(1) The Social Service Transportation Improvement Act requires transportation planning agencies and county transportation commissions to prepare and adopt plans detailing required steps to consolidate social service transportation services, including the designation of consolidated transportation service agencies. The act requires funding for implementation to be provided from specified local transportation funds. This bill would require the coordination, rather than the consolidation, of social service transportation services under the act and would recharacterize consolidated transportation service agencies in the act as coordinated transportation service agencies. This bill would authorize a coordinated transportation service agency to review and comment on specified plans and projects relevant to its jurisdiction, and would require specified agencies to respond to the comments. By increasing service requirements for counties, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law annually imposes a transportation improvement fee on each vehicle based on its market value. Existing law requires the deposit of these revenues into specified accounts, one of which is the Public Transportation Account. The California Constitution requires that all of these revenues be used solely for specified transportation purposes. This bill would increase the transportation improvement fee by $10 per vehicle, and would require the revenues generated to be deposited into the Public Transportation Account. The bill would continuously appropriate this fee revenue for allocation, as specified, to counties for accessible transportation services for seniors and disabled persons. (3) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law, until January 1, 2026, makes it a misdemeanor to commit organized retail theft. Existing law defines organized retail theft to include, among other acts, acting as an agent of another individual or group of individuals to steal merchandise from one or more merchant's premises or online marketplaces as part of an organized plan to commit theft. Under existing law, acts of organized retail theft that are committed on 2 or more separate occasions within a 12-month period and that have an aggregate value that exceeds $950 are punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony. This bill would require the Milton Marks "Little Hoover" Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy to submit a report to the Legislature describing the reported retail thefts, as specified. This bill would also require state and local law enforcement to collect and provide data on retail theft to the commission, as specified. This bill would require the commission to issue its report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2026. By imposing new duties on local entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law, the Information Practices Act of 1977, prohibits an agency, as defined, from disclosing personal information in a manner that would link the information to the individual to whom it pertains unless a specified exemption applies, including that the information is disclosed to a governmental entity if required by state or federal law. This bill would permit an agency to disclose personal information to the California Tribal Epidemiology Center (CTEC) for a specific purpose. Existing law establishes the Department of Health Care Access and Information in the California Health and Human Services Agency. Existing law requires an organization that operates, conducts, owns, or maintains a health facility, each hospital, and each general acute care hospital and freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic to make and file with the office certain information regarding patients that is recorded on a Hospital Discharge Abstract Data Record, an Emergency Care Data Record, and an Ambulatory Surgery Data Record, respectively, as described. The information includes, among other things, the date of birth, race, date of services, and principal diagnosis of the patient. Existing law requires the department to disclose this information to certain entities, including, among others, any California hospital and tribal epidemiology centers, except as specified. Existing law prohibits those entities from disclosing that information except in response to a court order, search warrant, or subpoena, or as otherwise required or permitted by specified federal law. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition. Existing law also requires the State Department of Public Health to collect data on coccidioidomycosis cases from the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange (CalREDIE) system and any other electronic data system used by a local health department. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to enter into a data sharing agreement with the CTEC for access to and use of the CalREDIE and the California Immunization Registry systems no later than January 1, 2024, and would prohibit the CTEC from disclosing the information, as described above.
Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, provides the exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts, except as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision naming the act.
Existing law establishes several programs pertaining to vehicles and reducing pollution, such as the Clean Transportation Program, and various zero-emission vehicle programs administered by the State Air Resources Board, including the Medium- and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Fleet Purchasing Assistance Program. With regard to zero-emission vehicles or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, existing law requires the Department of General Services to develop prescribed criteria to evaluate bidders when awarding contracts for commercial rental car services. By January 1, 2025, this bill would require the Department of General Services to report to the Legislature on a specified study regarding the supply chain for lithium batteries in electric vehicles, and recommendations for any legislation or policy related to this supply chain to advance state environmental and economic development goals.
Existing law provides for the certification and regulation of radiologic technologists by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law authorizes the department to adopt regulations to implement those provisions, as specified. Under existing law, notwithstanding any other law, a radiologic technologist certified under the Radiologic Technology Act is authorized to perform venipuncture in an upper extremity to administer contrast materials, manually or by utilizing a mechanical injector, under the direct supervision of a licensed physician, and if other specified conditions are met. Existing law defines "direct supervision" as the direction of an authorized procedure by a licensed physician and surgeon who shall be physically present within the facility and available within the facility where the procedures are performed, as specified. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor. This bill would authorize a radiologic technologist with the above qualifications to perform venipuncture according to the prescribed conditions when under the general supervision of a physician and surgeon. The bill would define "general supervision" to mean under the direction of a licensed physician and surgeon who is either physically present within the facility and available within the facility where the procedures are performed, or is available by telephone. By changing the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA) , an initiative measure, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA establishes the Department of Cannabis Control within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to administer the act. This bill would require a cannabis delivery employer, as defined, to develop, implement, and maintain specified driver safety protocols allowing a cannabis delivery employee, as defined, to not complete a delivery if the delivery would create a real and apparent hazard to the employee or fellow employees, providing for notification and documentation procedures relating to incomplete deliveries, and providing information relating to worker retaliation protections. The bill would impose various requirements on a cannabis delivery employer relating to access to the driver safety protocols, including requiring the employer to make the protocols available to the Department of Cannabis Control upon request. The bill would require a cannabis delivery employer to notify the department upon being notified or becoming aware of an attempted robbery, injury, or death in the course of a delivery. The bill would also require a cannabis delivery employer to ensure that containers used in the delivery of cannabis goods do not indicate that the delivery employee is carrying cannabis goods, as specified. Existing law prohibits an employee from being laid off or discharged for refusing to perform work in violation of prescribed safety standards, where the violation would create a real and apparent hazard to the employee or fellow employees. Existing law creates a cause of action for wages for the time an employee laid off or discharged for a refusal is without work as a result. Existing law authorizes an employee who believes they have been discharged or otherwise discriminated against in violation of that provision to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner, as specified. This bill would create a rebuttable presumption that the cannabis delivery employer violates the above-described prohibition if the employer lays off, discharges, or subjects an employee to an adverse employment action within 90 days of the employee reporting or documenting an incomplete delivery or refusing to complete a delivery that would create a real and apparent hazard, as described above.
The California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, defines terms and establishes the used oil recycling program, including an enforcement program to ensure that laws relating to used oil are properly carried out. The act defines "rerefined oil" as a lubricant base stock or oil base that meets specified criteria and that has been derived from "used oil," which the act defines to exclude certain contaminated oils and streams. The act prohibits any rerefined based stock that is not certified as meeting that definition of "rerefined oil" from being sold as rerefined oil. A violation of the act is a crime. This bill would expand the definition of "rerefined oil" to include a lubricant base stock or oil blend stock product derived from waste oil that is compatible for refining as a blend component for lubricant oil and other recycled oil content containing products, as specified. The bill would define "waste oil" to include those contaminated oils or waste streams that are not included in the definition of used oil. The bill would prohibit from being sold as rerefined oil any rerefined lubricant base stock or other recycled oil content containing product that is not certified as meeting the expanded definition of "rerefined oil." Because this bill would expand the scope of an existing crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law establishes the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which covers certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food serviceware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires the producers, as defined, of these covered materials to source reduce covered plastic material, to ensure that covered material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, is recyclable or compostable, and to ensure that covered plastic material offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state meets specified recycling rates. Existing law prohibits any person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any food packaging that contains regulated perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) , as defined, and requires a manufacturer to use the least toxic alternative when replacing regulated PFAS in food packaging to comply with this requirement. Existing law similarly prohibits, beginning July 1, 2025, a person from manufacturing, distributing, selling, or offering for sale in the state any new, not previously owned, textile articles that contain regulated PFAS, except as specified. This bill would prohibit, beginning January 1, 2026, a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or distributing in the state, (1) opaque or pigmented polyethylene terephthalate bottles, and (2) plastic packaging that contains certain chemicals, pigments, or additives, as specified. The bill would exclude from that prohibition packaging used for certain medical, drug, and federally regulated products. The bill would authorize the imposition of a civil penalty for a violation of that prohibition, as specified.
The California Constitution establishes the State Personnel Board (board) and requires the board to, among other things, enforce the civil service statutes, prescribe probationary periods and classifications, adopt rules authorized by statute, and review disciplinary actions. The Constitution also requires the executive officer of the board to administer the civil service statutes under the rules of the board. Under existing law, the board is authorized to conduct audits and investigations of the personnel practices of the Department of Human Resources (department) and appointing authorities to ensure compliance with civil service policies, procedures, and statutes. Existing law establishes the department and provides that, subject to the requirements of the California Constitution, it succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the board as its designee with respect to the board's administrative and ministerial functions. This bill, except as specified, would prohibit a person from installing an application for a social media platform on a state-owned or state-issued electronic device if specified conditions are met, including that the social media company that owns the application is domiciled in, has its principal place of business in, has its headquarters in, or is organized under the laws of, a country of concern. The bill would also prohibit a person from installing an application for a social media platform owned or controlled by specified companies from being installed on a state-owned or state-issued electronic device. The bill would define various terms for these purposes.
Existing law, the Watershed, Clean Beaches, and Water Quality Act, among other things, provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that the purpose of maintaining clean beaches, clean water, and an integrated and coordinated watershed program is to protect beaches, coastal waters, rivers, lakes, and streams from contaminants, pollution, and other environmental threats. The act requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with the State Coastal Conservancy, to award grants to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for projects designed to improve water quality at public beaches, as specified. This bill would require the board, to the extent feasible, to identify and implement projects to improve beach access and address ocean water quality on public beaches that experience significant restrictions of use, as defined, due to bacteria levels that exceed public health standards, whether the source is from urban runoff or transboundary flows.
Existing law provides the authority for the organization and powers of fire protection districts. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that law.
