Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate each health facility, defined to mean a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, and includes, among others, a general acute care hospital, an acute psychiatric hospital, and a skilled nursing facility. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law sets forth the rules of the road, and regulates driving, overtaking, and passing. Existing law requires a vehicle to be driven on the right half of the roadway of a highway, except as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law authorizes a local government to grant franchises and other privileges to certain public utilities, and requires that those franchises or privileges be granted consistent with specified conditions. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that requirement.
The Transactions and Use Tax Law requires, before the operative date of an ordinance imposing a transactions and use tax pursuant to the law, a governmental entity authorized to impose a tax pursuant to the law to contract with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to perform all functions incident to the administration and operation of the ordinance, as prescribed. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to take certain actions related to methane emissions. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.
The California Constitution establishes the Budget Stabilization Account (BSA) and requires, for every fiscal year and based on the Budget Act for that fiscal year, the Controller to transfer from the General Fund to the BSA, no later than October 1, a sum equal to 1.5% of the estimated amount of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year. The California Constitution, based on the estimates provided by the Department of Finance, requires the Controller, by October 1 of the 2015–16 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter to the 2029–30 fiscal year, inclusive, to transfer amounts from the General Fund and the BSA pursuant to a specified schedule. That schedule requires 12 of the 1.5% of estimated General Fund revenues and certain state personal income tax revenues to be deposited into the BSA and the other 12 of those same revenues to be appropriated by the Legislature for one or more of certain obligations or purposes. This measure would, commencing with the fiscal year following the effective date of the measure, and for every fiscal year thereafter to the 2029–30 fiscal year, inclusive, include, in those obligations or purposes, payments towards the principal balance of debt owed to the federal government for moneys borrowed by the state to support the state's unemployment insurance programs, as described. The measure would further require, in any fiscal year the unemployment insurance debt is not paid, the Legislature to include an appropriation for that debt repayment and ensure that the appropriation for that debt receives the greatest percentage of appropriated moneys compared to any other obligation or purpose funded by the Legislature under the above-described provisions. The California Constitution alters, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, the above-described transfer requirements applicable through the 2029–30 fiscal year to instead require that the full amount of these revenues be transferred to the BSA and to authorize, rather than require, the Legislature to appropriate up to 12 of these revenues for one or more of the same obligations or purposes. This measure would modify, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the parameters applicable to the authorized appropriation for the obligations or purposes to require that any appropriation made by the Legislature for those obligations or purposes to comply with the above-described changes made by the measure relating to required payments towards the principal balance of debt owed to the federal government for moneys borrowed by the state to support the state's unemployment insurance programs, as described.
Existing law establishes various state and local programs for the provision of mental health services within the jurisdiction of the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Public Health, the California Behavioral Health Planning Council, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, and county public health or behavioral health departments, among other entities. Under existing law, those programs, services, and provisions include, among others, the Mental Health Services Act, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, the Licensed Mental Health Service Provider Education Program, and Medi-Cal specialty mental health services. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to access to mental health care.
Existing law, as amended by the DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act, Proposition 69, approved by voters at the November 2, 2004, general election, requires a person who has been convicted of a felony offense, among others, to provide buccal swab samples, right thumbprints, and a full palm print impression of each hand, and any blood specimens or other biological samples required for law enforcement identification analysis. Existing law imposes these requirements regardless of when the crime charged or committed became a qualifying offense. Proposition 69 may be amended by a statute that is passed by a majority vote if the amendments are consistent with, and further the purposes of, the proposition. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law establishes the Willie L. Brown, Jr. Community Service Scholarship Program, under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, for the purpose of rewarding pupils for volunteering to serve their communities, to address serious social and economic community needs, and to increase the tendency of youth to be involved in public service. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation related to that scholarship program.
Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, states that the Legislature finds and declares that the subject of housing is of vital statewide importance to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the state for specified reasons. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
The existing federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude tribal-state gaming compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments of tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature, upon the Governor's signing of a tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the Tule River Tribe, to ratify that compact.
The California Constitution establishes the Fish and Game Commission and provides for the delegation to the commission of powers relating to the protection and propagation of fish and game. Existing law places the Fish and Game Commission in the Natural Resources Agency. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this latter provision.
