SB 877: State Government.

(1)Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency. The department is responsible for administering various housing and home loan programs throughout the state. Existing law requires the department, on or before January 1, 2019, to establish the Housing for a Healthy California Program to create supportive housing opportunities through grants to counties for capital and operating assistance, as specified, or operating reserve grants and capital loans to developers, or both.

Existing law establishes the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the department for specified purposes relating to housing programs.

This bill would authorize the department to charge a person who receives a loan directly from the department pursuant to the Housing for a Healthy California Program an ongoing monitoring fee to cover the costs of project monitoring. The bill would require all moneys received by the department in repayment of any loans made pursuant to the program to be deposited into the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund, and would provide that any money so deposited would be continuously appropriated to the department for purposes of the Multifamily Housing Program. By requiring additional funds to be deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, and expanding the purposes of that fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

(2)Existing law, with exceptions, requires all workers employed on a public works project to be paid the general prevailing wage rate, as determined by the Director of Industrial Relations. To facilitate enforcement of prevailing wage requirements, existing law requires a contractor to be registered and qualified by the department in order to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal for, or engage in the performance of any contract for a public work. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to issue and serve a stop order prohibiting the use of an unregistered contractor or unregistered subcontractor, as specified. Existing law authorizes service of the order by personal delivery to the contractor or subcontractor or by leaving copies of the order with the person apparently in charge at the site of the public work and subsequently mailing copies to the contractor or subcontractor at the address on file with the Secretary of State or Contractors State License Board.

This bill would require any employee affected by a work stoppage to be paid by the employer at the prevailing wage rate for any time lost due to a work stoppage, not to exceed 10 days. The bill would also permit service of a stop order, if the contractor or subcontractor does not have an address on file with the Secretary of State or Contractors State License Board, by subsequently mailing copies to the contractor or subcontractor at the address of the site of the public work.

Existing law requires an entity awarding a public works contract to provide notice, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law requires civil penalties to be imposed on an entity that fails to provide that required notice and authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue a citation for civil penalties to an entity that fails to provide the required notice.

This bill would specify that an entity awarding a public work contract under specified circumstances without a formal bidding process, such as in an emergency, shall also provide notice, as specified, to the Department of Industrial Relations. The bill would also provide due process procedures for the processing of citations and issuance of penalties for a failure to provide notice. By creating new notification requirements for public agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

This bill also makes technical, conforming changes.

(3)Existing federal law requires the enumeration of the population of the United States every 10 years, known as the federal decennial census.

Existing law establishes specified requirements applicable to the awarding of certain public contracts, including, but not limited to, contracts for the acquisition of goods or services and information technology goods or services.

This bill would exempt any contract related to the 2020 United States Census entered into by the Government Operations Agency or the Office of Planning and Research from specified provisions of the Public Contract Code applicable to state agencies described above.

(4)Existing law authorizes the Director of Finance to authorize a cashflow loan of up to $26,000,000 from moneys in the Public Transportation Account in the State Transportation Fund to local mass transit providers in amounts equal to federal transportation grants not received due to noncertification from the federal Department of Labor, as specified. Existing law requires, unless certain contingencies have occurred, that a local mass transit provider repay that loan amount no later than January 1, 2019.

This bill would instead require a local mass transit provider to repay a loan under these provisions, if those contingencies have not occurred, no later than January 1, 2021.

(5)The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

(6)This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.