Personal income taxes: credit: dependent care.

The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity to federal income tax law, authorizes a credit for household and dependent care expenses necessary for gainful employment, as provided. That law provides that the amount of the state credit is a percentage of the allowable federal credit, with the percentage dependent on adjusted gross income, as provided. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2020, would increase the amount of the applicable state credit percentage for taxpayers with adjusted gross income amounts of $70,000 or less, as provided. The bill would make these provisions operative on the effective date of any budget measure enacted in 2017 that specifically appropriates funds to the Franchise Tax Board for its costs to administer these provisions for that taxable year. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.