, 2024
Golden State Republican Women
Janet Price, President
Submitted by the GSRW Legislative Analyst Committee
Valerie Evans, Lou Ann Flaherty, Elaine Freeman, and Valerie Emick
A VARIETY OF BILLS INTRODUCED AND SCHEDULED FOR HEARINGS
SB 1087, as introduced, Grove. Oil imports: air quality emissions data.
Existing law, the Petroleum Industry Information Reporting Act of 1980, requires refiners, as defined, to report monthly to the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission), for each of their refineries, specified information, including the origin of petroleum receipts and the source of imports of finished petroleum products.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature that the Energy Commission monitor foreign countries that export oil to California and identify on its internet website which of those countries have demonstrated human rights abuses, as documented by the United States Department of State, and which of those countries have lower environmental standards for the production of oil than California.
Existing law imposes various limitations on the emissions of air contaminants for the control of air pollution from vehicular and nonvehicular sources. Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to post on its internet website information on air quality conditions and trends statewide and to develop and conduct a program of monitoring airborne fine particles smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM 2.5).
This bill would require the state board to annually produce an assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the transportation of oil in California, as specified, and to include that assessment on the board’s internet website.
Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:00 am in 1021 O Street, Room 1200
SB 1283, as introduced, Stern. Pupils: use of smartphones and social media.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or its designee to regulate the possession or use of any electronic signaling device that operates through the transmission or receipt of radio waves, including, but not limited to, paging and signaling equipment, by pupils of the school district while the pupils are on campus, attending school-sponsored activities, or under the supervision or control of school district employees.
Existing law explicitly 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.
This will would expand that explicit authority to also cover the use by pupils of social media while the pupils are at a school site 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.
Hearing: Mar 20 @ 9:00 am in 1021 O Street, Room 2100
AB 2216, as introduced, Haney. Tenancy: common household pets.
Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential tenancies. Existing law prohibits a landlord from, among other things, preventing a tenant from posting or displaying political signs, subject to specified exceptions.
Existing law, for purposes of specified housing development provisions, defines a common household pet as a domesticated animal, including a dog or cat, that is commonly kept in the home for pleasure rather than for commercial purposes.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to a landlord’s ability to prohibit common household pets in residential tenancies.
SB 1361, as introduced, Blakespear. California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: local agencies: contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness.
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.
CEQA exempts for its requirements, among other things, actions taken by the Department of Housing and Community Development, the California Housing Finance Agency, or a local agency not acting as the lead agency to provide financial assistance or insurance for the development and construction of residential housing for persons and families of low or moderate income, as provided.
This bill would additionally exempt from CEQA’s requirements actions taken by a local agency to approve a contract for providing services for people experiencing homelessness.
Hearing: Apr 3 @ 9:00 am in 1021 O Street, Room 1200
CLIMATE CHANGE RELATED BILL:
AB 3142, introduced by Assembly Member Jones-Sawyer, February 16, 2024.
Los Angeles Community College District: California Mobile Climate Change Education Center.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state and authorizes them to provide instruction to students at community college campuses. One of these districts is the Los Angeles Community College District.
This bill would establish the California Mobile Climate Change Education Center, as part of the Los Angeles Community College District, to be located at West Los Angeles College, with a mission to create opportunities for students to engage in hands-on internships and other learning opportunities, as provided. The bill would appropriate $1,500,000 from the General Fund to the district for the development and initial operations of the Mobile Center.
This bill would, on or before January 1, 2028, require the district to prepare and submit to the Assembly Committee on Higher Education, the Senate Committee on Education, and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges a summary report that includes an evaluation of the Mobile Center, as provided.
To the extent the bill would impose additional obligations on the Los Angeles Community College District, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
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