Creates income tax credit for investment in community gardens and food banks. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allocates $350,000 to Nursing Faculty Loan Repayment Program. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for deposit in Safe Routes to Schools Fund for grant awards under safe routes to schools program. Directs Department of Transportation to expend at least $20 million out of funds received from State Highway Fund for safe routes to schools infrastructure projects. Requires department to submit biennial report relating to progress and funding of safe routes to schools programs and infrastructure projects to Legislative Assembly. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.
Requires transportation network company or other employer to conduct or have other person conduct test to determine whether individual that transportation network company or other employer intends to engage as participating driver has used or is using controlled substance. Prohibits transportation network company from permitting individual to connect to digital network and accept requests for prearranged rides and prohibits employer from permitting or directing individual to accept requests for prearranged rides if individual has used or is using controlled substance. Requires Director of Transportation to adopt rules to specify standards for conducting and interpreting results of test. Permits director to impose civil penalty on transportation network company or other employer that fails to conduct test, permits individual to connect to digital network for purpose of accepting requests for prearranged rides or permits or directs individual to accept prearranged rides. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Specifies standards for review of driving record and criminal record that Department of Education must conduct for applicant to become driver of school bus or school activity vehicle.
Authorizes formation of children's special districts. Authorizes children's special districts to levy property taxes to fund programs that offer children's services. Defines "children's services" as services that support children's total health and well-being provided outside of school hours to individuals not more than 18 years old. Provides that children's special district shall discontinue project if court holds that revenue funding project is subject to compression under $5 per $1,000 of real market value cap for purposes of Ballot Measure 5 (1990) as revenue funding project constituting educational services and shall use revenue for project that does not constitute educational services.
For rules implementing certain federal environmental laws that Environmental Quality Commission or Department of Environmental Quality has been delegated authority to administer, prohibits commission from amending or revising rules to be less stringent than certain federal standards and requirements. Requires natural resource agencies that have been delegated authority to administer certain federal environmental laws to, no later than September 15, 2018, report to interim legislative committees on proposed federal rulemaking that may result in federal standards and requirements that are less stringent than certain baseline standards, and to include certain information in report. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs State Department of Energy to develop climate test to conduct reviews for approval of proposed fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Requires department to adopt rules to establish standards and criteria for developing and administering test.
Directs Health Licensing Office to issue lactation consultant license to qualified applicant. Requires lactation consultant to complete cultural competency and trauma-informed care continuing education courses. Imposes civil penalty for violation of licensure requirements. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires health benefit plan to reimburse cost of treatment for HIV-associated lipodystrophy. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
