Existing law authorizes a local educational agency, nonpublic, nonsectarian school, or nonpublic, nonsectarian agency to petition the Superintendent of Public Instruction to waive specified laws relating to special education services for pupils provided by nonpublic, nonsectarian schools. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the law relating to the petition described above.
Existing law establishes the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation, under the direction of the State Oil and Gas Supervisor, who is required to supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells, as provided. Existing law divides the state into districts and requires the supervisor to appoint one chief deputy for each of the districts. Existing law requires the chief deputy to be a competent engineer or geologist and experienced in the development and production of oil and gas. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the law requiring the chief deputy to be a competent engineer or geologist and experienced in the development and production of oil and gas.
Existing law, the Real Estate Law, governs the licensure and regulation of real estate brokers and salespersons. Existing law provides various descriptions for real estate brokers, including a person who engages as a principal in the business of making loans or buying from, selling to, or exchanging with the public, real property sales contracts or promissory notes secured directly or collaterally by liens on real property, or who makes agreements with the public for the collection of payments or for the performance of services in connection with real property sales contracts or promissory notes secured directly or collaterally by liens on real property. Existing law defines terms for this purpose. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a multifamily housing development that is subject to a streamlined, ministerial approval process and not subject to a conditional use permit if the development satisfies specified objective planning standards. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would eliminate barriers to new residential development.
Existing law regulates the acquisition and disposition of salvageable personal property for charitable purposes. Existing law requires an organization that is qualified to solicit donations of salvageable personal property, or to sell salvageable personal property obtained by soliciting, as specified, to maintain separate bank accounts and separate books and records for those solicitations or sales and to fully comply with the Supervision of Trustees and Fundraisers for Charitable Purposes Act. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law requires the treasurer of a local agency having the duty of paying the interest on an issue of ad valorem special assessment district improvement bonds, upon the direction of the legislative body, to keep a register. Existing law requires that upon presentation of an interest coupon of the bond that the treasurer enter in the register the name and address of the owner or holder of the interest coupon and the number and amount of the bond. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the taxes imposed by that law, including, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, a deduction for a limited amount of interest paid on acquisition indebtedness, as defined, with respect to a qualified residence of the taxpayer. Existing law limits the aggregate amount treated as acquisition indebtedness for these purposes to $1,000,000, or $500,000 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return. Existing law specifies for these purposes that a qualified residence includes the taxpayer's principal residence and one other residence selected by the taxpayer, as provided. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, would disallow the deduction of acquisition indebtedness with respect to a qualified residence of a taxpayer other than the principal residence. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board, in consultation with the Department of Finance, to estimate the amount of additional revenue resulting from the above-described modifications made with respect to the calculation of taxable income under the Personal Income Tax Law by this bill and to notify the Controller of that amount, as provided. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing provisions of the Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibit a public official from making, participating in making, or attempting to use their official position to influence a governmental decision in which they know or have reason to know that they have a financial interest, as defined. However, existing law permits a public official to make or participate in the making of a governmental decision, even if the public official knows or has reason to know that the official has a financial interest, if the official's participation is legally required for the action or decision to be made. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provision containing that exception.
Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and makes the department responsible for administering various housing programs throughout the state, including, among others, the Multifamily Housing Program, the CalHOME Program, and the California Emergency Solutions Grants Program. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would designate an unspecified state entity with permitting authority for housing projects of statewide significance, and would make related findings and declarations.
Existing law provides that all pupils have the right to participate fully in the educational process, free from discrimination and harassment, and that California's public schools have an affirmative obligation to combat racism, sexism, and all other forms of bias, and a responsibility to provide equal educational opportunity. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions and correct cross-references in related provisions.
Existing law, the Planning and Zoning Law, requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries that includes, among other things, a housing element. Existing law requires a city, county, or city and county to submit a draft housing element or draft amendment to its housing element to the Department of Housing and Community Development for a determination as to whether the draft complies with state law governing housing elements. Existing law imposes certain requirements on an action brought by an interested party to review the conformity of a housing element with applicable state law. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the provision imposing certain requirements on those actions.
Existing law makes it a crime to engage in money laundering, defined as conducting a transaction involving a monetary instrument of specified value through a financial institution with the specific intent to promote or facilitate criminal activity or knowing that the monetary instrument represents the proceeds of or is derived from the proceeds of criminal activity. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
