(1) Existing law, the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Housing Finance Act, establishes the Bay Area Housing Finance Agency to raise, administer, and allocate funding for affordable housing in the San Francisco Bay area, as defined, and provide technical assistance at a regional level for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, and new affordable housing production. Existing law requires the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority and executive board of the Association of Bay Area Governments to form an advisory committee composed of 9 representatives with knowledge and experience in the areas of affordable housing finance and development, tenant protection, and housing preservation. This bill would require the authority and executive board to form an advisory committee composed of at least 9 and no more than 11 representatives with knowledge and expertise in the areas of affordable housing finance, construction workforce, and development, tenant protection, and housing preservation. The act provides the authority with various powers, including the power to place a measure on the ballot to raise revenue and allocate funds throughout the San Francisco Bay area, apply for and receive grants or loans from public and private entities, incur and issue bonds and other indebtedness, and otherwise incur liabilities or obligations. The act authorizes the authority to allocate and deploy financing to cities, counties, other public agencies within the San Francisco Bay area and private affordable housing developers to finance affordable housing development, as specified. This bill would specify that the authority is limited to placing only one measure on the ballot per election. The bill would also authorize the authority to deploy financing to nonprofit corporations to finance affordable housing development, as specified. Existing law authorizes a city or county, or an agency created pursuant to a joint powers agreement, to issue revenue bonds to defray the costs of acquiring home mortgages or making loans to lending institutions in order to enable them to make home mortgages, and the costs of studies and surveys, insurance premiums, underwriting fees, legal, accounting and marketing services incurred in connection with the issuance and sale of bonds, as specified. This bill would authorize the authority to issue mortgage revenue bonds, pursuant to provisions described above; acquire, hold, develop, operate, and dispose of real property; and create one or more California limited liability companies of which the authority is the sole member. (2) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. This bill would exempt from CEQA any actions taken by the authority to raise, administer, or allocate funding for tenant protection, affordable housing preservation, or new affordable housing production or to provide technical assistance consistent with the authority's purpose. (3) Existing law authorizes the executive board of the authority to impose a commercial linkage fee, as defined, in an amount not to exceed ten dollars ($10) per square foot, within the San Francisco Bay area, as specified. Existing law requires the expenditures of proceeds from a commercial linkage fee be limited to affordable housing production, preservation, and tenant protection programs. This bill would authorize the expenditures of proceeds from a commercial linkage fee to include the authority's related administrative costs. (4) The act defines "authority revenues" to include, without limitation, revenues generated by any special tax, fee, or charge imposed by the authority, other than ad valorem property taxes. Existing law, the Revenue Bond Law of 1941, requires a local agency to annually publish a summary statement showing, among other things, the amount of gross revenues from revenue bonds. This bill would revise and recast the definition of "authority revenue" to also include loan repayments, investment income, or income derived from the ownership or operation of real property. The bill would provide for prioritization of spending of authority revenues. The bill would require the authority to publish the above-described summary statement not more than 9 months after the close of each fiscal year. (5) Existing law requires the authority to distribute regional housing revenue, as defined, in the form of a grant, loan, or other financing tool in a manner that achieves certain minimum shares over 5-year periods. In this regard, existing law requires 5% of those regional housing revenues for tenant protection programs for low- and moderate-income households, which includes, among other things, preeviction and eviction legal services and providing emergency rental assistance for lower income households. This bill would include homelessness prevention services, as specified, as an eligible expense under tenant protection programs for low- and moderate-income households. (6) Existing law requires the authority to distribute funds received through the authorized funding measures according to specified provisions, which in part require each county to adopt a county expenditure plan applicable to county housing revenue. Existing law requires, in order for the expenditure plan to be deemed complete, the expenditure plan to specify, among other things, a description of any specific project or program proposed to receive funding. This bill would additionally require the plan to demonstrate that the county has consulted with each city in the county, excluding cities that receive a direct allocation. (7) Existing law requires, if the authority proposes a measure that will generate revenues and that requires voter approval, the board of supervisors of the relevant county or counties to call a special election on the measure. Existing law requires each county included in the measure to use the exact ballot question, impartial analysis, and summary of the expenditure plan provided by the authority. Existing law requires these materials to include, among other things, an estimate of the number of affordable housing units to be built or preserved by household income category served, and a description of any specific projects planned to be funded. This bill would instead require each county included in the measure to use the election materials provided by the authority, including the exact ballot question, impartial analysis, and full text of the ballot measure for inclusion in the voter information pamphlet. The bill would make conforming changes. By changing the duties of local officials with respect to elections procedures for revenue measures on behalf of the authority, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (8) 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.
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(1) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and of certain land outside its boundaries. Existing law requires that county or city zoning ordinances be consistent with the general plan of the county or city by January 1, 1974. Existing law authorizes any resident or property owner to bring an action or proceeding in the superior court to enforce compliance with these provisions within 90 days of the enactment of any new zoning ordinance or the amendment of any existing zoning ordinance. Existing law requires a zoning ordinance to be amended within a reasonable time so that it is consistent with the general plan in the event that the ordinance becomes inconsistent with the plan by reason of amendment to the plan. This bill, in the event that a zoning ordinance becomes inconsistent with a general plan due to an amendment to the general plan and a local agency receives a development application for a project that is not subject to specified provisions of law relating to housing development projects and that is consistent with the general plan but inconsistent with a zoning ordinance, would require the local agency to either amend the zoning ordinance within 180 days from the receipt of the development application to be consistent with the general plan, or to process the development application, as specified. If a local agency does not amend the zoning ordinance within 180 days from the receipt of the development application, the bill would require the local agency to process the development application. The bill would also provide that a proposed development is not deemed inconsistent with any zoning ordinance or related zoning standard or criteria, and is not required to be rezoned to accommodate the proposed development, if there is substantial evidence that would allow a reasonable person to conclude that the proposed development is consistent with objective general plan standards and criteria but the zoning for the project site is inconsistent with the general plan. The bill would authorize any resident or property owner to bring an action or proceeding in the superior court to enforce compliance with these provisions within 90 days of a local agency's failure to comply. By imposing new duties on local agencies with regard to local planning and zoning, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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. (3) 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.
(1) Existing law requires each county and city to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county or city, and specified land outside its boundaries, that includes, among other mandatory elements, a housing element. Upon adoption of a housing element or amendment to an adopted housing element, existing law requires the planning agency to submit a copy to the Department of Housing and Community Development, as provided, and requires the department to evaluate the adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the planning agency within 90 days. This bill would, instead, require the department to review an adopted housing element or amendment and report its findings to the local planning agency within 60 days. (2) Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, except as provided, requires that a public hearing be held on an application for a variance from the requirements of a zoning ordinance, an application for a conditional use permit or equivalent development permit, a proposed revocation or modification of a variance or use permit or equivalent development permit, or an appeal from the action taken on any of those applications. That law, for housing development projects that submit a preliminary application prior to January 1, 2030, prohibits a city or county from conducting more than 5 hearings, as defined, held pursuant to these provisions, or any other law, ordinance, or regulation requiring a public hearing, if the proposed housing development project complies with the applicable, objective general plan and zoning standards in effect at the time an application is deemed complete, as defined. The Planning and Zoning Law also requires a local agency, pursuant to either local ordinance or statute, to provide for ministerial approval of applications for accessory dwelling units or junior accessory dwelling units in areas zoned for residential use, as specified. That law prohibits a local agency from denying a permit for an unpermitted accessory dwelling unit constructed prior to January 1, 2018, except as provided. That law also requires each local agency to allow an accessory dwelling unit to be sold or conveyed separately from the primary residence to a qualified buyer if specified conditions are met. The Planning and Zoning Law requires that a proposed housing development containing no more than 2 residential units within a single-family residential zone be considered ministerially, without discretionary review or hearing, if the proposed housing development meets certain requirements. Existing planning and zoning law requires a local agency to ministerially approve a parcel map for an urban lot split if the agency determines the parcel map meets specified criteria, except as provided. Existing law, the Middle Class Housing Act of 2022, deems a housing development project, as defined, to be an allowable use on a parcel that is within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, if specified conditions are met, including requirements relating to density, public notice, comment, hearing, or other procedures, site location and size, consistency with sustainable community strategy or alternative plans, prevailing wage, and a skilled and trained workforce. Statutory law proposed by SB 4 would require that a housing development project be a use by right upon the request of an applicant who submits an application for streamlined approval, on any land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution on or before January 1, 2024, if the development satisfies specified criteria. Statutory law proposed by AB 1218 would prohibit an affected city or an affected county, as those terms are defined, from approving a housing development project that will require the demolition of one or more residential dwelling units unless the project will create at least as many residential dwelling units as will be demolished. Statutory law proposed by SB 684 would prohibit a local agency from imposing specified objective zoning standards, objective subdivision standards, or objective design standards on a housing development on a lot that is subdivided, except as provided, would require a local agency to issue a building permit for a housing development project on a proposed site to be subdivided if the applicant for the permit has met specified requirements, and would require a local agency to ministerially approve, without discretionary review or a hearing, a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets specified requirements. Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to notify a city, county, or city and county, and authorizes the department to notify the Attorney General, that a city, county, or city and county is in violation of state law if the department finds that the housing element or an amendment to that element, or any specified action or failure to act, does not substantially comply with the law as it pertains to housing elements or that any local government has taken an action in violation of certain housing laws. This bill would additionally authorize the department to notify a city, county, city and county, or the Attorney General when the planning agency of a city, county, or city and county fails to comply with the above-described provisions relating to hearings for specified variances, ministerial approval of applications for accessory dwelling units or junior accessory dwelling units, permitting for unpermitted accessory dwelling units constructed prior to January 1, 2018, sale or conveyance of accessory dwelling units, ministerial approval of proposed housing developments, ministerial approval of parcel maps for urban lot splits, or housing development projects being deemed an allowable use of parcels within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, as provided. This bill would also authorize the department to make the above-referenced notifications if a city, county, or city and county fails to comply with the above-described provisions relating to a housing development project being a use by right on land owned by an independent institution of higher education or religious institution, as proposed by SB 4; approval of housing development projects that require the demolition of residential dwelling units, as proposed by AB 1218; or the prohibition against imposition of specified objective zoning, subdivision, or design standards, required issuance of a building permit for housing development projects on proposed sites to be subdivided, or required ministerial approval of a parcel map or a tentative and final map for a housing development project that meets specified requirements, as proposed by AB 684.
Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that public higher education in California strive to provide educationally equitable environments that give each Californian, regardless of age, economic circumstance, or certain specified characteristics, including mental disability, a reasonable opportunity to develop fully their potential. This bill, subject to an appropriation for its purposes, would expressly authorize the California State University, and request the University of California, to establish and maintain inclusive college programs for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities at 4-year public postsecondary educational institutions, as provided. The bill would request inclusive college programs operated by the California State University, and inclusive college programs operated by the University of California, to do certain things, including, among other things, provide students with a person-centered planning process and the opportunity to pursue an educational credential, including, but not limited to, a degree, certificate, or nondegree credential issued by the institution.
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law provides, until January 1, 2025, that, for certain state and local firefighting personnel and peace officers, the term "injury" includes post-traumatic stress that develops or manifests during a period in which the injured person is in the service of the department or unit and creates a disputable presumption that the injury arises out of and comes in the course of employment. Existing law requires the compensation awarded pursuant to this provision to include full hospital, surgical, medical treatment, disability indemnity, and death benefits. This bill would instead repeal that provision on January 1, 2029, and would require the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation to submit reports to the Legislature analyzing the effectiveness of the presumption and a review of claims filed by specified types of employees, not included in the presumption, such as public safety dispatchers, as defined.
(1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires the board to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a person who meets specified qualifications. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to attend cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth and to provide prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, including interconception care, family planning care, and immediate care for the newborn, as specified. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to practice with a physician and surgeon under mutually agreed-upon policies and protocols, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services or to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, authorize a certified nurse-midwife, pursuant to policies and protocols that are mutually agreed upon with a physician and surgeon, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services, to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium, or to furnish or order a Schedule II or III controlled substance, as specified. The bill would include care for common gynecologic conditions, as specified, in the scope of services a certified nurse-midwife is authorized to perform without policies and protocols that are mutually agreed upon with a physician and surgeon. The bill would additionally authorize a general acute care hospital, as defined, or a special hospital specified as a maternity hospital, as defined, to grant privileges to a certified nurse-midwife, allowing them to admit and discharge patients upon their own authority if in accordance with organized medical staff bylaws of that facility and within the nurse-midwife's scope of practice. Existing law generally authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to furnish drugs or devices incidentally to the provision of care and services described above that the certified nurse-midwife is authorized to perform and care rendered to persons within certain settings, subject to specified requirements and exceptions. Among those requirements is that a certified nurse-midwife follow standardized procedures or protocols if they furnish or order Schedule IV or V controlled substances or drugs or devices for services other than attending cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth or providing prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, as specified. Existing law requires those standardized procedures or protocols to specify which nurse-midwife is authorized to furnish or order drugs or devices, which drugs or devices may be furnished or ordered and under what circumstances, and the method of periodic review of the certified nurse-midwife's competence, as specified, and review of the provisions of the standardized procedure. Existing law requires a certified nurse-midwife to follow a patient-specific protocol approved by a physician and surgeon if the certified nurse-midwife furnishes or orders Schedule II or III controlled substances for any condition. Existing law requires the patient-specific protocol to address the diagnosis of the illness, injury, or condition for which a Schedule II controlled substance is to be furnished. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to remove references to standardized procedures or protocols and patient-specific protocols. Instead, the bill would require the above-described policies and protocols that a certified nurse-midwife is required to follow for certain care to contain provisions governing the furnishing or ordering of drugs or devices for services other than attending cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth or providing prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, as specified. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to procure supplies and devices, obtain and administer diagnostic tests, obtain and administer nonscheduled drugs consistent with the provision of services authorized to be performed without policies and protocols mutually agreed upon with a physician and surgeon, order laboratory and diagnostic testing, and receive reports, as specified. Existing law imposes various requirements on a prescriber, as defined, for dispensing drugs and dangerous devices, including that the drug or device is necessary in the treatment of the condition for which the prescriber is attending the patient. This bill would additionally authorize a certified nurse-midwife to dispense drugs when attending cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth or providing prenatal care, intrapartum care, postpartum care, or care for common gynecologic conditions, pursuant to the above-described requirements on prescribers. The bill would add a certified nurse-midwife to the definition of "prescriber" for purposes of those requirements. (2) Existing law prohibits, except as specified, a person from performing a clinical laboratory test or examination classified as waived or classified as of moderate complexity under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) unless the test or examination is performed under the overall operation and administration of the laboratory director, as specified. Existing law defines laboratory director for this purpose. This bill would amend the definition of laboratory director to include a nurse-midwife serving as a director of a laboratory that performs only testing and examinations classified as waived or a provider-performed microscopy authorized within the scope of the nurse-midwife's certificate to practice. (3) Existing law requires a claimant for unemployment compensation disability benefits to establish medical eligibility for each uninterrupted period of disability by filing a first claim for disability benefits supported by the certificate of a treating physician or practitioner that establishes the sickness, injury, or pregnancy of the employee, or the condition of the family member that warrants the care of the employee. Existing law defines the term "practitioner" to mean certain healing arts professions, as specified, including, as to normal pregnancy or childbirth, a midwife, nurse-midwife, or nurse practitioner. This bill would revise the part of the definition of "practitioner" relating to normal pregnancy or childbirth to include, instead, as to pregnancy, childbirth, or postpartum conditions consistent with the scope of their professional licensure, a midwife, nurse-midwife, or nurse practitioner. (4) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2746.5 of the Business and Professions Code proposed by SB 345 to be operative only if this bill and SB 345 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. (5) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 2708 of the Unemployment Insurance Code proposed by AB 575 to be operative only if this bill and AB 575 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
The Money Transmission Act generally provides for the regulation of money transmission, as defined, by the Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation. The act provides for certain exemptions from the act, including an exemption for the United States or a department, agency, or instrumentality thereof, including a federal reserve bank and a federal home loan bank. This bill would, among other things, additionally exempt from the act a person that acts as an intermediary by processing money transmission between an entity that has directly incurred an outstanding money transmission obligation to a sender and the sender's designated recipient if the entity meets certain criteria, including that the entity is properly licensed or exempt from licensing requirements under the act. The bill would also exempt a registered futures commission merchant under the federal commodities laws to the extent of its operation as such a merchant. The act requires a licensee to, not more than 45 days after the end of each calendar year quarter, file with the commissioner a report containing certain information, including the current address of each branch office of the licensee in this state, as specified, the name of each person who acted as an agent in this state of the licensee during the calendar year quarter, and the address for each agent branch office, as specified. The act makes a person that intentionally makes a false statement, misrepresentation, or false certification in a record filed or required to be maintained under the act, or that intentionally makes a false entry or omits a material entry in such a record, guilty of a felony. This bill would instead require the report described above to be filed through the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and Registry, as specified. The bill would require a licensee to include in that report additional information regarding a person who acted as an agent in this state of the licensee during the calendar year quarter, including the agent's telephone number and email address. By expanding the scope of the crime described above, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The act requires an applicant for a license to possess, and requires a licensee to maintain at all times, tangible shareholder's equity of $250,000 to $500,000 depending on estimated or actual transaction volume, as determined by the commissioner, as prescribed. This bill would delete that provision and would instead, subject to the commissioner's discretion, require a licensee to maintain at all times a tangible net worth of the greater of $100,000 or 3 percent of total assets for the first $100,000,000, 2 percent of additional assets for $100,000,000 to $1,000,000,000, and one-half of 1 percent of additional assets for over $1,000,000,000. The act requires a licensee to, at all times, own eligible securities having an aggregate market value computed in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles of not less than the aggregate amount of all of its outstanding payment instruments and stored value obligations issued or sold in the United States and all outstanding money received for transmission in the United States. The act defines "eligible securities" to mean any United States currency eligible security or foreign currency eligible security and defines "United States currency eligible security" and "foreign currency eligible security" to mean specific securities. This bill would make various changes related to the determination of the value of eligible securities held by a licensee, including by revising the list of those securities. Among those revisions, the bill would include in the list of United States currency eligible securities the full drawable amount of an irrevocable standby letter of credit for which the stated beneficiary is the commissioner that stipulates that the beneficiary need only draw a sight draft under the letter of credit and present it to obtain funds up to the letter of credit amount within 7 days of presentation of certain items, including the original letter of credit. This bill would also impose certain requirements on a licensee when adding or replacing a key individual, defined to mean a natural person ultimately responsible for establishing or directing policies and procedures of the licensee, including an executive officer, manager, director, or trustee. Among those requirements, the bill would require the licensee to provide notice to the commissioner within 15 days after the effective date of the key individual's appointment, as prescribed. This bill would provide that, before January 1, 2025, a person licensed under the act to engage in the business of money transmission is not subject to a provision of the bill to the extent that the provision conflicts with the law in effect on December 31, 2023, or to the extent the provision establishes new requirements not imposed under the law in effect on December 31, 2023. 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, the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, prescribes the rights, benefits, and duties of members of the retirement systems established pursuant to its provisions. Existing law requires, if a safety member, a firefighter member, or a member in active law enforcement who has completed 5 years or more of service develops heart trouble, that the heart trouble be presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment. This bill would require the presumption that the member's heart trouble arose out of and in the course of employment to be extended following termination of service for a prescribed length of time not to exceed 60 months. Existing law provides that participants in certain membership categories may be entitled to special benefits if the injury that causes their disability arises in the course of their employment. Existing law creates a presumption, for purposes of qualification for disability retirement benefits for specified members, that certain injuries, including, but not limited to, a bloodborne infectious disease or a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin infection, arose out of and in the course of employment. Existing law authorizes the presumption to be rebutted by evidence to the contrary, but unless controverted, the applicable governing board of a public retirement system is required to find in accordance with the presumption. This bill would expand the scope of this presumption to include additional injuries, including post-traumatic stress disorder, tuberculosis, skin cancer, lower back impairments, Lyme disease, hernia, pneumonia, and meningitis, if the injury develops or manifests while a member, as defined, is in a specified job classification, or additionally if the injury develops or manifests within a prescribed length of time following the termination of the member's employment in the specified job classification. With respect to skin cancer, this bill would additionally require the member to have worked for 3 consecutive months in a calendar year in a specified position for the presumption to apply. With respect to lower back impairments, this bill would additionally require the member to have worked at least 5 years in a specified position that required the member to wear a duty belt as a condition of employment for the presumption to apply. This bill would authorize the presumption relating to these additional injuries to be rebutted by evidence to the contrary, but unless controverted, the applicable governing board of a public retirement system is required to find in accordance with the presumption. The bill would repeal the provisions related to post-traumatic stress disorder on January 1, 2025. The bill would, contingent upon the enactment of SB 623 of the 2023–24 Regular Session, as specified, repeal the provisions related to post-traumatic stress disorder on January 1, 2032.
Existing law requires the Department of Real Estate to develop, and the Department of Toxic Substances Control to publish, a booklet to educate and inform consumers on, among other things, common environmental hazards that are located on, and affect, real property. Existing law requires the types of common environmental hazards to include, but not be limited to, asbestos, radon gas, lead-based paint, formaldehyde, fuel and chemical storage tanks, and water and soil contamination. Existing law also states the intent of the Legislature that the booklet be updated to include a section on carbon monoxide. This bill would, as existing resources permit or as private resources are made available, require the booklet to be updated to include 3 new sections on wildfires, climate change, and sea level rise, as specified. The bill would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to seek the advice and assistance of departments within the Natural Resources Agency in the writing of the booklet, as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to correct erroneous cross-references.
Existing law requires the governing board of each community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing boards of independent postsecondary institutions, in order to receive state funds for student financial assistance, to enter into memoranda of understanding, agreements, or collaborative partnerships with existing on-campus and community-based organizations, to the extent feasible, to refer students for assistance or make services available to students, including counseling, health, mental health, victim advocacy, and legal assistance, and including resources for the accused. As a condition of receiving state funds for student financial assistance, this bill would require the trustees and the regents to ensure, to the extent feasible, that a student who seeks support after experiencing sexual violence receives information about the student's options and rights to obtain a sexual assault forensic medical examination, as specified, and commencing with the 2025–26 school year, to the extent practicable and necessary, to provide to their students without charge and in a manner that protects student confidentiality, transportation to and from a local Sexual Assault Forensic Examination (SAFE) or Sexual Abuse Response Team (SART) exam center for a qualified health care provider to administer the sexual assault forensic medical evidence kit, as provided. The bill would require, on or before June 30, 2026, and biennially thereafter, as a condition of receiving state financial assistance funds, the trustees and the regents to submit a report to the Legislature on whether their respective institutions have provided transportation for students to and from a local SAFE or SART exam center for a qualified health care provider to administer the sexual assault forensic medical evidence kit and the manner in which students received the transportation.