The Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act provides for regulation of charter-party carriers of passengers by the Public Utilities Commission, subject to specific exclusions, including the transportation of school pupils conducted by or under contract with the governing board of any school district, as provided. Under existing law, a violation of the act is a crime. Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to regulate transportation network companies, as provided. This bill would explicitly state that the Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act applies to transportation network companies that serve unaccompanied minors due to or based on a contract with a local educational agency, and would authorize the Public Utilities Commission to regulate transportation network companies that serve unaccompanied minors due to or based on a contract with a local educational agency. By expanding the application of the Passenger Charter-party Carriers' Act, the bill would expand a crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2025, imposes various requirements upon a driver who provides school-related pupil transportation for compensation and is employed by a local educational agency, contracted by a local educational agency, or contracted by any entity with funding from a local educational agency, including, among others, requirements related to criminal background checks, possession of a satisfactory driving record, compliance with drug and alcohol testing, training, and maintenance of a daily log sheet, as provided. Existing law, commencing July 1, 2025, requires a local educational agency contracting with a private entity to provide pupil transportation to obtain from the private entity a written attestation that, among other things, only drivers who meet those requirements work, or will work, under the contract between the private entity and local educational agency, as provided. This bill would exempt from the above-described requirements, until July 1, 2027, a contract to provide transportation services for pupils between (1) a local educational agency and (2) a transportation network company that complies with specified safety standards for transportation network companies that serve unaccompanied minors adopted by the Public Utilities Commission, as provided. The bill would also exempt from the above-described requirements, until July 1, 2027, a driver who provides transportation services for pupils pursuant to that contract, as provided. The bill would require, as a condition of that exemption, the transportation network company to be able to fulfill requests for transportation services for pupils within as few as 24 hours of receiving notification from the local educational agency pursuant to that contract, as provided. 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 California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes the establishment of community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at community college campuses throughout the state. Existing law requires each community college district to expend during each fiscal year 50% of the district's current expense of education, as defined, for payment of salaries of classroom instructors, as defined. This bill would define salaries of classroom instructors to also include counselors and librarians and would require, commencing with the 2025–26 fiscal year, each community college district to expend during each fiscal year 60% of the district's current expense of education, as defined, for payment of salaries of classroom instructors, as defined. The bill would also make conforming changes.
(1) Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, establishes the Dental Board of California for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants. Existing law sets forth requirements for licensure as a registered dental assistant and as a registered dental assistant in extended functions, and sets forth duties and functions that a registered dental assistant or a registered dental assistant in extended function is authorized to perform. This bill would revise and recast those provisions. (2) Existing law specifies a dental assistant is an individual who, without a license, may perform basic supportive dental procedures, as specified, and sets forth the responsibilities of a supervising licensed dentist, including ensuring that a dental assistant has completed specified courses. Existing law sets forth the duties and functions a dental assistant is authorized to perform. This bill would revise the responsibilities of a supervising dentist relating to an unlicensed dental assistant, and the functions and duties that an unlicensed dental assistant is authorized to perform. The bill would revise the course requirements for an unlicensed dental assistant, including by requiring verification that the dental assistant has completed specified preceptorship and work experience requirements by an affidavit signed under penalty of perjury by the preceptor or the supervising dentist, as provided. By expanding the scope of the crime of perjury, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require an unlicensed dental assistant to obtain a certificate of completion of radiation safety to perform radiographic procedures. (3) Existing law establishes requirements for obtaining an orthodontic assistant permit or a dental sedation assistant permit from the board, including licensure as a registered dental assistant, and sets forth the duties and functions that a person holding an orthodontic assistant permit or a dental sedation assistant permit may perform. This bill would revise the requirements to obtain an orthodontic assistant permit and would revise the duties and functions that a person holding an orthodontic assistant permit is authorized to perform. This bill would revise and recast the requirements to obtain a dental sedation assistant permit, including requiring licensure as a dental assistant, registered dental assistant, or registered dental assistant in extended functions and would revise the duties and functions that a person holding a dental sedation assistant permit is authorized to perform. (4) 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 a crime to solicit a person that the solicitor knows or should have known is a minor to commit an act of prostitution, as specified. This bill would allow for the prosecution of soliciting a minor to commit an act of prostitution when the offender believes the person to be a minor but the person is 18 years of age or older. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this 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 State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The state board, in this capacity, administers the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project under which the agency issues a limited number of vouchers to incentivize the purchase and use of zero-emission commercial vehicles. This bill would require the state board to authorize a voucher issued under the program to be used for the acquisition of any zero-emission vehicle that meets specified requirements.
Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, classifies controlled substances into 5 schedules and imposes restrictions or prohibitions on various actions related to those substances, including their sale, possession, transportation, manufacture, or cultivation. Existing civil law provides that everyone is responsible not only for the result of their willful acts, but also for an injury occasioned to another by their want of ordinary care or skill in the management of their property or person, except so far as the latter has, willfully or by want of ordinary care, brought the injury upon themselves. This bill would entitle a person who suffers injury that is proximately caused by the illegal purchase of a controlled substance through a social media platform, as defined, to recover specified statutory and actual damages if it is shown that the injury was occasioned, in whole or in part, by the want of ordinary care or skill in the management of the platform pursuant to the above-described civil law provision. The bill would also entitle a prevailing plaintiff to reasonable attorney's fees and costs. The bill would state that its provisions are severable. The bill would make related findings and declarations.
Under existing law, law is a solemn expression of the will of the supreme power of the state, which is expressed in the state Constitution and in statutes. Existing law sets forth maxims of jurisprudence and provides rules for the interpretation of statutes. This bill would state that a secondary source on insurance is not the law or public policy of the state, and is not authoritative if, among other things, it conflicts with the state Constitution or statutes.
Existing law authorizes the limit line, intersection, or other places where a driver is required to stop to be equipped with an automated traffic enforcement system if the governmental agency utilizing the system meets certain requirements, including, among other things, that the system is visible to traffic approaching from all directions in which the automated traffic enforcement system is being utilized to issue citations. Existing law requires a local jurisdiction utilizing an automated traffic enforcement system to commence a program to issue only warning notices for 30 days before issuing citations. Existing law authorizes only a governmental agency to operate an automated enforcement system. This bill would, until January 1, 2030, authorize a city or city and county to establish an automated traffic enforcement system for a period of 5 years if, among other things, the system meets the criteria specified above. The bill would require a violation of any traffic law that is recorded by an automated traffic enforcement system to be subject only to a civil penalty, and would prohibit the Department of Motor Vehicles from suspending or revoking the privilege of a violator to drive a motor vehicle. The bill would require a notice of violation to be in writing and issued to the registered owner of the vehicle within 15 calendar days of the date of the violation.
Existing law vests the Department of Transportation with full possession and control of all state highways and all property and rights on property acquired for state highway purposes. Existing law authorizes the department to acquire any real property that it considers necessary for state highway purposes. This bill would require the department to provide information regarding the acquisition of, and funding sources used to acquire, real property held by the department for state highway purposes within 30 days of receiving a request for that information.
The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires a beverage manufacturer to pay to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery a processing fee for each beverage container, as defined, sold or transferred in this state. The act requires the department to deposit the fee into the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. The act requires the department to pay processing payments to processors and recycling centers from the fund, as specified. The act requires the processing payment to be at least equal to the difference between the scrap value of the beverage containers and the sum of certain actual operational costs for certified recycling centers and a reasonable financial return for recycling centers, as specified. Existing regulations require a reasonable financial return for recycling centers equal to 10% of certain statewide averages. The act requires the processing fee to be 65% of the processing payment, except as specified. This bill would specify, for purposes of calculating the processing payment, that 10% is a reasonable financial return for recycling centers.
Existing law, the State Aeronautics Act, governs aeronautics in the state for the purpose of furthering and protecting the public interest in aviation and aeronautical progress through identified means, and authorizes the Department of Transportation to adopt, administer, and enforce rules and regulations for the administration of the act. Under existing law, a violation of the State Aeronautics Act is a crime. This bill would prohibit the governing body of a local government from granting the exclusive right to one operator to develop vertiports or control vertiport operations within the local government's jurisdiction. The bill would include findings that changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. Because the above provision would be a part of the State Aeronautics Act, 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 requires the governing board of a school district to let contracts for public projects, as defined, involving an expenditure of $15,000 or more, to the lowest responsible bidder who gives security as the governing board requires. This bill would instead require the governing board to let contracts for public projects when the expenditure is $34,500 or more to the above-described lowest responsible bidder. The bill would additionally require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually adjust the $34,500 amount, commencing on January 1, 2026. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district having an average daily attendance of 35,000 or greater to make repairs to school buildings, grounds, apparatus, or equipment and perform maintenance by day labor or force account, whenever the total numbers of hours on the job does not exceed 750 hours or when the total cost of material does not exceed $21,000, as specified. This bill would instead authorize the governing board of a school district to make repairs and perform maintenance by day labor or force account, as described above, when the total cost of material does not exceed $43,000. The bill would require adjustment of the $43,000 amount to reflect the percentage change in the California Consumer Price Index, beginning on January 1, 2026, and each January 1 thereafter. Existing law authorizes local agencies to elect to become subject to uniform construction accounting procedures, which provides alternative bidding procedures, by adopting a resolution and notifying the Controller. This bill would authorize a governing board of a school district to elect, by adopting a resolution, to evaluate the uniform construction cost accounting procedures if (1) the governing board of the school district has not already elected to be subject to the uniform construction cost accounting procedures; (2) the school district has an average daily attendance of 35,000 or more pupils; and (3) the governing board of a school district has entered into a project labor agreement for all of its public projects, as specified. The bill would, if the governing board of a school district adopts the resolution, increase for one year the threshold for letting contracts for public projects to $220,000 and for repairs and perform maintenance by day labor or force account to $70,000.
