Existing law provides parameters for the expenditure of moneys appropriated to the Department of Industrial Relations for the administration of the provisions of labor laws. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law establishes the Department of Child Support Services to administer all services and perform all functions necessary to establish, collect, and distribute child support. This bill would require the department to provide any notice form, information, or document, without limitation, that is required or authorized to be given, distributed, or provided to an individual, a customer, or a member of the public to be given, distributed, or provided in a digitized form, and by any means the department determines is feasible, including, but not limited to, e-mail or by means of an Internet Web site, except as specified. This provision would not take effect until the department makes a specified determination.
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.
Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in, or aiding or abetting, a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway. Existing law prohibits a person from engaging in, or aiding or abetting, a motor vehicle exhibition of speed on a highway. Existing law also prohibits a person, for purposes of facilitating or aiding, or as an incident to, a motor vehicle speed contest or exhibition on a highway, from obstructing or placing a barricade or obstruction, or assisting or participating in placing a barricade or obstruction, on a highway. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Existing law authorizes the members of multidisciplinary teams engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of juvenile crime to share certain information with each other, as specified. This bill would, in addition, authorize the members of multidisciplinary teams engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of adult crime to share certain information with each other, as specified.
The Veterans' Farm and Home Purchase Act of 1943, administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, provides veterans with the opportunity to acquire farms and homes. Existing law provides that when a veteran has been authorized by the department to select a farm or home, the veteran shall submit the selection to the department, as provided. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law designates air pollution control districts and air quality management districts as having the primary responsibility for the control of air pollution from all sources other than vehicular sources. Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with coordinating efforts to attain and maintain ambient air quality standards. Existing federal regulations establish standards of performance for new residential wood heaters. Existing law requires the state board, in consultation with the districts, to develop a list of the most readily available and cost-effective control measures that could be employed by the state board and districts to reduce emissions of PM 2.5 and PM 10 particulate matter. Existing law requires that the list include control measures for woodstoves and fireplaces among other emission source categories. Existing law requires the state board and each district to adopt an implementation schedule for the most cost-effective measures on the list. This bill would prohibit any district from adopting a rule or regulation that restricts or prohibits the installation or operation of any wood-burning device in any new or existing residential structure.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, by reference to a specified federal statute, allow a credit against taxes imposed by those laws for increasing research expenses, as defined. In general, the amount of the credit under both laws is equal to 15% of the excess of the qualified research expenses, as defined, for the taxable year over the base amount, as defined, and, in addition, for purposes of the Corporation Tax Law, 24% of the basic research payments, as defined. The term "base amount" means the product of the average annual gross receipts of the taxpayer for each of the specified years preceding the taxable year and the fixed-base percentage, as defined, but in no event less than 50% of the qualified research expenses for the taxable year. A taxpayer may elect an alternative incremental credit for increasing research expenses in modified conformity to federal income tax laws. This bill would increase the credit for increasing research expenses to 20% of the excess of the qualified research expenses. This bill would also provide complete conformity to the alternative incremental credit provided under those federal income tax laws. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. The existing restructuring of the electrical industry within the Public Utilities Act provides for the establishment of an Independent System Operator (ISO) , states the intent of the Legislature that electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities commit control of their transmission facilities to the ISO, and requires the ISO to ensure efficient use and reliable operation of the transmission grid consistent with achieving planning and operating reserve criteria no less stringent than those established by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and the American Electric Reliability Council. This bill would provide that it is the policy of the state and the intent of the Legislature to ensure timely investments are made in the state's electrical transmission system to integrate electricity generation from renewable energy resources, to increase capacity to import electricity, and to accommodate load growth consistent with the efficient use and reliable operation of the grid.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to administer the School-to-Career Program, and, in the course of administering the program, to serve specified roles, including, but not limited to, developing or participating in the development of accountability measurements for school-to-career programs to ensure that the goals of the program are being met, and providing technical and professional assistance to all local partnerships, as defined. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law provides that no pupil shall receive a diploma of graduation from high school who, while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, has not completed a one-semester course in American government and civics. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to civics education in public schools.
Existing law provides that the consent of the parties to a contract must be free, and that an apparent consent is not free when obtained through a mistake. Existing law provides that a mistake of law constitutes a mistake under these provisions only when it arises under specified circumstances. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
