Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state, under the administration of community college district governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction at the community college campuses they operate. Existing law establishes a statewide baccalaureate degree program that authorizes up to a total of 30 baccalaureate degree programs at community college districts to be approved per academic year, as provided. This bill would require the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes select community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The bill would limit the pilot program to 10 community college districts statewide and would require the chancellor's office to identify and select eligible community college districts based on specified criteria. The bill would require the chancellor's office to develop a process designed to assist community college districts with nursing programs that are applying for national accreditation for the purpose of qualifying for the pilot program, as provided. The bill would require each participating community college district to give priority registration for enrollment in the pilot program to students with an associate degree in nursing from that community college district. The bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to conduct an evaluation of the pilot program to determine the effectiveness of the program and the need to continue or expand the program, as specified, to be submitted to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2032. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2034.
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Existing law establishes the state flag and the state's emblems, including, among other things, the poppy as the official state flower, the California redwood as the official state tree, and the California gray whale as the official state marine mammal. This bill would establish the banana slug (Ariolimax) as the official state slug.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law vests the University of California with exclusive jurisdiction in public higher education over instruction in the profession of law and over graduate instruction in the professions of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. This bill would authorize a California veterinary medical school to develop a high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter certification program to be offered as elective coursework to enrolled students, as provided. The bill would require the certification program to also be offered to California-licensed veterinarians and California-registered veterinary technicians, as provided. The bill would require the certification program to make available to the public low- or no-cost ovariectomies, ovariohysterectomies, or gonadectomies for cats and dogs that are performed by program participants, as provided. The bill would require a California veterinary medical school offering the above-described certification program to triennially publish a public progress report on certification program activities, as specified.
Under existing law, a person who solicits, or who agrees to engage in, or who engages in, any act of prostitution with the intent to receive compensation, money, or anything of value from another person is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor. Under existing law, if the person solicited was a minor, and the person who solicited the minor knew or reasonably should have known that the person solicited was a minor, the offense is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a mandatory minimum of 2 days and not to exceed one year, by a fine not to exceed $10,000, or by both such fine and imprisonment. This bill would make this offense applicable only to a defendant who is 18 years of age or older at the time of the offense. The bill would, if the person solicited was under 16 years of age, or if the person solicited was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense and the person solicited was a victim of human trafficking, make the offense punishable as a wobbler by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 1 year and a fine not to exceed $10,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. For a 2nd or subsequent offense under those conditions, the bill would require that the offense be punishable as a felony by imprisonment in the county jail for 16 months or 2 or 3 years. By changing the elements and increasing the punishment of a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires persons convicted of certain specified crimes to annually register as a sex offender, as specified, for a term of 10, 20, or 30 years. This bill would require a person who is 18 years of age or older, on or after January 1, 2025, is convicted of, and who has a prior conviction for, soliciting a minor, as specified, to annually register as a sex offender for a term of 10 years if, at the time of the offense, the person was more than 10 years older than the solicited minor. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 647 of the Penal Code proposed by SB 926, AB 1874, and AB 1962, to be operative only if this bill and some or all of those other bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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 exempts from the usury limitation set forth in Section 1 of Article XV of the California Constitution a loan or forbearance made or arranged by any person licensed as a real estate broker by the State of California, and secured, directly or collaterally, in whole or in part on real property. Existing law provides that a loan or forbearance is arranged by a person licensed as a real estate broker when the broker takes any of specified actions, including (1) acting for compensation or in expectation of compensation for soliciting, negotiating, or arranging the loan for another, and (2) acting for compensation or in expectation of compensation for selling, buying, leasing, exchanging, or negotiating the sale, purchase, lease, or exchange of real property or a business for another and arranging a forbearance, extension, or refinancing of any loan in connection with that sale, purchase, lease, exchange of, or an improvement to, real property or a business. Existing law defines the term "made or arranged" to include any loan made by a person licensed as a real estate broker as a principal or as an agent for others, and whether or not the person is acting within the course and scope of such license. This bill would include a forbearance, extension, or modification of a loan in the exception described above, as specified. Existing law defines and regulates mortgages, including recording notices of default, applications for loan modification, foreclosure prevention alternatives, and recordation of the trustee's deed upon sale of property under the power of sale contained in a deed of trust or mortgage, also known as a trustee's sale or foreclosure sale. Existing law requires mortgage servicers to establish a single point of contact when a borrower requests a foreclosure prevention alternative, as specified. Existing law exempts from these provisions certain entities and persons that, during their immediately preceding annual reporting period, as established with their primary regulator, foreclosed on 175 of fewer residential real properties, containing no more than 4 dwelling units, that are located in California. This bill would also exempt persons or entities that make and service 7 or fewer loans for the purchase of residential real property in a calendar year from those provisions. Existing law prohibits certain entities and persons that, during their immediately preceding annual reporting period, as established with their primary regulator, foreclosed on 175 of fewer residential real properties, containing no more than 4 dwelling units, that are located in California from recording a notice of default, notice of sale, or conducting a trustee's sale if the borrower submits a complete application for a first lien loan modification, as specified. This bill would subject persons or entities that make and service 7 or fewer loans for the purchase of residential real property in a calendar year to those provisions. Existing law provides that specified law only applies to a first lien mortgage or deed of trust that meets either of 2 conditions: (1) the first lien mortgage or deed of trust is secured by owner-occupied residential real property containing no more than 4 dwelling units, or (2) the first lien mortgage or deed of trust is secured by residential real property that is occupied by a tenant, that contains no more than 4 dwelling units, and that meets certain conditions. This bill would remove the 2nd condition. Existing law authorizes a trustor or mortgagor to cure a default in certain circumstances. Existing law requires the beneficiary or mortgagee, after a cure, to reinstate and, within 21 days following the reinstatement, execute and deliver to the trustee a notice, as specified. Existing law requires the trustee to record the notice, as specified. This bill would provide that a trustee is not required to record that notice if the mortgage or deed of trust is paid in full and a full reconveyance or certificate of discharge is recorded, as specified. Existing law imposes various requirements on trustee's sales, including the time and location of the sale, postponement of the sale, and how a postponement of the sale must be announced. This bill would require a sale to be postponed 7 calendar days at the same time and location if an act of force majeure, as defined, prevents access to the sale location for the conduct of the sale. Existing law provides the trustee with specified rights at a trustee's sale, including the right to require every bidder to show evidence of the bidder's ability to deposit with the trustee the full amount of their final bid, as specified. Existing law authorizes the trustee, in the event the trustee accepts a check or a cash equivalent, to withhold the issuance of the trustee's deed to the successful bidder until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right, as specified. This bill would provide the trustee the right to require any bid that is not cash to be made directly payable to the trustee, if that requirement is set forth by the trustee in the notice of sale. The bill would authorize the trustee to require the successful bidder to replace the check or cash equivalent with a check or cash equivalent made directly payable to the trustee if necessary for the funds to be made available to the trustee. Existing law provides a prospective owner-occupant and eligible tenant buyer various rights in connection with a trustee's sale. Existing law provides that certain types of trustee's sales are not deemed final until the earliest of various time periods, including 45 days after the trustee's sale, except that during that 45-day period, an eligible bidder may submit a specified bid to the trustee that meets certain requirements, including that the bid be sent to the trustee by certified mail, overnight delivery, or another method that allows for confirmation of the delivery date, and that the bid be received by trustee by a specified date on time, except that on the last day that bids are eligible to be received by the trustee, the trustee is prohibited from receiving any bid not sent by certified mail or overnight mail. This bill would recast that provision to prohibit the trustee, on the last day that bids are eligible to be received by the trustee pursuant to the provisions described above, from receiving any bid not sent by certified mail with the United States Postal Service or by another overnight mail courier service with tracking information that confirms the recipient's signature and the date and time of receipt and delivery.
Existing law authorizes the governing body of a school district, a county office of education, or a charter school to adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school. Existing law, however, specifies circumstances in which a pupil may not be prohibited from possessing or using a smartphone. This bill would instead require the governing body of a school district, a county office of education, or a charter school to, by July 1, 2026, develop and adopt, and to update every 5 years, a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would constitute 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 requires that a school district, county office of education, or charter school that was prevented, due to certain emergencies, including, but not limited to, prescribed natural disasters, from maintaining its schools during a fiscal year for at least 180 days for a school district or county office of education or at least 175 days for a charter school, to receive the same apportionments as if it had not been prevented from maintaining those required number of days, as provided. For purposes of state apportionments based on average daily attendance, as provided, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of a specified emergency, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school approximately the total average daily attendance that would have been credited to the school district, county office of education, or charter school had the emergency not occurred. This bill would add snowstorms to the list of emergencies for which the above-described provisions apply, as provided.
Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission with jurisdiction over various energy-related matters. This bill would require the commission, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to form the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Taskforce to conduct a study on retail gasoline fueling stations and alternative fuels infrastructure, as provided. The bill would require the taskforce, on or before January 1, 2027, to submit to the Legislature a report on the study with information and recommendations. The bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2031.
Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and vests it with full possession and control of the state highway system. This bill would require the department to conduct a study to identify certain locations in the state highway system with regard to vehicle collisions, projects that could improve road safety at each of those locations, and common factors, if any, contributing to the delay in the delivery of those projects. The bill would require the department to post the study on its internet website on or before January 1, 2026.
Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude those compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law expressly ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts, and amendments to tribal-state gaming compacts, between the State of California and specified Indian tribes. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project, as defined, that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment, as defined, or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. This bill would ratify the tribal-state gaming compacts entered into between the State of California and the Campo Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the Campo Indian Reservation, California, the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians of the La Posta Indian Reservation, California, the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, and the Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians of the Sulphur Bank Rancheria, California, and amendments to the tribal-state gaming compacts entered into between the State of California and the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians, California, the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians of California, and the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria, California. The bill would provide that, in deference to tribal sovereignty, certain actions related to these compacts are not projects for the purposes of CEQA. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.