Cal. EDC § 37613 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 22 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 37613
Section 37613
Status: in_force

An election ordered or requested to be held pursuant to Section 37612 may be consolidated with the next districtwide election held 80 or more days after the order or request for an election is made or the county superintendent of schools may order a special election to be held at least 80 days after the election is ordered or requested.
Cal. EDC § 42127.4 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24 / Chapter 6 / Article 2 / Section 42127.4
Section 42127.4
Status: in_force

Until a school district receives approval of its budget under this article, the school district shall continue to operate on the basis of whichever of the following budgets contains a lower total spending authority:

(a) The last budget adopted or revised by the governing board of the school district for the prior fiscal year.

(b) The unapproved budget for the current fiscal year, as adopted and revised by the governing board of the school district.
Cal. EDC § 60605.8 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 33 / Chapter 5 / Article 2 / Section 60605.8
Section 60605.8
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby established the Academic Content Standards Commission. The commission shall consist of 21 members, appointed as follows:

(1) Eleven members appointed by the Governor.

(2) Five members appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.

(3) Five members appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.

(b) Members of the commission shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority.

(c) Not less than half of the members appointed by each of the appointing authorities pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be current public school elementary or secondary classroom teachers.

(d) The commission shall develop academic content standards in language arts and mathematics. The standards shall be internationally benchmarked and build toward college and career readiness by the time of high school graduation. Unless otherwise allowed by the Secretary of the United States Department of Education, at least 85 percent of these standards shall be the common core academic standards developed by the consortium or interstate collaboration set forth in Section 60605.7.

(e) Pursuant to the Bagley-Keene Act, Article 9 (commencing with Sec. 11120) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, all meetings and hearings of the commission shall be open and available to the public.

(f) On or before July 15, 2010, the commission shall present its recommended academic content standards to the state board.

(g) On or before August 2, 2010, the state board shall do either of the following:

(1) Adopt the academic content standards as proposed by the commission.

(2) Reject the academic content standards as proposed by the commission. If the state board rejects the standards it shall provide a specific written explanation to the Superintendent, the Governor, and the Legislature of the reasons why the proposed standards were rejected.

(h) The Superintendent and state board shall present to the Governor and to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature a schedule and implementation plan for integrating the academic content standards adopted pursuant to this section into the state educational system.
Cal. GOV § 16583 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 4.3 / Section 16583
Section 16583
Status: in_force

(a) Each participant shall allocate collection resources based on giving highest priority to those accounts with the highest expected return.

(b) Each participant shall consult with the Franchise Tax Board or any other state agency that has successfully established an effective accounts receivable collection system.
Cal. GOV § 9353.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 2 / Section 9353.5
Section 9353.5
Status: in_force

Each member of this system shall file with the board any information affecting his or her status as a member as the board may require.
Cal. GOV § 18900.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 18900.5
Section 18900.5
Status: in_force

For purposes of this part, “designated appointing power” means an appointing power designated by the department under Section 18930.5.
Cal. EDC § 44283 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 44283
Section 44283
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature hereby recognizes that teacher competence in reading instruction is essential to the progress and achievement of pupils learning to read in elementary and secondary schools. It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission develop a reading instruction competence assessment to measure the knowledge, skill, and ability of first-time credential applicants who are not credentialed in any state who will be responsible for reading instruction.

(b) The commission shall develop, adopt, and administer a reading instruction competence assessment consisting of one or more instruments to measure an individual’s knowledge, skill, and ability relative to effective reading instruction. The reading instruction competence assessment shall measure the knowledge, skill, and ability of first-time credential applicants who are not credentialed in any state that the commission determines to be essential to reading instruction and shall be consistent with the state’s reading curriculum framework adopted after July 1, 1996, and the Reading Program Advisory published by the department in 1996. The commission shall perform the following duties with respect to the reading instruction competence assessment:

(1) (A) Develop, adopt, and administer the assessment.

(B) The commission may also adopt an off-the-shelf assessment if it meets the requirements of this section.

(2) Initially and periodically analyze the validity and reliability of the content of the assessment.

(3) Establish and implement appropriate passing scores on the assessment.

(4) Analyze possible sources of bias on the assessment.

(5) Collect and analyze background information provided by first-time credential applicants who are not credentialed in any state who participate in the assessment.

(6) Report and interpret individual and aggregated assessment results.

(7) Convene a task force to advise the commission on the design, content, and administration of the assessment. Not less than one-third of the members of the task force shall be classroom teachers with recent experience in teaching reading in the early elementary grades.

(8) Before requiring successful passage of the assessment for the preliminary multiple subject teaching credential, certify that all of the teacher education programs approved by the commission pursuant to Section 44227 offer instruction in the knowledge, skills, and abilities required by the assessment.

(c) Until the commission ensures that an approved teaching performance assessment for a preliminary multiple subject credential, as required by Section 44320.2, and a preliminary education specialist credential assesses candidates for competence in instruction in literacy as specified in Section 44320.3, the requirements for issuance of the preliminary multiple subject teaching credential, as set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 44259, or the preliminary education specialist credential shall include successful passage of one of the following components of the reading instruction competence assessment:

(1) A comprehensive examination of the knowledge and skill pertaining to effective reading instruction of the credential applicant.

(2) An authentic assessment of teaching skills and classroom abilities of the credential applicant pertaining to the provision of effective reading instruction.

(3) A combination of paragraphs (1) and (2), as approved by the commission.

(d) The reading instruction competence assessment is subject to the provisions of Sections 44235.1 and 44298.

(e) Credential candidates who have completed all program requirements, including passage of a teaching performance assessment, or preliminary credentialholders that are required to pass the reading instruction competence assessment in order to earn the clear credential, may have until October 31, 2025, to take and pass the reading instruction competence assessment.
Cal. CIV § 1805.8 — California Code / Code civ / Division 3 / Part 4 / Title 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 1805.8
Section 1805.8
Status: in_force

The maximum rate of finance charge which may be imposed on amounts advanced by the holder subsequent to the execution of the contract for insurance, repairs to or preservation of the goods, or preservation of the holder’s security interest therein, shall not exceed the annual percentage rate disclosed pursuant to item (b) of Section 1803.3.
Cal. EDC § 48901.8 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 6 / Article 1 / Section 48901.8
Section 48901.8
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school may adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of social media 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.

(2) This section does not authorize monitoring, collecting, or otherwise accessing any information related to a pupil’s online activities.

(b) For purposes of this section, “social media” means a “social media platform” as that term is defined in Section 22675 of the Business and Professions Code.
Cal. GOV § 21297 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 13 / Article 2 / Section 21297
Section 21297
Status: in_force

For a nonmember, “final compensation” means the highest average annual compensation earnable by the member during the three consecutive years, or one year where applicable, prior to the date of dissolution of marriage or legal separation. The nonmember may designate an earlier period to be used where the time period of the nonmember’s marriage to the member and membership correspond.
Cal. GOV § 22960.80 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 7 / Chapter 10 / Section 22960.80
Section 22960.80
Status: in_force

The participant may designate any person or persons as beneficiaries to receive any amount that may be payable upon the death of the participant pursuant to the provisions of Section 22960.88. The beneficiary or beneficiaries shall be designated on a form prescribed by the board, signed by the participant, and delivered to a plan representative prior to the participant’s death.
Cal. EDC § 51220.5 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 28 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 51220.5
Section 51220.5
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:

(1) The family is our most fundamental social institution and the means by which we care for, prepare, and train our children to be productive members of society.

(2) Social research shows increasingly that the disintegration of the family is a major cause of increased welfare enrollment, child abuse and neglect, juvenile delinquency, and criminal activity.

(3) The lack of knowledge of parenting skills and the lack of adequate preparation to assume parental responsibilities are not only major causes of family disintegration, but also contribute substantially to the disastrous consequences of teen pregnancy.

(4) Because the state government bears much of the economic and social burden associated with the disintegration of the family in California, the state has a legitimate and vital interest in adequately preparing its residents for parenthood.

(b) The Legislature recognizes that the public education system is the most efficient and effective means to educate the populace on a large-scale basis, and intends, therefore, to use the public education system to ensure that each California resident has an opportunity to acquire knowledge of parenting skills prior to becoming a parent. That knowledge should include, at a bare minimum, all of the following:

(1) Child development and growth.

(2) Effective parenting.

(3) Prevention of child abuse.

(4) Nutrition.

(5) Household finances and budgeting.

(6) Personal and family interaction and relations.

(7) Methods to promote self-esteem.

(8) Effective decisionmaking skills.

(9) Family and individual health.

(c) Commencing with the 1995–96 fiscal year, the adopted course of study for grade 7 or 8 shall include the equivalent content of a one-semester course in parenting skills and education. All pupils entering grade 7 on or after July 1, 1995, shall be offered that course or its equivalent content during grade 7 or 8, or both. On or before January 1, 1995, the State Department of Education shall supply, to each school district that includes a grade 7 or 8, a sample curriculum suitable either for implementation as a stand-alone one-semester course or for incorporation within identified existing required or optional courses, with content designed to develop a knowledge of topics including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Child growth and development.

(2) Parental responsibilities.

(3) Household budgeting.

(4) Child abuse and neglect issues.

(5) Personal hygiene.

(6) Maintaining healthy relationships.

(7) Teen parenting issues.

(8) Self-esteem.

A district that implements the curriculum set forth in this subdivision in a stand-alone required course may exempt a pupil from the course if the pupil requests the exemption and satisfactorily demonstrates mastery of the course content. The district shall determine the method by which a pupil may demonstrate this mastery.

(d) Commencing with the 1993–94 fiscal year, community college districts may offer, to interested individuals, noncredit fee-supported courses in parenting skills and education as described in subdivision (c).

(e) This section is not intended to replace existing courses that accomplish the intent of this section. School districts may meet the requirements of this section with existing courses of study offered in any of grades 6 to 9, inclusive, that includes the course contents identified in subdivision (c). When the parenting skills and education curriculum is incorporated within courses other than consumer and home economics courses, these courses are not subject to the curricular standards specified in Section 2 of Chapter 775 of the Statutes of 1989 or in the consumer and home economics education model performance standards and framework. Teachers of courses other than consumer and home economics that incorporate parenting skills and education are not required to meet the qualifications specified for teachers of consumer and home economics.

(f) This section shall become operative only if a funding source is identified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the purposes of this section on or before January 1, 1995.

(g) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall identify the funding source for this section from existing resources or private resources, or both, that may be available for the purposes of this section. The superintendent shall notify school districts when sufficient funds have been identified and are allocated to cover all costs relating to the operation of this section.
Cal. GOV § 10206 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 10206
Section 10206
Status: in_force

The permanent office of the Legislative Counsel shall be in the State Capitol in Sacramento, where he or she shall be provided with suitable and sufficient offices convenient to the chambers of the Senate and Assembly. For the convenience of Members of the Legislature, and when in his or her judgment the conduct of his or her work requires, he or she may maintain temporary offices at other places in the state.
Cal. CORP § 16802 — California Code / Code corp / Title 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 8 / Section 16802
Section 16802
Status: in_force

(a) Subject to subdivision (b), a partnership continues after dissolution only for the purpose of winding up its business. The partnership is terminated when the winding up of its business is completed.

(b) At any time after the dissolution of a partnership and before the winding up of its business is completed, all of the partners, including any dissociating partner other than a wrongfully dissociating partner, may waive the right to have the partnership’s business wound up and the partnership terminated. In that event both of the following apply:

(1) The partnership resumes carrying on its business as if dissolution had never occurred, and any liability incurred by the partnership or a partner after the dissolution and before the waiver is determined as if dissolution had never occurred.

(2) The rights of a third party accruing under paragraph (1) of Section 16804 or arising out of conduct in reliance on the dissolution before the third party knew or received a notification of the waiver may not be adversely affected.
Cal. GOV § 19995.2 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2.6 / Chapter 6 / Section 19995.2
Section 19995.2
Status: in_force

(a) To such extent as practicable and within available resources for this purpose, the appointing power shall arrange for such counseling and training of employees as may be reasonably needed to prepare them for placement in other state civil service positions when their positions have been or are about to be changed substantially or eliminated by automation, technological changes, or other management-initiated changes and the department shall devise plans for and cooperate with appointing powers and other supervising officials in the administration of counseling, training, and placement programs for employees so affected.

(b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Section 3517.5, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without further legislative action, except that if such provisions of a memorandum of understanding require the expenditure of funds, the provisions shall not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
Cal. CIV § 817.4 — California Code / Code civ / Division 2 / Part 2 / Title 2 / Chapter 5 / Section 817.4
Section 817.4
Status: in_force

(a) In any action instituted on or after January 1, 2010, against a board of directors and its members based upon a breach of corporate or fiduciary duties or a failure to comply with the requirements of this chapter, a prevailing plaintiff may recover reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.

(b) If an organization formed under this chapter uses public funds, it shall not use any corporate funds to avoid compliance with this chapter or to pursue dissolution if the intent or outcome is for some or all of the members to receive any payment in excess of the transfer value to which he or she is entitled pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 817.
Cal. GOV § 11470.50 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 4.5 / Article 15 / Section 11470.50
Section 11470.50
Status: in_force

An agency may adopt regulations to govern the conversion of one type of proceeding to another. The regulations may include an enumeration of the factors to be considered in determining whether and under what circumstances one type of proceeding will be converted to another.
Cal. GOV § 9359.11 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 6 / Section 9359.11
Section 9359.11
Status: in_force

Any contrary provisions of Section 9359.1 notwithstanding, in computing the retirement allowance of a legislator member of the Legislators’ Retirement System whose service as a legislator ended prior to the term commencing in 1967, the salary to which the applicable formula shall be applied shall be five hundred dollars ($500) per month, and any increase in salary of legislators above such amount shall be disregarded for such purpose.
Cal. GOV § 12480 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 12480
Section 12480
Status: in_force

Officers and employees of the state may authorize the direct deposit by electronic fund transfer of their salary or wages, after any withholding required by law and authorized deductions, into an account at the financial institution of their choice under a program for direct deposit by electronic transfer established pursuant to Section 12481. The direct deposit shall discharge the obligation of the Controller with respect to the drawing and issuance of warrants for the salaries or wages of the state officers and employees authorizing the direct deposit.
Cal. EDC § 41207.6 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24 / Chapter 2 / Section 41207.6
Section 41207.6
Status: in_force

If the Superintendent and the Director of Finance jointly determine that, for the 2011–12 fiscal year, the state has applied moneys for the support of school districts and community college districts in an amount that exceeds the minimum amount required for the 2011–12 fiscal year pursuant to Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the excess, up to six hundred seventy-one million eight hundred thirty thousand dollars ($671,830,000), shall be deemed, as of June 30, 2012, a payment of the fiscal settlement agreed to by the parties in California Teachers Association, et al. v. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Case Number 05CS01165 of the Superior Court for the County of Sacramento) and Chapter 213 of the Statutes of 2004 for the 2004–05 and 2005–06 fiscal years, as determined in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 41207.1.
Cal. GOV § 17530 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 7 / Chapter 3 / Section 17530
Section 17530
Status: in_force

The commission shall appoint an executive director, who shall be exempt from civil service and shall hold office at the pleasure of the commission. The executive director shall be responsible for the executive and administrative duties of the commission and shall organize, coordinate, supervise, and direct the operations and affairs of the commission and expedite all matters within the jurisdiction of the commission. The executive director shall keep a full and true record of all proceedings of the commission, issue all necessary process, writs, warrants, and notices, and perform other duties as the commission prescribes.
Cal. GOV § 15820.70 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 10b / Chapter 3.9 / Article 1 / Section 15820.70
Section 15820.70
Status: in_force

The Legislature finds and declares that California’s public colleges and universities, recognized as being among the world’s finest, require assistance in reducing their operating costs or increasing their income, or both. To this end the Legislature finds that it is in the public interest to construct, renovate, and equip facilities or acquire equipment, or both, that may be leased or lease-purchased by the University of California, the California State University, the California Maritime Academy, and the community college districts with the specific purpose of reducing the operating costs or increasing the income, or both, of these institutions and, and through the use of the savings in the support budgets of these postsecondary institutions or an increase in the income of these postsecondary institutions or through the use of a combination of savings and an increase in the income of these postsecondary institutions, to amortize the investment of the State Public Works Board over a reasonable period of time.

It is the intent of the Legislature that the savings in operating costs or increase in income, or both, from these improvements financed by the State Public Works Board be available to the colleges and universities for the purpose of making the lease or lease-purchase payments to the State Public Works Board. In addition, it is the intent of the Legislature that upon completion of the obligations to the State Public Works Board, the college and universities use the remaining savings, if any remain, for further improvements in these institutions.

It is also the intent of the Legislature that the cost of any construction, renovation, or acquisition authorized by statute pursuant to this chapter shall be considered an expenditure of state or community college district funds in the fiscal year in which payments are made to the State Public Works Board under the terms of the lease or lease-purchase agreement.
Cal. GOV § 19783 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 11 / Article 4 / Section 19783
Section 19783
Status: in_force

A permanent, probationary, or exempt employee who resigns from state service for the purpose of entering the recognized military service and begins active duty and returns to state service within the same time limits and conditions as provided in Section 19780 shall be reinstated to his or her former position. The employee shall not receive the rights and benefits provided under Sections 19775, 19775.1, and 19775.3.
Cal. EDC § 39800.1 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 23.5 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 39800.1
Section 39800.1
Status: in_force

(a) As a condition of receiving apportionments under Section 41850.1, a local educational agency shall develop a plan describing the transportation services it will offer to its pupils, and how it will prioritize planned transportation services for pupils in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, and any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and pupils who are low income. The plan shall be adopted by the local educational agency’s governing board on or before April 1, 2023, and updated by April 1 each year thereafter. The plan shall include the following components:

(1) A description of the local educational agency’s transportation services that would be accessible to pupils with disabilities and homeless children and youth, as defined pursuant to the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 11301 et seq.).

(2) A description of how unduplicated pupils, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 42238.02, would be able to access available home-to-school transportation at no cost to the pupils.

(b) (1) The plan shall be developed in consultation with classified staff, teachers, school administrators, regional local transit authorities, local air pollution control districts and air quality management districts, parents, pupils, and other stakeholders.

(2) The plan shall be presented and adopted by the governing board of the local educational agency in an open meeting with the opportunity for in-person and remote public comment.

(c) The plan may provide for the local educational agency to partner with a municipally owned transit system to provide service pursuant to this section to middle school and high school pupils.

(d) Nothing in a local educational agency’s plan shall preclude a local educational agency from providing no-cost transit passes to pupils.

(e)  For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, excluding a school district with a districtwide charter petition approved pursuant to Section 47606, or a county office of education.
Cal. EDC § 42843 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24 / Chapter 10 / Article 5 / Section 42843
Section 42843
Status: in_force

Any moneys remaining in the special reserve fund of the district shall be transferred to the general fund of the district by the auditor and treasurer upon written request to the superintendent of schools, auditor, and treasurer of the county by the governing board of the district, and the auditor and treasurer shall discontinue the special reserve fund.
Cal. EDC § 44232 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 44232
Section 44232
Status: in_force

The commission may enter into contracts with comparable agencies in other states in order to facilitate the relocation of qualified teachers from one state to another and to expedite other matters related to ascertaining qualifications of credentialed teachers and other educators.
Cal. EDC § 49417 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 49417
Section 49417
Status: in_force

(a) A public school may solicit and receive nonstate funds to acquire and maintain an automated external defibrillator (AED). These funds shall only be used to acquire and maintain an AED and to provide training to school employees regarding use of an AED.

(b) Except as provided in subdivision (d), if an employee of a school district complies with Section 1714.21 of the Civil Code in rendering emergency care or treatment through the use, attempted use, or nonuse of an AED at the scene of an emergency, the employee shall not be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of the emergency care or treatment.

(c) Except as provided in subdivision (d), if a public school or school district complies with the requirements of Section 1797.196 of the Health and Safety Code, the public school or school district shall be covered by Section 1714.21 of the Civil Code and shall not be liable for any civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of the emergency care or treatment.

(d) Subdivisions (b) and (c) do not apply in the case of personal injury or wrongful death that results from gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct on the part of the person who uses, attempts to use, or maliciously fails to use an AED to render emergency care or treatment.

(e) This section does not alter the requirements of Section 1797.196 of the Health and Safety Code.
Cal. GOV § 10242.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 10242.5
Section 10242.5
Status: in_force

(a) The Legislative Counsel shall annually prepare, publish, and maintain an electronic list of all reports that state and local agencies are required or requested by law to prepare and file with the Governor or the Legislature, or both, in the future or within the preceding year. The list shall include all of the following information:

(1) The name of the agency that is required or requested to prepare and file the report.

(2) A brief description of the subject of the report.

(3) The date on which the report is to be completed and filed.

(4) The date on which the report was filed with the Legislative Counsel.

(b) The Legislative Counsel shall make the list of reports available to the public on an internet website and shall annually provide to each Member of the Legislature a hyperlink to the internet website whereby the list can be accessed.

(c) (1) Each state and local agency that is required or requested by law to prepare a report described in subdivision (a) shall file an electronic copy of the report with the Legislative Counsel. If the report is posted on an internet website, the agency filing the electronic copy shall provide to the Legislative Counsel a hyperlink whereby the report may be accessed.

(2) The Legislative Counsel shall include, on the internet website it maintains for purposes of this section, any hyperlinks provided by state and local agencies pursuant to paragraph (1).

(d) As used in this section:

(1) “Agency” includes any city, county, special district, department, board, bureau, or commission, including any task force or other similar body that is created by statute or resolution. “Agency” does not include the University of California.

(2) “Report” includes any study or audit.

(e) The Legislative Counsel shall update the list required by subdivision (a) by removing duplicate reports from the list. The Legislative Counsel shall also remove reports from the list as directed by Section 4 of Chapter 7 of the Statutes of 2010, or a subsequent statute that further requires the Legislative Counsel to remove reports included in the list.
Cal. GOV § 22960.21 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 7 / Chapter 2 / Section 22960.21
Section 22960.21
Status: in_force

“Fund” means the State Peace Officers’ and Firefighters’ defined Contribution Plan Fund.
Cal. GOV § 9360 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 6 / Section 9360
Section 9360
Status: in_force

No payment shall be made to persons included in any group if at the date of payment there are living persons in any of the groups preceding it, as listed. Payment to the persons in any group, upon receipt from them of an affidavit upon a form supplied by the board, that there are no living individuals in the groups preceding it and that the estate of the deceased will not be probated, is in full discharge of the board and system on account of the death.
Cal. EDC § 48220 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 48220
Section 48220
Status: in_force

The classes of children described in this article, shall be exempted by the proper school authorities from the requirements of attendance upon a public full-time day school.
Cal. EDC § 48245 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 48245
Section 48245
Status: in_force

In any district or districts with an average daily attendance of 1,000 or more school children, according to the annual school report of the last preceding school year, no district supervisor of attendance shall be appointed, unless he has been lawfully certificated for the work by the county board of education.
Cal. CIV § 799.71 — California Code / Code civ / Division 2 / Part 2 / Title 2 / Chapter 2.6 / Article 5 / Section 799.71
Section 799.71
Status: in_force

Evictions pursuant to this article shall be subject to the requirements set forth in Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1159) of Title 3 of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure, except as otherwise provided in this article.
Cal. EDC § 33133 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 20 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 33133
Section 33133
Status: in_force

(a) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall develop information, and submit this information to the State Board of Education for its approval. This information shall be for distribution to school districts and, to the extent feasible, for posting on the State Department of Education internet website, to strengthen and promote the opportunity for quality involvement by parents and guardians in schoolsite councils whose composition meets the requirements of Section 52012. In developing the information, the Superintendent of Public Instruction may use documents currently available from nonprofit organizations, such as EdSource and the California Parent Teacher Association, or state and local government agencies.

(b) The information shall be provided to each school district and county office of education and may be made available for parents and guardians who are members of schoolsite councils whose composition meets the requirements of Section 52012 and shall cover at least the following topics:

(1) Operation of schoolsite advisory bodies, including bylaws, group responsibilities, and roles.

(2) Public meeting notice requirements.

(3) Information about the total budget of a school district and how funds are distributed to schoolsite advisory bodies, including, but not limited to, the amount of funds distributed to schoolsites.

(4) Information about the school district and state standards of expected pupil achievement in core academic subjects for each grade level.

(5) Instruction on how to interpret data from the pupil performance measures selected by the school district.

(6) A definition of “significant gains made by pupils” toward meeting the standards of expected pupil achievement.

(7) Research-based information about curriculum and teaching strategies that will improve pupil performance.

(8) The right to information under the California Public Records Act set forth in Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code.

(9) Information regarding the educational and training needs for pupils, as identified and expressed by local employers, former pupils of the school district, and postsecondary education institutions.

(c) In addition to the composition set forth in Section 52012, a schoolsite council at the middle school level may, but is not required to, include pupil representation.
Cal. GOV § 20206 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 6 / Section 20206
Section 20206
Status: in_force

The board shall employ investment counsel on its staff or on a consulting basis or trust companies or trust departments of bands to render service in connection with the board’s investment program.

Whenever the board elects to contract with outside firms for investment counseling services it shall obtain proposals from all interested firms and conduct a public meeting at which a consultant or consultants shall be selected by the board. At least once in each three-year period after the prior selection, a consultant or consultants shall be obtained by the same procedure upon submission of new proposals.
Cal. GOV § 19807 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 19807
Section 19807
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other law, upon receiving certification of the department, pursuant to Section 19806, the appropriate state officer shall take such action against the local agency as permitted by law or as necessary to obtain compliance without an additional administrative hearing being held by such officer.
Cal. EDC § 38082 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 23 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 38082
Section 38082
Status: in_force

Food shall not be sold at any cafeteria operated by a school district to anyone except pupils and employees of any school district, members of the governing board thereof, and members or employees of the fund or association maintaining the cafeteria; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prohibit the use of the cafeteria facilities by any work or harvest camp maintained by or within the district, and by persons entitled to use the school under the Civic Center Act; and provided further, that the governing board of any school district operating a cafeteria may exempt by formal resolution of the board other individuals and organizations from the operation of this section including senior citizens participating in any program conducted pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 9500) of Division 8.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
Cal. GOV § 15025 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 6 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 15025
Section 15025
Status: in_force

The Department of Justice shall seek to control and eradicate organized crime in California by:

(a) Gathering, analyzing and storing intelligence pertaining to organized crime.

(b) Providing this intelligence to local, state and federal law enforcement units.

(c) Providing training and instruction to assist local and state law enforcement personnel in recognizing and combating organized crime.

(d) Providing a research resource of specialized equipment and personnel to assist local, state, and federal agencies in combating organized crime.

(e) Conducting continuing analyses and research of organized crime in order to determine current and projected organized crime activity in California.

(f) Initiating and participating in the prosecution of individuals and groups involved in organized crime activities.
Cal. GOV § 11546.8 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 5.6 / Section 11546.8
Section 11546.8
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby established within the Government Operations Agency a consortium that shall develop, pursuant to this section, a framework for the creation of a public cloud computing cluster to be known as “CalCompute.”

(b) The consortium shall develop a framework for the creation of CalCompute that advances the development and deployment of artificial intelligence that is safe, ethical, equitable, and sustainable by doing, at a minimum, both of the following:

(1) Fostering research and innovation that benefits the public.

(2) Enabling equitable innovation by expanding access to computational resources.

(c) The consortium shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that CalCompute is established within the University of California to the extent possible.

(d) CalCompute shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(1) A fully owned and hosted cloud platform.

(2) Necessary human expertise to operate and maintain the platform.

(3) Necessary human expertise to support, train, and facilitate the use of CalCompute.

(e) The consortium shall operate in accordance with all relevant labor and workforce laws and standards.

(f) (1) On or before January 1, 2027, the Government Operations Agency shall submit, pursuant to Section 9795, a report from the consortium to the Legislature with the framework developed pursuant to subdivision (b) for the creation and operation of CalCompute.

(2) The report required by this subdivision shall include all of the following elements:

(A) A landscape analysis of California’s current public, private, and nonprofit cloud computing platform infrastructure.

(B) An analysis of the cost to the state to build and maintain CalCompute and recommendations for potential funding sources.

(C) Recommendations for the governance structure and ongoing operation of CalCompute.

(D) Recommendations for the parameters for use of CalCompute, including, but not limited to, a process for determining which users and projects will be supported by CalCompute.

(E) An analysis of the state’s technology workforce and recommendations for equitable pathways to strengthen the workforce, including the role of CalCompute.

(F) A detailed description of any proposed partnerships, contracts, or licensing agreements with nongovernmental entities, including, but not limited to, technology-based companies, that demonstrates compliance with the requirements of subdivisions (c) and (d).

(G) Recommendations regarding how the creation and ongoing management of CalCompute can prioritize the use of the current public sector workforce.

(g) The consortium shall, consistent with state constitutional law, consist of 14 members as follows:

(1) Four representatives of the University of California and other public and private academic research institutions and national laboratories appointed by the Secretary of Government Operations.

(2) Three representatives of impacted workforce labor organizations appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.

(3) Three representatives of stakeholder groups with relevant expertise and experience, including, but not limited to, ethicists, consumer rights advocates, and other public interest advocates appointed by the Senate Rules Committee.

(4) Four experts in technology and artificial intelligence to provide technical assistance appointed by the Secretary of Government Operations.

(h) The members of the consortium shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duties.

(i) The consortium shall be dissolved upon submission of the report required by paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) to the Legislature.

(j) If CalCompute is established within the University of California, the University of California may receive private donations for the purposes of implementing CalCompute.

(k) This section shall become operative only upon an appropriation in a budget act, or other measure, for the purposes of this section.
Cal. EDC § 51425 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 28 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 51425
Section 51425
Status: in_force

A California high school equivalency certificate shall be deemed to be a high school diploma for the purpose of meeting the requirements of employment by all state and local public agencies in this state.
Cal. GOV § 8208 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 8208
Section 8208
Status: in_force

The protest of a notary public acting in the course and scope of employment by a financial institution, under his or her hand and official seal, of a bill of exchange or promissory note for nonacceptance or nonpayment, specifying any of the following is prima facie evidence of the facts recited therein:

(a) The time and place of presentment.

(b) The fact that presentment was made and the manner thereof.

(c) The cause or reason for protesting the bill.

(d) The demand made and the answer given, if any, or the fact that the drawee or acceptor could not be found.
Cal. EDC § 59150 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 32 / Chapter 2.5 / Section 59150
Section 59150
Status: in_force

Students attending the California School for the Deaf, Northern California, California School for the Deaf, Southern California, and California School for the Blind shall be tested for exposure to tuberculosis at least once every two years. The results of these tests shall be provided to the director of the appropriate special school. The parent or guardian of the student shall be responsible for the cost, if any, of the test.
Cal. EDC § 45185 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 45185
Section 45185
Status: in_force

An employee receiving differential compensation on the basis of his shift shall not lose such compensation if he is temporarily, for 20 working days or less, assigned to a shift not entitled to such compensation. The regular rate of pay for all purposes of an employee assigned to a shift which provides differential compensation shall be the differential rate.
Cal. GOV § 8586.9 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 7 / Article 5 / Section 8586.9
Section 8586.9
Status: in_force

(a) The Office of Emergency Services shall administer the Special District Fire Response Fund established pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 2.2 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution.

(b) The office shall, in coordination with the board of directors of the FIRESCOPE Program, established pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 13070) of Part 1 of Division 12 of the Health and Safety Code, do all of the following:

(1) Develop a standard application form to be used by special districts that provide fire protection services to apply for grants from the Special District Fire Response Fund that includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:

(A) Description of a special district’s eligibility to receive a grant pursuant to the criteria contained in paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 2.2 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution.

(B) Specification of the number of additional fire suppression staff that would be supported by the grant.

(C) Identification of the benefits to firefighter health and safety and community response in the special district, if the grant is funded.

(D) Identification of opportunities to leverage other funding sources, if the grant is funded.

(2) Establish an annual timeline for special districts that provide fire protection services to apply for grants from the Special District Fire Response Fund.

(3) Employ strategies to ensure that underfunded special districts that provide fire protection services are aware of the availability of the Special District Fire Response Fund to expand and increase fire suppression staffing in qualified districts.

(4) Establish reporting requirements for special districts that are awarded grants from the Special District Fire Response Fund.

(5) Develop metrics for consideration of grant applications consistent with paragraphs (3) and (4) of Subdivision (f) of Section 2.2 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution.

(c) Notwithstanding any law, including Section 25210.7, for purposes of receiving grants that are funded by the Special District Fire Response Fund, “special district that provides fire protection services” includes a county service area, as described in Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 25210) of Part 2 of Division 2 of Title 3, formed exclusively for fire protection services.
Cal. GOV § 22970.83 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 8 / Chapter 11 / Section 22970.83
Section 22970.83
Status: in_force

(a) Upon receipt of proof of a participant’s death, the beneficiary or beneficiaries shall be entitled to a death benefit that is a lump sum distribution of the balance remaining in the participant’s account.

(b) If the participant died prior to termination of employment or distribution of all of the contributions and earnings credited to the participant’s account, the lump sum distribution shall be an amount that is equal to the balance remaining in the participant’s account.

(c) Application for the distribution shall be made on an application form and in the manner prescribed by the board.
Cal. GOV § 14631 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 5.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 14631
Section 14631
Status: in_force

(a) The American Portuguese Club Incorporated, or any successor entity, may, in consultation with the department, plan and construct a memorial in the existing All Veterans Memorial to honor California American Portuguese veterans.

(b) The California American Portuguese Veterans Memorial Committee is hereby established and shall include as members all of the following:

(1) The director, or his or her designee.

(2) The State Historic Preservation Officer, or his or her designee.

(3) A Member of the Assembly appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly.

(4) A Member of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.

(c) The department, in consultation with the American Portuguese Club Incorporated, shall do all of the following:

(1) Review the preliminary design plans to identify potential maintenance concerns.

(2) Ensure compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 12101 et seq.) and with any other safety concerns.

(3) Review and approve California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) documents prepared for work at the designated historic property.

(4) Review final construction documents to ensure that all requirements are met.

(5) Prepare the right-of-entry permit outlining the final area of work, final construction documents, construction plans, the contractor hired to perform the work, insurance, bonding, provisions for damage to state property, and inspection requirements.

(6) Prepare a maintenance agreement outlining the American Portuguese Club Incorporated’s responsibility for the long-term maintenance of the memorial due to aging, vandalism, or relocation.

(7) Inspect the construction performed by the contractor selected by the California American Portuguese Veterans Memorial Committee.

(d) If the American Portuguese Club Incorporated undertakes responsibility to construct a memorial under this section, it shall, in consultation with the department, establish a schedule for the design, construction, and dedication of the memorial, implement procedures to solicit designs for the memorial and devise a selection process for the choice of the design, and establish a program for the dedication of the memorial.

(e) The department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the California American Portuguese Veterans Memorial Committee shall approve the design of the memorial.

(f) If the American Portuguese Club Incorporated undertakes responsibility to construct a memorial under this section, it shall not begin construction of the memorial until the master plan of the State Capitol Park is approved and adopted by the Joint Committee on Rules, and the Joint Committee on Rules and the Department of Finance have determined that sufficient private funding is available to construct and maintain the memorial.

(g) The planning, construction, and maintenance of the memorial shall be funded exclusively through private donations to the American Portuguese Club Incorporated.

(h) If the American Portuguese Club Incorporated undertakes responsibility to construct a memorial under this section, it shall sign a maintenance agreement with the state, as created under paragraph (6) of subdivision (d), to maintain the memorial with private contributions.

(i) As adopted by the Joint Committee on Rules, this memorial shall be constructed within the existing boundary of the All Veterans Memorial.
Cal. GOV § 19790 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 19790
Section 19790
Status: in_force

(a) Each state agency is responsible for an effective equal employment opportunity program. The equal opportunity program shall include a reasonable accommodation policy.

(b) The department shall be responsible for statewide advocacy, coordination, enforcement, monitoring of the programs described in subdivision (a), and the development of model policies, including a model policy on reasonable accommodation.
Cal. GOV § 12573 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2 / Chapter 6 / Article 6 / Section 12573
Section 12573
Status: in_force

Upon the completion of each secret investigation and, in any event, within not more than one year after the payment of any claim, the Attorney General shall file with the Controller vouchers in support of the claim. The Controller shall not divulge any information conveyed by the vouchers, except upon order of a court of record in cases where the information is relevant and material evidence or upon order of the Legislature.
Cal. EDC § 42678 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24 / Chapter 9 / Article 6 / Section 42678
Section 42678
Status: in_force

The county superintendent of schools shall report to the county treasurer and the county auditor within 10 days after the end of each month the amount of the interest computed pursuant to this article. The report shall show each district for which interest has been computed, the numbers of the registered orders for which the interest is to be paid, and the total amount of the interest charged to each district. He shall also, upon transmitting to the governing board of any school district registered orders which have been approved and allowed as warrants against the funds of the district, report in writing to the clerk or secretary of the district the amount of interest computed on the registered orders and the numbers of the registered orders for which the interest is to be paid.
Cal. GOV § 19991.14 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2.6 / Chapter 2.5 / Article 11 / Section 19991.14
Section 19991.14
Status: in_force

(a) If a retired state employee dies from a nonwork-related illness or injury within 12 months of retirement, a request may be made to his or her employer to allow state employees to donate leave credits to a leave bank. This donated leave, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), shall be cashed out to the person designated to receive the deceased employee’s leave balance. Donations shall be accepted for 30 days following approval of the request, except as specified in subdivision (b).

(b) This section shall apply retroactively to any employee who retired on or after December 1, 2009. Any leave donations for a retired state employee who died on or before December 31, 2010, shall be accepted until January 31, 2011.

(c) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) “Leave” includes annual leave, vacation, holiday, personal leave, or excess leave.

(2) “Retired state employee” means any retired state employee who at the time of retirement was a member of a collective bargaining unit that had bargained for a survivor’s benefit that authorizes the donation of leave credits from employees to a leave bank on behalf of an employee on pay status who dies from a nonwork-related illness or injury.
Cal. EDC § 53303 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 28 / Chapter 18 / Article 3 / Section 53303
Section 53303
Status: in_force

A local educational agency shall not be required to implement the option requested by the parent petition if the request is for reasons other than improving academic achievement or pupil safety.
Cal. GOV § 12803.2 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 12803.2
Section 12803.2
Status: in_force

(a) The Government Operations Agency shall consist of all of the following:

(1) The Office of Administrative Law.

(2) The Public Employees’ Retirement System.

(3) The State Teachers’ Retirement System.

(4) The State Personnel Board.

(5) The California Victim Compensation Board.

(6) The Department of General Services.

(7) The Department of Technology.

(8) The Franchise Tax Board.

(9) The Department of Human Resources.

(10) The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

(11) The Office of Data and Innovation, effective July 1, 2023.

(b) The Government Operations Agency shall include the Department of FISCal upon the acceptance of the Financial Information System for California (FISCal) by the state, as determined by the Director of Finance, pursuant to Section 11890.

(c) The Government Operations Agency shall be governed by the Secretary of Government Operations pursuant to Section 12801. However, the Director of Human Resources shall report directly to the Governor on issues relating to labor relations.

(d) The Governor, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Government Operations, may appoint up to three deputies for the secretary.
Cal. PEN § 12022.9 — California Code / Code pen / Part 4 / Title 2 / Section 12022.9
Section 12022.9
Status: in_force

Any person who, during the commission of a felony or attempted felony, knows or reasonably should know that the victim is pregnant, and who, with intent to inflict injury, and without the consent of the woman, personally inflicts injury upon a pregnant woman that results in the termination of the pregnancy shall be punished by an additional and consecutive term of imprisonment in the state prison for five years. The additional term provided in this subdivision shall not be imposed unless the fact of that injury is charged in the accusatory pleading and admitted or found to be true by the trier of fact.

Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the applicability of subdivision (a) of Section 187.
Cal. GOV § 8654.3 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 7 / Article 16.5 / Section 8654.3
Section 8654.3
Status: in_force

For purposes of this section:

(a) “Joint powers authority” means the agency or entity designated or created pursuant to a joint powers agreement between the Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, entered into pursuant to Section 8654.4, to implement this article.

(b) “Structure hardening” means the installation, replacement, or retrofitting of building materials, systems, or assemblies used in the exterior design and construction of existing nonconforming structures with features that are in compliance with Chapter 7A (commencing with Section 701A.1) of Part 2 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, or any appropriate successor regulatory code with the primary purpose of reducing risk to structures from wildfire or conforming to the low-cost retrofit list, and updates to that list developed pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 51189.
Cal. EDC § 49424 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 9 / Article 2 / Section 49424
Section 49424
Status: in_force

A school psychologist is a credentialed professional whose primary objective is the application of scientific principles of learning and behavior to ameliorate school-related problems and to facilitate the learning and development of children in the public schools of California.

To accomplish this objective the school psychologist provides services to children, teachers, parents, community agencies, and the school system itself. These services include:

(a) Consultation with school administrators concerning appropriate learning objectives for children, planning of developmental and remedial programs for pupils in regular and special school programs, and the development of educational experimentation and evaluation.

(b) Consultation with teachers in the development and implementation of classroom methods and procedures designed to facilitate pupil learning and to overcome learning and behavior disorders.

(c) Consultation with parents to assist in understanding the learning and adjustment processes of children.

(d) Consultation with community agencies, such as probation departments, mental health clinics, and welfare departments, concerning pupils who are being served by such community agencies.

(e) Consultation and supervision of pupil personnel services workers.

(f) Psychoeducational assessment and diagnosis of specific learning and behavioral disabilities, including, but not limited to, case study evaluation, recommendations for remediation or placement, and periodic reevaluation of such children.

(g) Psychological counseling of and other therapeutic techniques with children and parents, including parent education.
Cal. GOV § 9913 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 8 / Article 2 / Section 9913
Section 9913
Status: in_force

Appointments by the speaker; confirmation by Assembly Committee on Rules

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all statutory appointments delegated to the Speaker of the Assembly are subject to confirmation by the Assembly Committee on Rules, two thirds of the membership thereof concurring.
Cal. GOV § 13996.41 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 4.7 / Chapter 2.5 / Section 13996.41
Section 13996.41
Status: in_force

(a) The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development shall develop and implement an International Trade and Investment Program that does all of the following:

(1) Attracts employment-producing direct foreign investment to the state.

(2) Provides support for California businesses in accessing international markets, including assistance to increase California exports.

(3) Engages in other international trade or foreign investment activities assigned by the Governor.

(b) The Director of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development may establish and terminate international trade and investment offices outside of the United States as he or she determines is appropriate if the requirements of Section 13996.65 are satisfied.

(c) This section shall not be construed to confer powers or impose duties upon the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development that conflict with any powers conferred or duties imposed upon the Department of Food and Agriculture with respect to the promotion of California agriculture, fish, or forest exports.

(d) The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development shall develop a conflict-of-interest and gift policy that applies to the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development and all international trade and investment offices established by it.

(e) Any international trade and investment office established by the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development may be funded in whole or in part by nonstate funds.

(f) The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development may contract with a nonprofit entity to operate an international trade and investment office. The contract shall, among other provisions, require the nonprofit entity to provide the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development information sufficient to satisfy the reporting requirements in subdivision (c) of Section 13997 within 30 days of receipt by the nonprofit entity of each donation used to fund an international trade and investment office.
Cal. EDC § 44111 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 44111
Section 44111
Status: in_force

It is the intent of the Legislature that school employees and other persons disclose, to the extent not expressly prohibited by law, improper governmental activities.
Cal. EDC § 35501 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 21 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 35501
Section 35501
Status: in_force

On and after January 1, 1981, this chapter and Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 35700) shall apply to an action to reorganize school districts.
Cal. GOV § 12812.3 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 12812.3
Section 12812.3
Status: in_force

One of the deputies to the Secretary for Environmental Protection authorized pursuant to Section 12812.1 shall be a deputy secretary for external affairs who shall provide public outreach, communication to individuals and communities impacted by permitted activities, and technical support to businesses subject to regulation by one or more boards, departments, or offices within the California Environmental Protection Agency.
Cal. EDC § 56440 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 30 / Chapter 4.45 / Section 56440
Section 56440
Status: in_force

(a) Each special education local plan area shall submit to the Superintendent, as part of the local plan, information for providing special education and services to individuals with exceptional needs, as defined in Section 56026, who are between the ages of three and five years, inclusive.

(b) All individuals with exceptional needs between the ages of three and five years, inclusive, identified in subdivision (a) shall be served by the local educational agencies within each special education local plan area, to the extent required under federal law and pursuant to the local plan and application approved by the Superintendent.

(c) Individuals with exceptional needs between the ages of three and five years, inclusive, who are identified by the local educational agency as requiring special education and services shall be eligible for special education and services pursuant to this part.

(d) Special education facilities operated by local educational agencies serving children under this chapter and Chapter 4.4 (commencing with Section 56425) shall meet all applicable standards relating to fire, health, sanitation, and building safety, but are not subject to Chapter 3.4 (commencing with Section 1596.70), 3.5 (commencing with Section 1596.90), or 3.6 (commencing with Section 1597.30) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code.

(e) This chapter applies to all individuals with exceptional needs between the ages of three and five years, inclusive.
Cal. EDC § 35147 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 21 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 35147
Section 35147
Status: in_force

(a) Except as specified in this section, any meeting of the councils or committees specified in subdivision (b) is exempt from the provisions of this article, the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act (Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), and the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code).

(b) The councils and advisory committees established pursuant to Sections 52063, 52069, and 52176, subdivision (b) of Section 54425, Sections 54444.2, 56190, 62002.5, and 65000, and the committees formed pursuant to Section 11503 are subject to this section.

(c) (1) Any meeting held by a council or committee specified in subdivision (b) shall be open to the public, and any member of the public shall be able to address the council or committee during the meeting on any item within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council or committee. Notice of the meeting shall be posted at the schoolsite, or other appropriate place accessible to the public, at least 72 hours before the time set for the meeting. The notice shall specify the date, time, and location of the meeting and contain an agenda describing each item of business to be discussed or acted upon. The council or committee may not take any action on any item of business unless that item appeared on the posted agenda or unless the council or committee members present, by unanimous vote, find that there is a need to take immediate action and that the need for action came to the attention of the council or committee subsequent to the posting of the agenda.

(2) Questions or brief statements made at a meeting by members of the council, committee, or public that do not have a significant effect on pupils or employees in the school or school district, or that can be resolved solely by the provision of information, need not be described on an agenda as items of business. If a council or committee violates the procedural meeting requirements of this section, upon demand of any person, the council or committee shall reconsider the item at its next meeting, after allowing for public input on the item.

(d) Any materials provided to a schoolsite council shall be made available to any member of the public who requests the materials pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 7920.000) of Title 1 of the Government Code).
Cal. GOV § 20191.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 2 / Article 6 / Section 20191.5
Section 20191.5
Status: in_force

(a) All investment transaction decisions made during a closed session pursuant to paragraph (16) of subdivision (c) of Section 11126 shall be by rollcall vote entered into the minutes of that meeting.

(b) The board, within 12 months of the close of an investment transaction or the transfer of system assets for an investment transaction, whichever occurs first, shall disclose and report the investment at a public meeting.
Cal. GOV § 11415.40 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 4.5 / Article 4 / Section 11415.40
Section 11415.40
Status: in_force

Except to the extent prohibited by another statute or regulation, a person may waive a right conferred on the person by the administrative adjudication provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Cal. GOV § 19063 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 1.5 / Section 19063
Section 19063
Status: in_force

(a) Any person receiving state public assistance under the CalWORKs program (Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code) who meets the minimum qualifications for any civil service position as a seasonal or an entry level nontesting class that does not require an examination shall be given priority consideration. “Priority consideration” means, for the purposes of this article, that after consideration has been made for all conditions described in this section, the state agency involved shall hire all qualified job applicants who are receiving state public assistance before hiring any other applicant. The department shall review all nontesting classes and determine those that are subject to this article.

(b) Public assistance recipients who apply for openings under this article shall be required to undergo the same employment process used by state agencies to select any other person for appointment to a position in such a class. If a state agency does not select a public assistance recipient to fill an opening, it shall document in its employment records the reasons why the public assistance recipient was not selected and any other information determined to be necessary by the department.

(c) The employment of public assistance recipients shall be consistent with the goals established by each agency under Section 19790.

(d) This section shall not preclude a state agency from hiring any person appointed during the prior 12 months in the class for which the vacancy exists.
Cal. GOV § 15855 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 11 / Section 15855
Section 15855
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in subdivision (b), the State Public Works Board is the only state agency that may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property needed by any state agency for any state purpose or function.

(b) Subdivision (a) does not affect or limit the right of the Department of Transportation, High-Speed Rail Authority, Department of Water Resources, State Lands Commission, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, the college named in Section 92200 of the Education Code, or the Regents of the University of California to exercise the power of eminent domain. Subdivision (a) does not affect or limit the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the Department of Fish and Wildlife pursuant to Section 1348 of the Fish and Game Code.

(c) (1) Any eminent domain proceeding commenced by the State Public Works Board for an acquisition for high-speed train system purposes before, and pending after, January 1, 2019, shall be deemed to have been commenced by the High-Speed Rail Authority, and the High-Speed Rail Authority shall be automatically substituted for the State Public Works Board as a party in any such action. All subsequent proceedings shall be in the name of the High-Speed Rail Authority. However, any misnomer not affecting the parties’ substantial rights shall be disregarded. The court may order substitution at any time, but the absence of such an order does not affect the substitution.

(2) The State Public Works Board shall file with the court and serve on all parties to an action described in paragraph (1) a notice that the High-Speed Rail Authority is automatically substituted in place of the State Public Works Board and is the agency exercising the power of eminent domain on behalf of the state in the action.
Cal. GOV § 19992.9 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2.6 / Chapter 3.5 / Section 19992.9
Section 19992.9
Status: in_force

The system of performance appraisal reports shall be designed by managerial employees and their appointing powers to permit the evaluation by appointing powers of each employee’s work performance as accurately and fairly as is reasonably possible. The evaluation shall be set forth in a written performance appraisal report, the form for which shall be approved by the department. The department may investigate administration of the system and enforce adherence to appropriate standards.
Cal. EDC § 44235.3 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 44235.3
Section 44235.3
Status: in_force

Within the limits set forth in this chapter, the commission may establish and collect fees to recover its costs for the development and administration of any subject matter examination adopted by the commission to implement the provisions of this chapter, unless the costs are recovered by appropriations from another source of funds.
Cal. EDC § 43524 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24.6 / Chapter 1 / Section 43524
Section 43524
Status: in_force

The requirements of this chapter shall not be waived by the state board pursuant to Section 33050 or any other law.
Cal. GOV § 8628.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 7 / Article 13 / Section 8628.5
Section 8628.5
Status: in_force

(a) During a state of emergency, the Governor may direct all state agencies to utilize, employ, and direct state personnel, equipment, and facilities for the performance of any and all activities designed to allow community clinics and health centers to provide and receive reimbursement for services provided during or immediately following the emergency, including all of the following:

(1) To issue permits.

(2) To expedite application processing timelines.

(3) To direct, to the extent necessary, the State Department of Health Care Services, or any other state agency, to seek all appropriate federal approvals to allow community clinics and health centers to provide and be reimbursed for Medi-Cal or other services that are provided either telephonically, or to patients at a shelter or other location within the geographical boundaries of the emergency as stated in the proclamation declaring the state of emergency.

(4) To provide guidance, supplemental services, or whatever resources may be necessary to political subdivisions to ensure the provision of services by community clinics and health centers that are necessary to provide for the health and safety of the citizens of the affected area.

(b) Any agency directed by the Governor to perform activities pursuant to subdivision (a) may expend any of the moneys that have been appropriated to it in order to perform those activities, irrespective of the particular purpose for which the moneys were originally appropriated.
Cal. EDC § 59026 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 32 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 59026
Section 59026
Status: in_force

All money expended under the authority of any such certificate for clothing and transportation, necessary dental work, eye care, operations, and hospitalization, and all money expended by the Department of Education for expenses incurred by it in providing dental work, eye care, operations, or hospitalization for the child in an emergency for which the Department of Education cannot be reimbursed by the parent or guardian of the child as shown by the certificate, constitutes a legal charge against the county from which the certificate is issued. Expenditures for clothing and transportation shall not exceed the sum of three hundred eighty-five dollars ($385) for the 1974–75 school year, and an amount thereafter which shall be adjusted annually in conformance with the Consumer Price Index, all items, of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor, measured for the calendar year next preceding the fiscal year to which it applies. The State Controller shall determine the amount authorized pursuant to this section for the 1975–76 school year and thereafter.
Cal. GOV § 9512 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 9512
Section 9512
Status: in_force

When a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature and is returned by the Governor without his signature, and with objections thereto, or if it be a bill containing an item or several items of appropriation which is returned with objections to one or more items, and upon reconsideration the bill, item, or items pass both houses by the constitutional majority, the bill, item, or items shall be authenticated as having become a law by a certificate.
Cal. EDC § 44968 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 44968
Section 44968
Status: in_force

Every employee granted a leave of absence pursuant to Section 44966 may be required to perform such services during the leave as the governing board of the district and the employee may agree upon in writing, and the employee shall receive such compensation during the period of the leave as the governing board and the employee may agree upon in writing, which compensation shall be not less than the difference between the salary of the employee on leave and the salary of a substitute employee in the position which the employee held prior to the granting of the leave. However, in lieu of such difference, the board may pay one-half of the salary of the employee on leave or any additional amount up to and including the full salary of the employee on leave.
Cal. GOV § 21165 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 12 / Article 6 / Section 21165
Section 21165
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the retirement for disability of a member, other than a local safety member, with the exception of a school safety member, who has been granted or is entitled to a leave of absence with compensation, which shall include nonindustrial disability insurance benefits payable pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 19878) of Chapter 2.5 of Part 2.6, shall not become effective prior to the expiration of the leave of absence with compensation, unless the member applies for or consents to his or her retirement as of an earlier date.
Cal. GOV § 22772 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 22772
Section 22772
Status: in_force

(a) “Employee” means:

(1) An officer or employee of the state or of any agency, department, authority, or instrumentality of the state, including the University of California.

(2) An employee who is employed by a contracting agency and participates in a publicly funded retirement system provided by the contracting agency, or an officer or official of a contracting agency.

(3) An annuitant receiving a retirement allowance pursuant to Section 21232 who is employed by a contracting agency.

(4) A teaching associate, lecturer, coach, or interpreter employed by the California State University who is appointed to work in an academic year classification for at least six weighted teaching units for one semester, or for at least six weighted teaching units for two or more consecutive quarter terms. This paragraph does not apply to a state member employed by the California State University, unless provided for in a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 3560) of Division 4 of Title 1 or authorized by the Trustees of the California State University for employees excluded from collective bargaining.

(5) All employees in job classes specified in subdivision (a) of Section 14876.

(6) An individual not described in paragraphs (1) to (5), inclusive, who is both of the following:

(A) A “full-time employee” of the state or a contracting agency within the meaning of Section 4980H of Title 26 of the United States Code and applicable United States Treasury Department regulations and interpretive guidance.

(B) Designated in writing as an employee for purposes of this section by the state or the contracting agency, as applicable.

(b) Except as otherwise provided by this part, “employee” does not include any of the following:

(1) A person employed on an intermittent, irregular, or less than half-time basis, or an employee similarly situated.

(2) A National Guard member described in Section 20380.5.
Cal. EDC § 44230.5 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 44230.5
Section 44230.5
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall establish a nonpersonally identifiable educator identification number for each educator to whom it issues a credential, certificate, permit, or other document authorizing that individual to provide a service in the public schools. The nonpersonally identifiable educator identification number shall be used for sharing data, including, but not limited to, information obtained pursuant to Sections 44225.6 and 44258.9, with local educational agencies and the department. This identification number may also be used to disclose data pursuant to subdivision (t) of Section 1798.24 of the Civil Code.

(b) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, charter school, or state special school.
Cal. GOV § 16754 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 4 / Section 16754
Section 16754
Status: in_force

(a) The bonds specified in the resolution shall be sold by the Treasurer, at the time fixed by the Treasurer, and upon the notice that the Treasurer may deem advisable, or at the time to which the sale shall have been so continued, at a competitive sale to the bidder whose bid will result in the lowest interest cost on account of those bonds.

(b) The Treasurer shall reject any and all bids for the bonds that shall be below the par value thereof plus the interest that shall have accrued thereon from the date thereof or, if any past due coupon or coupons have been detached from the bonds prior to the delivery thereof, then from the due date of the latest coupon so detached, to the date of the purchaser’s payment for the bond.

(c) The method of determining the lowest interest cost bid shall be prescribed in the bond resolution and shall be limited to either the net interest cost method or the present worth basis method, also referred to as the true interest cost, bond book basis, and Canadian interest cost method.

(1) The net interest cost of each bid shall be determined by ascertaining the total amount of interest that the state would be required to pay under that bid, from the date of the bonds to the respective maturity dates of the bonds then offered for sale, at the coupon rate or rates specified in the bid, less the total amount of the premium, if any, offered by the bid. The bid under which the amount so ascertained is the least shall be deemed to be the bid resulting in the lowest net interest cost.

(2) Under the present worth basis method, the bonds shall be awarded to the bidder submitting the lowest interest rate bid, which shall be determined by doubling the semiannual interest rate, compounded semiannually, necessary to discount the debt service payments to the specified interest computation date and to the price bid.

(d) Under either method specified in subdivision (c), the sale shall be for cash, payable upon the delivery of the bonds in definitive form, or if the right to deliver temporary securities has been reserved, then upon the delivery of the temporary securities.
Cal. GOV § 12763 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 6 / Section 12763
Section 12763
Status: in_force

Consistent with Section 1090, no Member of the Legislature, or any state, county, district, judicial district, or city officer or employee who also serves on a tripartite board shall vote on a contract or other matter before a tripartite board, that would have a direct bearing on services to be provided by that member, officer, or employee, or any business or organization which that member, officer, or employee directly represents or that would financially benefit that member, officer, or employee, or the business or organization that the member, officer, or employee directly represents.
Cal. CCP § 1912 — California Code / Code ccp / Part 4 / Title 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 2 / Section 1912
Section 1912
Status: in_force

Whenever, pursuant to the last four sections, a party is bound by a record, and such party stands in the relation of a surety for another, the latter is also bound from the time that he has notice of the action or proceeding, and an opportunity at the surety’s request to join in the defense.
Cal. EDC § 41210 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24 / Chapter 2 / Section 41210
Section 41210
Status: in_force

(a) The revenues transferred pursuant to Sections 6051.15 and 6201.15 of the Revenue and Taxation Code are not “General Fund revenues” as that term is used in Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

(b) This section shall be operative for the 2011–12 fiscal year and subsequent years so long as one or more ballot measures approved before November 17, 2012, authorize the determination in subdivision (a) and provide funding for school districts and community college districts in an amount equal to that which would have been provided if the revenues referenced in subdivision (a) were General Fund revenues for purposes of Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Cal. GOV § 20826 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 9 / Section 20826
Section 20826
Status: in_force

The board shall certify to the Controller at the end of each quarter the total amount of compensation in respect to which state contributions are payable from the General Fund and each other fund in the State Treasury, and the Controller shall transfer the state’s contribution from each fund, respectively, to the retirement fund. Compensation shall be included in the certification at the end of the month in which the member’s contributions based upon it are paid.
Cal. EDC § 44281 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 44281
Section 44281
Status: in_force

The commission shall select, administer, and interpret subject matter examinations, which shall be a prerequisite for assignment to assure minimum levels of subject matter knowledge by all certified personnel regardless of the pattern and place of preparation.
Cal. GOV § 22206 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 4 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 22206
Section 22206
Status: in_force

The legislative or governing body of every public agency having employees in positions covered by a retirement system who are ineligible to become members of such retirement system may upon the affirmative vote of a majority of the eligible employees of any coverage group of such public agency of which the employees who are ineligible to be members of such retirement system are a part, make formal application to the board for inclusion of the eligible employees of such coverage group in the said agreement; provided, that the terms of the agreement do not already apply to said positions.
Cal. EDC § 60048 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 33 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 60048
Section 60048
Status: in_force

(a) Basic instructional materials, and other instructional materials required to be legally and socially compliant pursuant to Sections 60040 to 60047, inclusive, including illustrations, that provide any exposure to a commercial brand name, product, or corporate or company logo in a manner that is inconsistent with guidelines or frameworks adopted by the State Board of Education may not be adopted by a school district governing board.

(b) The governing board of a school district may not adopt basic instructional materials, and other instructional materials required to be legally and socially compliant pursuant to Sections 60040 to 60047, inclusive, including illustrations, that contain a commercial brand name, product, or corporate or company logo unless the governing board makes a specific finding pursuant to the criteria set forth in paragraph (5) of subdivision (c) of Section 60200 that the use of the commercial brand name, product, or corporate or company logo in the instructional materials is appropriate.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the publisher of instructional materials to include whatever corporate name or logo on the instructional materials that is necessary to provide basic information about the publisher, to protect its copyright, or to identify third party sources of content.

(d) The state board may adopt regulations that provide for other allowable exceptions to this section, as determined by the state board.

(e) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall develop, and the State Board of Education shall adopt, guidelines to implement this section.
Cal. GOV § 11553.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 6 / Article 1 / Section 11553.5
Section 11553.5
Status: in_force

(a) Effective January 1, 1988, an annual salary of seventy-nine thousand one hundred twenty-two dollars ($79,122) shall be paid to the following:

(1) Member of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board.

(2) Member of the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission.

(3) Member of the Public Utilities Commission.

(4) Member of the Public Employment Relations Board.

(5) Member of the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.

(6) Member of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board.

(7) Member of the State Water Resources Control Board.

(8) Member of the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel.

(b) (1) The annual compensation provided by this section shall be increased in any fiscal year in which a general salary increase is provided for state employees. The amount of the increase provided by this section shall be comparable to, but shall not exceed, the percentage of the general cost-of-living salary increases provided for state employees during that fiscal year.

(2) In addition to the annual increase provided in paragraph (1), the members of the Public Utilities Commission shall receive an annual salary increase of 5 percent in each of the 2021–22, 2022–23, and 2023–24 fiscal years.

(3) In addition to the annual increase provided in paragraph (1), the members of the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission shall receive an annual salary increase of 5 percent in each of the 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivision (b), any salary increase pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) is subject to Section 11565.5.
Cal. GOV § 16421 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 8 / Section 16421
Section 16421
Status: in_force

The fund consists of the following:

(a) All money appropriated by the Legislature for such fund or payable into such fund in accordance with law.

(b) All money received into the Treasury from any source whatever in payment of printing, ruling, and binding done in the Office of State Printing or, unless otherwise provided by law, in payment for other services rendered by the Department of General Services.

(c) Reimbursement of rentals paid from such fund.

(d) All money received as payment of rent for the use or occupancy of space in any building owned, managed, or controlled by the state.
Cal. GOV § 22960.10 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 7 / Chapter 2 / Section 22960.10
Section 22960.10
Status: in_force

“Account” means the account maintained with respect to the participant which reflects that aggregate value of the following amounts credited to the participant:

(a) Employee contributions to the plan.

(b) Employer contributions to the plan on behalf of the participant.

(c) Net earnings of the State Peace Officers’ and Firefighters’ Defined Contribution Plan Fund allocable to the participant.

(d) Any amount credited to the participant’s account by reason of a transfer from another qualified plan in accordance with applicable federal tax laws.
Cal. GOV § 15820.206 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 10b / Chapter 3.15 / Section 15820.206
Section 15820.206
Status: in_force

It is the Legislature’s intent that the authority provided under this chapter is separate and independent from the Higher Education Student Housing and Capacity Expansion Grant Programs (Chapter 18.5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code). Any mention of the Higher Education Student Housing and Capacity Expansion Grant Programs, including Section 17201 of the Education Code, is for purposes of reference only and not intended to incorporate the provisions of the Higher Education Student Housing and Capacity Expansion Grant Programs into this chapter.
Cal. GOV § 14659.09 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 5.5 / Chapter 2 / Article 1.1 / Section 14659.09
Section 14659.09
Status: in_force

The department may approve plans for payroll deduction from the salaries or wages of state officers and employees under subdivision (f) of Section 1151 for charitable contributions to the agency handling the principal combined fund drive in any area. The department shall establish necessary rules and regulations, including the following:

(a) Standards for establishing what constitutes the principal combined fund drive in an area.

(b) A requirement that the agency to receive these contributions shall pay, for deposit in the General Fund, the additional cost to the state of making these deductions and remitting the proceeds, as determined by the Controller.

(c) A requirement that the agency to receive these contributions shall pay, for deposit in the Service Revolving Fund, the department’s cost to administer the annual charitable campaign fund drive. This amount shall be determined by the department and shall only be available for the support of the department upon appropriation by the Legislature.

(d) Provisions for standard amounts of deductions from which each state officer or employee may select the contribution that he or she desires to make, if any.

(e) A prohibition upon state officers or employees authorizing more than one payroll deduction for charitable purposes to be in effect at the same time.

(f) A provision authorizing the Controller to combine in his or her records deductions for employee association dues, if authorized, and charitable deductions, if authorized.

The department, in addition, may approve requests of any charitable organization qualified as an exempt organization under Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code, and paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, which is not an affiliated member beneficiary of the principal combined fund drive to receive designated deductions from the principal fund drive.

The principal combined fund drive agency, any charitable organization which is an affiliated member beneficiary of the principal combined fund drive, and any charitable organization approved by the department to receive designated deductions on the payroll authorization form of the principal fund drive, shall certify under penalty of perjury to the department that it is in compliance with the Fair Employment and Housing Act, Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 12900), as a condition of receiving these designated deductions.

The principal combined fund drive shall obtain from the department the list of approved nonaffiliated beneficiaries, eligible for designated deductions in its approved drive area, and shall provide this information to each employee at the time of the principal fund drive. The principal combined drive agency shall provide a designation form for the employee to indicate those amounts to be contributed to affiliated and nonaffiliated beneficiaries. The designation form shall consist of a copy for each of the following: (1) the employee, (2) the employee’s designated beneficiary agency, and (3) the principal combined fund drive agency. The principal combined fund drive agency shall pay the amount collected for the employee designated beneficiary agency less the amount necessary to reimburse the principal combined fund drive agency for fundraising and administrative expenses. The fee charged for fundraising and administrative cost reimbursement shall be determined by the department, published in campaign literature and made available to the employee during the solicitation process.

Nothing contained in this section shall preclude a principal fund drive agency from giving a percentage of the undesignated funds to charities which are not members of the agency handling the principal drive, or honoring an employee’s designated deduction to any charitable organization.
Cal. GOV § 18702 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 18702
Section 18702
Status: in_force

The board shall create and adjust classes of positions in the state civil service in accordance with Article VII of the Constitution and this part.
Cal. GOV § 9760 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 7 / Article 4 / Section 9760
Section 9760
Status: in_force

Whenever a law is signed by the Governor, official notice of the fact shall be forwarded, in writing, to the State Printing Office.
Cal. EDC § 35164 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 21 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 35164
Section 35164
Status: in_force

The governing board shall act by majority vote of all of the membership constituting the governing board.
Cal. GOV § 20056 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 20056
Section 20056
Status: in_force

“Public agency” means any city, county, district, other local authority or public body of or within this state.
Cal. GOV § 21024.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 11 / Article 5 / Section 21024.5
Section 21024.5
Status: in_force

(a) “Public service” with respect to a member who is a local firefighter also means time served, before becoming a member, as a permanent career civilian federal firefighter or permanent career state firefighter in a position whose principal duties consist of active fire suppression or law enforcement and that service was terminated as a direct consequence of the closure, downsizing, or realignment of a federal military installation.

(b) This section shall not apply to any contracting agency nor to the employees of any contracting agency until the agency elects to be subject to this section by contract or by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts.
Cal. GOV § 9515 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 9515
Section 9515
Status: in_force

If on the day the Governor desires to return a bill without his approval and with his objections thereto the house in which it originated has adjourned for the day, he may deliver the bill with his message to the Secretary of the Senate if it originated in the Senate, Chief Clerk of the Assembly if it originated in the Assembly, or any member of the house in which it originated. Such delivery is as effectual as though returned when the house was meeting.
Cal. CIV § 1622 — California Code / Code civ / Division 3 / Part 2 / Title 2 / Section 1622
Section 1622
Status: in_force

All contracts may be oral, except such as are specially required by statute to be in writing.
Cal. GOV § 18802 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 18802
Section 18802
Status: in_force

From time to time as it deems necessary, the board may establish additional classes and divide, combine, alter, or abolish existing classes. In establishing, altering, or abolishing classes, the board shall consider the recommendations of the Department of Human Resources. When those actions are taken the board shall determine in each instance whether positions affected are to be reallocated to another class or classes after taking into account the duties and responsibilities, qualifications, performance standards, and other related criteria before and after the change, and shall determine the status of the probationary and permanent employees affected.
Cal. GOV § 9113 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 1.5 / Article 5.2 / Section 9113
Section 9113
Status: in_force

An amount of space proportional to the amount of space utilized by the executive branch in the existing State Capitol Building Annex described in Section 9105, or another amount of space as determined by the agreement entered into pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 9112, within any state capitol annex constructed, or within the restored, rehabilitated, renovated, or reconstructed State Capitol Building Annex described in Section 9105, shall be under the control of the Department of General Services. All other space in the newly constructed state capitol annex or the restored, rehabilitated, renovated, or reconstructed State Capitol Building Annex shall be allocated from time to time by the Joint Rules Committee in accordance with its determination of the needs of the Legislature and the two houses thereof. The committee shall allocate to the Senate and Assembly, respectively, the space it determines to be needed by those houses and their committees and the officers, employees, and attachés thereof. The space allocated to the Senate and to the Assembly pursuant to this section shall be allotted from time to time by the Senate Rules Committee and the Assembly Rules Committee, respectively.
Cal. CIV § 1803.11 — California Code / Code civ / Division 3 / Part 4 / Title 2 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 1803.11
Section 1803.11
Status: in_force

It shall be unlawful for any seller to solicit buyers, in any advertisement, to enter into a retail installment contract with it if the seller does not intend to sell that retail installment contract to a financing agency or other assignee, unless the advertisement clearly states the periodic rate or range of periodic rates, expressed as an annual percentage rate or a range of annual percentage rates that will be used to determine the finance charge imposed on the retail installment contract.
Cal. GOV § 19063.4 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 1.5 / Section 19063.4
Section 19063.4
Status: in_force

If no public assistance recipient applies for an opening within the time limits established by this article, the state agency may fill the opening with a person not receiving public assistance. In the event a person not receiving public assistance is hired, the state agency shall place a certification in its employment records stating the date it contacted the Employment Development Department or its designate, the name of the person contacted, the date the position was filled, and any other information determined to be necessary by the department.
Cal. GOV § 11860 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 10 / Article 2 / Section 11860
Section 11860
Status: in_force

(a) To serve the best interest of the state by optimizing the financial business management of the state, the partner agencies shall collaboratively develop enhancements to the system, utilize the system, and assist the department to maintain the system. This effort shall ensure best business practices by embracing opportunities to reengineer the state’s business processes and shall encompass the management of resources and funds in the areas of budgeting, accounting, procurement, cash management, financial management, financial reporting, cost accounting, asset accounting, project accounting, and grant accounting.

(b) State departments and agencies shall use the system, or, upon approval from the department, a department or agency may interface its departmental system with the system. The system is intended to replace any existing central or departmental systems duplicative of the functionality of the system.

(c) To facilitate the integration of the state’s accounting book of record by July 1, 2026, to the extent feasible pursuant to the objectives stated in Section 11854, the Controller shall do both of the following:

(1) On or before December 31, 2023, provide the necessary system and interface requirements to the department to perform the accounting functions and produce the financial reports identified in Article 4 (commencing with Section 12460) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division 3 of Title 2.

(2) On or before December 31, 2023, with FISCal, evaluate and develop a timeline to complete the original scope for the Controller’s accounting book of record functionality. The timeline shall be based on an analysis of the ability to onboard, complete workload, and consider resource constraints. The Controller shall report the findings of this evaluation and updated timeline to the fiscal committees of both houses at the time of budget hearings.
Cal. EDC § 49078 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 6.5 / Article 5 / Section 49078
Section 49078
Status: in_force

The service of a lawfully issued subpoena or a court order upon a public school employee solely for the purpose of causing him or her to produce a school record pertaining to any pupil may be complied with by that employee, in lieu of the personal appearance as a witness in the proceeding, by submitting to the court, or other agency, or person designated in the subpoena, at the time and place required by the subpoena or court order, a copy of that record, accompanied by an affidavit certifying that the copy is a true copy of the original record on file in the school or school office. The copy of the record shall be in the form of a photostat, microfilm, microcard, or miniature photograph or other photographic copy or reproduction, or an enlargement thereof.
Cal. EDC § 49473 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 9 / Article 5 / Section 49473
Section 49473
Status: in_force

To facilitate the authority referred to in Sections 49470 and 49472 the governing board of the school district or school districts may authorize the distribution by district personnel of such printed matter as may be furnished by the insurer or membership corporation.
Cal. CCP § 340 — California Code / Code ccp / Part 2 / Title 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 340
Section 340
Status: in_force

Within one year:

(a) An action upon a statute for a penalty or forfeiture, if the action is given to an individual, or to an individual and the state, except if the statute imposing it prescribes a different limitation.

(b) An action upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the people of this state.

(c) An action for libel, slander, false imprisonment, seduction of a person below the age of legal consent, or by a depositor against a bank for the payment of a forged or raised check, or a check that bears a forged or unauthorized endorsement, or against any person who boards or feeds an animal or fowl or who engages in the practice of veterinary medicine as defined in Section 4826 of the Business and Professions Code, for that person’s neglect resulting in injury or death to an animal or fowl in the course of boarding or feeding the animal or fowl or in the course of the practice of veterinary medicine on that animal or fowl.

(d) An action against an officer to recover damages for the seizure of any property for a statutory forfeiture to the state, or for the detention of, or injury to property so seized, or for damages done to any person in making that seizure.

(e) An action by a good faith improver for relief under Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 871.1) of Title 10 of Part 2. The time begins to run from the date upon which the good faith improver discovers that the good faith improver is not the owner of the land upon which the improvements have been made.
Cal. GOV § 18680 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 18680
Section 18680
Status: in_force

The remedy provided in Sections 11186 to 11188 inclusive is cumulative, and does not impair or interfere with either the power of the board or its authorized representative to conduct the hearing or investigation to enforce the attendance of witnesses and the production of books or papers or the power of any party to seek court enforcement of a subpoena issued by the board or its authorized representative.
Cal. CIV § 3320 — California Code / Code civ / Division 4 / Part 1 / Title 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 3320
Section 3320
Status: in_force

(a) In each contract for public works of improvement, entered into on or after January 1, 1996, the public agency shall pay to the prime design professional any progress payment within 30 days of receipt of a written demand for payment in accordance with the contract, and the final retention payment within 45 days of receipt of a written demand for payment in accordance with the contract. If the public agency disputes in good faith any portion of the amount due, it may withhold from the payment an amount not to exceed 150 percent of the disputed amount. The disputed amount withheld is not subject to any penalty authorized by this section.

(b) If any amount is wrongfully withheld or is not timely paid in violation of this section, the prime design professional shall be entitled to a penalty of 1 1/2 percent for the improperly withheld amount, in lieu of any interest otherwise due, per month for every month that payment is not made. In any action for the collection of amounts withheld in violation of this section, the prevailing party is entitled to his or her reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.

(c) The penalty described in subdivision (b) is separate from, and in addition to, the design professionals liens provided by Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 8300) of Title 2 of Part 6 of Division 4, mechanics liens provided by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 8400) of Title 2 of Part 6 of Division 4, and stop payment notices on public works provided by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 9350) of Title 3 of Part 6 of Division 4.

(d) This section does not apply to state agency contracts subject to Section 927.6 of the Government Code.

(e) None of the rights or obligations created by this section between prime design professionals and public agencies apply to construction loan funds held by a lender pursuant to a construction loan agreement.

(f) For purposes of this section:

(1) “Public agency” means the state, any county, any city, any city and county, any district, any public authority, any public agency, any municipal corporation, or other political subdivision or political corporation of the state.

(2) “Design professional” means a person licensed as an architect pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, registered as a professional engineer pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 6700) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, or licensed as a land surveyor pursuant to Chapter 15 (commencing with Section 8700) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code.

(3) “Prime design professional” means a design professional with a written contract directly with the public agency.
Cal. EDC § 56351 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 30 / Chapter 4 / Article 3.5 / Section 56351
Section 56351
Status: in_force

Local educational agencies shall provide opportunities for braille instruction for pupils who, due to a prognosis of visual deterioration, may be expected to have a need for braille as a reading medium.
Cal. GOV § 20825.12 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 9 / Section 20825.12
Section 20825.12
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to the appropriation required pursuant to Section 20814, the Legislature hereby appropriates two hundred forty-three million dollars ($243,000,000) from the General Fund, for the purposes described in subclause (IV) of clause (ii) of subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 20 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, to supplement the state’s appropriation to the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund. The appropriation made by this section represents a portion of the amount identified in paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 35.50 of the Budget Act of 2020. The appropriation shall be consistent with the requirements of this section and the direction of the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance shall provide to the Controller a schedule establishing the timing of specific transfers to be used as described in subdivision (b).

(b) The appropriation made in subdivision (a) shall be apportioned to the patrol member category and shall be applied to the state patrol member category’s unfunded liabilities that are in excess of base amounts for the 2020–21 fiscal year.
Cal. GOV § 22959.90 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 6.7 / Section 22959.90
Section 22959.90
Status: in_force

This part shall be known and may be cited as the Retired Public Employees Vision Care Program. The purpose of this part is to do all of the following:

(a) Promote increased economy and efficiency in the provision of vision care benefits to retired members of public agencies, schools, and the university system.

(b) Enable the public agencies, schools, and the university system, when those entities provide retirement benefits to their annuitants through the Public Employees’ Retirement System, to use economies of scale to provide a vision care plan for their employees that is similar to those commonly provided to State of California employees, annuitants, and private industry, and as may be provided in other states.

(c) Promote and preserve continued good health among members of public agencies, schools, and the university system.
Cal. EDC § 49182 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 7 / Article 7 / Section 49182
Section 49182
Status: in_force

Any person, firm, corporation, or agent or officer of a firm or corporation, that violates or omits to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter, or that employs or suffers any minor under 18 years of age who is too old to be subject to compulsory full-time school attendance to be employed in violation thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100), nor more than four hundred dollars ($400), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every offense.
Cal. EDC § 44941.1 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 44941.1
Section 44941.1
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Section 44941, the notice of suspension and intention to dismiss that is based exclusively on charges of egregious misconduct as described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 44932, shall be in writing and served pursuant to Section 44936. A copy of the charges filed, containing the information required by Section 11503 of the Government Code, together with a copy of the provisions of this article, shall be attached to the notice. If the employee does not demand a hearing within the 30-day period, he or she may be dismissed upon the expiration of 30 days after service of the notice.
Cal. CORP § 15902.05 — California Code / Code corp / Title 2 / Chapter 4.5 / Article 2 / Section 15902.05
Section 15902.05
Status: in_force

(a) If a person required by this chapter to sign a record or deliver a record to the Secretary of State for filing does not do so, any other person that is aggrieved may petition the superior court to order:

(1) the person to sign the record;

(2) deliver the record to the Secretary of State for filing; or

(3) the Secretary of State to file the record unsigned.

(b) If the person aggrieved under subdivision (a) is not the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership to which the record pertains, the aggrieved person shall make the limited partnership or foreign limited partnership a party to the action. A person aggrieved under subdivision (a) may seek the remedies provided in subdivision (a) in the same action in combination or in the alternative. In any action under this subdivision, if the court finds the failure of the person to comply with the requirement to sign a record or deliver a record to the Secretary of State for filing to have been without justification, the court may award an amount sufficient to reimburse the persons aggrieved under subdivision (a) bringing the action for the reasonable expenses incurred by such persons, including attorneys’ fees, in connection with the action or proceeding.

(c) A record filed unsigned pursuant to this section is effective without being signed.

(d) Any person, other than a general partner, delivering a record to the Secretary of State for filing, shall state the statutory authority for such action after the signature on the appropriate record.
Cal. EDC § 52702 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 28 / Chapter 11 / Article 1 / Section 52702
Section 52702
Status: in_force

The governing board of the district may provide for the general supervision of the farm and the cost of the supervision may be a charge against the funds of the district.
Cal. GOV § 14907 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 5.5 / Chapter 7 / Article 6 / Section 14907
Section 14907
Status: in_force

Upon application, county law libraries, the law libraries of any law school approved by the State Bar of California, the Supreme Court Library, the law libraries of the courts of appeal, and the law libraries of the Department of Justice and the law library of the Continuing Education of the Bar of the University of California Extension may contract as provided in Section 14905 to become a selective or complete depository library.
Cal. GOV § 12726 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 1 / Section 12726
Section 12726
Status: in_force

(a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide authorization for the Governor of the State of California to assume responsibility for the Community Services Block Grant (Subtitle B, Title VI, Public Law 97-35, as amended), and to further provide for the state to implement this block grant in conformity with the principles, purposes, and policies of the California Community Services Block Grant Program set forth herein.

(b) The Legislature intends that the California Community Services Block Grant Program shall be governed by the principle of community self-help, thereby promoting new economic opportunities for Californians living in poverty through well planned, broadly based and locally controlled programs of community action.
Cal. GOV § 19996.37 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2.6 / Chapter 7 / Article 1.7 / Section 19996.37
Section 19996.37
Status: in_force

(a) A permanent state employee or legislative employee who voluntarily reduces his or her worktime for partial service retirement pursuant to this article shall, upon request and subject to subdivision (b), be given priority for returning to a full-time work schedule to the extent that such full-time work is available; provided, that any employee who so voluntarily returns to full-time work shall be ineligible for five years thereafter to again participate pursuant to this article. The appointing authority may require a participating employee to return to full-time employment only if a state of emergency has been declared pursuant to Section 8558 which affects the area of the state in which the employee works.

(b) A state employee or a legislative employee who is participating pursuant to this article in reduced worktime for partial service retirement may: (1) elect only once in each fiscal year to further reduce his or her worktime; (2) elect only once in five years to increase his or her worktime to another less than full-time schedule.
Cal. EDC § 33000.5 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 20 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 33000.5
Section 33000.5
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 33000 and 33001, the Governor shall also appoint a student member to the state board with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Senate.

(b) The term of office of the student member is one year, and shall begin on August 1. An individual may serve only one term as a student member.

(c) Notwithstanding Section 1020 of the Government Code, the student member shall be, at the time the student member’s one-year term commences, a student enrolled in good standing in grade 12 in a public high school. The student member shall be selected from three students recommended by the state board pursuant to subdivision (d). The student member shall be a voting member with the full rights and duties of the other 10 members of the state board.

(d) The process for selecting the student member shall be as follows:

(1) Each year, the state board shall notify every school district that applications are being accepted for the student member’s position.

(2) A screening committee of the state board shall select 12 semifinalists for the student member’s position. Those semifinalists shall be presented to the California Association of Student Councils, which shall select a maximum of six final candidates for presentation to the state board.

(3) Each year, the state board shall select three finalists for the Governor’s consideration and may rank the finalists according to its preference.
Cal. CCP § 354.8 — California Code / Code ccp / Part 2 / Title 2 / Chapter 4 / Section 354.8
Section 354.8
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to Section 335.1, the following actions shall be commenced within 10 years:

(1) An action for assault, battery, or both, where the conduct constituting the assault or battery would also constitute any of the following:

(A) An act of torture, as described in Section 206 of the Penal Code.

(B) An act of genocide, as described in Section 1091(a) of Title 18 of the United States Code.

(C) A war crime, as defined in Section 2441 of Title 18 of the United States Code.

(D) An attempted extrajudicial killing, as defined in Section 3(a) of Public Law 102-256.

(E) (i) Crimes against humanity.

(ii) For purposes of this paragraph, “crimes against humanity” means any of the following acts as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civil population, with knowledge of the attack:

(I) Murder.

(II) Extermination.

(III) Enslavement.

(IV) Forcible transfer of population.

(V) Arbitrary detention.

(VI) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity.

(VII) Persecution on political, race, national, ethnic, cultural, religious, or gender grounds.

(VIII) Enforced disappearance of persons.

(IX) Other inhuman acts of similar character intentionally causing great suffering, serious bodily injury, or serious mental injury.

(2) An action for wrongful death, where the death arises out of conduct constituting any of the acts described in paragraph (1), or where the death would constitute an extrajudicial killing, as defined in Section 3(a) of Public Law 102-256.

(3) An action for the taking of property in violation of international law, in which either of the following apply:

(A) That property, or any property exchanged for such property, is present in the United States in connection with a commercial activity carried on in the United States by a foreign state.

(B) That property, or any property exchanged for such property, is owned or operated by an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state and that agency or instrumentality is engaged in a commercial activity in the United States.

(4) An action seeking benefits under an insurance policy where the insurance claim arises out of any of the conduct described in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive.

(b) An action brought under this section shall not be dismissed for failure to comply with any previously applicable statute of limitations.

(c) Section 361 shall not apply to an action brought pursuant to this section if all or part of the unlawful act or acts out of which the action arises occurred in this state.

(d) A prevailing plaintiff may be awarded reasonable attorney’s fees and litigation costs including, but not limited to, expert witness fees and expenses as part of the costs.

(e) This section shall apply to all actions commenced concerning an act described in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (a), that occurs on or after January 1, 2016.

(f) The provisions of this section are severable. If any provision of this section or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
Cal. CCP § 339.5 — California Code / Code ccp / Part 2 / Title 2 / Chapter 3 / Section 339.5
Section 339.5
Status: in_force

Where a lease of real property is not in writing, no action shall be brought under Section 1951.2 of the Civil Code more than two years after the breach of the lease and abandonment of the property, or more than two years after the termination of the right of the lessee to possession of the property, whichever is the earlier time.
Cal. GOV § 19826.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2.6 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 19826.5
Section 19826.5
Status: in_force

Whenever the department finds that pay data was furnished to the department on the basis that the source remain confidential, the source shall not be open to the public or admissible as evidence in any action or special proceeding.
Cal. EDC § 46117 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 26 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 46117
Section 46117
Status: in_force

The minimum schoolday for pupils in kindergartens is 180 minutes inclusive of recesses, and no units of average daily attendance shall be credited for attendance in kindergarten classes if the minimum schoolday of such classes is less than 180 minutes.
Cal. EDC § 51454 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 28 / Chapter 3 / Article 5 / Section 51454
Section 51454
Status: in_force

Each school district that confers high school diplomas shall maintain appropriate records in order to identify students who have earned a Golden State Seal Merit Diploma, and shall affix the appropriate insignia to the diploma and transcript of each student that earns a Golden State Seal Merit Diploma.
Cal. EDC § 56166 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 30 / Chapter 2 / Article 5 / Section 56166
Section 56166
Status: in_force

The board shall adopt rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this article.
Cal. GOV § 8259.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 3.3 / Section 8259.5
Section 8259.5
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may apply for and accept grants and receive gifts, donations, and other financial support from public or private sources for purposes of this chapter, subject to the requirements of Sections 11005 and 11005.1 of the Government Code.

(b) The commission may also accept any other funds appropriated by the Legislature expressly for the purposes of this chapter.
Cal. EDC § 33133.5 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 20 / Chapter 2 / Article 2 / Section 33133.5
Section 33133.5
Status: in_force

(a) The Superintendent shall create a poster that notifies children of the appropriate telephone number to call to report child abuse or neglect.

(b) The Superintendent may partner with other local, state, and federal agencies as well as nonprofit entities for purposes of the design and content of the poster.

(c) The poster shall incorporate the additional following elements:

(1) It shall include a note that directs a child to dial “911” in case of emergency.

(2) It shall be no smaller than 8.5 inches by 11 inches.

(3) It shall be produced in five languages, which shall be English, Spanish, and the top three languages other than English and Spanish that are spoken in the state as determined by the Superintendent.

(d) On or before July 1, 2017, the Superintendent shall post on the department’s Internet Web site all five versions of the poster for public download.

(e) The Legislature encourages school districts, charter schools, and private schools to post the appropriate version or versions of the poster in an area of the school where pupils frequently congregate.
Cal. GOV § 15813.2 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 10b / Chapter 2.1 / Section 15813.2
Section 15813.2
Status: in_force

(a) Financing for works of art in state buildings shall be subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act. The Governor shall include a budget item for art in state buildings in the budget of the council in the annual budget submitted to the Legislature.

(b) The State Architect and the council, jointly, may accept from the council any federal money made available to the council and may expend such funds for the purposes specified in this chapter.
Cal. GOV § 20556 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Article 4 / Section 20556
Section 20556
Status: in_force

The employer contribution rate of a contracting agency subject to this article shall not be reduced because of concurrent coverage of social security.
Cal. GOV § 9353.2 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 2 / Section 9353.2
Section 9353.2
Status: in_force

The board shall determine who are members of this system and is the sole judge of the conditions under which persons may be admitted to and continue to receive benefits under this system.
Cal. GOV § 19608 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 2 / Chapter 8 / Section 19608
Section 19608
Status: in_force

Any demonstration project implemented under this chapter shall not include the adoption or waiver of regulations or statutes that are administered or enforced by the Department of Human Resources without the express approval of the Department of Human Resources.
Cal. CORP § 16302 — California Code / Code corp / Title 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 3 / Section 16302
Section 16302
Status: in_force

(a) Partnership property may be transferred as follows:

(1) Subject to the effect of a statement of partnership authority under Section 16303, partnership property held in the name of the partnership may be transferred by an instrument of transfer executed by a partner in the partnership name.

(2) Partnership property held in the name of one or more partners with an indication in the instrument transferring the property to them of their capacity as partners or of the existence of a partnership, but without an indication of the name of the partnership, may be transferred by an instrument of transfer executed by the persons in whose name the property is held.

(3) Partnership property held in the name of one or more persons other than the partnership, without an indication in the instrument transferring the property to them of their capacity as partners or of the existence of a partnership, may be transferred by an instrument of transfer executed by the persons in whose name the property is held.

(b) A partnership may recover partnership property from a transferee only if it proves that execution of the instrument of initial transfer did not bind the partnership under Section 16301 and either of the following applies:

(1) As to a subsequent transferee who gave value for property transferred under paragraph (1) or (2) of subdivision (a), proves that the subsequent transferee knew or had received a notification that the person who executed the instrument of initial transfer lacked authority to bind the partnership.

(2) As to a transferee who gave value for property transferred under paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), proves that the transferee knew or had received a notification that the property was partnership property and that the person who executed the instrument of initial transfer lacked authority to bind the partnership.

(c) A partnership may not recover partnership property from a subsequent transferee if the partnership would not have been entitled to recover the property, under subdivision (b), from any earlier transferee of the property.

(d) If a person holds all of the partners’ interests in the partnership, all of the partnership property vests in that person. The person may execute a document in the name of the partnership to evidence vesting of the property in that person and may file or record the document.
Cal. EDC § 35710.51 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 21 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 35710.51
Section 35710.51
Status: in_force

(a) The county superintendent of schools, within 35 days after receiving the notification provided by Section 35710, shall call an election, in the manner prescribed in Part 4 (commencing with Section 5000), to be conducted at the next election of any kind in accordance with either of the following:

(1) Section 1002 of the Elections Code and Part 4 (commencing with Section 5000) of Division 1 of Title 1.

(2) Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000) of the Elections Code.

(b) The county superintendent of schools shall call the election in the territory of districts as determined by the county committee on school district organization, or, in the case of territory transfers appealed to the state board pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 35710.5, as determined by the state board. The county superintendent of schools shall not issue an order of election until after the time for an appeal pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 35710.5 has elapsed.
Cal. GOV § 9357.1 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 5 / Section 9357.1
Section 9357.1
Status: in_force

Immediately upon receipt of the written election of a legislator to become a member of this system, the board of administration shall certify to the State Controller the name of that member. The Controller shall deduct from each warrant drawn in payment of compensation to the member the amount of contribution at the rate prescribed by the provisions of this chapter with respect to his or her service as a member of this system, and shall remit that amount to the board of administration, to be deposited in the Legislators’ Retirement Fund.
Cal. EDC § 60111 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 33 / Chapter 1 / Article 6 / Section 60111
Section 60111
Status: in_force

The Department of Education shall establish an information center of current alcohol, drug, and traffic safety education materials which may be used by school districts and teachers for instruction on alcohol, drug, and traffic safety education. The information center shall include, but not be limited to, all the following: current state and federal alcohol and drug laws, including those related to traffic safety; samples of effective courses of study, curriculum guides, teaching materials, and reference materials; and reports of current and school district policies related to alcohol, drug, and traffic safety education.
Cal. GOV § 8803 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 10 / Article 1 / Section 8803
Section 8803
Status: in_force

“Commission” means the California Public Broadcasting Commission.
Cal. EDC § 60152 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 33 / Chapter 1 / Article 8 / Section 60152
Section 60152
Status: in_force

(a) If a local educational agency or the Superintendent determines that, pursuant to a complaint filed directly with the Superintendent or on appeal of a local educational agency’s decision regarding a complaint, an organization contracted to provide any textbook, instructional material, professional development material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum violates subdivision (a) of Section 244, the local educational agency or the Superintendent shall notify the organization that it must take corrective action. If corrective action is not taken within 60 days, the department may use any means authorized by law to effect compliance.

(b) An organization that contracts to provide a textbook, instructional material, professional development material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum that the local educational agency or the Superintendent determines to be a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 244 shall do both of the following:

(1) Reimburse all funds received for their services from the local educational agency.

(2) (A) Disclose the determination that they have been found in violation of the state’s antidiscrimination laws by notifying every local educational agency that they are contracted with to provide services for and as part of any proposal to contract their services with a local educational agency.

(B) The disclosure made pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall conspicuously display hyperlinks to the published documentation of the determination from the local educational agency or the Superintendent that the organization violated subdivision (a) of Section 244.

(c) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
Cal. EDC § 44948.3 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 4 / Article 3 / Section 44948.3
Section 44948.3
Status: in_force

(a) First and second year probationary employees may be dismissed during the school year for unsatisfactory performance determined pursuant to Article 11 (commencing with Section 44660) of Chapter 3, or for cause pursuant to Section 44932. Any dismissal pursuant to this section shall be in accordance with all of the following procedures:

(1) The superintendent of the school district or the superintendent’s designee shall give 30 days’ prior written notice of dismissal, not later than March 15 in the case of second year probationary employees. The notice shall include a statement of the reasons for the dismissal and notice of the opportunity to appeal. In the event of a dismissal for unsatisfactory performance, a copy of the evaluation conducted pursuant to Section 44664 shall accompany the written notice.

(2) The employee shall have 15 days from receipt of the notice of dismissal to submit to the governing board a written request for a hearing. The governing board may establish procedures for the appointment of an administrative law judge to conduct the hearing and submit a recommended decision to the board. The failure of an employee to request a hearing within 15 days from receipt of a dismissal notice shall constitute a waiver of the right to a hearing.

(b) The governing board, pursuant to this section, may suspend a probationary employee for a specified period of time without pay as an alternative to dismissal.

(c) This section applies only to probationary employees whose probationary period commenced during the 1983–84 fiscal year or any fiscal year thereafter, and does not apply to probationary employees in a school district having an average daily attendance of less than 250 pupils.
Cal. EDC § 35111 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 21 / Chapter 2 / Article 1.5 / Section 35111
Section 35111
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), when a governing board has adopted a resolution specified in Section 35110, the elementary school district and the high school district shall be deemed to be a single school district for all purposes, including, but not limited to, budget and personnel matters, and the governing board shall be deemed to be the governing board of a single school district.

(b) When a governing board has adopted a resolution pursuant to Section 35110, the school districts under its jurisdiction shall continue to be treated as separate school districts for purposes of computing state apportionments and allowances, and allocations of local property tax revenue.

(c) When a governing board has adopted a resolution pursuant to Section 35110, the school districts under its jurisdiction shall continue to hold title to the property of each district separately and any indebtedness for such property shall remain in the indebtedness of each separate district.

(d) When a governing board has adopted a resolution pursuant to Section 35110, the school districts under its jurisdiction shall publish annually, in a newspaper of local circulation, the general fund income and expenses of both districts. The publication documents shall indicate the amount transferred to each district pursuant to Section 35112 from the combined special reserve of both districts. The governing board shall adopt a resolution authorizing the specific transfers pursuant to Section 35112 at the time of the final budget adoption.

(e) For the purpose of Section 53892.1 of the Government Code, common governing boards, as described in Section 35110, shall be reported as one single educational entity.
Cal. EDC § 33036 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 20 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 33036
Section 33036
Status: in_force

The board shall cause the Department of General Services to do any printing required by it. All orders for printing shall first be approved by the Department of General Services.
Cal. GOV § 12780 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 10 / Section 12780
Section 12780
Status: in_force

The powers and responsibilities of the department as the state administering agency for the California Community Services Block Grant Program are those necessary to do all of the following:

(a) Ensure that all applicable federal requirements of Subtitle B of Title VI of Public Law 97-35, as amended, are met.

(b) Define and enforce state standards of programmatic performance and fiscal accountability, including, but not limited to, any assurances that the state makes in its state plan.

(c) Promulgate regulations and execute grants and contracts necessary or convenient for the exercise of its responsibilities, powers, and functions under the Community Services Block Grant.

(d) Ensure that the administrative requirements of this program are clear and uniform.

(e) Provide adequate safeguards for the due process rights of eligible entities and beneficiaries.
Cal. GOV § 22853.4 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 5 / Chapter 1 / Article 6 / Section 22853.4
Section 22853.4
Status: in_force

Commencing January 1, 2024, a health benefit plan or contract shall provide coverage for vasectomies and related services consistent with the requirements under Section 1367.255 of the Health and Safety Code and Section 10123.1945 of the Insurance Code.
Cal. GOV § 16812 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 3 / Chapter 5 / Section 16812
Section 16812
Status: in_force

Bonds of the State of California shall be prepared, issued, and sold in the amount of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), in such denominations, to be numbered, to bear such dates, and to bear such rate of interest as shall be determined by the Legislature.

The proceeds of such bonds shall be used:

(a) Subject to such legislation as the Legislature may, from time to time, enact, to provide loans and grants to school districts of the state for use in purchasing and improving school sites, the purchasing of furniture and equipment for schools, and the planning and constructing, reconstructing, repairing, altering, and making additions to, school buildings.

(b) To pay the expenses that may be incurred in preparing, advertising, issuing, and selling the bonds, and in administering and directing the expenditure of the moneys realized from the sale of such bonds.

The issuance, signing, countersigning, endorsing, and selling of the bonds herein provided for, and the interest coupons thereon, the place and method of payment of principal and interest thereon, the procedure for initiating, advertising and holding sales thereof, and the performance by the several state boards and state officers of their respective duties in connection therewith; and all other provisions, terms, and conditions relating to the bonds, shall be as provided by the Legislature.

The Legislature may appropriate money to be expended in addition to or in lieu of the money received from the sale of the bonds sold under the authority of this section. The money so appropriated shall be expended pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section. If the Legislature appropriates money in lieu of the money received from the sale of the bonds, the total amount of bonds required to be sold pursuant to this section shall be reduced by the amount so appropriated.

The Legislature shall pass all laws, general or special, necessary or convenient to carry into effect the provisions of this section. Such laws may provide for the allocation of funds to school districts pursuant to this section by the State Allocations Board or a similar agency and in that event, notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, Members of the Legislature who are required to meet with such board shall have equal rights and duties with the nonlegislative members to vote and act upon matters pending before such board.

The Legislature shall require each district receiving an allocation of money from the sale of bonds pursuant to this section to repay such money to the state on such terms and in such amounts as may be within the ability of the district to repay.

The people of the State of California in adopting this section hereby declare that it is in the interests of the state and of the people thereof for the state to aid school districts of the state in providing necessary school sites and buildings for the pupils of the public school system, such system being a matter of general concern inasmuch as the education of the children of the state is an obligation and function of the state.
Cal. EDC § 35112 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 21 / Chapter 2 / Article 1.5 / Section 35112
Section 35112
Status: in_force

When a governing board has adopted a resolution pursuant to Section 35110, the school districts under its jurisdiction may transfer funds between the districts to the extent permitted by Section 6 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
Cal. GOV § 21580 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 14 / Article 3 / Section 21580
Section 21580
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Sections 21571, 21572, 21573, and 21574, this article shall apply to a surviving spouse of a local member who has attained or attains the age of 60 years and, with respect to that surviving spouse, who was either continuously married to the member for at least one year prior to death, or who was married to the member prior to the occurrence of the injury or onset of the illness that resulted in death and has not remarried subsequent to the member’s death.

A contracting agency that is already subject to this article, on and after January 1, 1993, may elect to be subject to this section by amendment to its contract made in the manner prescribed for approval of contracts, except that an election among the employees shall not be required. In the case of contracts made on or after January 1, 1993, this section shall apply to members of a contracting agency that either expressly includes this section in its contract or subsequently elects to amend its contract to make this section applicable to local members employed by the agency.
Cal. GOV § 20966.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 11 / Article 3 / Section 20966.5
Section 20966.5
Status: in_force

For purposes of Sections 20326 and 21029.5, each day of compensated service with the California National Guard or service by a National Guard member authorized by Title 10 of the United State Code shall count as one day of service and shall be credited in each fiscal year based on the ratio that service bears to 215 days.
Cal. EDC § 60204 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 33 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 60204
Section 60204
Status: in_force

The Instructional Quality Commission established pursuant to Section 33530 shall do all of the following:

(a) Recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board.

(b) Develop criteria for evaluating instructional materials submitted for adoption so that the materials adopted shall adequately cover the subjects in the indicated grade or grades and comply with the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 60040) of Chapter 1. The criteria developed by the commission shall be consistent with the duties of the state board pursuant to Section 60200. The criteria shall be public information and shall be provided in written or printed form to any person requesting that information.

(1) The criteria for English language arts instructional materials shall include directions to publishers to align both lessons and teacher’s editions, as appropriate, with English language development standards and incorporate strategies to address, at every grade level, the needs of all English learners. The criteria for other subject areas shall include directions to publishers to incorporate strategies for English learners that are consistent with the English language development standards.

(2) The criteria also shall include directions to publishers to incorporate instructional strategies to address the needs of pupils with disabilities in both lessons and teacher’s editions, as appropriate, at every grade level and subject.

(c) Study and evaluate instructional materials submitted for adoption.

(d) Recommend instructional materials for adoption to the state board.

(e) Recommend to the state board policies and activities to assist the department and school districts in the use of the curriculum framework and other available model curriculum materials for the purpose of guiding and strengthening the quality of instruction in the public schools.

(f) Advise and make recommendations to the state board, including, but not limited to, what policies and activities are needed to implement the state’s academic content standards, and bring the state’s curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, professional development programs, pupil assessments, and academic accountability systems into alignment with those standards.
Cal. GOV § 14659.06 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 5.5 / Chapter 2 / Article 1.1 / Section 14659.06
Section 14659.06
Status: in_force

The Department of General Services, the Office of Risk and Insurance Management, any state office designated pursuant to Section 14659.02, or their designees may administer oaths, examine witnesses, issue subpoenas, and receive evidence under such rules and regulations, pursuant to Section 14659, as the Department of General Services may adopt.
Cal. EDC § 45224 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 5 / Article 5 / Section 45224
Section 45224
Status: in_force

The governing board of a school district whose average daily attendance is 3,000 or more may, by affirmative vote of a majority of its members, and a county superintendent of schools, with the consent of the majority of the members of the county board of education, adopt the procedure set forth in Article 6 (commencing with Section 45240) of this chapter, provided a lawful petition has not been received as authorized in Section 45221, or may adopt the procedure at any time after a two-year period has elapsed following an unsuccessful election conducted in accordance with Section 45221 of this code.

The motion, order, or resolution for adoption of the procedure shall specify the date that the provisions of Article 6 shall be applicable to classified employees, which shall not be later than July 1 next following the date of adoption.
Cal. EDC § 41540 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24 / Chapter 3.2 / Article 6 / Section 41540
Section 41540
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby established the targeted instructional improvement block grant. Commencing with the 2005–06 fiscal year, the Superintendent shall apportion block grant funds to a school district in the same relative statewide proportion that the school district received in the 2003–04 fiscal year for the programs listed in Section 41541.

(b) If a school district is not in violation of a court order regarding desegregation, the school district may expend funds received pursuant to this article for any purpose authorized by the programs listed in Section 41541 as the statutes governing those programs read on January 1, 2004.

(c) For purposes of this article, “school district” includes a county office of education if county offices of education are eligible to receive funds for the programs that are listed in Section 41541. The block grant of a county office of education shall be based only on those programs for which it was eligible to receive funds in the 2003–04 fiscal year.

(d) A school that received funding in the 2000–01 fiscal year, or any fiscal year thereafter, from a desegregation program or a targeted instructional improvement grant program pursuant to Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 54200) of Part 29, that was allocated by a school district as part of a court-ordered desegregation program before the school converted to a charter school, shall continue to receive its proportionate share of funding from the school district through the block grant established pursuant to this section if all of the following conditions are met:

(1) The charter school continues to serve the same general population.

(2) The charter school implements the intended goals of the court order.

(3) The court order remains in effect.

(e) On and after July 1, 2006, subdivision (d) shall not apply to charter schools that receive funds through the Charter School Categorical Block Grant established pursuant to Section 47634.1.
Cal. EDC § 49564.3 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 9 / Article 11 / Section 49564.3
Section 49564.3
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of this section, a “high-poverty school” is a school that enrolls pupils in kindergarten or in any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and is eligible to operate under the Community Eligibility Provision, pursuant to Section 1759a of Title 42 of the United States Code.

(b) (1) In order to provide pupils in high-poverty schools with optimal nutrition for learning and to ensure that schools receive the maximum federal meal reimbursement, a school district or a county superintendent of schools shall provide breakfast and lunch free of charge to all pupils at a high-poverty school pursuant to this section.

(2) (A) On or before June 30, 2022, a school district or county superintendent of schools that has a high-poverty school with an identified student percentage of 40 percent or more in its jurisdiction shall apply to operate a federal universal meal service provision, which may include, but is not limited to, the Community Eligibility Provision or Provision 2, pursuant to Section 1759a of Title 42 of the United States Code.

(B) Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit a school district or a county superintendent of schools from participating in a federal universal meal service provision if a high-poverty school in its jurisdiction has an identified student percentage of less than 40 percent.

(3) A school district or county superintendent of schools shall begin providing a universal meal service pursuant to Section 1759a of Title 42 of the United States Code to all pupils at a high-poverty school upon state approval to operate a universal meal service.

(c) The department shall provide technical assistance to school districts and county superintendents of schools for the purpose of maximizing the number of schools within each local educational agency to be eligible for the Community Eligibility Provision, pursuant to Section 1759a of Title 42 of the United States Code.

(d) For purposes of this section, a charter school shall be considered a high-poverty school only if it participates in the federal National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program, or both, and meets the description in subdivision (a). A charter school that is a high-poverty school shall comply with the requirements specified in subdivision (b).
Cal. CCP § 1952.3 — California Code / Code ccp / Part 4 / Title 2 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 1952.3
Section 1952.3
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, the court, on its own motion, may order the destruction or other disposition of any exhibit, deposition, or administrative record introduced in the trial or posttrial hearing of a civil action or proceeding or filed in the action or proceeding that, if appeal has not been taken from the decision of the court in the action or proceeding, remains in the custody of the court or clerk five years after time for appeal has expired, or, if appeal has been taken, remains in the custody of the court or clerk five years after final determination thereof, or that remains in the custody of the court or clerk for a period of five years after any of the following:

(a) A motion for a new trial has been granted and a memorandum to set the case for trial has not been filed, or a motion to set for trial has not been made within five years.

(b) The dismissal of the action or proceeding.

In addition, the court on its own motion, may order the destruction or other disposition of any exhibit, deposition, or administrative record that remains in the custody of the court or clerk for a period of 10 years after the introduction or filing of the action or proceeding if, in the discretion of the court, the exhibit, deposition, or administrative record should be disposed of or destroyed.

The order shall be entered in the register of actions of each case in which the order is made.

No exhibit, deposition, or administrative record shall be ordered destroyed or otherwise disposed of pursuant to this section if a party to the action or proceeding files a written notice with the court requesting the preservation of any exhibit, deposition, or administrative record for a stated time, but not to exceed one year.

Any sealed file shall be retained for at least two years after the date on which destruction would otherwise be authorized pursuant to this section.
Cal. EDC § 52613 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 28 / Chapter 10 / Article 6 / Section 52613
Section 52613
Status: in_force

[Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 69, Sec. 5.   (AB 1850)   Effective January 1, 2017.   Operative only if the condition in Sec. 10 of Ch. 69 is satisfied on or before January 20, 2017.]
(a) Notwithstanding any section to the contrary, each governing board of a school district maintaining classes for adults that issues a Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) Student Status - For Academic and Language Students, Form I-20AB, or completes Form I-20AB for a nonimmigrant foreign national, as defined in subparagraph (F)(i) of paragraph (15) of subsection (a) of Section 1101 of Title 8 of the United States Code, for the purposes of enrolling the nonimmigrant foreign national in a class in English and citizenship for foreigners or a class in an elementary subject, shall charge the nonimmigrant foreign national a fee to cover the full costs of instruction, but in no case shall the fee exceed the actual cost of the instruction. The fee shall be adopted at a regular meeting of the governing board of each of these school districts maintaining classes for adults at least 90 days before the commencement of the classes for which the fee is charged.

(b) No school district maintaining classes for adults shall include the attendance of F-1 visa students enrolled in a class in English and citizenship for foreigners or in a class in elementary subjects for apportionment purposes.

[Amended (as added by Stats. 1987, Ch. 318, Sec. 3) by Stats. 2021, Ch. 296, Sec. 18.   (AB 1096)   Effective January 1, 2022.   Superseded by amendment by Stats. 2017, Ch. 69, only if it becomes operative on or before January 20, 2017.]
(a) Notwithstanding any section to the contrary, each governing board of a school district maintaining classes for adults that issues a Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) Student Status - For Academic and Language Students, Form I-20AB, or completes Form I-20AB for a person described in subparagraph (F)(i) of paragraph (15) of subsection (a) of Section 1101 of Title 8 of the United States Code, for the purposes of enrolling that person in a class in English and citizenship for foreigners or a class in an elementary subject, shall charge that person a fee to cover the full costs of instruction, but in no case shall the fee exceed the actual cost of the instruction. The fee shall be adopted at a regular meeting of the governing board of each of these school districts maintaining classes for adults at least 90 days prior to the commencement of the classes for which the fee is charged.

(b) No district maintaining classes for adults shall include the attendance of F-1 visa students enrolled in a class in English and citizenship for foreigners or in a class in elementary subjects for apportionment purposes.
Cal. CORP § 16805 — California Code / Code corp / Title 2 / Chapter 5 / Article 8 / Section 16805
Section 16805
Status: in_force

(a) After dissolution, a partner who has not wrongfully dissociated may file a statement of dissolution stating the name of the partnership as filed with the Secretary of State, any identification number issued by the Secretary of State, and that the partnership has dissolved and is winding up its business.

(b) A statement of dissolution cancels a filed statement of partnership authority for the purposes of subdivision (d) of Section 16303 and is a limitation on authority for the purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 16303.

(c) For the purposes of Sections 16301 and 16804, a person not a partner is deemed to have notice of the dissolution and the limitation on the partners’ authority as a result of the statement of dissolution 90 days after it is filed.

(d) After filing and, if appropriate, recording a statement of dissolution, a dissolved partnership may file and, if appropriate, record a statement of partnership authority that will operate with respect to a person not a partner as provided in subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 16303 in any transaction, whether or not the transaction is appropriate for winding up the partnership business.
Cal. EDC § 49115 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 27 / Chapter 7 / Article 2 / Section 49115
Section 49115
Status: in_force

The permit to employ shall contain:

(a) The name, age, birth date, address and phone number of the minor.

(b) The place and hours of compulsory part-time school attendance for the minor, or statement of exemption therefrom, and the hours of compulsory full-time school attendance for the minor, if the permit is issued for outside of school hours.

(c) The maximum number of hours per day and per week the student may work while school is in session.

(d) The minor’s social security number.

(e) The signature of the minor and the issuing authority.

(f) The date on which the permit expires.
Cal. GOV § 15819.5 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 10b / Chapter 3.1 / Section 15819.5
Section 15819.5
Status: in_force

Bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to this chapter shall be sold pursuant to Sections 15832 and 15832.5.
Cal. EDC § 59101 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 32 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 59101
Section 59101
Status: in_force

The California School for the Blind is a part of the public school system of the state except that it derives no revenue from the State School Fund, and has for its object the education of visually impaired, blind, and deaf-blind pupils who, because of their severe sensory loss and educational needs, cannot be provided an appropriate educational program and related services in the regular public schools.
Cal. GOV § 12809 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2.5 / Chapter 1 / Section 12809
Section 12809
Status: in_force

All officers and employees of the Human Relations Agency who, on the effective date of the 1972 amendment of this section, are serving in the state civil service, other than as temporary employees, and engaged in the performance of a function transferred to or vested in the Health and Welfare Agency or the Resources Agency by Section 12803, 12806, or 12807 shall be transferred to the Health and Welfare Agency or the Resources Agency, as the case may be. The status, positions, and rights of such persons shall not be affected by the transfer, and shall be retained by them as officers and employees of the Health and Welfare Agency or the Resources Agency pursuant to the State Civil Service Act, except as to positions exempt from civil service in the Human Relations Agency.
Cal. GOV § 8670.8.3 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 7.4 / Article 2 / Section 8670.8.3
Section 8670.8.3
Status: in_force

The administrator may offer grants to a local government, federally recognized tribe, or other public entity with jurisdiction over or directly adjacent to waters of the state to provide oil spill response equipment to be deployed by a local spill response manager certified pursuant to Section 8670.8. The administrator may request the Legislature to appropriate funds from the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund created pursuant to Section 8670.38 for the purposes of this section.
Cal. GOV § 12750 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 2 / Chapter 9 / Article 6 / Section 12750
Section 12750
Status: in_force

(a) A community action agency shall be a public or private nonprofit agency that fulfills all of the following requirements:

(1) Has been designated by the director to operate a community action program.

(2) Has a tripartite board structure meeting the requirements of Section 12751.

(3) Has the power, authority, and capability to plan, conduct, administer, and evaluate a community action program, including the power to enter into contracts with other public and private nonprofit agencies and organizations to assist in fulfilling the purposes of this chapter.

(b) A community action program is a locally planned and operated program comprising a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem.

(c) Component services and activities of a community action program may be administered directly by the community action agency, or by other agencies pursuant to delegation or subcontractual agreements with the eligible entity. They may be projects eligible for assistance under this chapter, or projects assisted from other public or private sources, and they may be either specially designed to meet local needs, or designed pursuant to the eligibility standards of the state or federal program providing assistance to a particular kind of activity that will help in meeting those needs.

(d) For the purpose of this chapter, a community may be a city, county, multicity or multicounty unit, that provides a suitable organizational base and possesses the commonality of interest needed for a community action program.
Cal. GOV § 17581.96 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 7 / Chapter 4 / Article 2 / Section 17581.96
Section 17581.96
Status: in_force

(a) (1) For the 2017–18 fiscal year, the sum of eight hundred seventy-six million five hundred eighty-one thousand dollars ($876,581,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for transfer by the Controller to Section A of the State School Fund. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allocate those funds to school districts and county superintendents of schools in the manner, and for the purposes, set forth in this section.

(2) For purposes of this section, a “school district” includes a county office of education and a charter school.

(b) The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall allocate the funds appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) to school districts on the basis of an equal amount per unit of regular average daily attendance, as those average daily attendance numbers are reported at the time of the second principal apportionment for the 2016–17 fiscal year.

(c) Allocations made pursuant to this section shall first satisfy any outstanding claims pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution for reimbursement of state-mandated local program costs for any fiscal year. Notwithstanding Section 12419.5 and any amounts that are paid in satisfaction of outstanding claims for reimbursement of state-mandated local program costs, the Controller may audit any claim as allowed by law, and may recover any amount owed by school districts pursuant to an audit only by reducing amounts owed by the state to school districts for any other mandate claims. Under no circumstances shall a school district be required to remit funding back to the state to pay for disallowed costs identified by a Controller audit of claimed reimbursable state-mandated local program costs. The Controller shall not recover any amount owed by a school district pursuant to an audit of claimed reimbursable state-mandated local program costs by reducing any amount owed a school district for any purpose other than amounts owed for any other mandate claims. The Controller shall apply amounts received by each school district against any balances of unpaid claims for reimbursement of state-mandated local program costs and interest in chronological order beginning with the earliest claim. The Controller shall report to each school district the amounts of any claims and interest that are offset from funds provided pursuant to this section and shall report a summary of the amounts offset for each mandate for each fiscal year to the Department of Finance and the fiscal committees of each house of the Legislature.

(d) (1) The governing board of a school district may expend the one-time funds received pursuant to this section for any purpose, as determined by the governing board of the school district.

(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that school districts shall prioritize the use of these one-time funds for deferred maintenance, professional development for educators, induction for beginning teachers with a focus on relevant mentoring, instructional materials, technology infrastructure, and any other investments necessary to support implementation of the common core standards in English language arts and mathematics, the implementation of English language development standards, and the implementation of the Next Generation Science standards.

(e) For purposes of making the computations required by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, the appropriation made by paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall be deemed to be “General Fund revenues appropriated for school districts,” as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the 2017–18 fiscal year, and included within the “total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated pursuant to Article XIII B,” as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41202 of the Education Code, for the 2017–18 fiscal year.
Cal. CIV § 3317 — California Code / Code civ / Division 4 / Part 1 / Title 2 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 3317
Section 3317
Status: in_force

The detriment caused by a carrier’s delay in the delivery of freight, is deemed to be the depreciation in the intrinsic value of the freight during the delay, and also the depreciation, if any, in the market value thereof, otherwise than by reason of a depreciation in its intrinsic value, at the place where it ought to have been delivered, and between the day at which it ought to have been delivered, and the day of its actual delivery.
Cal. EDC § 44435 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 3 / Article 1 / Section 44435
Section 44435
Status: in_force

Upon the becoming final of the conviction of the holder of a certificate issued by a county board of education of a violation or attempted violation of any one or more of Penal Code Sections 187 to 191, 192 insofar as that section relates to voluntary manslaughter, 193, 194 to 232, inclusive, 244, 245, 261 to 267, inclusive, 273a, 273f, 273g, 278, 285 to 288.7, both inclusive, former Penal Code Section 288a, Penal Code Sections 424, 425, 484 to 488, both inclusive, insofar as those sections relate to grand theft, 503 and 504, or of Penal Code Section 272, the county board of education shall revoke the certificate.
Cal. EDC § 44032 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 1 / Article 2 / Section 44032
Section 44032
Status: in_force

The governing board of any school district shall provide for the payment of the actual and necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, of any employee of the district incurred in the course of performing services for the district, whether within or outside the district, under the direction of the governing board.
Cal. GOV § 22958.1 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 6 / Section 22958.1
Section 22958.1
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding Sections 22953, 22957, and 22958, the following employees shall not receive any portion of the employer contribution payable for annuitants unless the person is credited with 15 or more years of state service, as defined by this section, at the time of retirement:

(1) A state employee, as defined by subdivision (c) of Section 3513, who is first employed by the state and becomes a state member of the system on or after January 1, 2017, and is represented by State Bargaining Unit 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21.

(2) A state employee related to State Bargaining Unit 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21 who is excepted from the definition of “state employee” in subdivision (c) of Section 3513 and is first employed by the state and becomes a state member of the system on or after January 1, 2017.

(b) The percentage of the employer contribution payable for postretirement dental care benefits for an employee subject to this section shall be based on the funding provision of the plan and the completed years of credited state service at retirement as shown in the following table:

Credited Years
of Service Percentage of Employer
Contribution
15 50
16 55
17 60
18 65
19 70
20 75
21 80
22 85
23 90
24 95
25 or more 100

(c) This section applies only to state employees that retire for service. For purposes of this section, “state service” means service rendered as an employee of the state or an appointed or elected officer of the state for compensation.

(d) This section does not apply to:

(1) Former state employees previously employed before January 1, 2017, who return to state employment on or after January 1, 2017.

(2) State employees hired before January 1, 2017, who become subject to representation by State Bargaining Unit 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21 on or after January 1, 2017.

(3) State employees on an approved leave of absence employed before January 1, 2017, who return to active employment on or after January 1, 2017.

(4) State employees hired after January 1, 2017, who are first represented by a state bargaining unit other than Bargaining Unit 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21, who later become represented by State Bargaining Unit 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, or 21.

(e) In those cases in which the state has assumed from a public agency a function and the related personnel, service rendered by that personnel for compensation as employees or appointed or elected officers of that public agency shall not be credited as state service for the purposes of this section unless the former employer has paid or agreed to pay the state the amount actuarially determined to equal the cost for any employee dental benefits that were vested at the time that the function and the related personnel were assumed by the state, and the Department of Finance finds that the contract contains a benefit factor sufficient to reimburse the state for the amount necessary to fully compensate for the postretirement dental benefit costs of those personnel. For noncontracting public agencies, the state agency that has assumed the function shall certify the completed years of public agency service to be credited to the employee as state service credit under this section.
Cal. CCP § 329.5 — California Code / Code ccp / Part 2 / Title 2 / Chapter 2 / Section 329.5
Section 329.5
Status: in_force

The validity of an assessment or supplemental assessment against real property for public improvements, the proceedings for which are prescribed by the legislative body of any chartered city, shall not be contested in any action or proceeding unless the action or proceeding is commenced within 30 days after the assessment is levied, or such longer period as the legislative body may provide. Any appeal from a final judgment in such an action or proceeding shall be perfected within 30 days after the entry of judgment.
Cal. GOV § 11200.4 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 2 / Article 3 / Section 11200.4
Section 11200.4
Status: in_force

The Governor, upon recommendation of the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations may appoint not to exceed one chief deputy for the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations.

The deputy provided for in this section shall be in addition to those which may be authorized by any other law.
Cal. EDC § 37200 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 22 / Chapter 2 / Article 1 / Section 37200
Section 37200
Status: in_force

The school year begins on the first day of July and ends on the last day of June.
Cal. GOV § 21008 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 5 / Part 3 / Chapter 11 / Article 4 / Section 21008
Section 21008
Status: in_force

Time during which a member is excused from performance of his or her duties, whether or not he or she is required to perform any portion of those duties during that time, and for which he or she receives compensation, but in an amount less than the full compensation earnable by him or her while performing his or her duties when not so excused, such as sabbatical leave, shall be credited as service in the proportion that the compensation paid to the member bears to the full compensation that would be earnable by him or her while performing his or her duties on a full-time basis. However, the member shall receive full-time credit for the time if after returning to the employment from which he or she was excused and at any time prior to retirement he or she elects to, and does, make the contributions as specified in Sections 21050 and 21052. However, any eligible member who requests costing of service credit between January 1, 2001, and December 31, 2003, may, instead of making those contributions, make the payment calculated under this article as it read on December 31, 2000, which payment shall be made in the manner described in Section 21050.
Cal. EDC § 41344 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 24 / Chapter 3 / Article 3 / Section 41344
Section 41344
Status: in_force

(a) If, as the result of an audit or review, a local educational agency is required to repay an apportionment significant audit exception or to pay a penalty arising from an audit exception, the Superintendent and the Director of Finance, or their designees, jointly shall establish a plan for repayment of state school funds that the local educational agency received on the basis of average daily attendance, or other data, that did not comply with statutory or regulatory requirements that were conditions of the apportionments, or for payment of a penalty arising from an audit exception. A local educational agency shall request a plan within 90 days of receiving the final audit report or review, within 30 days of withdrawing or receiving a final determination regarding an appeal pursuant to subdivision (d), or, in the absence of an appeal pursuant to subdivision (d), within 30 days of withdrawing or receiving a determination of a summary review pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 41344.1. At the time the local educational agency is notified, the Controller also shall be notified of the plan. The plan shall be established in accordance with the following:

(1) The Controller shall withhold the disallowed or penalty amount at the next principal apportionment or pursuant to paragraph (2), unless subdivision (d) of this section or subdivision (d) of Section 41344.1 applies, in which case the disallowed or penalty amount shall be withheld, at the next principal apportionment or pursuant to paragraph (2) following the determination regarding the appeal or summary appeal. In calculating a disallowed amount, the Controller shall determine the total amount of overpayment received by the local educational agency on the basis of average daily attendance, or other data, reported by the local educational agency that did not comply with one or more statutory or regulatory requirements that are conditions of apportionment.

(2) If the Superintendent and the Director of Finance concur that repayment of the full liability or payment of the penalty in the current fiscal year would constitute a severe financial hardship for the local educational agency, they may approve a plan of equal annual payments over a period of up to eight years. The plan shall include interest on each year’s outstanding balance at the rate earned on the state’s Pooled Money Investment Account during that year. The Superintendent and the Director of Finance jointly shall establish this plan. The Controller shall withhold amounts pursuant to the plan.

(3) If the Superintendent and the Director of Finance do not jointly establish a plan, the Controller shall withhold the entire disallowed amount determined pursuant to paragraph (1), or the penalty amount, at the next principal apportionment.

(b) (1) For purposes of computing average daily attendance pursuant to Section 42238.05, a local educational agency’s prior fiscal year average daily attendance shall be reduced by an amount equal to any average daily attendance disallowed in the current year, by an audit or review, as defined in subdivision (e).

(2) Commencing with the 1999–2000 fiscal year, this subdivision may not result in a local educational agency repaying more than the value of the average daily attendance disallowed in the audit exception plus interest and other penalties or reductions in apportionments as provided by existing law.

(c) Notwithstanding any other law, this section may not be waived under any authority set forth in this code except as provided in this section or Section 41344.1.

(d) Within 60 days of the date on which a local educational agency receives a final audit report resulting from an audit or review of all or any part of the operations of the local educational agency, or within 30 days of receiving a determination of a summary review pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 41344.1, a local educational agency may appeal a finding contained in the final report, pursuant to Section 41344.1. Within 90 days of the date on which the appeal is received by the panel, a hearing shall be held at which the local educational agency may present evidence or arguments if the local educational agency believes that the final report contains any finding that was based on errors of fact or interpretation of law, or if the local educational agency believes in good faith that it was in substantial compliance with all legal requirements. A repayment schedule may not commence until the panel reaches a determination regarding the appeal. If the panel determines that the local educational agency is correct in its assertion, in whole or in part, the allowable portion of any apportionment payment that was withheld shall be paid at the next principal apportionment.

(e) (1) As used in this section, “audit or review” means an audit conducted by the Controller’s office, an annual audit conducted by a certified public accountant or a public accounting firm pursuant to Section 41020, and an audit or review conducted by a governmental agency that provided the local educational agency with an opportunity to provide a written response.

(2) As used in this section, “local educational agency” includes a charter school.
Cal. GOV § 14529.23 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 5.3 / Chapter 2 / Section 14529.23
Section 14529.23
Status: in_force

The department shall implement systems that allow rapid access to funds made available under executed agreements to transfer funds. The Controller shall develop a system that provides access to those funds by electronic transfer of funds. Upon the development of that system by the Controller, the department shall utilize that system to comply with Section 14529.19 to the maximum extent feasible.
Cal. GOV § 11513 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 1 / Chapter 5 / Section 11513
Section 11513
Status: in_force

(a) Oral evidence shall be taken only on oath or affirmation.

(b) Each party shall have these rights: to call and examine witnesses, to introduce exhibits; to cross-examine opposing witnesses on any matter relevant to the issues even though that matter was not covered in the direct examination; to impeach any witness regardless of which party first called him or her to testify; and to rebut the evidence against him or her. If respondent does not testify in his or her own behalf he or she may be called and examined as if under cross-examination.

(c) The hearing need not be conducted according to technical rules relating to evidence and witnesses, except as hereinafter provided. Any relevant evidence shall be admitted if it is the sort of evidence on which responsible persons are accustomed to rely in the conduct of serious affairs, regardless of the existence of any common law or statutory rule which might make improper the admission of the evidence over objection in civil actions.

(d) Hearsay evidence may be used for the purpose of supplementing or explaining other evidence but over timely objection shall not be sufficient in itself to support a finding unless it would be admissible over objection in civil actions. An objection is timely if made before submission of the case or on reconsideration.

(e) The rules of privilege shall be effective to the extent that they are otherwise required by statute to be recognized at the hearing.

(f) The presiding officer has discretion to exclude evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the probability that its admission will necessitate undue consumption of time.
Cal. GOV § 9357.4 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 2 / Part 1 / Chapter 3.5 / Article 5 / Section 9357.4
Section 9357.4
Status: in_force

A member may redeposit in the Legislators’ Retirement Fund, in one sum or in not to exceed 12 monthly or 24 semimonthly payments, an amount equal to any accumulated contributions that have been repaid to him or her pursuant to Section 9357.3, subject to minimum payments fixed by the board, and if he or she makes a redeposit, he or she shall receive credit for all service with which he or she was credited at the time of the repayment.
Cal. EDC § 45365 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 5 / Article 8 / Section 45365
Section 45365
Status: in_force

Apportionments for the purpose of this article shall be made upon the order of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and by warrant of the State Controller. Funds apportioned shall be expended by school districts precisely in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the State Board of Education.
Cal. EDC § 46201 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 4 / Part 26 / Chapter 2 / Article 8 / Section 46201
Section 46201
Status: in_force

(a) For each school district that received an apportionment pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section, as it read on January 1, 2013, and that reduces the amount of instructional time offered below the minimum amounts specified in subdivision (b), the Superintendent shall withhold from the school district’s local control funding formula grant apportionment pursuant to Section 42238.02, as implemented by Section 42238.03, for the average daily attendance of each affected grade level, the sum of that apportionment multiplied by the percentage of the minimum offered minutes at that grade level that the school district failed to offer.

(b) Commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year:

(1) Thirty-six thousand minutes in kindergarten.

(2) Fifty thousand four hundred minutes in grades 1 to 3, inclusive.

(3) Fifty-four thousand minutes in grades 4 to 8, inclusive.

(4) Sixty-four thousand eight hundred minutes in grades 9 to 12, inclusive.
Cal. EDC § 44259.2 — California Code / Code edc / Title 2 / Division 3 / Part 25 / Chapter 2 / Article 4 / Section 44259.2
Section 44259.2
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, including, but not limited to, paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 44259, the commission shall waive the requirements for completion of a program of professional preparation for any individual with a minimum of six years of full-time teaching experience in a regionally accredited private school, as determined by the commission, in the subject and level of the credential sought, who complies with all of the following:

(1) The individual submits evidence of two years of rigorous performance evaluations while teaching in an accredited private school, based on criteria determined by the commission, on which the applicant received ratings of satisfactory or better.

(2) The individual meets the California requirements for teacher fitness pursuant to Sections 44339, 44340, and 44341.

(3) The individual satisfies the requirement for preparation in the instruction of pupils who are English language learners in accordance with paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 44259 and subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 44259.5.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, including, but not limited to, paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 44259, the commission shall waive the requirements for completion of the professional field experience component of a program of professional preparation for any individual with a minimum of three years of full-time teaching experience in an accredited private school, as determined by the commission, in the subject and level of the credential sought, who complies with all of the following:

(1) The individual submits evidence of two years of rigorous performance evaluations while teaching in an accredited private school, based on criteria determined by the commission, on which the applicant received ratings of satisfactory or better.

(2) The individual meets the California requirements for teacher fitness pursuant to Sections 44339, 44340, and 44341.
Cal. GOV § 8547.8 — California Code / Code gov / Title 2 / Division 1 / Chapter 6.5 / Article 3 / Section 8547.8
Section 8547.8
Status: in_force

(a) A state employee or applicant for state employment who files a written complaint with his or her supervisor, manager, or the appointing power alleging actual or attempted acts of reprisal, retaliation, threats, coercion, or similar improper acts prohibited by Section 8547.3, may also file a copy of the written complaint with the State Personnel Board, together with a sworn statement that the contents of the written complaint are true, or are believed by the affiant to be true, under penalty of perjury. The complaint filed with the board, shall be filed within 12 months of the most recent act of reprisal complained about.

(b) Any person who intentionally engages in acts of reprisal, retaliation, threats, coercion, or similar acts against a state employee or applicant for state employment for having made a protected disclosure, is subject to a fine not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed one year. Pursuant to Section 19683, any state civil service employee who intentionally engages in that conduct shall be disciplined by adverse action as provided by Section 19572.

(c) In addition to all other penalties provided by law, any person who intentionally engages in acts of reprisal, retaliation, threats, coercion, or similar acts against a state employee or applicant for state employment for having made a protected disclosure shall be liable in an action for damages brought against him or her by the injured party. Punitive damages may be awarded by the court where the acts of the offending party are proven to be malicious. Where liability has been established, the injured party shall also be entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees as provided by law. However, any action for damages shall not be available to the injured party unless the injured party has first filed a complaint with the State Personnel Board pursuant to subdivision (a), and the board has issued, or failed to issue, findings pursuant to Section 19683.

(d) This section is not intended to prevent an appointing power, manager, or supervisor from taking, directing others to take, recommending, or approving any personnel action or from taking or failing to take a personnel action with respect to any state employee or applicant for state employment if the appointing power, manager, or supervisor reasonably believes any action or inaction is justified on the basis of evidence separate and apart from the fact that the person has made a protected disclosure as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 8547.2.

(e) In any civil action or administrative proceeding, once it has been demonstrated by a preponderance of evidence that an activity protected by this article was a contributing factor in the alleged retaliation against a former, current, or prospective employee, the burden of proof shall be on the supervisor, manager, or appointing power to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the alleged action would have occurred for legitimate, independent reasons even if the employee had not engaged in protected disclosures or refused an illegal order. If the supervisor, manager, or appointing power fails to meet this burden of proof in an adverse action against the employee in any administrative review, challenge, or adjudication in which retaliation has been demonstrated to be a contributing factor, the employee shall have a complete affirmative defense in the adverse action.

(f) Nothing in this article shall be deemed to diminish the rights, privileges, or remedies of any employee under any other federal or state law or under any employment contract or collective bargaining agreement.