California Register, 2025, Number 11. March 14, 2025

• Library: California Register
• Published date: 14 March 2025
• Year: 2025

GAVIN NEWSOM, GOVERNOR

OFFICE OF ADMINISTR ATIVE LAW

California Regulatory Notice Register

REGIST ER 2025, NUMB ER 11–Z PUBLIS HED WEEKLY BY THE OFFI CE OF ADMINI STRATIVE LAW MARCH 14, 2025

PROPOSED ACTION ON REGULATIONS

TITLE 2. CIVIL RIGHTS DEPARTMENT

Conciliation Procedures — Notice File Number Z2025–0304–02 .......................................... 315

TITLE 2. FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES COMMISSION

Conict–of–Interest Code — Notice File Number .......................................................317

AMENDMENT

MULTI–COUNTY: California Montessori Project

Antelope Valley Community College District

Mayers Memorial Hospital District

Tahoe Forest Hospital District

Navigator Schools

Allan Hancock Community College District

TITLE 2. STATE LANDS COMMISSION

Conict–of–Interest Code — Notice File Number Z2025–0303–01 .........................................318

TITLE 4. HORSE RACING BOARD

Occupational Licenses, Fees, and Forms — Notice File Number Z2025–0304–04 ............................. 319

TITLE 4. DEPARTMENT OF CANNABIS CONTROL

Cultivation Updates, Sanitation Standards — Notice File Number Z2025–0303–02 ............................322

TITLE 10.DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE

Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Rules — Notice File Number Z2025–0304–03 ....................... 325

TITLE 13.DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

Business Partner Automation Program — Notice File Number Z2025–0228–01 ..............................333

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TITLE 16.BOARD OF BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Advertising — Notice File Number Z2025–0304–08 ..................................................... 337

TITLE 16.BOARD OF REGISTERED NURSING

Nurse Practitioner Education — Notice File Number Z2025–0304–01 ......................................340

TITLE 16. SPEECH–LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY AND HEARING AID

DISPENSERS BOARD

Processing Times — Notice File Number Z2025–0226–02 ................................................ 344

GENERAL PUBLIC INTEREST

FISH AND GAME COMMISSION

Location of April 2025 Meeting .....................................................................348

DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE

Deep Cut Creek Beaver Dam Analogues ..............................................................349

DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE

Elks Lodge Floodplain Project ......................................................................349

SUMMARY OF REGULATORY ACTIONS

Regulations led with Secretary of State .............................................................. 350

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PROPOSED ACTION ON

REGULATIONS

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TITLE 2. CIVIL RIGHTS

DE PA RT M E N T

CONCILIATION PROCEDURES

The Civil Rights Depart ment (“Department”) pro-

poses to revise its procedural regulations set forth in

Chapter 1 of Division 4.1 of Title 2 of the California

Code of Regulations, after considering all comments,

objections, and recommendations regarding the pro-

posed action. The proposed revisions would update

references to the Department to reect its current

name; clarify all statutes over which it has jurisdic-

tion; revise, remove, consolidate, and add denitions,

including but not limited to denitions relevant to the

Department’s conciliation and mediation procedu res

as well as various department divisions; revise regula-

tions regarding ling civil actions; and revise, remove,

and add regulations regarding the Depar tment’s con-

ciliation and mediation procedures and consolidate

those procedures in proposed new Subchapter 4.

PUBLIC HEARING

The Department has not scheduled a public hear-

ing on this matter. However, any interested person, or

their authorized representative, may request, no lat-

er than 15 days prior to the close of the below com-

ment period, a public hearing pursuant to Government

Code section 11346.8.

WRITTEN COMMENT PERIOD

Any interested person, or their author ized represen-

tative, may submit written comments relevant to the

proposed regulatory action to the Department. The

written comment period closes on April 28, 2025.

The Department will consider only comments re-

ceived by the end of that day. Written comments can

be mailed to:

Civil Rights Department

Attention: Alexandria Sadler

555 12th Street — Suite 2050

Oakland, CA 94607

Telephone: (800) 884–1684

Comments may also be submitted by email to

Alexandria.sadler@calcivilrights.ca.gov.

Although not required, comment submission via

email is strongly preferred .

AUTHORITY AND R EFERENCE

Government Code section 12930(e) authorizes the

Department to adopt these proposed regulations. The

proposed regulations implement, interpret, and make

specic Government Code sections 12930, 12948,

12963.7, 12964, 12965, 12980, 12981, 12984, and

12985.

INFORMATIVE DIGEST/POLICY

STATEMENT OVERVIEW

Current law authorizes the California Civil Rights

Department (“Department”) to receive, investigate,

conciliate, mediate, and prosecute complaints alleging

practices made unlawful pursuant to Chapter 6 (Gov.

Code section 12940 et seq.) of Part 2.8 of Division 3

of Title 2 of the Government Code and complaints al-

leging violations of sections 51, 51.5, 51.7, 51.9, 52.5,

54, 54.1, 54.2 of the Civil Code, section 11135 of the

Government Code (with the exception of complaints

relating to educational equity brought under Chapter

2 of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education

Code), and section 1197.5 of the Labor Code. (Gov.

Code § 12930.) This rulemaking would update section

10000 of Chapter 1 of Division 4.1 of Title 2 of the

California Code of Regulations to include all the stat-

utes within the Depar tment’s authority.

The proposed regulations would also further imple-

ment SB 189 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Re-

view, Chapter 48, Stats. of 2022) by updating referenc-

es to the Department’s former name. SB 189, in perti-

nent part, eectuated the Department’s name change

from the “Department of Fair Employment and Hous-

ing” to the “Civil Rights Depart ment.”

Existing law authorizes the Department to con-

ciliate complaints, which includes mediation. Ex-

isting regulations provide denitions for “Con-

ciliation,” “Dispute Resolution Division,” and

“Pre–Determination.” This rulemaking would revise

the denitions for “Conciliation” and “Dispute Reso-

lution Division,” add a denition for “Mediation,” and

add, remove, or amend other related denitions. The

purpose of these changes is to reduce redundancy and

clarify the meaning of terms related to conciliation

and mediation.