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Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to classify lands within state responsibility areas into fire hazard severity zones, and, by regulation, designate fire hazard severity zones and assign to each zone a rating reflecting the degree of severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in the zone. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to periodically review designated and rated zones and, as necessary, revise zones or their ratings or repeal the designation of zones. Existing law also requires the State Fire Marshal to identify areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas, and to periodically review and make recommendations relative to very high fire hazard severity zones. Existing law requires a local agency, within 30 days after receiving a transmittal from the State Fire Marshal that identifies those fire hazard severity zones, to make the information available for public review and comment, and, within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal, to designate, by ordinance transmitted to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones in its jurisdiction. This bill would revise and recast the above-described provisions applicable to fire hazard severity zones in state responsibility areas and in areas that are not state responsibility areas. The bill would, as applied to areas in the state that are not state responsibility areas, require the State Fire Marshal, no less than once every 5 years, to both identify areas in the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones, and review and make recommendations relative to these designations, as provided. The bill would require the State Fire Marshal to provide an opportunity, pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, for the public to review and comment on the fire hazard severity zone maps of areas that are not state responsibility areas before the State Fire Marshal submits them to the local agency, and would require a local agency to transmit a copy of its ordinance to the State Fire Marshal instead of the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. The bill would also require the State Fire Marshal, as applied to lands within state responsibility areas, to review the fire hazard severity zone designations at least once every 5 years. This bill would, as applied to both state responsibility areas and lands that are not state responsibility areas, authorize the State Fire Marshal, in periods between the State Fire Marshal's review of areas of the state for recommendations regarding an area's fire hazard severity zone, to confer with entities, including, but not limited to, public agencies, tribes, and nonprofit organizations, on actions that may impact the degree of fire hazard in an area or the area's recommended fire hazard severity zone designation. The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to provide a written response to an entity on actions that may impact the degree of fire hazard, and would require this written response to be posted on the State Fire Marshal's internet website. The bill would authorize those entities to provide information to the State Fire Marshal on actions the entity has taken or plans to take before the next review that may impact the degree of fire hazard in an area or the area's fire hazard severity zone designation. The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to consider this information in the next review, and would require any documentation provided to the State Fire Marshal to be posted on the State Fire Marshal's internet website. The bill would authorize the State Fire Marshal to require a regulatory fee from an entity to cover the State Fire Marshal's costs associated with these processes. Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to adopt regulations implementing minimum fire safety standards related to defensible space, as provided. Under existing law, these regulations apply to the perimeters and access to all residential, commercial, and industrial building construction within state responsibility areas approved after January 1, 1991, and within lands classified and designated as very high fire hazard severity zones, that are not within state responsibility areas, after July 1, 2021, as provided. Existing law requires the board, on and after July 1, 2021, to periodically update regulations for fuel breaks and greenbelts near communities, as provided. This bill would, among other things, instead require the State Fire Marshal to adopt or amend regulations implementing the above-described minimum fire safety standards, as provided, applicable only to new building permits, or to parcel or tentative maps or other developments approved after the effective date of the regulations, as provided. The bill would also require the State Fire Marshal to periodically update regulations for fuel breaks and greenbelts near communities, as provided. The bill would provide that the above-described regulations adopted by the board before January 1, 2025, shall remain valid and in effect after that date, and would authorize the State Fire Marshal to amend the board's regulations and adopt new regulations after January 1, 2025, as provided. Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, on or before July 1, 2022, to develop criteria for and maintain a "Fire Risk Reduction Community" list of local agencies located in state responsibility areas, or a very high fire hazard severity zone that is not in a state responsibility area, that meet best practices for local fire planning, as provided. This bill would, among other things, instead require the State Fire Marshal to develop the above-described criteria for and maintain the above-described "Fire Risk Reduction Community" list of local agencies, as provided. The bill would provide that the above-described criteria adopted by the board before January 1, 2025, shall remain valid and in effect after that date, and would authorize the State Fire Marshal to amend the board's criteria and adopt new criteria after January 1, 2025. The bill would also require the State Fire Marshal to develop criteria for and maintain a "Fire Risk Reduction Community" list for neighborhoods or communities, not including public agencies, located in a state responsibility area or a very high fire hazard severity zone, that meet best practices for reducing wildfire risk, as provided. The bill would require the State Fire Marshal to post both of these lists on its internet website. Existing law requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, shrub-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material to maintain a defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of the structure, as specified. Existing law also requires a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains an occupied dwelling or occupied structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered land, shrub-covered land, grass-covered land, or land that is covered with flammable material, which area or land is within a very high fire hazard severity zone designated by the local agency, to maintain a defensible space of 100 feet from each side and from the front and rear of the structure, as specified. A violation of either of these requirements is a crime. Existing law requires the persons described above to use more intense fuel reductions between 5 and 30 feet around the structure, and to create an ember-resistant zone within 5 feet of the structure, based on regulations promulgated by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, as provided. Existing law requires the board, in consultation with the State Fire Marshal, to develop, periodically update, and post on its internet website a guidance document on fuels management, as provided. This bill would revise and recast these provisions by, among other things, instead requiring the State Fire Marshal to promulgate the regulations, as provided, related to fuel reductions between 5 and 30 feet around the structure and the creation of an ember-resistant zone within 5 feet of the structure. The bill would provide that the above-described regulations promulgated by the board before January 1, 2025, shall remain valid and in effect after that date, and would authorize the State Fire Marshal to amend the board's regulations and adopt new regulations after January 1, 2025, as provided. The bill would instead require the State Fire Marshal to develop, periodically update, and post on its internet website the above-described guidance documents on fuels management, and to develop guidance documents with suggestions for creating an ember-resistant zone within 5 feet of a structure, as provided. Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal or the local agency having jurisdiction over the property to provide notice to affected residents describing specified components of the above-referenced defensible space requirements before imposing penalties for a violation of these requirements, as provided. Under existing law, the requirements for an ember-resistant zone, as provided, do not take effect for new structures until the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection updates the applicable regulations and the guidance documents, as provided, and does not take effect for existing structures until one year after the effective date for the new structures. This bill would eliminate the State Fire Marshal's above-described duty to make reasonable efforts to provide notice to affected residents, as provided. The bill would provide that the above-described requirements for an ember-resistant zone do not take effect for new structures until (1) either the board updates the regulations and guidance documents, if updated before January 1, 2025, or (2) the State Fire Marshal updates the regulations and guidance documents, if after January 1, 2025. Existing law defines a person, for the above-described defensible space requirements applicable to a person who owns, leases, controls, operates, or maintains a building or structure in, upon, or adjoining a mountainous area, forest-covered lands, shrub-covered lands, grass-covered lands, or land that is covered with flammable material, as a private individual, organization, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation. This bill would expand that definition of a person to also include a public agency. By imposing new requirements on local agencies, and because a violation of the requirements would be a crime or expand the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also make conforming changes. 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.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including numerous motion picture credits. Most recently, existing law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, allows a motion picture credit (motion picture credit 4.0) to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2025, and before July 1, 2030, in an amount equal to 20% or 25% of qualified expenditures for the production of a qualified motion picture in this state. Existing law establishes the California Film Commission to administer the motion picture credits, to provide services necessary to increase filming in the state, and to implement specified programs related to the motion picture industry, including a program to promote media production in the state. This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the California Film Commission to integrate additional data collection requirements, as specified, into the existing motion picture tax credit framework. The bill would require the commission, in consultation with industry stakeholders, payroll companies, and subject matter experts, to adopt definitions, reporting templates, and metrics for the additional data collection, and to develop protocols to reduce nonresponse rates. The bill would require the commission to address noncompliance with the data collection requirements through existing enforcement conditions and procedures of the motion picture tax credits, as provided. The bill would additionally require the commission to publish an annual compliance report summarizing the collected data, trends in diversity and economic impact, and recommendations for program improvements.
Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to adopt, on a biennial basis, an integrated energy policy report that contains an overview of major energy trends and issues facing the state, including supply, demand, pricing, reliability, efficiency, and impacts on public health and safety, the economy, resources, and the environment. Existing law requires that the report present policy recommendations based on an in-depth and integrated analysis of the most current and pressing energy issues facing the state. This bill would require the Energy Commission, on or before March 1, 2027, to designate a person within the Energy Commission or identify and retain an external candidate to serve as the Senior Counselor on Industrial Policy and Clean Energy Development, and would require the senior counselor to, among other things, convene working groups that focus on certain issues, as provided. The bill would require the Energy Commission, the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of General Services, and the office of the Treasurer, on or before March 1, 2027, to enter into a memorandum of understanding on equitable clean energy supply chains and industrial policy in California with specified goals and provisions, as provided. The bill would require the senior counselor to track and coordinate the work under the memorandum of understanding and to prepare an annual report summarizing the key findings and recommendations resulting from that work. The bill would require that the report be presented at a public meeting of the Energy Commission and be published on the Energy Commission's internet website. The bill would establish in the State Treasury the Equitable Clean Energy Supply Chain and Industrial Policy Fund and would, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorize the moneys in the fund to be expended for purposes of the bill.
(1) Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including fire and residential property insurance. Existing law prohibits a policy from limiting or denying a payment of building code upgrade cost on the basis that the insured has decided to rebuild at a new location or to purchase an already built home at a new location. If there is a total loss of the insured structure, this bill would require the building code upgrade cost payable to include all costs that would have been incurred if the insured structure been completely rebuilt at its original location. (2) Existing law requires a disclosure to be provided upon an offer of a residential property insurance policy that states policies offering extended replacement cost coverage of at least 50% may be available for that property and that includes the internet website address of the Homeowners Coverage Comparison Tool. Existing law exempts specified insurers, agents, and brokers from this requirement. This bill would instead prohibit a residential property insurance policy from being issued or renewed unless the applicant or insured is offered extended replacement cost coverage in an amount of no less than 50% of coverage above the policy limits for the primary dwelling. If an applicant or policyholder declines this offer, the bill would require the insurer to record acknowledgment of the declination, as specified. (3) Existing law requires an insurer that provides replacement cost coverage to provide a cost estimate for rebuilding or replacing the structure at specified intervals, but exempts an insurer that meets specified criteria from this requirement. This bill would delete those exemptions and would extend the cost estimate requirements to a policy offered by the California FAIR Plan Association if replacement cost coverage is available under the policy. (4) Existing law requires an insurer to provide an insured with a list of items that the insurer believes may be covered under the policy as additional living expenses if there is a loss under a homeowners' insurance policy for which the insured has made a claim for additional living expenses. If there is a covered loss relating to a state of emergency, existing law requires additional living expense coverage to be for a period of no less than 24 months from the inception of the loss. This bill would require the above-described list to be written, and would authorize the list to be transmitted as an electronic document. The bill would require additional living expense coverage to include all reasonable additional expenses incurred by the insured for the insured to maintain a comparable standard of living for the time the insured dwelling is not habitable due to a covered loss, as specified. The bill would authorize an insurer to offer the ability to the insured to choose to collect the monthly fair rental value of the dwelling in lieu of reimbursement for itemized expenses under additional living expense coverage, as specified. If there is a covered total loss relating to a state of emergency, the bill would extend additional living expenses 15 calendar days beyond the date upon which the premises is deemed habitable. The bill would prohibit issuing or renewing a homeowners' insurance policy without offering extended additional living expenses coverage in an amount of no less than 50% of coverage above the underlying policy limits for additional living expenses. (5) Existing law requires a residential property insurer to provide a written status report to the insured if the insurer assigns a 3rd or subsequent first-party claims adjuster within a 6-month period for a claim arising as a result of a state of emergency. Existing law prescribes the standard form for fire insurance policies covering property and requires the form to include specified statements regarding this status report. Under existing law, it is a misdemeanor to issue or countersign a fire policy that varies from the standard form fire insurance policy. This bill would require an insurer to assign a primary point of contact within 30 calendar days from the date the notice of claim is provided to the insurer to be primarily responsible for a claim that involves one or more coverages under a policy of residential property insurance and is for a loss relating to a state of emergency, and would require an insurer to provide a written report within 15 calendar days of the assignment of a subsequent point of contact. The bill would make conforming changes to the standard form for fire insurance, thus expanding the scope of an existing crime and imposing a state-mandated local program. (6) Existing law prescribes the standard form of the California Residential Insurance Disclosure, which sets forth a description of certain types of insurance coverage. Existing law requires a residential property insurance policy to include specified information about coverage on its declarations page. Existing law requires the disclosure and declarations page to explain that building code upgrade coverage covers additional costs to comply with building codes and zoning laws in effect at the time of loss or rebuilding. This bill would instead require the above-described disclosure and declarations page to explain that building code upgrade coverage covers additional costs to comply with building codes and zoning laws in effect at the time of rebuilding and required for rebuilding. (7) Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and prescribes the commissioner's powers and duties. Existing law requires an admitted insurer to submit various reports and documents to the commissioner or department upon request or at specified intervals and authorizes the commissioner to conduct an examination of an insurer at the commissioner's discretion. This bill would require a residential property insurer to submit a detailed disaster response plan to the department before April 1, 2028, and would require the plan to be updated every 2 years or upon the commissioner's request. The bill would also require a residential property insurer to report to the commissioner the losses, claims, and estimate of total incurred losses no later than 30 calendar days from the date a state of emergency was declared if there is a related covered loss. The bill would make information submitted pursuant to these provisions confidential. (8) Existing law defines certain actions as unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance. Under existing law, a person who engages in an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice is liable to the state for a civil penalty to be fixed by the commissioner, not to exceed $5,000 for each act, or, if the act or practice was willful, a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each act. Existing law authorizes the commissioner to order a respondent to provide restitution for a loss arising from the respondent's conduct, but exempts specified surplus line brokers, production agencies, and administrators from those restitution orders. This bill would additionally make a person who engages in an unfair method of competition or an unfair or deceptive act or practice relating to a state of emergency liable to the state for a civil penalty to be fixed by the commissioner, not to exceed $10,000 for each act, or, if the act or practice was willful, a civil penalty not to exceed $20,000 for each act. The bill would authorize the commissioner to order a person who engages in an unfair claims settlement practice to provide restitution, as specified. The bill would eliminate the restitution order exemption for surplus line brokers, production agencies, and administrators. (9) Existing law requires an admitted insurer with written California premiums totaling $10,000,000 or more to submit a report with specified fire risk information on its residential property policies to the commissioner on or before April 1, 2020, and every 2 years thereafter. This bill would instead require an admitted insurer with written California premiums totaling $20,000,000 or more to submit a report on or before April 1, 2028, and every 2 years thereafter, on its residential property experience data for the previous 3 years for policies written in California, reported by individual policy. (10) This bill would make its provisions operative on January 1, 2028. (11) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. (12) 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.
Wildfires.
Health care coverage: small employer groups.
Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education. This bill would require the commission, during the next revision of the publication "Health Framework for California Public Schools," to consider including, and recommending for adoption by the state board, specific content related to the prevention of, and recognizing and responding to the signs and symptoms of, heat illness, as described, and, for those purposes, to consider relevant guidance issued by the State Department of Public Health and policies adopted by the California Interscholastic Federation, as specified.
Existing law, the Joint Exercise of Powers Act, authorizes 2 or more public agencies, by agreement, to form a joint powers authority to exercise any power common to the contracting parties, as specified. Existing law, for the purposes of that act, defines the term "public agency" to include various federal, state, local, and tribal entities. Existing law requires approval by the Department of General Services of certain joint powers agreements that include the state as a member, as provided. Existing law authorizes a joint powers authority to issue revenue bonds to pay the costs and expenses of acquiring, constructing, or conducting a program for, among other things, low-income housing projects owned or operated by a city, county, city and county, or housing authority. Existing law provides that the Treasurer and the Secretary of State are designated as elected representatives for federal tax purposes of a joint powers agency created to approve or certify the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the joint powers agency to the extent approval is required by federal tax law. This bill would, instead, provide that the Treasurer is designated as an applicable elected representative of a joint powers authority and may, at the discretion of the joint powers authority, approve the issuance of bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the joint powers agency to the extent approval is required by federal tax law, as specified. The bill would additionally authorize the Treasurer to execute an agreement including the state as a member of a joint powers authority without obtaining approval from the Department of General Services and would authorize the Treasurer to provide any approval, consent, or other action related to the issuance of bonds, including, but not limited to, approvals required by federal tax law. Existing law additionally authorizes, subject to specified limitations, any city or county to issue revenue bonds for the purpose of financing the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, refinancing, or development of multifamily rental housing and for the provision of capital improvements in connection with, and determined necessary to, that multifamily rental housing. This bill would specify that, for the purposes of the above-described provisions, "city," "county," and "city and county" are deemed to include the state when the state is a member of a joint powers authority, and would specify that the Treasurer provides the applicable approval, consent, or other action with respect to the issuance of bonds. The bill would declare that its provisions are declaratory of existing law. Existing law provides that the State of California will not change the composition of a joint powers authority that has issued bonds, unless the change is authorized by a majority vote of applicable legislative bodies, as provided. Existing law defines "change in composition" to include, among others, the addition of a public agency, as defined, to a joint powers authority. This bill would, notwithstanding the above-described definition, provide that the state becoming a member of an existing joint powers authority shall not, in and of itself, constitute a "change in composition." The bill would make additional nonsubstantive and conforming changes. Existing law, the Subdivision Map Act, provides for the approval of tentative and final parcel maps by various local officials, as specified. The act authorizes an appeal of the local official's decision to the local legislative body, as provided. This bill would create an exception from the above-described authority as it applies to appeals by an interested person for maps that meet specified criteria, as provided. The bill would exempt from these provisions an appeal filed by an applicant, subdivider, tenant, advisory agency, or public agency or official, as specified. 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.
Housing element: inventory of land: substantial compliance: rebuttable presumptions.
Health information technology.
Abortion services.