AB 2020: Mental health services: gravely disabled

AB 2020 would, for counties that opt-in, create an alternate definition of “gravely disabled” which is used to evaluate the need to establish a Lanterman-Petris-Short (LPS) Act conservatorship. This would help ensure that individual suffering from serious mental illness, especially those who are incapable of understanding the negative impacts of…

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AB 1249: Income taxes: gross income exclusions: wildfires.

AB 1249 would clarify California’s tax code to exclude all types of claimants from paying state taxes on compensation for damages received out of PG&E’s “Fire Victims Trust”.  This would help ensure fire victims receive just compensation for the economic and non-economic damages caused by the fires. Read More

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AB 379: Wildlife conservation

*Passed* AB 379 corrects an oversight in code that prevents the management of conservation lands by California Native American Tribes. The bill also authorizes the Wildlife Conservation Board to award grants or loans to California Native American Tribes for the purposes of fish and wildlife habitat restoration, enhancement, management, protection and…

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