May 16, 2024
Golden State Republican Women
Janet Price, President
Submitted by the GSRW Legislative Analyst Committee
Valerie Evans, Lou Ann Flaherty and Elaine Freeman,
AB 2648, as amended, Bennett (Democrat, AD38). Environmentally preferable purchasing: single-use plastic bottles.
Existing law generally governs the state procurement of materials, supplies, equipment, and services. Existing law also provides various procedures and requirements pertaining to the purchase of recycled items by the state, including minimum content requirements for recycled plastic products.
This bill would, with certain exceptions, prohibit state agencies from entering into, modifying, amending, or renewing a contract, on or after January 1, 2025, to purchase single-use plastic bottles, as defined, for internal use or resale and would require state agencies to take appropriate steps to replace the use of single-use plastic bottles at food service facilities with nonplastic recyclable, and reusable alternatives, as specified.
The bill would require the Department of General Services to ensure that any new, modified, or renewed agreements, contracts, or procurement undertaken by a food service facility as part of a contract or agreement with the Department of General Services comply with the bill, as specified.
The bill would require state agencies to submit a report, on or before January 1, 2026, to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, confirming its compliance with these requirements. The bill would define a state agency for these purposes to include various agencies, including the California State University, and would request that the University of California comply with its provisions.
Hearing: May 16 in 1021 O Street, Room 1100
SB 1272 – (Senator Laird) Gift Certificates
Existing law prohibits the sale of any gift certificate as defined, that contains an expiration date or service fee, except as specified. Existing law provides that any gift certificate sold after 1/1/97, is redeemable in cash or subject to replacement with a new gift certificate. Existing law makes any gift certificate with a cash value of less than $10 redeemable in cash for redeemable in cash for its cash value.
This bill would instead make any certificate with a cash value of less than or equal to an unspecified dollar amount $25, as adjusted for inflation, redeemable in cash for its cash value.
SB 1228 (Padilla) User Identity Authentication –
Existing law generally regulates online platforms, including by requiring a social media company, as defined, to post terms of service for each social media platform owned or operated by the social media company in a manner reasonably designed to inform all users of the social media platform of the existence and contents of the terms of service.
This bill will require social media platform, as defined, to seek to verify the name, telephone number, and email address of an influential user, by a means chosen by the social media platform and would require the social media platform to seek to verify the identity of a highly influential user by asking to review the highly influential user’s government issued identification.
The bill would require social media platform to note on the profile page of an influential or highly influential user, in type at least as large and as visible as the user’s name, whether the user has been authenticated pursuant to those provisions and would require the platform to attach to any post of an influential or highly influential user a notation that would be understood by a reasonable person as indicating that the user is authenticated or unauthenticated as prescribed. This bill would authorize the Attorney General or any district attorney or city attorney to seek injunctive or other equitable relief against a social media platform to compel compliance with the bill.
Hearing: May 13 @ 10:00 am in 1021 O Street, Room 2200
PUPIL AND SCHOOL BILLS
AB 1821, as amended, Ramos. Pupil instruction: course of study: social sciences: treatment of Native Americans.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, English, mathematics, social sciences, science, and visual and performing arts, as specified.
Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is next revised, on or after January 1, 2024, to consider providing for inclusion, in that curriculum framework, related evaluation criteria, and accompanying instructional materials, of instruction, among other things, the historical, social, economic, and political contributions of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in the United States.
This bill, with respect to the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, for social sciences, would additionally require instruction that provides a foundation for understanding the Spanish colonization of California and the Gold Rush Era, including the treatment and perspectives of Native Americans during those periods. The bill, with respect to the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, for social sciences, would require, to the extent instruction is provided on the Spanish colonization of California or the Gold Rush Era, instruction that provides a foundation for understanding the treatment and perspectives of Native Americans during those periods.
The bill would require the commission, when the State Board of Education next revises the history-social science curriculum framework or adopts new instructional materials, on or after January 1, 2025, to consider including content on the treatment and perspectives of Native Americans during those periods in that curriculum framework or evaluation criteria for instructional materials. To the extent that this bill would create new duties for local educational agencies or local officials, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.
Hearing: May 29 @ 9:00 am in 1021 O Street, Room 2100
AB 2999 (Schlavo) Pupil instruction: homework policy –
Existing law grants pupils, parents, and guardians certain rights regarding the delivery of educational services, including, among others, rights regarding primary supplemental instruction materials. Existing law provides that none of these rights shall be construed as restricting teachers in the assignment of homework.
This bill will require each school district, county office of education, and charter school, by the start of the 2027-28 school year, to develop and adopt, across at least 2 public meetings, a homework policy for all grades maintained by the local educational agency, as specified.
The bill would among other things, require the adopted homework policy to be annually distributed at the beginning of the school year to all certificated staff and administrators, to all pupils and parents or legal guardians, as specified, and by publication on the local educational agency’s internet website and on the internet websites of the individual schools operated by the local educational agency’s internet website and on the internet websites of the individual schools operated by the local educational agency.
The bill would require the adopted policy to be updated at least once every 5 years. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill also would require the State Department of Education by January 1, 2026, to develop and post on the internet website, guidelines for local educational agencies to use in developing the homework policy.
Hearing: May 15 @ 9:30 am in 1021 O Street, Room 1100
AB 1871, as amended, Alanis. Adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12: social sciences: personal financial literacy.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, social sciences, drawing upon the disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology, designed to fit the maturity of the pupils. Existing law requires social science instruction to include, among other things, instruction that provides a foundation for understanding the development of the American economic system, including the role of the entrepreneur and labor.
This bill, with respect to the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, would require the social sciences area of study to also include instruction on personal financial literacy, as provided. By imposing additional duties on school officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Hearing: May 29 @ 9:00 am in 1021 O Street, Room 2100
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