Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Firearm” means a device, designed to be used as a weapon, from which is expelled through a barrel, a projectile by the force of an explosion or other form of combustion, including the frame or receiver…

A licensee that permits residents to possess firearms on the facility premises shall do all of the following: (a) Accept and centrally store a resident’s firearm, ammunition, or both. (b) Retain and centrally store a licensee’s firearm, ammunition, or both. (c) Residents’ and lic…

(a) A licensee shall not accept, retain, or store any deadly weapon, as defined in Section 1569.281, of a resident or licensee. (b) A licensee shall not accept, retain, or store any of the following firearms owned or possessed by a resident or licensee: (1) A firearm regulated pu…

The acceptance or storage of a resident’s firearm by a licensee at a facility in accordance with this article, or the retention and storage of a licensee’s firearm, shall not constitute a loan, sale, receipt, or transfer of a firearm within the meaning of Sections 26500, 27545, o…

(a) The department may prohibit any person from being a licensee, owning a beneficial ownership interest of 10 percent or more in a licensed facility, or being an administrator, officer, director, member, or manager of a licensee or entity controlling a licensee, and may further …

(a) (1) If the department determines that a person was issued a license under this chapter, Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200), Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500), Chapter 3.01 (commencing with Section 1568.01), Chapter 3.3 (c…

The department shall conduct an unannounced visit to a facility within 30 days after the department serves an order of immediate exclusion from the facility upon the licensee or a person subject to immediate removal or exclusion from the facility pursuant to paragraph (3) of subd…

(a) The State Fire Marshal has proposed that the California Building Standards Commission adopt building standards to provide for locked and secured perimeters in residential care facilities for the elderly that care for persons with major neurocognitive disorder: (1) It is ackno…

(a) When approved by the person responsible for enforcement, as described in Section 13146, exit doors in facilities classified as Group R, Division 2 facilities under the California Building Standards Code, licensed as residential care facilities for the elderly, and housing cli…

On and after January 1, 1999, no security window bars may be installed or maintained on any residential care facility for the elderly unless the security window bars meet current state and local requirements, as applicable, for security window bars and safety release devices. (Ad…

Residential care facilities for the elderly that serve residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of major neurocognitive disorder should include information on sundowning as part of the training for direct care staff, and should include in the plan of operation a brief n…

(a) A resident of a residential care facility for the elderly, or the resident’s representative, or both, shall have the right to participate in decisionmaking regarding the care and services to be provided to the resident. Accordingly, prior to, or within two weeks after, the re…

The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) In November 2006, the voters approved the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality and Port Security Bond Act of 2006, also known as Proposition 1B, that, among other things, provided one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) to…

This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Goods Movement Emission Reduction Program. (Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 181, Sec. 2. Effective August 24, 2007.)

(a) As used in this chapter and in Chapter 12.49 (commencing with Section 8879.20) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Administrative agency” means the state agency responsible for programming bond funds made avai…

As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Applicant” means any local public entity involved in the movement of freight through trade corridors of the state or involved in air quality improvements associated with goods movement. For the purpose…

Funding pursuant to this chapter may include grants, loans, and loan guarantees. (Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 181, Sec. 2. Effective August 24, 2007.)

(a) (1) Upon appropriation by the Legislature from the funds made available by paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 8879.23 of the Government Code, the state board shall allocate funds on a competitive basis for projects that are shown to achieve the greatest emission redu…

(a) (1) The state board shall develop guidelines by December 31, 2007, consistent with the requirements of this chapter, to implement Section 39625.5, in consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to, local air quality management and air pollution control district…

(a) A project shall not be funded pursuant to this chapter unless both of the following requirements are met: (1) The project is sponsored by an applicant. (2) The project is consistent with any comprehensive local or regional plans or strategies to reduce emissions from goods mo…

The state board may seek reimbursement for program administration costs annually through an appropriation in the Budget Act from funds available pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 8879.23 of the Government Code. (Added by Stats. 2007, Ch. 181, Sec. 2. Effecti…

The state board shall submit an annual report to the Legislature summarizing its activities related to the administration of this chapter with the Governor’s proposed budget, on January 10, for the ensuing fiscal year. The summary shall, at a minimum, include a description of pro…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may extend the term of an existing multifamily housing loan made by the department under the original Rental Housing Construction Program established by Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 50735), the Special User Housing Rehabilit…

(a) In addition to the purposes specified in subdivision (a) of Section 50517.5 and except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), the department may make grants and loans under the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program to local public entities and nonprofit corporati…

(a) (1) In the City and County of Los Angeles, where the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted an authority, as defined in Section 34203, a waiver effective August 17, 2024, to allow household income verifications to occur after a lease contract is signe…

(a) (1) The department shall establish the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program under which, subject to the availability of funds, there shall be made to local public entities, nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, and limited partnerships, any of the fo…

(a) The department may set aside the amount of funds authorized by subdivision (d) for the purposes of curing or averting a default on the terms of any loan or other obligation by the recipient of financial assistance, or bidding at any foreclosure sale where the default or forec…

In counties in which a disaster has been declared by the Governor pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8550) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code and for a period of 12 months after the declaration, the department may provide grants from the fund established …

A household deemed eligible by the United States Department of Agriculture, under the Rural Housing Loan Program of Section 502 of Title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1472 et seq.) shall be deemed eligible for a grant pursuant to this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 20…

(a) In enacting this section, it is the intent of the Legislature to provide disaster assistance for farmworkers displaced by the 1997 floods in the most expeditious and fiscally sound manner possible. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Housing and Communi…