Existing law, the California Coastal Act of 1976, provides for the protection of California's coast and requires any person wishing to perform or undertake any development in the coastal zone, as defined, to obtain a coastal development permit, except as specified. The act makes various findings and declarations regarding the need to preserve the state's natural and scenic resources along the coast and ensure that development in the coastal zone is carefully planned and developed. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those findings and declarations.
Existing law establishes a system of elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the state provide instruction in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would improve educational outcomes for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
Existing law requires that any building with a dwelling unit maintain certain characteristics in order to be tenantable, including floors, stairways, and railings maintained in good repair. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision describing floors, stairways, and railings.
The Essential Services Buildings Seismic Safety Act of 1986 requires the appropriate enforcement agency, which in the case of state-owned facilities is the Division of the State Architect, to review the design and inspect the construction of essential services buildings or the reconstruction, alteration, or addition to any essential services building, as provided. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law establishes the Department of Parks and Recreation in the Natural Resources Agency, and specifies that the department shall be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Parks and Recreation. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in that provision.
Existing law prohibits a person from acting, or offering to act, as an agricultural pest control adviser without first having secured a license from the Director of Pesticide Regulation, except as specified. Existing law provides that cause for refusal, revocation, or suspension of that license includes, among other things, failure or refusal to comply with specified provisions of law. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision.
Existing law defines the terms "wages" and "labor" for purposes of provisions regarding the payment of wages to employees in various occupations. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those definitions.
Existing law, the Banking Law, authorizes a corporation to be formed by one or more persons in accordance with the laws of this state for the purpose of conducting a commercial banking business or a trust business, or both of them, when authorized by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation, as provided. As part of the authorization process, existing law requires the articles of incorporation of the proposed bank or trust company to be submitted to the commissioner for their approval. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision requiring the articles of incorporation to be submitted to the commissioner for their approval.
The Public Utilities Act imposes various requirements and duties on public utilities. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision naming the act.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer an early learning quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) block grant, pursuant to an appropriation made for that purpose in the annual Budget Act, to be allocated to local consortia for support of local early learning quality rating and improvement systems that increase the number of low-income children in high-quality preschool programs that prepare those children for success in school and life. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law makes any person who knowingly uses another's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness in products, merchandise, or goods, or for purposes of advertising or selling, or soliciting purchases of, products, merchandise, goods, or services, without that person's prior consent liable for damages, as specified. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Under existing law, a grand jury is a body of the required number of persons chosen from the citizens of the county to serve before a court of competent jurisdiction, and sworn to inquire of public offenses that are committed or triable within the county. Existing law requires the fees for grand jurors to be $15 per each day's attendance as a grand juror. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
