This measure would declare that the Legislature supports a reduction to the threshold for tax-exempt bond financing and joins the Treasurer in urging the passage of the federal Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2023.
This measure would recognize the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians and would declare the month of July 2023 as "Parks Make Life Better!®" Month.
Under existing law, known as the public trust doctrine, the state has title as trustee to all tidelands and navigable lakes and streams and is charged with preserving these waterways for navigation, commerce, and fishing, as well as for scientific study, recreation, and as an open space and habitat for birds and marine life. Existing law establishes the State Lands Commission in the Natural Resources Agency. Existing law provides that the commission has exclusive jurisdiction over all ungranted tidelands and submerged lands owned by the state. Existing law authorizes the commission to enter into an exchange, with any person or any private or public entity, of filled or reclaimed tidelands and submerged lands or beds of navigable waterways, or interests in these lands, that are subject to the public trust for commerce, navigation, and fisheries, for other lands or interests in lands, if the commission finds that specified conditions are met. This bill would authorize the commission to convey to the City of Alameda, in trust, as defined, and the bill would authorize the city to accept, any lands to be exchanged into the trust pursuant to an exchange agreement, as defined, to which the city is a party, as provided. The bill would grant the Encinal Terminals public trust lands, as defined, to the city, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Encinal Terminals exchange agreement, as defined, to be held by the city subject to the terms and conditions of the granting act, as defined, and the public trust, as defined. By adding to the duties of the city with respect to the use and management of trust lands, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the commission to notify the appropriate committees of the Legislature if the conveyances authorized in the Encinal Terminals exchange agreement have not been completed within the terms of the agreement, as provided. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Alameda. 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.
This measure would express the Legislature's support for the creation of policies to decrease the rising number of deaths of Americans as a result of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) . The measure would declare the importance of enhanced public awareness of comprehensive cardiovascular screening programs to allow for earlier identification of patients at risk of cardiovascular events. The measure would also declare the importance of collaboration on statewide cardiovascular planning to accelerate quality improvements in care rendered to these patients.
This measure would designate the month of June 2023 as Immigrant Heritage Month.
This measure would condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide and would urge the United States Congress to formally recognize and condemn the November 1984 anti-Sikh violence in India as genocide.
This measure would designate the Ayala Drive overcrossing at postmile marker 17.437 on State Route 210 in the County of San Bernardino as the Scott "Buckshot" Schwingel Memorial Overcrossing. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
The California Constitution provides that only a marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California, and federal law permanently enjoins the state from enforcing this constitutional provision. This measure would repeal this unenforceable constitutional provision and would instead provide that the right to marry is a fundamental right, as specified.
