This measure would recognize the need to pursue avenues to implement proposed reparations for the descendants of African slaves in the United States. The measure would further recognize August 2019 as marking 400 years since Africans were brought to Virginia.
This measure would proclaim September 29, 2019, as Gold Star Mothers' and Families' Day in California.
This measure would welcome refugees and declare its support for the resettlement of refugees in California, no matter their religion, race, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, or country of origin, and calls upon other local governments and communities to join them in supporting a stronger national effort to resettle the world's most vulnerable refugees. This measure would call on the federal government to resettle all 30,000 refugees that the United States has committed to resettle in the fiscal year 2019, and would call on Congress and the presidential administration to raise the Presidential Determination to at least 75,000 refugees for fiscal year 2020.
This measure would designate October 20, 2019, and each 20th day of October thereafter, as Leyte Landing Commemoration Day in recognition of the significance of the Leyte landing in liberating the Philippines from Japanese occupation and would also honor the significant contributions to California made by generations of Filipino Americans since that time.
(1) The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires certain statements and reports to be filed on specified dates or during or within specified time periods. An existing regulation adopted by the Fair Political Practices Commission clarifies that, where the filing deadline for filing these statements or reports falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or official state holiday, the filing deadline shall be extended to the next regular business day, with the exception of specified reports that must be filed immediately before an election. This bill would codify this regulation. (2) The act requires filing officers to process and maintain certain statements and reports, among other specified duties. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission provides that the failure by a filing officer or filing official to comply with a duty or to provide notice of a filing or disclosure obligation does not affect a person's duty to file statements and reports disclosing information, as required by the act or any enforceable conflict of interest code. This bill would codify this regulation. (3) The act defines "immediate family" as the spouse and dependent children. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission defines "spouse" to include registered domestic partners recognized by state law. This bill would codify this regulation. (4) The act requires all committees to have a treasurer, who must authorize all expenditures made by or on behalf of the committee. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission permits recipient committees, as defined in the act, to designate one assistant treasurer, who may sign and verify campaign statements on behalf of the committee under certain circumstances. This bill would codify this regulation and make other conforming changes. (5) The act requires lobbying firms and lobbyist employers to file a registration statement with the Secretary of State, as specified. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission extends the filing requirements of lobbyist employers to lobbying coalitions, which are defined as a group of 10 or more persons formed primarily to influence legislative or administrative action, whose members make payments to the coalition for sharing the expenses of employing a lobbyist or contracting for the services of a lobbying firm. The regulation also specifies that a bona fide federation, confederation, or trade, labor, or membership organization is not a lobbying coalition if it is ongoing in nature and its membership services are not limited to influencing legislative or administrative action. This bill would codify this regulation. (6) The act requires lobbying firms and specified lobbyist employers to register with the Secretary of State, unless specified exceptions apply. Individual lobbyists must submit a lobbyist certification as part of this registration. Certain lobbyist employers are not required to register with the Secretary of State, but must file statements pursuant to the act. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission additionally requires that lobbyist employers who are not required to register with the Secretary of State must complete a written authorization for a lobbying firm to engage in activities on its behalf, which must be filed with the lobbying firm's registration, and maintain records and file quarterly reports. This bill would revise and recast these provisions of the act and codify the Commission's regulation. (7) The act requires elected officials to file statements disclosing the official's investments, interests in real property, and income. The interests in real property that must be disclosed include leasehold interests. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission specifies the information that must be provided whenever an official must disclose a leasehold interest. This bill would codify this regulation. (8) The act prohibits specified public officials from receiving gifts from any single source in any calendar year with a total value of more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) , as adjusted biennially for inflation. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission specifies that a gift is both "received" and "accepted" when the public official, or the official's immediate family member, knowingly takes actual possession of the gift, is provided the benefit of the gift, or takes any action exercising direction or control over the gift. This bill would codify this regulation. (9) The act requires that audits and investigations of lobbying firms and lobbyist employers be performed on a biennial basis and cover reports filed during a period of two years, as specified. An existing regulation adopted by the Commission incorporates this requirement and provides further detail regarding the scope of the audits and investigations required by the act. This bill would codify this regulation. (10) This bill would make various other technical, nonsubstantive changes to provisions of the act. (11) Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (12) 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. (13) The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Existing law allows an individual, until specified conditions are met, or until January 1, 2022, to designate on the individual's personal income tax return that a specified amount in excess of the individual's tax liability be contributed to the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Fund. Existing law requires that money contributed to the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated to, among others, the Department of Food and Agriculture to, among other things, through the distribution of competitive grants, distribute up to $250,000 to a city, county, or city and county animal control agency or shelter, as specified, for the purpose of supporting spay and neuter activities by that entity to prevent and eliminate cat and dog homelessness. Existing law requires that contributions to the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Fund equal or exceed a $250,000 minimum contribution amount for a calendar year, which is required to be adjusted for inflation, in order to continue appearing on the tax return. Under existing law, there are general administrative provisions applicable to these voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide for the disbursement of contributions following repeal of the fund provisions and require undesignated funds to be transferred to the General Fund. Existing law requires any new or extended voluntary contribution to include the words "voluntary tax contribution" in the name of the fund, to require the administering agency to include specified information about the fund on its internet website, to continuously appropriate from the fund the contributions made to the administering agency, and to set a minimum contribution amount for the continuation of any voluntary tax contribution on the tax return form and a generally applicable repeal date for a voluntary tax contribution. This bill would rename the fund as the Prevention of Animal Homelessness and Cruelty Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund and continuously appropriate those funds to be allocated as required by existing law. This bill would additionally permit a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals affiliate or a humane society affiliate that is under contract to provide all animal control services for a local public agency to receive funds from the distribution of up to $250,000 described above, from contributions received on and after January 1, 2020. The bill also would require the department to report on its internet website specified information regarding, among other things, the process for awarding money. The bill would repeal the provisions related to the fund on January 1, 2023, or on a specified earlier date if conditions relating to the minimum contribution amount are not met, and would delete the provisions requiring the minimum contribution amount to be adjusted for inflation. By continuously appropriating the funds described above, the bill would make an appropriation.
Existing law authorizes an individual to contribute amounts in excess of the individual's personal income tax liability for the support of specified funds. Existing law sets forth general administrative provisions applicable to voluntary contributions, which, among other things, provide that a voluntary tax contribution remains in effect only until January 1 of the 7th calendar year following the first appearance of the contribution on the personal income tax return, and requires that a minimum contribution of $250,000 must be received for the fund to continue appearing on the tax return, as specified. Existing law allows a taxpayer to designate an amount in excess of personal income tax liability to be deposited into the California Senior Citizen Advocacy Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the California Senior Legislature for the purpose of funding the activities of the California Senior Legislature. Existing law requires specified minimum contributions to be made in order for the fund to appear on the return for the following year, and repeals these voluntary contribution provisions on January 1, 2025, or, if contributions made on returns are less than a specified minimum amount, by an earlier date as provided. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the California Senior Citizen Advocacy Voluntary Tax Contribution Fund meet a minimum contribution amount in order for the fund to appear on the return for the following year, thereby allowing the fund to remain on the personal income tax form until the provisions repeal, pursuant to existing law, on January 1, 2025. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would, among other things, designate the year 2019 as "State of California Year of Commemoration of the Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923," would designate April 24, 2019, as "State of California Day of Commemoration of the 104th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915–1923," and would call upon the President of the United States and the United States Congress to formally and consistently reaffirm the historical truth that the atrocities committed against the Armenian people constituted genocide.
This measure would request the Trustees of the California State University and the Regents of the University of California to conduct a study on the usefulness, effectiveness, and need for the SAT and ACT to determine student admissions, and would provide that the study should include evaluation of specified admissions eligibility and qualifications measures and testing issues. The measure would also provide that the study should include recommendations and, if determined necessary, a plan for phasing out the use of the SAT and ACT as a basis for admission.
This measure would request the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would strengthen the communication between federal, state, local, and tribal officials, and that would require the United States Department of Justice, United States Department of the Interior, and United States Department of Health and Human Services to seek recommendations from tribes in enhancing the safety of Native American women and girls. The measure would also request that the Attorney General of the State of California begin the collection of data as it relates to missing and murdered Native American women and girls.
