Existing law requires the Attorney General to establish and maintain the Violent Crime Information Center to assist in the identification and the apprehension of persons responsible for specific violent crimes and for the disappearance and exploitation of persons, particularly children and at-risk adults. Existing law requires that specific entities report to the Attorney General when a missing person has been found. Existing law then requires the Attorney General report to the National Crime Information Center that the person has been found. Existing law also indicates what information should be included in the report, the timing of the report, and how specifying conditions may affect the contents and timing of a report to the center. This bill would make a technical and nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including social sciences. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the state board, concurrently with, but not before, the next revision of textbooks or curriculum frameworks in the social sciences, health, and mathematics curricula, to ensure that these academic areas integrate components of, among other things, financial literacy. Notwithstanding that requirement on the state board, existing law requires the commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised after January 1, 2017, to consider including age-appropriate information for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, regarding certain topics on financial literacy. This bill would require the commission, when the history-social science curriculum framework is revised after January 1, 2017, to also consider including age-appropriate information and content for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, on the importance of estate planning and the use of trusts.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit for qualified renters in the amount of $120 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is $50,000, as adjusted, or less, and in the amount of $60 for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $25,000, as adjusted, or less. Existing law requires the Franchise Tax Board to annually adjust for inflation these adjusted gross income amounts. For 2021, the adjusted gross income limit is $87,066 and $43,533, respectively. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account in the General Fund and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons from the Personal Income Tax Fund are to be paid from that account. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1 of the taxable year that includes the date on which funding is first authorized for purposes of this bill and for the succeeding 4 taxable years, and only when specified in a bill relating to the Budget Act, would increase the credit amount to $2,000 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of households, and surviving spouses and $1,000 for other individuals. In the event the increased credit amount is not specified in a bill relating to the Budget Act, the existing credit amounts, as described above, would be the credit amounts for that taxable year. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to annually recompute the credit amounts for inflation for taxable years following the first year in which the increased credit is operative, except as provided. The bill, for credits allowable for taxable years in which the above-described increased credit is operative, would provide that the credit amount in excess of the qualified renter's liability would be refundable and paid from the Tax Relief and Refund Account to the qualified renter upon appropriation by the Legislature. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. The bill would provide findings and declarations relating to the goals, purposes, and objectives of this credit. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires the Board of Parole Hearings to conduct hearings for the purpose of determining the suitability of inmates for parole. Existing law requires the board, after a parole suitability hearing, to allow an inmate to request a stenographic record of the proceedings. This bill would instead require the board to send a copy of the record and, upon request of the incarcerated person, an audio recording of the hearing upon completion of the stenographic record. The bill would prohibit the board from charging a fee for a stenographic record or an audio recording.
Existing law establishes the California Interagency Council on Homelessness to identify mainstream resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California by creating partnerships between federal, state, local, and nonprofit entities. Existing law requires the coordinating council to conduct, or contract with an entity to conduct, a statewide assessment to identify state programs that provide housing or services to persons experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, as defined, and collect and analyze data to provide a comprehensive view of the homeless response system. Existing law requires a state agency with a member on the council to provide requested data within 60 days, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Existing law authorizes a court to order a ward who is 14 years of age or older to be committed to a secure youth treatment facility, operated by the county of commitment, for a period of confinement if the ward is adjudicated and found to be a ward based on the commitment of a specified serious offense committed when the juvenile was 14 years or older, that adjudication is the most recent offense for which the ward has been adjudicated, and the court has made a finding on the record that a less restrictive, alternative disposition for the ward is unsuitable. Existing law requires the baseline term of confinement to be determined according to offense-based classifications, as specified. This bill would prohibit a youth, following a youth's commitment to a secure youth facility, from being found ineligible for continued commitment to a secure youth treatment facility as a result of subsequent adjudicated petitions. The bill would prohibit a court from increasing a youth's current baseline term of confinement based on subsequent adjudications.
Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, and requires the authority to be headed by a director who is a licensed physician and surgeon with substantial experience in the practice of emergency medicine. This bill would remove the requirement that the director be a licensed physician and surgeon with substantial experience in the practice of emergency medicine and would instead require the director to have substantial experience in emergency medicine, emergency medical services, emergency management, or other related background. The bill would require the authority to have a chief medical officer who is appointed by the Governor upon nomination by the Secretary of California Health and Human Services. The bill would require the chief medical officer to be a physician and surgeon who has substantial experience in the practice of emergency medicine. The bill would require the chief medical officer to direct clinical, treatment, education, and other matters involving medical decisionmaking and delivery of patient care, as specified.
Existing law gives control of the state park system to the Department of Parks and Recreation, and requires the Director of Parks and Recreation to promote and regulate the use of the state park system in a manner that conserves the scenery, natural and historic resources, and wildlife in the individual units of the system for the enjoyment of future generations. This bill would enact the California Scenic Bikeways and Trails Act, which would require the department to establish a scenic bikeway network. The bill would require the department to consider specified criteria in selecting and designing scenic bikeway routes. To the extent practical, the bill would require the scenic bikeway network to include unique gravel and mountain bicycle routes. The bill would make the implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes.
(1) The Fresno County Transportation Improvement Act provides for the creation of the Fresno County Transportation Authority with 9 members, as specified. Existing law authorizes the authority to raise revenue, as specified, and to fund regional and local transportation improvements. Existing law imposes various requirements on public works projects, including a requirement that, at minimum, all workers employed on a public works project be paid the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality in which a public work is performed, as specified. This bill would increase the membership of the authority to 13 members by adding to the authority a member of the public at large who represents a labor organization, a youth member, a local community member who is from a disadvantaged, unincorporated area of the county, and an educational member representing the county, as specified. The bill would require the authority, for a project that it funds, to ensure that certain prevailing wage requirements are satisfied if the project is not in its entirety a public work project and, for a construction or development project it funds, to enforce and promote environmental protections and regulations adopted pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, as specified. By imposing new requirements on the authority, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law authorizes a retail transactions and use tax ordinance to be imposed by the authority, as specified. Existing law requires a county transportation expenditure plan to be prepared by the transportation planning agency for the expenditure of specified revenues and funds expected to be available for transportation improvements, for the period during which the tax is to be imposed. Existing law provides various requirements on the transportation planning agency regarding the approval of a county expenditure plan, including, but not limited to, public hearings and amendment procedures. Existing law prohibits a county transportation expenditure plan from being adopted by the authority until it has received the approval of the board of supervisors and of the city councils representing both a majority of the cities in the county and a majority of the population residing in the incorporated areas of the county. This bill would require the plan to be considered a project subject to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, as specified, and would require that the projects funded by the authority help mitigate any further pollution in disadvantaged communities or in disadvantaged unincorporated communities. The bill would place additional requirements on the transportation planning agency before preparing a plan, including, but not limited to, establishing a participatory public process that allows members of the public to inform and propose the plan and implementing guidelines and ensuring proposals for transportation improvements comply with state climate, air quality, and equity goals before adopting amendments. The bill would place additional requirements on the authority before adopting amendments to the plan, including, among other things, holding public hearings, as specified, and ensuring the amendments comply with state climate, air quality, and equity goals. By imposing new requirements on the authority and the transportation planning agency, the bill would create a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law authorizes the board of the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, composed of 15 members, including 5 city council members, to require the use of best available control technology, promote the use of alternative fuels, encourage and facilitate ridesharing, and require businesses to establish rideshare programs, as provided. This bill would increase the term of office for the city council district members to 4 years from 3 years, would increase the term of office for the public member with medical or scientific expertise in the health effects of air pollution to 4 years from 3 years, and would add 4 public members to the district board, appointed by the Governor to serve 4-year terms, as specified. Of these 4, one member would be from a California Native American tribe chosen from a list of candidates submitted by local tribal organizations with a presence within the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin, and 3 members would be appointed with the advice and consent of the Speaker of the Assembly. Of those 3, 2 would be required to have subject matter expertise in environmental justice or social justice issues and to be selected from a list submitted by nonprofit organizations that have a presence within the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin, and one would be required to be a youth member that is a resident of a county within the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District, as specified, to be between 18 and 26 years of age, and to be selected from a list submitted by either a youth-serving nonprofit organization or an institution of higher education, as specified. Beginning January 1, 2024, but excluding district board membership held prior to January 1, 2024, this bill would make a member whose appointed terms span a total of 8 or more years ineligible for appointment.
Existing law designates certain acts or omissions as crimes, prohibits those acts or omissions, and prescribes punishments for persons who violate those prohibitions. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to the sentencing of criminal offenders.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law prohibits a telephone corporation, when selling or licensing lists of residential subscribers, from including the telephone number of any subscriber assigned an unpublished or unlisted access number without the subscriber's written waiver of this protection. Existing law prohibits a provider of mobile telephony services, as defined, or any affiliate or agent of the provider, when providing the name and dialing number of a subscriber for inclusion in a directory or directory database, from including the dialing number of any subscriber without first obtaining the express consent of that subscriber. However, existing law authorizes providing those telephone numbers without regard to consent to a law enforcement agency, fire protection agency, public health agency, public environmental health agency, city or county emergency services planning agency, or private for-profit agency operating under contract with, and at the direction of, one or more of these agencies, for the sole purpose of responding to a 911 call, communicating an imminent threat to life or property, or testing the systems that respond to 911 calls or communicate threats to life or property. This bill would additionally authorize providing those telephone numbers to those parties without consent for the purpose of responding to a 988 call or testing the systems that respond to 988 calls.
