Existing law dissolved redevelopment agencies as of February 1, 2012, and designates successor agencies to act as successor entities to the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing law requires successor agencies to, among other things, continue making payments due for enforceable obligations and wind down the affairs of the dissolved redevelopment agencies. Existing law provides that, commencing July 1, 2016, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the administrative cost allowance, defined as the maximum amount of administrative costs that may be paid to a successor agency from the Redevelopment Tax Trust Fund in a fiscal year, is up to 3% of the actual property tax distributed to the successor agency by the county auditor-controller in the preceding fiscal year for payment of enforceable obligations, reduced by the successor agency's administrative cost allowance, and loan repayments, as provided. Existing law provides, however, that a successor agency's administrative cost allowance shall not exceed 50% of the total Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund distributed to pay enforceable obligations in the preceding fiscal year, reduced by the successor agency's administrative cost allowance and loan repayments, as provided. Existing law requires the Department of Finance to make a determination of the enforceable obligations and the amounts and funding sources of the enforceable obligations by April 15 of each year, based on an oversight board-approved Recognized Obligation Payment Schedule submitted by the successor agency. This bill would change the formula for calculating a successor agency's administrative cost allowance by providing that, for the period covering January 1, 2021, until June 30, 2021, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the administrative cost allowance shall be up to 3% of the actual property tax the department authorized in the preceding fiscal year for payment of approved enforceable obligations, prior to any reductions made, as provided. The bill, however, would set a minimum of $250,000 for the administrative cost allowance in any fiscal year, unless this amount is reduced by the oversight board or by agreement between the successor agency and the department. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, for the period covering January 1, 2021, until June 30, 2021, and for each fiscal year thereafter, a successor agency's annual administrative costs shall not exceed 50% of the total Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund the department authorized to pay enforceable obligations in the preceding fiscal year, prior to any reductions made, as provided.
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The Political Reform Act of 1974 prohibits a person, other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, from making to a candidate for elective state office, for statewide elective office, or for the office of Governor, and prohibits those candidates from accepting from a person, a contribution totaling more than a specified amount per election. For a candidate for elective state office other than a candidate for statewide elective office, the limitation on contributions is $3,000 per election, as that amount is adjusted by the Fair Political Practices Commission in January of every odd-numbered year. The act, beginning January 1, 2021, subjects a candidate for city or county office to this contribution limit. However, this contribution limit and related provisions of the act do not apply in a jurisdiction in which the county or city imposes a limit on contributions. This bill would clarify that the contribution limitation and related provisions of the act would not be applicable to a candidate for elective county or city office that is subject to a mandatory limit on contributions adopted by the city or county. The bill would make conforming changes. 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 establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of employment. Existing law provides, among other things, that skin cancer developing in active lifeguards, as defined, is presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment, unless the presumption is rebutted. This bill would expand the scope of those provisions to certain peace officers of the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Department of Parks and Recreation.
The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to exempt from taxation, in whole or in part, property that is used exclusively for religious, hospital, or charitable purposes, and is owned or held in trust by a nonprofit entity. Pursuant to this constitutional authority, existing law partially exempts from property taxation property used exclusively for rental housing and related facilities, if specified criteria are met, including, except in the case of a limited partnership in which the managing general partner is a nonprofit corporation eligible for the exemption, that 90% or more of the occupants of the property are lower income households whose rents do not exceed the rent limits prescribed by a specified law. Existing law limits the total exemption amount allowed to a taxpayer, with respect to a single property or multiple properties for any fiscal year on the sole basis of the application of this criterion, to $20,000,000 of tax. This bill, for claims filed for fiscal years 2020–21 to 2030–31, inclusive, would decrease the percentage of occupants that are lower income households required to qualify for exemption under these provisions from 90% to 50%. The bill, with respect to lien dates occurring on and after January 1, 2020, would also increase the total exemption amount allowed from $20,000,000 to $100,000,000 in assessed value. The bill would require any outstanding qualified ad valorem property tax in excess of the $20,000,000 limitation, and related interest or penalty, which was levied or imposed on and after January 1, 2019, and before January 1, 2020, with respect to qualified property for which a qualified claim was filed, to be canceled to the extent that the amount canceled does not result in a total assessed value exemption amount in excess of $100,000,000 being allowed to a qualified taxpayer with respect to a single property or multiple properties for any fiscal year. The bill would, on and after January 1, 2020, prohibit an escape assessment from being levied on qualified property if that amount would be subject to cancellation pursuant to this bill. By adding to the duties of local tax officials, 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 law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would declare March 5, 2020, as Family Justice Center Day in California and would recognize the lifesaving and hope-giving work of the California Family Justice Center Network and its member Family Justice Centers as they work with rape crisis centers, domestic violence shelters, human trafficking agencies, prosecutors' offices, law enforcement agencies, and other professionals and community-based organizations to ensure that adult and child survivors of trauma can access all of their services in one setting.
This measure would recognize March 7, 2020, as California Arbor Day, and would urge California residents to observe the day with appropriate tree-planting activities and programs.
This measure would memorialize the achievements of Rosa Parks in the Civil Rights Movement and would commemorate the 20th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Day in California on February 4, 2020.