Existing law governs the bidding and awarding of public contracts by public entities, as defined, and imposes additional requirements on state agencies when awarding contracts. This bill would require a state agency, as defined, to include, when awarding a contract for grant administration services, as defined, in the terms of the contract a provision that sets forth standards for resolving actual or perceived conflicts of interest for the contractor.
Existing law regulates certain consumer products and services for the purposes of public health and environmental protection. Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board (state board) to exercise the adjudicatory and regulatory functions of the state in the field of water resources. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2026, prohibit the sale, distribution, installation, or arrangement of the installation of an overwater structure, excluding a floating home, that contains expanded polystyrene, as defined, or other plastic foam that is not fully enclosed and contained in a shell made of aluminum, concrete, steel or plastic with a minimum thickness of 0.15 inches. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2026, prohibit the sale, distribution, installation, or arrangement of the installation of a block or float that contains, or is comprised of, expanded polystyrene or other plastic foam that is not fully enclosed and contained in a shell made of aluminum, concrete, steel or plastic with a minimum thickness of 0.15 inches. The bill would authorize the state board to adopt rules to implement, administer, and enforce these provisions and to maintain and revise a list of materials that are approved to fully enclose and contain expanded polystyrene or other plastic foam used in an overwater structure, block, or float, as specified. The bill would authorize the state board to revise or disqualify a material if the state board determines the material is not sufficient to prevent the release of expanded polystyrene or other plastic foam into the environment. The bill would also authorize the state board to approve a new material for use if the state board determines that the material is sufficient to prevent the release of expanded polystyrene or other plastic foam into the environment and is safe for use in the aquatic environment. The bill would require that, beginning January 1, 2026, an overwater structure that contains, or a block or float that contains or is comprised of, expanded polystyrene or other plastic foam, sold or installed before January 1, 2026, and that is repaired or maintained on or after that date, be fitted with a shell made of aluminum, concrete, steel or plastic with a minimum thickness of 0.15 inches, or other material as the state board may approve, that fully encloses and contains all expanded polystyrene or other plastic foam. The bill would make a violation of its provisions subject to a civil penalty for each violation in an amount not to exceed $10,000.
The California Community Care Facilities Act provides for the licensure and regulation of community care facilities by the State Department of Social Services, including various adult residential facilities, as described. The act includes legislative findings and declarations that there is an urgent need to establish a coordinated and comprehensive statewide service of quality community care for persons with a mental illness, persons with developmental and physical disabilities, and children and adults who require care or services. A person who violates the California Community Care Facilities Act is guilty of a misdemeanor. Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, by the department and expresses the intent of the Legislature to require that those facilities be licensed as a separate category within the existing licensing structure of the department. Existing law requires the department to collect information and send a report to each county's department of mental health or behavioral health, beginning May 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, of all licensed adult residential facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly, as described, that accept a specified federal rate and accept residents with a serious mental disorder, as defined, and the number of licensed beds at each facility. This bill would require the department, beginning May 1, 2026, and annually thereafter until January 1, 2029, to collect information and send a report to each county's department of mental health or behavioral health of all licensed adult residential facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly, as described, that accept the above-described specified federal rate and accept residents with a serious mental disorder, as defined, and the number of licensed beds at each facility. The bill would also require the department to collect additional information, including the total number of residents occupying beds at licensed adult residential facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly who are a public benefits recipient, as defined, or a person diagnosed with a serious mental illness, as defined, who is currently receiving regional center funding or who has a previous history of homelessness, incarceration, or institutionalization. The bill would require the department to post the report on its internet website. Because a violation of the California Community Care Facilities Act is crime, the bill would create new crimes, thereby imposing 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 makes it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer for sale, give away, or possess olive oil that indicates on its label "California Olive Oil," or uses similar words to indicate that California is the source of the oil, unless 100% of that oil is derived from olives grown in California. This bill would similarly make it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer for sale, give away, or possess a mushroom in California, that indicates on the label "California Mushroom," "California Grown," or words of similar import that indicate that California is the source of the mushroom, unless 100% of that mushroom is grown in California, and would require the Department of Food and Agriculture to assess a civil penalty against any person violating that prohibition, as specified.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over electrical corporations. Existing law prohibits the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission from certifying a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, except for specified powerplants, and provides that a nuclear fission thermal powerplant, except those specified powerplants, is not a permitted land use in California, unless certain conditions are met regarding the existence of technology for the construction and operation of nuclear fuel rod processing plants and of demonstrated technology or means for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste, as specified. This bill would require the PUC to conduct a feasibility study on the use of small modular reactors, as defined, for energy generation in the state, including, among other things, an evaluation of the benefits of small modular reactors in comparison with other renewable resources used, or planned for use, in the state. The bill would require the PUC to submit a report on the results of the feasibility study to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2027.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish procedures within the State Department of Education to, among other things, coordinate the identification and development of effective programs and practices with, among others, appropriate offices in the department, schools, school districts, and the Legislature. Existing law requires the department to annually disseminate to each school district, county office of education, resource agency or consortium, and other public educational entity, as appropriate, information regarding effective educational projects and programs, as specified. This bill would require the department to annually conduct a study regarding participation, performance, and outcomes of college readiness programs, as specified. The bill would require the department to complete the study by April 1 of 2028 and 2029, and to submit the completed study to the appropriate budget and policy committees of the Legislature and the Department of Finance by April 30 of those years. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on April 30, 2029, and would repeal it as of January 1, 2030.
(1) Existing law requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to establish and award certain certificates for peace officers to foster the education and experience necessary to perform general police service duties, as specified. Existing law requires the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a modern policing degree program, and requires the chancellor's office to submit a report on recommendations to the Legislature outlining a plan to implement that program, as specified. Existing law requires the commission to approve and adopt the education criteria for peace officers, based on the recommendations in the report, as specified. This bill, subject to an appropriation, would establish the Law Enforcement Officer Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission to provide grants of up to $6,000 per year to individuals enrolled in a modern policing degree program at a California community college who commit to work for 4 years as a peace officer at a law enforcement agency, as specified. The bill would require grant recipients to agree to repay the grant to the state if certain conditions for the grant are not met, except as specified. The bill would require, subject to an appropriation, the chancellor's office to develop, in consultation with specified entities, materials to be distributed to counselors' offices in schools serving grades 9 to 12, inclusive. The bill would require those materials to inform high school students about the existence of the modern policing degree program and the grant program described above, among other things. The bill would require the chancellor's office to particularly target the materials for students of historically underserved and disadvantaged communities with barriers to higher education access. (2) Existing law provides for the training and certification of local peace officers, including police and sheriff deputies. Existing law requires criminal justice and delinquency prevention planning districts to be established for the purpose of coordinating local criminal justice activities and planning for the use of state and federal action funds made available through any grant programs. This bill would require, commencing January 1, 2026, and subject to appropriation by the Legislature, the Board of State and Community Corrections to award grants to local law enforcement agencies that are significantly understaffed in order for the agency to provide hiring bonuses for peace officers employed by that agency. The bill would require a peace officer receiving these funds to agree to work for that agency for at least four years, except as specified. The bill would authorize the board to establish additional guidelines for the allocation of these hiring bonuses.
Existing law prescribes the duties of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics (State Registrar) and local registrars of births and deaths with respect to the registration of certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death, and marriage licenses. Existing law requires the State Registrar to prescribe and furnish all record forms for use in carrying out the provisions governing vital records and prohibits the use of any record form or format other than those prescribed by the State Registrar. Existing law requires every live birth, fetal death, death, and marriage that occurs in the state to be registered with the local registrar. Existing law requires certificates of live birth, fetal death, or death, and a marriage license to include specified information, such as the full name of the child on a certificate of live birth and the full names of the parties to be married on a marriage license. Existing law also requires the county clerk to issue a confidential marriage license, as specified, on a form prescribed by the State Registrar. Commencing January 1, 2027, this bill would require the State Registrar to require the use of a diacritical mark on an English letter within a name to be properly recorded, when applicable, on a certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, marriage license and certificate, or confidential marriage license and certificate, and would require the use of a diacritical mark to be deemed an acceptable entry by the State Registrar. The bill would provide that the absence of a diacritical mark on a certificate of live birth, fetal death, or death, or a marriage license does not render the document invalid nor affect any constructive notice imparted by proper recordation of the document. The bill would authorize, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter in any certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage already registered, the person asserting the omission, or the person's conservator, or if a minor, the person's parent or guardian, to submit a written request to the State Registrar for the issuance of a corrected certificate of birth, fetal death, death, or marriage stating the changes necessary to make the name correct. The bill would require the State Registrar to review the request and, if the request is accompanied with the payment of a specified fee, to issue a corrected certificate of live birth, fetal death, death, or marriage with the accurate name identified in the request. The bill would also authorize, if a name is not accurately recorded because of the absence of a diacritical mark on an English letter on any confidential license and certificate of marriage already registered, the party asserting the omission to make an affidavit, under oath, stating the changes necessary to make the record correct and file it with the county clerk. The bill would require the county clerk to review the amendment for acceptance for filing, and if accepted, replace the original confidential marriage certificate with records that do not indicate that they were amended. By requiring the affidavit to be under oath, the bill would expand the crime of perjury, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. By increasing duties on county clerks, 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law subjects a minor between 12 and 17 years of age, inclusive, who violates any federal, state, or local law or ordinance to, and a minor under 12 years of age who is alleged to have committed specified serious offenses to, the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, which may adjudge the minor to be a ward of the court. Existing law authorizes the court to place a minor on probation, as specified. Existing law authorizes the juvenile court to adjudge the minor a ward of the court if the minor fails to comply with the juvenile court's conditions of probation. This bill would authorize the County of Sacramento to establish the Sacramento Youth Firearm Prevention Pilot Program to require eligible youth to participate in a gun violence prevention class as part of their probation. The bill would require the services a youth is ordered to participate in under this program to be evidence based or research supported, trauma informed, culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, and focused on public health. The bill would authorize the court to revoke a youth's probation for failure to enroll in, participate in, or complete a program under these provisions, except for good cause. The bill would require the court to determine the youth's ability to pay for the program, and would authorize the court to develop a sliding fee schedule for the program based on the youth's ability to pay. The bill would require the county to collect specified data for participants in the program and would require the county to prepare and provide an outcome assessment of the program, as specified, to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and the Senate Committee on Public Safety by January 1, 2030. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2031. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Sacramento.
Existing law authorizes the retail sale of safe and sane fireworks from June 28 to July 6, annually, pursuant to a license issued by the State Fire Marshal, unless otherwise prohibited or regulated by law or ordinance. Existing law requires any person who violates any provision of the law relating to fireworks and pyrotechnic devices to be guilty of a misdemeanor, as provided. This bill would authorize the retail sale of certified safe and sane fireworks from 9 a.m. on December 26 to midnight of January 1 of the following year pursuant to a license issued by the State Fire Marshal, if authorized by a charter city, city, county, or city and county ordinance or resolution that may also restrict the hours of use of those fireworks. Since a violation of this provision or other existing related provisions in connection with the sale of those fireworks would be a misdemeanor, 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.
Existing law establishes the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program within the Board of State and Community Corrections to grant funds, upon appropriation, to local jurisdictions and Indian tribes for the purpose of implementing trauma-informed diversion programs for minors, as specified. This bill would repeal these provisions. The bill would reestablish the Youth Reinvestment Grant Program, to be administered by the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, for the purpose of implementing a mixed-delivery system of trauma-informed health and development diversion programs for youth, as specified. The bill would create the Youth Reinvestment Fund to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, by the office for the purposes of the program. The bill would require applicants for the program to be nongovernmental agencies or tribal governments, as specified. The bill would provide that an applicant under this program be awarded no less than $50,000, and no more than $2,000,000, and would specify the requirements of diversion programs to qualify for funding under these provisions.
Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, establishes the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to prohibit unlicensed manufacturing, selling, and disposing of alcoholic beverages, among other things. Under existing law, it is a misdemeanor for a person under the age of 21 years to purchase or consume an alcoholic beverage, as provided. The act also subjects a holder of a license to sell alcoholic beverages to criminal prosecution and suspension or revocation of that license if the licensee sells an alcoholic beverage to a person under the age of 21 years. Existing law specifies documents, including, among others, a valid motor vehicle operator's license issued by the state, that are bona fide evidence of majority and identity of a person and makes reliance upon that evidence a defense to a criminal action against the licensee. Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to establish a pilot program to evaluate the use of optional mobile or digital alternatives to driver's licenses and identification cards. This bill would make a mobile or digital driver's license or identification card bona fide evidence of majority and identity of a person provided the Department of Motor Vehicles authorizes the use of those licenses or identification cards without the possession of a physical driver's license or identification card.
