Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including, until January 1, 2024, an exemption for the sale of, or the storage, use, or other consumption of, a new, used, or remanufactured truck with an unladen weight of 6,000 pounds or more that is purchased for use without this state and is delivered to the purchaser within this state, and the purchaser drives or moves the vehicle to any point outside this state within 30 or 75 days, as applicable, from and after the date of delivery, if the purchaser furnishes certain documents to the manufacturer or remanufacturer. This bill would extend that exemption until January 1, 2029. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. The bill would make findings detailing the goal of the above-described tax expenditure, performance indicators for determining whether the tax expenditure meets the goal, and data collection requirements. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law creates with the Department of Industrial Relations, and establishes within the department the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) , which is headed by the Labor Commissioner. The DLSE is generally charged with enforcing employment statutes and regulations, either in administrative actions or through litigation. Existing law imposes various administrative sanctions, civil fines and penalties, and criminal penalties for violations of employment statutes or regulations. This bill would prohibit the imposition of punishment or liability for costs upon a person who has relied upon a published opinion letter or an enforcement policy, as defined, of DLSE that is displayed on the internet website of the division, except for restitution of unpaid wages, for violations of statutes or regulations in judicial or administrative proceedings if the person pleads and proves specified facts. The bill would require a person asserting this defense to have acted in good faith, to have relied upon, and conformed to, the applicable opinion letter or enforcement policy, and to have provided true and correct information to the division, among other things. The bill would require a person asserting this defense to post a bond and would prescribe requirements in this regard. The bill would specify certain circumstances under which the defense would not apply. The bill would apply its provisions to actions and proceedings that commence on or after January 1, 2024. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to provide qualified bilingual persons in public contact positions or as interpreters to assist people in those positions with providing information and services in the language of a limited- or non-English-speaking person, as specified. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to prepare and distribute to the public, through the division's local offices, materials explaining services available in non-English languages, as well as in English. Existing law requires the Labor Commissioner to prepare and use complaint processing forms and form letters in the language of non-English speaking people, as the commissioner deems necessary and appropriate for the filing, investigation, and resolution of wage claims, as specified. This bill would require the Labor Commissioner to translate each of its internet websites in their entirety, and all materials available on those internet websites, into Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, and Vietnamese by January 1, 2026.
Existing law, the Dental Practice Act, provides for the licensure and regulation of dentists and dental assistants by the Dental Board of California. Existing law requires the board to grant a license to practice dentistry, and to register as a licensed dentist on the board register, a person who successfully passes a specified examination. Notwithstanding that provision, existing law authorizes the board to grant a license to practice dentistry to an applicant who submits specified information to the board including, among other things, satisfactory evidence of having graduated from a dental school approved by a national accrediting body approved by the board or by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association. This bill would remove the authority to grant a license to an applicant who submits evidence of having graduated from a dental school approved by a national accreditation body approved by the board. Existing law, until January 1, 2024, makes the board responsible for the approval of foreign dental schools based upon standards established by the board, as specified. Existing law authorizes the board to contract with outside consultants or a national professional organization to survey and evaluate foreign dental schools and requires the board to establish a technical advisory group to review and comment on the survey and evaluation of a foreign dental school pursuant to any contract before final action by the board regarding certification of the foreign dental school. Existing law provides that any foreign dental school that wishes to be approved to apply to the board. Existing law requires that periodic surveys and evaluations of all approved schools be made to ensure continued compliance with these provisions. Existing law requires a school to pay a registration fee or a renewal fee, as applicable. Exiting law requires a fully approved school to submit a renewal application every 7 years and specifies that an approval that is not renewed automatically expires. This bill would delete the January 1, 2024, repeal date, thereby making the provisions described above operative indefinitely. Existing law prohibits the board, from January 1, 2020, until January 1, 2024, from accepting new applications for schools seeking approval as a foreign dental school and instead requires the applicant to successfully complete the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board. Existing law requires that, by January 1, 2024, in order for a school to remain an approved foreign dental school, that it successfully complete the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board. This bill would delete those provisions. Existing law, to become operative on January 1, 2024, requires a school seeking approval as a foreign dental school to have successfully completed the international consultative and accreditation process with the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association or a comparable accrediting body approved by the board and specifies that graduates of a foreign dental school whose programs were approved at the time of graduation are eligible for licensure. This bill would repeal those provisions.
Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Game, in cooperation with the Department of Food and Agriculture and specified persons, to adopt regulations that authorize locally designed voluntary programs for routine and ongoing agricultural activities on farms or ranches that encourage habitat for candidate, threatened, and endangered species, and wildlife generally. Existing law requires these authorized programs to, among other things, be supported by the best available scientific information for both agricultural and conservation practices. Existing law requires the department to, every 5 years, post a report regarding the effect of these programs on the department's internet website. Existing law authorizes the department to approve an application submitted by certain nonprofit organizations to initiate and undertake public education and outreach activities promoting specified objectives and requires a participating organization to file an annual report with the department containing certain information, including, among other things, information on a farm or ranch that has expressed interest in participating in a voluntary program, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above-described provision.
(1) Existing law provides that any person who willfully disturbs any public school or any public school meeting is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $500. The bill would exempt from those misdemeanor and fine provisions a person who, at the time of the disturbance, is a pupil of the school district. (2) Existing law requires, if any employee of a school district or county superintendent of schools is attacked, assaulted, or physically threatened by any pupil, the employee and any person under whose direction or supervision the employee is employed who has knowledge of the incident are required to promptly report the incident to specified law enforcement authorities. Under existing law, failure to make the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000 and acts by specified persons to inhibit or impede the making of the report is an infraction punishable by a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000. This bill would delete those infraction provisions for a failure to report and for inhibiting or impeding the making of the report. The bill would authorize, instead of require, the employee who was the target of the incident to make that notification and prohibit the governing board of a school district, a member of the governing board, a county superintendent of schools, and an employee of a school district or of the office of any county superintendent of schools from imposing any sanctions against a person making that notification. The bill would strongly encourage an employee of a school district or of the office of a county superintendent of schools to employ other means of correction, as provided, before considering a law enforcement referral. (3) The federal Gun-Free Schools Act prohibits a local educational agency from receiving certain federal funds unless the local educational agency has a policy requiring referral to the criminal justice or juvenile delinquency system of any student who brings a firearm or weapon to a school served by the local educational agency. Existing state law requires the principal of a school or the principal's designee to notify the appropriate law enforcement authorities of the county or city in which the school is situated of certain acts committed by a pupil that may be unlawful, including, among others, the selling or possession of narcotics or other designated controlled or regulated substances, and acts of assault, as specified. This bill instead would require that notification only if the pupil's acts require notification under that federal law, or a pupil or nonpupil's acts include possessing, selling, or otherwise furnishing a firearm or possessing an explosive.
The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a development proponent to submit an application for a housing development that meets specified objective standards and affordability and site criteria, including being located within a zone where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use, and would make the development a use by right that is subject to one of 2 streamlined ministerial review processes. The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA does not apply to the approval of ministerial projects. This bill would authorize an entity to submit an application for a health facility that will provide reproductive health services if the proposed health facility meets certain requirements, including, among others, that the proposed health facility is located on a legal parcel or group of parcels that is more than 50 miles from the nearest health facility that provides reproductive health services. The bill would make the licensed health facility subject to a streamlined ministerial review process and a use by right, thereby exempting the approval of development projects subject to that approval process from CEQA. 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.
Under existing law, the Geologic Energy Management Division in the Department of Conservation regulates the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of oil and gas wells in the state. The State Oil and Gas Supervisor supervises the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities related to oil and gas production within an oil and gas field regarding safety and environmental damage. If a parcel of land contains one acre or more and the hydrocarbons to be developed are too heavy or viscous to produce by normal means, existing law authorizes the supervisor to approve proposals to drill wells at whatever locations the supervisor deems advisable for the purpose of the proper development of these hydrocarbons by the application of pressure, heat, or other means for the reduction of oil viscosity. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that authorization.
Existing law creates the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development and commits to it the administration of various programs. Existing law requires the bank, not later than January 1 of each year, to submit a report to the Strategic Growth Council, the Governor, the Speaker of the Assembly, the President pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Legislative Analyst's Office for the preceding fiscal year, as specified, containing information on the bank's activities relating to the infrastructure bank fund and programs. This bill would require the report to also include information on the bank's impact on high technology industry clusters, including, but not limited to, healthcare technology, multimedia, environmental technology, and information technology. Existing law establishes within state government the office of the Treasurer and establishes various programs under the jurisdiction of the Treasurer designed to facilitate the collaborative work between public and private partners and to provide innovative and effective solutions for California's industries. This bill would establish the Bioscience Economic Opportunity Program within state government under the jurisdiction of the Treasurer. The bill would establish the Bioscience Economic Opportunity Program Board and would set forth its membership. The bill would establish the purposes of the program including providing and administering state grants, coordinating federal funding, and engaging in other activities to promote innovation, research, and education of the bioscience industry. The bill would set forth the criteria for awarding grants under the program.
The California Tourism Marketing Act requires the Office of Tourism to establish the California Travel and Tourism Commission, as a separate, independent California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, for the purpose of promoting tourism in California, as specified. Existing law requires the meetings of the commission to comply with specified requirements, including a requirement that the executive director of the commission keep the minutes and records of all commission meetings. This bill would require the minutes and records of all commission meetings to be posted on the internet website of the Office of Tourism for at least 2 years.
Existing law authorizes any local agency to enact any ordinance that adopts a code by reference if the referenced code is specified in the title of the ordinance. Existing law requires that after the first reading of the title of the adopting ordinance, and of the title of the code to be adopted thereby, and of the title of the secondary codes therein adopted by reference, the legislative body shall make copies of the primary code and also copies of the secondary codes, if any, being considered for adoption, open to public inspection with the clerk of the legislative body. Existing law prohibits, however, the adoption by reference of any penalty clauses that may appear in any code that is adopted by reference; a penalty clause may be enacted only if set forth in full, and published, in the adopting ordinance. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision prohibiting adoption by reference of any penalty clause.
Existing law provides that adjournments of the California Supreme Court and the courts of appeal are to be construed as recesses in the sessions of those courts, and shall not prevent them from sitting at any time. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations. Existing law requires the commission to require every residential unit in an apartment house or similar multiunit residential structure, condominium, or mobilehome park issued a building permit on or after July 1, 1982, with certain exceptions, to be individually metered for electrical and gas service. This bill would additionally except from that requirement an accessory dwelling unit, as defined, if the owner of the property on which the accessory dwelling unit is located elects to have the accessory dwelling unit's electrical and gas services metered through existing or upgraded utility meters located on that property. The bill would require an electrical corporation and gas corporation, if an owner of such a property elects to have the accessory dwelling unit's electrical and gas services metered through utility meters located on that property, to allow the property owner to do so. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the above provisions would be part of the act and a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's requirements would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
