Existing law provides that an injury to property consists in depriving its owner of the benefit of it, which is done by taking, withholding, deteriorating, or destroying it. Existing law requires an action seeking relief based on an injury to property to be commenced within 3 years after the time that the cause of action has accrued. This bill would provide that the presence of lead paint on the surfaces of a residence or other building constitutes a physical injury to property. The bill would provide that an action to recover damages for that injury would not accrue until three years from the date the aggrieved party has actual knowledge of the presence of lead-based paint in or on that property, as specified. The bill would provide that receipt or knowledge of disclosures that residences built before 1978 are presumed to contain lead-based paint are not alone sufficient to establish that knowledge. The bill would make related findings and declarations. The bill would make these provisions retroactive. The bill would make these provisions severable.
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This measure would urge lawmakers in Poland to reverse or revise a recent Polish law on speech related to the Holocaust, would call on Congress to join that effort, and would call for a renewed commitment to Holocaust education in California.
This measure would recognize the month of May 2018 as Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges that children, and particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, face in the foster care system, as specified.
This measure would recognize May 2018 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
Existing law defines the crime of burglary to include entering a vehicle when the doors are locked with the intent to commit grand or petit larceny or a felony. Burglary of a vehicle is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would make forcibly entering a vehicle with the intent to commit a theft therein a crime punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year or imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By creating a new crime, this 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.
Existing law allows a defendant to petition to withdraw his or her plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty in any case in which he or she has fulfilled the conditions of probation and is not then serving a sentence for any offense, on probation for any offense, or charged with the commission of any offense. If granting relief, existing law requires the court to dismiss the accusation or information against the defendant and release him or her from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense, except as provided. Existing law requires a defendant who petitions for a change of plea or setting aside of a verdict to reimburse the court by paying a fee, as specified. These provisions apply to applications for relief filed on or after November 23, 1970. This bill would instead require the court to automatically withdraw the plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty when the defendant has fulfilled the conditions of probation. The bill would make conforming changes, including deleting the authority to charge the fee for making a petition. The bill would apply these provisions to defendants who have completed probation on or after November 23, 1970. Existing law allows a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor and not granted probation, and a defendant convicted of an infraction, at any time after the lapse of one year from the date of pronouncement of judgment, if he or she has fully complied with and performed the sentence of the court, is not then serving a sentence for any offense and is not under charge of commission of any crime, and has, since the pronouncement of judgment, lived an honest and upright life and has conformed to and obeyed the laws of the land, to petition to withdraw his or her plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty. If granting relief, existing law requires the court to dismiss the accusation against the defendant and release him or her from all penalties and disabilities resulting from the offense, except as provided. Existing law requires a defendant who petitions for a change of plea or setting aside of a verdict to reimburse the court by paying a fee, as specified. This bill would instead require the court to automatically withdraw the plea of guilty or nolo contendere and enter a plea of not guilty when the defendant has fulfilled the specified conditions. The bill would make conforming changes, including deleting the authority to charge the fee for making a petition.
(1) Existing law prescribes requirements for the disposal of surplus land by a local agency. Existing law defines "local agency" for these purposes as every city, county, city and county, and district, including school districts of any kind or class, empowered to acquire and hold real property. Existing law defines "surplus land" for these purposes as land owned by any local agency that is determined to be no longer necessary for the agency's use, except property being held by the agency for the purpose of exchange. This bill would expand the definition of "local agency" to include sewer, water, utility, and local and regional park districts, joint powers authorities, successor agencies to former redevelopment agencies, housing authorities, and other political subdivisions of this state and any instrumentality thereof that is empowered to acquire and hold real property, thereby requiring these entities to comply with these requirements for the disposal of surplus land. The bill would revise the definition of "surplus land" to mean land owned by any local agency that is not necessary for the agency's governmental operations, except property being held by the agency expressly for the purpose of exchange for another property necessary for its governmental operations and would provide that land is presumed to be surplus land when a local agency initiates an action to dispose of it. The bill would also define the term "dispose of" for these purposes as the sale, lease, transfer, or other conveyance of any interest in real property owned by a local agency. The bill would recast various provisions referring to the sale or lease of surplus land to instead refer to the disposal of surplus land. The bill would also delete certain obsolete references and make related conforming changes. (2) Existing law requires a local agency disposing of surplus land to send, prior to disposing of that property, a written offer to sell or lease the property to specified entities. Existing law requires that a local agency, upon a written request, send a written offer to sell or lease surplus land to a housing sponsor, as defined, for the purpose of developing low- and moderate-income housing. Existing law also requires the local agency to send a written offer to sell or lease surplus land for the purpose of developing property located within an infill opportunity zone, designated as provided, to, among others, a community redevelopment agency. This bill would instead require the local agency disposing of surplus land to send, prior to disposing of that property or participating in any formal or informal negotiations to dispose of that property, a written notice of availability. The bill would make various related conforming changes. With regards to a housing sponsor, the bill would require that the written notice of availability be sent if the housing sponsor has notified the applicable regional council of governments or, in the case of a local agency without a council of governments, the Department of Housing and Community Development of its interest in the land, rather than upon written request. With regards to surplus land to be used for the purpose of developing property located within an infill opportunity zone, as described above, the bill would instead require that the written notice of availability be sent to a successor agency to a former redevelopment agency. (3) After the disposing agency has received a notice from an entity desiring to purchase or lease the land, existing law requires the disposing agency to enter into good faith negotiations to determine a mutually satisfactory sales price or lease terms. This bill would limit negotiations to sales price and lease terms, including the amount and timing of any payments. (4) If the local agency receives offers from more than one entity that agrees to meet specified requirements related to the provision of affordable housing on the surplus land, existing law requires the local agency to give priority to the entity that proposes to provide the greatest number of units that meet those requirements. Notwithstanding that requirement, existing law requires the local agency to give first priority to an entity in specified circumstances. This bill would define "priority" for these purposes as meaning that the local agency negotiates in good faith exclusively with the entity pursuant to specified requirements. In the event that more than one entity proposes the same number of units that meet the above-described affordable housing requirements, this bill would require that priority be given to the entity that proposes the deepest average level of affordability for the affordable units. (5) Under existing law, failure by a local agency to comply with these requirements for the disposal of surplus land does not invalidate the transfer or conveyance of real property to a purchaser or encumbrancer of value. This bill, in the event of failure to comply, would provide that certain requirements, described below, relating to the use of units developed on the parcel for affordable housing purposes would apply. (6) If a local agency does not agree to price and terms with an entity to which notice and an opportunity to purchase or lease are given and disposes of the surplus land to an entity that uses the property for the development of 10 or more residential units, existing law requires the purchasing entity or a successor in interest to provide not less than 15% of the total number of units developed on the parcels at an affordable housing cost or affordable rent to lower income households. This bill would revise this requirement to apply if the local agency does not agree to price and terms with an entity to which notice of availability of land was given, or if no entity to which a notice of availability was given responds to that notice, and 10 or more residential units are developed on the property. (7) Existing law makes various findings and declarations as to the need for affordable housing and the use of surplus government land for that purpose. This bill would revise these findings. (8) By adding to the duties of local officials with respect to the disposal of surplus land, and expanding the scope of local agencies subject to the bill's requirements, this 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.
Existing 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. Those laws provide various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on and after January 1, 2019, and before January 1, 2024, would exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, retail hydrogen vehicle fuel, as defined. 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.