporting requirements on the program. The bill would authorize the commission, or an entity it contracts with, to adopt procedures and criteria to supplement these requirements.
CA SB 323 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Comprehensive school safety plans: individualized safety plans.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 323, Portantino. Comprehensive school safety plans: individualized safety plans. Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those pupils with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program.Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the schoolsite council or school safety planning committee, before adopting the plan, to hold a public meeting at the schoolsite in order to allow members of the public the opportunity to express an opinion about the plan. Existing law requires the plan to include specified components, including, among other components, disaster procedures, routine and emergency, including adaptations for pupils with disabilities in accordance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.Existing law requires a petition to establish a charter school to include, among other things, a reasonably comprehensive description of the procedures that the charter school will follow to ensure the health and safety of pupils and staff, including requiring the development and annual update of a school safety plan that includes specified comprehensive school safety plan topics and procedures, including the disaster procedures.This bill would require those disaster procedures to also include adaptations for pupils with disabilities in accordance with the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and would require the annual evaluation of the comprehensive school safety plan and the annual review of a charter school’s school safety plan to also include ensuring that the plan includes appropriate adaptations for pupils with disabilities, as specified. The bill would expressly authorize a school employee, a pupil’s parent, guardian, or educational rights holder, or a pupil, after the first evaluation or review for those purposes is conducted, to bring concerns about an individual pupil’s ability to access disaster safety procedures described in the comprehensive school safety plan or the school safety plan to the school principal, and would require the school principal, if they determine there is merit to a concern, to direct the schoolsite council, school safety planning committee, or charter school, as applicable, to appropriately modify the comprehensive school safety plan or school safety plan, as applicable, as specified. The bill would also expressly provide that its provisions do not prohibit a school employee, a pupil’s parent, guardian, or educational rights holder, or a pupil themselves from bringing their concerns to the school principal before an evaluation or review for those purposes.By imposing additional requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 32282 of the Education Code proposed by SB 10 and SB 671 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA SB 326 - Susan Talamantes Eggman
The Behavioral Health Services Act.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 326, Eggman. The Behavioral Health Services Act. (1) Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), an initiative measure enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, funds a system of county mental health plans for the provision of mental health services. Existing law authorizes the MHSA to be amended by a 2/3 vote of the Legislature if the amendments are consistent with and further the intent of the MHSA. Existing law authorizes the Legislature to add provisions to clarify procedures and terms of the MHSA by majority vote.If approved by the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide primary election, this bill would recast the MHSA by, among other things, renaming it the Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA), expanding it to include treatment of substance use disorders, changing the county planning process, and expanding services for which counties and the state can use funds. The bill would revise the distribution of MHSA moneys, including allocating up to $36,000,000 to the department for behavioral health workforce funding. The bill would authorize the department to require a county to implement specific evidence-based practices.This bill would require a county, for behavioral health services eligible for reimbursement pursuant to the federal Social Security Act, to submit the claims for reimbursement to the State Department of Health Care Services (the department) under specific circumstances. The bill would require counties to pursue reimbursement through various channels and would authorize the counties to report issues with managed care plans and insurers to the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance.The MHSA establishes the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission and requires it to adopt regulations for programs and expenditures for innovative programs and prevention and early intervention programs established by the act. Existing law requires counties to develop plans for innovative programs funded under the MHSA.This bill would rename the commission the Behavioral Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission and would change the composition and duties of the commission, as specified. The bill would delete the provisions relating to innovative programs and instead would require the counties to establish and administer a program to provide housing interventions. The bill would provide that “low rent housing project,” as defined, does not apply to a project that meets specified criteria.This bill would make extensive technical and conforming changes.(2) Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services for persons with mental disorders in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law further provides that, to the extent resources are available, community mental health services should be organized to provide an array of treatment options in specified areas, including, among others, case management and individual service plans. Under existing law, mental health services are provided through contracts with county mental health programs.The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to develop and revise documentation standards for individual service plans, as specified. The bill would revise the contracting process, including authorizing the department to temporarily withhold funds or impose monetary sanctions on a county behavioral health department that is not in compliance with the contract. (3) The bill would provide that its provisions are severable.(4) The bill would provide for the submission of specified sections of this bill and AB 531 to the voters at the March 5, 2024, statewide primary election, as specified.(5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 331 - Susan Rubio
Child custody: child abuse and safety.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 865, Statutes of 2023.
SB 331, Rubio. Child custody: child abuse and safety. Existing law governs the determination of child custody and visitation in contested proceedings. Existing law requires the court, for purposes of deciding custody, to determine the best interests of the child based on certain factors, including the nature and amount of contact with both parents and, consistent with specified findings, requires the court’s primary concern to be the health, safety, and welfare of the child. Existing law prohibits the ordering of family reunification services as part of a child custody or visitation rights proceeding.Existing law authorizes the court, upon making certain findings, to require the parent or parents, or any other party involved in a custody or visitation dispute, and the minor child to participate in outpatient counseling, as specified.This bill, Piqui’s Law: Keeping Children Safe from Family Violence Act, would prohibit the court from ordering family reunification treatments, programs, or services, including, but not limited to, camps, workshops, therapeutic vacations, or educational programs that, as a condition of enrollment or participation, require or result in, among other things, the use of private youth transporters or private transportation agents, as specified, a no-contact order, or a transfer of physical or legal custody of the child.Existing law requires the Judicial Council to establish judicial training programs for individuals who perform duties in domestic violence matters. Existing law requires the training programs to include a domestic violence session in any orientation session for newly appointed or elected judges and an annual training session in domestic violence. Existing law requires the training programs to include instruction in all aspects of domestic violence, including, but not limited to, the detriment to children of residing with a person who perpetrates domestic violence.This bill would instead require the Judicial Council to establish judicial training programs for individuals, including judicial officers and referees, who perform duties in domestic violence or child custody matters, including, among other topics, child sexual abuse and coercive control, as specified. The bill would require the Judicial Council to submit an annual report on these training programs, commencing on or before January 1, 2025, to the Legislature and relevant policy committees, that includes the titles of the training courses being offered and the number of judicial officers that attended each training.
CA SB 332 - Matt Haney
Minor league baseball players.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 866, Statutes of 2023.
SB 332, Cortese. Minor league baseball players. Existing law provides that 8 hours of labor constitute a day’s work unless it is otherwise expressly stipulated in a collective bargaining agreement, and requires that any work in excess of specified hours in one workday or one workweek be compensated at a rate higher than the regular rate of pay for the employee, as specified. Existing law authorizes, upon the proposal of an employer, employees of an employer to adopt a regularly scheduled alternative workweek that authorizes work by the affected employees for no longer than 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek without the payment to the affected employees of an overtime rate of compensation, as specified. Existing law prohibits an employer from employing an employee for a work period of more than 5 hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period, as specified, but, notwithstanding these provisions, existing law authorizes the Industrial Welfare Commission to adopt a working condition order permitting a meal period to commence after 6 hours of work if specified conditions are met. Under existing law, the Industrial Welfare Commission issues wage orders that regulates wages, hours, and working conditions in various occupations, including Wage Order No. 10-2001, which regulates the amusement and recreation industry.This bill would provide that these provisions do not apply to a person who is covered by a contract to play baseball at the minor league level with a labor organization that has at least 10 years of experience representing baseball players and who is compensated pursuant to the terms of a valid collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for the wages, hours of work, working conditions of employees, payment for time worked during the off-season and spring training, and final and binding arbitration of disputes. The bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations to amend and republish Wage Order No. 10-2001 to provide that specified provisions of the wage order do not apply to a person subject to these provisions, as specified.Existing law requires an employer, semimonthly or at the time of payment of wages, to furnish an employee an accurate, itemized, written statement containing specified information regarding the amounts earned, hours worked, and the employee’s identity, among other things, subject to certain variations. Existing law provides that an itemized wage statement furnished by an employer pursuant to these provisions is not required to show total hours worked by the employee if, among other things, the employee is exempt from the payment of minimum wage and overtime under specified law.This bill would provide that an itemized wage statement furnished by an employer pursuant to these provisions is not required to show total hours worked by an employee if the employee is exempt from the payment of minimum wage and overtime under the bill’s provisions described above.Existing law, the Administrative Procedure Act, governs, among other things, the procedures for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies. Existing law also describes procedures for the promulgation of regulations by the Industrial Welfare Commission.This bill would exempt these provisions from the rulemaking procedures described above.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 333 - David D. Cortese
Homeless pupils: California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program.
04/01/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
SB 333, as amended, Cortese. Homeless pupils: California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program. (1) Existing law establishes various programs to provide assistance to homeless youth, including, among others, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects and the Runaway Youth and Families in Crisis Projects.This bill, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, would require the State Department of Social Services to establish the California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program. The program would award public school pupils who are in grade 12 and are homeless children or youths, as defined, a guaranteed income of $1,000 each month for 5 months from April 1, 2025, to August 1, 2025, inclusive, as provided. The bill would establish the California SOAR Guaranteed Income Fund as the initial depository of all moneys appropriated, donated, or otherwise received for the program, and upon appropriation by the Legislature, would provide moneys in the fund to counties that opt in to the program for distribution to eligible participants.(2) Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, provides grants to states to carry out activities relating to the education of homeless children and youths, as defined, including, among others, providing services and activities to improve the identification of homeless children and youths and to enable them to enroll in and succeed in school. Existing law requires local educational agency liaisons, as defined, to ensure that homeless children and youths are identified by school personnel through outreach and coordination activities, as specified.This bill would require, in counties participating in the California SOAR Guaranteed Income Program, local educational agency liaisons to provide all known eligible participants with program information and enrollment forms, as specified.(3) Existing law, beginning on or after January 1, 2015, in modified conformity with federal income tax law, allows an earned income tax credit, the California Earned Income Tax Credit, against personal income tax. The Personal Income Tax Law also allows, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2019, a young child tax credit, and for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2022, a foster youth tax credit against the taxes imposed under that law.This bill, for the taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, would exclude from gross income, for purposes of the personal income tax, any amount received as an award pursuant to the California SOAR Guaranteed Income Program. The bill, for the taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, would additionally provide that the amount awarded is not earned income for purposes of eligibility for the California Earned Income Tax Credit, the young child tax credit, or the foster youth tax credit.(4) Existing law establishes various public social services programs to provide eligible recipients with certain benefits, including, but not limited to, cash assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, nutrition assistance under the CalFresh program, and health care services under the Medi-Cal program. Under existing law, those programs, among others, are in part federally funded and governed by federal eligibility criteria, including specified income or resource limits.This bill would prohibit any award received by a student through the California SOAR Guaranteed Income Program from being considered income or resources for purposes of determining the student’s, or any member of their household’s, eligibility for benefits or assistance, or the amount or extent of benefits or assistance, under any state or local means-tested program, including certain public social services programs. The bill would condition implementation of this p
CA SB 343 - Nancy Skinner
Child support.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 343, Skinner. Child support. (1) Existing law requires a court to make an expedited support order if specified information is filed, including the minimum amount the obligated parent or parents are required to pay pursuant to the statewide uniform guideline for support or specified minimum basic standards for adequate care.This bill would repeal those provisions as of January 1, 2024.(2) Existing law sets a statewide uniform guideline for determining child support and requires the Judicial Council to periodically review that guideline to recommend appropriate revisions, including economic data on the cost of raising children and an analysis of guidelines and studies from other states. Existing law further requires a court to order, as additional child support, payment of reasonable uninsured health care costs for the child and payment of childcare costs, and may order costs related to the educational or other special needs of the child, and travel expenses for visitation. Existing law requires the court, in making an order pursuant to the uninsured health care costs, to follow specified protocols. This bill, commencing September 1, 2024, would, among other things, revise the statewide uniform guideline for determining child support, including the amount that establishes a rebuttable presumption that the obligor is entitled to a low-income adjustment. This bill would expand the above-referenced protocols with regard to issuing an order to pay uninsured health care costs to also include orders to pay for specified childcare costs, if those expenses are actually incurred.(3) Existing law requires counties to maintain a local child support agency to promptly and effectively establish, modify, and enforce child support obligations, to enforce spousal support obligations, and to determine paternity of a child born out of wedlock. Existing law requires that the local child support agency provide notice of the amount of child support that is sought pursuant to the statewide uniform guidelines based upon the income or income history of the support obligor and that a proposed judgment be provided. Existing law requires the Judicial Council, in consultation with specified others, to develop a simplified summons, complaint, and answer forms for any action brought pursuant to those provisions. Existing law requires the simplified complaint form to be based upon the income or income history of the support obligor.This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would, among other things, instead require that complaint form to require the local child support agency to use specified methods to calculate income, including using earning capacity if the local child support agency has sufficient evidence to establish earning capacity. The bill would also authorize the department to implement those provisions by a child support services letter or similar instruction until permanent regulations are adopted. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations to implement those provisions by January 1, 2027. By imposing new duties on a local child support agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a judgment to be entered without hearing and without other specified requirements in an action filed by the local child support agency involving the simplified procedures described above. This bill, commencing January 1, 2026, would among other things, expand that requirement to actions based on earning capacity, as specified. The bill would require a local child support agency to conduct a review of the case to determine if there is sufficient additional evidence available to establish actual income of the defendant, as specified. By imposing new duties on a local child support agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require the Judicial Council, no later than September 1, 2024, to adopt and approve any forms necessary to implement those provisions. The bill would make thos
CA SB 345 - Nancy Skinner
Health care services: legally protected health care activities.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 345, Skinner. Health care services: legally protected health care activities. (1) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various categories of medical professionals by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, including, among others, the Medical Board of California and the Dental Board of California. Existing law makes specified actions by licensed health care providers unprofessional conduct and, in certain cases, a criminal offense. This bill would prohibit a healing arts board, as defined, from denying an application for a license or imposing discipline upon a licensee or health care practitioner on the basis of a civil judgment, criminal conviction, or disciplinary action in another state if that judgment, conviction, or disciplinary action is based solely on the application of another state’s law that interferes with a person’s right to receive sensitive services, as defined, that would be lawful if provided in this state, regardless of the patient’s location. The bill would further provide that the performance, recommendation, or provision of a legally protected health care activity by a licensee or health care practitioner acting within their scope of practice for a patient who resides in a state in which the performance, recommendation, or provision of that legally protected health care activity is illegal, does not, by itself, constitute professional misconduct, upon which discipline or other penalty may be taken.In this connection, the bill would define a “legally protected health care activity” to mean specified acts, including, among others, the exercise and enjoyment, or attempted exercise and enjoyment, by a person of rights related to reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services secured by the Constitution or laws of this state or the provision of by a health care service plan contract or a policy, or a certificate of health insurance, that provides for those services.(2) Existing law, the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, generally prohibits a health care provider, health care service plan, contractor, or corporation from sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using medical information for a purpose not necessary to provide health care services to the patient.This bill would prohibit a person or business from collecting, using, disclosing, or retaining the personal information of a person who is physically located at, or within a precise geolocation of, a family planning center, as defined, except as necessary to perform the services or provide the goods requested. The bill would prohibit the sale or sharing of this information. The bill would authorize an aggrieved person or entity to institute and prosecute a civil action for a violation of these provisions and specify damages and costs authorized to be recovered. The bill would specify these provisions do not apply to a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or a contractor, as defined.(3) Existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, declares as contrary to the public policy of this state a law of another state that authorizes a person to bring a civil action against a person or entity that engages in certain activities relating to obtaining or performing an abortion. Existing law prohibits the state from applying an out-of-state law described above to a case or controversy in state court or enforcing or satisfying a civil judgment under the out-of-state law.This bill would state that California law governs in any action against a person who provides or receives by any means, including telehealth, reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services, as specified, if the care was legal in the state in which it was provided at the time of the challenged conduct.The bill would state that interference with the right to reproductive health care services, gender-affirming health care services, or gender-affirming mental health care services, as t
CA SB 347 - Josh Newman
Teacher credentialing: basic teaching credentials: preschool.
01/22/2024 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
SB 347, as amended, Newman. Teacher credentialing: basic teaching credentials: preschool. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish professional standards, assessments, and examinations for entry and advancement in the education profession, as provided, and to reduce and streamline the credential system to ensure teacher competence in the subject field or fields, while allowing greater flexibility in staffing local schools. Existing law requires the commission to awards various types of credentials to applicants whose preparation and competence satisfy those standards, including, among other credentials, basic teaching credentials in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in public schools in the state, and credentials for teaching specialties, including bilingual education, early childhood education, and special education.This bill would require the commission to also award basic teaching credentials for preschool in public schools in the state.
CA SB 348 - Nancy Skinner
Pupil meals.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 348, Skinner. Pupil meals. (1) Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state. This system is composed of local educational agencies throughout the state that provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at schoolsites operated by these agencies. Existing law, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, requires each school district and county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and each charter school to provide 2 nutritiously adequate school meals free of charge during each schoolday, regardless of the length of the schoolday, to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, as specified, with a maximum of one free meal for each meal service period. Existing law requires the department to develop and maintain nutrition guidelines for school lunches and breakfasts, and for all food and beverages sold on public school campuses. Existing law requires a school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school to provide each needy pupil with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, except as provided.This bill would revise and recast provisions regarding school meals for needy pupils by, among other things, instead requiring each school district, county superintendent of schools, and charter school to make available a nutritionally adequate breakfast, as defined, and a nutritionally adequate lunch, as defined, free of charge during each schoolday, as defined, to any pupil who requests a meal, without consideration of the pupil’s eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, as provided. The bill would require each school district, county office of education, or charter school that offers independent study to meet the above meal requirements for any pupil on any schoolday that the pupil is scheduled for educational activities, as provided. The bill would require the State Department of Education to submit a waiver request to the United States Department of Agriculture to allow for one meal to be provided during a schoolday lasting 4 hours or less to be served in a noncongregate manner. The bill would authorize each school district, county superintendent of schools, and charter school to make available either a nutritionally adequate breakfast or a nutritionally adequate lunch, as defined, in a noncongregate manner, as provided, if the State Department of Education receives approval for the federal noncongregate waiver. The bill would require each school district, county superintendent of schools, and charter school to provide pupils with adequate time to eat, as determined by that school district, county superintendent of schools, or charter school in consideration of the recommendations provided by the department. The bill would require a chartering authority, among other things, to provide technical assistance to a charter school to meet these meal requirements, as provided. If the federal School Breakfast Program and federal National School Lunch Program allow more added sugar or sodium than is recommended by the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans, as described, the bill would require the department to convene representatives from specified entities to work in partnership to provide maximum daily added sugar and sodium intake recommendations for each grade level, as provided. The bill also would make conforming changes to related provisions of law. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies and officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish rules to determine which pupils are needy and authorizes a nominal cash payment for school meals to be collected from pupils that are not eligible for free meals and requires the State Departmen
CA SB 35 - Thomas J. Umberg
Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 35, Umberg. Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program. (1) Existing law, the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Act, authorizes specified adult persons to petition a civil court to create a voluntary CARE agreement or a court-ordered CARE plan and implement services, to be provided by county behavioral health agencies, to provide behavioral health care, including stabilization medication, housing, and other enumerated services, to adults who are currently experiencing a severe mental illness and have a diagnosis identified in the disorder class schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, and who meet other specified criteria. Existing law requires all evaluations and reports, documents, and filings submitted to the court under CARE proceedings be kept confidential.This bill would authorize CARE Act proceedings to be conducted by a superior court judge or by a court-appointed commissioner or other subordinate judicial officer. The bill would require that there is no fee for filing a petition nor any fees charged by any public officer for services in filing or serving papers or for the performance of any duty enjoined by the CARE Act. The bill would authorize that the respondent is entitled to have an interpreter in all proceedings if necessary for the respondent’s full participation. This bill would require county behavioral health agencies to provide health information necessary to support findings in the filings to the court, as specified, and would exempt counties and their employees from civil or criminal liability for disclosure under these provisions. By increasing the reporting duties on county behavioral health agencies, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.This bill would authorize health care providers and covered entities, as defined, to disclose specified health information to behavioral health agencies for some purposes and would require those entities to disclose that information for other specified purposes. The bill would authorize a county behavioral health agency to apply, ex parte, for an order requiring health care providers or covered entities to provide information, as specified, to the court, the behavioral health agency, or both. The bill would require behavioral health agencies to notify respondent of disclosure, as specified. The bill would exempt health care providers and covered entities from civil or criminal liability for disclosure under these provisions and would exempt information disclosed to a county behavioral health agency by a provider of health care or a covered entity from disclosure or inspection under the Public Records Act.Existing law authorizes a specified individual to commence the CARE process, known as the original petitioner. Under existing law, if the original petitioner is a person other than the director of a county behavioral health agency, the court is required to issue an order relieving the original petitioner and appointing the director of the county behavioral health agency, or their successor, as the substitute petitioner. Under existing law, the original petitioner retains specified rights, including the right to participate in the initial hearing to determine the merits of the petition.This bill would revise the rights of the original petitioner, including giving them the right to be present and make a statement on the merits of the petition at the initial hearing and authorizing the court to assign ongoing rights to an original petitioner who resides with the respondent or is a spouse, parent, sibling, child, or grandparent or other person who stands in loco parentis to the respondent. This bill would additionally authorize the respondent to petition the court for an order sealing their records, as specified, and the filing of such petition would create a presumption in favor of sealing.Existing law authorizes the court to find a person, other than respondent, who has previously filed a pleading in C
CA SB 350 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Pupil attendance: excused absences.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 350, as amended, Ashby. Pupil attendance: excused absences. Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence is for the purpose of attending the funeral services of a member of the pupil’s immediate family, provided that the absence is not more than one day if the service is conducted in the state and not more than 3 days if the service is conducted outside the state.This bill would instead require a pupil to be excused from school for not more than 5 days for the purpose of attending the funeral service or grieving the death of the pupil’s immediate family member, as provided. The bill would also include as another type of required excused absence an absence for not more than 3 days that is for the purpose of accessing victim or grief support services, as provided, or participating in safety planning as it relates to the death of the pupil’s immediate family member, as specified. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local educational entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 48205 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1503 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1503 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA SB 354 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Special education: inclusive education: universal design for learning: inclusive practices.
01/25/2024 - Veto sustained.
SB 354, Ochoa Bogh. Special education: inclusive education: universal design for learning: inclusive practices. Existing law finds and declares that all individuals with exceptional needs have a right to participate in free appropriate public education and special educational instruction and services for these persons are needed in order to ensure the right to an appropriate educational opportunity to meet their unique needs. Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that education programs are provided under an approved local plan for special education, as provided. Existing law further provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that appropriate qualified staff are employed, consistent with credential requirements, to fulfill the responsibilities of the local plan. Existing law establishes in state government the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and requires it to adopt standards for the issuance of teaching credentials, as provided.This bill would require the commission, on or before June 30, 2025, to revise its administrative services credential standards and performance expectations to include and strengthen preparation for inclusion, with a focus on, among other things, universal design for learning (UDL), as defined. The bill would require administrator preparation programs to ensure faculty are prepared in, among other things, UDL and inclusive practices, as defined.Contingent upon an appropriation, the bill would require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the commission, on or before March 31, 2027, to develop and disseminate joint guidance clarifying the ways in which inclusive classrooms and placements may be staffed under current law, as provided. The bill would require the department, in consultation with the commission, on or before March 31, 2026, to submit a report to the Legislature on recommendations for statutory or regulatory changes necessary to eliminate barriers to the staffing of inclusive placements.This bill would require, for children who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind, inclusive practices and strategies to improve pupil outcomes to mean placement in settings that provide full access to language and specialized services, as provided. The bill would require any discussion of deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind pupils in the local educational agency setting to ensure the input and participation of the deaf, hard of hearing, blind, visually impaired, or deaf-blind communities, as provided. To the extent that this bill would require a new duty of a local educational agency, the bill would impose a state-mandated 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.
CA SB 363 - Susan Talamantes Eggman
Facilities for inpatient and residential mental health and substance use disorder: database.
08/23/2023 - August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
SB 363, as amended, Eggman. Facilities for inpatient and residential mental health and substance use disorder: database. Existing law generally requires the State Department of Public Health to license, inspect, and regulate health facilities, defined to include, among other types of health facilities, an acute psychiatric hospital. Existing law generally requires the State Department of Social Services to license, inspect, and regulate various types of care facilities, including, among others, a community crisis home. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services.This bill would require, by January 1, 2026, the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Social Services, and by conferring with specified stakeholders, to develop a real-time, internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and display information about beds in specified types of facilities, such as chemical dependency recovery hospitals, acute psychiatric hospitals, and mental health rehabilitation centers, among others, to identify the availability of inpatient and residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment. The bill would require the database to include a minimum of specific information, including the contact information for a facility’s designated employee, the types of diagnoses or treatments for which the bed is appropriate, and the target populations served at the facility, and have the capacity to, among other things, enable searches to identify beds that are appropriate for individuals in need of inpatient or residential mental health or substance use disorder treatment.This bill would authorize the department to impose a plan of correction or assess penalties against a facility that fails to submit data accurately, timely, or as otherwise required and would establish a process for facilities to appeal these penalties. The bill would create the Available Care for Inpatient and Residential Mental Health or Substance Use Disorder Treatment Database Maintenance and Oversight Fund for the receipt of any penalties. Because the bill would continuously appropriate moneys in the fund for administrative costs of implementing the database, it would create an appropriation.
CA SB 374 - Angelique Ashby
Vehicles: specialized license plates.
09/07/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 374, Ashby. Vehicles: specialized license plates. Existing law authorizes a person who is a firefighter, retired firefighter, or a surviving family member of a firefighter or retired firefighter to apply for special license plates for their vehicle. The special license plates, which contain the words “California Firefighter” and run in a regular numerical series, are issued upon application to the Department of Motor Vehicles, presentation of proof of certain facts, and payment of certain fees, including $35 for a renewal of registration that includes the continued display of the special license plate.This bill would increase the fee to $40 for a renewal of registration that includes the continued display of the special license plate.
CA SB 380 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Early learning and care: rate reform.
08/23/2023 - August 23 hearing postponed by committee.
SB 380, as amended, Limón. Early learning and care: rate reform. (1) Existing law, the Early Education Act, among other things, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of child care and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates, as specified. Existing law requires the state and Child Care Providers United - California to establish a Joint Labor Management Committee to develop recommendations for a single reimbursement rate structure that has specified characteristics, and requires the Joint Labor Management Committee to present those recommendations to the Department of Finance no later than November 15, 2022. Existing law also requires the department, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to convene a working group to assess the existing quality standards for childcare and development and preschool programs and the methodology for establishing reimbursement rates for those programs, and requires the working group to provide recommendations relating to specified topics to a specified Joint Labor Management Committee, the Department of Finance, and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee no later than August 15, 2022.This bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to develop an alternative methodology for calculating subsidy payment rates for child care and development services and California state preschool program services that build upon and align with the recommendations of the working group and Joint Labor Management Committee, and that uses a cost estimation model, as specified. The bill would require the department to develop an interim transition plan, if necessary, to implement the alternative methodology, and to seek preapproval from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to amend the state’s current Child Care and Development Fund State Plan to change its current methodology for determining childcare and development and preschool subsidy payment rates to the alternative methodology. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Education to implement the alternative methodology upon notice, in writing, by the State Department of Social Services to the Legislature that it has adopted the alternative methodology, as specified.(2) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to establish a fee schedule for families using preschool and child care and development services and requires families who utilize those services to be assessed a family fee that is based on income, certified family need for full-time or part-time care services, and enrollment. Existing law prohibits those family fees from exceeding 10% of the family’s monthly income and prohibits family fees from being collected for the 2022–23 fiscal year.The bill would require the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to develop an equitable sliding scale for the payment of family fees, and would suspend the collection of family fees until the new equitable sliding scale is implemented.(3) The Early Education Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adopt rules, regulations, and guidelines to facilitate the funding and reimbursement required by the act. Existing law requires, for the 2022–23 fiscal year only, contracting agen
CA SB 394 - Lena A. Gonzalez
Master Plan for Healthy, Sustainable, and Climate-Resilient Schools.
01/25/2024 - Veto sustained.
SB 394, Gonzalez. Master Plan for Healthy, Sustainable, and Climate-Resilient Schools. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to develop contingency plans to deal with possible shortages of electrical energy or fuel supplies to protect public health, safety, and welfare. Existing law establishes the Clean Energy Job Creation Program for purposes of funding projects for energy efficiency retrofits and clean energy installations, along with related improvements and repairs that contribute to reduced operating costs and improved health and safety conditions, on public schools. Existing law requires certain moneys appropriated for purposes of the program to be allocated to local educational agencies, as specified. Existing law authorizes the commission to adjust the funding allocation to local educational agencies and requires the commission, in allocating grants to local educational agencies, to give priority to certain local educational agencies, as provided.This bill would require, if an appropriation is made for this purpose, the commission to develop a Master Plan for Healthy, Sustainable, and Climate-Resilient Schools on or before March 31, 2025, or 15 months after the appropriation is made, whichever is later. The bill would require the commission to consult with specified state agencies and engage with a diverse group of stakeholders and experts regarding the development of the master plan, as provided. The bill would require the master plan to include specified elements, including, but not limited to, assessments of a representative sample of the state’s public elementary and secondary school buildings and grounds, as provided, and a set of priorities, benchmarks, and milestones for health, resilience, and decarbonization of public school campuses and support facilities.
CA SB 402 - Aisha Wahab
Involuntary commitment.
01/12/2024 - Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
SB 402, as amended, Wahab. Involuntary commitment. Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, authorizes the involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental disorders. Under the act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to self or others, or gravely disabled, the person may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by specified individuals, including, among others, by peace officers and designated members of a mobile crisis team, and placed in a facility designated by the county and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services for up to 72 hours for evaluation and treatment.This bill would additionally authorize a person to be taken into custody, pursuant to those provisions, by a licensed mental health professional, as defined.
CA SB 403 - Aisha Wahab
Discrimination on the basis of ancestry.
01/25/2024 - Veto sustained.
SB 403, Wahab. Discrimination on the basis of ancestry. Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.This bill would define “ancestry” for purposes of the act to include, among other things, caste, as defined.Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or specified other characteristics, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state, and states that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor.This bill would additionally include ancestry as a protected characteristic in that policy statement and would define ”ancestry” and “caste” for purposes of those provisions.Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), establishes the Civil Rights Department to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment, as prescribed. The FEHA declares the public policy of the state that it is necessary to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, and recognizes and declares to be a civil right the opportunity to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, based on specified characteristics, including ancestry. The FEHA makes certain discriminatory employment practices based on those characteristics unlawful.This bill would define “ancestry” for purposes of the FEHA to include, among other things, caste, and would also define “caste” for purposes of those provisions.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 12926 of the Government Code proposed by AB 524 to be operative only if this bill and AB 524 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA SB 404 - Aisha Wahab
Prohibiting underage, unauthorized marriages.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 404, as amended, Wahab. Prohibiting underage, unauthorized marriages. Existing law provides various circumstances that constitute rape, including an act of sexual intercourse accomplished with a person who is not the spouse of the perpetrator where the person submits under the belief that the person committing the act is the victim’s spouse, and this belief is induced by artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with the intent to induce the belief. Existing law also makes it a misdemeanor to sexually assault certain animals for the purpose of gratifying the sexual desires of a person. Existing law makes it a crime to engage in certain types of conduct against a dependent adult or dependent person, including, among others, committing certain sexual acts upon a dependent person.This bill would make it a misdemeanor for any person, 18 years of age or older, to knowingly and willfully sanction or solemnize a marriage or domestic partnership between a minor and another person. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year per incident. The bill would exclude a marriage or domestic partnership entered into after receiving a court order, as specified.Because a violation of the provisions would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 407 - Scott D. Wiener
Foster care: resource families.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 407, Wiener. Foster care: resource families. (1) Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings. Existing law provides for the implementation of the resource family approval process and defines a resource family as an individual or family who has successfully met both the home environment assessment standards and permanency assessment criteria, as specified, necessary for providing care for a child placed by a public or private child placement agency by court order, or voluntarily placed by a parent or legal guardian. Under existing law, the resource family permanency standards include a family evaluation, including, but not limited to, interviews of an applicant, as specified, and a risk assessment. This bill would require a resource family to demonstrate an ability and willingness to meet the needs of a child, regardless of the child’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, as specified. To the extent this bill would create new duties for counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law requires counties to ensure resource family applicants and resource families have the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to support children in foster care by completing caregiver training. Existing law requires that training to include a curriculum that supports the role of a resource family in parenting vulnerable children and should be ongoing in order to provide resource families with information on trauma-informed practices and requirements and other topics within the foster care system.This bill would require counties to ensure that the caregiver training described above supports children of all races, ethnic group identifications, ancestries, national origins, colors, religions, sexes, sexual orientations, gender identities, mental or physical disabilities, or HIV statuses in foster care. To the extent this bill would create new duties for counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 408 - Angelique Ashby
Foster youth with complex needs: regional health teams.
07/13/2023 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 408, as amended, Ashby. Foster youth with complex needs: regional health teams. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings, and governs the provision of child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families, and restoring to their families children who have been removed. Existing federal law, the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018, among other things, provides states with an option to use federal funds under Title IV of the federal Social Security Act to provide mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services and in-home parent skill-based programs to a child who is a candidate for foster care or a child in foster care who is a pregnant or parenting foster youth, as specified.This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, to establish up to 10 regional health teams throughout the state, to serve foster youth and youth who may be at risk of entering foster care. The bill would require the department to submit a state plan amendment to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no later than July 1, 2024, to implement the Medicaid Health Home State Plan Option, as specified, in establishing the regional health teams. The bill would require the department to coordinate with the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Developmental Services, and to convene and engage specified stakeholders, to develop the regional health teams.The bill would make regional health teams available to children and youth and any adult caregiver or other adult connected with the child or youth under 26 years of age, who are experiencing severe mental illness, emotional disturbance, substance use, intellectual or developmental disability, or special health care needs or chronic health issues, or any combination of those conditions. The bill would specify the required membership of the regional health teams, including, but not limited to, a physician, a licensed clinical social worker, and a public health nurse. The duties of the regional health team would include, but not be limited to, receiving and responding to referrals received from staff from county child welfare agencies, county probation departments, regional centers, and others, developing a person-centered care plan, and coordinating and delivering various categories of care and services.The bill would require the department to provide grants, upon appropriation, to create the necessary startup infrastructure for 10 health teams that are geographically situated to support access to services equitably throughout the state, as specified. The bill would require the regional health teams to be funded by the department pursuant to a competitive procurement process. The bill would declare the intent of the Legislature that the health home state plan option begin no later than December 1, 2024, as specified.The bill would condition implementation of these provisions on the availability of federal financial participation and receipt of any necessary federal approvals. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions through all-county letters or similar instructions.
CA SB 412 - Robert J. Archuleta
Parole hearings.
09/12/2023 - In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 412, as introduced, Archuleta. Parole hearings. Existing law requires any person, except the victim, who is entitled to attend a parole hearing and intends to do so, to provide at least 30 days’ notice to the Board of Parole Hearings. Existing regulations of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation require victims, the victim’s next of kin, members of the victim’s family, victim representatives, counsel for any of these persons, and victim support persons to give notice of their intention to attend, to the department, as specified.This bill would limit the amount of notice that the department and board may require from any of these persons to no more than 15 days.
CA SB 413 - Steven Craig Bradford
School attendance: interdistrict attendance.
09/07/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 413, Bradford. School attendance: interdistrict attendance. Existing law authorizes the governing boards of 2 or more school districts to enter into an agreement for the interdistrict attendance of pupils who are residents of the school districts. Under existing law, a parent may appeal a school district’s decision regarding a request for interdistrict transfer, within 30 calendar days of the school district’s final denial, to the county board of education. Existing law requires the county board of education, within 30 calendar days after the appeal is filed, to determine whether the pupil should be permitted to attend the school district of proposed enrollment and the applicable period of attendance.This bill would authorize a county board of education in a class 1 or class 2 county to, in certain circumstances, extend the time period to determine whether the pupil should be permitted to attend the school district of proposed enrollment and the applicable period of attendance to up to 60 calendar days after the appeal is filed, as provided.
CA SB 417 - Catherine S. Blakespear
Firearms: licensed dealers.
09/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 417, Blakespear. Firearms: licensed dealers. Existing law requires any sale or transfer of a firearm to be processed through a licensed dealer. Existing law requires each dealer to conspicuously post certain warnings and notices within their licensed premises, including safe storage requirements, requirements regarding the reporting of lost and stolen firearms, and information regarding the suicide prevention lifeline.This bill would revise this required posting, as specified.
CA SB 424 - Maria Elena Durazo
Medi-Cal: Whole Child Model program.
06/08/2023 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
SB 424, as amended, Durazo. Medi-Cal: Whole Child Model program. Existing law establishes the California Children’s Services (CCS) Program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and a designated agency of each county, to provide medically necessary services for persons under 21 years of age who have any of specified medical conditions and who meet certain financial eligibility requirements.Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the department and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law requires the department to establish a statewide Whole Child Model program stakeholder advisory group that includes specified persons, including CCS case managers, and to consult with that advisory group on prescribed matters. Existing law terminates the advisory group on December 31, 2023.This bill would extend the operation of the advisory group until December 31, 2026.
CA SB 426 - Roger Niello
Charter schools: flex-based instruction.
02/01/2024 - Died on file pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 426, as amended, Niello. Charter schools: flex-based instruction. The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes the establishment, operation, and governance of charter schools. Existing law authorizes a charter school that has an approved charter to receive funding for nonclassroom-based instruction only if a determination for funding is made by the State Board of Education, as specified.This bill would replace the term “nonclassroom-based instruction” with “flex-based instruction” and define a “flex-based charter school” as a charter school that receives a determination for funding from the state board, as described above.. The bill would also make numerous nonsubstantive and conforming changes.
CA SB 430 - Bill M. Dodd
Tied-house exceptions: advertising: common parent company.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 430, as amended, Dodd. Tied-house exceptions: advertising: common parent company. Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of licenses for the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Existing law, known as tied-house restrictions, generally prohibits specified licensees and their agents from paying a retailer for advertising. Existing law creates a variety of exceptions to this general prohibition. This bill would create a new exception to the tied-house restrictions on advertising. In this regard, the bill would authorize specified licensees to purchase advertising services from an advertising subsidiary that is under common ownership with a retail licensee subsidiary, subject to specified conditions. The bill would require an advertising subsidiary from whom an authorized licensee purchases advertising services pursuant to these provisions to submit to the department semiannually a report that summarizes those services and includes other specified information. The bill would make the solicitation or coercion of a wholesaler or an authorized licensee, as specified, in connection with the advertising services permitted under these provisions a misdemeanor and subject to specified penalties. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would define terms for its purposes and would set forth related findings.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.
CA SB 431 - Janet Q. Nguyen
Grandparents: caregivers support.
05/12/2023 - Set for hearing May 18.
SB 431, as amended, Nguyen. Grandparents: caregivers support. Existing law establishes the California Department of Aging within the California Health and Human Services Agency to provide leadership to the area agencies on aging in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least restrictive homelike environments. Existing law requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, in coordination with the Director of the California Department of Aging, to lead the development and implementation of the Master Plan for Aging established pursuant to Executive Order N-14-19.Existing law also establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of the dependent child’s parent or guardian and establishes procedures to determine the placement of a dependent child. Existing law requires foster care placement, if possible, to be made in the home of a relative unless the placement would not be in the best interest of the child. Existing law establishes the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP), which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who are placed in the home of a relative guardian, and the Kinship Support Services Program to provide community-based support services to relative caregivers and children placed in their homes.This bill would require the California Department of Aging, in consultation with the Department of Justice and the State Department of Social Services, to conduct a study to examine the issues faced by grandparents who are 60 years of age or older and are primary caregivers for their grandchildren, and requires the California Department of Aging to report the findings of the study to the Legislature.
CA SB 443 - Lena A. Gonzalez
Drinking water: schools.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 443, as introduced, Gonzalez. Drinking water: schools. Existing law requires school districts and charter schools to allow pupils, teachers, and staff to bring and carry water bottles, except as provided.This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
CA SB 445 - Scott Thomas Wilk
Special education: individualized education programs: translation services.
09/12/2023 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
SB 445, as amended, Portantino. Special education: individualized education programs: translation services. Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those pupils with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law requires a local educational agency to initiate and conduct meetings for purposes of developing, reviewing, and revising the individualized education program of each individual with exceptional needs in accordance with federal law. Existing law requires the local educational agency to take any action necessary to ensure that the parent of the individual with exceptional needs understands the proceedings at a meeting, including arranging for an interpreter for parents with deafness or whose native language is a language other than English. Existing law defines “parent” for purposes of these provisions to mean a biological or adoptive parent, a foster parent, a guardian generally authorized to act as the child’s parent or authorized to make educational decisions for the child, an individual acting in the place of a biological or adoptive parent, or a surrogate parent, as specified. Existing law requires that a person who meets the definition of “parent,” except for a surrogate parent, be determined to be the “parent” for purposes of these provisions if there is a judicial decree or order identifying that person, as specified.This bill would revise the definition of “parent” to specify that it also includes the educational rights holder and the conservator of a child. The bill would instead require that a person who meets the definition of “parent,” including all categories of people included in that definition, be determined to be the “parent” for purposes of these provisions if there is a judicial decree or order identifying that person, as specified.The bill would instead require a local educational agency to take any action necessary to ensure that the parent understands the proceedings during the planning process for the individualized education program, including during the individualized education program team meeting. The bill would require this action to include, as applicable, communicating in the parent’s native language, or in another mode of communication used by the parent, arranging for an interpreter, providing translation services, and providing alternative communication services, as specified. The bill would require a local educational agency, upon request by a pupil’s parent, to translate into the native language of the parent, or into another mode of communication used by the parent, the pupil’s completed individualized education program, any revisions to the individualized education program, and certain documents discussed at an individualized education program team meeting. The bill would require, for a parent whose native language is one of the 8 most commonly spoken languages, as provided, excluding English, in a local educational agency, that the completed individualized education program and any revisions to the individualized education program be translated within 30 calendar days of that meeting or within 30 calendar days of a later request. The bill would require the documents to be translated by a qualified translator, as defined. The bill would require the State Department of Education to revise its notice of procedural safeguards, in English and in the primary languages for which the department has developed translated versions, to inform parents of their right to request the translation of these documents. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, 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 pr
CA SB 447 - Toni G. Atkins
GO-Biz: Building and Reinforcing Inclusive, Diverse, Gender-Supportive Equity Project.
09/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 199, Statutes of 2023.
SB 447, Atkins. GO-Biz: Building and Reinforcing Inclusive, Diverse, Gender-Supportive Equity Project. (1) Existing law establishes the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) to 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. In this regard, existing law authorizes GO-Biz to make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature on new state policies and to provide data, information, and assistance, as specified. This bill would further authorize GO-Biz to establish the Building and Reinforcing Inclusive, Diverse, Gender-Supportive Equity Project (BRIDGE Project) to promote social equity, civil rights, and antidiscrimination through marketing and advertising campaigns. The bill would establish the BRIDGE Project Fund and would make the money available to the office upon appropriation by the Legislature for the purpose of implementing the project, and would authorize the office to receive donations into the fund. The bill would authorize the office to contract with a private, nonprofit agency, as specified, and to use the services of volunteer advertising agencies and donated media to conduct marketing activities. The bill would require the office to convene an advisory committee of no more than 10 members, as defined, to advise the office on BRIDGE Project media campaigns, as specified. The bill would authorize the office to consult with any state agency with expertise relating to the purpose of the BRIDGE Project, as specified.The bill would provide that any media campaign funded pursuant to this project may, among other things, be on a national scale and, to the extent possible, may target audiences in a state or states, or a media market that includes a state or states that have enacted a law that voids or repeals, or has the effect of voiding or repealing, an existing state or local protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, or have enacted a law that authorizes or requires discrimination against same-sex couples or their families or on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, including any law that creates an exemption to antidiscrimination laws in order to permit discrimination against same-sex couples or their families or on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. The bill would also add a provision specifying that nothing in the provisions regarding GO-Biz shall be interpreted to require a state employee or officer to travel to a state or states that have enacted a law that would discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, or that has the effect of prohibiting conduct or activities otherwise protected under the laws of this state.(2) Existing law prohibits a state agency and the Legislature from requiring any of its employees, officers, or members to travel to, or from approving a request for state-funded or state-sponsored travel to, any state that has enacted a law that voids or repeals, or that has the effect of voiding or repealing, existing state or local protections against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression or that has enacted a law that authorizes or requires discrimination against same-sex couples or their families or on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, as specified. This bill would repeal those provisions prohibiting a state agency and the Legislature from requiring travel to specified states and would make a conforming change.(3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 448 - Josh Becker
Juveniles: detention hearings.
09/13/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 448, as amended, Becker. Juveniles: detention hearings. Existing law requires a court to determine whether a minor in custody will be released from, or detained in, custody, considering, among other things, whether it is a matter of immediate and urgent necessity for the protection of the minor or reasonably necessary for the protection of the person or property of another and whether continuance in the home is contrary to the minor’s welfare.This bill would prohibit the court from basing the decision to detain solely on the minor’s county of residence and would require the court to give the minor equal consideration for release on home supervision. This bill would grant the court the authority to order the minor to be placed on home supervision, with or without electronic monitoring.
CA SB 450 - Toni G. Atkins
Housing development: approvals.
07/12/2023 - July 12 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
SB 450, as amended, Atkins. Housing development: approvals. (1) The Planning and Zoning Law provides for the creation of accessory dwelling units by local ordinance, or, if a local agency has not adopted an ordinance, by ministerial approval, in accordance with specified standards and conditions.Existing law requires a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone to be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements, including that the proposed housing development does not allow for the demolition of more than 25% of the existing exterior structural walls, except as provided. Existing law authorizes a local agency to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards, as defined, except as specified, on the proposed housing development. Existing law authorizes a local agency to deny a proposed housing development if specified conditions are met, including that the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon public health and safety or the physical environment, as provided. This bill would remove the requirement that a proposed housing development does not allow for the demolition of more than 25% of the existing exterior structural walls to be considered ministerially. The bill would prohibit a local agency from imposing objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards that do not apply uniformly to development within the underlying zone. This bill would remove the authorization for a local agency to deny a proposed housing development if the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon the physical environment. The bill would require the local agency to consider and approve or deny the proposed housing development application within 60 days from the date the local agency receives the completed application, and would deem the application approved after that time. The bill would require a permitting agency, if it denies an application, to provide a full set of comments to the applicant with a list of items that are defective or deficient and a description of how the application can be remedied by the applicant. (2) The Subdivision Map Act vests the authority to regulate and control the design and improvement of subdivisions in the legislative body of a local agency and sets forth procedures governing the local agency’s processing, approval, conditional approval or disapproval, and filing of tentative, final, and parcel maps, and the modification of those maps.Existing law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split that meets certain requirements. Existing law authorizes a local agency to impose objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards, as defined, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a local agency to deny an urban lot split if specified conditions are met, including that the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon public health and safety or the physical environment, as provided. This bill would specify that objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, and objective design standards imposed by a local agency must be related to the design or improvements of a parcel. This bill would remove the authorization for a local agency to deny a proposed housing development if the building official makes a written finding that the proposed housing development project would have a specific, adverse impact upon the physical environment. The bill would require the local agency to consider and approve or deny the proposed housing d
CA SB 457 - Angelique Ashby
Vision care: consent by a minor.
09/01/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 152, Statutes of 2023.
SB 457, Menjivar. Vision care: consent by a minor. Existing law authorizes a minor 15 years of age or older to consent to the minor’s medical care or dental care, if the minor is living separate and apart from the minor’s parents or guardian and the minor is managing their own financial affairs, as specified. Existing law authorizes a physician and surgeon or dentist, with or without the minor’s consent, to advise the minor’s parent or guardian of the treatment given or needed if the physician and surgeon has reason to know the parent’s or guardian’s whereabouts, based on information given by the minor. Under existing law, a parent or guardian is not liable for care provided according to these provisions.This bill additionally would authorize minors to consent to their own vision care, and would authorize an optometrist to advise a minor’s parent or guardian of the care given or needed, under the same conditions applicable to the provision of medical care and dental care. The bill would define “vision care” as the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and management of disorders, diseases, and dysfunctions of the visual system and the provision of habilitative or rehabilitative optometric services by a licensed optometrist, as specified.
CA SB 459 - Sabrina Cervantes
Domestic violence: restraining orders.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 874, Statutes of 2023.
SB 459, Rubio. Domestic violence: restraining orders. Existing law allows a civil court, after notice and a hearing, to issue an order to enjoin a person from, among other things, attacking, stalking, or threatening another person. Under existing law, the protective order may be valid for up to 5 years, as determined by the court, and may be renewed for 5 or more years, or permanently, at the discretion of the court.This bill would require the Judicial Council, on or before January 1, 2025, to create one or more specific forms for the purpose of requesting a modification of an existing restraining order.
CA SB 46 - Richard Dale Roth
Controlled substances: treatment.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 46, as amended, Roth. Controlled substances: treatment. Existing law, as added by the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, adopted by voters as Proposition 36 at the November 7, 2000, statewide general election, requires that persons convicted of certain nonviolent drug possession offenses be granted probation and participate in and complete an appropriate drug treatment program as a condition of that probation. After completion of drug treatment and the terms of probation, the act requires the court to conduct a hearing, set aside the conviction, and dismiss the complaint if the court finds, among other requirements, that the defendant successfully completed drug treatment. For purposes of the act, a defendant has successfully completed treatment if they have completed the prescribed course of drug treatment and, as a result, there is reasonable cause to believe that they will not abuse controlled substances in the future. The act allows its amendment by a statute passed by 2/3 of both houses of the Legislature and requires that all amendments further the act and be consistent with its purposes.This bill would amend the act by removing the requirement that there be reasonable cause to believe that the defendant will not abuse controlled substances in the future in order to be considered as having successfully completed treatment.Existing law requires the court, when granting probation after conviction of any controlled substance offense, as specified, to order as a condition of probation that the defendant secure education or treatment from a local community agency designated by the court. Existing law requires a juvenile court to order a minor, found to have been in possession of any controlled substance, to receive education or treatment from a local community agency, as specified, and to order the minor’s parents or guardian to participate in the education or treatment if beneficial to the minor. Existing law provides that a defendant’s willful failure to complete a court-ordered education or treatment program shall be a circumstance in aggravation for purposes of sentencing in any subsequent prosecution for specified controlled substance violations. This bill would allow the court to order the defendant to complete a controlled substance education or treatment program, as specified, if available and as appropriate for the individual. The bill would require the court to determine the defendant’s ability to pay for the program and would authorize the court to develop a sliding fee schedule based on the person’s inability to pay, including making a person who is granted specified relief from court fees and costs not responsible for any costs. The bill would strike the requirement that a juvenile court order a minor and their parents or guardians to receive education or treatment. The bill would require the court or probation department to refer defendants to controlled substance education or treatment programs that adhere to specified standards. The bill would require the county drug program administrator, with input from representatives of the court, the county probation department, and substance use treatment providers, to design and implement an approval and renewal process for controlled substance education and treatment programs. The bill would require the court, when a defendant is convicted of a controlled substance offense resulting in imprisonment, to recommend that the defendant attend a controlled substance education or treatment program while imprisoned. By imposing additional duties on local entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law requires every county drug program administrator, in consultation with representatives of the court and the county probation department, to establish minimum requirements, criteria, and fees for the successful completion of drug diversion programs, including a minimum of 20 hours of education, counseling, or any combination of both fo
CA SB 461 - Aisha Wahab
Days and hours of work: religious or cultural observance.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 461, Wahab. Days and hours of work: religious or cultural observance. Existing law generally entitles a state employee to be given time off with pay for specified holidays and entitles a state employee to one personal holiday per fiscal year. Existing law authorizes the department head or designee to require the employee to provide 5 working days’ advance notice before a personal holiday is taken, to deny use subject to operational needs, and to provide by rule for the granting of the personal holiday for employees. Existing law authorizes a state employee to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for certain holidays in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit, as specified.This bill would authorize an employee to elect to receive 8 hours of holiday credit for observance of a holiday or ceremony of the state employee’s religion, culture, or heritage in lieu of receiving 8 hours of personal holiday credit.Existing law, the State Civil Service Act, regulates employment with the state and vests in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authority necessary to operate the state civil service system. Existing law, the Ralph C. Dills Act, grants state employees the right to form and join employee organizations for the purpose of representation of all matters of employer-employee relations. Existing law establishes procedures by which an agreement in the form of a written memorandum of understanding may be reached between the Governor and the recognized employee organization, and presented, as appropriate, to the Legislature for determination. This bill would apply its provisions to a bargaining unit only after the bargaining unit meets and confers with the Department of Human Resources in the ordinary process and timeline for negotiating and renegotiating the bargaining unit’s collective bargaining agreement, as specified.
CA SB 463 - Aisha Wahab
Dependent children.
09/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 463, Wahab. Dependent children. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge a child to be a dependent of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered, or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer, serious physical harm or illness as a result of the failure or inability of their parent or guardian to adequately supervise or protect the child. Existing law requires the court to make a determination, throughout various hearings in the juvenile dependency process, including at the 6-month review hearing, the 12-month permanency hearing, and subsequent permanency review hearings, as to whether the return of the child to their parent or legal guardian would create a substantial risk of detriment to the safety, protection, or physical or emotional well-being of the child. Under existing law, the failure of the parent or legal guardian to participate regularly and make substantive progress in court-ordered treatment programs is considered prima facie evidence at these hearings that return would be detrimental.This bill would delete these provisions requiring the failure of the parent or legal guardian to participate regularly and make substantive progress in court-ordered treatment programs to be considered prima facie evidence at specified review hearings.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 366.22 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 937 to be operative only if this bill and AB 937 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA SB 464 - Aisha Wahab
Criminal law: rights of victims and witnesses of crimes.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 464, Wahab. Criminal law: rights of victims and witnesses of crimes. Existing law requires a prosecuting attorney, upon the request of a victim or a witness of a crime, to inform the victim or witness by letter of the final disposition of the case within 60 days of the final disposition.This bill would instead require the prosecuting attorney, upon the request of a victim or a witness of a crime, to inform the victim or witness by letter of the final disposition of the case within 30 days.Existing law requires all law enforcement agencies, medical facilities, crime laboratories, and any other facilities that receive, maintain, store, or preserve sexual assault evidence kits to conduct an audit of all untested sexual assault evidence kits in their possession and required these entities to report certain data to the Department of Justice by no later than July 1, 2019. Existing law required the Department of Justice to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature regarding the results of these audits by no later than July 1, 2020. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to prepare an information profile on each kit in the department’s SAFE-T database, and to develop a process to allow a survivor to track and receive updates regarding their sexual assault evidence kit.This bill would require all law enforcement agencies, medical facilities, public crime laboratories, and any other facilities that receive, maintain, store, or preserve sexual assault evidence kits to conduct an audit of all untested sexual assault evidence kits in their possession. The bill would require each law enforcement agency and public crime laboratory to create a record in the SAFE-T database for every victim sexual assault kit that has not had DNA testing completed, as specified, by no later than July 1, 2026. The bill would specify that the SAFE-T database not include sexual assault evidence kits collected from suspects, but would require those kits to also be subject to the audit, as specified. The bill would require each medical facility and other non-law enforcement entity to report certain data relating to untested kits to the Department of Justice by no later than July 1, 2026. The bill would additionally require the Department of Justice to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature regarding the results of these audits by no later than July 1, 2027. By requiring local government entities to complete an audit and submit a report, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would authorize a victim to request that a kit collected from them not be tested, and would exempt that kit from being tested.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.
CA SB 47 - Richard Dale Roth
Child abuse or neglect reports.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 47, as amended, Roth. Child abuse or neglect reports. Existing law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, requires a mandated reporter to report whenever they know or reasonably suspect that a child has been the victim of child abuse or neglect. Existing law also authorizes any other person to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect. Under existing law, reports of suspected child abuse or neglect are made to any police department, sheriff’s department, county probation department, if designated by the county to receive mandated reports, or county welfare department.This bill would require a county child welfare services department that receives a report of a child being endangered by abuse, neglect, or exploitation in which the alleged perpetrator is a person responsible for the child, as specified, to evaluate the report immediately and if the report contains sufficient information to warrant an investigation, require the department to make its best effort to commence an investigation of an allegation of imminent risk of physical harm to the child within 2 hours, but no later than 72 hours after receiving any report. The bill would require the department to conduct an in-home visit no later than 72 hours after receiving the report to determine if the child needs to be removed from the home during the pendency of the investigation, and would require the investigation to be completed within 30 business days of the initial report. By imposing additional duties on local agencies investigating reports of child abuse or neglect, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 472 - Melissa Hurtado
Pupil health: opioid overdose reversal medication.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 472, as amended, Hurtado. Pupil health: opioid overdose reversal medication. Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose, as provided.This bill would require each individual public school operated by a school district, county office of education, or charter school that has made a person who has received instruction in the administration of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist available at the school, as provided, to maintain at least 2 doses of naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist for purposes of those authorizations. The bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school that has made a person who has received instruction in the administration of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist available at its schools, as provided, to report to the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Care Services on or before July 31, 2024, and annually thereafter, certain information regarding opioid antagonists.The bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature that school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools share information from the State Department of Public Health regarding naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonists with parents or guardians of pupils.
CA SB 473 - Benjamin J. Allen
Driver’s licenses: instruction permits and provisional licenses.
05/12/2023 - Set for hearing May 18.
SB 473, as introduced, Allen. Driver’s licenses: instruction permits and provisional licenses. (1) Existing law, the Brady-Jared Teen Driver Safety Act of 1997, establishes a provisional licensing program and generally requires that a driver’s license issued to a person at least 16 years of age, but under 18 years of age be issued pursuant to that provisional licensing program. Existing law requires a person to hold an instruction permit for not less than 6 months prior to applying for a provisional license. During the first 12 months after issuance of a provisional license, existing law prohibits the licensee from driving between the hours of 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. and transporting passengers who are under 20 years of age, as specified. Existing law provides limited exceptions to these restrictions under which a licensee is authorized to drive under specified circumstances. A violation of these provisions is punishable as an infraction.This bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, expand the scope of the provisional licensing program by expanding the applicable age range for the program to persons at least 16 years of age, but under 21 years of age. The restrictions on provisional licensees described above would apply during the first 6 months after issuance of a provisional license to a licensee who is 18, 19, or 20 years of age, subject to specified exemptions. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2027, require a person at least 18 years of age, but under 21 years of age, to hold an instruction permit for at least 60 days before applying for a provisional license. The bill would make other technical and conforming changes and related findings and declarations. By expanding the scope of the provisional licensing program, the violation of which constitutes an infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law generally authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles, for good cause, to issue an instruction permit to any physically and mentally qualified person who applies to the department for an instruction permit and who meets any one of 5 specified requirements, including that the person is 17 years and 6 months of age or older.The bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, raise the age for the above requirement to 20 years and 6 months.Existing law provides that a person, while having in the person’s immediate possession a valid permit issued pursuant to the above provisions, may operate a motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle or a motorized bicycle, when accompanied by, and under the immediate supervision of, a California-licensed driver with a valid license of the appropriate class, 18 years of age or over, whose driving privilege is not on probation, as specified. A violation of this provision is punishable as an infraction.The bill would, commencing January 1, 2027, for purposes of supervising a person issued a valid permit as described above, raise the required age of the California-licensed driver to 21 years of age. By changing the definition of an existing infraction, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law prohibits a person from owning or operating a driving school or giving driving instruction for compensation without a license issued by the department.The bill would require, on and after January 1, 2025, an owner or operator of a driving school or an independent driving instructor, as a condition of obtaining a new license or renewed license from the department to offer and accept installment payments, as specified, for the compensation to provide the instruction required by the Brady-Jared Teen Driver Safety Act of 1997. The bill would, commencing January 1, 2026, also authorize the department to charge a driving school, as specified, a fee not to exceed $1 for each driver education or driver training certificate of completion furnished by the department and issued to a person who has demonstrated satisfactory completion of a certified driver education and driv
CA SB 479 - Maria Elena Durazo
Termination of tenancy: no-fault just cause: natural person.
03/11/2024 - From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on JUD. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
SB 479, as amended, Durazo. Termination of tenancy: no-fault just cause: natural person. Existing law, after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied a residential real property for 12 months, prohibits the owner of the residential real property from terminating the tenancy without just cause and requires that just cause to be stated in the written notice to terminate tenancy. Existing law distinguishes between at-fault just cause and no-fault just cause and defines no-fault just cause to mean intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner or the owner’s spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, withdrawal of the residential real property from the rental market, the owner complying with specified government orders that necessitate vacating the real property, and intent to demolish or to substantially remodel the residential real property. Existing law defines “owner” for these purposes to mean either a natural person who has at least a 25% recorded ownership interest in the property or a natural person who has any recorded ownership interest in the property if 100% of the recorded ownership is divided among owners who are related to each other as sibling, spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, grandparent, or grandchild. Existing law defines “natural person” for these purposes to include a natural person who is a settlor or beneficiary of a family trust or, if the property is owned by a limited liability company or partnership, a natural person with a 25% ownership interest in the property, as specified.This bill would revise the definition of “natural person” to instead include, if the property is owned by a limited liability company or partnership, a natural person who is a beneficial owner, as defined, with least a 25% ownership interest in the property. The bill would also make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 483 - David D. Cortese
Pupil rights: prone restraint.
01/22/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
SB 483, as introduced, Cortese. Pupil rights: prone restraint. Existing law prohibits a person employed by or engaged in a public school from inflicting, or causing to be inflicted, corporal punishment upon a pupil. Existing law prohibits the use of certain restraint and seclusion techniques. Existing law authorizes staff trained in prone containment to use the procedure on a pupil who is an individual with exceptional needs in a public school program as an emergency intervention. If prone restraint techniques are used, existing law requires a staff member to observe the pupil for any signs of distress throughout the use of prone restraint.This bill instead would prohibit the use of prone restraint, defined to include prone containment, by an educational provider. The bill would also prohibit the use of prone restraint, including prone containment, on a pupil who is an individual with exceptional needs in a public school program.
CA SB 499 - Caroline Menjivar
School facilities: School Extreme Heat Action Plan Act of 2023.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 499, as amended, Menjivar. School facilities: School Extreme Heat Action Plan Act of 2023. Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of child daycare facilities, daycare centers, and family daycare homes by the State Department of Social Services. The act exempts from its provisions certain types of these facilities and certain programs, including, among others, a California state preschool program operated by a local educational agency under contract with the State Department of Education and that meets specified conditions and operates in a school building. Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to, among other things, repair its school property.This bill, the School Extreme Heat Action Plan Act of 2023, would, among other things, require all schoolsites, as defined, the next time outdoor surfaces are resurfaced or replaced at the schoolsite, to replace low specific heat surfaces, such as cement, asphalt, brick, pebbles, sand, aggregates, rubber, and synthetic turf, with high specific heat surfaces, such as cool pavement technologies, natural grass, shrubs, trees, wood chips, or other natural systems that mitigate heat and pollution, as provided. The bill would require all schoolsite decisionmaking personnel involved in the replacement or resurfacing of outdoor surfaces at a schoolsite to be trained in extreme heat mitigation measures. By imposing additional duties on local educational entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, as appropriate, to develop a template for an extreme heat action plan to be used by schoolsites, and to make a model program guidebook available to schoolsites and establish a process for systematically updating the guidebook and supporting documentation. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to identify a liaison for child daycare facilities, as defined, for these purposes.This bill would, on or before January 1, 2025, require all schoolsites, as defined, to develop an extreme heat action plan, as specified. The bill would require the plan to address the installation or planting of (1) shade trees or mini-forests, positioned on schoolsites where pupils can access them when in attendance, (2) school garden infrastructure and plantings, and (3) green barriers between the schoolsite and any adjacent high-polluting streets or commercial projects. By imposing additional duties on local educational entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would also require, on or before January 1, 2027, schoolsites to begin implementation of their extreme heat action plan. The bill would make implementation of the plan contingent upon appropriation by the Legislature. By imposing additional duties on local educational entities, 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, 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.
CA SB 509 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
School employee and pupil training: youth mental and behavioral health: mental health education.
01/25/2024 - Veto sustained.
SB 509, Portantino. School employee and pupil training: youth mental and behavioral health: mental health education. (1) Existing law, subject to an appropriation, requires the State Department of Education to recommend best practices and identify training programs for use by local educational agencies that serve pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to address youth behavioral health, on or before January 1, 2023, as provided. Existing law requires the department to ensure that each identified training program, among other requirements, provides instruction on recognizing the signs and symptoms of youth behavioral health disorders, including common psychiatric conditions and substance use disorders.This bill would delete the term “common” and replace “use” with “abuse” for purposes of that instruction requirement. The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require the department to, on or before January 1, 2025, recommend best practices and identify training programs for use by local educational agencies serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to address youth behavioral health for those pupils, as provided. The bill would require, on or before July 1, 2027, local educational agencies serving pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to certify to the department that 40% of its classified employees and 100% of its certificated employees, who serve and have direct contact with pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, at school, have received the above-described youth behavioral health training, as specified. The bill would prohibit the training in youth behavioral health to be a condition of employment or hiring. By imposing training certification duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, visual and performing arts, and health, as specified. With respect to the study of health, existing law requires instruction in the principles and practices of individual, family, and community health.This bill would require that health area of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to also include instruction on mental health. To the extent that this requirement would impose new duties on local educational agencies, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.(3) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 51210 of the Education Code proposed by AB 285 and AB 446 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.(4) 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.
CA SB 515 - Henry I. Stern
School facilities: shade structures.
09/13/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 515, as amended, Stern. School facilities: shade structures. The Field Act requires the Department of General Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design and construction of any school building 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 building standards published in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life and property.The California Building Standards Code requires that specified buildings, structures, and facilities be accessible to, and useable by, persons with disabilities, including that when alterations or additions are made to existing buildings or facilities, an accessible path of travel to the specific area of alteration or addition is provided.This bill would limit the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to a free-standing, open-sided shade structure project that meets specified requirements and that is on a school district, county office of education, charter school, or community college campus to 20% of the adjusted construction cost, as defined, of the shade structure project.
CA SB 52 - Michael A. Gipson
Redistricting: large charter cities.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 52, Durazo. Redistricting: large charter cities. Existing law requires the city council for a charter city that elects its city council using district-based elections to adopt new city council district boundaries following each federal decennial census. Existing law requires the city council to adopt the new boundaries using specified criteria, and by a specified deadline, unless the charter city has adopted different redistricting criteria or a different deadline by ordinance or in its city charter.This bill would require a charter city with a population of at least 2,500,000 people to establish an independent redistricting commission to adjust the district boundaries for the city council if the city’s charter does not establish an independent redistricting commission that meets specified criteria. The bill would require the commission to adjust the boundaries of the city council districts in accordance with specified criteria and deadlines. By increasing the duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for charter cities with a population of at least 2,500,000 people.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.
CA SB 521 - Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
CalWORKs: pregnancy or parenting.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 521, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas. CalWORKs: pregnancy or parenting. Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which, through a combination of federal, state, and county funds, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Under the CalWORKs program, as a condition of eligibility for aid, recipients are required to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities, except for specified individuals, including, among others, individuals under 16 years of age and recipients who are pregnant.Existing law requires that a recipient be excused from participation for good cause if the county has determined that there is a condition or other circumstance that temporarily prevents or significantly impairs the recipient’s ability to be regularly employed or to participate in welfare-to-work activities. Existing law requires the county human services agency to review the good cause determination for its continuing appropriateness in accordance with the projected length of the condition, or circumstance, but not less than every 3 months. Under existing law, conditions that may be considered good cause include, but are not limited to, lack of necessary supportive services, licensed or license-exempt childcare for a child 10 years of age or younger is not reasonably available during the individual’s hours of training or employment, arrangements for childcare have broken down or have been interrupted, or childcare is needed for a child who meets specified criteria.Existing federal law, known as Title IX, prohibits a person, on the basis of sex, from being excluded from participation in, being denied the benefits of, or being subject to discrimination under, any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.This bill would add denial of reasonable accommodations for pregnant or parenting students, in violation of Title IX, to the list of conditions that may be considered good cause for excuse from participation in welfare-to-work activities.Existing law prohibits the application of sanctions for a failure or refusal to comply with CalWORKs program requirements for reasons related to employment, an offer of employment, an activity, or other training for employment. Under existing law, those reasons include, among others, that the employment-related circumstance involves conditions that are in violation of applicable health and safety standards or it discriminates on any of specified protected characteristics.This bill would add to those reasons the circumstance of the recipient requiring pregnancy- or parenting-related accommodations covered under Title IX, or other specified laws, and not having received adequate accommodations.The bill would make a change to a related provision under existing law concerning a stakeholder workgroup.Under existing law, a parent or caretaker relative is not eligible for CalWORKs aid when the parent or caretaker has received aid for a cumulative total of 48 months. Existing law increases that time limit to 60 months on May 1, 2022, or upon a specified notification to the Legislature from the State Department of Social Services. Existing law provides that all months of aid received under the CalWORKs program apply toward those time limits, except when certain conditions apply, or as otherwise specified by law.Existing law establishes the Cal-Learn Program, which requires certain CalWORKs recipients who are under 19 years of age and are pregnant or custodial parents to participate in the program until the participant earns a high school diploma or its equivalent. Existing law requires counties to arrange for the provision of education and supportive services that teenage parents need to successfully participate in the Cal-Learn Program. Existing law requires a county to exempt a teenage parent from the Cal-Learn Program if specified conditions occur, including, but not limited to
CA SB 522 - Roger Niello
Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act.
06/23/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
SB 522, Niello. Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act. Existing law, the Uniform Principal and Income Act, generally sets forth the powers and duties of a fiduciary of a trust. These powers and duties are related to, among other matters, the allocation of receipts and disbursements between principal and income, making adjustments between principal and income, and converting a trust to a unitrust.This bill would repeal the Uniform Principal and Income Act, and would recast, revise, and expand those provisions as the Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act, for similar purposes. The bill would define relevant terminology in this regard. The bill would expressly provide that its provisions, with specified exceptions, apply when California is the principal place of administration of a trust or estate or the situs of property that is not held in a trust or estate and is subject to a life estate or other term interest, as specified. The bill would declare that by accepting the trusteeship of a trust having its principal place of administration in, or by moving the principal place of administration of a trust to, California, a trustee submits to the application of the bill to any matter within the scope of the bill involving the trust.
CA SB 525 - Maria Elena Durazo
Minimum wages: health care workers.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 890, Statutes of 2023.
SB 525, Durazo. Minimum wages: health care workers. Existing law generally requires the minimum wage for all industries to not be less than specified amounts to be increased until it is $15 per hour commencing January 1, 2022, for employers employing 26 or more employees, and commencing January 1, 2023, for employers employing 25 or fewer employees. Existing law makes a violation of minimum wage requirements a misdemeanor. This bill would establish 5 separate minimum wage schedules for covered health care employees, as defined, depending on the nature of the employer.This bill would require, for any covered health care facility employer, as defined, with 10,000 or more full-time equivalent employees (FTEE), as defined, any covered health care facility employer that is a part of an integrated health care delivery system or a health care system with 10,000 or more FTEEs, a covered health care facility employer that is a dialysis clinic or is a person that owns, controls, or operates a dialysis clinic, or a covered health facility owned, affiliated, or operated by a county with a population of more than 5,000,000 as of January 1, 2023, the minimum wage for covered health care employees to be $23 per hour from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2025, inclusive, $24 per hour from June 1, 2025, to May 31, 2026, inclusive, and $25 per hour from June 1, 2026, and until as adjusted as specified.This bill would require, for any hospital that is a hospital with a high governmental payor mix, an independent hospital with an elevated governmental payor mix, a rural independent covered health care facility, or a covered health care facility that is owned, affiliated, or operated by a county with a population of less than 250,000 as of January 1, 2023, as those terms are defined, the minimum wage for covered health care employees to be $18 per hour from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2033, inclusive, and $25 per hour from June 1, 2033, and until as adjusted as specified.This bill would require, for specified clinics that meet certain requirements, the minimum wage for covered health care employees to be $21 per hour from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2026, inclusive, and $22 per hour from June 1, 2026, to May 31, 2027, inclusive, and $25 from June 1, 2027, and until as adjusted as specified.This bill would require, for all other covered health care facility employers, the minimum wage for covered health care employees to be $21 per hour from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2026, inclusive, $23 per hour from June 1, 2026, to May 31, 2028, inclusive, and $25 per hour from June 1, 2028, and until as adjusted as specified. This bill would provide that a covered health care facility that is county owned, affiliated, or operated must implement the appropriate minimum wage schedule described above, as applicable, beginning January 1, 2025.This bill would also separately require, for a licensed skilled nursing facility, as described, the minimum wage for certain other covered health care employees, as described, to be $21 per hour from June 1, 2024, to May 31, 2026, inclusive, $23 per hour from June 1, 2026, to May 31, 2028, inclusive, and $25 per hour from June 1, 2028, and until as adjusted as specified. The bill would make this minimum wage requirement effective only when a patient care minimum spending requirement applicable to skilled nursing facilities is in effect.This bill would provide that the health care worker minimum wages constitute the state minimum wage for covered health care employment for all purposes under the Labor Code and the Wage Orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission. The bill would provide that a health care worker minimum wage is enforceable by the Labor Commissioner or by a covered worker through a civil action, through the same means and with the same relief available for violation of any other state minimum wage requirement. By establishing new minimum wages, the violation of which would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated loca
CA SB 531 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Pupil safety: local educational agency contractors: background checks.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 531, Ochoa Bogh. Pupil safety: local educational agency contractors: background checks. Existing law requires any entity that has a contract with a local educational agency, as defined, to ensure that any employee who interacts with pupils, outside of the immediate supervision and control of the pupil’s parent or guardian or a school employee, has a valid criminal records summary, as provided.This bill would exempt an employee of any entity that has a contract with a local educational agency, and that offers work experience opportunities for pupils or workplace placements as part of a pupil’s individualized education program, from the requirement to have a valid criminal records summary if certain requirements are met, including that at least one adult employee in the workplace during the pupil’s work hours, who has direct contact with the pupil and has been designated by the employer as the employee of record who is responsible for the safety of the pupil, has a valid criminal records summary and that the pupil’s parent or guardian has signed a consent form regarding the pupil’s work placement. If a pupil participates in services provided by a contractor as part of an independent study program and the pupil is under the immediate supervision and control of a parent or guardian during the provision of those services, the bill would require a local educational agency to either verify completion of a valid criminal records summary for all employees of the contractor who interact with the pupil or ensure that the parent or guardian of the pupil has signed a consent form before the pupil’s interaction with an employee of the contractor. To the extent the bill imposes additional requirements on local educational agencies, 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, 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.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 537 - Josh Becker
Open meetings: multijurisdictional, cross-county agencies: teleconferences.
09/05/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 537, as amended, Becker. Open meetings: multijurisdictional, cross-county agencies: teleconferences. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Existing law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. The act provides an exemption to the jurisdictional requirement for health authorities, as defined.Existing law, until January 1, 2024, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternate teleconferencing provisions during a proclaimed state of emergency or in other situations related to public health that exempt a legislative body from the general requirements (emergency provisions) and impose different requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The emergency provisions specify that they do not require a legislative body to provide a physical location from which the public may attend or comment.Existing law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing in certain circumstances related to the particular member if at least a quorum of its members participate from a singular physical location that is open to the public and situated within the agency’s jurisdiction and other requirements are met, including restrictions on remote participation by a member of the legislative body. These circumstances include if a member shows “just cause,” including for a childcare or caregiving need of a relative that requires the member to participate remotely. This bill would expand the circumstances of “just cause” to apply to the situation in which an immunocompromised child, parent, grandparent, or other specified relative requires the member to participate remotely. The bill would authorize the legislative body of a multijurisdictional, cross-county agency, as specified, to use alternate teleconferencing provisions if the eligible legislative body has adopted an authorizing resolution, as specified. The bill would also require the legislative body to provide a record of attendance of the members of the legislative body, the number of community members in attendance in the teleconference meeting, and the number of public comments on its internet website within 10 days after a teleconference meeting, as specified. The bill would require at least a quorum of members of the legislative body to participate from one or more physical locations that are open to the public and within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction. The bill would require a member who receives compensation for their service, as specified, on the legislative body to participate from a physical location that is open to the public. The bill would require the legislative body to identify in the agenda each member who plans to participate remotely and to include the address of the publicly accessible building from which each member will participate via teleconference. The bill would prohibit a member from participating remotely pursuant to these provisions unless the remote location is the member’s office or another location in a publicly accessible building and is more than 40 miles from the in-person location of the meeting. The bill would repeal these alternative teleconferencing provisions on January 1, 2026.This bill would incorporate additiona
CA SB 541 - Caroline Menjivar
Sexual health: contraceptives.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 541, Menjivar. Sexual health: contraceptives. (1) Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts, defined to include county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, the California School for the Blind, and charter schools, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified.This bill would, in order to prevent and reduce unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, on or before the start of the 2024–25 school year, require each public school, including schools operated by a school district or county office of education, charter schools, and state special schools, to make internal and external condoms available to all pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, free of charge, as provided. The bill would require these public schools to, at the beginning of each school year, inform pupils through existing school communication channels that free condoms are available and where the condoms can be obtained on school grounds. The bill would require a public school to post at least one notice regarding these requirements, as specified. The bill would require this notice to include certain information, including, among other information, information about how to use condoms properly. The bill would require each public school serving any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to allow condoms to be made available during the course of, or in connection with, educational or public health programs and initiatives, as provided. The bill would authorize a state agency, the State Department of Education, or a public school to accept gifts, grants, and donations from any source for the support of a public school carrying out these provisions, including, but not limited to, the acceptance of condoms from a manufacturer or wholesaler. The bill would, in order to comply with these provisions, encourage public schools to explore partnerships, including, but not limited to, partnerships with local health jurisdictions, as defined, community health centers, nonprofit organizations, and the State Department of Public Health. By imposing additional duties on public schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would additionally prohibit a public school, as defined, maintaining any combination of classrooms from grades 7 to 12, inclusive, a school district, the State Department of Education, or a county office of education from prohibiting certain school-based health centers, as defined, from making internal and external condoms available and easily accessible to pupils at the school-based health center site.(2) Under existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, the State Department of Public Health generally regulates the packaging, labeling, advertising, and sale of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics, in accordance with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. A violation of those provisions is generally a crime. Existing law sets forth various other provisions relating to the furnishing and health care coverage of certain types of contraception.This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit a retail establishment, as defined, from refusing to furnish nonprescription contraception to a person solely on the basis of age by means of any conduct, including, but not limited to, requiring the customer to present identification for purposes of demonstrating their age. Under the bill, a violation of that prohibition would be exempt from the above-described criminal penalty.(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, reim
CA SB 545 - Susan Rubio
Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 545, as amended, Rubio. Juveniles: transfer to court of criminal jurisdiction. Existing law, as amended by the Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016, enacted by Proposition 57 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes the district attorney to make a motion to transfer a minor from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction in a case in which a minor is alleged to have committed a felony when the minor was 16 years of age or older, or in a case in which a specified serious offense is alleged to have been committed by a minor when the minor was 14 or 15 years of age, but the minor was not apprehended prior to the end of juvenile court jurisdiction. The act may be amended by a majority vote of the members of each house of the Legislature if the amendments are consistent with and further the intent of the act. Existing law requires the court to find by clear and convincing evidence that the minor is not amenable to rehabilitation when under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, after consideration of specified criteria, in order to find that the minor should be transferred to a court of criminal jurisdiction, and requires the order reciting the court’s basis for its decision to transfer jurisdiction to include the reasons supporting the court’s finding that the minor is not amenable to rehabilitation while under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Existing law allows the court, in evaluating these criteria, to give weight to any relevant factor.This bill would make consideration of any relevant factor mandatory and would specify additional factors that the juvenile court is required to consider when evaluating the minor’s criminal sophistication when determining whether to transfer a matter to a court of criminal jurisdiction. The bill would require the court to consider evidence offered that indicates that the person against whom the minor is accused of committing an offense trafficked, sexually abused, or sexually battered the minor when considering the circumstances and gravity of the offense alleged in the petition to have been committed by the minor. The bill would require the juvenile court to retain the minor in its custody if the court receives evidence that the person against whom the child is accused of committing the offense trafficked, sexually abused, or sexually battered the minor before the commission of the offense, unless the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that the person had not trafficked, sexually abused, or sexually battered the minor.Existing law authorizes a person whose case was transferred from juvenile court to a court of criminal jurisdiction to file a motion to return the case to juvenile court for disposition under specified circumstances, including, among others, when the person is convicted at trial only of an offense that was not the basis for transfer from juvenile court to the criminal court, as specified.The bill would require a court of criminal jurisdiction to return a case to juvenile court for disposition pursuant to these provisions if the court receives evidence that the person against whom the minor is accused of committing an offense trafficked, sexually abused, or sexually battered the minor prior to, or during commission of the alleged offense, unless the court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that the person had not trafficked, sexually abused, or sexually battered the minor. By increasing the number of minors that may be retained under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, thereby increasing the number of minors who are entitled to county-funded rehabilitative services, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified rea
CA SB 551 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Mental health boards.
09/08/2023 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Blanca Rubio.
SB 551, as amended, Portantino. Mental health boards. Existing law, the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, contains provisions governing the operation and financing of community mental health services in every county through locally administered and locally controlled community mental health programs. Existing law requires each community mental health service to have a mental health board, as specified. Existing law encourages counties to appoint members of the community who represent specific groups, including county offices of education and hospitals. Existing law requires a member of the board to abstain from voting on any issue in which the member has a financial interest.This bill would require one member of a mental health board’s membership to be employed by a local educational agency, and at least one member to be an individual who is 25 years of age or younger in counties with a mental health board membership of 5 to 8 members. The bill would require 2 members of the board to be employed by a local educational agency and at least 2 members to be 25 years of age or younger in counties with a mental health board membership of 9 to 15 members. The bill would require at least 2 members of the board to be employed by a local educational agency and at least two members to be 25 years of age or younger in counties with a mental health board membership of 16 or more members. The bill would require counties to give a strong preference to appointing members of the board who have experience providing mental health services to students. The bill would state that the intent of the Legislature is for youth appointments to a mental health board to address or prevent health and mental health disparities or inequities through representation of vulnerable, underserved, and marginalized communities. The bill would also authorize a person to represent more than one membership type on a mental health board. The bill would delete county offices of education from the list of representatives from which counties are encouraged to appoint board members. The bill would prohibit more than 49% of the members of a county’s mental health board from owning or operating an organization or business that financially benefits from a proposed or adopted Mental Health Services Act plan. By placing a new requirement on counties, 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.
CA SB 553 - David D. Cortese
Occupational safety: workplace violence: restraining orders and workplace violence prevention plan.
09/07/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 553, as amended, Cortese. Occupational safety: workplace violence: restraining orders and workplace violence prevention plan. Existing law authorizes any employer, whose employee has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual that can reasonably be construed to be carried out or to have been carried out at the workplace, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order after hearing on behalf of the employee and other employees at the workplace, as described.This bill, commencing January 1, 2025, would also authorize a collective bargaining representative of an employee, as described, to seek a temporary restraining order and an order after hearing on behalf of the employee and other employees at the workplace, as described. The bill would require an employer or collective bargaining representative of an employee, before filing such a petition, to provide the employee who has suffered unlawful violence or a credible threat of violence from any individual an opportunity to decline to be named in the temporary restraining order. Under the bill, an employee’s request to not be named in the temporary restraining order would not prohibit an employer or collective bargaining representative from seeking a temporary restraining order on behalf of other employees at the workplace, and, if appropriate, other employees at other workplaces of the employer. The bill would make various conforming changes.Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, imposes safety responsibilities on employers and employees, including the requirement that an employer establish, implement, and maintain an effective injury prevention program, and makes specified violations of these provisions a crime. The act is enforced by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (division) within the Department of Industrial Relations, including the enforcement of standards adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards board (standards board).This bill would require an employer, as specified, to also establish, implement, and maintain, at all times in all work areas, an effective workplace violence prevention plan containing specified information. The bill would require the employer to record information in a violent incident log for every workplace violence incident, as specified. The bill would require the employer to provide effective training to employees on the workplace violence prevention plan, among other things, and provide additional training when a new or previously unrecognized workplace violence hazard has been identified and when changes are made to the plan. The bill would require records of workplace violence hazard identification, evaluation, and correction and training records to be created and maintained, and violent incident logs and workplace incident investigation records to be maintained, as specified. The bill would require certain records to be made available to the division, employees, and employee representatives, as specified. The bill would make these requirements operative on and after July 1, 2024.Existing law requires the division to issue, with reasonable promptness, a citation to an employer if, upon inspection or investigation, the division believes the employer has violated any standard, rule, order, or regulation established pursuant to specified provisions of law. Existing law specifies procedures for issuance of the citation and provides there is a rebuttable presumption that a violation is enterprise-wide if an employer has multiple worksites and the division has evidence of a pattern or practice of the same violation or violations committed by the employer involving more than one of their worksites. Existing law also authorizes the division to impose a civil penalty pursuant to specified law, including when any employer violates any occupational safety or health standard, order, or special order, if the violation is a serious violation.This bill woul
CA SB 556 - Lena A. Gonzalez
Oil and gas wells: health protection zones: civil liability.
05/15/2023 - May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
SB 556, as amended, Gonzalez. Oil and gas wells: health protection zones: civil liability. Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation, under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state and the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities related to oil and gas production within an oil and gas field, so as to prevent damage to life, health, property, and natural resources. Existing law requires the operator of any well, before commencing the work of drilling the well, to file with the supervisor or the district deputy a written notice of intention to commence drilling and prohibits drilling from commencing until approval is given, as provided. Existing law prohibits the division from approving any notice of intention within a health protection zone, except for approvals of notices of intention necessary for specified purposes. Existing law defines a “health protection zone” to mean the area within 3,200 feet of a sensitive receptor, which is defined to include a residence, education resource, as described, health care facility, or live-in housing, among other places, as provided.This bill would, after January 1, 2024, make an operator or owner of an oil or gas production facility or well with a wellhead presumptively, jointly and severally liable for a respiratory ailment in a senior or child, a preterm birth or high-risk pregnancy suffered by a pregnant person, and a person’s cancer diagnosis if specified requirements are met, including the senior, child, pregnant person, or person diagnosed with cancer domiciled more than 24 cumulative months in a health protection zone, as defined, and was diagnosed after January 1, 2024. The bill would authorize certain affirmative defenses to be available to the operator or owner of an oil or gas production facility or well with a wellhead.This bill would authorize the Attorney General, a district attorney, a county counsel, or a city attorney to bring a civil action seeking reimbursement and reasonable interest for health care-related expenditures incurred by state or local taxpayer funded health care programs for treatment of respiratory illness suffered by seniors and children, preterm birth and high-risk pregnancies suffered by pregnant persons, and residents diagnosed with cancer. If a settlement or motion to dismiss an action brought pursuant to these provisions is brought by a person or entity that is not a public prosecutor, as described, the bill would prohibit the settlement or motion to dismiss from being effective or heard, until 30 days after a copy of the settlement or notice of motion has been served on the Attorney General and the city attorney, county counsel, and district attorney with jurisdiction over the health protection zone involved in the action. The bill would also require a civil penalty of not less than $250,000 and not more than $1,000,000 per senior, child, pregnant person, or person diagnosed with cancer to be imposed on an operator or owner of an oil or gas production facility or well with a wellhead in an action brought pursuant to these provisions.This bill would state that any waiver of these provisions is contrary to public policy and is void and unenforceable. The bill would also state that its provisions are severable.
CA SB 567 - Maria Elena Durazo
Termination of tenancy: no-fault just causes: gross rental rate increases.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 567, Durazo. Termination of tenancy: no-fault just causes: gross rental rate increases. Existing law, after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied a residential real property for 12 months, prohibits the owner of the residential real property from terminating the tenancy without just cause and requires that just cause to be stated in the written notice to terminate tenancy. Existing law distinguishes between at-fault just cause and no-fault just cause and defines no-fault just cause to mean intent to occupy the residential real property by the owner or the owner’s spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents, withdrawal of the residential real property from the rental market, the owner complying with specified government orders that necessitate vacating the real property, and intent to demolish or to substantially remodel the residential real property.This bill would, with respect to the no-fault just cause related to an eviction based on an intent to occupy the residential real property, require, among other things, that the owner, as defined, or the owner’s spouse, domestic partner, children, grandchildren, parents, or grandparents occupy the residential real property for a minimum of 12 continuous months as the person’s primary residence, as provided. The bill would also, with respect to the no-fault just cause related to withdrawal of the residential real property from the rental market, require the rental units at the rental property be withdrawn from the rental market, as prescribed. The bill would require an owner who displaces a tenant to substantially remodel or demolish a unit to provide the tenant with written notice providing the tenant with specified information, including a description of the substantial remodel to be completed and the expected duration of the repairs, or the expected date by which the property will be demolished, and a copy of permits required to undertake the substantial remodel or demolition, as specified.This bill would also prescribe new enforcement mechanisms with respect to the provisions described above, including by making an owner who attempts to recover possession of a rental unit in material violation of those provisions liable to the tenant in a civil action for damages of up to 3 times the actual damages, in addition to punitive damages. The bill would authorize the Attorney General and the city attorney or county counsel, within whose jurisdiction the rental unit is located, to bring actions for injunctive relief against the owner, as specified.Existing law, until January 1, 2030, prohibits an owner of residential real property from, over the course of any 12-month period, increasing the gross rental rate for a dwelling or a unit more than 5% plus the percentage change in the cost of living, or 10%, whichever is lower, of the lowest gross rental rate charged for that dwelling or unit at any time during the 12 months before the effective date of the increase, subject to specified conditions.This bill would make an owner who demands, accepts, receives, or retains any payment of rent in excess of the maximum rent increase allowed, as prescribed, liable in a civil action to the tenant from whom those payments are demanded, accepted, received, or retained for certain relief, including, upon a showing that the owner has acted willfully or with oppression, fraud, or malice, damages up to 3 times the amount by which any payment demanded, accepted, received, or retained exceeds the maximum allowable rent. This bill would authorize the Attorney General and the city attorney or county counsel, within whose jurisdiction the residential property is located, to enforce the bill’s provisions and bring an action for injunctive relief, as specified.This bill would also make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions. The bill would provide that its provisions become effective on April 1, 2024.
CA SB 569 - Steven M. Glazer
Political Reform Act of 1974: audits.
08/28/2023 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 569, as amended, Glazer. Political Reform Act of 1974: audits. The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires the Franchise Tax Board to conduct audits and field investigations regarding the reports filed by lobbyists. Existing law requires 25% of lobbyist employers and lobbying firms to be subject to a random audit and investigation every 2 years.This bill would transfer the responsibility for conducting audits and field investigations of lobbying reports to the Fair Political Practices Commission. The bill would also exclude lobbying firms and lobbyist employers with less than one dollar in payments or contributions from being selected for audit. Additionally, this bill would require the Fair Political Practices Commission to adopt regulations or policies that would ensure the operational independence of the commission’s audit personnel from the Fair Political Practices Commission’s enforcement operations. Audits conducted by the commission would be required to be posted on the commission’s internet website for 10 years following the conclusion of the audit and the commission would be required to annually report to the Legislature on the number and types of audits completed by the commission.Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act’s purposes upon a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements.This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
CA SB 570 - Akilah Faizah Weber
Prenatal screening program.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 570, as amended, Becker. Prenatal screening program. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to administer a statewide program for prenatal testing for genetic disorders and birth defects, including, but not limited to, ultrasound, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, and blood testing. Existing law requires the department to expand prenatal screening to include all tests that meet or exceed the current standard of care as recommended by nationally recognized medical or genetic organizations and to establish any rules, regulations, and standards for prenatal diagnostic testing and the allocation of subsidies, as specified. Existing law requires a clinical laboratory performing laboratory tests or examinations classified as moderate or high complexity under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) to obtain a clinical laboratory license from the department. Existing law generally exempts specified clinical laboratories from rules and regulations of the department, including clinical laboratories owned and operated by the United States and certified under CLIA. Under existing regulations, a certificate of accreditation issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services is considered a state license or registration issued by the department, as specified. Existing law requires a city or county public health laboratory, as specified, to be approved by the department and to comply with the requirements of CLIA.This bill would prohibit the department, by way of rule, regulation, contract, or any other manner, from preventing a laboratory with both a CLIA certificate of accreditation and a current state clinical or public health laboratory license from offering all noninvasive prenatal tests to pregnant persons who have an order from a prenatal care provider, as defined. The bill would also prohibit the department from limiting the number of noninvasive prenatal tests that the laboratory may provide.
CA SB 575 - Aisha Wahab
Marriage: underage marriage.
01/22/2024 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
SB 575, as amended, Wahab. Marriage: underage marriage. Existing law requires the State Registrar to create a document, no later than March 1, 2020, with annual updates, containing information received by local registrar concerning marriage certificates in which one or both of the parties were minors at the time of solemnization of the marriage. Existing law requires the local registrar, at least annually, to submit information, as specified, to the State Registrar for those purposes. Under existing law, a local registrar is not required to submit this information to the State Registrar if the local registrar did not receive a copy of the court order, as specified.This bill would remove that exception and require a local registrar to submit information to the State Registrar, as specified. By increasing the reporting requirements for local registrars, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The bill would require the State Registrar to create a report containing the number of marriage certificates that were submitted by a local registrar, as specified. This bill would require the State Registrar, on or before December 31, 2025, to publish the report on its internet website and submit the report to the Legislature. The bill would repeal this provision on January 1, 2026. This bill would also require the State Registrar, subject to an appropriation, to establish a grant program to study extralegal marriages, as defined. The bill would require a report completed through the grant program to address the prevalence of, conditions of, and circumstances surrounding extralegal marriages in the state, as specified.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.
CA SB 578 - David D. Cortese
Juvenile court: dependents: removal.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 578, Ashby. Juvenile court: dependents: removal. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances, including when the child suffered or there is a substantial risk that the child will suffer serious physical harm, or a parent fails to provide the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment. Existing law establishes the grounds for removal of a dependent child from the custody of the child’s parents or guardian. Existing law requires the court, at the initial petition hearing, to examine the child’s parents, guardians, Indian custodian, or other persons having relevant knowledge and hear the relevant evidence, and order the release of the child from custody unless a prima facie showing has been made that the child comes within the court’s jurisdiction, the court finds that continuance in the parent’s or guardian’s home is contrary to the child’s welfare, and any of a number of circumstances exist. Existing law requires the social worker to report to the court on the reasons why the child has been removed from the parent’s, guardian’s, or Indian custodian’s physical custody, the need, if any, for continued detention, and the available services and the referral methods to those services that could facilitate the return of the child to the custody of the child’s parents, among other things.This bill would require the social worker’s report to also include information regarding the short-term and long-term harms to the child that may result from their removal, including the child’s perspective on removal, the existing relationship between the child and members of the household, and the disruption to the child’s schooling, social relationships, and physical or emotional health that may result from placement out of the home, and in the case of an Indian child, the child’s connection to their tribe, extended family members, and tribal community. The bill would also require the social worker’s report to include placement options, including an assessment of the least disruptive alternatives to returning the child to the custody of their parent, guardian, or Indian custodian, and other measures that may be taken to alleviate disruption and minimize the harms of removal. The bill would require the court to determine whether less disruptive alternatives to removal were considered, as specified. The bill would, if the court finds that removal is necessary, require the court to set forth, in a written order or on the record, the child’s placement and the basis for its findings, whether the placement complies with specified placement preferences, and would require the court to include any orders necessary to alleviate any disruption or harm to the child resulting from removal. By imposing additional duties on counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 319 of the Welfare and Institutions Code proposed by AB 81 and AB 448 to be operative only if this bill and AB 81, this bill and AB 448, or all 3 bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA SB 589 - Marie Alvarado-Gil
Foster youth: disaster aid assistance.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 589, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Foster youth: disaster aid assistance. Existing law generally provides for the placement of foster youth in various placement settings and governs the provision of child welfare services, which is defined to mean public social services that are directed toward the accomplishment of specified purposes, including protecting and promoting the welfare of all children, preventing the unnecessary separation of children from their families, and restoring to their families children who have been removed.Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to ensure that, among other things, emergency response services are coordinated with the implementation of specified program models. Existing law also requires each county to provide the department with a disaster response plan describing how county programs that receive federal assistance for child and family services would respond to a disaster. Existing law also requires the department to review its disaster plan, revise the plan to clarify the role and responsibilities of the state in the event of a disaster, and consult with counties to identify opportunities for collaboration in the event of a disaster.This bill would establish the Child Welfare Disaster Response Program, to be administered by the department. The bill would establish the Child Welfare Disaster Response Account to fund the program. The bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, $2,000,000 to be allocated from the General Fund to the Child Welfare Disaster Response Account for purposes of the program and to support the needs of foster children and youth and their caregivers during a disaster. The bill would require the department to determine eligibility criteria for applicants and would authorize county child welfare departments to apply for funds. The bill would require funds awarded pursuant those provisions to be available to meet the housing, clothing, transportation, and other tangible needs of foster children and youth and their caregivers that occur within 180 days of a local emergency proclamation by a local government or a state of emergency proclamation by the Governor.
CA SB 59 - Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry
Menstrual Product Accessibility Act.
01/12/2024 - Set for hearing January 18.
SB 59, as amended, Skinner. Menstrual Product Accessibility Act. Existing law requires certain public schools, as specified, to stock the school’s restrooms with an adequate supply of free menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible, free of cost, in all women’s restrooms and all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom, at all times. Existing law also requires the California State University and each community college district to stock an adequate supply of menstrual products, available and accessible, free of cost, at no fewer than one designated and accessible central location on each campus. This bill would enact the Menstrual Product Accessibility Act, which would require all women’s restrooms, all all-gender restrooms, and at least one men’s restroom in a building owned by the state or in the portion of a building where the state rents or leases office space, a building owned by a local government where a specified state-funded safety net program is administered, or in a hospital that receives state funds, as specified, to be stocked with menstrual products, as defined, available and accessible to employees and the public, free of cost, at all times. By imposing additional requirements on local agencies, this bill would create 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.
CA SB 595 - Richard Dale Roth
Covered California: data sharing.
09/07/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 595, Roth. Covered California: data sharing. Existing federal law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), requires each state to establish an American Health Benefit Exchange to facilitate the purchase of qualified health benefit plans by qualified individuals and qualified small employers. Existing state law creates the California Health Benefit Exchange (Exchange), also known as Covered California, to facilitate the enrollment of qualified individuals and qualified small employers in qualified health plans as required under PPACA. Existing law requires the Exchange, beginning no later than September 1, 2023, and at least monthly thereafter, to request from the Employment Development Department (EDD) specified information of each new applicant for unemployment compensation, state disability, and paid family leave. Existing law requires the EDD to provide that information in a manner prescribed by the Exchange. Existing law requires the Exchange to market and publicize the availability of health care coverage through the Exchange, and engage in outreach activities, to the individuals whose contact information is received by the Exchange from the EDD, as specified. Existing law prohibits the Exchange from disclosing the personal information obtained from the EDD without the consent of the applicant.This bill would prohibit the disclosure of information by the Exchange to a certified insurance agent, a certified employment counselor, or any other entity without the consent of the applicant, except as provided. The bill would authorize the Exchange to disclose information obtained from the EDD to outreach and marketing vendors under contract to the Exchange. The bill would require outreach and marketing conducted pursuant to these provisions to include, in a conspicuous and easy to access manner, the ability for individuals to decline all future outreach and marketing. The bill would require the Exchange to only request from the EDD, use, or disclose the minimum amount of information necessary to accomplish the purposes for which it was obtained. The bill would require a person or entity that receives information from the Exchange pursuant to these provisions to take all necessary measures to safeguard the confidentiality of any information obtained from the Exchange and would prohibit a person or entity from using or disclosing that information for any purpose other than to market and publicize the availability of health care coverage through the Exchange to individuals, as directed by the Exchange. The bill would require a person or entity to only request from the Exchange, use, or disclose the minimum amount of information necessary to accomplish the purposes for which it was received. The bill would require information received by the Exchange from the EDD to be destroyed in a manner that maintains confidentiality. The bill would require the Exchange to ensure that information disclosed to outreach and marketing vendors or any other entity pursuant to these provisions (1) complies with applicable privacy and information security-related requirements arising under both federal and state law and (2) be destroyed in a manner that maintains confidentiality. The bill also would make conforming changes to a related provision.
CA SB 596 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
School employees: protection.
01/25/2024 - Veto sustained.
SB 596, Portantino. School employees: protection. Existing law provides that any parent, guardian, or other person whose conduct in a place where a school employee is required to be in the course of the employee’s duties materially disrupts classwork or extracurricular activities or involves substantial disorder is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $500, nor more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both imprisonment and the fine. Existing law provides for certain minimum periods of imprisonment in a county jail for 2nd and subsequent convictions for the above-described offenses, and prohibits release on any basis until those minimum periods are served, as specified.This bill would apply these misdemeanors to any adult instead of a parent, guardian, or other person and would eliminate the prohibition on release prior to the minimum period of incarceration applicable to a 2nd conviction, as provided. This bill would specify, for purposes of the above-described offense, that “substantial disorder” includes substantial disorder at any meeting of the governing board of a school district, the governing body of a charter school, a county board of education, or the State Board of Education. To the extent the bill expands the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would provide that any adult who subjects a school employee, as defined, to harassment or makes a credible threat against the employee or the employee’s family, while the employee is away from a schoolsite or after school hours, for reasons related to the employee’s course of duties is guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill would define harassment and credible threat for these purposes. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would provide that the misdemeanors discussed above do not apply to the conduct of a pupil who is an individual with exceptional needs if it is determined that the pupil’s conduct was caused by, or had a direct and substantial relationship to, the pupil’s disability.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.
CA SB 599 - Susan Rubio
Visitation rights.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 599, Caballero. Visitation rights. Existing law governs the determination of child custody and visitation in contested proceedings. Existing law requires the court, for purposes of deciding custody or visitation, to determine the best interests of the child based on certain factors, including the health, safety, and welfare of the child, and the nature and amount of contact with both parents, except as specified. Existing law also requires the court to determine, under designated circumstances, whether to require that visitation to be supervised, suspended, limited, or denied. Under existing law, if the court finds that a party is staying in a domestic violence shelter or other confidential location, the court is required to design a visitation order to prevent disclosure of the location of the shelter or other confidential location.This bill, among other things, would require the court, in determining whether to require the above-described limitations on visitation, to consider virtual visitation, as defined. The bill would require a court, if it finds that a party is staying at one of the above-described locations due to domestic violence or fear of domestic violence from the other parent, to order in-person visitation only if the court finds that in-person visitation is in the best interest of the child and taking into consideration, among other things, the potential for disclosure of the confidential location.Existing law requires the Judicial Council to develop standards for supervised visitation providers in accordance with specified guidelines. When developing standards, existing law requires the Judicial Council to consider, among other things, the provider’s qualifications, experience, and education. Under existing law, the term “provider” includes any individual who functions as a visitation monitor, as well as supervised visitation centers.This bill would authorize superior court locations to serve as supervised visitation and exchange locations, and would also authorize the court to designate employees and contractors to provide supervised visitation and exchange services or assistance with those services.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 3011 of the Family Code proposed by AB 957 to be operative only if this bill and AB 957 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA SB 60 - Thomas J. Umberg
Social media platforms: controlled substances: order to remove.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 60, Umberg. Social media platforms: controlled substances: order to remove. Existing law, until January 1, 2028, and subject to specified exceptions, requires a social media platform, as defined, that operates in the state to create and publicly post a policy statement that includes, among other things, the social media platform’s policy on the use of the social media platform to illegally distribute a controlled substance, as defined, and a link to the social media platform’s reporting mechanism for illegal or harmful content or behavior if one exists.Existing law requires a social media platform with 1,000,000 or more discrete monthly users to clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts, as defined, that is available to users and nonusers of the platform. Existing law authorizes a person who is the target of a violent post, or reasonably believes the person is the target of a violent post, to seek an order requiring the social media platform to remove the violent post and any related violent post the court determines shall be removed in the interests of justice, as prescribed.This bill would authorize a person to seek an order requiring a social media platform to remove content that includes an offer to transport, import into this state, sell, furnish, administer, or give away a controlled substance in violation of specified law, as prescribed.
CA SB 602 - Dennis Kelly Seyarto
Trespass.
09/07/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 602, as amended, Archuleta. Trespass. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to commit the crime of trespass, which includes refusing or failing to leave land, real property, or structures belonging to, or lawfully occupied by, another and not open to the general public upon being requested to leave by a peace officer at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession and upon being informed by the peace officer that they are acting at the request of the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession. Existing law requires the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession to make a separate request to the peace officer on each occasion when the peace officer’s assistance in dealing with a trespass is requested, except that a single request for peace officer assistance may be made for a period not to exceed 12 months when the premises or property is closed to the public and posted as being closed. Existing law requires the requester to inform the law enforcement agency to which the request was made when the assistance is no longer desired before the 12-month period expires. Existing law also authorizes a single request for a peace officer’s assistance to be made for a period of time not to exceed 30 days and identified by specific dates when there is a fire hazard or the owner, the owner’s agent, or the person in lawful possession is absent from the property. Under existing law, a request for assistance expires when ownership of the property changes or upon a change in the person in lawful possession.This bill would authorize a single request for assistance to be made and submitted electronically, in a notarized form provided by the law enforcement agency, to a peace officer. The bill would extend the maximum period of time for a request for peace officer’s assistance from 30 days to 12 months for requests pertaining to fire hazard or the owner’s absence. The bill would authorize local governments to accept electronic submissions of requests for peace officer assistance.
CA SB 603 - Susan Rubio
Children’s advocacy centers: recordings.
09/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 603, Rubio. Children’s advocacy centers: recordings. Existing law authorizes a county to use a children’s advocacy center to implement a coordinated multidisciplinary response, as specified, to investigate reports involving child physical or sexual abuse, exploitation, or maltreatment. Existing law requires a county that utilizes a child advocacy center for these purposes to meet specified standards, including, among other things, that the children’s advocacy center must verify that interviews conducted in the course of investigations are conducted in a forensically sound manner and occur in a child-focused setting designed to provide a safe, comfortable, and dedicated place for children and families.This bill would require the children’s advocacy center or other identified multidisciplinary team member custodian to ensure that all recordings of child forensic interviews be released only in response to a court order. The bill would require the court to issue a protective order as part of the release, unless the court finds good cause that disclosure of the interview should not be subject to such an order. Notwithstanding that provision, the bill would require the children’s advocacy center or other identified multidisciplinary team member custodian to release a recording, upon request, to specified parties, including, among others, law enforcement agencies authorized to investigate child abuse. The bill would authorize the child advocacy center to use the recording for training, among other things. The bill would also prohibit the recording from becoming a public record in any legal proceeding, and would require the court to order the recording be sealed and preserved at the conclusion of a criminal proceeding.Existing law requires a multidisciplinary team associated with the children’s advocacy center to consist of a representative of the children’s advocacy center and at least one representative from specified disciplines, including, among others, child protective services.This bill would include, in the case of an Indian child, a representative from the child’s tribe, including, but not limited to, a tribal social worker, tribal social services director, or tribal mental health professional, as part of the multidisciplinary team.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
CA SB 607 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Controlled substances.
01/22/2024 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
SB 607, as amended, Portantino. Controlled substances. Existing law requires a prescriber, with certain exceptions, before directly dispensing or issuing for a minor the first prescription for a controlled substance containing an opioid in a single course of treatment, to discuss specified information with the minor, the minor’s parent or guardian, or another adult authorized to consent to the minor’s medical treatment.This bill would extend that requirement for the prescriber by applying it to any patient, not only a minor, under those circumstances.
CA SB 608 - Josh Becker
Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 608, as introduced, Becker. Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” special license plates and imposes additional fees, as specified, for their issuance, renewal, replacement, and transfer. Existing law requires that those additional fees be deposited in the Child Health and Safety Fund, less specified amounts. Existing law requires that 50% of the funds derived from the “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plates be available, upon appropriation, to the State Department of Social Services for administering various provisions related to childcare licensing, as specified. Existing law requires that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the balance be available, as described, for programs that address other categories of potential childhood injury, as specified. Existing law requires counties to create local childcare and development planning councils to identify and address childcare needs, among others. Existing law also creates the California Children and Families Commission to promote, support, and improve early childhood development. Existing law provides for funding to county commissions that develop, adopt, promote, and implement local early childhood development programs consistent with specified goals and objectives.This bill would increase the fees for the initial issuance and renewal of the “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plates. The bill would continuously appropriate 50% of the fees collected on or after January 1, 2024, to local childcare and development planning councils, as described, for specified purposes, including recruitment and training of new childcare providers. The bill would require a portion of the funds to be allocated to the agency having oversight of new and continuing childcare provider health and safety education and training program curriculum for specified purposes. Of the fees collected on or after January 1, 2024, the bill would also continuously appropriate 5% to the State Department of Public Health in support of the department’s injury prevention branch addressing childhood injury prevention and 20% to county commissions, as specified, that elect to receive funding and would limit the spending of those funds for certain purposes, including administering the California Unintentional Injury Prevention Strategic Plan Project. The bill would require that no more than 10% of the funds allocated to the commissions be allocated to the nonprofit organization that provides administrative and staff support to the California Unintentional Injury Prevention Strategic Plan Project and would require the nonprofit organization to support statewide networking of unintentional injury coalitions and support evidence-based technical assistance and training for childhood unintentional injury prevention programs to the county commissions.
CA SB 611 - Caroline Menjivar
Residential rental properties: fees and advertisements.
06/15/2023 - June 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 611, as amended, Menjivar. Residential rental properties: fees and advertisements. (1) Existing law regulates the hiring of real property and imposes various requirements on landlords relating to the application for, and leasing of, residential rental property. Existing law establishes provisions for the renewal or termination of a hiring of residential real property for an unspecified term. Existing law specifies the notice required for the termination of a hiring of residential property for an unspecified term. Existing law makes a tenant of real property guilty of unlawful detainer if, among other things, the tenant continues in possession of the real property after giving notice of termination of a hiring of residential property for an unspecified term.This bill would prohibit a landlord or its agent from charging a tenant a fee for serving, posting, or otherwise delivering any notice, as specified in the above-described provisions.(2) Existing law requires a landlord or landlord’s agent to allow a tenant to pay rent and deposit of security by at least one form of payment that is neither cash nor electronic funds transfer, except as prescribed.This bill would prohibit a landlord or its agent from charging a tenant any fee for payment by check for rent or security deposit as described above.(3) Existing law prohibits a person or corporation that occupies, manages, or provides services in connection with real property, from certain advertisement practices related to animals and imposes a civil penalty on an individual who violates that standard, as specified.Regarding advertisements and the hiring of real property, commencing July 1, 2024, this bill would require landlords or their agents who advertise or provide a quote for residential property for rent and who include a specific or range of monthly rent rates to include specified information in the monthly rate. The bill would require the advertisement to include specified information if a payment, fee, deposit, or charge is required to be paid prior to, or at the beginning of, the tenancy. The bill would authorize the advertisement or quote to state the ongoing monthly rate after the tenant pays all one-time payments, fees, deposits, and charges.(4) Existing law prohibits a landlord from demanding or receiving security from a service member for a rental agreement for residential property, as specified, unless the tenant has a history of poor credit or of causing damage to the rental property or its furnishings.If a landlord or agent charges a higher than standard or advertised security deposit as described above, this bill would require the lease agreement to include a statement of, among other things, the amount of the higher fee and an explanation why the higher security deposit amount is being charged. The bill would require the additional amount of security deposit to be returned to the tenant after no more than 6 months of residency if the tenant is not in arrears for any rent due during that period and if the higher amount is not due to a prior history of residential property damage.
CA SB 612 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Speech-language pathologists.
09/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 612, Ochoa Bogh. Speech-language pathologists. Existing law, until January 1, 2027, establishes the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board within the Department of Consumer Affairs and requires the board to license and regulate speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and hearing aid dispensers, among others.Existing law prohibits a licensed speech-language pathologist from performing a flexible fiber optic transnasal endoscopic procedure unless they have received written verification from one otolaryngologist certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology that the licensed speech-language pathologist has performed a minimum of 25 supervised flexible fiber optic transnasal endoscopic procedures and that the licensed speech-language pathologist is competent to perform those procedures, as provided. By operation of law, these provisions became operative on January 1, 2023.This bill would specify that a licensed speech-language pathologist who holds a written verification pursuant to the above-described provisions that was issued before January 1, 2023, shall be deemed to meet specified requirements regarding flexible fiber optic transnasal endoscopic procedures, as provided.
CA SB 616 - Wendy Maria Carrillo
Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use.
09/08/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 616, as amended, Gonzalez. Sick days: paid sick days accrual and use. Existing law, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (act), establishes requirements relating to paid sick days and paid sick leave, as described. The act excludes specified employees from its provisions, including an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement, as described (CBA employees).This bill would exclude railroad carrier employers and their employees from the act’s provisions.Existing law, with certain exceptions, entitles an employee to paid sick days for certain purposes if the employee works in California for the same employer for 30 or more days within a year from the commencement of employment. Existing law imposes procedural requirements on employers regarding the use of paid sick days, including by prohibiting retaliation for using paid sick days, by prohibiting the imposition of certain conditions on the use of paid sick days, and by requiring the use of paid sick days for specified health care and situations. Existing law requires the leave to be accrued at a rate of no less than one hour for every 30 hours worked, and to be available for use beginning on the 90th day of employment. This bill would extend the above-described procedural requirements on the use of paid sick days to CBA employees.Existing law authorizes an employer to use a different accrual method as long as an employee has no less than 24 hours of accrued sick leave or paid time off by the 120th calendar day of employment or each calendar year, or in each 12-month period. Existing law also provides that an employer may satisfy the accrual requirements by providing not less than 24 hours or 3 days of paid sick leave that is available to the employee to use by the completion of the employee’s 120th calendar day of employment. This bill would modify the employer’s alternate sick leave accrual method to additionally require that an employee have no less than 40 hours of accrued sick leave or paid time off by the 200th calendar day of employment or each calendar year, or in each 12-month period. The bill would modify that satisfaction provision to authorize an employer to satisfy accrual requirements by providing, in addition to the existing criteria for satisfaction above, not less than 40 hours or 5 days of paid sick leave that is available to the employee to use by the completion of the employee’s 200th calendar day of employment. Existing law requires accrued paid sick days to carry over to the following year of employment. Existing law, however, authorizes an employer to limit an employee’s use of accrued paid sick days to 24 hours or 3 days in each year of employment, calendar year, or 12-month period. Under existing law, this provision is satisfied and no accrual or carryover is required if the full amount of leave is received at the beginning of each year of employment, calendar year, or 12-month period. Existing law defines “full amount of leave” for these purposes to mean 3 days or 24 hours.This bill would raise the employer’s authorized limitation on the use of carryover sick leave to 40 hours or 5 days in each year of employment. The bill would redefine “full amount of leave” to mean 5 days or 40 hours.Existing law also entitles individual providers of in-home supportive services and waiver personal care services, as defined, to paid sick days in specified amounts in accordance with minimum wage increases, up to a maximum of 24 hours or 3 days each year of employment when the minimum wage has reached $15 per hour. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Social Services to implement and interpret these provisions.This bill would increase the sick leave accrual rate for these providers to 40 hours or 5 days in each year of employment, beginning January 1, 2024.Under existing law, an employer is not required to provide additional paid sick days pursuant to these provisions if the employer has a paid leave or paid time off policy,
CA SB 625 - Janet Q. Nguyen
Newborn screening: genetic diseases: blood samples collected.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 625, as amended, Nguyen. Newborn screening: genetic diseases: blood samples collected. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a genetic disease unit to, among other responsibilities, promote a statewide program of information, testing, and counseling services related to genetic diseases, and administer that information, testing, and counseling to each child born in the state, unless the child’s parent or guardian objects to a test on the grounds of religious beliefs or practices. This bill would require the department to provide information about the testing program and to permit the parent or legal guardian to opt out of the retention or use of the newborn child’s blood sample for medical research. The bill would prohibit any residual screening specimen from being released to any person or entity for law enforcement purposes or to establish a database for forensic identification. The bill would authorize a parent or guardian of a minor child, and the child, once they are at least 18 years of age, to request that the department destroy the residual screening specimen or retain the specimen, but not use it for research purposes. The bill would require the department to comply with the request. The bill would require the department, if the individual makes a request to destroy the specimen or to not use it for research purposes, to acknowledge receipt of the request and notify the individual that the specimen has been destroyed, as specified.The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, to prepare an informational brochure regarding the collection, storage, retention, and use of the blood sample in a separate, double-sided, single-page format, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, to additionally prepare a separate standard informational acceptance form with a space for the parent or legal guardian of the newborn child to provide a signed and dated written acknowledgment of receipt of the informational brochure and would require the form to be maintained in the mother’s medical file, as specified. The bill would also require the department, on or before January 1, 2026, to update the California Newborn Screening Test Request Form to include space for the parent or guardian to choose whether to opt out of the retention or use for research of the residual screening specimen. The bill would require the form to have a space for the parent or guardian to sign and date the form to confirm their choice. The bill would require specified persons to distribute the informational brochure, including the local registrar of births to provide a copy of the informational brochure to each person registering the birth of a newborn that occurred outside of a perinatal licensed health facility, as specified. The bill would also require the local registrar to notify the local health officer and the department of each of these registrations by the local registrar. By imposing additional duties on local registrars of births, 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.
CA SB 627 - Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Displaced workers: notice: opportunity to transfer.
01/25/2024 - Veto sustained.
SB 627, Smallwood-Cuevas. Displaced workers: notice: opportunity to transfer. Existing law, until December 31, 2024, requires an employer, as defined, to offer certain employees laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic specified information about job positions that become available for which the laid-off employees are qualified, and to offer positions to those laid-off employees based on a preference system, in accordance with specified timelines and procedures. Existing law requires an employer that declines to recall a laid-off employee on the grounds of lack of qualifications and instead hires someone other than a laid-off employee to provide the laid-off employee a written notice within 30 days including specified reasons for the decision, and other information on those hired. Existing law prohibits an employer from taking adverse action against any laid-off employee for seeking to enforce their rights under existing law. Existing law gives the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement jurisdiction over enforcement of these provisions and prescribes enforcement, remedies, and civil penalties for violations. Existing law prohibits the imposition of criminal penalties for a violation of these provisions. Existing law authorizes the division to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations, and issue determinations and interpretations concerning existing law.This bill would require a chain employer to provide each covered worker and their exclusive representative, if any, a displacement notice at least 60 days before the expected date of closure of a covered establishment. The bill would define terms for its purposes, including defining a “covered establishment” as a chain establishment that is subject to closure resulting in layoffs of workers, a “chain” as a business in this state that consists of 100 or more establishments nationally that share a common brand and are owned and operated by the same parent company, and a “chain employer” as any person, including a corporate officer or executive, who directly or indirectly or through an agent or any other person, owns or operates a chain and employs or exercises control over the wages, hours, or working conditions of workers. A “chain employer” would also include a franchisee that owns and operates 100 or more establishments nationally under an agreement with one franchisor.This bill would require a chain employer, for a year after the closure of a covered establishment, to provide to all covered workers the opportunity to transfer to a location of the chain within 25 miles of the covered establishment subject to closure as positions become available. A franchisee subject to the bill would only be required to make an offer of transfer to a covered worker to a location within 25 miles of the covered location that the franchisee owns and operates under an agreement with one franchisor. The bill would require the chain employer to maintain a preferential transfer list of covered workers. The bill would require a chain employer to make offers of transfer to qualified covered workers based on length of service, as specified. The bill would require a covered worker who is offered a position to be given at least 5 business days, from the date of receipt, to accept or decline the offer. The bill would require a chain employer to retain for a minimum of 3 years prescribed records relating to the closure and offers of employment. The bill would prohibit a chain employer from taking adverse action against a covered worker for asserting their rights under the bill. Under the bill, the division would have jurisdiction over enforcement of these provisions. The bill would prescribe enforcement, remedies, and civil penalties for violations. The bill would prohibit the imposition of criminal penalties for a violation of these provisions. The bill would authorize the division to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations, and issue determinations and interpretations concerning existing law.
CA SB 635 - Joaquin Arambula
Health care coverage: hearing aids.
01/25/2024 - Veto sustained.
SB 635, Menjivar. Health care coverage: hearing aids. 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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law sets forth specified coverage requirements for health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies.This bill, the Let California Kids Hear Act, would require a health care service plan contract or health insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025, to include coverage for hearing aids for enrollees and insureds under 21 years of age, if medically necessary. The bill would limit the maximum required coverage amount to $3,000 per individual hearing aid, as specified. Because a willful violation of the bill’s requirements relative to 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.
CA SB 636 - David D. Cortese
Workers’ compensation: utilization review.
08/28/2023 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
SB 636, as amended, Cortese. Workers’ compensation: utilization review. Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers’ compensation for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, and in the course of, employment.Existing law requires every employer to establish a medical treatment utilization review process, in compliance with specified requirements, either directly or through its insurer or an entity with which the employer or insurer contracts for these services. Existing law prohibits any person other than a licensed physician who is competent to evaluate the specific clinical issues involved in the medical treatment services from modifying, delaying, or denying requests for authorization of medical treatment for reasons of medical necessity to cure or relieve.This bill would, commencing January 1, 2025, for private employers, require the physician to be licensed by California state law.The bill would make a related intent statement.
CA SB 646 - David D. Cortese
Civil law: personal rights: online sex trafficking: sexual photographs.
08/16/2023 - August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
SB 646, as amended, Cortese. Civil law: personal rights: online sex trafficking: sexual photographs. Existing law grants a cause of action to a depicted individual, as defined, against a person who either (1) creates and intentionally discloses sexually explicit material if the person knows or reasonably should have known the depicted individual did not consent to its creation or disclosure or (2) intentionally discloses sexually explicit material that the person did not create if the person knows the depicted individual did not consent to its creation. Existing law also specifies that a victim of human trafficking may bring a civil action for actual damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive relief, any combination of those, or any other appropriate relief.Existing federal law grants a cause of action to a person who, while a minor, was a victim of a violation of specified federal crimes and who suffers personal injury as a result of such violation, regardless of whether the injury occurred while such person was a minor.This bill would allow a person who is depicted in certain sexual images when the person was less than 18 years of age to bring a civil action for specified damages and relief against a person or entity that distributes that material, as specified. The bill would require, in addition to any other damages awarded to a prevailing plaintiff, statutory damages of $200,000 to be paid by the defendant for failing to cease distribution of the material within 2 business days after notice of claimed infringement of these provisions was received by the defendant. The bill would require the operator of an online service or internet website that is available in California to list an agent for notification of claimed violation of these provisions, as specified. The bill would also require the operator to create a method to contact that agent for the purpose of reporting the erroneous removal of content, as specified. The bill would further require the operator to destroy material subject to these provisions if the operator has confirmed that any investigation related to that material has been completed.The bill would state that its provisions are severable.
CA SB 648 - Brian Dwain Dahle
Education finance: average daily attendance: Mountain Valley Special Education Joint Powers Authority.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 648, Dahle. Education finance: average daily attendance: Mountain Valley Special Education Joint Powers Authority. Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, as defined. Existing law requires the attendance of pupils while engaged in educational activities required of those pupils and under the immediate supervision and control of an employee of the school district or county office of education who possesses a valid certification document to be included in computing the average daily attendance of the school district or county office of education.This bill would require an employee of the Mountain Valley Special Education Joint Powers Authority who possessed a valid certification document, registered as required by law, to be deemed “an employee of a school district in the County of Shasta or an employee of the Shasta County Office of Education who possessed a valid certification document, registered as required by law,” for purposes of computing the average daily attendance under the latter provision.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Shasta.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
CA SB 667 - Bill M. Dodd
Healing arts: pregnancy and childbirth.
09/13/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 667, as amended, Dodd. Healing arts: pregnancy and childbirth. (1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires the board to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a person who meets specified qualifications. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to attend cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth and to provide prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, including interconception care, family planning care, and immediate care for the newborn, as specified. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to practice with a physician and surgeon under mutually agreed-upon policies and protocols, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services or to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium.This bill would revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, authorize a certified nurse-midwife, pursuant to policies and protocols that are mutually agreed upon with a physician and surgeon, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services, to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium, or to furnish or order a Schedule II or III controlled substance, as specified. The bill would include care for common gynecologic conditions, as specified, in the scope of services a certified nurse-midwife is authorized to perform without policies and protocols that are mutually agreed upon with a physician and surgeon. The bill would additionally authorize a general acute care hospital, as defined, or a special hospital specified as a maternity hospital, as defined, to grant privileges to a certified nurse-midwife, allowing them to admit and discharge patients upon their own authority if in accordance with organized medical staff bylaws of that facility and within the nurse-midwife’s scope of practice.Existing law generally authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to furnish drugs or devices incidentally to the provision of care and services described above that the certified nurse-midwife is authorized to perform and care rendered to persons within certain settings, subject to specified requirements and exceptions. Among those requirements is that a certified nurse-midwife follow standardized procedures or protocols if they furnish or order Schedule IV or V controlled substances or drugs or devices for services other than attending cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth or providing prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, as specified. Existing law requires those standardized procedures or protocols to specify which nurse-midwife is authorized to furnish or order drugs or devices, which drugs or devices may be furnished or ordered and under what circumstances, and the method of periodic review of the certified nurse-midwife’s competence, as specified, and review of the provisions of the standardized procedure. Existing law requires a certified nurse-midwife to follow a patient-specific protocol approved by a physician and surgeon if the certified nurse-midwife furnishes or orders Schedule II or III controlled substances for any condition. Existing law requires the patient-specific protocol to address the diagnosis of the illness, injury, or condition for which a Schedule II controlled substance is to be furnished.This bill would revise and recast those provisions to remove references to standardized procedures or protocols and patient-specific protocols. Instead, the bill would require the above-described policies and protocols that a certified nurse-midwife is required to follow for certain care to contain provisions governing the furnishing or ordering of drugs or devices for services other than attendin
CA SB 671 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
School safety plans: dangerous, violent, or unlawful activities.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 671, Portantino. School safety plans: dangerous, violent, or unlawful activities. Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires the schoolsite council of a school to write and develop the comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school, in consultation with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities. Existing law requires the plan to include specified components, including procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents. Existing law requires a petition to establish a charter school to include, among other things, a reasonably comprehensive description of the procedures that the charter school will follow to ensure the health and safety of pupils and staff, including requiring the development and annual update of a school safety plan that includes certain safety topics and procedures.This bill would require a comprehensive school safety plan, and the school safety plan of a charter school, to include procedures to assess and respond to reports of any dangerous, violent, or unlawful activity that is being conducted or threatened to be conducted at the school, at an activity sponsored by the school, or on a schoolbus serving the school. By imposing additional requirements related to comprehensive school safety plans, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 32282 of the Education Code proposed by SB 10 and SB 323 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1604 and SB 10 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 47605.6 of the Education Code proposed by AB 1604 and SB 10 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.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.
CA SB 674 - Lena A. Gonzalez
Air pollution: refineries: community air monitoring systems: fence-line monitoring systems.
09/01/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 674, as amended, Gonzalez. Air pollution: refineries: community air monitoring systems: fence-line monitoring systems. Existing law requires a refinery-related community air monitoring system to be installed near each petroleum refinery that meets certain requirements. Existing law requires the owner or operator of a petroleum refinery to develop, install, operate, and maintain a fence-line monitoring system in accordance with guidance developed by the appropriate air quality management district or air pollution control district. Existing law requires the air districts and the owners or operators of refineries to collect real-time data from those monitoring systems, maintain records of that data, and, to the extent feasible, provide to the public the data in a publicly accessible format.This bill would expand the definition of a refinery for these purposes to include related facilities located on contiguous or adjacent properties and to include refineries engaging in other types of refining processes, including those using noncrude oil feedstock. The bill would require the refinery-related community air monitoring system and the fence-line monitoring system to be updated or installed on or before January 1, 2028, after a 30-day public comment period, as specified. The bill would require the appropriate air district to establish pollutants for the monitoring systems to monitor and would include certain pollutants identified by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. The bill would authorize the air district to exclude a pollutant for monitoring at those monitoring systems, as provided. The bill would require air districts, on a 5-year basis, to review the list of pollutants being measured and would authorize the air districts to revise the list, as provided. The bill would require the air districts and the owners and operators of refineries to maintain records of the data collected from those systems for at least 5 years and would require the owners and operators to post online, and to notify the public of the availability of, quarterly reports containing certain information. The bill would require owners and operators of refineries to notify the air district and the public, as provided, as quickly as possible of any exceedances of specified pollutant thresholds. The bill would require the owners or operators of refineries, within 24 hours of a fence-line monitoring system detecting an exceedance of those thresholds, to initiate a root cause analysis and to determine appropriate corrective action, as provided. The bill would require the owners or operators of refineries to conduct third-party audits of its fence-line monitoring system, as provided, to ensure the accuracy of the system. Because the bill would impose additional duties on air districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Under existing law, a violation of requirements for stationary sources or any rule, regulation, permit, or order of the state board or of an air district is a crime.Because this bill would impose the monitoring systems requirement on owners or operators of refineries engaging in other types of refining processes and would impose additional requirements on owners and operators of refineries, a violation of which 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 specified reasons.
CA SB 680 - Nancy Skinner
Features that harm child users: civil penalty.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 680, as amended, Skinner. Features that harm child users: civil penalty. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 prohibits a business from selling the personal information of a consumer if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, in the case of a consumer at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age, or the consumer’s parent or guardian, in the case of a consumer who is less than 13 years of age, has affirmatively authorized the sale of the consumer’s personal information.The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act requires, beginning July 1, 2024, a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement to configure all default privacy settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings that offer a high level of privacy, as prescribed, and requires a business, before any new online services, products, or features are offered to the public, to complete a Data Protection Impact Assessment for any online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children and maintain documentation of this assessment as long as the online service, product, or feature is likely to be accessed by children.This bill would prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from using a design, algorithm, or feature that the platform knows, or by the exercise of reasonable care should have known, causes child users, as defined, to do any of certain things, including experience addiction to the social media platform.This bill would provide that a social media platform is not in violation of the bill if the social media platform instituted and maintained a program of at least quarterly audits, as defined, of its designs, algorithms, and features that have the potential to cause violations of the provision described above, and the social media platform corrected, within 60 days of the completion of the audit, any design, algorithm, or feature discovered by the audit to present more than a de minimis risk of violating that provision.This bill would subject a social media platform that knowingly and willfully violates these provisions to a civil penalty not to exceed $250,000 per violation, an injunction, and an award of litigation costs and attorney’s fees in an action brought only by certain public attorneys, including the Attorney General.
CA SB 686 - Wendy Maria Carrillo
Domestic workers: occupational safety.
09/26/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
SB 686, Durazo. Domestic workers: occupational safety. Existing law establishes within the Department of Industrial Relations the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, with duties and powers, as prescribed.Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, requires employers to comply with certain standards ensuring healthy and safe working conditions, as specified. The act charges the Division of Occupational Safety and Health with enforcement of the act, subject to oversight by the Chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The act excludes household domestic service from the definition of “employment.” The act requires the chief, or a representative of the chief, to convene an advisory committee for the purposes of creating voluntary guidance and making recommendations to the department and the Legislature on policies the state may adopt to protect the health and safety of privately funded household domestic service employees, except publicly funded household domestic service and family daycare homes, as specified. The act requires the advisory committee to develop voluntary industry-specific occupational health and safety guidance relating to workplace hazards and the prevention or minimization of work-related injuries and illnesses. The act requires the advisory committee to make recommendations, as specified, on additional policies to protect the health and safety of household domestic service employees. Under specified circumstances, a violation of the act is a crime.Existing law requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, upon appropriation of funding for this purpose, to establish and maintain an outreach and education program for the purpose of promoting awareness of, and compliance with, labor protections that affect the domestic work industry and fair and dignified labor standards in this industry and other low-wage industries. Existing law requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to issue a competitive request to community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide education and outreach services in this connection and prescribes requirements for these organizations. Existing law makes CBOs responsible for developing and consulting with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement regarding the core education and outreach materials, as specified. Existing law requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and CBOs to meet at least biannually to coordinate efforts around outreach, education, and enforcement, including sharing information, in accordance with applicable privacy and confidentiality laws, that will shape and inform the overall enforcement strategy of the division regarding low-wage industries, including the domestic work industry. Existing law prohibits the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement from expending more than 5% of the budget allocation on the administration of the program.This bill would make CBOs responsible for developing and consulting with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health regarding the core education and outreach materials regarding health and safety standards, retaliation, and the division’s workplace safety complaint and retaliation process, including specific issues that affect the domestic work industry differently. The bill would make CBOs responsible for all costs related to the development, printing, advertising, or distribution of the education and outreach materials. The bill would require the chief, representatives of the consultation services and enforcement branches of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and CBOs to meet periodically, as specified, to coordinate efforts around outreach, education, and enforcement. The bill would prohibit the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and the Division of Occupational Safety and Health from expending more than 5% of the budget allocation on the administration of the program.This bill, for purp
CA SB 691 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
State Board of Education: student members.
01/29/2024 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
SB 691, as amended, Portantino. State Board of Education: student members. Existing law establishes the State Board of Education, consisting of 10 members who are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of 2/3 of the Senate and one student member who is appointed by the Governor, pursuant to a specified selection process, with the advice and consent of 2/3 of the Senate. Under existing law, the student member is a voting member with the full rights and duties of the other 10 members of the state board. Existing law requires, as part of the selection process for the student member, a screening committee of the state board to select 12 semifinalists from among those who apply for the student member position. Existing law requires the California Association of Student Councils to select a maximum of 6 final candidates from the list of semifinalists. Existing law requires the state board to select 3 finalists from the candidates selected by the California Association of Student Councils and requires the Governor to appoint the student member from among those finalists.This bill would instead require the state board to present for the Governor’s consideration all of the final candidates selected by the California Association of Student Councils. The bill would require the Governor to appoint 2 additional student members to the state board, as provided, and would require those student members to have preferential voting rights, as described.
CA SB 713 - Stephen C. Padilla
Planning and zoning: density bonuses: development standard.
09/07/2023 - Ordered to third reading.
SB 713, as amended, Padilla. Planning and zoning: density bonuses: development standard. Existing law, commonly referred to as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that proposes a housing development within the city or county with a density bonus, waivers or reductions of development standards, parking ratios, and other incentives or concessions, as specified, if the developer agrees to construct certain types of housing. Existing law prohibits a city, county, or city and county from applying any development standard that will have the effect of physically precluding the construction of a development meeting specified criteria at the densities or with the concessions or incentives permitted by the Density Bonus Law. Existing law defines “development standard” as including a site or construction condition, including, but not limited to, a height limitation, a setback requirement, a floor area ratio, an onsite open-space requirement, a minimum lot area per unit requirement, or a parking ratio that applies to a residential development pursuant to any ordinance, general plan element, specific plan, charter, or other local condition, law, policy, resolution, or regulation.This bill would specify that “development standard” for these purposes includes these standards adopted by the local government or enacted by the local government’s electorate exercising its local initiative or referendum power, whether that power is derived from the California Constitution, statute, or the charter or ordinances of the local government.The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 65915 of the Government Code proposed by AB 323 and AB 1287 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
CA SB 72 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Act of 2023.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 72, as introduced, Skinner. Budget Act of 2023. This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 fiscal year.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 722 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Daycare facilities: incidental medical services plans.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 722, Ochoa Bogh. Daycare facilities: incidental medical services plans. Existing law, the California Child Day Care Facilities Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, provides for the licensure and regulation of child daycare facilities, as defined. Existing regulations impose various requirements on child daycare facilities, including, among others, the administration of medication to children. A willful or repeated violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2025, to create a template form for plans of operations and incidental medical services plans. The bill would also require the department, upon completion of these template forms, to revise its regulations, notices, practices, and bulletins to eliminate any requirement that an incidental medical services plan or amended plan of operation be approved before a child with exceptional needs, as defined, is allowed to attend a child daycare or child development program. The bill would authorize a licensed child daycare facility that submits to the department a completed incidental medical services plan using the template form described above to enroll a child prior to departmental approval of the plan.
CA SB 723 - Ash Kalra
Employment: rehiring and retention: displaced workers.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 723, Durazo. Employment: rehiring and retention: displaced workers. Existing law, until December 31, 2024, requires an employer, as defined, to offer its laid-off employees specified information about job positions that become available for which the laid-off employees are qualified, and to offer positions to those laid-off employees based on a preference system, in accordance with specified timelines and procedures. Existing law, until December 31, 2024, also prohibits an employer from refusing to employ, terminating, reducing compensation, or taking other adverse action against a laid-off employee for seeking to enforce their rights under these provisions. These provisions are enforced by the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, as prescribed. Existing law defines the term “laid-off employee” to mean any employee who was employed by the employer for 6 months or more in the 12 months preceding January 1, 2020, and whose most recent separation from active service was due to a reason related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a public health directive, government shutdown order, lack of business, a reduction in force, or other economic, nondisciplinary reason related to the COVID-19 pandemic.This bill would redefine “laid-off employee” to mean any employee who was employed by the employer for 6 months or more and whose most recent separation from active employment by the employer occurred on or after March 4, 2020, and was due to a reason related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a public health directive, government shutdown order, lack of business, reduction in force, or other economic nondisciplinary reason due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The bill would create a presumption that a separation due to a lack of business, reduction in force, or other economic, nondisciplinary reason is due to a reason related to the COVID-19 pandemic, unless the employer establishes otherwise by a preponderance of the evidence.The bill also would extend the December 31, 2024, repeal date until December 31, 2025.
CA SB 729 - Buffy Wicks
Health care coverage: treatment for infertility and fertility services.
08/23/2023 - August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
SB 729, as amended, Menjivar. Health care coverage: treatment for infertility and fertility services. 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 provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law imposes various requirements and restrictions on health care service plans and disability insurers, including, among other things, a requirement that every group health care service plan contract or disability insurance policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 1990, offer coverage for the treatment of infertility, except in vitro fertilization.This bill would require large and small group health care service plan contracts and disability insurance policies issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services. With respect to large group health care service plan contracts and disability insurance policies, the bill would require coverage for a maximum of 3 completed oocyte retrievals, as specified. The bill would revise the definition of infertility, and would remove the exclusion of in vitro fertilization from coverage. The bill would also delete a requirement that a health care service plan contract and disability insurance policy provide infertility treatment under agreed-upon terms that are communicated to all group contractholders and policyholders. The bill would prohibit a health care service plan or disability insurer from placing different conditions or coverage limitations on fertility medications or services, or the diagnosis and treatment of infertility and fertility services, than would apply to other conditions, as specified. The bill would make these requirements inapplicable to a religious employer, as defined, and specified contracts and policies.Because the 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.
CA SB 735 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Motion picture productions: safety: firearms: ammunition.
06/01/2023 - Referred to Com. on L. & E.
SB 735, as amended, Cortese. Motion picture productions: safety: firearms: ammunition. Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, with the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. The Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, requires employers to comply with certain standards ensuring healthy and safe working conditions, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act. Other existing law relating to occupational safety imposes special provisions on certain industries and charges the division with enforcement of these provisions.This bill would establish the Safety on Productions Pilot Program. The bill, commencing July 1, 2025, and until June 30, 2030, inclusive, would require that an employer for a motion picture production that receives a specified motion picture tax credit, for that motion picture production, hire or assign a qualified safety advisor for California filming activities to perform a risk assessment and, if required under the bill, a specific risk assessment, as specified. The bill would require a dedicated safety advisor to be present on every motion picture production in the pilot program who is assigned exclusively to that motion picture production. The bill would require assessments to be accessible to specified affected persons and safety advisor access to locations and relevant facilities and items to ensure safety. The bill would require production to conduct a daily safety meeting, including, but not limited to, a safety meeting required when firearms are involved in a scene. The bill would require a safety advisor to participate in daily safety meetings, as specified. The bill would require an employer to identify a person for performers, crew, labor organization representatives, and the division to contact for issues regarding compliance. The bill would require the safety advisor to prepare a final safety evaluation report based on the actual risk and compliance experience. The bill would require the safety advisor, within 60 days following completion of filming activities, to provide the final safety evaluation report to the Industry-Wide Labor-Management Safety Committee and the California Film Commission. The bill would require the committee and the California Film Commission to jointly select an organization or firm to perform a written evaluation of the pilot program. The bill would require the selected organization or firm to review and assess the final safety evaluation reports on or before June 30, 2029, and make a nonbinding set of recommendations to the Legislature, as prescribed. These pilot program provisions would be repealed as of January 1, 2031.This bill would allow the use of a firearm or blank on motion picture productions only for specified purposes and under specified safety conditions. The bill would require a qualified property master, armorer, or assistant property master handling a firearm in the course of the motion picture production to have a specified state permit, to have completed certain training in firearms, and to have a specified federal document for the possession and custody of the firearm. The bill would specifically impose prescribed reporting requirements on employers engaged in motion picture production. The bill would specifically authorize the division to investigate, inspect, and cite employers, as prescribed.This bill would prohibit ammunition on a motion picture production, except in prescribed circumstances, subject to certain safety rules and laws. The bill would require an employer to require that any employee responsible for
CA SB 741 - David K. Min
Domestic violence restraining orders: prehearing discovery.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 741, Min. Domestic violence restraining orders: prehearing discovery. Existing law establishes the Domestic Violence Prevention Act for the purpose of preventing acts of domestic violence, abuse, and sexual abuse and providing for a separation of the persons involved in the domestic violence for a period sufficient to enable those persons to seek a resolution of the causes of the violence. Under existing law, the act authorizes the court to issue a protective order, as defined, either ex parte or after a hearing, to restrain a person to prevent the recurrence of domestic violence.Existing law establishes the Civil Discovery Act, which governs the rules and procedures related to discovery in civil actions. The act authorizes the parties in a civil action, unless ordered otherwise, to modify discovery procedures by written stipulation, as specified.This bill would prohibit discovery pursuant to the Civil Discovery Act for purposes of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act except when a court grants a request for discovery upon a showing of good cause by the party making the request, as specified. The bill would require a court determining whether to permit discovery to consider, among other things, the importance and relevance of, and need for, the information sought to be obtained. The bill would authorize a court to continue commencement of the hearing or commence the hearing to receive evidence and then continue the hearing to permit one or more methods of discovery if a court finds good cause and grants a request for discovery. The bill would require the court to limit and control any permitted discovery to the least intrusive methods, as specified. The bill would make related intent statements and findings and declarations.
CA SB 761 - John Laird
Department of Justice: civil rights investigations.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 761, as amended, Laird. Department of Justice: civil rights investigations. Existing law sets forth various civil rights and provides a cause of action for a violation of those rights, as specified. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General to bring a civil action for injunctive and other appropriate relief in order to protect the rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States or by the Constitution or laws of California. This bill would provide that the Attorney General is authorized to conduct an investigation when the Attorney General deems it necessary to determine whether any person or entity has violated or is about to violate the civil rights laws of California or of the United States, or to aid in enforcing these laws. The bill would provide that the Attorney General is authorized to publish findings, data, or preliminary conclusions concerning the determination that a violation has occurred, as specified.Existing law authorizes the head of a state department, in connection with an investigation of unlawful activity, to promulgate interrogatories, inspect books and records, and issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books, accounts, documents, any other writing, and testimony. Existing law authorizes the department head to provide information and evidence related to the investigation to the Attorney General if they agree to maintain the confidentiality of the information. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for information obtained during an investigation to be disclosed, except as prescribed. Existing law authorizes the head of a state department to petition the superior court in the appropriate county to enforce a subpoena under these provisions.This bill would provide that the Attorney General, in connection with a civil rights investigation, may interview witnesses, take evidence, promulgate interrogatories, and obtain physical access to, and copies of, written records from the subject of an investigation. The bill would provide that the Attorney General, their employees, and any agents or experts contracted with the Department of Justice, may review the information obtained during the course of the investigation. The bill would provide the subject of an investigation a specified process for asserting that a document, or information in a document, may be withheld on the basis of the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product doctrine.This bill would authorize the Attorney General to apply for an order from the superior court to compel a witness to comply with a subpoena or produce documents or information that are being improperly withheld under the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product doctrine, and would deem a witness’ failure to comply with the court’s order punishable as contempt. This bill would also require a court to award the Attorney General reasonable attorney’s fees and costs if the court finds that the refusal to obey a properly issued subpoena or the withholding of documents or information by a subject of an investigation was frivolous or was based on a legal theory advanced in bad faith.By expanding the number or persons having access to protected records, and thereby expanding the scope of the crime of unauthorized disclosure, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law limits the Attorney General’s right to conduct an investigation of a nonprofit religious corporation.This bill would authorize the Attorney General to conduct an investigation of a nonprofit religious corporation and to obtain judicial relief necessary to address civil rights issues, including, but not limited to, the abuse and neglect of children.Existing law establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect.This bill would provide that, upon request from the Attorney General, any person or agency in possession of specified reports and records r
CA SB 762 - Josh Becker
Local detention facilities: safety checks.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
SB 762, as amended, Becker. Local detention facilities: safety checks. Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections and declares that the mission of the board is to provide statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California’s adult and juvenile criminal justice system consistent with the statewide goal of improved public safety through cost-effective, promising, and evidence-based strategies for managing criminal justice populations. Existing law requires the board to establish minimum standards for local correctional facilities, including the safety of incarcerated individuals, and to biennially review and make appropriate revisions to those standards.This bill would require the board to revise those standards during the next regularly scheduled review to require a local detention facility to include a procedure for affirming that an incarcerated individual is alive during a safety check. By imposing additional requirements on local correctional facilities, 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.
CA SB 764 - Stephen C. Padilla
Minors: online platforms.
01/12/2024 - Set for hearing January 16.
SB 764, as amended, Padilla. Minors: online platforms. Existing law regulates certain contracts for artistic employment between an unemancipated minor and third parties, including employment as an actor, dancer, musician, comedian, singer, stuntperson, voice-over artist, or other performer or entertainer, or sports participant. Existing law provides for the establishment of a trust for the purpose of preserving for the benefit of the minor 15% of the minor’s gross earnings.This bill would require a vlogger, as defined, to compensate a minor under 18 years of age if the minor is engaged in the work of vlogging, as specified. The bill would require the vlogger to set aside gross earnings on the content in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the minor, as specified. The bill would also require the vlogger to prepare a written statement, under penalty of perjury, that includes specified information relating to the trust account. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would require the vlogger to maintain records, including, among others, the number of vlogs that generated compensation and the amount deposited into the trust account, and to provide them to the minor once per month. The bill would authorize the minor to enforce these provisions in court.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.
CA SB 765 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Teachers: retired teachers: compensation limitation.
10/13/2023 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 885, Statutes of 2023.
SB 765, Portantino. Teachers: retired teachers: compensation limitation. (1) Existing law, the Teachers’ Retirement Law, establishes the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS) and creates the Defined Benefit Program of the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan, which provides a defined benefit to members of the program, based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Under existing law, STRS is governed by the Teachers’ Retirement Board (board).Existing law permits members retired for service from STRS to perform retired member activities without reinstatement into the system if certain conditions are met. Existing law limits the postretirement compensation of a retired member of the program, in any school year, to an amount calculated by STRS each July 1 equal to 1/2 of the median final compensation of all members who retired for service during the fiscal year ending in the previous calendar year.This bill would modify that calculation so the limitation of postretirement compensation, in any school year, is instead an amount calculated by STRS each July 1 equal to 70% of the median final compensation of all members who retired for service during the fiscal year ending in the previous calendar year. Existing law establishes an additional postretirement compensation limit of $0 during the first 180 calendar days after the most recent retirement of a retired member for the performance of retired member activities. Under existing law, if a retired member has attained normal retirement age at the time compensation is earned, this postretirement compensation limit does not apply if the appointment has been approved by the employer in a public meeting and a resolution containing certain information has been adopted by the governing body of the employer, as specified.This bill would instead authorize a member retired from service to perform retired member activities, notwithstanding the above-mentioned 180 calendar days compensation limitation, if a request for exemption containing specified information is submitted by the Superintendent, the county superintendent of schools, or the chief executive officer of a community college to STRS, under penalty of perjury, as prescribed. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would require a written copy or copies of the completed documentation that substantiates the need for the request for exemption to be submitted to the exclusive representative of employees prior to the retired member’s performance of retired member activities. The bill, among other changes, would also require the board to submit, on or before February 1, 2027, to specified committees of the Legislature a report that includes, among other things, the total number of exemption requests received by STRS from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, inclusive.(2) Existing law establishes the Cash Balance Benefit Program, administered by the board, as a separate benefit program within the State Teachers’ Retirement Plan for purposes of providing a retirement plan for persons employed to perform creditable service for less than 50% of full-time equivalent service. Existing law provides that the normal retirement age for the program is 60 or 62 years of age, as applicable.Under the program, a participant retired for service may perform retired participant activities, but prohibits the participant from making contributions to the plan or accruing service credit under the Defined Benefit Program based on compensation earned from that service. Under the program, if the retired participant performs retired participant activities, receives compensation paid in cash for those activities, and meets other specified conditions, the annuity paid to the retired participant is reduced by the amount of compensation. Existing law, however, does not require reduction of the participant’s annuity if the governing body of the employer, among other
CA SB 766 - Susan Talamantes Eggman
Social workers.
05/12/2023 - Set for hearing May 18.
SB 766, as amended, Eggman. Social workers. Existing law, the Clinical Social Worker Practice Act, provides for the regulation of licensed clinical social workers. That law makes an individual who styles themselves as a licensed clinical social worker, without holding a license in good standing, guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law exempts an individual employed by a government entity, certain academic institutions, an institution that is both nonprofit and charitable, and other specified individuals from that prohibition.This bill would prohibit an individual from representing themselves as a social worker, unless they possess certain academic qualifications. The bill would apply that prohibition to an individual employed by a governmental entity, certain academic institutions, an institution that is both nonprofit and charitable, and other individuals. The bill would also prohibit an employer or principal from representing their employee or agent as a social worker unless the employee or agent possesses certain academic qualifications. The bill would state that, prior to January 1, 2029, these provisions do not apply to an individual that is classified as a social worker by their employer or principal if the individual held that classification prior to January 1, 2024. The bill would make a violation of these provisions an unfair business practice as well as a misdemeanor. By making a violation of these provisions 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.
CA SB 767 - Susan Rubio
Elementary education: kindergarten.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 767, as amended, Rubio. Elementary education: kindergarten. Under existing law, a person between the ages of 6 and 18 years who is not exempted by law is subject to compulsory full-time education. Existing law excludes a child under 6 years of age from the public schools, subject to specified exceptions.Existing law requires a school district maintaining a kindergarten to admit a child who will have their 5th birthday on or before September 1 of the school year. Existing law also requires a child who will have their 6th birthday on or before September 1 of the school year to be admitted to the first grade of an elementary school. Existing law authorizes a child who has been lawfully admitted to a public school kindergarten or a private school kindergarten in California and who is judged by the administration of the school district to be ready for first-grade work to be admitted to the first grade, as specified.This bill, beginning with the 2024–25 school year, would require a child to have completed one year of kindergarten before that child may be admitted to the first grade at a public elementary school, except for a child who has been lawfully admitted to a public school kindergarten or a private school kindergarten in California, but has not yet completed one school year, and is judged to be ready for first-grade work, as specified, thereby imposing 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.
CA SB 773 - Steven M. Glazer
CalWORKs: homeless assistance.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 773, Glazer. CalWORKs: homeless assistance. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals. Existing law provides for homeless assistance to a homeless family seeking shelter when the family is eligible for CalWORKs aid, including a nonrecurring special needs benefit of $85 a day to families of up to 4 members for the costs of temporary shelter, and a nonrecurring special needs benefit for permanent housing assistance to pay for last month’s rent and security deposits if these payments are conditions of securing a residence, or to pay for up to 2 months of rent arrearages, if these payments are a reasonable condition of preventing eviction. Existing law prohibits the last month’s rent or monthly arrearage portion of the payment from exceeding 80% of the family’s total monthly household income without the value of CalFresh benefits or special needs benefit for a family of that size, and requires it be made to families that have found permanent housing costing no more than 80% of the family’s total monthly household income without the value of CalFresh benefits or special needs benefit for a family of that size.This bill, beginning January 1, 2025, or when specified automation processes are available, and for purposes of determining the family’s total monthly household income for the permanent housing assistance, would require the county human services agency to include any amount that is regularly received from other government and nonprofit housing and homeless subsidy programs and any regularly received private support intended or designed to help the family with housing. The bill, beginning January 1, 2025, or when specified automation processes are available, upon application for temporary or permanent homeless assistance, would require the county to refer the assistance unit to any other homeless assistance services provided under the CalWORKs program and would authorize the county to give priority to the assistance unit for those services. The bill would also require the department to, on or before January 1, 2025, and among other things, collect specified statewide data relating to the provision of these homeless assistance benefits, and establish a statewide stakeholder advisory group, or modify the responsibilities of an existing advisory group, to develop specified recommendations relating to these homeless assistance benefits. By imposing additional duties on counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program.This bill would instead provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing these provisions.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.
CA SB 775 - Stephen C. Padilla
Vehicles: zero-emission schoolbuses: signage.
09/15/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
SB 775, Padilla. Vehicles: zero-emission schoolbuses: signage. Existing law requires every schoolbus, while being used for the transportation of school pupils at or below the 12th-grade level, to bear upon the front and rear of the bus a plainly visible sign containing the word “schoolbus” in letters not less than 8 inches in height. Existing law authorizes state funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to be distributed to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for distribution to certain local educational agencies for the purchase of low- or zero-emission schoolbuses that replace, or increase the number of, schoolbuses in the existing schoolbus fleet or for retrofitting existing schoolbuses to achieve reductions in emissions, as specified. This bill would authorize a school district, county office of education, or charter school using a zero-emission schoolbus to transport pupils at or below the 12th-grade level to place signage on the rear of the zero-emission schoolbus that identifies the schoolbus as a clean air zero-emission bus. The bill would also authorize the Department of the California Highway Patrol to issue guidelines governing the size and placement of that signage.
CA SB 779 - Henry I. Stern
Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 779, Stern. Primary Care Clinic Data Modernization Act. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of clinics, including primary care clinics and specialty clinics, by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law excludes certain facilities from those provisions, including a clinic that is operated by a primary care community or free clinic and that is operated on separate premises from the licensed clinic and is only open for limited services of no more than 40 hours a week, also referred to as an intermittent clinic.Existing law imposes various reporting requirements on clinics, including requiring a clinic to provide a verified report to the Department of Health Care Access and Information including information relating to the previous calendar year, such as the number of patients served and specified descriptive information, medical and other health services provided, total clinic operating expenses, and gross patient charges by payer category. Existing law specifies that the reporting requirements apply to all primary care clinics.Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to be the single state agency designated to collect certain health facility or clinic data for use by all state agencies, as prescribed. Commencing January 1, 2027, this bill would repeal and recast these reporting requirements, including, but not limited to, extending their application to intermittent clinics operated by licensed clinics. The bill would establish specific reporting requirements for specialty clinics, as defined. The bill would require an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a primary care clinic or intermittent clinic, and its officers, to file specified reports with the Department of Health Care Access and Information for every primary care clinic and every intermittent clinic that it operates, conducts, owns, or maintains, on or before the 15th day of February each year, including, but not limited to, a report of all mergers and acquisitions, a detailed labor report, and a report of quality and equity measures. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations necessary to implement these reporting requirements and to require the first annual reports to be submitted on or before February 15, 2028, using information relating to the calendar year beginning January 1, 2027.Because a violation of certain provisions of the bill by a primary care clinic or intermittent clinic 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.
CA SB 796 - Susan Rubio
Threats: schools and places of worship.
06/27/2023 - June 27 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 796, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Threats: schools and places of worship. Existing law makes it a crime to willfully threaten to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement is to be taken as a threat that, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby reasonably causes the threatened person to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of their immediate family, as defined. Under existing law, this crime is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for no more than one year for a misdemeanor, or by imprisonment in state prison for a felony.This bill would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 799 - Luz Maria Rivas
Unemployment insurance: trade disputes: eligibility for benefits.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 799, Portantino. Unemployment insurance: trade disputes: eligibility for benefits. Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits and extended benefits to eligible individuals who meet specified requirements.Under existing law, unemployment benefits are paid from the Unemployment Fund, which is continuously appropriated for these purposes.Existing law makes an employee ineligible for benefits if the employee left work because of a trade dispute and specifies that the employee remains ineligible for the duration of the trade dispute. Existing case law holds that employees who left work due to a lockout by the employer, even if it was in anticipation of a trade dispute, are eligible for benefits.This bill would restore eligibility after the first 2 weeks for an employee who left work because of a trade dispute. The bill would codify specified case law that holds that employees who left work due to a lockout by the employer, even if it was in anticipation of a trade dispute, are eligible for benefits. The bill would specify that the bill’s provisions do not diminish eligibility for benefits of individuals deprived of work due to an employer lockout or similar action, as specified.Because this bill would expand the categories of people eligible to receive benefits from a continuously appropriated fund, it would make an appropriation.
CA SB 803 - Josh Becker
Personal services contracts.
09/11/2023 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Bryan.
SB 803, as amended, Becker. Personal services contracts. Existing law, the State Civil Service Act, regulates employment with the state and vests in the Department of Human Resources all powers, duties, and authority necessary to operate the state civil service system. Existing law permits state agencies to enter into personal services contracts if certain conditions are met. Existing law requires a state agency that enters into a personal services contract for certain types of workers to include provisions for employee wages and benefits to be valued at least 85% of the state employer cost of wages and benefits provided to state employees performing similar duties. Existing law requires the department to annually establish the state employer wage and benefits costs covered by these provisions. Existing law additionally requires that those benefit costs be established using rates based on single employee, employee plus one dependent, and employee plus 2 or more dependents, or based on a blended rate, subject to the determination of the department.This bill would instead require those benefit costs to be established using rates based on single employee, employee plus one dependent, and employee plus 2 or more dependents, and on a blended rate, subject to the determination of the department. The bill would also require that the department use at least 85% of the top rate of pay for the corresponding civil service classification for state employees performing similar duties to establish wage costs.Existing law additionally applies the above-described provisions to wages and benefits of employees of subcontractors providing the same types of services in state-leased facilities where the facility is at least 50,000 square feet in area and the state leases all of the occupied floorspace of the facility.This bill would instead apply these provisions to services performed in state-leased facilities that are at least 50,000 square feet in area and more than one-half of the occupied office space is leased by the state, as specified.This bill would make its provisions applicable upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act of 2024, and also make nonsubstantive changes to correct erroneous cross-references in those provisions.
CA SB 805 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Health care coverage: pervasive developmental disorders or autism.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 805, as amended, Portantino. Health care coverage: pervasive developmental disorders or autism. 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 also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires a health care service plan contract or a health insurance policy to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment for pervasive developmental disorder or autism, and defines “behavioral health treatment” to mean specified services and treatment programs, including treatment provided pursuant to a treatment plan that is prescribed by a qualified autism service provider and administered either by a qualified autism service provider or by a qualified autism service professional or qualified autism service paraprofessional who is supervised as specified. Existing law defines a “qualified autism service professional” to refer to a person who meets specified educational, training, and other requirements and is supervised and employed by a qualified autism service provider. Existing law defines a “qualified autism service paraprofessional” to mean an unlicensed and uncertified individual who meets specified educational, training, and other criteria, is supervised by a qualified autism service provider or a qualified autism service professional, and is employed by the qualified autism service provider.This bill would expand the criteria for a qualified autism service professional to include a psychological associate, an associate marriage and family therapist, an associate clinical social worker, or an associate professional clinical counselor, as specified. The bill would require those positions to meet the criteria for a Behavioral Health Professional, as provided.Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. Existing law defines developmental disability for these purposes to include, among other things, autism. This bill would require the department to adopt regulations, on or before July 1, 2026, to address the use of Behavioral Health Professionals and Behavioral Health Paraprofessionals in behavioral health treatment group practice. The bill would require the department to establish rates and the educational or experiential qualifications and professional supervision requirements necessary for these positions to provide behavioral intervention services, as specified.Because a willful violation of the bill’s provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, it 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.
CA SB 807 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Adoption facilitators.
07/05/2023 - July 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
SB 807, as amended, Ochoa Bogh. Adoption facilitators. Existing law generally sets forth the procedures and requirements for an adoption and authorizes an adoption facilitator to provide specific adoption services, including advertising for the purpose of soliciting parties to an adoption or locating children for an adoption or acting as an intermediary between the parties to an adoption, and charging a fee or other valuable consideration for services rendered.This bill would repeal the provisions relating to adoption facilitators and would expressly prohibit a person or organization from engaging in specified activities relating to adoption, unless the person or organization is either licensed as an adoption agency by the State Department of Social Services or an attorney licensed to practice law in California. The bill would make various conforming changes.
CA SB 822 - Maria Elena Durazo
Workforce development: Interagency High Road Act.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 822, Durazo. Workforce development: Interagency High Road Act. Existing law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law requires the board to assist the Governor in promoting the development of a well-educated and highly skilled 21st century workforce, and the development of a high road economy that offers an educated and skilled workforce with fair compensation and treatment in the workplace. Existing law also requires the board to assist in developing standards, procedures, and criteria for high road employers, high road jobs, high road workforce development, and high road training partners, as specified. Existing law defines “high road” for these purposes to mean a set of economic and workforce development strategies to achieve economic growth, economic equity, shared prosperity, and a clean environment.This bill would require the Department of Industrial Relations and the California Workforce Development Board, within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, to collectively be responsible for among other duties, creating high road evaluation metrics, consulting with stakeholders, and providing for meaningful public input on the development and evaluation of high road evaluation metrics. The bill would require the board to also assist in developing standards, procedures, and criteria for high road contracting and high road procurement, as specified. The bill would require, upon request by a state agency, the board to establish memorandums of understanding to incorporate high road evaluation metrics in the state agency’s procurement processes, contracts, and incentive programs. The bill would make these provisions effective only until January 1, 2030, and repeal them as of that date.This bill would also require specified state agencies, by January 1, 2025, to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the California Workforce Development Board to incorporate high road evaluation metrics in the state agency’s procurement processes, contracts, and incentive programs. The bill would require these agreements to draw upon the experience of the California Workforce Development Board to ensure the state has the workforce and industry-based training partnerships necessary to meet its broadband, clean energy, and clean transportation goals, as specified. The bill would require these agreements to include advice and recommendations to ensure state agency policies and regulated programs create or support high-quality jobs in the broadband, energy, resources, and transportation sectors and expand access to those jobs for priority populations through high-quality education and training.
CA SB 824 - Angelique Ashby
Foster care.
09/01/2023 - September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 824, as amended, Ashby. Foster care. (1) Existing law subjects foster care provider applicants, resource family applicants, and certain other adults in those homes, to a criminal records check and requires the applicant or other adult in the applicant’s home to obtain a criminal record clearance or criminal record exemption prior to licensure or approval. Existing law prohibits the State Department of Social Services or other approving entity from granting a criminal records exemption, except as specified, to an applicant or other adult in the applicant’s home who has been convicted of certain felonies. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Social Services or other approving entity, for the purpose of the resource family approval process described below, to grant an exemption from disqualification for the conviction of a felony for which a criminal record exemption cannot be granted if the applicant is a relative seeking placement of a specific relative child or children, the applicant or other adult living in the home is of present good character necessary to justify granting the exemption, and the applicant or other adult living in the home has not been convicted of certain felonies within the last 5 years.This bill would, among other things, additionally authorize the department, or other approving entity, to grant an exemption under those circumstances to a nonrelative extended family member or an extended family member.(2) Existing law authorizes the court to order temporary placement of the child in the home of a relative, extended family member, or nonrelative extended family member, and requires the court to consider the results of a criminal records check, among other things, before ordering that placement. Existing law also authorizes the placement of a child on an emergency basis in the home of a relative or nonrelative extended family member, and requires the relative or nonrelative extended family member to submit an application for approval as a resource family after the emergency placement. Existing law authorizes the court to place a child after an order of removal, or on a temporary or emergency basis in the home of a relative, regardless of the status of any criminal record exemption or resource family approval if the court finds that the placement does not pose a risk to the health and safety of the child.This bill would also authorize the court to place a child after an order of removal, or on a temporary or emergency basis, in the home of a nonrelative extended family member or an extended family member, regardless of the status of any criminal record exemption or resource family approval or tribally approved home approval if the court finds that the placement does not pose a risk to the health and safety of the child.(3) Existing law establishes the state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program (Kin-GAP), which provides aid on behalf of eligible children who are placed in the home of a relative guardian. Existing law requires aid in the form of state-funded Kin-GAP to be provided on behalf of any child under 18 years of age and to any eligible youth under 19 years of age who has had a kinship guardianship established, as described above, and who meets other requirements, including that the child or youth has been adjudicated a dependent child or ward of the juvenile court, has been residing for at least 6 consecutive months in the approved home of the prospective relative guardian, and has had the dependency jurisdiction or wardship terminated, as specified.This bill would also make eligible for state-funded Kin-GAP a child who was subject to an order for placement with a relative regardless of the status of any criminal record exemption or resource family approval or tribally approved home approval, as specified.(4) Existing law establishes the Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) program, under which counties provide payments to foster care providers
CA SB 831 - Anna Marie Caballero
Agricultural workers: immigration: parole.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 831, Caballero. Agricultural workers: immigration: parole. Existing federal law, the Immigration and Nationality Act, makes certain aliens ineligible to receive visas and ineligible to be admitted into the United States, except as specified. The act authorizes the United States Attorney General to parole into the United States, on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit, any alien applying for admission to the United States, as specified.Existing law authorizes the Governor to enter into specified agreements with the federal government on behalf of the state. Under existing law, these agreements concern various subject matters, including, but not limited to, health, such as the state Medicaid plan relating to the Medi-Cal program, and transportation matters.This bill would authorize the Governor to enter into an agreement with the United States Attorney General to establish a program for the United States Attorney General to grant an agricultural employee, as defined, parole pursuant to the above-described authorization under the act, as specified. Subject to implementation of that program, the bill would require the Governor to prepare a report on the impact of the program on the 3rd year of the renewal of the program, as provided.
CA SB 842 - Steven Craig Bradford
Energy: petroleum refinery turnaround and maintenance.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 842, Bradford. Energy: petroleum refinery turnaround and maintenance. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in consultation with the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and labor and industry stakeholders, to consider ways to manage necessary refinery turnarounds and maintenance that would protect the health and safety of employees and the public, and minimize the impact of maintenance-related production losses on fuel prices. Existing law authorizes the commission, by regulation, to impose requirements governing the timing of turnaround and maintenance developed through the consultations described above.This bill would require the commission to also consult with the Department of Industrial Relations when considering ways to manage necessary refinery turnarounds and maintenance. For any adopted regulations regarding scheduling or rescheduling of maintenance, the bill would require the commission to consult with labor and industry stakeholders and aim to avoid any adverse impacts to the safety of employees and surrounding communities, labor and equipment availability, other market impacts, and cost.
CA SB 845 - Henry I. Stern
Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2023.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 845, as amended, Stern. Let Parents Choose Protection Act of 2023. Existing law establishes various online privacy rights for minors, including prohibiting the operator of an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application from marketing or advertising specified types of products or services to a minor, and requires an operator to permit a registered user who is a minor to remove content or information posted. This bill, beginning July 1, 2024, would require large social media platform providers, as defined, to create, maintain, and make available to specified third-party safety software providers a set of third-party-accessible application programming interfaces to allow a third-party safety software provider, upon authorization by a child or a parent or legal guardian of a child, to monitor a child’s online interactions, content, and account settings and initiate secure transfers of the child’s user data for these purposes, as provided. The bill would prohibit the third-party safety software provider from disclosing user data unless specified exceptions apply, and would authorize the child or the parent or legal guardian, as applicable, to revoke the authorization with the third-party safety software provider or disable the account with the large social media provider.The bill would require the third-party safety software provider to register with the Attorney General’s office as a condition of accessing an application programming interface from a large social media platform provider, and would require the Attorney General to affirm that the third-party safety software provider meets specified requirements, including that it is solely engaged in the business of internet safety. The bill would also require a large social media platform to register with the Attorney General’s office within 30 days of meeting specified requirements, including that it enables a child to share images, text, or video through the internet with other users of the service, as provided, and has more than 100,000,000 monthly global active users or generates more than $1,000,000,000 in gross revenue per year, as provided. The bill would require the Attorney General to post both registration lists on its internet website, and to establish processes to deregister third-party safety software providers and large social media platform providers if certain criteria is met.The bill would provide that a large social media platform provider is not liable for damages arising out of the transfer of user data to a third-party safety software provider in accordance with these provisions if the large social media platform provider has in good faith complied with specified requirements. The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act by a majority vote of both houses of the Legislature, as specified. This bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes and intent of the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.
CA SB 848 - Sharon Quirk-Silva
Employment: leave for reproductive loss.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 848, Rubio. Employment: leave for reproductive loss. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by any employee to take up to 5 days of bereavement leave upon the death of a family member.This bill would additionally make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 5 days of reproductive loss leave following a reproductive loss event, as defined. The bill would require that leave be taken within 3 months of the event, except as described, and pursuant to any existing leave policy of the employer. The bill would provide that if an employee experiences more than one reproductive loss event within a 12-month period, the employer is not obligated to grant a total amount of reproductive loss leave time in excess of 20 days within a 12-month period. Under the bill, in the absence of an existing policy, the reproductive loss leave may be unpaid. However, the bill would authorize an employee to use certain other leave balances otherwise available to the employee, including accrued and available paid sick leave. The bill would make leave under these provisions a separate and distinct right from any right under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.The bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer to retaliate against an individual, as described, because of the individual’s exercise of the right to reproductive loss leave or the individual’s giving of information or testimony as to reproductive loss leave, as described. The bill would require the employer to maintain employee confidentiality relating to reproductive loss leave, as specified.Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest.This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
CA SB 859 - Marie Alvarado-Gil
Pupil residency: residency investigations: evictions: victims of violent crime or natural disaster.
02/01/2024 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
SB 859, as amended, Alvarado-Gil. Pupil residency: residency investigations: evictions: victims of violent crime or natural disaster. Existing law requires each person between 6 and 18 years of age not otherwise exempted to attend a public full-time day school or continuation school or classes in the school district where the residency of the person’s parent or legal guardian is located. Existing law provides that a pupil complies with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pupil satisfies one of specified requirements. Existing law requires a school district to accept from the parent or legal guardian of a pupil reasonable evidence, to be established by documentation, that the pupil meets the residency requirements for school attendance in the school district, as provided. Existing law authorizes a school district to make reasonable efforts to determine that a pupil actually meets the residency requirements, as specified, if an employee of the school district reasonably believes that the parent or legal guardian of the pupil has provided false or unreliable evidence of residency.This bill would prohibit a school district from requiring updated proof of residency for a pupil who has been evicted or is a victim of violent crime or natural disaster, as defined, and whose parent or guardian previously established residency. The bill would explicitly prohibit a school district from seeking or imposing monetary, civil, or criminal penalties upon a pupil who has been evicted or is the victim of a violent crime or natural disaster, or that pupil’s parent or guardian, for failing to update their proof of residency.Existing law requires local educational agencies to allow a pupil who is a child of a military family, as defined, and a pupil who is a migratory child, as defined, to continue attending the pupil’s school of origin, regardless of changes in residency, as provided. This bill would require local educational agencies serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, to allow a pupil who has been evicted or is the victim of a violent crime or natural disaster, as defined, to allow the pupil to continue their education in the school of origin through the duration of that academic school year. The bill would also require local educational agencies serving high school pupils to allow a pupil who has been evicted or is the victim of a violent crime or natural disaster to continue their education in the school or origin through graduation. By requiring local educational agencies to allow pupils who have been evicted or are victims of a violent crime or natural disaster who no longer satisfy the residency requirement to attend their schools of origin, 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, 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.
CA SB 86 - Dennis Kelly Seyarto
Crime victims: resource center.
07/11/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
SB 86, Seyarto. Crime victims: resource center. Existing law requires the establishment of a resource center that operates a statewide, toll-free information service, consisting of legal and other information, for crime victims and providers of services to crime victims, as defined.This bill would require the resource center to additionally provide the information through an internet website and to the families of crime victims.The bill would require that the internet website include a summary of victims’ rights and resources, as specified.
CA SB 863 - Benjamin J. Allen
Measures proposed by the Legislature.
01/04/2024 - Set for hearing January 9.
SB 863, as amended, Allen. Measures proposed by the Legislature. Existing law requires every constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to the people by the Legislature to appear on the ballot of the first statewide election occurring at least 131 days after the adoption of the proposal by the Legislature.This bill would allow the Legislature to specify that a constitutional amendment, bond measure, or other legislative measure submitted to the people will appear on the ballot at an election other the one described above if the election specified in the proposal would occur at least 131 days after adoption of the proposal by the Legislature.
CA SB 864 - Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Workforce development: workplace rights curriculum.
08/23/2023 - August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
SB 864, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas. Workforce development: workplace rights curriculum. Existing law establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law requires the board to assist the Governor with specified tasks in that regard, including the identification and dissemination of information on best practices, including the development and review of statewide policies affecting the coordinated provision of services through the state’s one-stop delivery system, as specified.The federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act requires local workforce development boards to be established in each local area of a state to assist the local chief elected official in planning, oversight, and evaluation of local workforce investment, and requires each local board to perform various duties consistent with the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Existing law requires each local board to develop and submit to the Governor a comprehensive 4-year local plan, in partnership with the appropriate chief local elected official, that includes specified elements.This bill would require the California Workforce Development Board to assist the Governor with partnering with the Labor Commissioner and other subject matter experts in developing workplace rights curriculum to be provided to all individuals receiving individualized career services, supportive services, or training services through the California workforce system, as specified. The bill would require each local workforce development board to ensure the provision of workplace rights training consistent with that workplace rights curriculum. The bill would require the comprehensive 4-year local plan to include a description of how the local board plans to comply with this requirement. By imposing additional duties on local workforce development boards, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the California Workforce Development Board to partner with the Employment Development Department and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to ensure that local workforce development boards and one-stop career center providers are complying with those requirements.Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that universal access to career services is available to adult residents, regardless of income, education, employment barriers, or other eligibility requirements, and requires career services to include specified components, including job search and placement assistance.This bill would require career services to include workplace rights training consistent with the curriculum developed by the California Workforce Development Board for all individuals receiving individualized career services, supportive services, or training services through the one-stop system.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.
CA SB 869 - S. Monique Limon
Commercial financing.
01/18/2024 - January 18 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
SB 869, as amended, Glazer. Commercial financing. The California Financing Law (CFL) provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation, including by regulating the provision of commercial loans, as defined. A willful violation of the CFL is a crime, except as specified.This bill would, beginning January 1, 2026, generally provide for the regulation under the CFL of commercial financing, which the bill would define to mean an accounts receivable purchase transaction, including factoring, asset-based lending transaction, commercial loan, or lease financing, intended by the recipient for use primarily for a purpose other than a personal, family, or household purpose. The bill would prohibit a person from engaging in the business of a commercial financing provider, as defined, or commercial financing broker, as defined, without obtaining a license from the commissioner. The bill would prohibit a commercial financing provider or a commercial financing broker from, among other things, taking an instrument in which blanks are left to be filled in after execution. The bill would require a licensed commercial financing provider to do certain things, including permitting payment to be made in advance in any amount on any commercial financing transaction at any time. The bill would require a licensed commercial financing broker to do certain things, including delivering to the recipient at the time the final negotiation or arrangement is made a statement showing in clear and distinct terms the name, address, and license number of the commercial financing broker and the commercial financing provider, as prescribed. By expanding the scope of the crime of willfully violating the CFL, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make various conforming changes to the CFL.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.
CA SB 871 - Robert J. Archuleta
Property taxation: homeowners’, veterans’, and disabled veterans’ exemptions.
09/13/2023 - In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
SB 871, as amended, Archuleta. Property taxation: homeowners’, veterans’, and disabled veterans’ exemptions. The California Constitution declares that all property is taxable and establishes or authorizes various exemptions from tax for real property, including a homeowners’ exemption in the amount of $7,000 of the full value of a dwelling that may be applied unless the dwelling receives another real property exemption. The California Constitution and existing property tax law establish a veterans’ exemption in the amount of $4,000, as specified, for a veteran who meets certain military service requirements, and generally exempts from property taxation the same value of property of a deceased veteran’s unmarried spouse and parents. The California Constitution and existing property tax law establish a disabled veterans’ exemption in the amount of $100,000 or $150,000 for the principal place of residence of a veteran or a veteran’s spouse, as specified.Existing property tax law establishing the homeowners’ exemption specifies that the exemption may not be applied to a property on which the owner receives the veterans’ exemption.This bill would provide that if Senate Constitutional Amendment 6 is approved by the voters at the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024, then commencing January 1, 2025, notwithstanding that prohibition, the homeowners’ exemption also applies to property on which an owner receives the veterans’ exemption or the disabled veterans’ exemption. By imposing additional duties on local tax officials, 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 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.Existing law contains provisions related to elections and voting, including a requirement that a constitutional amendment submitted to the people by the Legislature shall appear on the ballot of the first statewide election occurring at least 131 days after the adoption of the proposal by the Legislature and that the Secretary of State mail state voter information guides to voters.This bill would require the Secretary of State, notwithstanding specified provisions of existing law relating to elections and voting, to submit Senate Constitutional Amendment 6 of the 2023–24 Regular Session to the voters for their approval at the statewide general election scheduled for November 5, 2024.
CA SB 875 - Steven M. Glazer
Health and care facilities: residential care facilities for the elderly: referral agencies.
01/12/2024 - Set for hearing January 16.
SB 875, as amended, Glazer. Health and care facilities: residential care facilities for the elderly: referral agencies. The California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act generally requires the State Department of Social Services to license, inspect, and regulate residential care facilities for the elderly and imposes criminal penalties on a person who violates the act or who willfully or repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under the act. The act prohibits a placement agency, as defined, from placing an individual in a licensed residential care facility for the elderly if the individual, because of a health condition, cannot be cared for within the limits of the license or requires inpatient care in a health facility. The act requires an employee of a placement agency who knows, or reasonably suspects, that a facility is improperly operating without a license to report the facility to the department, and requires the department to investigate those reports. The act further requires a placement agency to notify the appropriate licensing agency of any known or suspected incidents that would jeopardize the health or safety of residents in a facility. The act specifically makes a violation of these requirements a crime.Existing law requires a referral agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Public Health in order to refer a person to any extended care facility, skilled nursing home, or intermediate care facility. Existing law exempts a local public agency performing referral services without cost from these provisions. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is subject to a civil penalty and suspension or revocation of the license.This bill would additionally require a referral agency to obtain a license from the State Department of Social Services in order to refer a person to a residential care facility for the elderly. The bill would prohibit an extended care facility, skilled nursing home, intermediate care facility, or residential care facility for the elderly from paying a commission or fee to a referral agency that is not licensed, as specified. The bill would prohibit a referral agency from holding any power of attorney or any other property of a person receiving referral services, or to receive or hold a client’s property in any capacity. With respect to a residential care facility for the elderly, the bill would require a referral agency to disclose specified information to each person receiving its services, and to maintain records of those disclosures for a period of 3 years, as specified. The bill would specify that a referral agency licensee would be subject to specified provisions relating to placement agencies for residential care facilities for the elderly. By expanding the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also require referral agencies to maintain liability insurance in specified amounts. The bill would also make it unlawful for an employee, independent contractor, or other person who is acting on behalf of a governmental agency, hospital, or other health care institution to offer, provide, or accept a payment, rebate, refund, commission, preference, or discount as payment, compensation, or inducement for referring patients, clients, or customers to a facility or licensee.Existing law makes specified persons mandated reporters of elder or dependent adult abuse, including administrators, supervisors, and licensed staff of a facility that provide care or services for elder or dependent adults. Under existing law, failure to report physical abuse, abandonment, abduction, isolation, financial abuse, or neglect of an elder or dependent adult is a misdemeanor.The bill would include owners, operators, and employees of a referral agency as mandated reporters. By expanding the crime of failure to report elder or dependent adult abuse, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constit
CA SB 88 - Nancy Skinner
Pupil transportation: driver qualifications.
09/13/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 88, Skinner. Pupil transportation: driver qualifications. (1) Existing law requires the driver of a school pupil activity bus, as defined, to be subject to the regulations adopted by the Department of the California Highway Patrol governing schoolbus drivers, except as specified.This bill would place various requirements upon a driver who provides certain transportation services for pupils, including, among others, by requiring these drivers to submit and clear tuberculosis risk assessments, as provided. The bill would require any vehicle used to provide pupil transportation for compensation by a local educational agency, as defined, to be inspected, as specified, and to be equipped with a first aid kit and a fire extinguisher.The bill would require any local educational agency contracting with a private entity to provide pupil transportation to obtain from the private entity a written attestation that, among other things, it not have any applicable law violations, as defined, at the time of applying for the contract and that it will maintain compliance with applicable laws, as defined, for the duration of the contract. The bill would authorize a third party to report to the relevant local educational agency that the private entity the local educational agency contracted with has failed to provide a truthful attestation or has failed to maintain compliance with the applicable laws required for the duration of the contract, as specified.The bill would apply the above-mentioned provisions to all drivers employed by a local educational agency, contracted by a local educational agency, or contracted by any entity with funding from a local educational agency, providing school-related pupil transportation, as defined, for compensation. The bill would not apply the above-mentioned provisions to (A) drivers of specified entities, (B) certain persons who are compensated to drive a pupil, (C) a school employee of a local educational agency when the employee provides transportation to pupils due to or because of the employee’s supervision of pupils for a field trip, extracurricular activity, or athletic program, or when the employee provides transportation to pupils for other activities, not to exceed 40 hours of drive time per school year per employee, (D) a driver who transports a pupil because of certain emergencies or an immediate threat to the physical safety of the pupil, (E) a driver who transports a pupil if the transportation is being provided through a Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program while a pupil’s transportation plan is being finalized, or (F) a driver during a trip for which they are authorized by the local educational agency to transport one or more pupils for a field trip when the destination is more than 200 miles from the transported pupil’s California school campus, as specified. To the extent that the above-mentioned requirements conflict with a contract entered into between a local educational agency and a private entity before January 1, 2024, the bill would not apply those requirements until the expiration or renewal of that contract. The bill would make the provision regarding the expiration or renewal of these contracts operative on January 1, 2024, while making the remainder of the above-mentioned provisions operative on July 1, 2025. By imposing new requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program.(2) Existing law requires a governing board or county superintendent of schools providing for the transportation of pupils under contract, as provided, or any other provision of law to require as a condition of the contract the tuberculosis risk assessment, as provided, except that, at the discretion of the governing board or county superintendent of schools, that provision does not apply to a private contracted driver who transports pupils infrequently without prolonged contact with the pupils.This bill would delete that exception for private contracted
CA SB 883 - Senate Public Safety Committee
Public Safety Omnibus.
09/07/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 883, Committee on Public Safety. Public Safety Omnibus. (1) Existing law requires the State Public Defender to undertake a study to assess appropriate workloads for public defenders and indigent defense attorneys and submit a report with their findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2024.This bill would instead make that report due January 1, 2025.(2) Existing law prohibits the crime of vehicular manslaughter, as defined. Existing law defines “gross negligence” for purposes of these provisions to include an exhibition of speed or participation in a sideshow, as defined.This bill would remove exhibition of speed from this definition and add engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest, as defined.By changing the definition of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) Existing law requires law enforcement agencies to provide victims with specified information about victim’s rights and resources. This bill would fix an erroneous cross-reference in these provisions.(4) Existing law prohibits the state from seeking a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin, as specified.This bill would fix an erroneous cross-reference in these provisions.(5) Existing law authorizes a defendant to demur on the accusatory pleading at any time prior to the entry of a plea, when, among other things, it appears on the face of the pleading that the facts stated do not constitute a public offense or the pleading contains matter which, if true, would constitute a legal justification or excuse of the offense charged, or other legal bar to the prosecution.This bill would additionally authorize a defendant to demur if the statutory provision alleged in the accusatory pleading is constitutionally invalid.(6) Under existing law, an incarcerated person who successfully participates as an incarcerated hand crew member in the California Conservation Camp program or in a county incarcerated hand crew, or participates at a Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation institutional firehouse is, upon release, eligible for record expungement, as specified.This bill would specify that participation in an institutional firehouse must also be successful, as specified, to be qualifying. The bill would make other nonsubstantive clarifying changes to this provision.(7) Existing law prohibits a person from being tried for a criminal offense while they are mentally incompetent. Existing law prescribes the procedure for a person found to be mentally incompetent to be restored to competence.This bill would correct erroneous cross-references in these provisions and make other technical corrections.(8) Existing law establishes the Board of Parole Hearings and authorizes the board to conduct parole consideration hearings, parole rescission hearings, and parole progress hearings for adults, among other responsibilities.Existing law generally requires that an inmate released on parole or postrelease community supervision be returned to the county of last legal residence. Existing law authorizes an inmate to be returned to another county or city if it would be in the best interests of the public. Existing law requires the paroling authority, in making that decision, to consider specified factors, including, among others, the need to protect the life or safety of a victim, and the verified existence of a work offer or educational or vocational training program.Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, when releasing prisoners on parole who have been convicted of a violent felony, as defined, or certain other felonies, as specified, to notify the law enforcement agency and the district attorney having jurisdiction over the community in which the person was convicted and also the law enforcement agency and district attorney having jurisdiction over the community in which the person is scheduled to be released. Existing law requires the department to provide
CA SB 887 -
Consumer affairs.
09/12/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 887, as amended, Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development. Consumer affairs. (1) Existing law requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to compile an annual report for the Legislature containing specified information relating to the professional licensure of veterans, servicemembers, and their spouses from each calendar year.This bill would instead require the report to contain specified information relating to the professional licensure of military members, military spouses, and honorably discharged military members from each fiscal year. The bill would make corrections and other conforming changes to those provisions.(2) Existing law requires the Department of Consumer Affairs to establish procedures to assist owners and lessees of new motor vehicles who have complaints regarding the operation of a qualified third-party dispute resolution process. Existing law further requires the department to monitor and inspect qualified third-party dispute resolution processes to determine whether they continue to meet standards for certification, including, among other things, through onsite inspections of each qualified third-party dispute resolution process no less than twice annually.This bill would also permit those inspections of qualified third-party dispute resolution processes to be conducted virtually.(3) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing to license and regulate the practice of nursing. Existing law authorizes special meetings of the board pursuant to a call of the president or board members, as provided, and requires the board to send a notice by mail to board members who are not parties to the call. Existing law authorizes the board to issue an interim permit to practice nursing or a temporary certificate to practice professional nursing, or as a certified public health nurse, certified clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse-midwife, upon approval of an application to be licensed or certified, as specified. Under existing law, the interim permit or temporary certificate terminates if the applicant fails the examination or if it is issued by mistake or the application for permanent licensure is denied, as applicable, upon notice by mail. This bill would instead require the board to send the notice of a special meeting electronically instead of by mail. The bill would delete the notice requirement for terminating an interim permit or temporary certificate. The act requires the board to establish categories of nurse practitioners and standards for each category, and requires the standards to take into account the types of advanced levels of nursing practice and the education needed to practice at each level.This bill would require those standards to be as specified in a certain publication of the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties, or successor.The act creates within the board a Nursing Education and Workforce Advisory Committee to study and recommend nursing education standards and solutions to workforce issues to the board, and requires one representative from the office of the Chancellor of the California State University to serve on the committee. This bill would specify an initial appointment for a term of 4 years for the representative from the office of the Chancellor of the California State University. This bill would also delete a requirement that the board hold at least 2 examinations each year, would update references to the National Board of Certification and Recertification of Nurse Anesthetists, and would make other technical and nonsubstantive changes to the act. (4) Existing law, the Psychology Licensing Law, establishes the Board of Psychology to license and regulate the practice of psychology. Existing law requires an applicant for licensure to show completion of specified training on suicide risk assessment and intervention and on aging and long-term care by submitting written verification from the registrar or
CA SB 889 - Senate Governance and Finance Committee
California Department of Tax and Fee Administration: earnings withholding orders: settlement agreements: excise taxes.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 889, Committee on Governance and Finance. California Department of Tax and Fee Administration: earnings withholding orders: settlement agreements: excise taxes. (1) Existing law, the Wage Garnishment Law, sets forth procedures for the levy of a judgment debtor’s wages when required to enforce a money judgment.This bill, for purposes of the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Use Fuel Tax Law, the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, the Timber Yield Tax Law, the Energy Resources Surcharge Law, the Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, the Hazardous Substances Tax Law, the Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, the Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, the Underground Storage Tank Maintenance, the Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and various taxes and fees collected in accordance with the Fee Collections Procedures Law, would authorize the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA), or the State Board of Equalization (BOE) in the case of the Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, to serve earnings withholding orders for taxes, fees, or surcharges, as applicable, and any other notice or document required to be served or provided in connection with an earnings withholding order according to the Wage Garnishment Law to government and private employers by electronic transmission or other electronic technology, as provided.(2) The CDTFA administers various taxes, fees, and surcharges in accordance with the Fee Collections Procedures Law, including, among others, the Lead-Acid Battery Recycling Act of 2016, the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003, and the Healthy Outcomes and Prevention Education (HOPE) Act.This bill would specify that a feepayer subject to liability under the Sales and Use Tax Law is also subject to liability for the same periods for taxes, fees, and surcharges administered pursuant to the Fee Collections Procedures Law, as applicable.(3) Existing law authorizes the CDTFA to enter into settlement agreements regarding protests, appeals, or refund claims for certain taxes and fees if it is determined that the settlement amount is consistent with a reasonable evaluation of the costs and risks associated with litigation. Existing law authorizes the executive director or the chief counsel to recommend a settlement and to approve a settlement on the advice of the Attorney General. Existing law requires joint approval from the executive director and chief counsel for settlements involving a reduction of tax or penalties in settlement not exceeding $5,000.This bill would specify that the director, rather than the department, is authorized to make various decisions pertaining to settlements, and would require the approval of only the director. The bill would, instead, require the Attorney General to advise only the chief counsel. The bill would remove the joint approval requirement for settlements involving a reduction of tax and penalties in settlement not exceeding $5,000, leaving approval solely to the discretion of the director, and would increase that $5,000 limitation to $11,500. Commencing July 1, 2029, and every 5th fiscal year thereafter, the bill would require the department to adjust for inflation the $11,500 limitation concerning settlements involving a reduction of tax and penalties by using the California Consumer Price Index, as calculated by the Department of Finance.Under the existing settlement authority, the executive director is required to create a public record of reduction of tax or penalties or total tax and penalties in settlement in excess of $500. Under existing law, the public record is required to include the name or names of the taxpayers who are parties to the settlement, the total amount in dispute, the amount agreed to pursuant to the settlement, a summary of the reasons why the settlement is in the best interests of the State of California, and, for any settlement approved by the department, the Attorney General’s conclusion as to whether the rec
CA SB 89 - Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh
Crimes: stalking.
07/12/2023 - Coauthors revised.
SB 89, as amended, Ochoa Bogh. Crimes: stalking. Existing law makes a person who willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or willfully and maliciously harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for the person’s safety, or the safety of the person’s immediate family, guilty of the crime of stalking, punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.This bill would also make a person guilty of stalking if the person willfully, maliciously, and repeatedly follows or willfully and maliciously harasses another person and who makes a credible threat with the intent to place that person in reasonable fear for the safety of that person’s pet, service animal, emotional support animal, or horse. By changing the definition of a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 890 - Senate Governance and Finance Committee
Property taxation: change of ownership and base year value transfers.
09/21/2023 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
SB 890, Committee on Governance and Finance. Property taxation: change of ownership and base year value transfers. The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined as the assessor’s valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred.Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization applicable to purchase or transfers that occurred on or before February 15, 2021, provides that the purchase or transfer of the principal residence, and the first $1,000,000 of other real property, of a transferor in the case of a transfer between parents and their children or, if certain conditions are met, between grandparents and their grandchildren, is not a “purchase” or “change in ownership” for purposes of determining the “full cash value” of property for taxation (prior intergenerational transfer exclusion). Existing property tax law, pursuant to constitutional authorization, excludes, beginning on and after February 16, 2021, from the term “change in ownership” purchases or transfers of real property that is the principal residence, or is a family farm, of an eligible transferor in the case of a purchase or transfer between parents and their children or, if certain requirements are met, between grandparents and their grandchildren, and certain other requirements are satisfied (intergenerational transfer exclusion).Existing property tax law provides that a “change in ownership” does not include certain transfers of a mobilehome park or a floating home marina to a nonprofit corporation, stock cooperative corporation, limited equity stock cooperative, or other entity formed by the tenants of a mobilehome park or floating home marina, respectively, for the purpose of purchasing the mobilehome park or floating home marina, as applicable, if certain requirements relating to tenant rental and participation are met. Existing law provides that if a transfer of a mobilehome park or floating home marina is excluded from a change of ownership pursuant to that provision but the park or floating home marina has not been converted to a condominium, stock cooperative ownership, or limited equity cooperative ownership, then any transfer of shares of the voting stock of, or other ownership or membership interests in, the entity that acquired the park or floating home marina is a change in ownership of a pro rata portion of the real property of the park or floating home marina, unless the transfer is for the purpose of converting the park or floating home marina into one of specified entities or the transfer is excluded from change in ownership pursuant to specified laws, including provisions relating to interspousal transfers.This bill would also provide that if a transfer of a mobilehome park or floating home marina, as applicable, is excluded from a change of ownership pursuant to the above-described provision but the park or floating home marina has not been converted to a condominium, stock cooperative ownership, or limited equity cooperative ownership, then any transfer of shares of the voting stock of, or other ownership or membership interests in, the entity that acquired the park or floating home marina is a change in ownership of a pro rata portion of the real property of the park or floating home marina, unless the transfer is excluded from change in ownership pursuant to the intergenerational transfer exclusion.Existing property tax law, pursuant to a constitutional authorization, allows the transfer of the base year value of a qualified contaminated property to a comparable replacement property of equal or lesser value that is located in the same county and is acquired or newly constructed as a replacement for the contaminated prop
CA SB 897 - Josh Newman
Pupil attendance: interdistrict attendance: school districts of choice.
04/08/2024 - April 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
SB 897, as amended, Newman. Pupil attendance: interdistrict attendance: school districts of choice. (1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to accept pupils from other school districts by adopting a resolution to become a school district of choice, in accordance with various programmatic and procedural requirements and limitations, as provided.Existing law prohibits school districts of choice from targeting their communications to individual parents or residential neighborhoods on the basis of a pupil’s or pupils’ actual or perceived academic skill or other personal characteristics.This bill would expand that prohibition to also prohibit school districts of choice from targeting their communications to individual parents or residential neighborhoods on the basis of a pupil’s or pupils' actual or perceived proficiency in English, family income, or their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in the definition of a hate crime, as defined.(2) Existing law authorizes a school district of choice to reject the transfer of a pupil if the transfer of that pupil would require the school district to create a new program to serve that pupil, except that a school district of choice is prohibited from rejecting the transfer of a special needs pupil, including an individual with exceptional needs, as defined, and an English learner.This bill would expand that prohibition to further prohibit a school district of choice from rejecting the transfer of a pupil who is a foster youth, as defined, or a homeless child or youth, as defined.(3) Existing law requires school districts of choice to give first priority for attendance to siblings of children already in attendance in the school district, and requires school districts of choice to give second priority for attendance to pupils eligible for free or reduced-price meals.This bill would require school districts of choice to also give second priority for attendance to pupils who are foster youth or homeless children or youth.(4) Existing law authorizes school districts of residence with an average daily attendance greater than 50,000 to limit the number of pupils transferring out each year to 1% of its current year estimated average daily attendance. Existing law authorizes school districts of residence with an average daily attendance of 50,000 or less to limit the number of pupils transferring out to 3% of its current year estimated average daily attendance, and to limit the maximum number of pupils transferring out for the duration of the school district of choice program to 10% of the average daily attendance for that period.For purposes of the above-described authorization for school districts of residence with an average daily attendance greater than 50,000, the bill would change the 1% transfer cap to be based off the average daily attendance as reported as of the first principal apportionment of the prior fiscal year instead of its current year estimated average daily attendance. The bill would authorize school districts of residence with an average daily attendance of 50,000 or less to instead limit the number of pupils transferring out to 10% of its average daily attendance, as reported as of the first principal apportionment of the prior fiscal year, and would also delete the 10% duration-of-the-program limitation.(5) Existing law requires an application requesting a transfer pursuant to the school district of choice program to be submitted by the parent of a pupil to the school district of choice before January 1 of the school year preceding the school year for which the pupil is requesting to be transferred, and authorizes an applicant to request enrollment of the pupil in a specific school or program of the school district of choice. If an application is rejected, existing law requires the governing board of the school district of
CA SB 899 - Catherine S. Blakespear
Protective orders: firearms.
02/23/2024 - Set for hearing March 12.
SB 899, as introduced, Skinner. Protective orders: firearms. Existing law prohibits a person subject to specified protective orders from owning a firearm or ammunition. Existing law requires a person subject to those orders to relinquish any firearms or ammunition they own.This bill would require the court, when issuing those orders, to provide the person subject to the order with information on how any firearms or ammunition still in their possession are to be relinquished, as specified. The bill would require the court to review the file to determine whether the receipt has been filed and inquire as to whether the person has complied with the requirement. The bill would require violations of the firearms or ammunition prohibition to be reported to the prosecuting attorney in the jurisdiction where the order has been issued within 2 business days of the court hearing unless the restrained party provides a receipt showing compliance at a subsequent hearing or by direct filing with the clerk of the court.This bill would also require the court, at a noticed hearing relating to these orders, to consider information presented that the restrained person has possession or control of a firearm or ammunition. The bill would authorize the court, upon making this finding, to set a review hearing, as specified, to determine whether the person has possession or control of a firearm or ammunition in violation of the above provisions.Existing law requires a family court to determine the best interest of the child for purposes of deciding child custody in proceedings for dissolution of marriage, nullity of marriage, legal separation of the parties, petitions for exclusive custody of a child, and proceedings under the Domestic Violence Prevention Act. Existing law establishes a rebuttable presumption that an award of sole or joint physical or legal custody of a child to a person who has perpetrated domestic violence is detrimental to the best interest of a child and establishes factors to be considered in rebutting that presumption, including that the perpetrator is restrained by a domestic violence prevention order and has, or has not, complied with that order.This bill would additionally establish, as a factor to be considered, whether the perpetrator is restrained by any other protective order and has, or has not, complied with that order.The bill would, for specified protective orders if the respondent declines to relinquish possession of a firearm or ammunition based on the assertion of the right against self-incrimination, authorize the court to grant use immunity for the relinquishment of the firearm.
CA SB 9 - Aisha Wahab
Raising the Age for Extended Foster Care Pilot Program Act of 2023.
06/27/2023 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 9, as amended, Cortese. Raising the Age for Extended Foster Care Pilot Program Act of 2023. Existing law establishes the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which is permitted to adjudge certain children to be dependents of the court under certain circumstances until the dependent child attains 21 years of age. Existing law also authorizes the juvenile court to resume jurisdiction over a nonminor who has attained 18 years of age, but not yet attained 21 years of age, and for whom the court has dismissed dependency, delinquency, or transition jurisdiction.Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to the provision of cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC), Adoption Assistance Program (AAP), California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends specified foster care benefits to nonminor dependents up to 21 years of age, if specified conditions are met. Existing law defines a nonminor dependent for these purposes as a foster child who is a current dependent child or ward of the juvenile court, or who is a nonminor under the transition jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to a voluntary reentry agreement, and in accordance with a transitional independent living case plan who has attained 18 years of age while under an order of foster care placement by the juvenile court and is not older than 21 years of age.This bill would, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for this purpose, require the State Department of Social Services to administer a 3-year pilot program in at least 3 counties that choose to participate to extend foster care services to nonminor dependents up to 22 years of age if the nonminor dependent is experiencing homelessness or is at reasonable risk of homelessness if they are not under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court. Under the pilot program, the bill would expand the jurisdiction of the juvenile court to include, as a nonminor dependent, a nonminor who is 21 years of age and who was previously under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court if the juvenile court makes a finding on the record by a preponderance of the evidence that the nonminor is experiencing homelessness or is at reasonable risk of homelessness if they are not under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, among other requirements, would expand the eligibility of foster care by revising the definition of nonminor dependent to include a foster child who meets the above-described requirements and is 21 years of age if the court makes that same finding, and would make these nonminor dependents eligible for benefits under AFDC-FC, CalWORKs, Kin-GAP, and AAP.Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program.This bill would provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill.
CA SB 902 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Firearms: public safety.
04/03/2024 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
SB 902, as amended, Roth. Firearms: public safety. Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who has been convicted of certain misdemeanors may not, within 10 years of the conviction, own, purchase, receive, possess or have under their custody or control, any firearm and makes a violation of that prohibition punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony.Existing law, with certain exceptions, makes it a crime to maliciously and intentionally maim, mutilate, torture, wound, or kill a living animal.This bill would provide that any person convicted of a misdemeanor violation of the above-described crimes, on or after January 1, 2025, may not, within 10 years of the conviction, access a firearm as described above, and would make a violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor. Because a violation of these provisions would be a crime, and because this bill would expand the application of the crime to a larger class of potential offenders, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.This bill would make related findings and declarations.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.
CA SB 91 - Thomas J. Umberg
California Environmental Quality Act: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion: environmental leadership transit projects.
09/13/2023 - Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
SB 91, as amended, Umberg. California Environmental Quality Act: supportive and transitional housing: motel conversion: environmental leadership transit projects. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.Existing law, until January 1, 2025, exempts from CEQA projects related to the conversion of a structure with a certificate of occupancy as a motel, hotel, residential hotel, or hostel to supportive or transitional housing, as defined, that meet certain conditions.This bill would extend indefinitely the above exemption.Existing law, until January 1, 2025, establishes specified procedures for the preparation of the EIR for, and judicial review of the certification of the EIR and approvals granted for, an environmental leadership transit project, as defined, proposed by a public or private entity or its affiliates that is located wholly within the County of Los Angeles or connects to an existing transit project wholly located in that county and that is approved by the lead agency on or before January 1, 2024.This bill would, extend the application of those procedures for environmental leadership transit projects to January 1, 2026, for projects approved on or before January 1, 2025.Because the bill would extend the duties of lead agencies to determine the applicability of the above exemption and to comply with specific procedures for the preparation of the EIR for environmental leadership transit projects, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
CA SB 916 - Caroline Menjivar
Public postsecondary education: waiver of tuition and fees: veterans: extended education courses.
04/12/2024 - Set for hearing April 22.
SB 916, as amended, Seyarto. Public postsecondary education: waiver of tuition and fees: veterans: extended education courses. Existing law establishes the University of California, administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in the state. The Donahoe Higher Education Act prohibits the campuses of those segments from charging mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to specified students who apply for a waiver, including a child of any veteran of the United States military who has a service-connected disability, has been killed in service, or has died of a service-connected disability, an undergraduate student who is a recipient of a Medal of Honor, or an undergraduate student who is a child of a recipient of a Medal of Honor and who is no more than 27 years of age, if certain requirements are satisfied.This bill would additionally prohibit the campuses of the University of California and California State University from charging tuition or fees for specified students who enroll in an extended education course if certain requirements are satisfied and the extended education course is being used to meet the requirements of an undergraduate degree program. The bill would apply to the campuses of the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, make it apply.
CA SB 917 - Nancy Skinner
Budget Act of 2024.
01/10/2024 - To print.
SB 917, as introduced, Skinner. Budget Act of 2024. This bill would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.
CA SB 939 - Thomas J. Umberg
Educational equity: schoolsite and community resources: neurodivergent pupils.
04/04/2024 - April 10 hearing postponed by committee.
SB 939, as amended, Umberg. Educational equity: schoolsite and community resources: neurodivergent pupils. Existing law, the Safe Place to Learn Act, requires the State Department of Education, as part of its regular monitoring and review of a local educational agency, to assess whether the local educational agency has, among other things, adopted a policy that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying, as specified, and has publicized that policy to pupils, parents, employees, agents of the governing board, and the general public. Existing law also requires the department to assess whether the local educational agency has provided to certificated schoolsite employees who serve pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, information on existing schoolsite and community resources related to the support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning pupils or pupils who may face bias or bullying on the basis of religious affiliation or perceived religious affiliation, as specified. This bill would require the department to additionally assess whether the local educational agency has provided information on existing schoolsite and community resources related to the support of neurodivergent pupils. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would create 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.
CA SB 957 - Scott D. Wiener
Data collection: sexual orientation and gender identity.
04/15/2024 - April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
SB 957, as introduced, Wiener. Data collection: sexual orientation and gender identity. (1) Existing law, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Disparities Reduction Act, requires the State Department of Public Health, among other specified state entities, in the course of collecting demographic data directly or by contract as to the ancestry or ethnic origin of Californians, to collect voluntary self-identification information pertaining to sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersexuality.Existing law, as an exception to the provision above, authorizes those state entities, instead of requiring them, to collect the demographic data under either of the following circumstances: (a) pursuant to federal programs or surveys, whereby the guidelines for demographic data collection categories are defined by the federal program or survey; or (b) demographic data are collected by other entities, including other state agencies, surveys administered by third-party entities and the state department is not the sole funder, or third-party entities that provide aggregated data to a state department.This bill, notwithstanding the exception above, would require the State Department of Public Health to collect the demographic data from third parties, including, but not limited to, local health jurisdictions, on any forms or electronic data systems, unless prohibited by federal or state law. To the extent that the bill would create new duties for local officials in facilitating the department’s data collection, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the above-described state entities to report to the Legislature the data collected and the method used to collect the data, and to make the data available to the public, except for personally identifiable information. Existing law deems that personally identifiable information confidential and prohibits it disclosure. Existing law sets forth different deadlines, depending on the specified state entity, for complying with those requirements.This bill would require the State Department of Public Health, for purposes of the data collected by the department on sexual orientation, gender identity, and intersexuality, to comply with the above-described requirements by July 1, 2026.(2) Existing law authorizes local health officers and the State Department of Public Health to operate immunization information systems. Existing law requires health care providers and other certain agencies, including schools and county human services agencies, to disclose specified immunization and other information about the patient or client to local health departments and the State Department of Public Health. Existing law authorizes local health departments and the State Department of Public Health to disclose most of that same information, as specified, to each other and to other entities. Existing law authorizes a patient or a patient’s parent or guardian to refuse to permit recordsharing, as specified.Under existing law, the information that is subject to disclosure under those provisions includes, among other things, certain data on immunizations received, the patient’s or client’s date of birth, race and ethnicity, and gender.This bill would add the patient’s or client’s sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of information subject to disclosure. The bill would make conforming changes to the above-described provisions on data sharing. By expanding the duties of local officials with regard to disclosing demographic information to certain entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(3) The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to prepare an annual report concerning sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data collected by the department. The bill would require the department to annually post and make available the report on the department’s internet website, and to annually submit the report to the Legislature, exclu
CA SB 976 - Nancy Skinner
Social Media Youth Addiction Law.
04/11/2024 - Set for hearing April 23.
SB 976, as amended, Skinner. Social Media Youth Addiction Law. Existing law, the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, requires, beginning July 1, 2024, a business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children to comply with certain requirements. The act requires the business to complete a data protection impact assessment addressing, among other things, whether the design could harm children and whether and how the online product, service, or feature uses system design features to increase, sustain, or extend use of the online product, service, or feature by children, including the automatic playing of media, rewards for time spent, and notifications. Existing law prohibits the business from using the personal information of any child in a way that the business knows, or has reason to know, is materially detrimental to the physical health, mental health, or well-being of a child.Existing law, the Privacy Rights for California Minors in the Digital World, prohibits an operator of an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application from specified conduct when minors are involved, including the marketing or advertising of alcoholic beverages, firearms, or certain other products or services. Existing law sets forth other related protections for minors, including under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020.This bill, the Social Media Youth Addiction Law, would make it unlawful for the operator of an addictive social media platform, as defined, to provide an addictive feed to a user, unless the operator has reasonably determined that the user is not a minor or the operator has obtained verifiable parental consent to provide an addictive feed to the user who is a minor.The bill would define “addictive feed” as an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application, in which multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users are recommended, selected, or prioritized for display to a user based on information provided by the user, or otherwise associated with the user or the user’s device, as specified, unless any of certain conditions are met.The bill would make it unlawful for the operator of an addictive social media platform, between the hours of 12:00 AM and 6:00 AM, inclusive, in the user’s local time zone, and between the hours of 8:00 AM and 3:00 PM, inclusive, Monday through Friday from September through May in the user’s local time zone, to send notifications to a user who is a minor unless the operator has obtained verifiable parental consent to send those notifications. The bill would set forth related provisions for certain access controls determined by the verified parent through a mechanism provided by the operator.Under the bill, a parent’s provision of consent or use of a mechanism, as described above, would not waive, release, otherwise limit, or serve as a defense to, any claim that the parent, or that the user who is a minor or was a minor at the time of using the platform, might have against the operator regarding any harm to the mental health or well-being of the user.The bill would require an operator to annually disclose the number of minor users of its addictive social media platform, and of that total the number for whom the operator has received verifiable parental consent to provide an addictive feed, and the number of minor users as to whom the access controls are or are not enabled.The bill would authorize the Attorney General to adopt regulations to further the purposes of these provisions. The bill would make these provisions severable.
CA SB 987 - Caroline Menjivar
Pretrial release: pretrial assessment agencies.
02/23/2024 - Set for hearing March 12.
SB 987, as introduced, Menjivar. Pretrial release: pretrial assessment agencies. (1) Existing law allows a defendant to be released under their own recognizance pending trial if a defendant files with the clerk of the court, or other person authorized to accept bail, a signed release agreement that includes various stipulations by the defendant.The bill would, for a defendant released from custody under a court’s order for pretrial supervision, prohibit a defendant from being charged a fee for pretrial supervision, maintain information obtained in pretrial supervision services apart from law enforcement and criminal justice records, and make confidential information in the course of performing pretrial supervision subject to specified exceptions, including that the court may order the disclosure of information if the information is material, exonerating on the issue of guilt, and would not otherwise be available. The bill would authorize the disclosure of information to specified entities, including to the court to determine bail, release, and conditions of release, detention, compliance with release conditions, or sentencing, and to a law enforcement agency upon a reasonable belief that the information is necessary to assist in apprehending an individual. The bill would prohibit the admissibility of this information on the issue of guilt in a criminal proceeding except when the crime was committed while on pretrial supervision or a defendant failed to appear in a criminal proceeding while on pretrial supervision, or if that information is relevant evidence that is admissible under specified standards in the California Constitution.(2) Existing law allows a court to employ an investigative staff to make a recommendation on whether a defendant should be released on their own recognizance pending trial. Existing law requires an investigative report be prepared in all cases involving specified felonies with a recommendation on whether a defendant should be released on their own recognizance. Existing law requires the report to be submitted to the court prior to a specified hearing.The bill would authorize an investigative report for every investigation by a court-employed investigative staff or a county pretrial agency staff. If a report is issued, the bill would require the staff only to include information relevant to the release of a defendant and would prohibit the staff from soliciting from a defendant information regarding the circumstances of the alleged offense. The bill would require the report to be kept confidential, as specified.(3) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain state summary criminal history information, as defined, and to furnish this information to various state and local government officers, officials, and agencies, a public utility, or any other entity, if needed in the course of their duties, including the courts, district attorneys, and probation and parole officers. Existing law allows the department to furnish federal-level criminal history information upon a showing, as specified, to various state and local government officers, officials, and agencies, a public utility, and any other entity. Under existing law, the disclosure of state summary criminal history information to an unauthorized person is a crime.The bill would also require the Attorney General to furnish state summary criminal history information to county staff performing pretrial investigation and release services, as specified, and if needed in the course of their duties, and allow the Attorney General to furnish federal-level criminal history information to a treatment provider, as specified, with the consent of the subject of the state summary criminal history and for purposes of furthering the subject’s compliance with pretrial release or diversion. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.(4) Existing law requires a local criminal justice agency to furn
CA SB 996 - Scott Thomas Wilk
Comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education.
04/04/2024 - Set for hearing April 17.
SB 996, as introduced, Wilk. Comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education. The California Healthy Youth Act requires school districts, defined to include county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, the California School for the Blind, and charter schools, to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. The act authorizes a school district to provide that education earlier than grade 7 with age-appropriate and medically accurate information. The act requires each school district to notify parents and guardians of pupils about its plan to provide sexual health education and HIV prevention instruction for the upcoming school year and to inform them, among other things, that the written and audiovisual educational materials used in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education are available for inspection.This bill would require the governing board of a school district to adopt a policy at a publicly noticed meeting specifying how parents and guardians of pupils may inspect the written and audiovisual educational materials used in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education, including that the materials, including updates or changes to the materials, are made available, within prescribed timeframes, at each schoolsite and, except as provided, publicly posted on the school district’s internet website or, if applicable, on a school district’s parent or guardian portal, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA SB 997 - Anthony J. Portantino Jr.
Pupil health: opioid antagonists and fentanyl test strips.
04/08/2024 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
SB 997, as amended, Portantino. Pupil health: opioid antagonists and fentanyl test strips. Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils. Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose, as provided.This bill would authorize school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to develop and adopt a policy that allows pupils in middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, and adult schools to carry a federally approved naloxone hydrochloride nasal product or any other federally approved opioid antagonist, as provided, for the emergency treatment of persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose. The bill would, for those local educational agencies that choose to develop and adopt a policy, to include, at a minimum, a requirement that a pupil has received instruction in the administration of the federally approved naloxone hydrochloride nasal product or other federally approved opioid antagonist. The bill would require public middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, and adult schools that are operated by a local educational agency to (1) stock and distribute fentanyl test strips, as provided, (2) notify pupils about the presence and location of fentanyl test strips, and (3) allow pupils to carry fentanyl test strips, as provided. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, 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, 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.
CA SB 998 - Eloise Gomez Reyes
Dependency: victims of human trafficking.
04/16/2024 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
SB 998, as introduced, Rubio. Dependency: victims of human trafficking. Existing law defines human trafficking to include both sex trafficking and labor trafficking.Existing law allows a child who is sexually trafficked, or who receives food or shelter in exchange for, or who is paid to perform, sexual acts, and whose parent or guardian has failed or was unable to protect the child, to be adjudged a dependent of the juvenile court.This bill would instead authorize a child who is or was a victim of human trafficking, and whose parent or guardian has failed or was unable to protect the child, to be adjudged a dependent of the juvenile court, thereby expanding the bases on which a child can be adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court to explicitly include children who are victims of labor trafficking. The bill would make various related changes to reflect this expansion, including, among other things, revising a requirement relating to the case plan for a child or nonminor dependent who is, or who is at risk of becoming, the victim of commercial sexual exploitation, to instead apply to a child or nonminor dependent who is, or who is at risk of becoming, the victim of human trafficking. By expanding county duties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.Existing law authorizes a social worker, in specified circumstances, to take temporary custody of a child who is or may be subject to the dependency jurisdiction of the court.The bill would generally prohibit a social worker from taking temporary custody of a child who is the victim of human trafficking if the child’s parent or guardian has not participated, either directly or indirectly, in the child’s trafficking.Existing law establishes the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Program, which is administered by the State Department of Social Services. The program requires the department to provide funds to participating counties to provide training to county children’s services workers to identify, intervene, and provide case management services to children who are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking and to foster caregivers for the prevention and identification of potential victims. Existing law requires the department to provide specified information to the Legislature regarding the implementation of these provisions, including the number of victims served by each county and the types of services provided, no later than April 1, 2017.This bill would change the name of the program to the Human Trafficked Children Program and revise all parts of the program to include all children who are victims of human trafficking, including those who are the victims of labor trafficking. The bill would require the department to provide and update information provided to the Legislature regarding implementation of these provisions and to provide additional information relating to serving child victims of labor trafficking.Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association, to ensure that the child welfare information system is capable of collecting data concerning children who are commercially sexually exploited, as specified. This bill would require the department to ensure that the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System is capable of collecting data concerning children who are victims of human trafficking no later than June 1, 2025.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.