Title GOV — California Gov. Code

The Lieutenant Governor may appoint and, subject to the approval of the Director of Finance, fix the salaries of one secretary and such clerical assistants as the Lieutenant Governor deems necessary for the Lieutenant Governor’s office.

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature in establishing the bureau to establish an initial framework and it is the intent of the Legislature that the scope and responsibilities of the bureau may expand as necessary to fulfill its mission and address additional harms as identified…

For purposes of this chapter: (a) “Bureau” means the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. (b) “Deputy director” means the Deputy Director of the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. (c) “Descendants” means individuals who can establish direct lineage to a person who…

(a) The Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery is hereby established within the department. The bureau shall be under the direct control of a deputy director who shall be responsible to the Director of Civil Rights. (b) The deputy director shall be appointed by the Governor a…

(a) As part of its duties, the bureau shall verify an individual’s status as a descendant. Proof of an individual’s descendant status shall be a qualifying criterion for benefits authorized by the state for descendants. The bureau shall create a Genealogy Division. (b) Following …

(a) The bureau shall create an Education and Outreach Division to develop and implement a public education campaign regarding all of the following: (1) The cycle of gentrification, displacement, and exclusion. (2) The connection between redlining and gentrification. (3) The histo…

The bureau shall create a Legal Affairs Division to do all of the following: (a) Provide legal advice, counsel, and services to the bureau and its officials. (b) Ensure that the bureau’s programs are administered in accordance with applicable legislative authority. (c) Advise the…

(a) Nonpublic personal and genetic information held under the bureau’s authority shall be collected, held, and disclosed only as relevant and necessary to accomplish the purposes set forth in this chapter and in a manner permitted by and consistent with federal and California dat…

The Civil Rights Department may adopt, promulgate, amend, and rescind suitable rules and regulations to implement this chapter.

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the bureau may receive moneys from any federal, state, or local grant and from any nongovernmental entity, including from any private donation or grant, for the purposes of this chapter. (b) Receipt of funds pursuant to this section shall not co…

If any clause, sentence, paragraph, provision, part, or section of this chapter, or the application thereof, for any reason, is adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this chapter and the…

Every officer, the mode of whose appointment is not prescribed by law, shall be appointed by the Governor. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Every office, the term of which is not fixed by law, is held at the pleasure of the appointing power. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Every officer whose term has expired shall continue to discharge the duties of his office until his successor has qualified. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Every person who exercises any function of a public office without taking the oath of office, or without giving the required bond, is guilty of a misdemeanor. This section does not affect the validity of acts done by a person exercising the functions of a public office in fact, w…

(a) The Speaker of the Assembly or the Senate Committee on Rules may appoint a Member of the Legislature or legislative staff to serve as an alternate for a Member of the Legislature appointed to a state board or commission within the Natural Resources Agency in the Member’s abse…

(a) Commencing January 1, 2027, the office of the Governor shall maintain on its internet website a list of each state board or commission, as well as the board or commission’s membership list, stated purpose, duties, meeting frequency, internet website, and any vacancies in its …

(a) Commencing January 1, 2027, the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the Assembly shall maintain on their respective internet websites, or include a link on their respective internet websites to any available resources that contain, a list of each state board or com…

The department has general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the State and whenever it deems it necessary, or at the instance of the Governor, shall institute or cause the institution of such investigations and proceedings as…

The department shall ensure the state carries out its responsibilities in accordance with the federal Single Audit Act (31 U.S.C. Sec. 7501 et seq.). For that purpose, the department shall do all of the following: (a) Act as the liaison between state agencies, the California Stat…

The Director of Finance shall be responsible for coordinating state agency internal audits and identifying when agencies are required to comply with federally mandated audits. The Director of Finance, in coordinating the internal auditors of state agencies, shall ensure that thes…

Within the Department of Finance, there is the Demographic Research Unit. The purposes of the unit include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Providing adequate demographic data to aid effective state and local planning and policymaking. (b) Serving all levels of governm…

Whenever the department issues reports containing population breakdowns or analyses based on race or ethnicity, it shall report Asian-Pacific Islanders as a distinct category, and not combine Asian-Pacific Islanders into any other category.

The Legislature finds and declares that: (1) population size and distribution patterns in California exert a major influence on the physical, social, and economic structure of the state and on the quality of the environment generally; (2) sound and current data and methods to est…

Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 1798.24 of the Civil Code, data collected, received, or prepared by the Demographic Research Unit for purposes specified in Section 13073.5 that contains personal information, as defined by subdivision (a) of Section 1798.3 of the Civil …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any revision, subsequent to the first revision, of the annual provisional county population estimates, made by the Department of Finance, shall not be the basis for a change in the amount of state funds received by local agencies or fun…

(a) When authorized or required by the Legislature in the Budget Act, the Department of Finance may exercise control over the adoption of regulations as provided in this section. The Legislature shall not authorize or require the Department of Finance in the Budget Act to review …

The director shall visit or cause to be visited from time to time every public institution maintained in whole or in part by State appropriations, to ascertain their condition, and their wants and requirements.

Whenever a nonprofit corporation or foundation enters into a contract with a state educational institution, maintained in whole or in part by state appropriation, under the terms of which services are to be performed for the state educational institution, the books and records of…

The director may exempt from his approval or from approval of the department any transactions involving not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for which such approval is required by statute whenever, in his judgment, such exemption is appropriate and in the best int…

With the consent of the Legislature, the director may make application for and accept loans of funds made available by the federal government or a federal department or agency to aid in financing the costs of engineering and architectural surveys, designs, plans, working drawings…

Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon between the parties, in any agreements entered into between the State Department of the California Highway Patrol and the Governor and any o…

Such amount as may be necessary to pay monthly the amount required for liquidation of the investment, with interest at the rate agreed upon between the parties, in any agreements entered into between the State Department of Motor Vehicles or the State Department of California Hig…

The Department of Finance may increase or decrease funding appropriated to the Department of Transportation’s capital outlay support program using funding made available to the program from both the annual Budget Act and any other appropriation, provided the combined adjustments …

It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article that the state shall establish and annually update a five-year plan for funding infrastructure. The plan shall include input by the Legislature as provided in Section 13104. The plan shall identify state infrastructure …

As used in this article, “infrastructure” means real property, including land and improvements to the land, structures and equipment integral to the operation of structures, easements, rights-of-way and other forms of interest in property, roadways, and water conveyances.

In conjunction with the Governor’s Budget submitted pursuant to Section 13337, the Governor shall submit annually a proposed five-year infrastructure plan to the Legislature. This plan shall cover a five-fiscal-year period beginning with the fiscal year that is the same as that c…

By January 1, 2005, if a state agency requests infrastructure pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 13102, that agency shall specify how that infrastructure is consistent with the state planning priorities specified pursuant to Section 65041.1. The Governor may …

The department may perform audits, as it deems necessary, of the allocations or expenditures made in accordance with Article XIX B of the California Constitution.

It is the intent of the Legislature that the proposed infrastructure plan be considered by the Legislature in conjunction with its consideration of the Budget Bill.

(a) The amount estimated to be available for infrastructure pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 20 of Article XVI of the California Constitution shall be appropriated by the Legislature in the annual budget process. Upon the order of the department, the Controller shall transf…

(a) The Infrastructure Stabilization Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the infrastructure purposes described in subdivision (e) of Section 20 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. (b) This fund shall receive transfers pursuant to Section 13105 or from any …

(a) The State Infrastructure and Maintenance Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purposes of funding state capital outlay, lease payments related to state capital outlay, and deferred maintenance, upon appropriation by the Legislature. (b) This fund shall receive…

(a) The Rail Infrastructure Account is hereby created in the State Transportation Fund for the purposes of funding projects in the Rail Modernization Improvement Program. Moneys in this fund shall be continuously appropriated to the Transportation Agency for the purposes describe…

Notwithstanding any other law, the Controller may use the funds in the Infrastructure Stabilization Fund, the State Infrastructure and Maintenance Fund, and the Rail Infrastructure Account for cashflow loans to the General Fund as provided in Sections 16310 and 16381.

As used in this article: (a) “Permit” includes application, license, certificate, or authorization. (b) “Fee” includes any monetary exaction imposed or collected for or as a condition precedent to the issuing, making, taking or securing of any permit, filing, examination, or insp…

This article does not affect payments required by Article 2 (commencing with Section 16370) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 to be made into or from the “Special Deposit Fund.”

This article does not authorize the refund of any fee when: (a) The payor, either before or after the issuance of a permit, has exercised or enjoyed, or has not been prevented by law from exercising or enjoying, the rights and privileges conferred thereby. (b) The payor has been …

Whenever any law which provides for fees or payments to a state agency does not authorize, as provided in this article, the refund of erroneous or excessive payments thereof, refunds may be made by the state agency which collected the fee or payment of any or all amounts received…

Any fee or payment subject to refund under this article, and any excess payment to a revolving fund as defined in Section 13140, may be refunded by the state agency collecting the fee or erroneous or excess payment (a) before deposit in the State Treasury from any unremitted bala…