Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) The department may adopt rules and regulations governing the administration and enforcement of this chapter. (b) Regulations adopted by the department may include minimum standards for the following: (1) Safe preservation, transportation, storage, and handling of tissue acqui…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 1639, the state department shall adopt, on or before July 1, 2004, rules and regulations governing licensed tissue banks engaged in the collection of human musculoskeletal tissue, skin, and veins for transplantation in humans. The regulations shall be …

Any person desiring a license issued pursuant to Section 1639.3 shall file with the state department a verified application on forms prescribed by the state department containing all of the following: (a) The name of the applicant for licensure. (b) The street address of the tiss…

(a) Each license issued pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1639.3 before July 1, 1992, shall expire July 1, 1993. Every other license issued pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1639.3 shall expire 12 months from the date of issuance. (b) An application for renewal of a lic…

(a) Upon the filing of the verified application for licensure required by Section 1639.1, payment of the application fee in the amount required in Section 1639.5, and full compliance with this chapter and the rules and regulations adopted by the state department, the state depart…

Any person, when submitting an application for a license, including the renewal thereof, pursuant to this chapter, shall also submit, with the application, a copy of the applicant’s standard informed consent form required pursuant to Section 7158.3.

Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license, the state department shall notify the applicant in writing. Within 20 days after the state department mails the notice, the applicant may present a written petition for a hearing to the state department. Upon receipt b…

(a) The application and annual renewal fee for a tissue bank license shall be nine hundred fifty dollars ($950). Upon application for renewal of a license issued pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1639.3, the amount of the annual renewal fee required shall be determined by th…

(a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Tissue Bank License Fund. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if, at the end of any fiscal year, the unencumbered balance in any account in the Tissue Bank License Fund exceeds 110 percent of the amount appropriate…

The department shall submit a report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2003, including, but not limited to, examining and evaluating all of the following: (a) Administrative expenditures of tissue banks. (b) Current use of informed consent by tissue banks in tissue dona…

(a) In order to carry out the purpose of this chapter, any duly authorized representative of the department may do any of the following: (1) Enter or inspect on an announced or unannounced basis any building, premise, equipment, materials, records, or information at any reasonabl…

Any person who violates this chapter or who willfully and repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in a …

The state department may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of Section 1635.1 in the superior court in and for the county in which the violation occurred or is about to occur. Any proceeding under this section shall conform to the requirements of Chap…

The state department may suspend or revoke any license issued under this chapter for any of the following reasons: (a) Violation by the licensee of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter. (b) Aiding, abetting, or permitting the violation of any provisio…

Proceedings for the suspension or revocation of licenses under this chapter shall be conducted in accordance with Section 100171.

The state department may temporarily suspend any license issued under this chapter prior to any hearing, when it has determined that the action is necessary to protect the public welfare. The state department shall notify the licensee of the temporary suspension and the effective…

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Climate change is causing historic droughts, devastating wildfires, storms, extreme heat, the death of millions of trees, billions of dollars in property damage, and is threatening human health and food supplies. (b) Ca…

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Natural and working lands-based carbon sequestration” means sustainable resource management practices, changes in land use, preservation of natural resources, fuel reduction or prescribed fire activities, and oth…

(a) No later than July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency, the state board, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and other relevant state agencies, shall establish the Natural and Working Lands Climate Sma…

(a) No later than July 1, 2023, the Natural Resources Agency shall establish and maintain a registry called the California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry for purposes of identifying and listing projects in the state that drive climate action on the s…

Beginning on the date the registry is established pursuant to Section 39740.3, projects that have applied for funding from one of the state programs funded from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, or any state program that funds natural and working lands-based carbon sequestration…

(a) The Natural Resources Agency, in collaboration with relevant state agencies and in consultation with diverse stakeholders, may create an application process for applicants to have their projects located in the state listed on the registry. The Natural Resources Agency shall e…

If a state or private entity contacts the Natural Resources Agency and chooses to fund a project on the registry, the Natural Resources Agency shall establish a mechanism for retiring the listing of a project from the registry once it is funded and tracking the outcome of the pro…

(a) The Natural Resources Agency shall track carbon removal and greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits derived from projects funded through the registry. (b) Projects listed on the registry shall not create credits for the purposes of market-based compliance mechanisms develo…

The Natural Resources Agency may contract with a third-party organization to develop and operate the registry.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Carbon dioxide capture, removal, or sequestration project” means a carbon dioxide capture project, a carbon dioxide removal project, or a sequestration project that seeks to provide for the long-term isolation of…

(a) The state board shall establish a Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program to do all of the following: (1) Evaluate the efficacy, safety, and viability of CCUS and CDR technologies and facilitate the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from these tech…

(a) In furtherance of the objectives in Section 39741.1, on or before January 1, 2025, the state board shall, in consultation with relevant state and local agencies, adopt regulations for a unified permit application for the construction and operation of carbon dioxide capture, r…

In furtherance of the objectives in Section 39741.1, by January 1, 2025, the state board shall develop a centralized public database to track the deployment of CCUS and CDR technologies and the development of carbon dioxide capture, removal, or sequestration projects throughout t…

In furtherance of the objectives in Section 39741.1, by January 1, 2024, the state board may adopt protocols to support additional methods of utilization or storage of captured carbon dioxide, including carbon capture for use in products and in methods as identified by the state …

In furtherance of the objectives in Section 39741.1, the state board shall, no later than January 1, 2025, and consistent with Section 71464 of the Public Resources Code, adopt regulations for financial responsibility for carbon dioxide capture, removal, or sequestration project …

To be recognized by the state board for a requirement adopted pursuant to Division 25.5 (commencing with Section 38500), carbon dioxide transported by pipeline shall be transported only using pipelines that meet or exceed the standards adopted by the State Fire Marshal pursuant t…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997.

(a) Because the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 300j et seq.) provides for establishment of a perpetual drinking water revolving fund, which will be partially capitalized by federal contributions, it is in the interest of the people of the state, in order to ensur…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: (a) “Acceptable result” means the project that, when constructed, solves the problem for which the project was placed on the project priority list, ensures the owner and oper…

(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for the purpose of implementing this chapter, and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fisca…

Subject to all applicable constitutional restrictions, a city, county, or special district may borrow money and incur indebtedness pursuant to this chapter.

(a) In addition to the actions described in Section 116760.40, the board may, to implement the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, improve access to financial assistance for small community water systems and not-for-profit nontransient noncommunity water systems serving sev…

(a) The board may undertake any of the following actions to implement the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund: (1) Enter into agreements with the federal government for federal contributions to the fund. (2) Accept federal contributions to the fund. (3) Use moneys in the fun…

Moneys in the fund and the special accounts may be expended for additional purposes provided in the federal act.

(a) The board may enter into an agreement with the federal government for federal contributions to the fund only if the board is prepared to commit to expenditure of any minimum amount in the fund in the manner required by the federal act. (b) An agreement between the board and t…

(a) The board shall implement this chapter pursuant to the adoption of a policy handbook that is not subject to the requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of the Government Code. The policy handbook shall be posted on the board’s Inter…

(a) The board may deposit administrative fees and charges paid by public water systems and other available and necessary money into an account of the fund. (b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014.

(a) For purposes of this section “act” means the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, the department may expend moneys in the fund, received from the federal go…

(a) The Safe Drinking Water Small Community Emergency Grant Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) The following moneys shall be deposited in the grant fund: (1) Moneys transferred to the grant fund pursuant to subdivision (c). (2) Notwithstanding Section 16475 of the …

(a) The board shall establish eligibility criteria for project financing pursuant to this chapter that shall be consistent with federal requirements. (b) To the extent permitted by federal law, the board may provide up to 100 percent grant funding, and principal forgiveness on lo…

(a) Planning and preliminary engineering studies, project design, and construction costs incurred by a community water system or not-for-profit noncommunity water system may be funded under this chapter. (b) (1) The board shall determine what portion of the full costs the water s…

(a) The failure or inability of any public water system to receive funds under this chapter or any other financial assistance program or any delay in obtaining the funds shall not alter the obligation of the system to comply in a timely manner with all applicable drinking water s…

(a) The board may enter into financing agreements with applicants for the purposes set forth in this chapter. (b) If the board provides construction financing, the financing recipient shall commit to operate and maintain, or ensure the operation and maintenance of, the water syst…

(a) As a condition of receiving construction financing under this article for work performed at the City of San Diego’s North City Water Reclamation Plant, North City Pure Water Facility, or any other portion of the Pure Water San Diego Program, an applicant shall ensure that any…