Title GOV — California Gov. Code

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Commission” means the California Youth Empowerment Commission established in Section 8263. (b) “Commissioner” means a voting member of the California Youth Empowerment Commission.

(a) There is in the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement the California Youth Empowerment Commission. The commission shall consist of 13 voting commissioners to be appointed as follows: (1) Eleven public members appointed by the Governor, subject to the following…

(a) Excluding the initial staggering of terms, commissioners shall serve two-year terms. (b) Commissioners shall be between 14 and 25 years of age. If a commissioner turns 26 years of age during their term, that commissioner shall be allowed to complete the term. (c) A commission…

(a) Within six months of the commission’s establishment, and not later than March 1 of each subsequent year, the executive director, appointed pursuant to Section 8274, shall release to the public on its internet website the procedures for the general application process to assis…

Each public member of the commission shall receive one hundred dollars ($100) per diem while on official business of the commission. Each member of the commission shall also be entitled to receive their actual necessary traveling expenses while on official business of the commiss…

(a) The commission shall elect a chair, vice chair, and clerk from among its members at the first meeting of the year. (b) The commission shall be composed of the following: (1) A chair who shall conduct the meetings, draft bylaws, serve as the primary liaison to the government, …

With respect to its duties, the commission shall be an advisory commission only. There shall be no right or obligation on the part of the state, or parties meeting and conferring, to implement the findings of the commission without further legislation that specifically authorizes…

The commission’s main purpose is to provide meaningful opportunities for actual civic engagement to improve the quality of life for California’s disconnected and disadvantaged youth. Furthermore, youths involved with the commission will make meaningful recommendations regarding l…

The commission shall conduct full commission meetings at least every other month, with the first meeting on or before September 2024.

The affirmative votes of a majority of the commissioners at a full session or committee meeting are required for the commission or committee to take action on any measure, respectively, including resolutions, annual reports, and initiatives.

The commission shall do the following: (a) Examine and discuss policy and fiscal issues affecting the interests, needs, and conditions of the youth of California. (b) Formally advise and make recommendations to the Legislature, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Governor o…

The commission shall carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, and may do any of the following: (a) Draft and approve resolutions that formally articulate the commission’s positions on various youth-related legislative and fiscal policy. (b) Draft model legislation th…

The Governor shall appoint an executive director of the California Youth Empowerment Commission. The executive director shall do all of the following: (a) Assist the commission in carrying out its work. (b) Be responsible for the hiring of commission staff, who shall assist the e…

(a) The commission may accept gifts and grants from any source, public or private, to help perform its functions pursuant to this chapter. (b) The commission may seek out funding and in-kind contributions from foundations, nonprofit organizations, public and private entities, and…

This chapter shall be implemented upon appropriation by the Legislature.

This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.

The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (a) There has been an unprecedented growth in the number of administrative regulations in recent years. (b) The language of many regulations is frequently unclear and unnecessarily complex, even when the complicated and technical nat…

(a) The Legislature therefore declares that it is in the public interest to establish an Office of Administrative Law which shall be charged with the orderly review of adopted regulations. It is the intent of the Legislature that the purpose of such review shall be to reduce the …

(a) The Office of Administrative Law is hereby established in state government in the Government Operations Agency. The office shall be under the direction and control of an executive officer who shall be known as the director. There shall also be a deputy director. The director’…

The director may employ and fix the compensation, in accordance with law, of such professional assistants and clerical and other employees as is deemed necessary for the effective conduct of the work of the office.

(a) The office is authorized and directed to do the following: (1) Study the subject of administrative rulemaking in all its aspects. (2) In the interest of fairness, uniformity, and the expedition of business, submit its suggestions to the various agencies. (3) Report its recomm…

(a) No state agency shall issue, utilize, enforce, or attempt to enforce any guideline, criterion, bulletin, manual, instruction, order, standard of general application, or other rule, which is a regulation as defined in Section 11342.600, unless the guideline, criterion, bulleti…

Except where the right to petition for adoption of a regulation is restricted by statute to a designated group or where the form of procedure for such a petition is otherwise prescribed by statute, any interested person may petition a state agency requesting the adoption, amendme…

(a) Upon receipt of a petition requesting the adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 11346), a state agency shall notify the petitioner in writing of the receipt and shall within 30 days deny the petition indicating why the a…

(a) As used in this section, “electronic communication” includes electronic transmission of written or graphical material by electronic mail, facsimile, or other means, but does not include voice communication. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter that refers t…

This chapter does not apply to any of the following: (a) An agency in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government. (b) A legal ruling of counsel issued by the Franchise Tax Board, State Board of Equalization, or the California Department of Tax and Fee Administrati…

(a) The office shall establish a system to give a unique identification number to each regulatory action. (b) The office and the state agency taking the regulatory action shall use the identification number given by the office pursuant to subdivision (a) to refer to the regulator…

Except as provided in Section 11342.4, nothing in this chapter confers authority upon or augments the authority of any state agency to adopt, administer, or enforce any regulation. Each regulation adopted, to be effective, shall be within the scope of authority conferred and in a…

Whenever by the express or implied terms of any statute a state agency has authority to adopt regulations to implement, interpret, make specific or otherwise carry out the provisions of the statute, no regulation adopted is valid or effective unless consistent and not in conflict…

The office shall adopt, amend, or repeal regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.

Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.

“Agency” means state agency.

“Building standard” has the same meaning provided in Section 18909 of the Health and Safety Code.

“Cost impact” means the amount of reasonable range of direct costs, or a description of the type and extent of direct costs, that a representative private person or business necessarily incurs in reasonable compliance with the proposed action.

“Director” means the director of the office.

“Emergency” means a situation that calls for immediate action to avoid serious harm to the public peace, health, safety, or general welfare.

“Major regulation” means any proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a regulation subject to review by the Office of Administrative Law pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 11349) that will have an economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in…

“Office” means the Office of Administrative Law.

“Order of repeal” means any resolution, order, or other official act of a state agency that expressly repeals a regulation in whole or in part.

“Performance standard” means a regulation that describes an objective with the criteria stated for achieving the objective.

“Plain English” means language that satisfies the standard of clarity provided in Section 11349.

“Prescriptive standard” means a regulation that specifies the sole means of compliance with a performance standard by specific actions, measurements, or other quantifiable means.

“Proposed action” means the regulatory action, notice of which is submitted to the office for publication in the California Regulatory Notice Register.

“Regulation” means every rule, regulation, order, or standard of general application or the amendment, supplement, or revision of any rule, regulation, order, or standard adopted by any state agency to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced or administered by it,…

(a) “Small business” means a business activity in agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing, manufacturing, generation and transmission of electric power, or a health care facility, unles…

Every state agency shall: (a) Transmit to the office for filing with the Secretary of State a certified copy of every regulation adopted or amended by it except one that is a building standard. (b) Transmit to the office for filing with the Secretary of State a certified copy of …

(a) All regulations transmitted to the Office of Administrative Law for filing with the Secretary of State shall conform to the style prescribed by the office. (b) Regulations approved by the office shall bear an endorsement by the office affixed to the certified copy which is fi…

The Secretary of State shall endorse on the certified copy of each regulation or order of repeal filed with or delivered to him or her, the time and date of filing and shall maintain a permanent file of the certified copies of regulations and orders of repeal for public inspectio…

Notwithstanding any other law, a state agency that is required to promulgate administrative regulations, including, but not limited to, the State Air Resources Board, the California Environmental Protection Agency, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commissio…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a regulation or an order of repeal required to be filed with the Secretary of State shall become effective on a quarterly basis as follows: (1) January 1 if the regulation or order of repeal is filed on September 1 to November …