Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including development of a regional transportation plan. Certain of these agencies are designated under federal law as metropolitan planning organizations. Existing law requires metropolitan planning organizations to adopt a sustainable communities strategy as part of their regional transportation plan, which is to be designed to achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. Existing law generally requires transportation planning and programming activities by the metropolitan planning organization to be consistent with the sustainable communities strategy, with certain exceptions. Existing law, to the extent the sustainable communities strategy is unable to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, requires the affected metropolitan planning organizations to prepare an alternative planning strategy showing how the targets may be achieved through alternative development patterns, infrastructure, or additional transportation measures or policies. This bill would provide that greenhouse gas emission credits for counties and cities that site and permit commercial wind, solar, and biomass projects may be used as credit in the formulation of the sustainable communities strategy or an alternative planning strategy. The bill would also provide that transportation trips outside of federal lands that are directly related to activities of a federal or state military installation shall not be included in the emissions inventory otherwise required to be considered to achieve any reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Existing law requires the metropolitan planning organization or a county transportation agency, as appropriate, to consider financial incentives for cities and counties that have resource lands or farmlands, as defined, for the purposes of, for example, transportation investments for the preservation of the city street or county road system, and farm to market and interconnectivity transportation needs. This bill would add provision of access for renewable energy projects to the transportation investments that should be considered for purposes of providing financial incentives.
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment, and requires an employer to provide, or pay for all reasonable costs of, medical services necessary to care for, or relieve, work-related injuries. Existing law prohibits a person, firm, or corporation, other than an insurer admitted to transact workers' compensation insurance in this state, to contract to administer claims of self-insured employers as a 3rd-party administrator without a certificate of consent. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the above provision.
The California Constitution requires the state, from all state revenues, to first set apart the moneys to be applied for the support of the public school system and public institutions of higher education. The Constitution requires that the moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts be not less than the greater of 3 amounts computed pursuant to specified tests. Statutory provisions require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to perform various computations for purposes of allocating these moneys to local educational agencies in the form of revenue limit funding and grants for various categorical education programs. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation regarding public school finance.
Existing law defines "veterans" for the purposes of the various programs bestowing benefits upon veterans, including, but not limited to, educational assistance for dependents of veterans. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that definition.
This bill would make appropriations for support of state government for the 2009–10 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides that a person who initially collects hazardous waste at a remote site and transports it to a consolidation site operated by a generator and who complies with certain notification requirements is exempt from specified manifest and transporter registration requirements with regard to the hazardous waste if specified conditions are met. One of those conditions is that not more than 275 gallons or 2,500 pounds, whichever is greater, of hazardous waste is transported in a single shipment, except that a generator who is a public utility, local publicly owned utility, or municipal utility district is authorized to transport in a single shipment up to 1,600 gallons of hazardous wastewater from the dewatering of one or more utility vaults, up to 500 gallons of any other liquid hazardous waste, or up to 5,000 gallons of mineral oil from a transformer, circuit breakers, or capacitors, owned by the generator, if the mineral oil does not exhibit characteristics of toxicity pursuant to a specified test. This bill would revise that condition to increase the maximum weight amount to 10,000 pounds and would increase the maximum 1,600 gallon hazardous wastewater exception for certain generators to a maximum of 5,000 gallons.
Existing law makes various legislative findings and declarations relating to air pollution. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these legislative findings and declarations.
Existing law requires the Secretary of State to provide a certificate of election or nomination to each elected or nominated person. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Existing law prohibits a public official from influencing a governmental decision, as specified, in which the public official knows or has reason to know that he or she has a financial interest. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, and under which qualified low income individuals receive health care benefits. Existing law authorizes the department to contract with one or more prepaid health plans, in accordance with specified procedures, to provide benefits to eligible persons who are enrolled in these health plans. Pursuant to these provisions, existing law requires the director, if he or she makes a finding of noncompliance or for other good cause, as described, to terminate a contract with a prepaid health plan or a Medi-Cal managed health care plan in accordance with specified procedures, or, in lieu of termination, to take one or more specified sanctions against the contractor. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing federal law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, appropriates federal funds for various federal, state, and local programs, including funds for local educational agencies and education-related programs. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would implement the provisions of the act with regard to education finance.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, allow a credit against the taxes imposed by those laws in an amount equal to 6% of the amount paid or incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year for qualified property, as defined, that is placed in service in this state. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
