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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02.25.20 Email from Paul Yoder - 2020 Introduced Bills - Housing,Land Use,Planning - 3 of 7 Position er ave their arrest a person who has had their supervisors for court facilities and f misdemeanor offenses or who are on probation for urt, together with the district attorney and the public Summary entation of the 2011 Realignment Legislation for a crime for which they would mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other Courts/Clerks - pecified.This bill would conform various statutory provisions of law to the e Judicial Council to establish a task force on county law libraries, and provisions related to impose a state (1)The California Constitution provides for the abolition of municipal courts and their unification within the superior courts, as sabolition of municipal courts and their unification within the superior courts, including, among others, repealing provisions relating to the responsibilities of a county board of operation. The bill would also make related statutory changes with respect to the operations of the superior courts, including, among others, responsibilities for court security for the superior courts, the duties of thspecific county courts.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law authorizes counties to provide drug court programs for specified individuals. Existing law authorizes the presiding judge of the superior codefender, to establish a preguilty plea drug court program that includes a regimen of graduated sanctions and rewards, individual and group therapy, and educational or vocational counseling, among oththings.This bill, until January 1, 2025, would clarify that a court may collaborate with outside organizations on a program to offer mental health and addiction treatment services, as defined, to women who are charged in a complaint that consists only oone or more misdemeanor offenses. The bill would exclude from these provisions a woman who is charged with a felony or who is under supervision for a felony conviction.Existing law allows a person who has suffered an arrest that did not result in a conviction, or resulted in a conviction that was subsequently vacated or reversed on appeal, to petition the court to hand related records sealed. Existing law allows a person who has fulfilled the conditions of probation, was convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation, was sentenced to a county jail for a felony, or was sentenced prior to implemhave been eligible to be sentenced to a county jail to petition the court to set the conviction aside and dismiss the accusation or information against them.This bill would allowconviction set aside and dismissed to petition to have their arrest and related records sealed. Because this bill would result in additional duties on local law enforcement agencies to seal these arrest records, this bill would existing laws. JUD.PRINT From printer. From printer. RLS. Referred to -- - Location ASSEMBLY 2/6/2020 Com. on JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. D D R and addiction Bill ID/Topic AB 1984MaienscheinCourts.AB 2351WaldronDrug courts: mental health services.SB 1045BradfordCriminal records: sealing. Position hts. internet from accessing all or part of ability Access to review those rm, or corporation that denies or interferes with ovided using a project selection process that, date standards for effective communication by - to - Summary including outreach efforts, and by preparing and hosting on ervices to the public. The bill would, in order for a plaintiff to be Disability Access d other existing laws. ified, if the internet website complies with specified standards for the accessibility of an or distinction contrary to rights afforded by law, for actual damages suffered, exemplary home supportive services. - (1)Existing law imposes liability upon a person who denies, aids or incites a denial, or makes any discriminationdamages, a civil penalty, and attorney’s fees, as specified, to any person who was denied the specified rights. Existing law also imposes liability upon a person, fiadmittance to or enjoyment of public facilities or otherwise interferes with the rights of an individual with a disability, as specified, for damages and attorney’s fees to a person who was denied those rigExisting law establishes in state government the California Commission on Disability Access which is required to provide information regarding preventing or minimizing problems of compliance by California businesses by providing educational services, its internet website a Guide to Compliance with State Laws and Regulations Regarding Disability Access Requirements.This bill would specify that statutory damages based upon the inaccessibility ofwebsite under these provisions shall only be recovered against a business establishment or public place if the internet website fails to provide equally effective communication or to facilitate full and equal enjoyment of the entity’s goods and sentitled to statutory damages for internet website inaccessibility, require the plaintiff to have personally encountered a barrier to accessing the internet website or have been deterredthe internet website of a place of public accommodation. The bill would specify that an internet website is presumed to provide equally effective communication for the purpose of an award of minimum statutory damages, as specinternet website established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. The bill would require the California Commission on Disstandards to determine whether they are the most upmeans of internet websites. The bill would also make other conforming changes.This bill contains other related provisions anExisting law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program, pursuant to which the Department of Housing and Community Development provides loans to pay specified costs of housing projects that meet specified criteria. Existing law requires the loans to be pramong other things, evaluates projects for funding based on weighted underwriting and evaluative criteria that give consideration to projects that meet certain criteria, including whether the project services households at the lowest income levels, as specified.This bill would include among the evaluative criteria whether the projects allocate 25% of units for individuals with disabilities who receive regional center services or in JUD. Referred to From printer. RLS. -- Location ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on JUD.SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21. D D Bill ID/Topic AB 2123ChauAccessibility: internet website.SB 1118CaballeroMultifamily Housing Program. Position - nd other of State’s ns, including regulations prohibits a person from making a rticipating in the election shall be furnished tate office from accepting a contribution from an allot, marked or unmarked in whole or in part, at every Summary Existing law, operative until January 1, 2021, authorizes the rts to promote voter registration and encourage eligible voters to ake specified recommendations and take other actions to make voting of State to compile, file, and publish the returns from the public mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions a - Elections owned utility from making a contribution to a candidate for elective state office. The - al party that the elector prefers, or the elector may decline to disclose a political party limiting audits in lieu of this 1% manual tally beginning with the March 3, 2020, statewide - owned utility. By expanding the scope of existing crimes with regard to contribution limitations, - ertain provisions governing the registration of electors to vote at any election held within the t’s provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor and subject to specified penalties.This bill would Existing law authorizes every person who qualifies under the California Constitution and who complies with cterritory within which the person resides and the election is held.This bill would instead require a person who qualifies and is registered to vote to cast a belection held within the territory within which the person resides and the election is held. The bill would require the Secretary of State to enforce this requirement. The Political Reform Act of 1974 imposes various limitations on contributions that may be made to, or accepted by, candidates for elective office. The act generallycontribution totaling more than $3,000 to a candidate for elective state office, and a candidate for elective state office from accepting a contribution totaling more than $3,000, except as specified. A violation of the acprohibit an investorbill would also prohibit a candidate for elective sinvestorthis bill would impose a stateexisting laws. Under existing law, at the time of registering and of transferring registration, an elector may disclose the name of the politicpreference. At partisan primary elections, existing law prescribes that each voter who has declined to disclose a preference for any one of the political parties paonly a nonpartisan ballot containing only the names of all candidates for nonpartisan offices, voternominated offices, and measures to be voted for at the primary election, unless the voter requests a ballot of a political party and that political party, by party rule duly noticed to the Secretary of State, authorizes a person who has declined to disclose a party preference to vote the ballot of that political party.This bill would further direct the Secretarypresidential primary ballot conspicuously on the Secretary’s internet website, as specified. This bill would also direct the Secretary to promulgate regulations implementing these provisiospecifying that a political party need not consider the returns from the public presidential primary ballot.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law designates the Secretary of State as the chief elections officer of the state and requires the Secretary of State to make reasonable effovote.This bill would require the Secretary of State to establish a Native American Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee. The committee would include the Secretary of State, the Secretarydesignees, and additional members appointed by the Secretary of State who have demonstrated experience with voting rights or are county elections officials. The committee would serve in an advisory capacity to the Secretary of State and would mmore accessible to Native American voters. Existing law requires an elections official, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, to conduct a public manual tally of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official, as specified. use of risk E. & R.E. & R.E. & R.PRINTPRINT Referred to Referred to Referred to From printer. From printer. ----- Location ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Com. on E. & R.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on E. & R.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on E. & R.ASSEMBLY 2/15/2020 May be heard in committee March 16.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 D D D bility Advisory D R Bill ID/Topic AB 2070LevineElections: compulsory voting.AB 2079KileyPolitical Reform Act of 1974: contribution prohibitions.AB 2207ArambulaElections: no party preference voters: presidential primary ballots.AB 2314RamosNative American Voting AccessiCommittee.AB 2400Quirk - ude a limiting audit - risk order to participate de general election. limiting audits until - limiting audit in only - her related provisions and roving, acquiring, leasing, person voter registration activities, - ould require a county or a city and voting system guidelines until state recinct board to provide a no party preference mail applications, in each county jail facility. The - by - nicipal, district, and school district elections to be held on an reference and how the voter may request a ballot of one of the and the opportunity to appeal a denial of admittance. The bill would oters. The federal act requires a voter registration agency to distribute mail jurisdictional contest.This bill contains other related provisions. - uidelines that provide specifications and requirements against which voting hin the county. The bill would remove the requirement to perform a partial risk y rule duly noticed to the Secretary of State, authorizes a voter who has declined to jurisdictional contest.This bill would extend the authority to use risk - primary election. Under this law, a participating county is required to perform a partial of each crossJanuary 1, 2023. The bill would authorize a county to choose to perform the risksome of the contests witlimiting audit of each cross(1)Existing law requires the Secretary of State to coordinate with voter registration agencies in order to facilitate compliance with the federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and promote the exercise of the right to vote by eligible vvoter registration application forms, assist applicants in completing voter registration application forms, and accept completed voter registration application forms.This bill wcounty that operates a jail facility to allow organizations to conduct inincluding, but not limited to, the provision of votebill would require a county or city and county to establish policies and criteria governing the admittance of individuals from those organizations into jail facilities, including procedures for notifying an individual of the basis for denial of admittancerequire the sheriff of the county or city and county in which a jail facility is located to publish those procedures on the sheriff’s internet website, as specified.This bill contains otother existing laws. Existing law generally requires a voter to disclose a preference for a political party in in the political party’s primary election. Existing law permits a voter who has declined to disclose a political party preference to request the ballot of a political party at a partisan primary election if the political party, by partdisclose a political party preference to vote the ballot of the political party at that election. Existing law requires, at a partisan primary election, a member of the pvoter with a uniform notification informing the voter that the voter may request a political party’s ballot, as specified.This bill would authorize, at a partisan primary election, a nonpartisan ballot to inclstatement informing a no party preference voter of the procedure for that voter to obtain a ballot that includes candidates for partisan office. The statement would be required to include an explanation of how the voter may change the voter’s party ppolitical parties that has authorized no party preference voters to vote in its primary election.Existing law requires all state, county, muestablished election date, as specified. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require county supervisor elections to be held with the statewiExisting federal law, the Help America Vote Act of 2002, provides payments to states for activities that improve the administration of elections, including, among other things, impmodifying or replacing voting systems and technology and methods for casting and counting votes. The act establishes the United States Election Assistance Commission and requires the commission to adopt voluntary voting system gsystems can be tested for their functionality, accessibility, and security capabilities.This bill would delete the requirement that the Secretary of State use the federal voluntarystandards and regulations are adopted, and would require the Secretary of State to update state standards and regulations as the federal guidelines are updated or amended.This bill contains other existing laws. PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. Introduced. Introduced. March 21. ---- May be heard in committee March 20.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committeeASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. - DD D D Election results: risklimiting audits.AB 2427GipsonElections: voter registration.AB 2650BermanElections: no party preference voters: partisan primary elections.AB 3037SalasCounty supervisor elections.AB 3195BermanVoting system standards. lot g elections lot was mandated local - e direct recording electronic e bill would require that a a state person from offering a voter any form ct board at a polling place or vote center, or (3) election unless it has been certified by the mandated local program. This bill contains other related - nt offense, the bill would require the Secretary of State to free telephone number. This bill would require a person who - e a state y of State. The bill would require the order of candidates for each g a direct recording electronic voting system, the elections official to eturn vote by mail ballots for persons other than the designated person’s ept as specified, a voting system becomes nonfunctional. The bill would require with specified information about each registered person. The bill would require a ignated the registered person to return the voter’s vote by mail ballot. The bill would make a violation Existing law requires an elections official to deliver to a precinct additional ballots if the precinct board is unable to furnish a ballot to a qualified voter because there is an insufficient number of ballots. Existinlaw requires the precinct board to provide each voter with the option of casting a vote immediately using an alternative procedure, as specified. Existing law requires, in the case of an election for a state or federal office, for each polling place usinalso provide paper ballots equivalent to specified percentages of voters depending on the type of election and to establish procedures for the use of the paper ballots in the event thvoting system becomes nonfunctional.This bill would require an elections official to establish an alternative procedure for the use of paper ballots in the event that a ballot marking system, a ballot on demand system, or, excthe elections official to submit the alternative procedure to the Secretary of State for approval. By increasing the duties of local elections officials, the bill would impose program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law requires a vote by mail voter to return a voted vote by mail ballot (1) by mail or in person to the elections official, (2) in person to a member of a precinto a vote by mail ballot dropoff location, as specified. Existing law permits a vote by mail voter who is unable to return the ballot to designate another person to return the ballot. Existing law requiresofficials to establish procedures to track and confirm receipt of a voted vote by mail ballot and to provide that information via online access or a tollcollects and is designated to rspouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, or a person residing in the same household as the designated person to register with the Secretary of State, as specified. Thregistered person be a United States citizen and at least 18 years of age. The bill would require the Secretary of State to assign a registration number to each person and to develop and maintain a publically accessible databaseregistered person to provide each voter designating the person to return the voter’s ballot with a receipt containing specified information and would prohibit the registeredof compensation in exchange for designating the person to return the voter’s ballot. The bill would require a registered person to file a declaration containing specified information and identifying each voter who desof these provisions an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $100 for a first offense and $200 for a second offense. For a third or subsequepermanently revoke the registered person’s registration. The bill would require the that tracking and confirmation procedures established by elections officials confirm whether a vote by mail balcollected and returned by a person required to register pursuant to these provisions. By expanding the scope of the existing crime of perjury, by creating a new crime, and by increasing the duties of local elections officials, this bill would imposprovisions and other existing laws. Existing law prohibits the use of a voting system in an Secretary of State and specifies requirements for elections using voting machines. Prior to each election, the Secretary of State must conduct a random drawing of the letters of the alphabet to determine the balorder of candidates for each office on the ballot.This bill would require, beginning January 1, 2021, all voting machines to have the capability to randomize the order of candidates for each office on the ballot in order to be certified by the Secretaroffice on the ballot to be randomized for all elections using these voting machines. T PRIN Introduced. From printer. Introduced. RLS.RLS. --- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21.SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. R D D lots. AB 3250BermanElections: ballots.SB 1124BorgeasElections: vote by mail balSB 1397AllenVoting machines: ballot order. er registration card to e the candidates who received the the affidavit of voter registration the name of the political eference. mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other - ots cast for candidates for that office to be elected to that office. This bill would ould impose a state (1)Existing law requires a candidate for a nonpartisan office who at a primary election receives votes on a majority of all the ballexempt from that requirement candidates for county nonpartisan offices, including a county office in a charter county, but not a charter city and county, and would requirhighest and second highest number of votes cast for nomination to that office to be placed on the ballot at the ensuing general election. By imposing new duties on counties, including county elections officials, the bill wexisting laws. Existing law authorizes a person to disclose on party at the time of registering to vote or transferring a registration to vote. Existing law also authorizes the person to decline to disclose a political party preference, and requires the votinclude an option allowing the person to do so.This bill would require the word “Independent” to be included with “No Party,” “None,” or similar wording as part of the option that permits the person to decline to disclose a party pr Introduced. Introduced. RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. DD rs: consolidation SB 1450UmbergElections: county officewith statewide elections.SB 1468UmbergVoter registration: party preference. Position Sons, or ting as a a specified 2/14/2020 it is in the best interest of Last Amended on e occurrence of the violation. purposes of specified wage orders. Existing er’s jurisdiction.This bill would provide that the use of mpts specified occupations and business relationships Summary part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test, to determine if - month deadline, described above, to within one year after the care facility. The bill would authorize each worker who provides - ll would expand the prescribed purposes to also include diagnosis, Employers ints subject to the 6 nerally authorizes people who believe that they have been discharged or otherwise considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that Existing law requires employers to provide their employees paid sick leave that is accrued at rate. Existing law authorizes an employee to request a paid sick day for prescribed purposes, including diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee’s family member.This bicare, or treatment of an existing behavioral health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee’s family member.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations W. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee fpurposes of claims for wages and benefits arising under wage orders issued by the Industrial Welfare Commission. Existing law requires a 3workers are employees or independent contractors for statutory law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is the “ABC” test is met. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exefrom the application of Dynamex and these provisions. Existing law instead provides that these exempt relationships are governed by the multifactor test previously adopted in the case of S. G. Borello &Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341. This bill would recast and reorganize those statutory provisions and would make nonsubstantive changes. (1)Existing law creates the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is headed by the Labor Commissioner, and commits to it the general authority to enforce the requirements of the Labor Code. Existing law gediscriminated against in violation of any law enforced by the Labor Commissioner to file a complaint with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within 6 months after thExisting law generally requires the Labor Commissioner to commence actions to enforce labor standards within 3 years of their accrual, as specified.This bill would extend the period of time within which people may file complaoccurrence of the violations.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and determine various matters arising under the labor commissiontechnology shall not limit a worker who is providing direct patient care from exercising independent clinical judgment in the assessment, evaluation, planning and implementation of care, nor from acpatient advocate. The bill would define “technology” for these purposes to mean scientific hardware or software including algorithms derived from the use of health care related data, used to achieve a medical or nursing care objective at a healthdirect patient care to be free to override health information technology and clinical practice guidelines if, in their professional judgment, and in accordance with their scope of practice, the patient to do so. The bill would prohibit an employer from retaliating or otherwise discriminating against a worker providing direct patient care who requests to override health information technology and referred L. & E.L. & E.L. & E.PRINT - Referred to ReReferred to From printer. ---- 0 Location ASSEMBLY 1/17/2020 Com. on L. & E.ASSEMBLY2/18/2020 to Com. on L. & E.ASSEMBLY 1/30/202Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22. D D ion technology: D Bill ID/Topic D AB 1844ChuPaid sick leave: behavioral health conditions.AB 1850GonzalezEmployee classification.AB 1947KalraEmployment violation complaints: requirements: time.AB 2604CarrilloEmployment: health informatworker rights. - - and - es, would rers by the Department discrimination, abridgment, or lans and health insurers that are a injury arising out of and in the course of the against an employer who has retaliated or ating factor in the employment action or administered by the Administrative Director of y. The bill would revise the definition of infertility, urance policy provide infertility treatment under agreed Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and Keene - rance policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 1990, offer guidelines or discusses with other employees or supervisors overriding health information mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing - s religious and ethical principles, as specified.This bill would require every health care of Justice who comes within the “state peace officer/firefighter” class, a law enforcement , age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status.This bill would provide that an clinical practicetechnology and clinical practice guidelines, or both. The bill would authorize a worker who is subject to retaliation to file a complaint with the Labor Commissionerdiscriminated against the employee.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing law, the Knoxregulation 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 insuof Insurance. Existing law imposes various requirements and restrictions on health care service plans and health insurers, including, among other things, a requirement that every group health care service plan contract or health insucoverage for the treatment of infertility, except in vitro fertilization. Existing law provides that any employer that is a religious organization, or health care service psubsidiary of an entity whose owner or corporate member is a religious organization, shall not be required to offer coverage for forms of treatment of infertility in a manner inconsistent with the religious organization’service plan contract or health insurance policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2021, to provide coverage for the treatment of infertilitand would remove the exclusion of in vitro fertilization from coverage. The bill would delete the exemption for religiously affiliated employers, health care service plans, and health insurance policifrom the requirements relating to coverage for the treatment of infertility, thereby imposing these requirements on these employers, plans, and policies. The bill would also delete the requirement that a health care service plan contract and health insupon terms that are communicated to all group contractholders and prospective group contractholders. Because the violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the billimpose a statelaws. Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Among other workers’ compensation benefits, existing law entitles a member of the Departmentofficer employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and a harbor police officer employed by the San Francisco Port Commission, as specified, who is disabled bymember’s duties, to a leave of absence while so disabled without loss of salary, in lieu of disability payments, for a period not exceeding one year.This bill would make that benefit available to all rankfile and supervisory firefighters employed by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection whose principal duties include active fire suppression or prevention services.Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without harassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expressionintentional violation of the act regarding employment occurs when a person intends to discriminate using any of the protected characteristics of any person as a motivdecision even though other factors may have also motivated the action or decision, as proven by direct or circumstantial evidence.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. Introduced. --- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. nt: D D D AB 2781WicksHealth care coverage: treatment for infertility.AB 2797WoodLeave of absence: firefighters.AB 2947BontaDiscrimination: employee complaistandard of proof. y - ssist a employer ion and training on use to grant a s fees. The month period, if the - ant a request for family care is bill contains other related f 25 or more employees from terminating, reducing, or oing so. This bill would authorize an employee who has been employees within 75 miles of the worksite where the employee month period for family care or medical leave, if the employer - of service with the employer and at least 1,250 hours of service with Roberti Family Rights Act, or the California Family Rights Act ed under the act is a crime. The act generally requires licensees and month period for family care or medical leave, if the - - Brown - d staff in adults residential care facilities. The bill would require the training to, family and medical leave of up to 12 workweeks in any 12 ting law prohibits an employer from discontinuing or changing coverage for medical or other health (1)Existing law, the Moore(CFRA), makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refrequest by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12month period for family care and medical leave, as specified. Existing law makes this leave available to an employee with more than 12 months the employer within the last 12 months. Existing law creates an exception to this provision, by prescribing that it is not an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grand medical leave by an employee if the employer employs less than 50 employees within 75 miles of the worksite where that employee is employed.This bill would delete that exception. The bill would require an employer to allowemployer employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles of the worksite where the employee is employed, 6 workweeks in any 12employs at least 20 but not more than 49 employees within 75 miles of the worksite where the employee is employed, and 2 workweeks in any 12employs at least one but not more than 19 is employed.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law provides employees with the right to take time off work without discharge or discrimination for a variety of reasons, including taking time off to appear in school on behalf of a child or to afamily member who is the victim of domestic abuse or sexual assault.This bill would prohibit an employer from refusing to grant a request by any employee to take up to 10 days of bereavement leave or to interfere with or restrain an employee from ddischarged, disciplined, or discriminated against for exercising their right to bereavement leave to bring a civil action against their employer for reinstatement, specified damages, and attorney’provisions of the bill would not apply to an employee who is covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement that provides for bereavement leave and other specified working conditions.Exisbenefits for its employees without providing specified notice of the termination or change at least 15 days in advance.This bill would prohibit an employer omodifying the employer’s contribution to an employee’s health care coverage while the employee is engaged in a lawful strike.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (1)The California Community Care Facilities Act generally requires the State Department of Social Services to license, inspect, and regulate community care facilities, defined to include, among others, anfacility that provides nonmedical residential care, day treatment, adult daycare, or foster family agency services for children, adults, or children and adults. A violation of the act or a willful or repeated violation of any rule or regulation promulgatemployees of licensees to complete specified education and training requirements, including, among others, training on management and supervision of staff. This bill would require educatfederal, state, and local jurisdiction employment laws for certain individuals who work in facilities licensed under the act, including, among others, a facility manager and direct childcare workers in a group home and crisis nursery anamong other things, be consistent with information in the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement Policies and Interpretations Manual governing residential facilities.Thprovisions and other existing laws. PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT Introduced. Introduced. Introduced. Introduced. ---- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. d D D D D AB 2992WeberEmployment practices: leave time anunemployment benefits.AB 2999LowEmployees: bereavement leave.AB 3240GrayLabor disputes: strike pay.AB 3313BontaMandatory training: employment laws. person against procedure and sex, gender, gender identity, gender at the time of each payment of wages, to furnish to an award of costs and reasonable attorney’s e employer 65 calendar days of the postmark date of the w. Existing law authorizes the commissioner, in a sued a citation to that employer for the same violation. procedure utilizes pretested assessment technology that, upon s to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination, abridgment, or a specified alternative dollar amount, whichever is greater, and to be awarded costs and fied requirements before bringing an action against the employer, which would include providing iscriminatory, if the test or procedure meets specified criteria, including, among other things, that it is Existing law requires an employer, either semimonthly ortheir employees with an accurate itemized statement showing specified information. Existing law authorizes an employee to recover for a knowing and intentional violation of that provision actual damages, orattorney’s fees. Existing law authorizes an employee to also bring an action for injunctive relief to ensure compliance with that provision and entitles the employee fees. Existing law provides for specified civil penalties for violations of itemized wage statements.This bill would require an employee alleging a violation of itemized wage statement provisions to meet speciwritten notice by certified mail to the employer of the alleged violation, including the facts and theories to support the alleged violation, and would allow thnotice to cure the violation, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all personharassment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, expression, age, sexual orientation, or military and veteran status. This bill would create a presumption that an employer’s decision relating to hiring or promotion based on a test or other selection procedure is not djob related and meets a business necessity, as defined by the bill for purposes of these provisions and specified existing law, and that the test oruse, resulted in an increase in the hiring or promotion of a protected class compared to prior workforce composition. The bill would also require the employer to keep records of the testing or submit them for review by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, upon request, in order to qualify for the presumption. The bill would define other terms for purposes of these provisions.Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner, who is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within Department of Industrial Relations, to issue a citation upon determining that a had paid or caused to be paid a wage for overtime work in violation of those provisions relating to working hours, any provision regulating hours and days of work in any order of the Industrial Welfare Commission, or any applicable local overtime lajurisdiction where a local entity has the legal authority to issue a citation against an employer for a violation of any applicable local overtime law, on request from the local entity, to issue a citation an employer for a violation of any applicable local overtime law if the local entity has not cited the employer for the same violation. Existing law prohibits a local entity from issuing a citation to the employer if the commissioner has already isExisting law provides specified civil penalties for violations of these provisions.This bill would increase the amount of those civil penalties for violations of these provisions. From printer. From printer. Introduced. RLS.RLS.RLS. --- SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21.SENATE 2/21/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 22.SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. D D D oyment: SB 1129DoddEmployment: itemized wage statements: violations: actions.SB 1241Gonzalez, LenaDiscrimination in emplemployment tests and selection procedures.SB 1331BradfordLocal government: overtime enforcement. Position using a ent sworn under penalty rk closely with the Director nd improve resiliency to the to report directly to the Governor nment consisting of various state manner.This bill would establish the to perform enterprise information technology Summary ccompanied by a notarized statement sworn under penalty of mandated local program.This bill contains other related - include with the request a statement of identity notarized pursuant to g laws. eographic information systems (GIS) projects, promulgating standards for data General Government , which would be established by this bill. The bill would require the council to advise the d organizations, as defined, to provide a comprehensive suite of coordinated incentives base - isting law, a certified copy of a birth, death, marriage, or military service record may be supplied mprove natural resource protection, increase the availability of affordable housing, improve vised by the Director of Technology. Existing law authorizes the director and the department to Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council in state goveragency heads and 3 public members. Existing law requires the council, among other things, to identify and review activities and funding programs of state agencies that may be coordinated to improve air and water quality, itransportation, meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, encourage sustainable land use planning, and revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainableEnvironmental and Justice Empowerment Outreach Pilot Program from January 1, 2021, through January 1, 2025, and would have the program be administered by the council as a grant pilot program for eligible communityand services to disadvantaged communities, as defined, at the resident household level to provide economic savings, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, aimpacts of climate change. The bill would require the council to submit specified reports to the Legislature on the program no later than December 31, 2025.Existing law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency and authorizes the Director of Technology to supervise the department and on issues relating to information technology.This bill would establish, until January 1, 2031, the California Geographic Information Office within the Department of Technology for the purpose of coordinating the state’s gcollection and sharing, and managing shared data resources. The bill would authorize the Geographic Information Officer, appointed by the Governor, to direct the office and to woof Technology. The officer’s duties would include, among others, developing a state GIS strategic plan in consultation with key stakeholders, including, but not limited to, the California Geographic Information Advisory Councilofficer on issues of policy and implementation.Under exby the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to an authorized person, as defined, who submits a written, faxed, or digitized image request aperjury that the applicant is an authorized person. Existing law, until January 1, 2021, also authorizes the official to accept an electronic acknowledgment verifying the identity of the applicant multilayered remote identity proofing process if the request for a certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record is made electronically. If the applicant’s identity cannot be established electronically, existing law requires the applicant toexisting law. The bill would delete the January 1, 2021, sunset date for authorizing the department to accept an electronic verification of identity accompanied by an electronic statemof perjury for the above purposes, thereby applying those provisions indefinitely. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a stateprovisions and other existinExisting law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency, which is superexercise various powers in creating and managing the information and technology policy of the state. Existing law includes among the director’s duties the duty functions and services, including, but not limited to, implementing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) NAT. PRINTPRINTPRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. From printer. ---- Location ASSEMBLY RES.2/20/2020 Com. on NAT. RES.ASSEMBLY 2/13/2020 May be heard in committee March 14.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20. Office. D D I R Bill ID/Topic AB 2089Rivas, LuzEnvironmental and Justice Empowerment Outreach Pilot Program.AB 2209MayesCalifornia Geographic InformationAB 2376FloraVital records: certified copies: electronic requests.AB 2392RodriguezGovernment Operations Agency: State - nt, on ing quarterly and annual e elected office of Auditor t has major challenges risk local government agency audit - facility, as specified, is subject to a city or atewide GIS platform, and recommending e potential of waste, fraud, abuse, or Tax Collector into th - alifornia Work Opportunity and Responsibility to areas of duplication and coordinating the state’s f “wireless telecommunications facility” to include, among other sue reports on any local government agency, including any city, county, Controller and Treasurer - certain records regarding alternative investments in which public investment hat are at high risk.This bill would authorize the California State Auditor to include Tax Collector.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions. - State GIO on issues of policy and implementation. Specifically, the bill would require the risk local government agency audit program any local agency or district association that the Treasurer - - r agencies. This bill would establish the position of the State Geographic Information Officer (State and sharing services, applications, and program and project management activities in partnership with otheGIO) within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would task the State GIO with analyzing the geospatial data collected statewide to identify gaps orgeographic information projects, among other duties. The bill would also establish the California Geographic Information System Advisory Council composed of state GIS users, for the purpose of advising thecouncil to be responsible for determining rules and policies involving defining GIS standards and responsibilities, identifying strategies for sharing within the ststrategies for collaborative GIS projects.Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified criteria, but a collocation facility, which is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipmeor immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subject to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would revise the definition oequipment and network components listed, “emergency backup generators” to emergency power systems that are integral to providing wireless telecommunications services.Existing law authorizes the California State Auditor to establish a highprogram to identify, audit, and isor special district, or any publicly created entity that the California State Auditor identifies as being at high risk for the potential of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement or thaassociated with its economy, efficiency, or effectiveness. Existing law authorizes the California State Auditor to consult with the Controller, the Attorney General, and other state agencies in identifying local government agencies tin the highCalifornia State Auditor identifies as being at high risk for thmismanagement or that has major challenges associated with its economy, efficiency, or effectiveness.This bill contains other existing laws. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. Existing law excludes from the disclosure requirementfunds invest.This bill would exempt from disclosure under the act specified records regarding an internally managed private loan made directly by a public investment fund, includfinancial statements of the borrower or its constituent owners, unless the information has already been publicly released by the keeper of the information.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law authorizes the boards of supervisors in specified counties, by ordinance, to consolidate the duties of the offices of AuditorControllerExisting law establishes the State Department of Social Services and requires the department to administer various public social services programs, including the C PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. ----- ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 D l D D D D risk loca - Geographic Information Officer.AB 2421QuirkLand use: permitting: wireless communications.AB 2452Garcia, CristinaState auditor: audits: highgovernment agency audit program.AB 2473CooperPublic investment funds.AB 2638RodriguezLocal government.AB 2712Low added tax - or posting for at least 3 years . set of requirements, prohibitions, and enact that law as the Fair Play in - reporting and antidiscrimination policy come Program, under which a California to fund the CalUBI Program with a value required to fulfill the purposes of its collection. The bill he local agency or county or counties that the local agency counting Act authorizes a public agency to elect to become nically, as specified, and publishing the notice electronically in a prescribed income families and individuals, and the CalFresh program, under which supplemental - istance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible as defined, or in the allocation of parks and recreation facilities and resources, as defined, that ts issued monthly to individual residents of California with the intention of ensuring the economic test extent practicable from the individual who is the subject of the information rather than from Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified lownutrition assindividuals by each county.This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, to administer the California Universal Basic Inresident who is 18 years of age or older shall receive a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, except as specified. The bill would define universal basic income to mean unconditional cash payments of equal amounsecurity of recipients. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement the program, and would state the intent of the Legislatureof 10% on goods and services, as specified.Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prescribes a remedies applicable to public agencies, as defined, with regard to their collection, storage, and disclosure of personal information. The act specifically requires an agency to collect personal information to the greaanother source. This bill would require a public agency subject to the Information Practices Act of 1977 to collect the least amount of personal information also would require an agency able to fulfill its requirements by collecting nonpersonal information instead of personal information to do so. Existing law prohibits a city, county, city and county, or special district from discriminating against any person on the basis of gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs, support or enable these programs. This bill would repeal and reCommunity Sports Act and would also enact additional datarequirements as part of the act. The act would define a local agency as a city, county, city and county, or special district. As part of the act, the bill would also require a local agency that has a community youthathletics program to publicly make available at the end of each calendar year, beginning in 2021 and annually thereafter, certain data regarding the program. The bill would require the local agency to post the data prominently on the internet website of tserves or is a part of. The bill would require a local agency to provide the data to the Department of Parks and Recreation and to maintain the materials the local agency used to compile the data after the data is posted on the internet website.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The Uniform Public Construction Cost Acsubject to uniform construction cost accounting procedures. The act authorizes bidding procedures for public projects, as specified. Those bidding procedures include procedures for the publication and electronic transmission of notice inviting formal bids.This bill would authorize a public agency, as an alternative to the publication or posting requirement, to meet the notice inviting formal bids requirement by transmitting notice electromanner on the public agency’s internet website at least 14 calendar days before the date of opening the bids.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. Introduced. Introduced. --- May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. UBI) D Curry - R R California Universal Basic Income (CalProgram.AB 2748FongPublic agencies: information practices.AB 2881AguiarDiscrimination: Fair Play in Community Sports Act.AB 2987FloraLocal agency public contracts: bidding procedures. , ld ed ing , who has to review by the appropriate .This bill contains other related egulate professions and vocations. the board to conduct a loan and grant program ansaction involving the sale or lease of goods , as specified. Existing law establishes the the Judicial Council to increase that minimum safety standards appropriate for the code enforcement ary 1, 2022, to be within the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety within the mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other exist - a county, to be appointed to administer these estates under certain circumstances. Existing law uires the Director of Consumer Affairs to enforce, among other things, various requirements on Existing law provides for the regulation of underground storage tanks by the State Water Resources Control Board. Existing law, until January 1, 2022, requiresto assist small businesses in upgrading, replacing, or removing tanks meeting applicable local, state, or federal standards.This bill would extend the operation of the loan and grant program to January 1, 2026and would make a conforming change.Existing law defines the term “code enforcement officer” as a person who is not a peace officerenforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements, and who is authorized to issue citations or file formal complaints, as specified.This bill would require each local jurisdiction that employs code enforcement officers to developofficers employed in their jurisdiction. By imposing new duties on local jurisdictions, this bill would impose a statelaws. Existing law, the Dig Safe Act of 2016, creates the California Underground Facilities Safe Excavation Board within the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The act subjects the boardpolicy committees of the Legislature. This bill would provide that the board is also known as the “Dig Safe Board” and would make conforming changes to references in the act. The bill would require the board, on and after JanuNatural Resources Agency, as established pursuant to the California Energy Infrastructure Safety Act. The bill would require policy committee review at least once every 3 yearsprovisions and other existing laws. Existing law regulates the administration of estates of decedents and permits the public administrator, an officer ofgrants public administrators a variety of powers in this regard, including the right to take control of a decedent’s property and summarily dispose of propertycompensation payable to the public administrator and the attorney, if any, for the public administrator for the filing of an application to summarily dispose of a decedent’s estate that does not exceed a specifitotal value and for the performance of any duty or service connected with that filing. Existing law entitles the public administrator to a minimum compensation of $1,000.This bill would increase the minimum compensation to $1,600. The bill would requirecompensation based on the California Consumer Price Index every 3 years.Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs, which is under the control of the Director of Consumer Affairs, and is composed of boards that license and rExisting law establishes the Professions and Vocations Fund in the state treasury for those purposes, and provides that fine and penalty money in the fund is for use upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law reqbusinesses and licenses, as provided.This bill would require a retail store in this state to accept cash payment when offered as payment by a consumer for any tror services, or both, unless a specified exception applies. The bill would define cash for these purposes to mean Federal Reserve Notes and metal coins issued by the United States as legal tender. The bill wourequire the Director of Consumer Affairs to enforce these provisions, and would impose civil penalties for a violation of these provisions, to be deposited into the Professions and Vocations Fund, as provided. This bill contains other existing laws. PRINTPRINT Introduced. Introduced. Referred to Referred to Referred to G.O.B., P. & E.D. JUD. ----- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.SENATE 1/29/2020 Com. on G.O.SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on JUD.SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on B., P. & E.D. s: D subsurface D D Sawyer - DD AB 3039QuirkUnderground storage tanks: small business loan and grant program.AB 3319JonesCode enforcement officers: safety standards.SB 865HillExcavations: installations.SB 919WieckowskiPublic administrators: compensation.SB 926HillBusiness: retail storecash payments. ys in of a local es, other n a regular basis funding pension obligations. ws. ertain conditions are met.This bill would issuance of refunding bonds by a local agency, which t the money as it deems wise or expedient in certain issuer restriction to prohibit a local agency, other than a inctions in local agencies in connection with their investment in kateboard park from permitting a person to ride a skateboard at term notes of any single issuer.This bill contains other related r any improvement district subject to taxation or assessment. This bill - ing without a license, except as specified. Existing law includes within the provides that a public entity is not liable to a person who participates in a rovisions and other existing laws. Existing law regulates the investment of public funds by local agencies, as defined. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as specified, that has money in a sinking fund or in its treasury not required for immediate needs to invessecurities and financial instruments. In this regard, existing law authorizes investment in prime quality commercial paper issued by entities meeting certain criteria. Existing law prohibits local agencithan counties, from investing more than 25% of their moneys in eligible commercial paper and further prohibits these agencies from purchasing no more than 10% of the outstanding commercial paper of any single issuer.This bill would establish distcommercial paper, as described above. The bill would prohibit local agencies that have less than $100,000,000 of investment assets under management from investing more than 25% of their moneeligible commercial paper. For a local agency that has $100,000,000 or more of investment assets under management, the bill would prohibit it from investing than 40% of their moneys in eligible commercial paper. The bill would also revise the single county or a city and a county, from investing more than 10% of its total investment assets in the commercial paper and the mediumpExisting law prohibits an operator of a sthe park, unless the person is wearing a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. Existing law provides that a skateboard facility owned or operated by a local public agency that is not supervised omay satisfy the above requirement if it complies with certain things, including the adoption of an ordinance that requires a person riding a skateboard in the facility to wear a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads, as provided. Existing lawhazardous recreational activity, and that skateboarding at a facility owned or operated by a public entity as a public skateboard park is a hazardous recreational activity, if capply the above provisions, and others relating to skateboard safety and liability, to other wheeled recreational devices, as defined.This bill contains other related provisions. (1)Existing law, the Professional Land Surveyors’ Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of land surveyors by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, and makes it unlawful to practice land surveypractice of land surveying cadastral surveying.This bill would define cadastral surveying for purposes of the act.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laExisting law generally authorizes local agencies to issue bonds and distinguishes between different types of bonds for this purpose. Existing law regulates theare issued for the purpose of refunding other indebtedness, as specified. Existing law defines “bonds” for these purposes, among other things, as bonds, warrants, notes or other evidence of indebtednessagency or any improvement district, the principal and interest of which are payable from the proceeds of ad valorem taxes or ad valorem assessments that may be levied, without limitation as to rate or amount, upon property in the local agency owould revise the definition of “bonds” in connection with issuing refunding bonds to specify that it does not mean bonds to be issued, on and after January 1, 2021, for the purpose of This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. on or From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. RLS.RLS.RLS.RLS. ---- SENATE 2/14/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 15.SENATE 2/14/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 15.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted uponafter March 20.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. : RR RR SB 998MoorlachLocal governmentinvestments.SB 1003JonesSkateboard parks: other wheeled recreational devices: safety and liability.SB 1057JonesLand.SB 1067MoorlachLocal agencies: refunding bonds. Position Employee - Home - these ibits an extended benefits to equire the aggrieved person tion of “employment” for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan c employees the right to form, join, and tempting to exercise the right to use, sick leave Summary ant, an unpaid intern or volunteer, or a person providing Employee Relations Act, as well as provisions commonly - Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the Trial Court - Milias - Employee Relations Act, and the - his bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. e restricts a settling party that is an aggrieved person, as defined, from e labor relations of the state, the courts, and specified local public agencies and , a parent in the employ of their child, or a person in the employ of their spouse, Human Resources lusive representatives on terms and conditions of employment. These acts generally employee’s accrued and available sick leave entitlement to attend to the illness of a family member efined, unless the employee authorizes the designation. Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits andeligible individuals who meet specified requirements. Existing law provides definitions for “employment” for purposes of these provisions. Existing federal and state law excludes services performed by a child in the employ of a parentfrom the definition of “employment” for purposes of unemployment taxes and unemployment insurance benefit eligibility, as specified. This bill would provide that the definipurposes of unemployment insurance coverage includes services performed by an individual in the employ of their parent, child, or spouse if that individual is providing services through the InSupportive Services program.TExisting law requires an employer who provides sick leave for employees to permit an employee to use the and prohibits an employer from denying an employee the right to use sick leave or taking specific discriminatory action against an employee for using, or atto attend to such an illness. This bill would refer to such lease as kin care leave, and would prohibit an employer from designating a sick day, taken by the employee for themselves, as a kin care day, as dExisting law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, among other things, prohemployer, a labor organization, an employment agency, an apprenticeship training program, or any training program leading to employment from harassing, based upon enumerated protected characteristics, such as race or gender, an employee, an applicservices pursuant to a contract.This bill would also make a client employer responsible for the acts of a contracted supervisor, as those terms are defined, for specified prohibited harassment underprovisions.Existing law prohibits an agreement to settle an employment dispute from containing a provision that prohibits, prevents, or otherwisworking for the employer against which the aggrieved person has filed a claim or any parent company, subsidiary, division, affiliate, or contractor of the employer.This bill would rto have filed the claim in good faith for the prohibition to apply.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law, including the MeyersEmployment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, Judicial Council EmployerTransportation Authority Transit Employerreferred to as the Educational Employment Relations Act and the Higher Education EmployerRelations Act, regulates ththeir employees. Existing law establishes other requirements relating to labor relations that are applicable to specified transit agencies. These acts grant specified publiparticipate in the activities of employee organizations of their choosing and require public agency employers, among other things, to meet and confer with representatives of recognized employee organizations and excrequire the public entities in this context to grant employee representatives of recognized employee PRINTL. & E.L. & E.PRINTPRINT From printer. Referred to Referred to From printer. From printer. ----- Location mmittee March 16. ASSEMBLY 1/28/2020 May be heard in committee February 27.ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Com. on L. & E.ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/11/2020 May be heard in committee March 12.ASSEMBLY 2/15/2020 May be heard in co D D D D D Bill ID/Topic AB 1993KamlagerUnemployment insurance: benefits.AB 2017MullinEmployee: sick leave: kin care.AB 2043GonzalezUnlawful business practices: employer liability: contracted supervisor.AB 2143Stone, MarkSettlement agreements: employment disputes.AB 2307BontaPublic employment: labor relations: release time. vides compensation or other this connection. The bill overriding health information hearings, or other ts for certain purposes in me to no earlier than 15 days after the factfinders’ local public agency employers and employees. The y” for these purposes to mean scientific hardware or described timefra - ve and would generally repeal the provisions relating to release time in negotiate with the public employer on matters within the scope of would prohibit an employer from retaliating or otherwise discriminating nel, civil service, or merit commission, among others; and to serve as a Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local - inst the employee.This bill contains other related provisions. blic Employment Relations Board from enforcing these provisions with regard to public Milias - ons. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail chnology shall not limit a worker who is providing direct patient care from exercising independent he Meyers organizations reasonable time off without loss of compensation or beneficonnection with labor relations, commonly referred to as release time.This bill would prescribe requirements relating to release time that would apply to all of the public employers and employees subject to the acts described abothose acts. The bill would require these public employers to grant a reasonable number of employee representatives of the exclusive representative reasonable time off without loss of benefits for specified activities. This requirement would apply to activities to investigate and process grievances or otherwise enforce a collective bargaining agreement or memorandum of understanding; to meet and confer or meet and representation, including preparation for the activities specified in these provisions; to testify or appear as the designated representative of the exclusive representative in conferences, proceedings before the Public Employment Relations Board or similar bodies, as specified; to testify or appear as the designated representative of the exclusive representative before the governing body of the public employer, or a personrepresentative of the exclusive representative for new employee orientations. The bill would require the exclusive representative to provide reasonable notice requesting an absence inwould specify that its provisions prescribe minimum release time rights and would prescribe requirements regarding the relation of its provisions to other labor agreements that address release time. The bill would prohibit the Putransit workers that are not otherwise subject to the board’s jurisdiction.Trepresented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizatito reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost.This bill would revise the abovewritten findings of fact and recommended terms of settlement have been submitted to the parties.This bill contains other existing laws. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and determine various matters arising under the labor commissioner’s jurisdiction.This bill would provide that the use of teclinical judgment in the assessment, evaluation, planning and implementation of care, nor from acting as a patient advocate. The bill would define “technologsoftware including algorithms derived from the use of health care related data, used to achieve a medical or nursing care objective at a health care facility. The bill would authorize each worker who prodirect patient care to be free to override health information technology and clinical practice guidelines if, in their professional judgment, and in accordance with their scope of practice, it is in the best interest of the patient to do so. The billagainst a worker providing direct patient care who requests to override health information technology and clinical practice guidelines or discusses with other employees or supervisorstechnology and clinical practice guidelines, or both. The bill would authorize a worker who is subject to retaliation to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner against an employer who has retaliated or discriminated aga PRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. -- ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22. D D AB 2433CooperLocal public employee organizations.AB 2604CarrilloEmployment: health information technology: worker rights. - and - as specified, to pay judicial remedies. the Labor Commissioner to er/firefighter” class, a law enforcement Department of Forestry and Fire Protection whose a grocery store establishment, restaurant, or retail store ift for which an employee is required to be available but is not called in to call sh - . ber’s duties, to a leave of absence while so disabled without loss of salary, in lieu of disability Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the of employment. Among other workers’ compensation benefits, existing law entitles a member of the Department of Justice who comes within the “state peace officofficer employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and a harbor police officer employed by the San Francisco Port Commission, as specified, who is disabled by injury arising out of and in the course of the mempayments, for a period not exceeding one year.This bill would make that benefit available to all rankfile and supervisory firefighters employed by the principal duties include active fire suppression or prevention services.Existing law governs the relationship between an employer and an employee with regard to hiring, promotion, discipline, wages and hours, working conditions, and administrative and Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and to conduct a hearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation.This bill would require an employer, which includes establishment, to provide its employees with a work schedule at least 7 calendar days prior to the first shift on that work schedule, except as specified. The bill would require an employer, exceptits employees modification pay for each previously scheduled shift that the employer cancels or moves to another date or time, for any previously unscheduled shift that the employer requires an employee to work, or for each onwork that shift. The bill would require an employer to post a poster containing specified information regarding an employee’s right to receive modification pay and would require create the poster and make it available. The bill would define terms for those purposes, including, among others, a grocery store establishment, restaurant, or retail store establishment.This bill contains other related provisions PRINT From printer. Referred to L., P.E. & R. -- ATE ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.SEN1/22/2020 Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. D D AB 2797WoodLeave of absence: firefighters.SB 850LeyvaWork hours: scheduling. Position t - lied on in the training der a fictitious clerk to maintain one or more raining, and maintenance of the trauma kit. ified mental health programs either through a nty clerk to timely provide to the Secretary of dical care or assistance at the scene of an emergency lan, as specified.This bill would instead require a Summary efinitely.This bill contains other related provisions and other Mandates ems, including, among other things, at least 2 tourniquets. The bill would require strant commences to transact business. Existing law further requires that person to file number of the statement.This bill would require the Secretary of State to maintain a Existing law requires a person who regularly conducts business in the state for profit unname to file a fictitious business name statement with either the clerk of the county in which its principal place of business is located or the clerk of the County of Sacramento, as specified, not later than 40 days from the time the regifile, as applicable, a statement of abandonment and a statement of withdrawal from a partnership operating under a fictitious business name. Existing law requires a county indices that permit the determination of specified information, including whether any business using a specific fictitious business name has on file a fictitious business name statement setting forth that name and, if so, the searchable index on its internet website that meets the requirements of existing law with respect to those indices maintained by county clerks and would require a couState a copy of a statement filed with the county clerk as described above, thereby imposing a statemandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration Project Act of 2002, known as Laura’s Law, until January 1, 2022, authorizes each county to elect to offer specresolution adopted by the county board of supervisors or through the county budget process if the county board of supervisors makes a finding that specified mental health programs will not be reduced as a resulof participating. Existing law authorizes participating counties to pay for the services provided from moneys distributed to the counties from various continuously appropriated funds, including the Mental Health Services Fund, when included in a county pcounty or group of counties to offer those mental health programs unless a county opts out by a resolution passed by the governing body stating the reasons for opting out and any facts or circumstances remaking that decision. The bill would also authorize a county to instead offer those mental health programs in combination with one or more counties, as specified. The bill would also repeal the expiration of Laura’s Law, thereby extending it indexisting laws. Under existing law, everyone is generally responsible, not only for the result of their willful acts, but alsofor an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person. Existing law exempts from civil liability any person who, in good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency medical or nonmeother than an act or omission constituting gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct. Existing law exempts public or private organizations that sponsor, authorize, support, finance, or supervise of people, or certifies those people in emergency medical services, from liability for civil damages alleged to result from those training programs.This bill would define “trauma kit” to mean a first aid response kit that contains specified ita person or entity that supplies a trauma kit to provide the person or entity that acquires the trauma kit with all information governing the use, installation, operation, tThe bill would apply the provisions governing civil liability described above to a lay rescuer or person who renders emergency care or treatment by the use of a trauma kit and to a person or entity that provides training in the use of a trauma kit to provide emergency medical treatment, or certifies certain persons in the use of a trauma kit.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. B.&P.HEALTHJUD. Referred to Referred to Referred to -- - Location ASSEMBLY 1/30/2020 Coms. on B. & P. and P. & C.P.ASSEMBLY 2/6/2020 Coms. on HEALTH and JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Com. on JUD. D D D Bill ID/Topic AB 1912Boerner HorvathFictitious business names.AB 1976EggmanMental health services: assisted outpatient treatment.AB 2053RodriguezEmergency response: trauma kits. city, county, or time count, as - in - mandated local - home care through various social - ect to certain exceptions. Existing law of dependents, as specified, to post that - der existing law, a person continues to be FC), Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment - s and requirements for the provision of foster This bill would require local jurisdictions to, on or cords available, if the regulations are consistent with team to serve nonminor dependents, and would require Foster Care (AFDC - poses of the California Public Records Act, to retain and preserve for at least 2 contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Gap), and the Adoption Assistance Program. Un - under its jurisdiction, including the educational and housing status. The bill would require the throughout the state, including programs that address the needs of homeless individuals and ation with the California Youth Connection, among others, to establish a working group to, by ny information that constitutes a public record not exempt from disclosure to make that public record pecified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires a public agency, defined to mean any state or local agency, to make public records available for inspection, subjspecifies that public records include any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business, including writing transmitted by electronic mail. Existing law requires any agency that has aavailable in accordance with certain provisions, and authorizes every agency to adopt regulations stating the procedures to be followed when making its rethose provisions. Existing law authorizes cities, counties, and special districts to destroy or to dispose of duplicate records that are less than two years old when they are no longer required by thespecial district, as specified.This bill would, unless a longer retention period is required by statute or regulation, or established by the Secretary of State pursuant to the State Records Management Act, require a public agency, for puryears every public record, as defined, that is transmitted by electronic mail.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, and requires the department to administer various housing programs families, and reviewing local ordinances for the design, development, and operation of homeless shelters in cities and counties that have declared a shelter crisis.before January 1, 2022, establish and submit to the Department of Housing and Community Development an actionable plan to house their homeless populations based on their latest pointsExisting law provides aid and services to children placed in outservice programs, including California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), Aid to Families with Dependent ChildrenProgram (Kineligible for those programs as a nonminor dependent until 21 years of age if, among other requirements, the person is under the jurisdiction or transitional jurisdiction of the juvenile court and, when the person attained 18 years of age, they were under an order of foster care placement by the juvenile court.This bill would require each county to collaborate with the Department of Housing and Community Development, among other entities, to form a multidisciplinaryeach county to submit an annual report to the State Department of Social Services that includes documentation of those collaborative efforts and specified status information for each nonminor dependent department to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the status of nonminor dependents and recommendations to improve foster care services for nonminor report on its internet website, and to annually present the information from the annual report at appropriate child welfare conferences, forums, and other events. The bill would also require the department, in consultJanuary 1, 2022, develop curricula for child welfare professionals and providers who work with nonminor dependents and ensure that all of the existing system toolcare to nonminor dependents are functioning with fidelity and in the best interest of each nonminor dependent. By imposing new duties on counties, the bill would impose a stateprogram.This bill JUD.PRINTPRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. --- 20 ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/19/20May be heard in committee March 20.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21. by electronic D D D AB 2093GloriaPublic records: writing transmittedmail: retention.AB 2405BurkeHousing: children and families.AB 2469ReyesNonminor dependents. was agency to be rest records, this ll the documents al, to petition the court to have their arrest nst them.This bill would allow a person who has had their mandated local program.This bill contains other related - erson to request that a copy of an agenda, or a copy of all the mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other - Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires meetings of the legislative body of a local open and public and also requires regular and special meetings of the legislative body to be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, with specified exceptions. Existing law authorizes a pdocuments constituting the agenda packet, of any meeting of a legislative body be mailed to that person. This bill would require a legislative body to email a copy of the agenda or a copy of aconstituting the agenda packet if so requested. By requiring local agencies to comply with these provisions, this bill would impose a stateprovisions and other existing laws. Existing law allows a person who has suffered an arrest that did not result in a conviction, or resulted in a conviction that was subsequently vacated or reversed on appeand related records sealed. Existing law allows a person who has fulfilled the conditions of probation, was convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation, was sentenced to a county jail for a felony, orsentenced prior to implementation of the 2011 Realignment Legislation for a crime for which they would have been eligible to be sentenced to a county jail to petition the court to set the conviction aside and dismiss the accusation or information agaiconviction set aside and dismissed to petition to have their arrest and related records sealed. Because this bill would result in additional duties on local law enforcement agencies to seal these arbill would impose a stateexisting laws. Referred to From printer. GOV. & F.RLS. -- SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on GOV. & F.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. D D ling. SB 931WieckowskiLocal government meetings: agenda and documents.SB 1045BradfordCriminal records: sea Position rease local refighting ng in relation to the ers for all items, as determined traumatic stress that develops or - upon the death of certain members after retirement c Employees’ Retirement System, beginning on or after duties as security officers and the officers of a state Summary ation system, administered by the Administrative Director of or after January 1, 2020. Existing law requires the compensation benefit to members of the system, based on final compensation, s the Department of Industrial Relations as an instrumentality of California Pensions The Public Employees’ Retirement Law requires that,and while receiving a retirement allowance, a specified sum of money be paid to the member’s designated beneficiary. Existing law provides that the additional employer contributions required to fund thesebenefits be computed as a level percentage of member compensation, and requires the contributions to be deposited in the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund.This bill would authorize the Board of Administration of the PubliJanuary 1, 2021, to adjust the death benefit amounts following each actuarial valuation to reflect changes in the All Urban California Consumer Price Index, as specified. By authorizing the board to inccontributions deposited in the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, this bill would make an appropriation. Existing law, the Public Employees’ Retirement Law, establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System, which provides a defined credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law generally provides that retirement allowances are adjusted annually to reflect increases in the cost of liviconsumer price index, as defined. Existing law defines “consumer price index” for these purposes to mean the United States city average “Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers,” effective January 1, 1978. Existing law establishegovernment.This bill would change the definition of “consumer price index,” effective January 1, 2021, to instead refer to the California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumby the Department of Industrial Relations.Existing law establishes a workers’ compensthe Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law provides, only until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state andfirefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes postmanifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit, but applies only to injuries occurring onawarded pursuant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability indemnity, and death benefits.This bill would make that provision applicable to active fimembers of the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Department of Developmental Services, and the Military Department, and to additional peace officers, including security officers of the Department of Justice when performing assigned hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Developmental Services, among other officers. PRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. From printer. RLS. --- Location ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. traumatic - System: DD D Bill ID/Topic AB 2378CooperPublic Employees’ Retirement System: postretirement death benefit.AB 2394CooperPublic Employees’ Retirement allowances: cost of living adjustment.SB 1047SternWorkers’ compensation: firefighters and peace officers: poststress. Position Cal Cal -- Cal - year pilot 23, to d mental - in the program on the quality of medical ciplinary personnel year pilot program, to - party provider to establish - aregiver education programs, a Barbara, and Ventura to s the policy mandates and directives of Cal Treatment Program, the Drug Medi - derived dementia c - doctor consultation service to provide primary care - to - al Medicaid program provisions. Existing law, until Summary egislation to provide state funding for a pilot program in the ome individuals receive health care services. The Medi incincome individuals receive health care services. The Medi Cal Specialty Mental Health Services Program.This bill would -- - tal services program to, among other things, ensure the based or evidence hiatry doctor - Cal program, including substance use disorder treatment an Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health - -- Granlund Older Californians Act, reflect aws. ormation for the purpose of coordinating housing and supportive services to - uld require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to establish and Pilot Programs (Counties) based comprehensive perina - Existing law, the Mellothe Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, and sets forth the state’s commitment to its older population and other populations served by the programs administered by the California Department of Aging. This bill woadminister the Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Caregiver Pilot Program, a 3support expanded access to evidenceand to perform specified duties, including prioritizing innovative proposals seeking to reach specified communities, and awarding grants. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026.Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to develop and maintain a statewide communityappropriate level of maternal, newborn, and pediatric care services necessary to provide the healthiest outcomes for mothers and infants. Existing law also requires the department, until January 1, 20investigate and apply for federal funding opportunities to support maternal mental health.This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to contract with a thirdand administer a centralized telepsycphysicians with specialized information regarding the mental health issues of children and perinatal women. The bill would require the department to choose 3 to 5 counties to participate or before July 1, 2021. The bill would require the department to contract with an outside evaluation firm to evaluate the pilot program and to issue a report on the program on or before November 1, 2023.This bill contains other existing lExisting law provides for the MediCare Services, under which qualified lowprogram is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Existing law provides for various benefits under the Medihealth services that are delivered through the Drug Mediorganized delivery system, and the Medideclare the intent of the Legislature to enact lCounty of San Diego to establish a unit of care coordinators whose responsibility will be to manage all of the details of a patient’s care to facilitate continued access to services and improveand mental health service delivery. Existing law authorizes a county to establish a homeless adult and family multidisteam, as defined, 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 to share confidential infensure continuity of care.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a regional pilot program in the Counties of Los Angeles, Santauthorize the sharing of mental health records of homeless individuals. Existing law provides for the MediCare Services, under which qualified lowprogram is, in part, governed and funded by federJanuary 1, 2021, or until funding is no longer available, requires the department to establish a 3 AGING & PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. ----- Location ASSEMBLY L.T.C.2/14/2020 Com. on AGING & L.T.C.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 D D rvices: D D D Bill ID/Topic AB 2001NazarianAlzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Caregiver pilot program.AB 2360MaienscheinMaternal and child mental health: telepsychiatry pilot project.AB 2601Boerner HorvathHealth care seCounty of San Diego.AB 2718LimónHomelessness: mental health records.AB 2807Rubio, Blanca lly commencing January 1, onsite coordinators who hour residential nonmedical - r drug abuse recovery or substance abuse and mental health service based treatment. Existing law also provides for the - tters related to participants, including hospital readmission and term care facility stays. - Cal participants with specified health conditions, such as cancer and - the Legislature to enact legislation that would create a nursing pilot program in a ed alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. iples of residential, community program in specified counties, including the Counties of Alameda and Sonoma, to provide medicatailored meals, as defined, to Medirenal disease. Existing law requires the department to evaluate, at the conclusion of the program, the impact of the pilot program on specified maemergency room utilization rates, and to send a report on the evaluation, on or before January 1, 2021, or within 12 months after the end of the program, to the Legislature.This bill would, 2021, include the Counties of Fresno and Kern in the program, would extend the program to January 1, 2025, and would make conforming changes.Existing law permits age restrictions in connection with housing and defines senior citizen housing for these purposes as a residential development for senior citizens that has at least 35 dwelling units.This bill would state the intent of specified number of senior affordable housing developments in 5 counties for 5 years to require collaboration between an onsite nurse who provides necessary health care andfacilitate other services that enable residents to remain living independently, and avoid costly and unnecessary hospitalizations and longExisting law declares the intent of the Legislature to encourage the development of a system of residential mental health treatment programs in every county that provide a range of alternatives to institutional care based on princlicensure and regulation of alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities by the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law defines an “alcoholism otreatment facility” to mean any premises, place, or building that provides 24services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who neThis bill would state the intent of the Legislature to establish a behavioral health treatment center in the County of Riverside, with the goal of providing a centralized for individuals and reducing recidivism and homelessness. for Introduced. Introduced. RLS.RLS. -- ment. To print. May be heard in committee March 22.SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignSENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. assignment. To print. D D Medically Tailored Meals Pilot Program.SB 1292JacksonSenior affordable housing: nursing pilot program.SB 1387RothSubstance abuse and mental health. Position be paid not cases.This bill would eliminate this Summary ting law defines “locality in which public work is performed” as the county Prevailing Wage Existing law requires that workers employed on public works, as defined, costing over $1,000less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages, and not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for holiday and overtime work, for work of a similar character in the locality in which the public work is performed. Exisin which the public work is done, in cases in which the state awards the contract, and as the limits of the political subdivision on whose behalf the contract is awarded, in other distinction in the definition of “locality in which public work is performed” and instead define the term in all cases as meaning the county in which the public work is done. PRINT From printer. - Location ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 May be heard in committee March 15. D Bill ID/Topic AB 2231KalraPrevailing wage: locality. Position tained for d becomes bill would make an ith the California tenance of records containing personal destroy the original records maintained pursuant to ure applies.This bill would enact various conforming ve in effect. The bill would contain related legislative Summary ibits a public agency from selling, renting, or distributing an l contains other related provisions and other existing laws. an exemption from disclosure applies. The act declares that access ging for a commercial purpose the personal information that the agency described rules of conduct include security awareness and training policies - is act, except as specified. ic agencies, as defined, with regard to their collection, storage, and disclosure Public Records ection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. This bill would recodify and reorganize procedures. isting law provides specified requirements to ensure uniform recording, reporting, storage, analysis, The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspthe provisions of the act. The bill would include provisions to govern the effect of recodification and state that the bill is intended to be entirely nonsubstantifindings and declarations. The bill would become operative on January 1, 2022.The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosand technical changes related to another bill that recodifies and reorganizes the California Public Records Act. The bill would only become operative if the related bill recodifying the act is enacted anoperative on January 1, 2022. The bill would also specify that any other bill enacted by the Legislature during the 2020 calendar year that takes effect on or before January 1, 2022, and that affects a provision of this bill shall prevail over thExisting law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prescribes a set of requirements, prohibitions, and remedies applicable to publof personal information. The act specifically requires an agency to establish rules of conduct for persons involved in the design, development, operation, disclosure, or maininformation and to instruct these people with respect to the rules and the requirements of the act.This bill would require that the aboveandExisting law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state. Existing law also requires every public agency to comply wPublic Records Act and with any subsequent statutory enactment amending the act, or enacting or amending any successor act.This bill would remove the restriction that the submission be voluntary, thereby expanding that exemption.This bilExisting law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prescribes a set of requirements, prohibitions, and remedies applicable to public agencies, as defined, with regard to their collection, storage, and disclosure of personal information. Existing law prohindividual’s name and address for commercial purposes, unless that action is specifically authorized by law. Existing law prescribes civil remedies and penalties for violations of the act.Thisagency be liable for all damages proximately caused by a negligent or intentional violation of the requirements of the Information Practices Act of 1977. The bill would also prohibit an agency from in any way selling, renting, or exchanholds, unless consented to by the person to whom that information applies.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Exand dissemination of criminal offender record information by criminal justice agencies in the state. Existing law authorizes a criminal justice agency to those provisions if the records have been reproduced onto another storage medium, as specified. Existing law requires that if a record has been reproduced onto optical disk, that the original record be re JUD.PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. From printer. Introduced. Introduced. ------ Location ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. conforming R Public D D DD R Bill ID/Topic n AB 2138ChauCalifornia Public Records Act.AB 2438ChauCalifornia Public Records Act: revisions.AB 2659ChePublic agencies: information practices.AB 2676QuirkCalifornia Records Act: exemptions.AB 3223GallagherInformation practices: public agencies.AB 3348BontaPublic records. erwise be available to the public if a w, the California Public Records Act, generally mandated local program.This bill contains other - urisdiction of that law enforcement agency. By imposing additional requirements on local law at least one year, as specified, before destruction.This bill would instead require that if a record has been reproduced onto optical disk, that the original record be retained for at least 16 months, as specified, before destruction.Existing law establishes within the Department of Justice the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and requires the commission to adopt rules establishing minimum standards regarding the recruitment and training of peace officers. Existing larequires each state and local agency to make its public records available for inspection by a member of the public, unless the public record is specifically exempted from disclosure. Existing law requires theCommission on Peace Officer Standards and Training and each local law enforcement agency to conspicuously post on their internet websites all current standards, policies, practices, operating procedures, and education and training materials that would othrequest was made pursuant to the California Public Records Act.This bill would require that information to be posted in English, Spanish, and any other language that is spoken by at least 5% of the population in the jenforcement agencies, the bill would impose a staterelated provisions and other existing laws. Introduced. RLS. - SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. D SB 1354HurtadoLaw enforcement agencies: public records. Position Last after January 1, 2020, t purpose. Under existing s provided.This bill would ified residence of a taxpayer e Governor to suspend operation of these axes on real property on the secured roll in bject of a pending assessment appeal, that taxes on the secured roll for the subject real Summary d types of entities is exempt from taxation if it meets certain criteria, hat the property is occasionally made available for private rentals as a vernor to create the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council and 00 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return, to $750,000 Taxation described limit on the aggregate amount treated as acquisition indebtedness - riteria is deemed to be within the welfare exemption. Existing property tax law 2/14/2020 hanges.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. for reduction in assessment.This bill, notwithstanding any other law, would require, upon the aw, the case of corrections or cancellations made to the roll following a decision of a board of nd occupies. The bill would provide that any taxes owed by the taxpayer are due and payable on Existing law requires the Gorequires the council to, among other things, identify and seek funding opportunities for state entities that have programs to end homelessness.This bill, for taxable years beginning on orand with respect to acquisition indebtedness initially incurred by a taxpayer on or after January 1, 2018, would reduce the abovefrom $1,000,000, or $500,0and $375,000, respectively. The bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, would also disallow the deduction of acquisition indebtedness with respect to a qualother than the principal residence.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing property tax law provides for the payment property ttwo installments, which are due and payable on specified dates. Under existing property tax law, unpaid property taxes become delinquent, and subject to a delinquent penalty of 10%, as provided. Under existing lequalization or assessment appeals board in an adopting county if the taxpayer has failed to pay an amount of taxes computed upon assessed value that is the sutaxpayer’s relief from penalties is limited to the difference between the county board’s final determination of value and the value on the assessment roll for the fiscal year covered by the taxpayer’s application filing of an application with a county board of equalization or assessment appeals board for a reduction in an assessment as provided, that the date on which the property are due and payable be tolled during the pendency of the assessment appeal as to the disputed amount of the taxes. The bill would authorize tolling only for real property that the taxpayer both owns aspecified dates after the resolution of the assessment appeal, as provided, and, if unpaid, deemed delinquent and subject to penalty. The bill would authorize thprovisions by executive order when, in the Governor’s judgment, economic conditions affecting the market in real property on a statewide basis warrant such a suspension. The bill would also make various conforming cAmended onPursuant to constitutional authorization, existing property tax law provides a welfare exemption, pursuant to which property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes owned and operated by specifieincluding that the property is used for the actual operation of the exempt activity, and does not exceed an amount of property reasonably necessary to the accomplishment of the exempproperty tax law, property used exclusively for the charitable purposes of museums owned and operated by religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable fund, foundation, limited liability company, or corporation that meets these crequires a person claiming the welfare exemption to file that claim with the assessor and obtain an organizational clearance certificate from the State Board of Equalization, adefine the term “museum” for these purposes and prohibit the assessor from denying a claim for the welfare exemption for property that is used exclusively for the charitable purposes of museums, as described above, on the basis t State State --BURKE, BURKE, REVENUE REVENUE referred to H. & C.D.REV. & TAXREV. & TAX - Referred to Coms. Re Referred to Com. -- Location 2:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. - TAXATION, ASSEMBLYASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY 1/30/2020 on H. & C.D. and REV. & TAX.ASSEMBLY 2/18/2020 Com. on REV. & TAX.3/9/2020Capitol, Room 126AND TAXATION,ChairASSEMBLY 2/6/2020 on REV. & TAX.3/9/2020Capitol, Room 126ANDChair appeals: I D D Bill ID/Topic AB 1905ChiuHousing and Homeless Response Fund: personal income taxation: mortgage interest deduction.AB 1959MayesProperty taxation: assessment deferral of tax payment.AB 1977BontaProperty taxation: welfare exemption: museums. weight price local - is bill n to issue charges on ogram.This bill thereafter, would l would restrict the mandated local pr - ncludes, among other things, a lease of tangible personal 23 fiscal year and for each fiscal year – ating, selling, or distributing cannabis or cannabis products sting law requires the California Department of Tax and Fee o increase this exemption.This bill, beginning with the lien date The bill would authorize a retailer in any sales, service, or lease related provisions and other existing laws. as elected to impose a surcharge on credit card transactions before payment is provided. 22 fiscal year, would increase the homeowners’ exemption from $7,000 to $14,000 of the – use and medicinal cannabis and cannabis products at the rate of 15% of the average market - Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a use tax on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of service to the community if specified conditions are met. By adding to the duties of assessors in administering the welfare exemption, this bill would impose a statecontains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law prohibits a retailer in any sales, service, or lease transaction from imposing surconsumers who elect to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means, but permits a retailer to offer discounts to encourage payments by means other than credit cards, as specified.This bill would repeal these provisions.transaction with a consumer to impose a surcharge on a cardholder who elects to use a credit card in lieu of payment by cash, check, or similar means, subject to two requirements. The bilamount of the surcharge to be impose to the lesser of the reasonable cost of the transaction to the retailer or 3.5% percent of the transaction. The bill would also require that the retailer to notify the cardholder that the retailer hThe bill would except specified utility payments from these provisions.(1)Existing property tax law provides, pursuant to the authority of a specified provision of the California Constitution, for a homeowners’ exemption in the amount of $7,000 of the full value of a “dwelling,” as defined, and authorizes the Legislature tfor the 2021full value of a dwelling. This bill, for the 2022also require the county assessor to adjust the amount of the homeowners’ exemption by the percentage change in the House Price Index for California for the first 3 quarters of the prior calendar year, as specified.This bill contains otherMAUCRSA does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction. Existing law also specifies that a county may impose a tax on the privilege of cultivating, manufacturing, producing, processing, preparing, storing, providing, donby a licensee operating under MAUCRSA. Existing law imposes a state excise tax on the purchase of adultof any retail sale by a cannabis retailer. Existing law also imposes a state cultivation tax upon all cultivators on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market, at specified rates per dryounce of cannabis flowers and leaves. ExiAdministration to administer the cannabis excise tax and the cannabis cultivation tax. This bill, on or before January 1, 2022, would require the California Department of Tax and Fee administratioand deliver to the Legislature a report on how the state, cities, and counties could receive any cannabis tax amounts due by payment using stablecoins, as described.Thetangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. That law specifies that a “sale” and “purchase” iproperty in any manner or by any means whatsoever, for consideration, except a lease of, among other things, household furnishings with a lease of the living quarters in which they are to be used.Thwould additionally exclude, from the definitions of “sale” and “purchase,” a lease of solar equipment used for purposes of complying with specified state building standards.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. Introduced. To Introduced. To ---- 2. ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 2ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 print. R D R D AB 2695QuirkCredit card surcharges.AB 2715FongCalifornia Competitiveness and Innovation Act.AB 3090TingCannabis taxes: payment using stablecoins: report.AB 3360CunninghamSales and use tax: lease of solar equipment. on in se laws. This re and the absence transferred, and if a , but an active solar poses as the appraised failure is due to reasonable cause and measured by the gross receipts from the sale of x entities. uire the board to be composed of 5 members, as 24 fiscal year. Under existing property tax law, this – ax Law, the Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, the law governing the oses does not include a change in ownership of the real property of a o transfer the base year value, as defined, of property that is eligible for ia Department of Tax and Fee Administration (the department) finds that structed” for these purposes the construction or addition of any active solar perty to a person who is the parent or legal guardian of a severely and ils to file that information return or who files an inaccurate information return to a from those information returns and calculate the amount of revenue collected from the sale, Existing law, including, but not limited to, property tax law, the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Personal Income Tax Law, the Corporation Ttaxation of insurers, the Use Fuel Tax Law, and the Diesel Fuel Tax Law, provides for tax expenditures, including exemptions, deductions, exclusions, and credits against the taxes imposed by thobill would establish in state government the California Tax Expenditure Review Board as an independent advisory body to comprehensively assess major tax expenditures, as defined, and make recommendations to the Legislature. The bill would reqspecified, who would serve without compensation.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumptithis state. Existing law requires a seller or person subject to sales and use tax to file, on or before the last day of the month following each quarterly period, a return for the preceding quarterly period. Existing law provides that if the Californa person’s failure to make a timely return or payment is due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the person’s control, and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary caof willful neglect, the person shall be relieved of the penalties for failing to file a return.This bill would require an aviation fuel retailer to provide a quarterly information return, as specified, and would subject a retailer who fapenalty of $5,000. The bill would exempt from those penalties a person who fails to file a return or provides information or files an inaccurate return, if that person’scircumstances beyond the person’s control, notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care and the absence of willful neglect. The bill would require the department to collect and disseminate, as specified, informationstorage, use, or consumption of aviation fuel in the state. This bill would also require the department to report corresponding tax revenue information to local taThe California Constitution and existing property tax law authorize a person who is either severely disabled or over 55 years of age tthe homeowners’ property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling that is of equal or lesser value located within the same county as the property from which the base year value is county ordinance so providing has been adopted, to a replacement dwelling that is located in a different county.This bill, on or after January 1, 2023, would expand this authorization to transfer the base year value of an original propermanently disabled child and resides with the child.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The California Constitution generally limits the maximum rate of ad valorem tax on real property to 1% of the full cash value of the property and defines “full cash value” for these purvalue of real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred after the 1975 assessment. Pursuant to constitutional authorization, existing property tax law excludes from the definition of “newly conenergy system, as defined, through the 2023exclusion remains in effect only until there is a subsequent change in ownershipenergy system that qualifies for the exclusion before January 1, 2025, will continue to receive the exclusion until there is a subsequent change in ownership.This bill would provide that a subsequent change in ownership for these purp Referred to Coms. Referred to Com. From printer. From printer. GOV. & F.GOV. & F.RLS.RLS. ---- SENATE 2/20/2020 on GOV. & F., G.O., and ED.SENATE 2/20/2020 on GOV. & F.SENATE 2/18/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 19.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. : California D D D erty taxation: base D SB 956JacksonTaxation: tax expendituresTax Expenditure Review Board.SB 988McGuireAviation fuel.SB 1037ArchuletaPropyear value transfers.SB 1059HillProperty taxation: new construction: active solar energy systems. term - paid to the circumstances able year, not to ral law as term rental facilitator, - btains a controlling department to transmit the t, thereby making an thorize a local agency, defined to mean a city, rental as specified in this bill. This bill would define a 019, in an amount equal to $1,176 multiplied by the term - or each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2020, in income tax credit against personal income tax, and a payment ncome tax credit. r, not to exceed $2,000 per each qualified taxpayer per taxable year, as ollected by the department to be deposited in the Local Charges for Short mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other - uding a transient occupancy tax, which is generally paid by a person for the privilege of term rentals to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration and to enter into a - term rental to mean the occupancy of a home, house, a room in a home or house, or other lodging - corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other legal entity in which another corporation, partnership, limited liability company, other legal entity, or any other person ointerest, as specified. By adding to the duties of county assessors in applying this exclusion, the bill would impose a stateexisting laws. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to impose taxes within its jurisdiction, as provided, incloccupying a room or rooms, or other living space, in a hotel, inn, tourist home or house, motel, or other lodging for a period of less than 30 days.This bill would aucounty, or city and county, including a charter city, county, or city and county, to enact an ordinance exclusively delegating its authority to collect any transient occupancy tax imposed by that local agencyon shortcontract with the department to perform all functions incident to the collection and administration of any transient occupancy tax imposed on a shortshortthat is not a hotel or motel in this state for a period of 30 days or less and under any otherspecified by the local agency in its ordinance that is facilitated by an online shortas defined. This bill would require the department to perform those functions, as specified, and would require all local charges cRentals Fund, which would be created by the bill in the State Treasury. This bill would continuously appropriate all amounts in the fund to the department and would require the funds to the local agencies periodically as promptly as feasible, as provided.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The Personal Income Tax Law, beginning on or after January 1, 2015, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows an earnedfrom the Tax Relief and Refund Account 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 fededetermined by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor, as specified. The Personal Income Tax Law allows a refundable young child tax credit against the taxes imposed under that law, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2earned income tax credit adjustment factor, not to exceed $1,000 per each qualified taxpayer per taxable year and requires amounts of this credit in excess of the qualified taxpayer’s tax liability to be qualified taxpayer from the Tax Relief and Refund Account, a continuously appropriated fund.This bill, under the Personal Income Tax Law, would additionally allow a refundable child poverty tax credit against the taxes imposed under that law, fan amount equal to either (1) $2,940 multiplied by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor for qualified taxpayers, as defined, residing in a “Region 1” county on the last day of the taxexceed $2,500 per each qualified taxpayer per taxable year, or (2) $2,353 multiplied by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor for qualified taxpayers, as defined, residing in a “Region 2” county on the last day of the taxable yeaspecified. The bill would require amounts of this credit in excess of the qualified taxpayer’s tax liability to be paid to the qualified taxpayer from the Tax Relief and Refund Accounappropriation. The bill would specify that the credit is only operative for taxable years for which resources are authorized in the annual Budget Act for the Franchise Tax Board to oversee and audit returns associated with the earned i From printer. From printer. RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20.SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21. es: term y - D D SB 1072McGuireLocal agencies: transient occupanctaxes: online shortrental facilitator: collection.SB 1140CaballeroPersonal income taxcredits: child poverty tax credit. sh te. al property in ownership has ations to assist in the operty owned by legal entities. The bill 76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the 76 tax bill under “full cash value” or, thereafter, the –– rchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has o a replacement dwelling for persons who are the parents or of this limitation, “full cash value” is defined as the assessor’s changed ownership whether or not any one legal entity or person that is a lso require the State Board of Equalization to report to the Legislature, no later than ws. The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes valuation of real property as shown on the 1975appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change occurred.This bill would additionally specify that if 90% or more of the direct or indirect ownership interests in a legal entity are sold or transferred in a single transaction, as defined, the real property owned by that legal entity hasparty to the transaction obtains control, as defined. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to include an additional question on returns for partnerships, banks, and corpordetermination of whether a change in ownership as so described has occurred. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization to prescribe regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. The bill would aJanuary 1, 2023, regarding the implementation of these changes in ownership, including, but not limited to, the revenue impact and frequency of reassessments of real prwould require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2023, regarding the economic impact of this bill.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laThe California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cavalue 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 1975appraised value of that real property when puoccurred. The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to provide that persons over 55 years of age and persons who are severely disabled may transfer the base year value, as defined, of rethat is eligible for a homeowners’ property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling, if certain conditions are met.This measure would additionally authorize the Legislature to provide for a similar transfer of base year value of real property tlegal guardians of a severely disabled child and reside with that child. The measure would limit this provision to replacement dwellings purchased or newly constructed on or after its effective da Introduced. To From printer. RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/21/2020 Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.SENATE 2/18/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 19. D taxation: base R perty taxation: SB 1319BatesProchange in ownership.SCA 8ArchuletaProperty year value transfers: persons with a severely disabled child. Position mandated local program.This bill - t, as specified.This bill would prohibit a Summary flavored tobacco products. The bill would state that its provisions Tobacco/Vaping ise furnishing tobacco products, as defined, to a person under 21 years of age. Existing Existing law, the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act, prohibits a person from selling or otherwlaw also prohibits the use of tobacco products in county offices of education, on charter school or school district property, or near a playground or youth sports eventobacco retailer from selling, offering for sale, or possessing with the intent to sell or offer for sale, a flavored tobacco product, as defined. The bill would make a violation of this prohibition an infraction punishable by a fine of $250 for each violation. The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that these provisions not be construed to preempt or prohibit the adoption and implementation of local ordinances related to the prohibition on the sale of are severable. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a statecontains other related provisions and other existing laws. Referred to HEALTH - Location SENATE 1/15/2020 Com. on HEALTH. Bill ID/Topic D SB 793HillFlavored tobacco products. Position vision of medical Administrative Director of traumatic stress that develops or - post rtment of Developmental Services, administrative director to contract with tead, would require the evaluation to cover a Summary rocess to prospectively, retrospectively, or concurrently review and e by the employer and is addressed by the medical treatment utilization schedule, Workers' Comp risdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course suant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability nuary 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2019. Existing law requires the report to be provided to the Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires every employer, for purposes of workers’ compensation, to establish a utilization review papprove, modify, or deny, based in whole or in part on medical necessity to cure and relieve, treatment recommendations by physicians prior to, retrospectively, or concurrent with the protreatment services, as provided. Existing law requires, for all dates of injury occurring on or after January 1, 2018, emergency treatment services and medical treatment rendered for a body part or condition that is accepted as compensablas specified, to be authorized without prospective utilization review, except as provided, within the 30 days following the initial date of injury. Existing law requires the an outside, independent research organization on or after March 1, 2019, to evaluate the impact of the provision of medical treatment within the first 30 days after a claim is filed, for a claim filed on or after Jaadministrative director, the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, and the Assembly Committee on Insurance before January 1, 2020.This bill, insclaim filed on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2021, and would require the report to be submitted to the administrative director and those legislative committees before January 1, 2022.Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of of employment. Existing law provides, only until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes manifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit, but applies only to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2020. Existing law requires the compensation awarded purindemnity, and death benefits.This bill would make that provision applicable to active firefighting members of the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Depaand the Military Department, and to additional peace officers, including security officers of the Department of Justice when performing assigned duties as security officers and the officers of a state hospital under the juDevelopmental Services, among other officers. Referred to From printer. L., P.E. & R.RLS. -- Location SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. traumatic - D D Bill ID/Topic SB 924HertzbergWorkers’ compensation: utilization review.SB 1047SternWorkers’ compensation: firefighters and peace officers: poststress. Position g other things, partner to develop and ty Corrections as an entity independent of the tains other related provisions and other existing laws. Summary Workforce Investment Board es for meeting the needs of employers, workers, and jobseekers.This bill would make Existing law requires local workforce development boards to, amonsubmit a local plan to the Governor that meets the requirements of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, and lead efforts in the local area to identify and promote proven and promising strategies and initiativnonsubstantive changes to those provisions.(1)Existing law establishes the Board of State and CommuniDepartment of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and authorizes the board to carry out various powers and duties relating to providing advice and leadership on criminal justice issues. Existing law prescribes themembership of the board and the terms of those members.This bill would add 2 seats to the board to be held by members of the public, appointed by the Governor and subject to Senate confirmation, who have been previously convicted of a felony.This bill con PRINT From printer. From printer. RLS. -- Location ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.SENATE 2/18/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 19. D I Bill ID/Topic AB 2628MayesCalifornia Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.SB 1013MonningPersons with convictions: Board of State and Community Corrections: California Workforce Development Board: local workforce development boards. Position - - upon - , 2020, c utilities, evailing party in a civil ability of safe, reliable, high ndar year period, that it estimates, ber 31, inclusive, for purposes of the on’s rules governing formal proceedings. The ard. e planned excavation, as provided. Existing law Summary A program, until January 1, 2023, to provide universal service - ocess to include onsite meetings to develop a mutually agreed Cost Fund - h or part thereof for which a service user subscribes with a service supplier, gh Broadband er of, participate in, and share in the costs of, a regional notification center. Existing se civil actions and arbitrations. The bill would also authorize a court or arbitrator to in this state on the purchase of prepaid mobile telephony services. Existing law requires ied factual findings.ic information is disclosed or to the extent that the Federal Communications Commission or Public ted by an advice letter, the bill would require that the case be processed according to the Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over publiincluding telephone corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix just and reasonable rates and charges for public utilities. Existing law requires the commission to exercise its regulatory authority to maintain the California Hirate support to small independent telephone corporations, as defined, in furtherance of the state’s universal service commitment to the continued affordability and widespread availquality communications services in rural areas of the state.This bill would authorize a small independent telephone corporation to initiate a rate case through either an advice letter or application. If a rate case is initiacommission’s rules governing advice letters. If a rate case is initiated by application, the bill would require that the case be processed according to the commissibill would authorize the commission, following review of a rate case advice letter, to require that it be resubmitted as an application, if the commission adopts a resolution within 120 days that includes specifExisting law requires every operator of a subsurface installation, except the Department of Transportation, to become a memblaw requires an excavator planning to conduct an excavation to delineate the area to be excavated before notifying the appropriate regional notification center of threquires an operator, before the legal start date and time of the excavation, to locate and field mark, within the area delineated for excavation, its subsurface installations. Existing law, commencing July 1establishes a process for an excavator to request and obtain a continual excavation ticket for an area of continual excavation, as defined, that is valid for one year from the date of issuance and eligible for renewal. Existing law requires this prplan. Existing law prescribes liability for failure to comply with these processes.This bill would require a court to award attorney’s fees and costs, including expert witness fees, to a praction or arbitration for specified damages arising from the excavation and arising between an operator of a subsurface installation and an excavator. The bill would apply certain procedures relating to offers to compromise to theconsider offers of settlement exchanged between the parties, as specified, for purposes of determining an attorney’s fees and costs, including expert witness fees, awThe Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act imposes, on and after January 1, 2020, a surcharge on each access line for each montat an amount no greater than $0.80, based on the Office of Emergency Services’ estimate of the number of access lines to which the surcharge will be applied per month for a calepursuant to a specified formula, will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year’s 911 costs. That act also imposes, on and after January 1, 2020, a surcharge of equal amount for each retail transaction service suppliers to report the total number of access lines to the Office of Emergency Services, on or before August 1, for the previous period of January 1 to Decemsurcharge.This bill would allow public disclosure of access line information provided by service suppliers to the Office of Emergency Services only if the information is aggregated such that no service supplierspecif C. & C.PRINTPRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. --- Location ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on C. & C.ASSEMBLY 2/15/2020 May be heard in committee March 16.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22. ne D D D Bill ID/Topic AB 2189ArambulaSmall independent telephone corporations: rates.AB 2334LevineSubsurface installations: attorney’s fees and costs.AB 2675QuirkEmergency TelephoUsers Surcharge Act: access line information. e owned, and, (5) ter the ory authority over public utilities, that communication is had with or without the s service to (1) notify local emergency management communications service systems not on customers’ ernet Protocol, Internet Protocol enabled service, or any other of emergency alerts, notifications, and messages, (4) notify laws. as including all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all Utilities Commission lawfully disclose the same information to members of the public.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. (1)Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatincluding telephone corporations, defined as including every corporation or person owning, controlling, operating, or managing any telephone line for compensation within the state. Existing law defines a telephone line other real estate, fixtures, and personal property owned, controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate communication by telephone, whether use of transmission wires.This bill would define a telephone line as including all conduits, ducts, poles, wires, cables, instruments, and appliances, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property controlled, operated, or managed in connection with or to facilitate voice communication by telephone, whether that voice communication occurs with or without the use of transmission wires and whether that voice communication utilizes Voice over Intsuccessor protocol.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission, in consultation with the Office of Emergency Services, to identify the need for telepremises to have backup electricity to enable the telecommunications networks to function, and to enable customers to contact a public safety answering point operator during an electrical outage, to determinperformance criteria for backup systems, and to determine whether specified best practices for backup systems have been implemented by telecommunications service providers operating in California.This bill would require each provider of telecommunicationofficials about the location and status of the provider’s critical communications infrastructure, as defined, (2) provide to the local incident command upon the declaration of an emergency or natural disasname and contact information for, and make available upon request, an official representative of the provider able to assist local emergency operations, (3) report to local emergency management authorities and the commission the transmission statuslocal and state emergency management officials in real time of impacted critical communications infrastructure within their jurisdictions that has been damaged or otherwise rendered inoperable, upon the conclusion of an emergency or natural disaster, timely report to the commission on the impacts to the provider’s network during the emergency or natural disaster, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing printer. From printer. From RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. Cost - D ne corporations: D B Administrative - SB 1058HuesoTelecommunications: telephoCalifornia HighFundCommittee Fund: advanced communications services.SB 1069JacksonTelecommunications: emergencies and natural disasters: critical communications infrastructure. Position of of a local agency to be is bill contains other related fined to mean any state or a copy of all the documents zes every agency to adopt regulations stating Summary mandated local program.This bill contains other related - retary of State pursuant to the State Records Management Act, require aws. Brown Act thorizes a person to request that a copy of an agenda, or a copy of all the including writing transmitted by electronic mail. Existing law requires any agency that Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires a public agency, delocal agency, to make public records available for inspection, subject to certain exceptions. Existing law specifies that public records include any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public’s business,has any information that constitutes a public record not exempt from disclosure to make that public record available in accordance with certain provisions, and authorithe procedures to be followed when making its records available, if the regulations are consistent with those provisions. Existing law authorizes cities, counties, and special districts to destroy or to disposeduplicate records that are less than two years old when they are no longer required by the city, county, or special district, as specified.This bill would, unless a longer retention period is required by statute or regulation, or established by the Seca public agency, for purposes of the California Public Records Act, to retain and preserve for at least 2 years every public record, as defined, that is transmitted by electronic mail.Thprovisions and other existing laws. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires meetings of the legislative bodyopen and public and also requires regular and special meetings of the legislative body to be held within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, with specified exceptions. Existing law audocuments constituting the agenda packet, of any meeting of a legislative body be mailed to that person. This bill would require a legislative body to email a copy of the agenda orconstituting the agenda packet if so requested. By requiring local agencies to comply with these provisions, this bill would impose a stateprovisions and other existing l JUD. Referred to Referred to GOV. & F. -- Location ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on JUD.SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on GOV. & F. D D Bill ID/Topic AB 2093GloriaPublic records: writing transmitted by electronic mail: retention.SB 931WieckowskiLocal government meetings: agenda and documents. Position on. This would prohibit an se tax rate would 2020, with d cannabis that enters the tion of commercial medicinal artment of Consumer Affairs, the Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act use cannabis activity pursuant to that license - - e, or mortgagee, to knowingly rent, lease, or make or the purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, distributing, Summary weight ounce of cannabis flowers and leaves. Existing law - authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions with a 2/3 a Department of Tax and Fee Administration to provide the ose taxes to be deposited into the California Cannabis Tax Fund and to be o the creation, issuance, denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses issued Cannabis anuary 1, 2018, on the purchase of cannabis and cannabis products at the rate of use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA imposes duties on the Bureau of Cannabis Control in the - nse under AUMA to engage in commercial adult trol, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as The ConProposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, and additionally amended by statute, imposes duties on the Bureau of Cannabis Control in the DepDepartment of Food and Agriculture, and the State Department of Public Health with respect to the creation, issuance, denial, suspension and revocation of commercial cannabis licenses, and imposes an excise tax commencing J15% of the average market price of any retail sale by a cannabis retailer. Commencing January 1, 2018, AUMA also imposes a cultivation tax upon all cultivators on all harvestecommercial market, at specified rates per dryrequires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to administer those taxes, and requires the revenues from thcontinuously appropriated for specified purposes pursuant to a specified schedule. AUMA requires the Legislative Analyst’s Office to submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, recommendations for adjustments to the tax rate to achieve the goals of undercutting illicit market prices and discouraging use by persons younger than 21 years of age while ensuring sufficient revenues are generated for specified programs. AUMAvote of both houses to further its purposes and intent.This bill would reduce that excise tax rate to 11% on and after the operative date of this bill until July 1, 2023, at which time the excirevert back to 15%. The bill would suspend the imposition of the cultivation tax on and after the operative date of this bill until July 1, 2023. The bill would require the bureau, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the CaliforniLegislature with reports measuring the success of this bill, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing law makes it a crime for a person who has management or control of a building, room, space, or enclosure, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employeavailable for use, with or without compensation, the building, room, space, or enclosure, for the purpose of unlawfully manufacturing, storing, or distributing a controlled substance for sale or distributibill would authorize a licensing authority under MAUCRSA to impose an administrative fine of up to $50,000 per violation against a person who violates the prohibition on renting, leasing, or making available a building, room, space, or enclosure for selling cannabis. The bill would make each day the violation continues a separate violation for this purpose.This bill contains other existing laws. 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 liceand applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult(MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulaand adultDepartment of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the State Department of Public Health with respect tpursuant to MAUCRSA.This bill would impose a civil penalty on persons aiding and abetting unlicensed commercial cannabis activity of up to $30,000 for each violation. The bill State - BURKE, REVENUE REV. & TAXPRINTB.&P. Referred to Coms. Referred to Coms. From printer. May -- Location 2:30 p.m. - 2020 ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY 1/30/2020 on REV. & TAX. and B. & P.3/9/2020Capitol, Room 126AND TAXATION,ChairASSEMBLY 2/6/2020 be heard in committee March 7.ASSEMBLY 2/20/on B. & P. and JUD. D D D Sawyer or unlawful - Bill ID/Topic AB 1948BontaTaxation: cannabis.AB 2094JonesCannabis: facilities used fpurposes.AB 2122Rubio, BlancaUnlawful cannabis activity: enforcement. d require the Bureau of Cannabis rocess as are provided to workers activity in the state as provided by the Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act count of various personal characteristics, use cannabis activity pursuant to that license -beverages. Existing law prescribes when a - son for a training program leading to t include industrial hemp products or cannabidiol commercial adult ver is earlier or earliest.This bill contains other related provisions and other son with an identification card, as specified, for purposes of medical cannabis, subject urisdiction, defined as a city, city and county, or county, with specified powers use cannabis activities, including retail commercial cannabis activity. MAUCRSA gives the - tment of Fair Employment and Housing to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful se provisions is a crime.This bill would state that a food or beverage is not adulterated by the action for civil penalties brought against a person pursuant to MAUCRSA from commencing unless the action is filed within 3 years from the first date of discovery of the violation by a licensing authority or a participating agency, whicheexisting laws. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects the rights of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination on acincluding medical condition. The act prohibits various forms of employment discrimination, including discharging or refusing to hire or to select for training programs on a prohibited basis, and empowers the Deparpractices.This bill would make it an unlawful employment practice for an employer or other entity to refuse to hire or employ a person, to refuse to select a peremployment, to bar or to discharge a person from employment or from a training program leading to employment, or to discriminate against an employee, because of the employee’s status as a qualified patient, or as a perto certain exceptions. The bill would grant people who use medical cannabis while employed the same rights to reasonable accommodation and the associated interactive pprescribed other legal drugs under this section, subject to specified requirements.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. 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 and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult(MAUCRSA), among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinaland adultBureau of Cannabis Control in the Department of Consumer Affairs the power, duty, purpose, responsibility, and jurisdiction to regulate commercial cannabisact, and does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction. MAUCRSA provides a local jregarding commercial cannabis activity, including adopting and enforcing local ordinances regulating commercial cannabis activity or prohibiting that activity. This bill woulControl to develop a model local ordinance, and to make the model local ordinance publicly available on its internet website.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing state law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, prohibits the manufacture, sale, delivery, holding, or offer for sale of adulterated foods or food or beverage is adulterated, including if it bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance that may render it injurious to the health of a person or other animal that may consume it. Violation of theinclusion of industrial hemp products, including cannabidiol derived from industrial hemp, and would prohibit restrictions on the sale of food or beverages thaderived from industrial hemp based solely on the inclusion of industrial hemp products or cannabidiol derived from industrial hemp. ittee PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. From printer. --- ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in commMarch 21.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22. ical D Curry - D D trial hemp AB 2355BontaEmployment discrimination: medcannabis.AB 2456TingCannabis: model local ordinance.AB 2827AguiarFood, beverage, and cosmetic adulterants: indusproducts. weight - issued Existing law also - on tax upon all uld receive any cannabis Use Cannabis Regulation and use cannabis activity pursuant - - t, an initiative measure approved as egulation of commercial medicinal and for the sale of, or the storage, use, or oral recommendation or approval of a issued identification card. This bill, on or after - on’s equity program, and authorizes the bureau to cannabis excise tax and the cannabis cultivation tax. This bill, on or MAUCRSA. Existing law imposes a state excise tax on the purchase of d patient or primary caregiver for a qualified patient provides a specified medicinal ides a valid physician’s recommendation and a valid state government t of 2018, requires the Bureau of Cannabis Control in the Department of Consumer Affairs to ns a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult tion in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or use and medicinal cannabis and cannabis products at the rate of 15% of the average market price use cannabis activities. Existing law authorizes local jurisdictions to issue local licenses for -- usion and support of individuals and communities in California’s cannabis industry who are linked to November 5, 1996, statewide general election, prohibits specified criminal penalties from being MAUCRSA does not supersede or limit the authority of a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate commercial cannabis businesses within that local jurisdiction. specifies that a county may impose a tax on the privilege of cultivating, manufacturing, producing, processing, preparing, storing, providing, donating, selling, or distributing cannabis or cannabis products by a licensee operating under adultof any retail sale by a cannabis retailer. Existing law also imposes a state cultivaticultivators on all harvested cannabis that enters the commercial market, at specified rates per dryounce of cannabis flowers and leaves. Existing law requires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to administer thebefore January 1, 2022, would require the California Department of Tax and Fee administration to issue and deliver to the Legislature a report on how the state, cities, and counties cotax amounts due by payment using stablecoins, as described.The Compassionate Use Act of 1996, an initiative measure enacted by the approval of Proposition 215 at the imposed on a patient or a patient’s primary caregiver who possesses or cultivates cannabis for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the written or physician. 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 or on the storage, use, or other consumpother consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana AcProposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, among other things, provides an exemption from those taxes for retail sales of certain medicinal cannabis and medical cannabis products when a qualifiecannabis identification card and a valid state governmentJanuary 1, 2021, would provide an exemption from those taxes other consumption in this state of, medicinal cannabis or medicinal cannabis product purchased by a qualified patient or a primary caregiver of a qualified patient if that qualified patient or primary caregiver providentification card for that qualified patient.The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtaito that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and AdultSafety Act, among other things, consolidates the licensure and radultcommercial cannabis activity in the local jurisdiction, as provided.Existing law, the California Cannabis Equity Acadminister a grant program to assist with the development of a local jurisdiction’s local equity program or to assist applicants and licensees in a local jurisdictiprovide technical assistance to the local equity program. Existing law defines local equity program for purposes of the act to mean a program adopted or operated by a local jurisdiction that focuses on inclpopulations or neighborhoods that were negatively or disproportionately impacted by cannabis PRINTPRINTPRINT Introduced. To Introduced. To Introduced. To --- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 print. D R D blecoins: report. AB 3090TingCannabis taxes: payment using staAB 3124LackeySales and use tax: medicinal cannabis.AB 3192CooperCalifornia Cannabis Equity Act. dy am, as alSavers possesses or regulated medical - suspend compliance o the provision defining terms for naged accounts invested in United States de the health care facility with a copy of their ard program for qualified patients and provides who serves at its pleasure. Existing law requires eligible ent that licenses the health care facility from enforcing these tes Treasuries, myRAs, or similar investments. Existing law Compassionate Use Act of 1996, an initiative measure enacted by cility related to the facility’s compliance with a state ion in the program by telephone and would eliminate a condition relating to contribution , would prohibit specified types of health care facilities from prohibiting or interfering with a criminalization. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes tpurposes of the California Cannabis Equity Act of 2018. Existing law, the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act, establishes the CRetirement Savings Program to be administered by the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Investment Board. Existing law requires the Treasurer, on behalf of the board, to appoint an executive director, who is not a member of the board and employers to offer a payroll deposit retirement savings arrangement so that eligible employees may contribute a portion of their salary or wages to a retirement savings program account in the progrspecified. Existing law requires the board to take various actions upon implementation of the program and, for to up 3 years following its initial implementation of the program, requires the board to establish managed accounts invested in United Stastates that the program is implemented as of January 1, 2017. This bill would rename the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act as the CalSavers Retirement Savings Trust Act, the bothat administers the act as the CalSavers Retirement Savings Board, and make conforming changes in this regard. The bill would make various changes in the act to reflect that it has been implemented, including eliminating the requirement to establish maTreasuries, myRAs, or similar investments described above. The bill would authorize the board to delegate rulemaking authority to its executive director. The bill would authorize an employee to opt out of participatamounts that depends on the length of time that an employee has contributed to the program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law generally requires the licensure and regulation of various health care facilities, including, among others, a hospice facility. The the approval of Proposition 215 at the November 5, 1996, statewide general election, prohibits specified criminal penalties from being imposed on a patient or a patient’s primary caregiver whocultivates cannabis for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician. Existing law, known as the Medical Marijuana Program, requires counties to administer an identification cimmunity from arrest to qualified patients with a valid identification card or designated primary caregivers, within prescribed limits.This bill, the Compassionate Access to Medical Cannabis Act or Ryan’s Lawterminally ill patient’s use of medicinal cannabis within the health care facility, subject to certain restrictions. The bill would require a patient to provimedical marijuana card or written documentation that the use of medicinal cannabis is recommended by a physician. The bill would authorize a health care facility to reasonably restrict the manner in which a patient stores and uses medicinal cannabis to ensure the safety of other patients, guests, and employees of the health care facility, compliance with other state laws, and the safe operations of the health care facility. The bill would prohibit the departmprovisions, and compliance with the bill would not be a condition for obtaining, retaining, or renewing a license as a health care facility. The bill would authorize a health care facility to with these provisions if a regulatory agency, the United States Department of Justice, or the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services takes specified actions, including initiating an enforcement action against a health care famarijuana program. From printer. From printer. RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20.SENATE 2/21/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 22. al Cannabis D 042 D SB 1PanRetirement savings.SB 1216HuesoCompassionate Access to MedicAct or Ryan’s Law. ate or local law an initiative statute f the Legislature to enact legislation s. The act defines “local equity program” Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), which - from acquiring or receiving cannabis or cannabis products except from a re negatively or disproportionately impacted by cannabis criminalization. The act Existing law, the Medicinal and Adultincludes the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), enacted by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial cannabis activity, including testing laboratories. Existing law prohibits licensed testing laboratorieslicensee in accordance with MAUCRSA, except as provided. This bill would authorize a licensed testing laboratory to receive and test samples of cannabis or cannabis products from a stenforcement, or a prosecuting or regulatory agency in order to test the cannabis or cannabis products.Existing law, the California Cannabis Equity Act of 2018, authorizes the Bureau of Cannabis Control to provide technical assistance to specified local equity programas 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 werequires the bureau to administer a grant program for local jurisdictions that have adopted or operate a local equity program, as specified.This bill would state the intent othat would create a statewide cannabis equity program. From printer. Introduced. To RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/21/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 22.SENATE 2/21/2020 Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. quity Act. DD tories. SB 1244BradfordCannabis testing laboraSB 1294BradfordThe California Cannabis E Position and - ess than $36,000 in uction to adopt rules and hich includes the State Department of ow various credits against the taxes child protective services, or children who are , 2020, and before January 1, 2025, in an subsidized child development services, a family to - e taxpayer, (2) operating costs of a qualified child care experiencing homelessness, including through Summary and state - care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of Child Care ined, with respect to any qualified child care facility of the taxpayer.This bill one requirement in 2 specified areas, with one of those requirements being that the family is ld care resource and referral expenditures of the taxpayer for the taxable year. This bill nia Health and Human Services Agency, and would require the new department to consolidate effective system of child - ion of qualified child care expenditures to include any amount paid or incurred for any of the time programs. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public instr - hildhood Policy Council, among others under the State Department of Education and the Emergency The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allimposed by those laws. Existing federal income tax law allows a credit against federal income taxes in an amount equal to the sum of 25% of the qualified child care expenditures, as defined, and 10% of the qualified chiwould, in modified conformity with that federal income tax credit provision, allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1amount equal to the sum of 25% of the qualified child care expenditures and 10% of the qualified child care resource and referral expenditures of the taxpayer for the taxable year. The bill would modify the definitfollowing: (1) to acquire, construct, rehabilitate, or expand property which is to be used as part of a qualified child care facility located in this state of thfacility located in this state of the taxpayer, and (3) under a contract with a qualified child care facility in this state to provide child care services to employees of the taxpayer who are paid lgross wages by the taxpayer in the taxable year. The bill would, in modified conformity with the federal income tax credit provision, provide for recapture of any acquisition and construction credit if there is a recapture event, as defcontains other related provisions. The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and costage and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through fullpartregulations on eligibility, enrollment, and priority of services needed to implement the act. Existing law requires, in order to be eligible for federalmeet at least homeless. Existing law requires that first priority for childcare and developments services go to those children who are neglected or abused who are recipients ofat risk of being neglected or abused, as provided.This bill would require that first priority for child development services also go to children experiencing homelessness. The bill would provide that a child experiencing homelessness enrolled in a childcare and development program pursuant to the act is not required to provide a fixed address or mailing address. The bill would require childcare and development service providers to conduct outreach to families collaboration with local educational agency liaisons for homeless children and youth, as provided.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law provides for various entities, programs, and services relating to early childhood care and learning, including the provision of childcare for recipients of the CalWORKs program and the Early CChild Care Bridge for Foster Children under the State Department of Social Services. Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, wSocial Services, among other state departments, and is charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services. This bill would establish the Department of Early Child Development within the Califorleadership on programs and issues relating to the administration of early learning and care and to PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. From printer. --- Location ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22. services and R provided child - D Bill ID/Topic R AB 2496ChoiIncome taxes: credits: employercare credit.AB 2552PattersonChildcare and development programs: homeless children.AB 2581ReyesDepartment of Early Childhood Development. ders al law as time services, up to the - aid to the qualified taxpayer d require a family childcare home care system to improve service ble year, not to exceed $2,500 per each educational objectives for children in , thereby making an appropriation. The bill would equires the State Department of Education to contract with elete the requirement that alternative payment programs income tax credit against personal income tax, and a payment 19, in an amount equal to $1,176 multiplied by the earned income tax exempt childcare providers that provide part - exempt childcare providers.This bill contains other related provisions and other - r each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2020, in an amount equal to either ch family childcare home provider to ensure that services are of high quality and are elating to early childhood care and learning from various departments, including the State , not to exceed $2,000 per each qualified taxpayer per taxable year, as specified. The bill would xisting laws. centralize and build a coherent and whole person early learning anddelivery for children, families, and providers by maximizing federal, state, and local resources. The bill would transfer the duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities of specified programs and entities rDepartment of Education and the State Department of Social Services, to the Department of Early Child Development.This bill contains other related provisions. (1)The Child Care and Development Services Act establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age and rlocal contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. The act requires the alternative payment program to reimburse childcare provibased upon specified criteria, including the actual days and hours of attendance for those families with variable schedules, or for licensemaximum certified hours.This bill would dprovide reimbursement based on the actual days and hours of attendance to families with variable schedules or licensee(1)Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to contract with entities organized to operate family childcare home education networks that support 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 eaeducationally and developmentally appropriate.This bill would require that tools used to make these assessments be appropriate to family childcare home settings, and wouleducation network program to maintain of a developmental portfolio for each child, as provided, and include opportunities for parent involvement.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The Personal Income Tax Law, beginning on or after January 1, 2015, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows an earned from the Tax Relief and Refund Account 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 federdetermined by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor, as specified. The Personal Income Tax Law allows a refundable young child tax credit against the taxes imposed under that law, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 20credit adjustment factor, not to exceed $1,000 per each qualified taxpayer per taxable year and requires amounts of this credit in excess of the qualified taxpayer’s tax liability to be pfrom the Tax Relief and Refund Account, a continuously appropriated fund.This bill, under the Personal Income Tax Law, would additionally allow a refundable child poverty tax credit against the taxes imposed under that law, fo(1) $2,940 multiplied by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor for qualified taxpayers, as defined, residing in a “Region 1” county on the last day of the taxaqualified taxpayer per taxable year, or (2) $2,353 multiplied by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor for qualified taxpayers, as defined, residing in a “Region 2” county on the last day of the taxable yearrequire amounts of this credit in excess of the qualified taxpayer’s tax liability to be paid to the qualified taxpayer from the Tax Relief and Refund Account PRINTPRINT Introduced. Introduced. From printer. RLS. --- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21. s: D dcare home D Silva D - ernative payment AB 2883QuirkChildcare services: altprograms: direct deposits: reserve funds.AB 2986ReyesFamily chileducation networks.SB 1140CaballeroPersonal income taxecredits: child poverty tax credit. come specify that the credit is only operative for taxable years for which resources are authorized in the annual Budget Act for the Franchise Tax Board to oversee and audit returns associated with the earned intax credit. Position r ecified order of aumatic situations, being of children and - nited States Department ill contains other related provisions and mandated local program. This bill would also - to bring an action under the act in any case in release of the person owing the child support.This ed towards liquidation of the arrearage not to Summary and amount of contact with both parents, and consistent with gnee and one representative of the Department of Child Support the arrearage shall not exceed 5% of that person’s total monthly nce into court proceedings.This bill contains other existing laws. Child Support an’s total monthly disability compensation. By imposing new administrative duties on support, including, among others, authorizing a local child support agency to directly serve on ceeding 90 consecutive days in which the person ordered to pay support was incarcerated or mplement these provisions by January 1, 2022. The bill would also require the department and the (1)Existing law provides procedures to enforce the payment of arrearages owed pursuant to a court order to pay childan employer an order/notice to withhold income that specifies an updated arrearage amount and directs the employer to withhold an additional amount to be appliexceed the maximum amount permitted by federal law. Existing law provides that if the person who is required to pay child support is disabled, meets certain federal eligibility requirements, and is receiving owould be eligible for certain state and federal disability payments, and the person has supplied the local child support agency with proof of eligibility or receipt of these benefits, then the order/notice to withhold income issued for the liquidation ofdisability payments, as specified.This bill would similarly provide that if the person who is required to pay child support is a disabled veteran receiving disability compensation from the Uof Veterans Affairs and has supplied the local child support agency with proof of receipt of disability compensation, the order/notice to withhold income for the liquidation of the arrearage shall not exceed 5% of the disabled veterlocal child support agencies, this bill would create a statemake technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.This bother existing laws. 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 specified policies, including that the court’s primary concern must be to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the child. Existing law further provides that custody should be granted in a sppreference, according to the best interests of the child. This bill would create the Workgroup on Child Custody and Court Proceedings to be comprised of various members, including the Chief Justice of California or the Chief Justice’s desiServices, appointed no later than June 1, 2021. The bill would require the workgroup to study state child custody court proceedings, study available science and best practices to children in trand make recommendations to the Legislature, no later than January 1, 2023, about how courts can incorporate the latest science and legal determinations regarding the safety and wellother victims of domestic violePrior law, until January 1, 2020, suspended a money judgment or order for child support for any period exinvoluntarily institutionalized, except as specified. Under that law, a suspended child support obligation resumed on the first day of the first full month after thebill, until January 1, 2023, would reenact those repealed provisions. The bill would also require the Department of Child Support Services, in consultation with the Judicial Council, to develop forms to iJudicial Council to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the administrative adjustment process authorized according to these provisions, as specified.Existing law, the Uniform Parentage Act, governs actions to determine a parent and child relationship. These provisions authorize a local child support agencywhich the agency determines it to be appropriate. Existing law also provides that, notwithstanding any JUD.JUD.PRINTPRINT Referred to Referred to From printer. From printer. ---- Location ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Com. on JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/15/2020 May be heard in committee March 16.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 D R D R Bill ID/Topic AB 2046VoepelFamily law: child support.AB 2197Rubio, BlancaChild custody: Workgroup on Child Custody Court Proceedings.AB 2325CarrilloChild support: suspension.AB 2745Dahle, Megan repeal those g laws. to a nonexclusive list of income sources, es that papers and records pertaining to an action or rohibit the court from considering the parent’s incarceration or sed access to those proceedings and records. law provides statewide uniform guidelines for determining the appropriate amount of a child ngs, the best interests of the child.This bill would require a court to consider specific circumstances of other law concerning public hearings and records, a hearing or trial under the act may be held in closedcourt, as specified, and all papers and records, other than the final judgment, pertaining to the action or proceeding are subject to inspection only in exceptional cases upon an order of the court for good cause shown. However, this provision also providproceeding that are part of the permanent record of the court are subject to inspection by the parties to the action and their attorneys, pursuant to written authorization, as specified.This bill would provisions specifically providing that a hearing or trial under the act may be held in closed court, and would repeal those provisions restricting inspection of papers and records pertaining to the action or proceeding, thereby allowing increa(1)Existingsupport order. Existing law includes as an element in that calculation the income of each parent. Existing law defines parental annual gross income with reference including wages, pensions, interest, and trust income, among others. Existing law authorizes a court to also consider the earning capacity of a parent in lieu of the parent’s income and considering, among other thithe parent, including, the parent’s job skills and record of seeking work, if a court considers the earning capacity of that parent. The bill would pinvoluntary institutionalization, as specified, as voluntary unemployment for purposes of determining a parent’s earning capacity.This bill contains other related provisions and other existin PRINT Introduced. - May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. access to D Child support: records.AB 3314WeberChild support. Position to be required Home - d determine extended benefits to sed to achieve a medical tion of “employment” for the Managed Health Care and makes a willful o override health information technology and tempting to exercise the right to use, sick leave Summary ept in vitro fertilization. Existing law provides that any , evaluation, planning and implementation of care, nor from acting as a his bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and - , a parent in the employ of their child, or a person in the employ of their spouse, Employee Benefits nal judgment, and in accordance with their scope of practice, it is in the best interest of employee’s accrued and available sick leave entitlement to attend to the illness of a family member efined, unless the employee authorizes the designation.ealth insurers, including, among other things, a requirement that every group health care service plan Existing law provides for the payment of unemployment compensation benefits andeligible individuals who meet specified requirements. Existing law provides definitions for “employment” for purposes of these provisions. Existing federal and state law excludes services performed by a child in the employ of a parentfrom the definition of “employment” for purposes of unemployment taxes and unemployment insurance benefit eligibility, as specified. This bill would provide that the definipurposes of unemployment insurance coverage includes services performed by an individual in the employ of their parent, child, or spouse if that individual is providing services through the InSupportive Services program.TExisting law requires an employer who provides sick leave for employees to permit an employee to use the and prohibits an employer from denying an employee the right to use sick leave or taking specific discriminatory action against an employee for using, or atto attend to such an illness. This bill would refer to such lease as kin care leave, and would prohibit an employer from designating a sick day, taken by the employee for themselves, as a kin care day, as dExisting law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints anvarious matters arising under the labor commissioner’s jurisdiction.This bill would provide that the use of technology shall not limit a worker who is providing direct patient care from exercising independent clinical judgment in the assessmentpatient advocate. The bill would define “technology” for these purposes to mean scientific hardware or software including algorithms derived from the use of health care related data, uor nursing care objective at a health care facility. The bill would authorize each worker who provides direct patient care to be free to override health information technology and clinical practice guidelines if, in their professiothe patient to do so. The bill would prohibit an employer from retaliating or otherwise discriminating against a worker providing direct patient care who requests tclinical practice guidelines or discusses with other employees or supervisors overriding health information technology and clinical practice guidelines, or both. The bill would authorize a worker who is subject retaliation to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner against an employer who has retaliated or discriminated against the employee.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing law, the Knoxregulation of health care service plans by the Department ofviolation of the act a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law imposes various requirements and restrictions on health care service plans and hcontract or health insurance policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 1990, offer coverage for the treatment of infertility, excemployer that is a religious organization, or health care service plans and health insurers that are a subsidiary of an entity whose owner or corporate member is a religious organization, shall notto offer coverage for forms of treatment of infertility in a manner inconsistent with the religious organization’s religious and ethical principles, as specified.This bill would require every health care PRINTL. & E.PRINTPRINT From printer. Referred to From printer. From printer. ---- Location ASSEMBLY 1/28/2020 May be heard in committee February 27.ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Com. on L. & E.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22. D D t for infertility. D D Bill ID/Topic AB 1993KamlagerUnemployment insurance: benefits.AB 2017MullinEmployee: sick leave: kin care.AB 2604CarrilloEmployment: health information technology: worker rights.AB 2781WicksHealth care coverage: treatmen - - and - - ee who has been ave, if the employer sustained in the course s this leave available to an month period, if the - ry, in lieu of disability tive group contractholders. e bill would delete the ete that exception. The bill would require an month period for family care or medical le - ce policy that is issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, omestic abuse or sexual assault.This bill would prohibit an employer t of Fish and Wildlife, and a harbor police officer employed by the San Roberti Family Rights Act, or the California Family Rights Act month period for family care or medical leave, if the employer - - Brown oyers, plans, and policies. The bill would also delete the requirement that a - in any 12 active fire suppression or prevention services. nlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing - an unlawful employment practice for an employer to refuse to grant a request for family care service plan contract or health insuran2021, to provide coverage for the treatment of infertility. The bill would revise the definition of infertility, and would remove the exclusion of in vitro fertilization from coverage. Thexemption for religiously affiliated employers, health care service plans, and health insurance policies, from the requirements relating to coverage for the treatment of infertility, thereby imposing these requirements on these emplhealth care service plan contract and health insurance policy provide infertility treatment under agreedupon terms that are communicated to all group contractholders and prospecBecause the violation of these provisions by a health care service plan would be a crime, the bill would impose a statelaws. Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries of employment. Among other workers’ compensation benefits, existing law entitles a member of the Department of Justice who comes within the “state peace officer/firefighter” class, a law enforcement officer employed by the DepartmenFrancisco Port Commission, as specified, who is disabled by injury arising out of and in the course of the member’s duties, to a leave of absence while so disabled without loss of salapayments, for a period not exceeding one year.This bill would make that benefit available to all rankfile and supervisory firefighters employed by the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection whose principal duties include (1)Existing law, the Moore(CFRA), makes it an urequest by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12month period for family care and medical leave, as specified. Existing law makeemployee with more than 12 months of service with the employer and at least 1,250 hours of service with the employer within the last 12 months. Existing law creates an exception to this provision, by prescribing that it is not and medical leave by an employee if the employer employs less than 50 employees within 75 miles of the worksite where that employee is employed.This bill would delemployer to allow family and medical leave of up to 12 workweeks in any 12employer employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles of the worksite where the employee is employed, 6 workweeks employs at least 20 but not more than 49 employees within 75 miles of the worksite where the employee is employed, and 2 workweeks in any 12employs at least one but not more than 19 employees within 75 miles of the worksite where the employee is employed.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law provides employees with the right to take time off work without discharge or discrimination for a variety of reasons, including taking time off to appear in school on behalf of a child or to assist a family member who is the victim of dfrom refusing to grant a request by any employee to take up to 10 days of bereavement leave or to interfere with or restrain an employee from doing so. This bill would authorize an employdischarged, disciplined, or discriminated against for exercising their right to bereavement leave to bring a civil action against their employer for reinstatement, specified damages, and attorney’s fees. The PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. Introduced. Introduced. --- print. ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To D D D AB 2797WoodLeave of absence: firefighters.AB 2992WeberEmployment practices: leave time and unemployment benefits.AB 2999LowEmployees: bereavement leave. laints and to conduct a t of Developmental Services, traumatic stress that develops or - the employer cancels or moves to ation of that provision actual for those purposes, including, among ed wage statement provisions to meet yees with a work schedule at least 7 calendar days prior to the first shift apply to an employee who is covered by a valid collective bargaining ction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of rs’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course call shift for which an employee is required to be available but is not called in to - ns the relationship between an employer and an employee with regard to hiring, to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability that provision and entitles the employee to an award of costs and reasonable attorney’s The bill would require an employer to post a poster containing specified information equires an employer, either semimonthly or at the time of each payment of wages, to furnish the alleged violation, and would allow the employer 65 calendar days of the postmark date of the provisions of the bill would notagreement that provides for bereavement leave and other specified working conditions.Existing law goverpromotion, discipline, wages and hours, working conditions, and administrative and judicial remedies. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee comphearing in any action to recover wages, penalties, and other demands for compensation.This bill would require an employer, which includes a grocery store establishment, restaurant, or retail store establishment, to provide its emploon that work schedule, except as specified. The bill would require an employer, except as specified, to pay its employees modification pay for each previously scheduled shift that another date or time, for any previously unscheduled shift that the employer requires an employee to work, or for each onwork that shift.regarding an employee’s right to receive modification pay and would require the Labor Commissioner to create the poster and make it available. The bill would define termsothers, a grocery store establishment, restaurant, or retail store establishment.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workeof employment. Existing law provides, only until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes postmanifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit, but applies only to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2020. Existing law requires the compensation awarded pursuantindemnity, and death benefits.This bill would make that provision applicable to active firefighting members of the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Departmenand the Military Department, and to additional peace officers, including security officers of the Department of Justice when performing assigned duties as security officers and the officers of a state hospital under the jurisdiDevelopmental Services, among other officers.Existing law rtheir employees with an accurate itemized statement showing specified information. Existing law authorizes an employee to recover for a knowing and intentional violdamages, or a specified alternative dollar amount, whichever is greater, and to be awarded costs and attorney’s fees. Existing law authorizes an employee to also bring an action for injunctive relief to ensure compliance withfees. Existing law provides for specified civil penalties for violations of itemized wage statements.This bill would require an employee alleging a violation of itemizspecified requirements before bringing an action against the employer, which would include providing written notice by certified mail to the employer of the alleged violation, including the facts and theories to supportnotice to cure the violation, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Referred to From printer. From printer. L., P.E. & R.RLS.RLS. --- SENATE 1/22/2020 Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20.SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21. traumatic - D DD ighters and peace SB 850LeyvaWork hours: scheduling.SB 1047SternWorkers’ compensation: firefofficers: poststress.SB 1129DoddEmployment: itemized wage statements: violations: actions. Position vision of medical Administrative Director of traumatic stress that develops or - post rtment of Developmental Services, administrative director to contract with tead, would require the evaluation to cover a Summary rocess to prospectively, retrospectively, or concurrently review and e by the employer and is addressed by the medical treatment utilization schedule, Workers' Comp risdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals or the State Department of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course suant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability nuary 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2019. Existing law requires the report to be provided to the Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the the Division of Workers’ Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law requires every employer, for purposes of workers’ compensation, to establish a utilization review papprove, modify, or deny, based in whole or in part on medical necessity to cure and relieve, treatment recommendations by physicians prior to, retrospectively, or concurrent with the protreatment services, as provided. Existing law requires, for all dates of injury occurring on or after January 1, 2018, emergency treatment services and medical treatment rendered for a body part or condition that is accepted as compensablas specified, to be authorized without prospective utilization review, except as provided, within the 30 days following the initial date of injury. Existing law requires the an outside, independent research organization on or after March 1, 2019, to evaluate the impact of the provision of medical treatment within the first 30 days after a claim is filed, for a claim filed on or after Jaadministrative director, the Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations, and the Assembly Committee on Insurance before January 1, 2020.This bill, insclaim filed on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2021, and would require the report to be submitted to the administrative director and those legislative committees before January 1, 2022.Existing law establishes a workers’ compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of of employment. Existing law provides, only until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term “injury” includes manifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit, but applies only to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 2020. Existing law requires the compensation awarded purindemnity, and death benefits.This bill would make that provision applicable to active firefighting members of the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Depaand the Military Department, and to additional peace officers, including security officers of the Department of Justice when performing assigned duties as security officers and the officers of a state hospital under the juDevelopmental Services, among other officers. Referred to From printer. L., P.E. & R.RLS. -- Location SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. traumatic - D D Bill ID/Topic SB 924HertzbergWorkers’ compensation: utilization review.SB 1047SternWorkers’ compensation: firefighters and peace officers: poststress. Position nce of Dynamex escribed of Dynamex e Unemployment Insurance Code, and the the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the n providing labor or services for remuneration fied prohibited harassment under these ng Act, among other things, prohibits an s Summary ently established trade, occupation, or business. Existing law ontractor endently established trade, occupation, or business. Existing law C ribed exemptions to also include individuals who are licensed as described above. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner desc s (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341. This bill would also exempt individuals working - ndependent I r gender, an employee, an applicant, an unpaid intern or volunteer, or a person providing AB 5 rson is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housiemployer, a labor organization, an employment agency, an apprenticeship training program, or any training program leading to employment from harassing, based upon enumerated protected characteristics, such as race oservices pursuant to a contract.This bill would also make a client employer responsible for the acts of a contracted supervisor, as those terms are defined, for speciprovisions.Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code,wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that thethe work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an indepcharges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the applicationand these provisions. Existing law instead provides that these exempt relationships are governed by the test adopted in S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341. This bill would expand the abovepharmacists.Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, thwage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the pethe work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independcharges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application ofand the provisions described above, including certain licensed medical professionals. Existing law instead provides that these exempt relationships are governed by the test adopted in S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relationas physical therapists from the provisions described above. Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a persois considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performathe work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test is commonly known as the “ABC” test,with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application of Dynamex and the provisions d L. & E.PRINTPRINTPRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. From printer. ---- Location ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22. R RR D nt contractors. Bill ID/Topic AB 2043GonzalezUnlawful business practices: employer liability: contracted supervisor.AB 2457MelendezWorker status: independent contractors: pharmacists.AB 2458MelendezWorker status: independent contractors: physical therapists.AB 2572Dahle, MeganWorker status: independe employee r with the indefinitely. above, including , to determine if is an employee for he work, the person efits arising under wage orders issued by the Industrial or unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test, to - for newspaper distributors or newspaper carriers, as defined, part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test, to determine if part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test contractors for those purposes. Existing law establishes that, for -- ing labor or services for remuneration is considered an employee sual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is ribed above. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the mption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee for exempt all freelance journalists, without regard to the number of content above. This bill would also exempt timber operators, registered forest professionals, geologists and geophysicists, and land surveyors who meet certain statutory licensing requirements Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations W. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer purposes of claims for wages and benefits arising under wage orders issued by the Industrial Welfare Commission. Existing law requires a 3workers are employees or independent purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered anrather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the ucustomarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test is commonly known as the “ABC” test, as described above. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioneenforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application of Dynamex and the provisions described above. These exemptions include a temporary exemption until January 1, 2021. This bill would delete the above inoperative date of January 1, 2021, applicable to newspaper distributors or newspaper carriers, thereby making the above exemption apply Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations W. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presupurposes of claims for wages and benefits arising under wage orders issued by the Industrial Welfare Commission. Existing law requires a 3workers are employees or independent contractors for those purposes. Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providrather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of tperforms work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test is commonly known as the “ABC” test, as descenforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application of Dynamex and the provisions describedvarious professional services provided by a freelance writer, editor, or newspaper cartoonist who does not provide content submissions to the putative employer more than 35 times per year. This bill would revise that exemption to instead submissions per year, from the application of Dynamex and the above provisions.Existing case law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations W. Inc. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee for purposes of claims for wages and benWelfare Commission. Existing law requires a 3determine if workers are employees or independent contractors for those purposes. Existing statutory law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered an employee rather than an independent contract & R. Referred to Referred to Referred to L., P.E. & R.L., P.E. & R.L., P.E. & R. --- SENATE 1/29/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 1/29/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 1/29/2020 Com. on L., P.E. status: R RR SB 867BatesWorker status: independent contractors: newspaper distributers or newspaper carriers.SB 868BatesWorker independent contractors: freelance journalists.SB 875GroveWorker status: independent contractors: court interpreters. s - business described exemptions to also described exemptions to also -- he hiring entity’s business, and the ity in connection with the performance of S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of l course of the hiring entity’s business, and the ion of Dynamex, including licensed insurance st adopted in S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341. This bill would also than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that ustrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration ployee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that , including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business exemptions to also include health facilities, as defined, which contract with companies that not an employee under the ABC test. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and relationships from the application of the ABC test described above. Existing law, instead, provides that these exempt relationships are governed by the multifactor test previously adopted in the case of S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of exempt from the ABC test specified individuals working as interpreters and translators. Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered an emthe person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usuaperson is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test is commonly known as the “ABC” test. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application of Dynamex and these provisions. Existing law instead provides that these exempt relationships are governed by the teIndustrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341. This bill would expand the aboveinclude individuals providing services as a referee or umpire for an independent youth sportsorganization. Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Indis considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entthe work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test icommonly known as the “ABC” test, as described above. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the applicatagents, certain health care professionals, including physicians and surgeons, dentists, and podiatrists, subject to meeting certain conditions and license requirements. This bill would expand the abovedescribedemploy health care providers who provide services to patients at those facilities.Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered an employee ratherthe person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of tperson is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test is commonly known as the “ABC” test. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor lawsrelationships from the application of Dynamex and these provisions. Existing law instead provides that these exempt relationships are governed by the test adopted inIndustrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341. This bill would expand the aboveinclude individuals who are licensed pharmacists. red to ReferReferred to Referred to L., P.E. & R.L., P.E. & R.L., P.E. & R. --- n L., P.E. & R. SENATE 2/20/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 2/20/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 2/20/2020 Com. o R RR SB 963MorrellWorker status: independent contractors: referees and umpires for youth sports.SB 965NielsenWorker status: independent contractors: healthcare industry.SB 966NielsenWorker status: independent contractors: pharmacists. e th the performance of with the performance of provisions described described exemptions to also - Existing law instead provides that de, occupation, or business. This test is commonly nce Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial rsons are performing work on forested landscapes, as ork companies from the application of Dynamex and the mex Operations W. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 ission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration ommission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration part test, commonly known as the “ABC” test, to determine if - met. the ABC test, as described above. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner as the “ABC” test. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement ndividuals providing services as a licensed timber operator or a registered professional forester, business relationships from the application of Dynamex and the provisions described above, including Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commis considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection withe work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test is commonly known as with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application of Dynamex and theabove. This bill would prohibit franchisees from being deemed employees of a franchisor, and would require that they be considered independent contractors, unless a court of competent jurisdiction determines specified requirements areExisting law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Cis considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connectionthe work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This test is commonly known of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and business relationships from the application of Dynamex and these provisions. these exempt relationships are governed by the test adopted in S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1989) 48 Cal.3d 341. This bill would expand the aboveinclude ias provided. The bill would also exempt licensed geologists, geophysicists, land surveyors, contractors, engineers, and pest control operators, when those pespecified.Existing law, as established in the case of Dyna(Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee for purposes of claims for wages and benefits arising under wage orders issued by the Industrial WelfarCommission. Existing law requires a 3workers are employees or independent contractors for those purposes. Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment InsuraWelfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from thecontrol and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, the person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established traknown as the “ABC” test, as described above. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. Existing law exempts specified occupations and various professional services provided by graphic designers, grant writers, and fine artists, among others. This bill would also exempt transportation netwabove provisions. Referred to Referred to Referred to L., P.E. & R.L., P.E. & R.L., P.E. & R. --- SENATE 2/20/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 2/20/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R.SENATE 2/20/2020 Com. on L., P.E. & R. contractors: R R R ndent contractors: SB 967BorgeasWorker status: independent franchiser and franchisees.SB 975DahleWorker status: indepealarm services industry.SB 990MoorlachWorker status: independent contractors: transportation network companies. t is commonly including s and reasonable attorney’s h payment of wages, to furnish dar days of the postmark date of the nly known as the “ABC” test, to determine if entity in connection with the performance of the work, the part test, commo - garding the intent of the Legislature to develop a modern policy ative dollar amount, whichever is greater, and to be awarded costs and efore bringing an action against the employer, which would include providing Industrial Welfare Commission, a person providing labor or services for remuneration is considered Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations W. v. Superior Court (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903(Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who performs services for a hirer is an employee for purposes of claims for wages and benefits arising under wage orders issued by the Industrial Welfare Commission. Existing law requires a 3workers are employees or independent contractors for purposes of specified wage orders. Existing law establishes that, for purposes of the Labor Code, the Unemployment Insurance Code, and the wage orders of the an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that the person is free from the control and direction of the hiring person performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business, and the person is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business. This tesknown as the “ABC” test. Existing law charges the Labor Commissioner with the enforcement of labor laws, including worker classification. This bill, known as “The Independent Worker Rights Act of 2020,” would set forth legislative findings reframework that facilitates independent work for those who voluntarily choose it by creating a third classification of workers with basic rights and protections relative to work opportunities,minimum wage and occupational accident coverage. Existing law requires an employer, either semimonthly or at the time of eactheir employees with an accurate itemized statement showing specified information. Existing law authorizes an employee to recover for a knowing and intentional violation of that provision actual damages, or a specified alternattorney’s fees. Existing law authorizes an employee to also bring an action for injunctive relief to ensure compliance with that provision and entitles the employee to an award of costfees. Existing law provides for specified civil penalties for violations of itemized wage statements.This bill would require an employee alleging a violation of itemized wage statement provisions to meet specified requirements bwritten notice by certified mail to the employer of the alleged violation, including the facts and theories to support the alleged violation, and would allow the employer 65 calennotice to cure the violation, as specified.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. From printer. From printer. RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/18/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 19.SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21. D D SB 1039GalgianiIndependent workers.SB 1129DoddEmployment: itemized wage statements: violations: actions. Position Department of Alcoholic follow specified notification s bill would delete the exception to the e, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. Summary aw allows licenses for the retail sale of alcoholic beverages to be issued for, or Alcohol Regulation wine cellars located away from the place of production or manufacture, subject to specified s. Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by theBeverage Control, regulates the application, issuance, and suspension of alcoholic beverage licenses. A violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act is a misdemeanor, unless another penalty or punishment is specified. Existing ltransferred to, premises that are to be constructed or are in the process of construction. This bill would require a licensee transferring a license, as described above, to requirements.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, which is administered by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, regulates the application, issuancExisting law authorizes licensed winegrowers and brandy manufacturers to exercise their license privileges away from their licensed premises at, or from, branch offices or warehouses or United States bondedexceptions. One of the exceptions to this authorization is the sale or delivery of wine to consumers in containers supplied, furnished, or sold by the consumer.Thiauthorization applicable to winemakers, as described above, and would thus allow them to sell and deliver wine to consumers in containers supplied, furnished, or sold by the consumer away from their licensed premise PRINTPRINT From printer. Introduced. -- Location ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. D R Bill ID/Topic AB 2608BigelowAlcoholic beverage control: licenses.AB 2957Rivas, RobertWinegrowers and brandy manufacturers: exercise of privileges: locations. Position g sale ispatch a at the kennel ent system for rtment to capture ining facility for a period ing facility operator related to the condition State Department of Public Health, for the fuge or ecological reserve is unlawful. Existing lture into the standardized emergency management Summary is bill contains other related provisions and other existing ency Services, in coordination with all interested state agencies s generally a crime.This bill would make it unlawful to use any ill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. rchaser of dog training services, including whether the trainer is mandated local program. The bill would authorize the depa Animals - nd after handling an infectious or contagious dog. A violation of those provisions would mandated local program.This b - Under existing law, the Office of Emergwith designated response roles in the state emergency plan and interested local emergency management agencies, is required to jointly establish by regulation a standardized emergency managemuse by all emergency response agencies. Existing law requires the office to approve and adopt, and incorporate the California Animal Response Emergency System (CARES) program developed under the oversight of the Department of Food and Agricusystem.This bill would require a city or county that requires a kennel license or permit to operate a kennel within its jurisdiction, to require, as a condition for obtaining the kennel license or permit, thowner create and submit to the city or county an animal natural disaster evacuation plan for any kennel covered by the license or permit. By imposing a new duty on local government, this bill would impose a stateExisting law establishes procedures, as administered by the care and maintenance of pets boarded at a pet boarding facility, including, but not limited to, sanitation, provision of enrichment for the pet, health of the pet, and safety. Existing law similarly regulates the of dogs by pet breeders.This bill would establish parallel requirements for dog trainers, dog training facilities, and dog training facility operators, as defined. The bill would require a dog trainer to disclose in writing certain information to a pulicensed or certified by an animal training organization. The bill would require a trainer to maintain a written record on the health, status, and disposition of each dog trained at the traof at least one year after the completion of training, and would specify various unlawful acts, such as failing to maintain facilities where the dogs are kept or trained in a sanitary condition and failing to wash hands before asubject the trainer to civil fines, prohibition from engaging in the business of dog training, or both, as specified. The bill would impose requirements on a dog trainof the facility, including, but not limited to, ensuring that the interior building surfaces, including walls and floors, are constructed in a manner that permits them to be readily cleaned and sanitized, and maintaining an area for isolating sick dogs from healthy dogs. The bill would also require the facility operator to adhere to specified animal care requirements and to provide purchasers written information regarding the daily operations of the facility.Thlaws. Existing law, with specified exceptions, makes it unlawful to permit or allow any dog to pursue any bigame mammal during the closed season on that mammal, to pursue any fully protected, rare, or endangered mammal at any time, to pursue any bear or bobcat at any time, or to pursue any mammal in a game refuge or ecological reserve if hunting within that relaw authorizes the Department of Fish and Wildlife to capture a dog not under the reasonable control of its owner or handler that is pursuing these animals in violation of this prohibition or to capture or ddog inflicting injury or immediately threatening to inflict injury on these animals under specified circumstances. Under existing law, any violation of the Fish and Game Code, or of any rule, regulation, or order made or adopted under the code, idog for the purpose of hunting deer at any time. Because a violation of this provision would be a crime, the bill would impose a state PRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. From printer. RLS. --- Location ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. D D Kahan D - Bill ID/Topic AB 2568MaienscheinDisaster preparedness: local government: animal wildfire evacuation plan.AB 2691BauerDog training services and facilities: requirements.SB 1041HuesoHunting: deer: use of dogs. hese provisions.This bill shelter from the obligation to ed provisions and other existing id, unexpired, and unrevoked license to practice veterinary medicine, communicable disease. The bill would require a shelter engaging in these exempted The bill would exempt a person from licensure and specified requirements on licensees mandated local program.This bill contains other relat - or dispatch a dog being used to hunt deer under specified circumstances.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to practice veterinary medicine or any branch thereof in the state unless the person holds a valsurgery, and dentistry, and the various branches of those practices, as described. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to violate, or to aid or abet in violating, any of twould expand this exception to include officers and employees and would expand the types of veterinary care that may be provided pursuant to these provisions to include, but not be limited to, vaccinations to prevent the spread ofacts of veterinary care to maintain records of the care, as provided. The bill would preclude these exemptions from being construed to relieve a duly authorized officer of aconvey an injured animal to a veterinarian as specified or as otherwise necessary to provide the animal with the veterinary care that the shelter is unable to perform in accordance with the exempted acts of veterinary care. when engaging in specified acts of veterinary care. By changing the scope of a crime, this bill would impose a statelaws. Introduced. RLS. - SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. D SB 1347GalgianiVeterinary medicine: authorized care and registration. Position whose te the a specified ion, construction, alteration, repair, file probation officer or deputy - and - board is currently composed of 13 specific provisions for contracting by counties, y to not withhold less than 5% of the contract price until Summary tal amount of the original contract does not exceed he California Consumer Price Index. The bill would modify alteration, repair, or improvement of any public structure, ll would expand the prescribed purposes to also include diagnosis, CAO Must Read List as a record of a felony conviction, to be appointed by the Governor, subject to w establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections to provide statewide leadership, FCD). Those specific provisions include change order authorization for contracts, as prescribed, and made in excess of 95% of the percentage of actual work completed plus a like percentage of the value Existing law requires employers to provide their employees paid sick leave that is accrued at rate. Existing law authorizes an employee to request a paid sick day for prescribed purposes, including diagnosis, care, or treatment of an existing health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee’s family member.This bicare, or treatment of an existing behavioral health condition of, or preventive care for, an employee or an employee’s family member.This bill contains other related provisions. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as defined, to prescribe how the local agency makes payment on a contract with the local agency for the creator improvement of any public structure, building, road, or other improvement of any kind that will exceed a total of $5,000. Existing law limits this authority by requiring progress payments on the contract to not be of material delivered on the ground or stored subject to, or under the control of, the local agency, and unused. Existing law also requires the local agencfinal completion and acceptance of the project, unless, at any time after 50% of the work has been completed, the local agency finds that satisfactory progress is being made.This bill would eliminaabove described limitations on a local agency’s authority to prescribe payments on these contracts. The bill would, however, prohibit the local agency from withholding more than 5% of the contract price for contracts for the creation, construction, building, road, or other improvement of any kind that will exceed $5,000 in total costs.Existing lacoordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California’s adult and juvenile criminal justice system. Themembers.This bill would add two additional members, a rankprobation officer who is actively serving as the president of a county probation association and a member of the public who hconfirmation by the Senate.Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, regulates contracting by local agencies, including counties and special districts. The act includescontracting for county highways and county bridges and subways, and contracting by county waterworks districts. Other existing law regulates contracting by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District (LACimpose caps on the extra cost of any change order, varying with the value of the original contract. The act, for a county, imposes a $5,000 cap when the to$50,000. For any original contract that exceeds $50,000, but does not exceed $250,000, the cap is 10% of the amount of the original contract. For contracts whose original cost exceeds $250,000, the cap is$25,000 plus 5% of the amount of the original contract cost in excess of $250,000, and prohibits a change or alteration cost from exceeding $210,000. This bill would require that the existing caps be adjusted annually to reflect the percentage change in tthe cap applicable to contracts exceeding $250,000 to apply only to contracts exceeding that amount but not exceeding $25,000,000. The bill would add a new change order cap of $500,000 for contractsoriginal cost exceeds $25,000,000 and of $1,000,000 for contracts whose original cost exceeds L. & E.L. GOV.PUB. S.PRINT Referred to Referred to Referred to From printer. ---- Location ASSEMBLY 1/17/2020 Com. on L. & E.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on L. GOV.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on PUB. S.ASSEMBLY 2/15/2020 May be heard in committee March 16. D n Act: change retention D D Sawyer Bill ID/Topic- D AB 1844ChuPaid sick leave: behavioral health conditions.AB 2186GraysonPublic contracting: contractorwithholding.AB 2205JonesBoard of State and Community Corrections: membership.AB 2284CalderonLocal Agency Public Constructioorders. e ders’ ith nonminor ance Payment dents and ommunity Development, mandated local - criteria, but a collocation facility, home care through various social - of - FC), Kinship Guardianship Assist - backup generators” to emergency power systems he public agency and the employee organization fail visions that govern collective bargaining of local ounties, the bill would impose a state Foster Care (AFDC described timeframe to no earlier than 15 days after the factfin - - r transitional jurisdiction of the juvenile court and, when the person nd other events. The bill would also require the department, in e efforts and specified status information for each nonminor services to children placed in out Brown Act contains various pro - Gap), and the Adoption Assistance Program. Under existing law, a person continues to be - Milias - law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to investigate employee complaints and determine ct to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes. $50,000,000, both of which would be adjusted annually to reflect the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index. Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation facility, as specified, is subject to a city or county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified which is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipment, on or immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subjeThis bill would revise the definition of “wireless telecommunications facility” to include, among other equipment and network components listed, “emergency that are integral to providing wireless telecommunications services.The Meyersrepresented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Public Employment Relations Board to resolve disputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. Thact requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of tto reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointment of a mediator and equally share the cost.This bill would revise the abovewritten findings of fact and recommended terms of settlement have been submitted to the parties.This bill contains other existing laws. Existing law provides aid and service programs, including California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs), Aid to Families with Dependent ChildrenProgram (Kineligible for those programs as a nonminor dependent until 21 years of age if, among other requirements, the person is under the jurisdiction oattained 18 years of age, they were under an order of foster care placement by the juvenile court.This bill would require each county to collaborate with the Department of Housing and Camong other entities, to form a multidisciplinary team to serve nonminor dependents, and would require each county to submit an annual report to the State Department of Social Services that includes documentation of those collaborativdependent under its jurisdiction, including the educational and housing status. The bill would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the status of nonminor depenrecommendatio ns to improve foster care services for nonminor dependents, as specified, to post that report on its internet website, and to annually present the information from the annual report at appropriate child welfare conferences, forums, aconsultation with the California Youth Connection, among others, to establish a working group to, by January 1, 2022, develop curricula for child welfare professionals and providers who work wdependents and ensure that all of the existing system tools and requirements for the provision of foster care to nonminor dependents are functioning with fidelity and in the best interest of each nonminor dependent. By imposing new duties on cprogram.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existingvarious matters arising under the labor commissioner’s jurisdiction.This bill would provide that the use of PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. ---- SEMBLY AS2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 D D D D AB 2421QuirkLand use: permitting: wireless communications.AB 2433CooperLocal public employee organizations.AB 2469ReyesNonminor dependents.AB 2604Carrillo stribution added tax - discriminating ng permit, to of $1,000 per month, except nce and other benefits to ons. g the payment of those fees or charges until patient care from exercising independent y of another for any solar energy system. Existing formation technology and clinical practice guidelines if, e of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first. The bill that support solar collectors or other solar energy devices.This bill contains ctice guidelines, or both. The bill would authorize a worker who is subject to y.This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation by the he State Department of Social Services and requires the department to administer nts. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement the income families and individuals, and the CalFresh program, under which supplemental - are including algorithms derived from the use of health care related data, used to achieve a medical technology shall not limit a worker who is providing direct clinical judgment in the assessment, evaluation, planning and implementation of care, nor from acting as a patient advocate. The bill would define “technology” for these purposes to mean scientific hardware or softwor nursing care objective at a health care facility. The bill would authorize each worker who provides direct patient care to be free to override health inin their professional judgment, and in accordance with their scope of practice, it is in the best interest of the patient to do so. The bill would prohibit an employer from retaliating or otherwise against a worker providing direct patient care who requests to override health information technology and clinical practice guidelines or discusses with other employees or supervisors overriding health information technology and clinical praretaliation to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner against an employer who has retaliated or discriminated against the employee.This bill contains other related provisiExisting law creates the right to receive sunlight, which is referred to as a solar easement, and defines it to mean the right of receiving sunlight across real propertlaw defines a “solar energy system” for this purpose to include a structural design feature of a building, including a design feature whose primary purpose is to provide for the collection, storage, and diof solar energy for electricity generation, space heating or cooling, or for water heating.This bill would specify that a design feature, for the purpose described above, includes elevated solar structures, including carport and shade structuresother related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law establishes tvarious public social services programs, including the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistaqualified lownutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each countLegislature, to administer the California Universal Basic Income Program, under which a California resident who is 18 years of age or older shall receive a universal basic income as specified. The bill would define universal basic income to mean unconditional cash payments of equal amounts issued monthly to individual residents of California with the intention of ensuring the economic security of recipieprogram, and would state the intent of the Legislature to fund the CalUBI Program with a valueof 10% on goods and services, as specified.Existing law prohibits a local agency that imposes fees or charges on a residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities from requirinthe date of the final inspection or the date the certificate of occupancy is issued, whichever occurs first, except that the payment may be required sooner under specified circumstances.This bill would similarlyprohibit a noncompliant local agency, as defined, that imposes any fees or charges on a qualified development, as defined, from requiring the payment of those fees or charges until 20 years from the date of the final inspection, or the date the certificatwould authorize a noncompliant local agency that defers a fee or charge to require the property owner, or lessee if the lessee’s interest appears of record, as a condition of issuance of the buildiexecute a contract to pay the fee or charge if the fee or charge is not fully paid before the issuance of a PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. 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D Employment: health information technology: worker rights.AB 2700FriedmanSolar energy AB 2712LowCalifornia Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program.AB 2722McCartyDevelopment fees and charges: within ese ffort (MOE), torage, and disclosure those local so prohibit an agency from in any Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under - ns are provided with supportive services in order to permit ny meeting of a legislative body be mailed to that person. welfare requirements, and who is authorized to issue mandated local program.This bill contains other related - administered In - ters into a collective bargaining agreement, as specified, with its y, public authority, or nonprofit consortium, or any increase in provider ribes civil remedies and penalties for violations of the act.This bill would make an mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing - d other existing laws. fficers employed in their jurisdiction. By imposing new duties on local jurisdictions, this bill would building permit for the construction of any portion of the qualified development encumbered by the fee or charge, as provided.Existing law provides for the countywhich qualified aged, blind, and disabled persothem to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires the state and counties to share the annual cost of providing IHSS, and requires all counties to have a rebased County IHSS Maintenance of Eas prescribed. Existing law requires the state to pay 65%, and each county to pay 35%, of the nonfederal share of wage and benefit increases when any increase in provider wages or benefits is locally negotiated, mediated, or imposed by a countwages or benefits is adopted by ordinance, and associated employment taxes, as specified. Existing law requires the rebased County IHSS MOE to be adjusted for the annualized cost of increases.This bill would, until January 1, 2025, instead require the state to pay 70%, and each county to pay 30%, of the nonfederal share of wage and benefit increases and associated employment taxes in any impasse county, as defined, that enproviders between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021. The bill would make conforming changes to related rebased County IHSS MOE provisions.Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prescribes a set of requirements, prohibitions, and remedies applicable to public agencies, as defined, with regard to their collection, sof personal information. Existing law prohibits a public agency from selling, renting, or distributing an individual’s name and address for commercial purposes, unless that action is specifically authorized by law. Existing law prescagency be liable for all damages proximately caused by a negligent or intentional violation of the requirements of the Information Practices Act of 1977. The bill would alway selling, renting, or exchanging for a commercial purpose the personal information that the agency holds, unless consented to by the person to whom that information applies.This bill contains other related provisions anExisting law defines the term “code enforcement officer” as a person who is not a peace officer, who has enforcement authority for health, safety, and citations or file formal complaints, as specified.This bill would require each local jurisdiction that employs code enforcement officers to develop safety standards appropriate for the code enforcement oimpose a statelaws. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires meetings of the legislative body of a local agency to be open and public and also requires regular and special meetings of the legislative body to be heldthe boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, with specified exceptions. Existing law authorizes a person to request that a copy of an agenda, or a copy of all the documents constituting the agenda packet, of aThis bill would require a legislative body to email a copy of the agenda or a copy of all the documents constituting the agenda packet if so requested. By requiring local agencies to comply with thprovisions, this bill would impose a stateprovisions and other existing laws. PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. Introduced. Introduced. Referred to GOV. & F. ---- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.SENATE2/12/2020 Com. on GOV. & F. D r D R provider wages Sawye D - lic agencies. home supportive - AB 2724GrayInservices:and benefits.AB 3223GallagherInformation practices: pubAB 3319JonesCode enforcement officers: safety standards.SB 931WieckowskiLocal government meetings: agenda and documents. than 30 on in this Employee - jail for a felony, or was re and the absence of willful phone numbers, and personal Transit Employer cies to seal these arrest records, this is bill would authorize a city legislative body to failure is due to reasonable cause and measured by the gross receipts from the sale of x entities. term rental ordinance. The bill would define - Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the Trial Court - d or reversed on appeal, to petition the court to have their arrest Milias - Employee Relations Act, among others, regulates the labor relations of the - ia Department of Tax and Fee Administration (the department) finds that a fied local public agencies and their employees. Existing law requires these mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other - n or information against them.This bill would allow a person who has had their from those information returns and calculate the amount of revenue collected from the sale, g law, including the Meyers term rental” for these purposes as a residential property that is rented to a visitor for fewer ils to file that information return or who files an inaccurate information return to a penalty of - Existing sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumptistate. Existing law requires a seller or person subject to sales and use tax to file, on or before the last day of the month following each quarterly period, a return for the preceding quarterly period. Existing law provides that if the Californperson’s failure to make a timely return or payment is due to reasonable cause and circumstances beyond the person’s control, and occurred notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary caneglect, the person shall be relieved of the penalties for failing to file a return.This bill would require an aviation fuel retailer to provide a quarterly information return, as specified, and would subject a retailer who fa$5,000. The bill would exempt from those penalties a person who fails to file a return or provides information or files an inaccurate return, if that person’scircumstances beyond the person’s control, notwithstanding the exercise of ordinary care and the absence of willful neglect. The bill would require the department to collect and disseminate, as specified, informationstorage, use, or consumption of aviation fuel in the state. This bill would also require the department to report corresponding tax revenue information to local taExisting law allows a person who has suffered an arrest that did not result in a conviction, or resulted in a conviction that was subsequently vacateand related records sealed. Existing law allows a person who has fulfilled the conditions of probation, was convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation, was sentenced to a county sentenced prior to implementation of the 2011 Realignment Legislation for a crime for which they would have been eligible to be sentenced to a county jail to petition the court to set the conviction aside and dismiss the accusatioconviction set aside and dismissed to petition to have their arrest and related records sealed. Because this bill would result in additional duties on local law enforcement agenbill would impose a stateexisting laws. Existing law authorizes a city legislative body to impose fines, penalties, and forfeitures for violations of ordinances, provided that a fine may not exceed $1,000.Thimpose a fine of up to $5,000 for a violation of a short“shortdays through a centralized online platform where the rental is advertised and payments for the rental are securely processed.ExistinEmployment Protection and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations Act, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityRelations Act, provisions commonly referred to as the Educational Employment Relations Act, and the Higher Education Employerstate, the courts, and specipublic employers to provide certain labor representatives with the names and home addresses of newly hired employees, as well as their job titles, departments, work locations, teleemail addresses, within 30 days of hire or by the first pay period of the month following hire. Existing law also requires the public employers to provide this information for all employees in a bargaining unit at Referred to From printer. From printer. From printer. GOV. & F.RLS.RLS.RLS. ---- SENATE 2/20/2020 Com. on GOV. & F.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20.SENATE 2/21/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 22. - D D D D rentals. SB 988McGuireAviation fuel.SB 1045BradfordCriminal records: sealing.SB 1049GlazerLocal ordinances: shortterm SB 1173DurazoPublic employment: labor relations: employee information. month - ons officials, the nable expenses of an employee the local entity, to issue a citation against ue a citation upon determining that a person these provisions. county, and would require the candidates who received the mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other - described requirements if the violations occur 3 or more times in a 12 - 0 days, except as specified. This bill would impose liability on a public employer for n, or any applicable local overtime law. Existing law authorizes the commissioner, in a yer if the commissioner has already issued a citation to that employer for the same violation. least every 12violations of the aboveperiod. In this instance, the employer would be liable for the reasoorganization incurred in enforcing its rights, including staff time and payments to associated counsel.Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner, who is the Chief of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within Department of Industrial Relations, to isshad paid or caused to be paid a wage for overtime work in violation of those provisions relating to working hours, any provision regulating hours and days of work in any order of the Industrial Welfare Commissiojurisdiction where a local entity has the legal authority to issue a citation against an employer for a violation of any applicable local overtime law, on request from an employer for a violation of any applicable local overtime law if the local entity has not cited the employer for the same violation. Existing law prohibits a local entity from issuing a citation to the emploExisting law provides specified civil penalties for violations of these provisions.This bill would increase the amount of those civil penalties for violations of(1)Existing law requires a candidate for a nonpartisan office who at a primary election receives votes on amajority of all the ballots cast for candidates for that office to be elected to that office. This bill would exempt from that requirement candidates for county nonpartisan offices, including a county office in a charter county, but not a charter city andhighest and second highest number of votes cast for nomination to that office to be placed on the ballot at the ensuing general election. By imposing new duties on counties, including county electibill would impose a stateexisting laws. Introduced. Introduced. RLS.RLS. -- SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. D D e enforcement. SB 1331BradfordLocal government: overtimSB 1450UmbergElections: county officers: consolidation with statewide elections. Position d property within the state caused esident to declare a national Summary Fairs persons and property exist, and to exercise certain powers in response to that ontains other existing laws. Existing federal law, the National Emergencies Act, authorizes the Premergency under specified conditions. Existing state law, the California Emergency Services Act, authorizes the Governor to declare a state of emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of emergency. Existing state law defines the term “state of emergency” to mean a duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons anby, among other things, fire, storm, riot, or cyberterrorism.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to fairgrounds during a national emergency or state of emergency. This bill c PRINT From printer. - Location ASSEMBLY 2/12/2020 May be heard in committee March 13. R Bill ID/Topic AB 2173Dahle, MeganFairgrounds: national or state emergency. Position month 22 fiscal - – Employee - elations Act, and the th following hire. Existing law ments to associated counsel. ent of a mediator and equally share the Employment Relations Board to resolve ducation Incentive Grant Program, administered of entities meets certain requirements, Summary Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, the Trial Court - described timeframe to no earlier than 15 days after the factfinders’ - Milias - ertain labor representatives with the names and home addresses of newly Employee Relations Act, among others, regulates the labor relations of the - described requirements if the violations occur 3 or more times in a 12 - on and Governance Act, the Trial Court Interpreter Employment and Labor Relations quality career technical education programs. Existing law requires the department to Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local - - Labor and Employment above Milias - other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee r and each fiscal year thereafter, a grant applicant to provide $1 in local funding for every $1 received ntains other existing laws. ward competitive grants under the program to a school district, county office of education, charter Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Eby the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of highaschool, or regional occupational center or program operated by a joint powers authority, or any combination of those entities, if the entity or combination including, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, providing $2 in local funding for every $1 received from the program.This bill would instead require, for the 2021yeafrom the program.The Meyersrepresented employees, and delegates jurisdiction to the Publicdisputes and enforce the statutory duties and rights of local public agency employers and employees. The act requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and organizations. Under the act, if the representatives of the public agency and the employee organization fail to reach an agreement, they may mutually agree on the appointmcost.This bill would revise the abovewritten findings of fact and recommended terms of settlement have been submitted to the parties.This bill coExisting law, including the MeyersEmployment ProtectiAct, and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Transit EmployerRelations Act, provisions commonly referred to as the Educational Employment RHigher Education Employerstate, the courts, and specified local public agencies and their employees. Existing law requires these public employers to provide chired employees, as well as their job titles, departments, work locations, telephone numbers, and personal email addresses, within 30 days of hire or by the first pay period of the monalso requires the public employers to provide this information for all employees in a bargaining unit at least every 120 days, except as specified. This bill would impose liability on a public employer for violations of the period. In this instance, the employer would be liable for the reasonable expenses of an employee organization incurred in enforcing its rights, including staff time and pay ED.PRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. RLS. --- Location ASSEMBLY 2/14/2020 Com. on ED.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.SENATE 2/21/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 22. D DD Bill ID/Topic zo AB 2052O'DonnellCalifornia Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: local matching funds.AB 2433CooperLocal public employee organizations.SB 1173DuraPublic employment: labor relations: employee information. Position f each fiscal year, and Judges’ Retirement System, pended only for purposes s specified. The bill would 711/2 years of age before being ment, subject to certain or benefit be calculated as an average of the Summary January 1, 2013, generally requires a public retirement system, as defined, to Retirement of providing pension benefits to state employees and employees of contracting and other independent public retirement systems. These systems, which are supported etirement system who is employed upon the date of its enactment and to any person who to post the report on the financial condition of all state and local public retirement systems it would be required to disenroll any participating employees and close the program. With (1)The Public Employees’ Retirement Law (PERL) establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) for the purpose agencies. Existing law requires administration of PERS by the Board of Administration of PERS. Existing law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund as a trust fund to be exrelated to the system and its administration, as specified, and provides that the fund is continuously appropriated for these purposes. Existing law, the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013 (PEPRA), on and aftermodify its plan or plans to comply with the act, as specified. This bill would instead require a member permanently separated under the circumstances described above to attain provided with those election options. This bill would also correct an obsolete cross reference. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law requires state and local public retirement systems to submit audited financial statements to the Controller at the earliest practicable opportunity within 6 months of the close orequires the Controller, within 12 months of receipt of the information, to compile and publish a report on the financial condition of all state and local public retirement systems.This bill would additionally require the Controlleron the Controller’s internet website. (1)Existing law creates various public employee retirement systems in the state, including the Public Employees’ Retirement System, the State Teachers’ Retirement System, the the Judges’ Retirement System II, county and district retirement systems created pursuant to the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, the University of California Retirement Plan, various transit district retirement systems, by member and employer contributions and investment earnings, may provide defined benefits to their members based on final compensation, credited service, and age at retirevariations. This bill would revise the provision of pension and other benefits to members of all state or local public retirement systems. The bill would apply its provisions prospectively to any member of a state or local public rmay be employed and become a member thereafter. The bill would void any limit on a pension that prohibits the pension from exceeding a percentage of final compensation, aprohibit a local entity from establishing a deferred retirement option program, as described, and if a local entity has established a deferred retirement option program, whether or not the program is closed to new participants, regard to any member of a state or local public retirement system, the bill would require that final annual compensation used for purposes of ascertaining any pensionmember’s 3 highest earning years. The bill would prohibit, for any method of calculating a pension that is based on fractional percentage of final compensation multiplied by years of service with respect to a particular age at retirement, that fractional percentage from exceeding 2.7%.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. P.E. & R.PRINT Referred to Introduced. Introduced. RLS. --- Location ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 Com. on P.E. & R.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.SENATE 2/21/2020 To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. nnual report. R R Bill ID/Topic AB 2101Committee on Public Employment and RetirementPublic employees’ retirement: required distributions: age.AB 3249FongPublic retirement: Controller: aSB 1297MoorlachPublic employees’ retirement. Position es contracting by local agencies, t the percentage change in the California the value of the original contract. The act, ld require that the existing caps be adjusted Summary Public Contracting her existing law regulates contracting by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District unt of the original contract. For contracts whose original cost exceeds $250,000, the cap is t exceeding $25,000,000. The bill would add a new change order cap of $500,000 for contracts whose Existing law, the Local Agency Public Construction Act, regulatincluding counties and special districts. The act includes specific provisions for contracting by counties, contracting for county highways and county bridges and subways, and contracting by county waterworks districts. Ot(LACFCD). Those specific provisions include change order authorization for contracts, as prescribed, and impose caps on the extra cost of any change order, varying withfor a county, imposes a $5,000 cap when the total amount of the original contract does not exceed $50,000. For any original contract that exceeds $50,000, but does not exceed $250,000, the cap is 10% of the amo$25,000 plus 5% of the amount of the original contract cost in excess of $250,000, and prohibits a change or alteration cost from exceeding $210,000. This bill wouannually to reflect the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index. The bill would modify the cap applicable to contracts exceeding $250,000 to apply only to contracts exceeding that amount but nooriginal cost exceeds $25,000,000 and of $1,000,000 for contracts whose original cost exceeds $50,000,000, both of which would be adjusted annually to reflecConsumer Price Index. PRINT From printer. - Location ASSEMBLY 2/15/2020 May be heard in committee March 16. D Bill ID/Topic AB 2284CalderonLocal Agency Public Construction Act: change orders. Position e to other year - on over all public year terms. The measure would subject - Summary the commission instead consists of 4 members elected from PUC Reform The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with jurisdictiutilities. Under the California Constitution, the commission consists of 5 members appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate, a majority of the membership concurring, for staggered 6terms.This measure would provide that distinct Public Utilities Commission districts for staggered 4members of the commission to certain provisions of the California Constitution that are applicablstate officers, including those provisions related to recall, compensation, impeachment, conflicts of interest, elections, and redistricting. From printer. RLS. - Location SENATE 2/12/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 13. R Bill ID/Topic SCA 7DahlePublic Utilities Commission. Position l of the Director this state to accept cash ssions and Vocations Fund, as provided. This Summary oney in the fund is for use upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing Business Issues rve Notes and metal coins issued by the United States as legal tender. The bill would Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs, which is under the controof Consumer Affairs, and is composed of boards that license and regulate professions and vocations. Existing law establishes the Professions and Vocations Fund in the state treasury for those purposes, and provides that fine and penalty mlaw requires the Director of Consumer Affairs to enforce, among other things, various requirements on businesses and licenses, as provided.This bill would require a retail store inpayment when offered as payment by a consumer for any transaction involving the sale or lease of goods or services, or both, unless a specified exception applies. The bill would define cash for these purposes to mean Federal Reserequire the Director of Consumer Affairs to enforce these provisions, and would impose civil penalties for a violation of these provisions, to be deposited into the Profebill contains other existing laws. Referred to B., P. & E.D. - Location SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on B., P. & E.D. Bill ID/Topic D SB 926HillBusiness: retail stores: cash payments. Position of California, onation of land within the income college students and - the developer or the city or county ns.This bill contains other related tion Assistance Program (SNAP), known in Summary income households or qualifying residents, including lower - ligible for SNAP benefits unless they meet one of several as specified. The bill would require the developer to provide the city or county income, or moderate Higher Education ing law defines “housing development,” for these purposes, to mean a development - own as the Density Bonus Law, requires a city or county to provide a developer that . Under existing law, households are eligible to receive CalFresh benefits to the extent permitted by Existing federal law provides for the Supplemental NutriCalifornia as CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each countyfederal law. Existing federal law provides that students who are enrolled in college or other institutions of higher education at least 1/2 time are not especified exemptions, including participating in specified employment training programs.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to remove obstacles to the Universitythe California State University, and the California Community College systems coordinating with the State Department of Social Services to provide CalFresh benefits to lowstudents who are former foster youth.(1)Existing law, knproposes a housing development in the city or county with a density bonus and other incentives or concessions for the production of lower income housing units, or for the ddevelopment, if the developer agrees to, among other things, construct a specified percentage of units for very low income, lowincome students. Existproject for 5 or more residential units, as specified, and defines “incentives or concessions” to include, among other things, regulatory incentives or concessions proposed bythat result in identifiable and actual cost reductions to provide for affordable housing costs, as specified.This bill would instead define “housing development,” for those purposes, to mean any residential development,with an analysis demonstrating the anticipated cost reductions for purposes of determining whether an incentive or concession results in identifiable and actual cost reductioprovisions and other existing laws. PRINT From printer. From printer. RLS. -- Location ASSEMBLY 2/15/2020 May be heard in committee March 16.SENATE 2/20/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 21. - income - D D Bill ID/Topic AB 2282McCartyCalFresh: lowstudents: former foster youth students.SB 1085SkinnerDensity Bonus Law: qualifications for incentives or concessions: student housing for lower income students: moderateincome persons and families: local government constraints. Position xisting ll would mandated local program.This bill - s is exempt from taxation if it meets certain criteria, s occasionally made available for private rentals as a Summary to be within the welfare exemption. Existing property tax law Arts ntains other related provisions and other existing laws. Pursuant to constitutional authorization, existing property tax law provides a welfare exemption, pursuant to which property used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes owned and operated by specified types of entitieincluding that the property is used for the actual operation of the exempt activity, and does not exceed an amount of property reasonably necessary to the accomplishment of the exempt purpose. Under eproperty tax law, property used exclusively for the charitable purposes of museums owned and operated by religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable fund, foundation, limited liability company, or corporation that meets these criteria is deemed requires a person claiming the welfare exemption to file that claim with the assessor and obtain an organizational clearance certificate from the State Board of Equalization, as provided.This bidefine the term “museum” for these purposes and prohibit the assessor from denying a claim for the welfare exemption for property that is used exclusively for the charitable purposes of museums, as described above, on the basis that the property iservice to the community if specified conditions are met. By adding to the duties of assessors in administering the welfare exemption, this bill would impose a stateco State - BURKE, REVENUE REV. & TAX Referred to Com. Location 2:30 p.m. - ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY 2/6/2020 on REV. & TAX.3/9/2020Capitol, Room 126AND TAXATION,Chair D Bill ID/Topic AB 1977BontaProperty taxation: welfare exemption: museums. Position mandated - library district to establish, year memorandum of agreement, to - l agencies and library districts. The bill e county, to enter into a memorandum of sions and other existing laws. Summary Libraries equire a memorandum of agreement to include specified elements and to be effective for 5 years, any one or more counties, as provided. Existing law establishes in the State Department of istics, any increase in the use of library books or eBooks during the preceding 5 years. By imposing Existing law authorizes a library district to be organized and authorizes the equip, and maintain a public library for the dissemination of knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature. Existing law authorizes a library district to include incorporated or unincorporated territory or both in Education a division known as the California State Library. This bill would require a local educational agency, or multiple local educational agencies within a singlagreement with the appropriate library district to collaborate and connect for the purpose of providing every public school pupil enrolled in the local educational agency with a student success card. The bill would rafter which it may be renewed. The bill would require the California State Library to draft a model memorandum of agreement that may be used by local educationawould require a library district, upon the expiration of each initial 5report specified statistics to the California State Library and the Legislature, including, among other statnew duties on local educational agencies and library districts, the bill would impose a statelocal program.This bill contains other related provi From printer. RLS. - Location SENATE 2/18/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 19. D Bill ID/Topic SB 1025UmbergLibraries: student success cards. Position state ants to - Special Distribution Fund that will be 21 fiscal year, as described above. – Summary support of state and local government agencies impacted Gaming ants to local agencies for the 2020 posit of moneys received by the state from certain Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of tribal Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and degaming compacts entered into with the state. Existing law authorizes moneys in that fund to be used for specified purposes, including for grants for the by tribal government gaming. Existing law, until January 1, 2021, establishes the method of calculating the distribution of appropriations from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for those grlocal government agencies impacted by tribal gaming, and requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, to calculate and provide a recommendation regarding the total revenue in the Indian Gamingavailable for the current budget year for local government agencies.This bill would appropriate $13 million from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to the California Gambling Control Commission to provide gr G.O. Coauthors - Location ASSEMBLY 2/11/2020 revised. I Bill ID/Topic AB 1960MayesIndian Gaming Special Distribution Fund. Position using a ent sworn under penalty rk closely with the Director nd improve resiliency to the to report directly to the Governor nment consisting of various state manner.This bill would establish the to perform enterprise information technology Summary ccompanied by a notarized statement sworn under penalty of mandated local program.This bill contains other related - include with the request a statement of identity notarized pursuant to g laws. eographic information systems (GIS) projects, promulgating standards for data General Government , which would be established by this bill. The bill would require the council to advise the d organizations, as defined, to provide a comprehensive suite of coordinated incentives base - isting law, a certified copy of a birth, death, marriage, or military service record may be supplied mprove natural resource protection, increase the availability of affordable housing, improve vised by the Director of Technology. Existing law authorizes the director and the department to Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council in state goveragency heads and 3 public members. Existing law requires the council, among other things, to identify and review activities and funding programs of state agencies that may be coordinated to improve air and water quality, itransportation, meet greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals, encourage sustainable land use planning, and revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainableEnvironmental and Justice Empowerment Outreach Pilot Program from January 1, 2021, through January 1, 2025, and would have the program be administered by the council as a grant pilot program for eligible communityand services to disadvantaged communities, as defined, at the resident household level to provide economic savings, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, aimpacts of climate change. The bill would require the council to submit specified reports to the Legislature on the program no later than December 31, 2025.Existing law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency and authorizes the Director of Technology to supervise the department and on issues relating to information technology.This bill would establish, until January 1, 2031, the California Geographic Information Office within the Department of Technology for the purpose of coordinating the state’s gcollection and sharing, and managing shared data resources. The bill would authorize the Geographic Information Officer, appointed by the Governor, to direct the office and to woof Technology. The officer’s duties would include, among others, developing a state GIS strategic plan in consultation with key stakeholders, including, but not limited to, the California Geographic Information Advisory Councilofficer on issues of policy and implementation.Under exby the State Registrar, local registrar, or county recorder to an authorized person, as defined, who submits a written, faxed, or digitized image request aperjury that the applicant is an authorized person. Existing law, until January 1, 2021, also authorizes the official to accept an electronic acknowledgment verifying the identity of the applicant multilayered remote identity proofing process if the request for a certified copy of a birth, death, or marriage record is made electronically. If the applicant’s identity cannot be established electronically, existing law requires the applicant toexisting law. The bill would delete the January 1, 2021, sunset date for authorizing the department to accept an electronic verification of identity accompanied by an electronic statemof perjury for the above purposes, thereby applying those provisions indefinitely. By expanding the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a stateprovisions and other existinExisting law establishes the Department of Technology within the Government Operations Agency, which is superexercise various powers in creating and managing the information and technology policy of the state. Existing law includes among the director’s duties the duty functions and services, including, but not limited to, implementing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) NAT. PRINTPRINTPRINT Referred to From printer. From printer. From printer. ---- Location ASSEMBLY RES.2/20/2020 Com. on NAT. RES.ASSEMBLY 2/13/2020 May be heard in committee March 14.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20.ASSEMBLY 2/19/2020 May be heard in committee March 20. Office. D D I R Bill ID/Topic AB 2089Rivas, LuzEnvironmental and Justice Empowerment Outreach Pilot Program.AB 2209MayesCalifornia Geographic InformationAB 2376FloraVital records: certified copies: electronic requests.AB 2392RodriguezGovernment Operations Agency: State - nt, on ing quarterly and annual e elected office of Auditor t has major challenges risk local government agency audit - facility, as specified, is subject to a city or atewide GIS platform, and recommending e potential of waste, fraud, abuse, or Tax Collector into th - alifornia Work Opportunity and Responsibility to areas of duplication and coordinating the state’s f “wireless telecommunications facility” to include, among other sue reports on any local government agency, including any city, county, Controller and Treasurer - certain records regarding alternative investments in which public investment hat are at high risk.This bill would authorize the California State Auditor to include Tax Collector.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions. - State GIO on issues of policy and implementation. Specifically, the bill would require the risk local government agency audit program any local agency or district association that the Treasurer - - r agencies. This bill would establish the position of the State Geographic Information Officer (State and sharing services, applications, and program and project management activities in partnership with otheGIO) within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would task the State GIO with analyzing the geospatial data collected statewide to identify gaps orgeographic information projects, among other duties. The bill would also establish the California Geographic Information System Advisory Council composed of state GIS users, for the purpose of advising thecouncil to be responsible for determining rules and policies involving defining GIS standards and responsibilities, identifying strategies for sharing within the ststrategies for collaborative GIS projects.Under existing law, a wireless telecommunications collocation county discretionary permit and is required to comply with specified criteria, but a collocation facility, which is the placement or installation of wireless facilities, including antennas and related equipmeor immediately adjacent to that wireless telecommunications collocation facility, is a permitted use not subject to a city or county discretionary permit. Existing law defines various terms for these purposes. This bill would revise the definition oequipment and network components listed, “emergency backup generators” to emergency power systems that are integral to providing wireless telecommunications services.Existing law authorizes the California State Auditor to establish a highprogram to identify, audit, and isor special district, or any publicly created entity that the California State Auditor identifies as being at high risk for the potential of waste, fraud, abuse, or mismanagement or thaassociated with its economy, efficiency, or effectiveness. Existing law authorizes the California State Auditor to consult with the Controller, the Attorney General, and other state agencies in identifying local government agencies tin the highCalifornia State Auditor identifies as being at high risk for thmismanagement or that has major challenges associated with its economy, efficiency, or effectiveness.This bill contains other existing laws. Existing law, the California Public Records Act, requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. Existing law excludes from the disclosure requirementfunds invest.This bill would exempt from disclosure under the act specified records regarding an internally managed private loan made directly by a public investment fund, includfinancial statements of the borrower or its constituent owners, unless the information has already been publicly released by the keeper of the information.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Existing law authorizes the boards of supervisors in specified counties, by ordinance, to consolidate the duties of the offices of AuditorControllerExisting law establishes the State Department of Social Services and requires the department to administer various public social services programs, including the C PRINTPRINTPRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. ----- ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY 2/20/2020 May be heard in committee March 21.ASSEMBLY2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 D l D D D D risk loca - Geographic Information Officer.AB 2421QuirkLand use: permitting: wireless communications.AB 2452Garcia, CristinaState auditor: audits: highgovernment agency audit program.AB 2473CooperPublic investment funds.AB 2638RodriguezLocal government.AB 2712Low added tax - or posting for at least 3 years . set of requirements, prohibitions, and enact that law as the Fair Play in - reporting and antidiscrimination policy come Program, under which a California to fund the CalUBI Program with a value required to fulfill the purposes of its collection. The bill he local agency or county or counties that the local agency counting Act authorizes a public agency to elect to become nically, as specified, and publishing the notice electronically in a prescribed income families and individuals, and the CalFresh program, under which supplemental - istance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible as defined, or in the allocation of parks and recreation facilities and resources, as defined, that ts issued monthly to individual residents of California with the intention of ensuring the economic test extent practicable from the individual who is the subject of the information rather than from Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified lownutrition assindividuals by each county.This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, to administer the California Universal Basic Inresident who is 18 years of age or older shall receive a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, except as specified. The bill would define universal basic income to mean unconditional cash payments of equal amounsecurity of recipients. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement the program, and would state the intent of the Legislatureof 10% on goods and services, as specified.Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prescribes a remedies applicable to public agencies, as defined, with regard to their collection, storage, and disclosure of personal information. The act specifically requires an agency to collect personal information to the greaanother source. This bill would require a public agency subject to the Information Practices Act of 1977 to collect the least amount of personal information also would require an agency able to fulfill its requirements by collecting nonpersonal information instead of personal information to do so. Existing law prohibits a city, county, city and county, or special district from discriminating against any person on the basis of gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs, support or enable these programs. This bill would repeal and reCommunity Sports Act and would also enact additional datarequirements as part of the act. The act would define a local agency as a city, county, city and county, or special district. As part of the act, the bill would also require a local agency that has a community youthathletics program to publicly make available at the end of each calendar year, beginning in 2021 and annually thereafter, certain data regarding the program. The bill would require the local agency to post the data prominently on the internet website of tserves or is a part of. The bill would require a local agency to provide the data to the Department of Parks and Recreation and to maintain the materials the local agency used to compile the data after the data is posted on the internet website.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. The Uniform Public Construction Cost Acsubject to uniform construction cost accounting procedures. The act authorizes bidding procedures for public projects, as specified. Those bidding procedures include procedures for the publication and electronic transmission of notice inviting formal bids.This bill would authorize a public agency, as an alternative to the publication or posting requirement, to meet the notice inviting formal bids requirement by transmitting notice electromanner on the public agency’s internet website at least 14 calendar days before the date of opening the bids.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws PRINTPRINTPRINT From printer. Introduced. Introduced. --- May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 May be heard in committee March 22.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print. UBI) D Curry - R R California Universal Basic Income (CalProgram.AB 2748FongPublic agencies: information practices.AB 2881AguiarDiscrimination: Fair Play in Community Sports Act.AB 2987FloraLocal agency public contracts: bidding procedures. , ld ed ing , who has to review by the appropriate .This bill contains other related egulate professions and vocations. the board to conduct a loan and grant program ansaction involving the sale or lease of goods , as specified. Existing law establishes the the Judicial Council to increase that minimum safety standards appropriate for the code enforcement ary 1, 2022, to be within the Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety within the mandated local program.This bill contains other related provisions and other exist - a county, to be appointed to administer these estates under certain circumstances. Existing law uires the Director of Consumer Affairs to enforce, among other things, various requirements on Existing law provides for the regulation of underground storage tanks by the State Water Resources Control Board. Existing law, until January 1, 2022, requiresto assist small businesses in upgrading, replacing, or removing tanks meeting applicable local, state, or federal standards.This bill would extend the operation of the loan and grant program to January 1, 2026and would make a conforming change.Existing law defines the term “code enforcement officer” as a person who is not a peace officerenforcement authority for health, safety, and welfare requirements, and who is authorized to issue citations or file formal complaints, as specified.This bill would require each local jurisdiction that employs code enforcement officers to developofficers employed in their jurisdiction. By imposing new duties on local jurisdictions, this bill would impose a statelaws. Existing law, the Dig Safe Act of 2016, creates the California Underground Facilities Safe Excavation Board within the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The act subjects the boardpolicy committees of the Legislature. This bill would provide that the board is also known as the “Dig Safe Board” and would make conforming changes to references in the act. The bill would require the board, on and after JanuNatural Resources Agency, as established pursuant to the California Energy Infrastructure Safety Act. The bill would require policy committee review at least once every 3 yearsprovisions and other existing laws. Existing law regulates the administration of estates of decedents and permits the public administrator, an officer ofgrants public administrators a variety of powers in this regard, including the right to take control of a decedent’s property and summarily dispose of propertycompensation payable to the public administrator and the attorney, if any, for the public administrator for the filing of an application to summarily dispose of a decedent’s estate that does not exceed a specifitotal value and for the performance of any duty or service connected with that filing. Existing law entitles the public administrator to a minimum compensation of $1,000.This bill would increase the minimum compensation to $1,600. The bill would requirecompensation based on the California Consumer Price Index every 3 years.Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs, which is under the control of the Director of Consumer Affairs, and is composed of boards that license and rExisting law establishes the Professions and Vocations Fund in the state treasury for those purposes, and provides that fine and penalty money in the fund is for use upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law reqbusinesses and licenses, as provided.This bill would require a retail store in this state to accept cash payment when offered as payment by a consumer for any tror services, or both, unless a specified exception applies. The bill would define cash for these purposes to mean Federal Reserve Notes and metal coins issued by the United States as legal tender. The bill wourequire the Director of Consumer Affairs to enforce these provisions, and would impose civil penalties for a violation of these provisions, to be deposited into the Professions and Vocations Fund, as provided. This bill contains other existing laws. PRINTPRINT Introduced. Introduced. Referred to Referred to Referred to G.O.B., P. & E.D. JUD. ----- ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.ASSEMBLY 2/21/2020 To print.SENATE 1/29/2020 Com. on G.O.SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on JUD.SENATE 2/12/2020 Com. on B., P. & E.D. s: D subsurface D D Sawyer - DD AB 3039QuirkUnderground storage tanks: small business loan and grant program.AB 3319JonesCode enforcement officers: safety standards.SB 865HillExcavations: installations.SB 919WieckowskiPublic administrators: compensation.SB 926HillBusiness: retail storecash payments. ys in of a local es, other n a regular basis funding pension obligations. ws. ertain conditions are met.This bill would issuance of refunding bonds by a local agency, which t the money as it deems wise or expedient in certain issuer restriction to prohibit a local agency, other than a inctions in local agencies in connection with their investment in kateboard park from permitting a person to ride a skateboard at term notes of any single issuer.This bill contains other related r any improvement district subject to taxation or assessment. This bill - ing without a license, except as specified. Existing law includes within the provides that a public entity is not liable to a person who participates in a rovisions and other existing laws. Existing law regulates the investment of public funds by local agencies, as defined. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency, as specified, that has money in a sinking fund or in its treasury not required for immediate needs to invessecurities and financial instruments. In this regard, existing law authorizes investment in prime quality commercial paper issued by entities meeting certain criteria. Existing law prohibits local agencithan counties, from investing more than 25% of their moneys in eligible commercial paper and further prohibits these agencies from purchasing no more than 10% of the outstanding commercial paper of any single issuer.This bill would establish distcommercial paper, as described above. The bill would prohibit local agencies that have less than $100,000,000 of investment assets under management from investing more than 25% of their moneeligible commercial paper. For a local agency that has $100,000,000 or more of investment assets under management, the bill would prohibit it from investing than 40% of their moneys in eligible commercial paper. The bill would also revise the single county or a city and a county, from investing more than 10% of its total investment assets in the commercial paper and the mediumpExisting law prohibits an operator of a sthe park, unless the person is wearing a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads. Existing law provides that a skateboard facility owned or operated by a local public agency that is not supervised omay satisfy the above requirement if it complies with certain things, including the adoption of an ordinance that requires a person riding a skateboard in the facility to wear a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads, as provided. Existing lawhazardous recreational activity, and that skateboarding at a facility owned or operated by a public entity as a public skateboard park is a hazardous recreational activity, if capply the above provisions, and others relating to skateboard safety and liability, to other wheeled recreational devices, as defined.This bill contains other related provisions. (1)Existing law, the Professional Land Surveyors’ Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of land surveyors by the Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, and makes it unlawful to practice land surveypractice of land surveying cadastral surveying.This bill would define cadastral surveying for purposes of the act.This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laExisting law generally authorizes local agencies to issue bonds and distinguishes between different types of bonds for this purpose. Existing law regulates theare issued for the purpose of refunding other indebtedness, as specified. Existing law defines “bonds” for these purposes, among other things, as bonds, warrants, notes or other evidence of indebtednessagency or any improvement district, the principal and interest of which are payable from the proceeds of ad valorem taxes or ad valorem assessments that may be levied, without limitation as to rate or amount, upon property in the local agency owould revise the definition of “bonds” in connection with issuing refunding bonds to specify that it does not mean bonds to be issued, on and after January 1, 2021, for the purpose of This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. on or From printer. From printer. From printer. From printer. RLS.RLS.RLS.RLS. ---- SENATE 2/14/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 15.SENATE 2/14/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 15.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted uponafter March 20.SENATE 2/19/2020 May be acted upon on or after March 20. : RR RR SB 998MoorlachLocal governmentinvestments.SB 1003JonesSkateboard parks: other wheeled recreational devices: safety and liability.SB 1057JonesLand.SB 1067MoorlachLocal agencies: refunding bonds.