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This bill makes several changes to the California Conservation Corps (CCC), a program that provides young adults with work experience and training in natural resource conservation and other public service projects. Key provisions include expanding the types of projects the CCC can undertake to include forest resiliency and wildfire prevention and suppression, and allowing the CCC to contract with conservation corps established by California Native American tribes. The bill also allows corpsmembers to receive service credit in the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) for their time served, similar to individuals who served in the Peace Corps or AmeriCorps, and exempts corpsmembers from certain wage and hour regulations. Additionally, the bill revises reporting requirements for the CCC, focusing on postsecondary education enrollment disaggregated by the type of institution rather than degrees earned, and removes a redundant statute related to the corps.