I need help from someone who knows stuff about laws in California

interesting new laws in effect jan 1

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-new-2018-laws/

some gems

No California school employee can carry a concealed weapon onto campus, a change from the former rules in which school officials had discretion over the issue.

Anyone who “willfully recorded a video” of a violent attack that was streamed on a site such as Facebook could receive additional punishment in a California court of law.

Starting July 1, Californians who assemble their own gun — a process one police chief said is now “easier than putting together Ikea furniture”— must first get a serial number from the state Department of Justice.

Californians convicted of crimes that require them to get rid of their firearms must now prove they’ve done so before their court cases can be closed, a mandate approved by voters in a 2016 ballot measure. Additional punishment can be imposed on those who don’t comply.

You can’t smoke or consume marijuana in any way while driving or riding in a car on California roadways.

State officials will do more to crack down on Californians who are misusing disabled driver placards.

Californians with HIV can no longer be charged with a felony for exposing a partner to the disease, a distinction it used to have from all other communicable diseases.

Farm animals in California can no longer be given antibiotics without a veterinarian's prescription — a law designed to help lessen the spread of infections that are resistant to antibiotics

Hazardous chemicals in cleaning products have to be clearly identified on labels and online.

Owners of gasoline or diesel-fueled cars must pay a new annual fee to help pay for road repairs. The fee ranges from $25 to $175, depending on the vehicle’s value.

A landlord can face civil penalties for threatening to report a renter to federal immigration authorities.

It now takes a warrant from a judge for federal agents to come to someone’s workplace on an immigration raid, and employers can be fined for not giving workers a 72-hour notice that those agents will be inspecting employee records.

State agencies that provide help to juveniles and the developmentally disabled no longer have to report immigration violations to the federal government.

California schools can no longer deny a lunch to a child whose parents haven’t paid their meal fees.

Schools in low-income communities must provide free tampons and other sanitary products to students in grades six through 12.

New parents at small businesses of at least 20 employees will be able to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for the child, and won’t lose their health coverage while away.

When you apply for a new job in California, you can no longer be asked, “How much did you make at your last job?”

California's equal pay law has been expanded to government jobs in an effort to remove any gender-biased pay rates.

Beginning in September, Californians can choose a gender-neutral option on their drivers license for those who are transgender, intersex or don’t identify as male or female.

More parents taking high school equivalency or English language courses are now eligible for subsidized child care.

Some California cities will allow sales of marijuana for all uses, the first retail transactions since voters fully legalized pot in November 2016.

More buildings, from theaters and restaurants to government offices, must provide diaper changing stations in restrooms for men.

All landlords in the state must provide information about bedbugs — how to identify them and how to report them — to apartment renters and must follow new rules if an infestation is found.

http://beta.latimes.com/resizer/FHUxmO7rDSbp72DPs4eAvI-Jb2o=/1400x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/BQJJMBLN2VFVDBDJUK335DTCZQ.jpg

California’s first vegetarian gets a formal title: Augustynolophus morrisi, a plant eater whose fossils have only been found in the Golden State, is now the official state dinosaur.

some big deals in there too

HIV decriminalization, school lunches, salary history, neutral gender markers all winners

for sure

meant gems as in wow cant believe this wasnt already in place and some wow this is why this state is insolvent

can i convert actual posters to BBcode that would be nice

wow this is why this state is insolvent

uh, what?

I remember when California was in dire financial straits. It has been doing pretty well for the past few years.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-budget-trump-risks-20170110-story.html

is that dinosaur named after morrissey

also lol better warn my mom (my dad is disabled and has a placard, my mom uses it all the goddamn time and complains about how there's no open spots - hmm maybe because of people like you??) "State officials will do more to crack down on Californians who are misusing disabled driver placards."

Said budget projection — a year old! — is part negotiating tool, part Brown being very Brown (he’s been extremely hesitant about spending in general this whole time).

it's from jan 10 2017 and the article says the deficit is to run til next summer (2018)

also hate those fuckers who abuse the disabled person placards

i see them all the time on the westside

what is your interest in california politics

i live here part time and pay taxes here

nice of u to feel the need to ask as if youre guarding some iron clad door tho

only people you allow in can participate eh?

nope, just asking

u seem sort of defensive tho

i dont see you asking anyone else that

poor guy, suggest you use flag post button on me

unlike others i dont mind a little bit of a challenge ;-)

i've been a CEQA practitioner for the last five years and it's turning me into a republican. not really but still. everyone who has anything to do with it is completely miserable all the time.

in 2018 I think the metric used for analyzing the significance of potential traffic impacts of development projects is supposed to change from an anticipated level of service based threshold (roadway and intersection congestion) to a model that estimates the total vehicle miles traveled for both short-term construction and long-term operational traffic generation. whether it will make any difference in statewide commuting patterns is very debatable

nice of u to feel the need to ask as if youre guarding some iron clad door tho

only people you allow in can participate eh?

Esp if it's the only kind of posts they make about said home

Sorry for assuming you don't live in California btw

That new state dinosaur is cute good job sunshine state

The generic name derives from a combination of the Augustyn family, who helped support the Los Angeles County Museum, and the suffix "-lophus," referring to its relation to Saurolophus. The specific name refers to palaeontologist William Morris.[3] It was originally described as a species of Saurolophus, S. morrisi.[4][5] However, when a more in-depth study took place, the end results revealed that its cranial structure was vastly different when it was juxtaposed with the other known members of the tribe Saurolophini, most notably Saurolophus osborni[6][7][8] and Saurolophus angustirostris[9][10] and Prosaurolophus maximus[11] and therefore, it was determined to be a separate genus. Like all species of hadrosaur, Augustynolophus morrisi was a herbivorous dinosaur which had a diet consisting of the plant life in the area, it was specialized to chew its food since hadrosaurs were one of the few known species of dinosaur that chewed its food.[12]

in 2018 I think the metric used for analyzing the significance of potential traffic impacts of development projects is supposed to change from an anticipated level of service based threshold (roadway and intersection congestion) to a model that estimates the total vehicle miles traveled for both short-term construction and long-term operational traffic generation. whether it will make any difference in statewide commuting patterns is very debatable

― del griffith, Thursday, December 28, 2017 1:44 PM (yesterday)

I read about this too, but didn't know it was a statewide thing. High density housing advocates here are saying that it will help reduce required numbers of parking spaces for projects built near transit, and are otherwise designed for people who don't own cars, which for high-rise developments, will either increase the number of housing units, or reduce the height of the building, which will save money, which in theory, will result in lower prices to the owner/tenant.

yeah, it's a CEQA change, statewide. but most major cities already have transit-oriented development districts where developments can receive "density bonuses"/variances to cram in more units if they dedicate a certain portion to low-income renters, or yeah be waived of their requirement to provide parking if a mixed-use project is within a quarter mile of a public transit stop.

those things make sense, but the CEQA change is frustrating because the new traffic analysis method also affects the air quality analysis, since emissions models' input always relies on the traffic models' output. and also, it's always seemed super weird to me that traffic impacts are considered a separate "issue area" under CEQA just like biological resources impacts or water resources impacts are. traffic isn't a component of the physical environment!

they really should just change the entire system, so everything is measured by units of ":)" and ":("

that looks like garbage with the quotes the way they are ...

:)

and

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hey del griffith -- thoughts on this article?

https://slate.com/business/2018/01/california-bill-sb827-residential-zoning-transit-awesome.html

Hadn't heard of this but I'm all for it! As a downtown renter who's still holding out hope of one day owning, this is something I'd like to see implemented.

Speaking of state building height issues, the trial I'm a juror in this week happens to be the last trial that will ever be held in the judge's crappy old courtroom in a crappy old courthouse awkwardly spread out like an airport terminal across three downtown blocks using skyways, and is slated for decommissioning/demolition later this year. Across the street is a shiny new 25-story courthouse that just opened last month and is making myself and the other jurors very envious. According to the bailiff, the reason they kept "our" courthouse as low and spread out as they did was because when they designed it in the 50s, they were intentionally circumventing state fire codes that apparently only required a sprinkler system for buildings with seven stories or more.

i remember when i moved here seeing california prop 65 signs and was utterly frightened

then i found out this notice is basically everywhere

i asked a couple people about it and they were so used to it they didn't even notice the signs, which was kind of shocking and hilarious

anyway coffee causes cancer now according to ca prop 65

https://www.wsj.com/articles/if-you-drink-coffee-in-california-be-warned-it-may-cause-cancer-1516795200

Coffee is on the hot seat because of the presence of acrylamide, a flavorless chemical produced during the roasting process.

Acrylamide is one of more than 900 chemicals on a list of those known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Businesses must warn about the presence of any of the chemicals under the law, known as Proposition 65.

i haven't yet gotten junkmail offering to sell me prop 65 signs for my business. i get the stupid labor law poster scam junkmail on a regular basis.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-s-housing-crunch-has-turned-liberals-against-one-another-n851401

“These young people believe themselves to be liberals,” O'Malley said. “But if they are not careful, their policies will build dormitories for people with high-paying jobs and leave no place for families and people of color.”

Expedited approval for transit-oriented infill development makes so much sense to me. If you have to start building somewhere, where else is better? What's their plan for creating living spaces for families and people of color? More sprawl?

"These young people believe themselves to be liberals," said the 78-year old who helped her scientist husband start a tech company that turns digital script into speech, and then sold the company at a handsome profit and now own two homes in the leafy Elmwood section of Berkeley where they act as patrons of the arts, allowing a gaggle of three or four musicians (and numerous regular guests) to live in one of the homes, rent free. "But they don't know shit about what it means to be liberal. They can never rise to my level. They want to live in a leafy section too, but are they worthy? I do not think they are worthy. They must first learn, as I have learned."

There is a sizable contingent that is pro-building but with guarantees of affordable units which is sometimes in agreement and sometimes at odds with the "any housing is good housing" Yimbys who believe in trickle down theory. Here, we see new developments that look like those depicted in the article, that don't do that much trickling -- like, maybe if those new projects weren't built the 20-somethings paying $2200/month for a one bedroom in a historically black neighborhood that was ground zero during the crack wars, maybe that couple would be paying $2500/month. ... I didn't know Becky O'Malley was that old. ... I thought she was boomer-age. Another one of her "no growth" cohort lives in my neighborhood (at least that's her "neighborhood" on Nextdoor.com) and she's like the one person that consistently complains about people leaving free stuff in boxes on the curb/sidewalk