Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services to establish and lead the California Cybersecurity Integration Center, which is composed of representatives from specified organizations, including the State Threat Assessment Center. Existing law requires the California Cybersecurity Integration Center to operate in close coordination with the California State Threat Assessment System and the United States Department of Homeland Security for specified information-sharing purposes. This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require the State Threat Assessment Center to develop an intelligence sharing plan that respects individual's privacy and civil rights.
Existing law requires every city and county, by December 31, 1973, to prepare and adopt an open-space zoning ordinance consistent with the local open-space plan adopted pursuant to specified law. Existing law makes legislative findings that the provisions relating to open-space zoning are not intended, and shall not be construed, as authorizing the city or the county to exercise its power to adopt, amend or repeal an open-space zoning ordinance in a manner that will take or damage private property for public use without the payment of just compensation therefor. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law, the Parent's Accountability and Child Protection Act, requires a person or business that seeks to sell specified products or services that are illegal under state law to sell to a minor to take reasonable steps to ensure that the purchaser is of legal age at the time of purchase or delivery, as prescribed. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provisions described above.
Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed an act from a list of specified acts, including an act of bullying, which is defined as any severe or pervasive physical or verbal act or conduct, including communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, directed toward one or more pupils that has or can be reasonably predicted to have one or more specified effects. Existing law requires suspension to be imposed only when other means of correction, including, among other things, a conference between school personnel, the pupil's parent or guardian, and the pupil, fail to bring about proper conduct. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would, among other things, require that a pupil and the parent or guardian of a pupil who engages in repeated acts of cyberbullying or is suspended for cyberbullying participate in a program of rehabilitative cyberbullying education, counseling, or training.
Existing law requires the Legislative Counsel, with the advice of the Assembly Committee on Rules and the Senate Committee on Rules, to make certain legislative information available to the public in electronic form, including the text, bill history, and bill status of each bill introduced and amended in each current legislative session and all bill analyses prepared by legislative committees in connection with each bill in each current legislative session. This bill would add all letters submitted through the Legislature's internet portal in connection with each bill, commencing with bills introduced during the 2027–28 Regular Session, to the information the Legislative Counsel is required to make publicly available in electronic form.
Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to full and equal accommodations in all business establishments regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status. Existing law, for purposes of this provision, defines "sex" to include, but does not limit it to, a person's gender. Existing law further defines "gender" to mean sex, and includes a person's gender identity and gender expression, as the latter is defined. Existing law prohibits the act from being construed to require any construction, alteration, repair, structural or otherwise, or modification of any sort whatsoever, beyond that construction, alteration, repair, or modification that is otherwise required by other provisions of law, to any new or existing establishment, facility, building, improvement, or any other structure, or to augment, restrict, or alter in any way the authority of the State Architect to require construction, alteration, repair, or modifications that the State Architect otherwise possesses pursuant to other laws. This bill would include in the provision regarding full and equal business accommodations the characteristics of gender identity and gender expression, as defined, and make corresponding changes in existing law. The bill would delete the above definitions of "sex" and "gender" and, instead, define "sex" to mean an individual's immutable biological sex, including either female or male, as further defined. The bill would require that accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments related to intimate spaces be separated on the basis on sex, irrespective of gender identity or gender expression. The bill would define "intimate spaces" to include bathrooms, showers, changing rooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and any other area in which an individual would have a reasonable expectation of privacy from the opposite sex. The bill would authorize single-occupancy intimate bathrooms to be gender neutral. The bill would make related legislative findings and declarations.
Existing law, the Personal Income Tax Law, imposes taxes on taxable income, as provided. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision that names that law.
Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and prescribes the department's powers and duties. Existing law establishes the California FAIR Plan Association, a joint reinsurance association in which all insurers licensed to write basic property insurance participate to administer a program for the equitable apportionment of basic property insurance for persons who are unable to obtain that coverage through normal channels. This bill would require the department to annually prepare a report that includes the change in number of FAIR Plan policies by ZIP Code for the prior calendar year. The bill would require the report to be submitted to the Legislature and publicly posted on the department's internet website on or before July 1, 2027, and on or before each July 1 thereafter.
Existing law affords a defendant in a criminal case a federal and state constitutional right to have the assistance of counsel for the defendant's defense. Under existing law, if the defendant in a criminal case is unable to employ counsel, the court is required to assign counsel to defend them, as specified. Under existing law, one of the primary responsibilities of the State Public Defender is to engage in efforts to improve the quality of indigent defense. Existing law authorizes the State Public Defender to administer and award grants to improve indigent defense services. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish the California Indigent Defense Commission, an entity responsible for ensuring that indigent defense services meet constitutional and professional standards.
Existing law, the Cemetery and Funeral Act, establishes the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau for the licensure and regulation of cemetery brokers. Existing law requires an application for license as a cemetery broker to be made in writing on the form prescribed by the bureau and filed at the principal office of the bureau. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law authorizes a business to scan or swipe a driver's license or identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles in any electronic device for prescribed verification and informational purposes. Existing law authorizes an organ procurement organization, as defined, to scan or swipe a driver's license or identification card to transmit information for the purpose of allowing an individual to identify themselves as a registered organ donor, subject to a specified procedure. Existing law prohibits a business or organ procurement organization from retaining or using that information for any other purpose. A violation of those provisions is a misdemeanor. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law requires a health care service plan's assets to be invested in a prudent manner and requires the director of the department to determine the acceptability of a health care service plan's investments, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to require the public disclosure of material investment holdings of nonprofit organizations providing integrated health care service plans.
