Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy and prescribes the membership and functions and duties of the conservancy with respect to preservation of coastal resources in the state. This bill would enact the Safe Water and Wildlife Protection Act of 2016, which would require the State Water Resources Control Board to establish and coordinate the Algal Bloom Task Force, comprised of specified representatives of state agencies, including the conservancy, in consultation with the Secretary for Environmental Protection, and would prescribe the functions and duties of the task force. The bill would require the task force to review the risks and negative impacts of toxic algal blooms and microcystin pollution and to submit a summary of its findings and recommendations to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, and the secretary on or before January 1, 2018. The act would require the task force, before providing funding recommendations or submitting a summary of findings, to notify the public about ongoing activities and provide opportunities for public review and comment on applied research, projects, and programs. The act would authorize the conservancy, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Wildlife Conservation Board, and the State Water Resources Control Board to enter into contracts and provide grants, upon appropriation, from specified bond funds available under the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 or from other appropriate funds for applied research, projects, and programs, recommended by the task force, aimed at preventing or sustainably mitigating toxic blooms of cyanotoxins and microcystin pollution in the waters of the state.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state, and authorizes school districts and other local educational agencies to provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law establishes a course of study for pupils in these grades. This bill would establish the Computer Science Education Grant Pilot Program under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Under the program, eligible local educational agencies, as defined, could apply to receive grants, not to exceed 2 years, to establish and maintain computer science courses in underserved areas and among pupils from groups historically underrepresented in the field of computer science, and to provide professional development for teachers to teach computer science, either as a stand-alone course or as integrated into other courses. The bill would authorize any local educational agency in the state to apply for participation in the pilot program. The bill would specify minimum criteria to be applied by the Superintendent in evaluating applicant local educational agencies for possible participation in the pilot program, and authorize the Superintendent to consult with computer science experts to discuss and refine these criteria, as specified. The bill would establish the Computer Science Education Grant Matching Account in the State Treasury. The bill would authorize the State Treasury to receive, and deposit into the account, any gifts, grants, or donations received for purposes of the bill from private persons or entities. The bill would require local educational agencies receiving grants under the bill to provide local matching resources, which may include in-kind donations, constituting an amount equaling the amount that would be allocated to the local educational agency from the Computer Science Education Grant Matching Account. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that no moneys from the state General Fund be used to fund the grant pilot program established by the bill. The bill would provide that the funds deposited in the account would be available, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or in another statute, to the Superintendent for purposes of the bill, provided that the Superintendent certifies, in writing, to the Director of Finance that there are sufficient funds, as defined, in the account to implement the bill. The bill would limit expenditures from the account to cover administrative costs to the State Department of Education to no more than 5% of the allocations made from the account in any fiscal year. The bill would authorize the Superintendent to refund to the donor all or a portion of any gift, grant, or donation made to the account by that donor if the funds received from that donor have not been encumbered because there are surplus funds in the account or because this provision has not become operative. The bill would require the Superintendent to submit an annual report, containing specified data about the grant program, to the Governor and the Legislature on or before January 10, 2018, and on or before January 10 in 2019, 2020, and 2021. The provisions of the bill would become inoperative on July 1, 2021, and would be repealed as of January 1, 2022.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the State Air Resources Board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism relative to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, commonly known as cap and trade revenues, to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and to be used, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes, including the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions associated with water use and supply. This bill would include reduction of greenhouse gas emissions associated with water treatment among the investments that are eligible for funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations, and a statement of legislative intent, with regard to the nexus between water and energy and water and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This bill would require the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, in cooperation with the State Water Resources Control Board, the State Air Resources Board, the Public Utilities Commission, and the Department of Water Resources, to conduct a study of water-related energy use in California. This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board, upon an appropriation from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and in cooperation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the State Air Resources Board, the Public Utilities Commission, and the Department of Water Resources, to establish a grant and loan program for water projects that result in the net reduction of water-related greenhouse gas emissions.
The Child Care and Development Services Act has a purpose of providing a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. This bill would exclude from income the amount of the basic allowance for housing provided to an individual who is on federal active duty, state active duty, active duty for special work, or Active Guard and Reserve duty in the military that is equal to the lowest rate of the allowance for the military housing area in which the individual resides for purposes of determining eligibility for child care and development services.
Existing law authorizes the Treasurer or chief fiscal officer of a campus of the California State University to invest certain money received by the California State University in eligible securities and in investment certificates or withdrawal shares in federal or state credit unions doing business in this state as long as any money invested in this manner is fully insured by the National Credit Union Administration. This bill would authorize the Treasurer or chief fiscal officer of a campus of the California State University to invest that money in mutual funds subject to registration by, and under the regulatory authority of, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or in real estate investment trusts. The bill would impose specified requirements on the Trustees of the California State University relating to those types of investments. Existing law establishes the California State University Special Projects Fund, which consists of grants, revenues, and funds for the operation, support, and development of research, workshops, conferences, institutes, and special projects in the California State University. Existing law authorizes the Treasurer to invest money from the fund in eligible securities. This bill would authorize the Treasurer or chief fiscal officer of a campus of the California State University to invest the money in the California State University Special Projects Fund in mutual funds subject to registration by, and under the regulatory authority of, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or in real estate investment trusts. This bill would limit the total amount invested in these mutual funds and real estate investment trusts to specified amounts for each fiscal year, until, commencing with the 2019–20 fiscal year, up to 30% of that money could be invested in these asset categories.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties pertaining to, among other things, protecting, preserving, and advancing public health, including disseminating information regarding diseases. This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to update the California Wellness Plan 2014 to include specified items, including priorities and performance measures that are based upon evidence-based strategies to prevent and control diabetes, and to submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2018, that includes the progress of those specified plan items. The bill would also make related findings and declarations.
(1) Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies and community development agencies as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies to wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies and to, among other things, make payments due for enforceable obligations and to perform obligations required pursuant to any enforceable obligation. This bill would provide that any action by the Department of Finance, that occurred on or after June 28, 2011, carrying out the department's obligations under the provisions described above constitutes a department action for the preparation, development, or administration of the state budget and is exempt from the Administrative Procedures Act. (2) Existing law defines "administrative cost allowance" for the purposes of successor agencies' duties in the winding down of the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies to mean an amount that is payable from property tax revenues up to a certain percentage of the property tax allocated to the successor agency on the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule covering a specified period, and up to a certain percentage of the property tax allocated to the Redevelopment Obligation Retirement Fund that is allocated to the successor agency for each fiscal year thereafter. This bill would restate the definition of "administrative cost allowance" as the maximum amount of administrative costs that may be paid by a successor agency from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund in a fiscal year. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2016, and for each fiscal year thereafter, limit the administrative cost allowance to an amount not to exceed 3% of the actual property tax distributed to the successor agency for payment of approved enforceable obligations, reduced by the successor agency's administrative cost allowance and loan payments made to the city, county, or city and county that created the redevelopment agency, as specified, and would limit a successor agency's annual administrative costs to an amount not to exceed 50% of the total Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund distributed to pay enforceable obligations. (3) Existing law excludes from the term "administrative cost allowance" any administrative costs that can be paid from bond proceeds or from sources other than property tax, any expenses related to assets or obligations, settlements and judgments, and the costs of maintaining assets prior to disposition. This bill would delete these exclusions and would further require the "administrative cost allowance" to be approved by the oversight board and to be the sole funding source for any legal expenses related to civil actions contesting the validity of laws and actions dissolving and winding down the redevelopment agencies, as specified. (4) Existing law specifies that the term "enforceable obligation" does not include any agreements, contracts, or arrangements between the city, county, or city and county that created the redevelopment agency and the former redevelopment agency, as specified. Notwithstanding this provision, existing law authorizes certain written agreements to be deemed enforceable obligations. This bill would additionally authorize written agreements entered into at the time of issuance, but in no event later than June 27, 2011, solely for the refunding or refinancing of other indebtedness obligations that existed prior to January 1, 2011, and solely for the purpose of securing or repaying the refunded or refinanced indebtedness obligations, to be deemed enforceable obligations. This bill would provide that an agreement entered into by the redevelopment agency prior to June 28, 2011, is an enforceable obligation if the agreement relates to state highway infrastructure improvements, as specified. (5) Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that authorized the creation of a redevelopment agency to loan or grant funds to a successor agency for administrative costs, enforceable obligations, or project related expenses at the city's discretion. This bill would limit the authorization to loan or grant funds to the payment of administrative costs or enforceable obligations excluding loans approved pursuant to specified provisions, and to the case in which the successor agency receives an insufficient distribution from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, or other approved sources of funding are insufficient, to pay approved enforceable obligations, as specified. This bill would require these loans to be repaid from the source of funds originally approved for payment of the underlying enforceable obligation, as specified. This bill would require the interest on these loans to be calculated on a fixed annual simple basis, and would specify the manner in which these loans are required to be repaid. (6) Existing law provides for the transfer of housing assets and functions previously performed by the dissolved redevelopment agency to one of several specified public entities. Existing law authorizes the successor housing entity to designate the use of, and commit, proceeds from indebtedness that were issued for affordable housing purposes prior to January 1, 2011, and were backed by the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would instead authorize a successor housing entity to designate the use of, and commit, proceeds from indebtedness that were issued for affordable housing purposes prior to June 28, 2011. (7) Existing law authorizes the city, county, or city and county that created a redevelopment agency to elect to retain the housing assets and functions previously performed by the redevelopment agency. Existing law requires that any funds transferred to the housing successor, together with any funds generated from housing assets, be maintained in a separate Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund to be used in accordance with applicable housing-related provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law, except as specified. Existing law requires the housing successor to provide an annual independent financial audit of the fund to its governing body, and to post on its Internet Web site specified information. This bill would require that posted information to also include specified amounts received by the city, county, or city and county. (8) Existing law requires a successor agency to, among other things, prepare a Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule for payments on enforceable obligations for each 6-month fiscal period. This bill would revise the timeline for the preparation of the required Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule to require the successor agency to prepare a schedule for a one year fiscal period, with the first of these periods beginning July 1, 2016, and would authorize the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule to be amended by the oversight board once per Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule period, if the oversight board makes a finding that a revision is necessary for the payment of approved enforceable obligations, as specified. This bill would, beginning August 1, 2015, authorize successor agencies to submit a Last and Final Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule, which shall list the remaining enforceable obligations of the successor agency and the total outstanding obligation and a schedule of remaining payments for each enforceable obligation, for approval by the oversight board and the Department of Finance if specified conditions are met. This bill would require the department to review the Last and Final Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule, as specified, and would require, upon approval by the department, the Last and Final Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule to establish the maximum amount of Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Funds to be distributed to the successor agency, as specified. This bill would authorize the successor agencies to submit no more than two requests to the department to amend the approved Last and Final Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule, except as specified. This bill would also require the county auditor-controller to review the Last and Final Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule and to continue to allocate moneys in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund in a specified order of priority. (9) Existing law prohibits successor agencies from creating new enforceable obligations, except in compliance with an enforceable obligation that existed prior to June 28, 2011. Notwithstanding this provision, existing law authorizes successor agencies to create enforceable obligations to conduct the work of winding down the redevelopment agency, including hiring staff, acquiring necessary professional administrative services and legal counsel, and procuring insurance. Existing law finds and declares that these provisions, when enacted, were declaratory of existing law. This bill, except as required by an enforceable obligation, would exclude certain work from the authorization to create enforceable obligations, and would prohibit a successor agency that is the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency from creating enforceable obligations to repay loans entered into between the redevelopment agency and the city, county, or city and county, except as otherwise provided. This bill would delete those findings and declarations, and would apply the provisions described above retroactively to any successor agency or redevelopment agency actions occurring after June 27, 2012. (10) Existing law authorizes a successor agency to petition the Department of Finance, if an enforceable obligation provides for an irrevocable commitment of property tax revenue and the allocation of those revenues is expected to occur over time, to provide written confirmation that its determination of this enforceable obligation as approved in a Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule is final and conclusive. This bill would require the successor agency to petition the department by electronic means and in a manner of the department's choosing, and would require the successor agency to provide a copy of the petition to the county auditor-controller, as provided. This bill would require the department to provide written confirmation of approval or denial of the request within 100 days of the date of the request. (11) Existing law provides that agreements, contracts, or arrangements between the city or county, or city and county that created the redevelopment agency and the redevelopment agency are invalid and shall not be binding on the successor agency, except that a successor entity wishing to enter or reenter into agreements with the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency may do so upon obtaining approval of its oversight board. Existing law prohibits a successor agency or an oversight board from exercising these powers to restore funding for an enforceable obligation that was deleted or reduced by the Department of Finance, as provided. This bill would delete that prohibition, and would provide that a duly authorized written agreement entered into at the time of issuance, but in no event later than June 27, 2011, of indebtedness obligations solely for the refunding or refinancing of indebtedness obligations that existed prior to January 1, 2011, and solely for the purpose of securing or repaying the refunded and refinanced indebtedness obligations, is valid and may bind the successor agency. This bill would prohibit an oversight board from approving any agreements between the successor agency and the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency, except as otherwise provided, and would prohibit a successor agency from entering or reentering into any agreements with the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency, except as otherwise provided. This bill would also prohibit a successor agency or an oversight board from exercising any powers to restore funding for any item that was denied or reduced by the Department of Finance. This bill would apply these provisions retroactively to all agreements entered or reentered on and after June 27, 2012. (12) Existing law authorizes the Department of Finance to review an oversight board action and requires written notice and information about all actions taken by an oversight board to be provided to the department by electronic means and in a manner of the department's choosing. This bill would require the written notice and information described above to be provided to the department as an approved resolution. This bill would provide that oversight boards are not required to submit certain actions for department approval. (13) Existing law requires, on and after July 1, 2016, in each county where more than one oversight board was created, as provided, that there be only one oversight board. This bill, except as otherwise provided, commencing on and after July 1, 2017, if more than one oversight board exists within a county, would require the oversight board to be staffed by the county auditor-controller, by another county entity selected by the county auditor-controller, or by a city within the county selected by the county auditor-controller, as specified. This bill would authorize the county auditor-controller, if only one successor agency exists within the county, to designate the successor agency to staff the oversight board. This bill, commencing July 1, 2017, in each county where more than 40 oversight boards were created, would require 5 oversight boards, as specified. (14) Existing law requires an oversight board for a successor agency to cease to exist when all of the indebtedness of the dissolved redevelopment agency has been repaid. This bill would instead generally require an oversight board to cease to exist when the successor agency has been formally dissolved, as specified, and would require a county oversight board to cease to exist when all successor agencies subject to its oversight have been formally dissolved, as specified. (15) Existing law, upon full payment by a successor agency of specified amounts due, requires the Department of Finance to issue a finding of completion, as specified, within 5 days. This bill, if a successor agency fails by December 31, 2015, to pay, or to enter into a written installment plan with the Department of Finance for payment of specified amounts, would prohibit the successor agency from ever receiving a finding of completion. This bill, if a successor agency, city, county, or city and county pays, or enters into a written installment plan with the Department of Finance for the payment of specified amounts and the successor agency, city, county, or city and county subsequently receives a final judicial determination that reduces or eliminates the amounts determined, would require an enforceable obligation to be created for the reimbursement of the excess amounts paid and the obligation to make any payments in excess of the amount determined by a final determination to be canceled. This bill, if upon consultation with the county auditor-controller, the Department of Finance finds that a successor agency, city, county, or city and county has failed to fully make one or more payments agreed to in the written installment plan, would prohibit specified provisions from applying to the successor agency and would prohibit specified oversight board actions and any approved long-range property management plan from being effective. (16) Existing law transfers all assets, properties, contracts, leases, books and records, buildings, and equipment of former redevelopment agencies, as of February 1, 2012, to the control of the successor agency for administration, as specified. This bill would require the city, county, or city and county that created the former redevelopment agency to return to the successor agency certain assets, cash and cash equivalents that were not required by an enforceable obligation, as specified, and other money or assets that were not required or authorized pursuant to an effective oversight board action or Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. This bill would authorize certain amounts required to be returned to the successor agency to be placed on a Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule by the successor agency for payment as an enforceable obligation subject to specified conditions. (17) Existing law requires a request by a successor agency to enter into an agreement with the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency to first be approved by the oversight board. Existing law provides that actions to reestablish any other agreements that are in furtherance of enforceable obligations with the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency are invalid until they are included in an approved and valid Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. This bill would also require a request by the successor agency to reenter into an agreement as described above to first be approved by the oversight board. This bill would also provide that actions to establish any other authorized agreements, as specified, are invalid until they are included in an approved and valid Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule. (18) Existing law requires the oversight board to direct the successor agency to, among other things, dispose of all assets and properties of the former redevelopment agency, except that the oversight board is authorized to instead direct the successor agency to transfer ownership of those assets that were constructed and used for a governmental purpose, such as roads, school buildings, parks, police and fire stations, libraries, and local agency administrative buildings, to the appropriate public jurisdiction, as provided. This bill would expand that authorization to include parking facilities and lots dedicated solely to public parking that do not include properties that generate revenues in excess of reasonable maintenance costs of the properties. This bill would authorize a successor agency to amend its long-range property management plan once, solely to allow for retention of real properties that constitute public parking lots, as provided. (19) Existing law requires, from February 1, 2012, to July 1, 2012, inclusive, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the county auditor-controller, after deducting administrative costs, to allocate property tax revenues in each Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund first to each local agency and school entity, as provided. This bill would require certain revenues attributable to a property tax rate approved by the voters of a city, county, city and county, or special district to make payments in support of pension programs or in support of capital projects and programs related to the State Water Project and levied in addition to the general property tax rate, be allocated to, and when collected be paid into, the fund of that taxing entity, unless those amounts are pledged as security for the payment of any indebtedness obligation. (20) Existing law requires certain estimates and accounts reported in recognized obligation payment schedules and transferred to the Redevelopment Obligation Retirement Fund to be subject to audit by the county auditor-controller and the Controller. This bill would instead require the estimates and accounts described above to be reviewed by the county auditor-controller subject to the Department of Finance's review and approval. This bill would require a successor agency, commencing October 1, 2018, and each October 1 thereafter, to submit the differences between actual payments and past estimated obligations on a Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule to the county auditor-controller for review, and would require the county-auditor controller to provide this information to the Department of Finance, as specified. (21) Existing law requires a successor agency, when all of the debt of a redevelopment agency has been retired or paid off, to dispose of all remaining assets and terminate its existence within one year of the final debt payment. This bill would instead require, when all of the enforceable obligations have been retired or paid off, all real property has been disposed of, and all outstanding litigation has been resolved, the successor agency to submit to the oversight board a request, with a copy of the request to the county auditor-controller, to formally dissolve the successor agency. This bill would also require, if a redevelopment agency was not previously allocated property tax revenue, as specified, the successor agency to submit to the oversight board a request to formally dissolve the successor agency. This bill would require the oversight board to approve these requests within 30 days and to submit the request to the Department of Finance for approval or denial, as specified. This bill would require the successor agency to take specified steps, including notifying the oversight board, when the department approves a request to formally dissolve a successor agency. This bill would require the oversight board, upon receipt of notification from the successor agency, to make certain verifications and adopt a final resolution of dissolution for the successor agency, as specified. This bill would, when a successor agency is finally dissolved, with respect to any existing community facilities district formed by a redevelopment agency, require the legislative body of the city or county that formed the redevelopment agency to become the legislative body of the community facilities district, and any existing obligations of the former redevelopment agency or its successor agency to become the obligations of the new legislative body of the community facilities district. (22) Existing law, with respect to any successor agency that has been issued a finding of completion by the Department of Finance, deems loan agreements entered into between the redevelopment agency and the city, county, or city and county that created the redevelopment agency to be an enforceable obligation, as provided. Existing law specifies the manner in which the interest on the loan should be calculated and how the loan should be repaid. Existing law requires repayments received by the city, county, or city and county that formed the redevelopment agency to be used to retire certain outstanding amounts borrowed and owed, including a distribution to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund, as provided. Existing law requires bond proceeds derived from bonds issued on or before December 31, 2010, to be used for the purposes for which the bonds were sold. This bill would define "loan agreements" for the purposes described above. This bill would change the manner in which the interest on the loan is calculated, and would require moneys repaid to be applied first to the principal and second to the interest. This bill would require distributions to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund to be subject to specified reporting requirements. This bill would require bond proceeds derived from bonds issued on or before December 31, 2010, in excess of the amounts needed to satisfy approved enforceable obligations, to be expended in a manner consistent with the original bond covenants. This bill would require bond proceeds derived from bonds issued on or after January 1, 2011, in excess of amounts needed to satisfy approved enforceable obligations, to be used in a manner consistent with the original bond covenants subject to specified conditions. This bill would apply these provisions, and the provisions relating to any successor agency that has been issued a finding of completion by the Department of Finance described above, retroactively to actions occurring on or after June 28, 2011. This bill would also provide that specified changes to existing law shall not result in the denial of specified loans previously approved by the Department of Finance and shall not impact judgments, writs of mandate, and orders entered by the Sacramento Superior Court in specified lawsuits. (23) Existing law requires a successor agency to prepare a long-range property management plan that addresses the disposition and use of the real properties of the former redevelopment agency. This bill would require, if the former redevelopment agency did not have real properties, the successor agency to prepare a long-range property management plan, as provided. (24) Existing law authorizes successor agencies to, among other things, issue bonds or incur indebtedness to refund the bonds or indebtedness of a former redevelopment agency or to finance debt service spikes, as specified. The issuance of bonds or incurrence of other indebtedness by a successor agency is subject to the approval of the oversight board of the successor agency. This bill would authorize the successor agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City and County of San Francisco to have the authority, rights, and powers of the Redevelopment Agency to which it succeeded solely for the purpose of issuing bonds or incurring other indebtedness to finance the construction of affordable housing and infrastructure required by specified agreements, subject to the approval of the oversight board. The bill would provide that bonds or other indebtedness authorized by its provisions would be considered indebtedness incurred by the dissolved redevelopment agency, would be listed on the Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule, and would be secured by a pledge of moneys deposited into the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund. The bill would also require the successor agency to make diligent efforts to obtain the lowest long-term cost financing and to make use of an independent financial advisor in developing financing proposals. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City and County of San Francisco. (25) Existing law requires the county auditor for a county for which a negative sum was calculated pursuant to a specified former statute, in reducing the amount of property tax revenue otherwise allocated to the county by an amount attributable to that negative sum, to apply a reduction amount equal to or based on the reduction amount determined for specified fiscal years. This bill, for the 2015–16 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, would prohibit the county auditor from applying the reduction amount. (26) Existing property tax law requires the county auditor, in each fiscal year, to allocate property tax revenue to local jurisdictions in accordance with specified formulas and procedures, and generally requires that each jurisdiction be allocated an amount equal to the total of the amount of revenue allocated to that jurisdiction in the prior fiscal year, subject to certain modifications, and that jurisdiction's portion of the annual tax increment, as defined. Existing law provides for the computation, on the basis of these allocations, of apportionment factors that are applied to actual property tax revenues in each county in order to determine actual amounts of property tax revenue received by each recipient jurisdiction. This bill would deem to be correct those property tax revenue apportionment factors that were applied in allocating property tax revenues in the County of San Benito for each fiscal year through the 2000–01 fiscal year. This bill would, notwithstanding specified audit requirements, require the county auditor to make the allocation adjustments identified in the State Controller's audit of the County of San Benito for the 2001–02 fiscal year. The bill would additionally require property tax apportionment factors applied in allocating property tax revenue in the County of San Benito for the 2002–03 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter to be determined on the basis of apportionment factors for prior fiscal years that have been corrected or adjusted as would be required if those prior apportionment factors were not deemed correct by this bill. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of San Benito. (27) Existing property tax law reduces the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue that would otherwise be annually allocated to the county, cities, and special districts pursuant to general allocation requirements by requiring, for purposes of determining property tax revenue allocations in each county for the 1992–93 and 1993–94 fiscal years, that the amounts of property tax revenue deemed allocated in the prior fiscal year to the county, cities, and special districts be reduced in accordance with certain formulas. It requires that the revenues not allocated to the county, cities, and special districts as a result of these reductions be transferred to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (ERAF) in that county for allocation to school districts, community college districts, and the county office of education. Existing property tax law requires the auditor of each county with qualifying cities, as defined, to make certain property tax revenue allocations to those cities in accordance with a specified Tax Equity Allocation (TEA) formula established in a specified statute and to make corresponding reductions in the amount of property tax revenue that is allocated to the county. Existing law requires the auditor of Santa Clara County, for the 2006–07 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, to reduce the amount of property tax revenue allocated to qualified cities in that county by the ERAF reimbursement amount, as defined, and to commensurately increase the amount of property tax revenue allocated to the county ERAF, as specified. This bill would, instead, for the 2015–16 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, require the auditor of Santa Clara County to reduce the amount of property tax revenues that are required to be allocated from the qualified cities in that county to the county ERAF by a specified percentage of the ERAF reimbursement amount. This bill would prohibit the auditor of Santa Clara County from reducing the amounts allocated to the county ERAF in any fiscal year in which the amount of moneys required to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts is determined pursuant to Test 1 of Proposition 98. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Santa Clara. (28) This bill would appropriate $23,750,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection contingent upon the County of Riverside agreeing to forgive amounts owed to it by certain cities. (29) By imposing new duties upon local government officials with respect to the wind down of the dissolved redevelopment agencies, and in the annual allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, this 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, 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 these statutory provisions. (30) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act contains limitations on sales commonly known as "tied-house" restrictions, which generally prohibit a manufacturer, winegrower, manufacturer's agent, California winegrower's agent, rectifier, distiller, bottler, importer, or wholesaler from furnishing, giving, or lending any money or other thing of value to any person engaged in operating, owning, or maintaining any off-sale licensed premises. For purposes of these provisions, the listing of the names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, or Internet Web site addresses, of 2 or more unaffiliated off-sale retailers selling beer, wine, or distilled spirits and operating and licensed as bona fide public eating places selling the beer, wine, or distilled spirits produced, distributed, or imported by a nonretail industry member in response to a direct inquiry from a consumer, as specified, does not constitute a thing of value or prohibited inducement to the listed off-sale retailer, if specified conditions are met. Existing law includes similar provisions applicable to on-sale licensed premises, except that those provisions also extend the above-described exception to other forms of electronic media. This bill would delete the above exceptions that apply specifically to off-sale licensed premises and instead would include off-sale licensed premises within the exceptions previously applicable only to on-sale licensed premises.
(1) The Child Care and Development Services Act requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that provide a full range of services for eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age. Existing law requires a child care resource and referral program, as defined, to publicize its services through all available media sources, agencies, and other appropriate methods. This bill would require a child care resource and referral program to include in the publicity a statement regarding the state's special interest in enrolling children placed by a child welfare agency with a relative or foster parent, children served by a child welfare agency who have an open dependency or voluntary child protective services court case, and children who are dependents of a parent with an open dependency court case, in programs that are operated by licensed child care providers or local educational agencies. (2) Existing law requires an applicant or contracting agency, as defined, of a California state preschool program to give priority to children who meet certain criteria, including children who are recipients of child protective services. This bill would require an applicant or contracting agency to also give first priority enrollment to children placed by a child welfare agency with a relative or foster parent, children served by a child welfare agency who have an open dependency or voluntary child protective services court case, and children who are dependents of a parent with an open dependency court case. The bill would require these priority enrollments to be considered along with the first priority and other priority enrollments for federal and state subsidized child development services administered by the Superintendent, as specified. This bill would require general child care and development programs to include priority enrollment, when slots become available in programs operated by licensed child care providers or local educational agencies, for children from birth to 5 years of age who are supervised by the child welfare system, have an open dependency or voluntary child protective services court case, or are dependents of a parent with an open dependency court case. The bill would require these priority enrollments to be considered along with the first priority and other priority enrollments for federal and state subsidized child development services administered by the Superintendent, as specified. This bill would revise eligibility requirements for federal and state subsidized child development services administered by the Superintendent to include children placed by a child welfare agency with a relative or foster parent, children served by a child welfare agency who have an open dependency or voluntary child protective services court case, and children who are dependents of a parent with an open dependency court case. The bill would require, among other things, that first priority enrollment for these services be given to neglected or abused children from birth to 5 years of age who are recipients of child protective services, or who are at risk of being neglected, abused, or exploited, upon written referral from a legal, medical, or social services agency who meet specified criteria. (3) Existing law requires a local planning council to annually submit local priorities that reflect child care needs in the county to the State Department of Education, and requires a local planning council to conduct an assessment of the child care needs that includes specified factors. This bill would include among those factors the child care needs of children placed by a child welfare agency with a relative or foster parent, children served by a child welfare agency who have an open dependency or voluntary child protective services court case, and children who are dependents of a parent with an open dependency court case. (4) This bill would also express the Legislature's intent that the highest priority for enrollment in child care and development programs be given to children with the greatest need to benefit from those programs. (5) Existing law defines certain terms for purposes of the Child Care and Development Services Act, including the term "underserved area," to mean specified areas where the ratio of publicly subsidized child care and development program services to the need for these services is low, as determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. This bill would revise the term "underserved area" to also include the specified areas where the overall number of eligible children without access to publicly subsidized child care and development program services is high, as determined by the Superintendent. (6) This bill would appropriate $1,000 to the State Department of Education for allocation for purposes of the above provisions. (7) To the extent that the funds appropriated by this bill are allocated to a school district or a community college district, those funds would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. (8) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The Toxics in Packaging Prevention Act generally prohibits a manufacturer or supplier from offering for sale or for promotional purposes in this state a package or packaging component that includes intentionally introduced lead, mercury, cadmium, or hexavalent chromium in the package or in a packaging component. The act exempted from this prohibition, until January 1, 2010, a package or a packaging component if the manufacturer or supplier complied with specific documentation requirements and the package or packaging component did not contain any intentionally introduced lead, mercury, cadmium, or hexavalent chromium, but exceeded a specific maximum concentration level because of the addition of a recycled material. This bill would provide a similar exemption, until January 1, 2019, for a glass beverage, food, or drink container. The bill would require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to evaluate the packaging of glass beverage, food, and drink containers, as specified, to determine if lead, mercury, cadmium, or hexavalent chromium is present in glass beverage, food, or drink containers sold in California. If the department determines that these metals are present, the bill would require the department to also evaluate whether and under what circumstances those metals can leach from the glass containers into the food or beverage and whether the presence of the metals in the glass containers presents a risk to human health and the environment. The bill would authorize the department to request any information and collect any samples necessary for the evaluations from glass manufacturers or feedstock or raw material suppliers in the state that are subject to the act, and would require the department to provide the results of the evaluations to the Legislature by January 1, 2018. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations, pursuant to existing authority, based on these evaluations. The bill would authorize the department to seek reimbursement from the glass manufacturers and feedstock and raw material suppliers to cover the reasonable costs directly related to collecting glass samples, reviewing and processing those samples, analyzing the samples, disseminating certain information, and implementing any regulations that are developed as a result of the evaluations. The bill would delete obsolete provisions and would make conforming changes.
(1) Existing law enumerates the officers of a county, including the office of the auditor, prescribes their duties, and permits a county board of supervisors to consolidate, separate, and reconsolidate their duties, as specified. Existing law requires the board of supervisors, at least biennially, to audit county financial accounts and records of all county officers responsible for the care, management, collection, or disbursement of county money, as specified. Existing law requires the board of supervisors to supervise the official conduct of all county officers, particularly with regard to the functions and duties of these county officers as they relate to the assessing, collecting, safekeeping, management, or disbursement of public funds. This bill would require, in any county with both an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000 people, that the auditor-controller, and not the board of supervisors, examine and audit, or cause to be audited, the financial accounts and records of all officers having responsibility for the care, management, collection, or disbursement of county money, as described above. The bill would require this audit to be filed with the board of supervisors. The bill would require, in any county with both an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000 people, that the authority of the board of supervisors to supervise the official conduct of county officers not be construed to affect the independent auditing and accounting functions of the auditor-controller. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law generally prescribes the duties of the county auditor. Existing law requires the county auditor or auditor-controller, as specified, to be the chief accounting officer of the county. Upon order of the board of supervisors, existing law requires the auditor or auditor-controller to prescribe the accounting forms and methods of all offices under the control of the board of supervisors and to supervise generally practices in those offices, which includes the ability to review departmental and countywide internal controls. This bill would require a county auditor or auditor-controller also to be the chief auditor of the county. The bill would grant the auditor or auditor-controller, as part of its supervisory powers, the authority to audit, rather than review, departmental and countywide internal controls. The bill would require, in reference to the duties of auditors, that the term "county auditor" include certain county offices that have been consolidated. The bill would prescribe requirements for the head of a county auditing unit. The bill would prohibit a board of supervisors from creating or operating a separate auditing unit outside of the county auditor, except if the separate auditing unit was established before 1981, and would prohibit the board from transferring any auditing unit away from the county auditor. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law authorizes a county auditor or controller to establish and maintain a whistleblower hotline for receiving information regarding fraud, waste, or abuse by local government employees, subject to certain requirements. This bill would require, in a county with an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000, that the county auditor-controller be the sole county officer with the authority to maintain a whistleblower hotline, as described above. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) Existing law authorizes tax-defaulted property to be redeemed until the right of redemption terminates. Existing law requires the audit of a tax collector's records and accounts related to redemption of tax-defaulted property at least once every 3 years. This bill would require, in a county with an elected auditor-controller and a population exceeding 3,000,000 people, that the auditor-controller either conduct the audit described above or retain the services of an independent certified public accountant or licensed public accountant to perform the audit, in accordance with specified standards. By increasing the duties of local officials in a county with the above-described characteristics, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (5) 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 these statutory provisions.
(1) Existing law requires the operator of a disposal facility to pay to the State Board of Equalization a fee based on the amount of all solid waste disposed of at each disposal site. The act requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to establish the amount of the fee, as specified, and limits the fee to a maximum of $1.40 per ton. Existing law requires the moneys collected from the fee to be deposited in the Integrated Waste Management Account and to be used by the department, upon appropriation, for specified purposes. This bill would raise the fee imposed on an operator of a disposal facility to $4 per ton commencing January 1, 2017. The bill would require a minimum of $1.50 per ton of the fee collected from each operator, until January 1, 2022, and would authorize some or all of the fee collected thereafter, to be allocated to activities that promote recycling and the highest and best use of materials, as specified. This bill additionally would require the department, commencing January 1, 2019, to establish, as provided, and impose a charge on all solid waste generators to be collected by a city, county, or city and county and remitted to the state board, as specified. The bill would, until January 1, 2022, authorize the department to allocate a portion of the moneys collected to fund activities that promote recycling and the highest and best use of materials, as specified. By adding to the duties of local governments, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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 these statutory provisions. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
