Bill Text: CA SB721 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 721

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Bill Title: General plan: annual report: suite-style student housing quarters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB721 Detail]

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Amended IN Senate March 22, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 721

Introduced by Senator Becker

February 16, 2023

An act to add and repeal Section ~~50076.1 to~~ 11546.47 of the Government Code, relating to ~~local government.~~ artificial intelligence.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 721, as amended, Becker. ~~Special taxes: vacant land.~~ California Interagency AI Working Group.

Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments for determining digital content provenance, as defined. Existing law requires, for the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state.
This bill would, until January 1, 2030, create the California Interagency AI Working Group to deliver a report to the Legislature, as prescribed, regarding artificial intelligence. The bill would require the working group members to be Californians with expertise in at least 2 of certain areas, including computer science, artificial intelligence, and data privacy. The bill would require the report to the Legislature to include, among other things, a recommendation of a definition of artificial intelligence as it pertains to its use in technology for use in legislation.
The California Constitution generally conditions the imposition of a special tax by a city, county, or special district upon the approval of 23 of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax. Under existing law, a charter city, pursuant to its constitutional authority over municipal affairs, may levy local taxes to raise revenues for local purposes, subject to restrictions imposed by that city’s charter or preemption in matters of statewide concern. Existing law also authorizes the legislative body of any city to levy any tax which may be levied by any charter city, subject to the voters’ approval pursuant to the California Constitution.
~~Existing law specifies procedural requirements for the legislative body of a city, county, or district to propose to the voters an ordinance or resolution to adopt a special tax.~~
This bill would specify that, as used in those procedural requirements, a special tax includes a tax, levied by any city, including a charter city, county, or district on vacant sites included in the inventory on land suitable and available for residential development pursuant to the housing element of a county’s or a city’s long-term general plan, that meets the constitutional requirements.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 11546.47 is added to the Government Code, to read:

11546.47.
(a) The California Interagency AI Working Group is hereby created to deliver a report to the Legislature, pursuant to subdivision (e), regarding artificial intelligence.
(b) Working group members shall be Californians with expertise in at least two of the following areas:
(1) Computer science.
(2) Artificial intelligence.
(3) The technology industry.
(4) Workforce development.
(5) Data privacy.
(c) (1) The working group shall be chaired by the Director of Technology.
(2) The working group shall select a vice chair from among its members and shall consist of the following 10 members:
(A) Two appointees by the Governor.
(B) Two appointees by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
(C) Two appointees by the Speaker of the Assembly.
(D) Two appointees by the Attorney General.
(E) One appointee by the California Privacy Protection Agency.
(F) One appointee by the Department of Technology.
(d) The working group shall take input from a broad range of stakeholders, including from academia, consumer advocacy groups, and small, medium, and large businesses affected by artificial intelligence policies, and shall do all of the following:
(1) Recommend a definition of artificial intelligence as it pertains to its use in technology for use in legislation.
(2) Study the implications of the usage of artificial intelligence for data collection to inform testing and evaluation, verification and validation of artificial intelligence to ensure that artificial intelligence will perform as intended, including when interacting with humans and other systems, develop common metrics to assess trustworthiness that artificial intelligence systems will perform as intended, and minimize performance problems and unanticipated outcomes.
(3) Determine proactive steps to prevent artificial intelligence-assisted misinformation campaigns and unnecessary exposure for children to the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence.
(4) Determine the relevant agencies to develop and oversee artificial intelligence policy and implementation of that policy.
(5) Determine how the working group and the Department of Justice can leverage the substantial and growing expertise of the California Privacy Protection Agency in the long-term development of data privacy policies that affect the privacy, rights, and the use of artificial intelligence online.
(e) On or before January 1, 2025, and every two years thereafter, the working group shall submit, pursuant to Section 9795, a report to the Legislature regarding the items described in subdivision (d).
(f) The members of the working group shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for all necessary expenses actually incurred in the performance of their duties.
(g) As used in this section, “working group” means the California Interagency AI Working Group created by this section.
(h) This section shall remain in effect until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.

SECTION 1.Section 50076.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:
50076.1.
For the purposes of this article, “special tax” includes a tax that meets the requirements of Section 4 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution levied by any city, including a charter city, county, or district on vacant sites included in the inventory on land suitable and available for residential development pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 65583.