The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, generally allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the tax imposed by that law. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, would allow a deduction in computing income for the amount paid or incurred by a taxpayer during the taxable year as premiums on a homeowners' insurance policy on the taxpayer's primary residence, as defined. Existing law requires a bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives the tax expenditure 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 establishes 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 services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid program provisions. Under existing law, one of the methods by which Medi-Cal services are provided is pursuant to contracts between the department and various types of managed care plans and between those plans and providers of those services. This bill would require a Medi-Cal managed care plan to offer a network provider contract to, and maintain a network provider contract with, each safety net provider, as defined, operating within the plan's contracted geographic service areas if the safety net provider agrees to provide its applicable scope of services in accordance with the same terms and conditions that the Medi-Cal managed care plan requires of other similar providers. The bill would set forth exceptions to that requirement in the case of a safety net provider no longer being willing to accept those terms and conditions, its license being revoked or suspended, or the department determining that the health or welfare of a Medi-Cal enrollee is threatened by the provider. The bill would require the plan to follow certain notification procedures if it terminates the network provider contract. The bill would condition implementation of these provisions on receipt of any necessary federal approvals and the availability of federal financial participation.
Existing law allows a vehicle to park, for up to the posted time limit, in a parking space that is regulated by an inoperable parking meter or an inoperable parking payment center. Existing law defines "inoperable parking payment center" as an electronic parking meter or pay station serving one or more parking spaces that is closest to the space where a person has parked and that cannot accept payment in any form, cannot register that a payment in any form has been made, or cannot issue a receipt that is required to be displayed in a conspicuous location on or in the vehicle. This bill would change the definition for an inoperable parking payment center to clarify that it applies to an electronic parking meter or pay station designated to serve the specific parking space where a person has parked. Existing law sets forth the procedures for citing a registered owner and driver, rentee, or lessee of a vehicle for a parking violation. Under existing law, if a vehicle is unattended during the time of the violation, the peace officer or person authorized to enforce parking laws and regulations is required to securely attach to the vehicle a notice of parking violation with specified information about the violation, including the procedure for the registered owner, lessee, or rentee to deposit the parking penalty or contest the citation. This bill would authorize a ticket to be served via first-class mail for a violation in a prohibited parking location, as specified. The bill would define "prohibited parking location" to mean a no parking area, fire zone, or loading zone. The bill would require a designated employee of a city, county, city and county, or contracted law enforcement agency for a special transit district to review photographs to determine whether a parking violation occurred prior to mailing a ticket. This bill would require the parking penalty for a registered owner who makes a payment to a processing agency, within a set timeframe, for these purposes to be limited to the original parking penalty, as specified.
Existing law governs the apportionment of state funds to fairs within the network of California fairs, which includes, in general, the California Exposition and State Fair, district agricultural association fairs, county fairs, and citrus fruit fairs. For purposes of these provisions, existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to prescribe regulations for judging exhibits and the maximum amount of premiums paid for exhibits. This bill would also require the department, for these purposes, to prescribe regulations for the entry of junior exhibits. The bill would require those regulations to include a requirement that all junior exhibit entries be received only with the approval of a parent or guardian and to authorize those entries to be withdrawn at the request of the parent or guardian, as specified. The bill would also require those regulations to include a provision that, in the case of a junior livestock exhibit, any bidder may elect for live animal pickup, regardless of any characterization as a terminal sale, as specified.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Pursuant to the act, the state board has adopted the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations. Existing law requires the state board to provide guidance on credits generated pursuant to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations adopted pursuant to the act from the methane reduction protocols described in the comprehensive strategy for short-lived climate pollutants. This bill would prohibit the state board from including avoided methane emissions in the calculation of carbon intensity for purposes of the state board's evaluation or reevaluation of a fuel pathway, as provided. The bill would define "avoided methane emissions" to mean any captured methane from livestock manure management. The Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations authorize a fuel pathway that uses biomethane from dairy cattle or swine manure digestion to be certified with a carbon intensity that reflects the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions achieved by the voluntary capture of methane, subject to meeting specified requirements. The regulations also require the carbon intensities that reflect avoided methane emissions from dairy and swine manure projects to meet certain requirements in order to be eligible for credit generation. This bill would provide that the Low Carbon Fuel Standard regulations described above are null and void as applied to fuels derived from livestock manure.
Existing law requires the Governor to create a California Interagency Council on Homelessness to serve as a statewide facilitator, coordinator, and policy development resource on ending homelessness in California, among other things. Existing law requires the council to create a statewide data system with a goal of matching data on homelessness to programs impacting homeless recipients of state programs. On or before July 1, 2025, this bill would require the Department of Finance, in coordination with the council, to create a public internet website portal that tracks and reports all state spending related to homelessness, as specified.
Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to evaluate, among other things, the impact the proliferation of deepfakes, as defined, has on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state, and the risks, including privacy risks, associated with the deployment of digital content forgery technologies and deepfakes on state and local government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California as the public segments of postsecondary education in the state. This bill would require California State University, Long Beach, in consultation with other public institutions of higher education, to establish the Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Working Group, and authorize California State University, Long Beach to develop a scoping plan in the first year to establish the topics that may be evaluated by, and the stakeholders that may be included in, the working group. The bill would authorize California State University, Long Beach to include, as part of the working group, at least one representative of 10 specified interests, the Secretary of the Government Operations Agency, the Executive Director of the California Privacy Protection Agency, and the Secretary of State, or their designees. The bill would require the working group, on or before January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the Legislature on the working group's research and findings related to the relevant issues and impacts of artificial intelligence and deepfakes evaluated by the working group, as specified.
Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. Existing law requires a licensed facility to disclose specified information to the department, including ownership or control of, or financial interest in, a recovery residence, defined as a residential dwelling that provides primary housing for individuals who seek a cooperative living arrangement that supports personal recovery from a substance use disorder and that does not require licensure by the department or does not provide licensable services, and requires the department to conduct a site visit of a disclosed recovery residence if it is alleged to be providing recovery, treatment, or detoxification services. This bill would define a recovery residence, for purposes of licensing alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities, as a residential dwelling that provides primary housing for individuals who seek a cooperative living arrangement that supports personal recovery from a substance use disorder, does not require licensure by the department, and does not provide licensable services, and would clarify that an unlicensed recovery residence may provide services to its residents, including, but not limited to, dining, housekeeping, security, transportation, and recreation. The bill would exempt recovery residences from being required to be licensed as an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility if the facility does not offer recovery services, as defined, and would allow residents of a recovery residence to actively participate in recovery services outside of the home. The bill would require a recovery residence to be operated as a separate business from a licensed facility and require the recovery residence to maintain separate agreements with each resident for the housing and services it provides. Existing law declares that it is the policy of the state that each county and city shall permit and encourage the development of sufficient numbers and types of alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities as are commensurate with local need. Existing law requires an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility that serves 6 or fewer persons to be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of local regulation, regardless of whether or not unrelated persons are living together. This bill would additionally consider recovery residences that serve 6 or fewer people to be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of local regulation. The bill would authorize local jurisdictions to require a use permit or conditional use permit for an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or a recovery residence that serves 7 or more residents, and allow local jurisdictions to require those facilities to be at least 1,000 feet from another state-licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or recovery residence as part of the use permit.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law establishes a state policy that eligible renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources supply 90% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2035, 95% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2040, 100% of all retail sales of electricity to California end-use customers by December 31, 2045, and 100% of electricity procured to serve all state agencies by December 31, 2035, as provided. Existing law requires the PUC, the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , and the State Air Resources Board, in consultation with all California balancing authorities, as defined, as part of a public process, to issue, on or before January 1, 2021, and at least every 4 years thereafter, a joint report to the Legislature containing certain information, including, among other information, the barriers to, and benefits of, achieving the state policy, as specified. This bill would additionally require the PUC, the Energy Commission, and the state board, in each joint report issued on or after January 1, 2026, to additionally include an evaluation identifying the geographic locations for development of certain renewable energy resources and zero-carbon resources, a review of certain decarbonization needs from the building, heavy industry, and transportation sectors, and a statewide transmission plan, as specified.
The hazardous waste control laws require the Department of Toxic Substances Control to regulate the handling and management of hazardous waste and hazardous materials. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. Existing law requires a generator of hazardous waste to pay to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration a generation and handling fee for each generator site that generates an amount equal to, or more than, 5 tons for each calendar year, or portion of the calendar year, as provided. For the 2022–23 fiscal year, the fee rate is $49.25 for each ton or fraction of a ton of hazardous waste generated in calendar year 2021. Existing law, until January 1, 2026, imposes a discounted fee rate of $5.72 for each ton or fraction of a ton of certain hazardous waste generated from projects that meet specified criteria. Existing law requires these generation and handling fees to be deposited into the Hazardous Waste Control Account, which are authorized to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes. Existing law further requires, until January 1, 2026, every person who is subject to the discounted fee rate to register with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration on forms provided by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. This bill would, until January 1, 2026, similarly impose a discounted fee rate of $5.72 for each ton or fraction of a ton of that certain hazardous waste generated from residential projects, including mixed-use projects, that were deemed complete on or before December 31, 2021, student housing projects for public universities that were issued permits on or before December 31, 2021, and nonprofit projects that were issued permits on or before December 31, 2021, as specified. The bill would, among other requirements, require this fee, which is collected and administered by the Department of Toxic Substances Control, to be due and payable in one installment, and would require the generator of hazardous waste to both file an annual return in the form prescribed by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration and pay the proper amount of fee due, and to amend the annual return filed in fiscal years 2021–22 and 2022–23 to reflect this discounted fee rate, as provided. The bill would require a generator of hazardous waste that is subject to this discounted fee rate to report to the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration certain information about the hazardous waste generated, as specified. The bill would require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, before issuing a refund or applying a credit, to confirm the generator meets the required criteria and, for purposes of a residential project, that the project has been constructed or is being constructed, as provided. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2026. Because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require funds collected pursuant to the discounted fee rate to be deposited into the Hazardous Waste Control Account. The bill would also expand the scope of the registration requirement described above to include every person who is subject to the discounted fee rate imposed by the bill. 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, the Genetic Information Privacy Act, requires a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, as defined, to provide a consumer with certain information regarding the company's policies and procedures for the collection, use, maintenance, and disclosure, as applicable, of genetic data, and to obtain a consumer's express consent for collection, use, or disclosure of the consumer's genetic data, as specified. Existing law also requires a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect a consumer's genetic data against unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, and to develop procedures and practices to enable a consumer to access their genetic data and to delete their account and genetic data, as specified. Existing law excludes from its provisions the California Newborn Screening Program, among other activities subject to specified state and federal laws. This bill would apply the requirements of the Genetic Information Privacy Act to the California Newborn Screening Program beginning on January 1, 2025. Existing law imposes certain requirements for contracts between a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company and a service provider, as defined, including that the contract prohibits the service provider from retaining, using, or disclosing the biological sample, extracted genetic material, genetic data, or any information regarding the identity of the consumer, for any purpose other than for the specific purpose of performing the services specified in the contract for the business. This bill would, for contracts entered into before January 1, 2025, apply the requirements of the act to the contract when altered, modified, renewed, or extended on or after January 1, 2025. Existing law requires actions for relief pursuant to the Genetic Information Privacy Act to be prosecuted exclusively by the Attorney General, a district attorney, county counsel, city attorney, or city prosecutor, as specified, in the name of the people of the State of California upon their own complaint or upon the complaint of a board, officer, person, corporation, or association or upon a complaint by a person who has suffered injury in fact and has lost money or property as a result of the violation of the act. Because the bill would require local officials to perform additional duties, 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, 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. 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.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law impose taxes based upon taxable income at specified rates. Existing law requires all moneys and remittances received by the Franchise Tax Board as amounts imposed under those laws, except as provided, to be deposited into the Personal Income Tax Fund or the Corporation Tax Fund, as specified. Existing law requires amounts deposited into the Personal Income Tax Fund and the Corporation Tax Fund to be drawn upon for the purpose of making refunds or be transferred to the General Fund. This bill would create the Income Tax Stabilization Fund in the State Treasury, to be administered by the Franchise Tax Board. The bill would require amounts deposited in the Personal Income Tax Fund and the Corporation Tax Fund to be drawn upon for the purpose of making refunds or be transferred to the Income Tax Stabilization Fund instead of the General Fund. The bill would require the Controller to annually transfer from the Income Tax Stabilization Fund to the General Fund an amount not to exceed the average amounts deposited in the Personal Income Tax Fund and the Corporation Tax Fund, less refunds, over the prior 5 fiscal years. The bill would adjust the amount of the transfer for inflation, as provided.
