This measure would provide that the 2009–10 Eighth Extraordinary Session of the Legislature shall stand adjourned sine die at midnight on the date that this measure has been adopted by both houses of the Legislature.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in modified conformity to federal income tax laws, allow a charitable contribution deduction in computing tax liability. This bill would, for a cash contribution made after January 11, 2010, and before March 1, 2010, for the relief of victims in areas affected by the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, authorize taxpayers to treat that contribution as if it were made on December 31, 2009, and not in 2010. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This measure would recognize the month of February 2010 as American Heart Month in California, would recognize February 4, 2010, as Wear Red Day in California, and would urge public support for Go Red for Women events.
This measure would proclaim January 13, 2010, as Korean-American Day.
Existing law authorizes the imposition of various conditions on persons released from prison on parole. Under existing law, one of the conditions imposed upon a prisoner released on parole is that the prisoner agree to be subject to search or seizure by a parole officer or other peace officer at any time of the day or night, with or without a search warrant and with or without cause. If the prisoner does not agree to that condition of release, he or she loses worktime credits earned and may not be released from prison until he or she agrees to that condition or the entire term of imprisonment has expired, as specified. This bill would, instead, require that any person being released on parole who was not committed to prison for a registerable sex offense, a serious felony, a violent felony, or any felony that directly or indirectly involved violence or the threat of violence, and who does not have a prior conviction for a serious or violent felony, be released on parole with only one condition. This bill would provide that the one condition imposed on an eligible parolee would be that he or she agree in writing to be subject to search or seizure by a parole officer or other peace officer at any time of the day or night, with or without a search warrant and with or without cause. This bill would provide that any eligible inmate who does not agree in writing to that condition shall lose worktime credit earned pursuant to Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 2930) of Chapter 7 on a day-for-day basis and shall not be released until he or she either agrees in writing to that condition or has no remaining worktime credit, whichever occurs first. This bill would also provide that a parolee's refusal to submit to a search or seizure while on parole is not grounds to revoke his or her parole.
The California Constitution requires the Legislature to pass a budget bill by June 15 of each year for the fiscal year commencing on July 1. Existing law provides that no state officer or employee shall be deemed to have a break in service or to have terminated his or her employment, for any purpose, nor to have incurred any change in his or her authority, status, or jurisdiction or in his or her salary or other conditions of employment, solely because of the failure to enact a Budget Act for a fiscal year prior to the beginning of that fiscal year. Under the California Constitution, money may be drawn from the Treasury only through an appropriation made by law and upon a Controller's duly drawn warrant. This bill would continuously appropriate from the General Fund and other specified funds to the Controller an amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees, as defined, for work performed on or after July 1 of a fiscal year for which no budget has been enacted. This bill would specify, if a memorandum of understanding is in effect that has been approved by the Legislature, that the compensation and contribution for employee benefits for represented state employees be at a rate consistent with the memorandum of understanding and, for state employees excluded from collective bargaining, at the rate approved by the Department of Personnel Administration prior to the commencement of the fiscal year for which a Budget Act has not been enacted. The bill would require, if a memorandum of understanding is not in effect for represented state employees and the department has not approved a compensation package for state employees excluded from collective bargaining, that the compensation and contribution for employee benefits for represented state employees and state employees excluded from collective bargaining be at the rate in effect at the expiration of the last fiscal year for which a budget was enacted. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, and under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act requires the department to implement a facility-specific ratesetting system, using a cost-based reimbursement rate methodology, and to update these rates annually. Under existing law, the methodology is required to reflect the sum of the projected cost of specified cost categories and passthrough costs, including a labor cost category. This bill would require labor costs to be determined by facility payroll data, submitted electronically to the department on a quarterly basis, as prescribed.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 permits a lobbyist or lobbying firm, as defined, to make gifts to one person aggregating not more than $10 in a calendar month. This bill would prohibit a lobbyist employer, as defined, from making gifts to a Member of the Legislature aggregating more than $10 in a calendar month. Existing law makes a willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating additional crimes. 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. 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 and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plans and health insurers to disclose to specified persons the process the plan or insurer uses to authorize, modify, or deny health care services and requires the criteria plans or insurers use to make that determination to meet specified requirements. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, and before January 1, 2013, allow a credit under both laws in an amount equal to 25% of the amount of qualified expenses paid, not to exceed a specified amount, or incurred in connection with lending a qualified employee to a Title I public school, as defined, for the purpose of assisting in the teaching of mathematics or science, as provided. The bill also would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the Legislature evaluating the credit, as provided. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
