(1) Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water. Existing law requires the state board to consider specified criteria when it adopts a primary drinking water standard, including the technological and economic feasibility of compliance. This bill would require the state board to identify actions necessary to assist specified water systems to achieve compliance within any compliance period established. The bill would require the state board to identify a compliance period or periods, when it adopts a primary drinking water standard, of not less than 30 days and not more than 3 years, and to consider specified criteria when identifying the compliance period. The bill would authorize the state board to grant additional time for compliance beyond the identified compliance period on a case-by-case basis. The bill would require a public water system to provide written notice regarding its progress in achieving a compliance plan to the persons served by the public water system at least 2 times per year. (2) The act authorizes the state board, if the state board determines that a public water system is subject to potential contamination, to, by order, require the public water system to conduct a periodic water analysis in accordance with conditions specified by the state board. This bill would require the above-described order to identify the analytical test methods to be used by laboratories and provide for electronic submission of the monitoring results to the state board. The bill would authorize the above-described order to apply to an individual public water system, specific groups of public water systems, or to all public water systems. The bill would exempt an order issued to a specific group of public water systems or to all public water systems from specified administrative regulation and rulemaking requirements.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Qualified individuals under the Medi-Cal program include medically needy persons and medically needy family persons who meet the required eligibility criteria, including applicable income requirements. Existing law requires the department to establish income levels for maintenance need at the lowest levels that reasonably permit a medically needy person to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter, and for which federal financial participation will still be provided under applicable federal law. In calculating the income of a medically needy person in a medical institution or nursing facility, or a person receiving institutional or noninstitutional services from a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly organization, the required monthly maintenance amount includes an amount providing for personal and incidental needs in the amount of not less than $35 per month while a patient. Existing law authorizes the department to increase, by regulation, this amount as necessitated by increasing costs of personal and incidental needs. This bill would increase the monthly maintenance amount for personal and incidental needs from $35 to $80, and would require the department to annually adjust that amount by the same percentage as the Consumer Price Index.
Existing law, the Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, generally allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to taxes imposed by those laws, including a deduction for a net operating loss, as specified. Existing law suspends the deduction for a net operating loss, as specified, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2023. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2023, would authorize a net operating loss carryback, as described, for a net operating loss or carryover of net operating loss for which a deduction was suspended as described above for a qualified taxpayer. The bill would define a "qualified taxpayer" as a taxpayer that was engaged in the business of owning, operating, or constructing active solar energy systems in the state and that completed a specified substantial sale of fixed assets or other property held or used in the regular course of their trade or business during the taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2020, but before January 1, 2021. The bill also would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, in an amount equal to 40% of the amount paid or incurred in qualified costs by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year for the installation of specified electric vehicle supply equipment in a covered multifamily dwelling or covered nonresidential building, subject to specified maximum credit amounts. The bill would define various terms for these purposes. The bill would repeal these provisions as of December 1, 2026. Existing law requires that any bill introduced on or after January 1, 2020, that would authorize certain tax expenditures, as defined, or tax exemptions contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure or exemption will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law generally regulates classes of insurance, including residential and commercial property insurance. The Insurance Rate Reduction and Reform Act of 1988, an initiative measure enacted by Proposition 103, as approved by the voters at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, prohibits specified insurance rates from being approved or remaining in effect that are excessive, inadequate, unfairly discriminatory, or otherwise in violation of the act. The act requires an insurer that wishes to change a rate to file a complete rate application with the Insurance Commissioner, for which there may be a hearing, as prescribed. Existing law authorizes the provisions of Proposition 103 to be amended by a statute that furthers the purposes of the act and is enacted by the Legislature with a 23 vote. This bill would require a residential or commercial property insurance policy issued, amended, or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, to include a discount if a local government of the jurisdiction where the insured property is located funds a local wildfire protection or mitigation program. Because the bill would mandate discounts for specified property insurance policies, thus affecting the commissioner's consideration of a rate, the bill would amend Proposition 103.
Existing law defines a sexually violent predator as a person who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense and has a diagnosed mental disorder that makes the person a danger to others in that they are likely to engage in sexually violent criminal behavior. Existing law provides for the commitment of a sexually violent predator to the State Department of State Hospitals. Existing law provides that a sexually violent predator may be conditionally released at the end of their commitment, as specified. Existing law requires a sexually violent predator who is conditionally released to be placed in the county that was the person's county of domicile prior to the person's incarceration, unless extraordinary circumstances exist requiring placement outside the county, as specified. This bill would require advance notice, as specified, if a sexually violent predator is to be released to a county other than their county of domicile. The bill would require the local jurisdiction to give public notice of the intended release and allow for public comment, as specified. The bill would require the court to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine if extraordinary circumstances exist. The bill would place the burden of showing extraordinary circumstances on the State Department of State Hospitals. The bill would require the court to accept remote testimony and written affidavits, as specified, for this hearing. The bill would limit how a lack of housing may be used to justify extraordinary circumstances and would require the department to present specified evidence regarding housing. The bill would also provide for discovery of relevant materials. By requiring local jurisdictions to give public notice and accept public comments, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law makes it a crime to hang a noose, place a sign containing a Nazi swastika, burn a religious symbol on the private property of another, and commit other acts for the purpose of causing terror. Existing law makes it a felony to explode, ignite, or attempt to explode or ignite a destructive device or explosive, or to commit arson, in a church, health facility, courthouse, school, or other specified facility for the purpose of terrorizing another or in reckless disregard of terrorizing another. This bill would make the commission of murder or kidnapping with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 25 years to life or imprisonment in the state prison for a term of life without the possibility of parole. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law establishes the Office of Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz, to advocate for causes of small business and to provide small businesses with the information they need to survive in the marketplace. Existing law authorizes counties, cities, and other local agencies to impose various taxes and fees in connection with activity or property within those jurisdictions. This bill would enact the California Small Business Rent Relief Act, which would authorize a county to establish a local small business rent forgiveness and tax relief program, as provided, for the purpose of providing credits to qualified taxpayers, as defined, to be used against any tax or fee owed to the county by the qualified taxpayer, and for which the county has authority to collect a credit in lieu of cash. The bill would authorize CalOSBA to establish the California Small Business Rent Forgiveness and Tax Relief Program, as provided, for the purpose of allocating credit authority to qualified counties, as defined, to implement a small business rent forgiveness and tax relief program. The bill would create the Small Business Rent Forgiveness and Tax Relief Account within the California Economic Development Fund, for the purpose of receiving moneys transferred to the account, and would require all moneys in the account to be available for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of implementing the California Small Business Rent Forgiveness and Tax Relief Program. The bill would require CalOSBA to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature on program activities, as provided.
(1) The California State Lottery Act of 1984, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 6, 1984, statewide general election, authorizes a California State Lottery and provides for its operation and administration by the California State Lottery Commission. The act authorizes the commission to contract with a lottery game retailer to sell tickets or shares in lottery games to the public and prohibits lottery tickets from being sold by a lottery game retailer unless the retailer has a certificate of authority issued by the lottery. The act directs the commission to promulgate regulations specifying the terms and conditions for contracting with lottery game retailers so as to provide adequate and convenient availability of tickets or shares to prospective buyers of lottery games. Existing law prohibits any changes in the types of lottery games or methods of delivery of these games that incorporate technologies or mediums that did not exist, were not widely available, or were not commercially feasible in 1984, unless certain conditions are met, including that a statute is enacted to expressly authorize the technology. The act specifies that none of its provisions may be changed except to further its purpose by a bill passed by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature. Existing law prohibits receiving, holding, or forwarding any money, thing, or consideration of value, to be staked, pledged, bet, or wagered upon the result of a lot or chance. This bill would create an exception to that criminal prohibition by authorizing a business that is not a lottery game retailer to purchase lottery tickets from an authorized lottery game retailer on behalf of an individual who orders those tickets through an internet website or mobile application operated by the business if certain conditions are met, including that the business verifies that an individual who orders lottery tickets through the internet website or mobile application is 18 years of age or older and is located in the state at the time the tickets are ordered. The bill would prohibit the business from receiving a commission on any winning lottery ticket, but would authorize the business to charge a service fee to an individual who orders lottery tickets through the business' internet website or mobile application. (2) Existing law, the Money Transmission Act, prohibits a person from engaging in the business of money transmission in this state, or advertising, soliciting, or holding itself out as providing money transmission in this state, unless the person is licensed or exempt from licensure, as specified. This bill would provide that a business that offers the service authorized by the bill is exempt from licensure under the Money Transmission Act. (3) By permitting the facilitation of lottery ticket sales through third-party transactions, the bill would amend the California State Lottery Act of 1984. The bill would declare that its provisions further the purposes of the act.
Existing law, the California Clean Water, Clean Air, and Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002, approved by the voters as Proposition 40 at the March 5, 2002, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of $2,600,000,000, for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, restoration, protection, rehabilitation, stabilization, reconstruction, preservation, and interpretation of park, coastal, agricultural land, air, and historical resources, as specified. Existing law also authorizes the legislative body of any local agency to contract with any other local agency for the furnishing of fire or police protection to that other local agency. This bill would authorize the City of Laguna Woods to lease to a public agency or joint powers authority, for purposes related to fire protection or public safety, the park property upon which improvements were made pursuant to specified grant agreements funded in accordance with the California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002. The bill would require those leases to be subject to the requirements set forth in the grant contracts that are otherwise applicable to property sales or other dispositions. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Laguna Woods.
Existing law imposes strict liability upon persons who place a defective product on the market, including retailers engaged in the business of distributing goods to the public, for injuries caused by the product. Existing law exempts a manufacturer or seller from liability, except as provided, in any action for injury or death caused by a product, other than an action based on a manufacturing defect or breach of an express warranty, if the product is inherently unsafe and the product is known to be unsafe by the ordinary consumer who consumes the product with the ordinary knowledge common to the community and the product is a common consumer product intended for personal consumption, as specified. This bill would, in any strict products liability action, make an electronic place that, by contract or other arrangement with one or more third parties, engages in specified acts strictly liable for all damages proximately caused by a defective product that is purchased or sold through the electronic place to the same extent as a retailer would be liable for selling the defective product in the retailer's physical store, regardless of whether the electronic place ever takes physical possession of, or title to, the defective product.
Existing law provides for unemployment compensation benefits to eligible persons who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Under existing law, these provisions are generally administered by the Employment Development Department. Existing law requires unemployment compensation benefits that are directly deposited to an account of the recipient's choice to be deposited to a qualifying account, which includes a prepaid card account that meets certain requirements. Existing law includes in the definition of prepaid card or prepaid card account a card, code, or other means of access to funds of a recipient that is usable at multiple, unaffiliated merchants for goods or services, or usable at automated teller machines. This bill would revise the definition of prepaid card or prepaid card account by requiring cards to be chip-enabled, as defined. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
