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Pleasanton 2022 Legislative Advocacy Outcomes Under the California Fire Service Training and Education Program Act, the State Fire Marshal is authorized to, among other things, establish courses of study and curriculum relating to fire service training, as provided. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal to establish additional training standards that include the criteria for curriculum content recommended by the Statewide Training and Education Advisory Committee involving peer-to-peer suicide prevention programming. The bill would require the State Fire Marshal to coordinate with the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program to develop and deliver the curriculum content criteria. The bill would authorize all paid personnel assigned to field duties in a state or local fire department or fire protection or firefighting agency to receive the peer-to-peer suicide prevention training, as provided. This bill would require the State Fire Marshal to make the curriculum content criteria available to the authority. The bill would make the implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws. Pleasanton Position: Support Focus Area: Safe and Secure Community AB 988 (Bauer-Kahan D) Mental health: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Would enact the Miles Hall Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Act. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to verify, no later than July 16, 2022, that technology that allows for transfers between 988 centers as well as between 988 centers and 911 public safety answering points, is available to 988 centers and 911 public safety answering points throughout the state. The bill would require, no later than 90 days after passage of the act,the office to appoint a 988 system director, among other things. The bill would require, no later than July 1, 2024, the office to verify interoperability between and across 911 and 988. The bill would require the office to consult with specified entities on any technology requirements for 988 centers. Pleasanton Position:Support Focus Area: Sustainable Development AB 2374 (Bauer-Kahan D) Crimes against public health and safety: illegal dumping Would increase the maximum fine for the dumping of commercial quantities of waste by a business that employs more than 10 employees from $3,000 to $5,000 for the first conviction, from $6,000 to $10,000 for the second conviction,and from $10,000 to $20,000 for the third and any subsequent convictions.The bill would require a court, when imposing a fine, to consider the defendant's ability to pay, as specified. Pleasanton Position: Support Focus Area: Sustainable Development AB 2481 (Smith R) Household hazardous waste: facilities: transportation and acceptance. Would allow, under certain circumstances, household hazardous waste to be transported to a household hazardous waste collection facility by a person who did not generate the waste. The bill would allow a household hazardous waste collection facility authorized to accept hazardous 15IPage