The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to delegate to the Fish and Game Commission powers relating to the protection and propagation of fish and game. Existing statutory law delegates to the commission the power to regulate the taking or possession of birds, mammals, fish, amphibia, and reptiles in accordance with prescribed laws. Under existing law, the Department of Fish and Game exercises various functions with regard to the taking of fish and game. This measure would establish the right to hunt and fish wildlife, as defined, subject only to statutes enacted by the Legislature and regulations adopted by the Fish and Game Commission to promote wildlife conservation and management. It would provide that public hunting and fishing, including the use of traditional methods, as defined, would be a preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife.
Sponsored bills
This measure would designate a specified segment of State Highway Route 198, in Tulare County, as the Detective Monty L. Conley and Detective Joe R. Landin Memorial Highway. 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.
Existing law provides that it is a crime if a person willfully and intentionally uses, with the intent to defraud, a contractor's license number that does not correspond to the number on a currently valid contractor's license held by that person. This bill would instead provide that it is a crime if a person willfully and intentionally uses, with the intent to defraud, any number that does not correspond to the number on a currently valid contractor's license held by that person. Because a violation of the bill's provisions would be punished as a 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.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires the Board of Governors to appoint a chief executive officer, to be known as the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes community college districts, administered by a governing board, throughout the state, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction to students at the community college campuses maintained by the districts. This bill would establish the Accelerating Student Success College Initiative of 2010 and authorize the governing board of a community college district to petition the chancellor for designation as an accelerating student success college. The bill would authorize the chancellor to designate up to 5 community colleges as Accelerating Student Success Colleges. The bill would require a governing board to submit a strategic plan that identifies specified strategies and authorize the governing board to request relief from specified provisions of law when petitioning for designation as an accelerating student success college. The bill would provide a specified method for computing the units of full-time equivalent student for apportionment purposes for credit courses offered by accelerating student success colleges and would allow for an additional allocation in specified circumstances. The bill would require the governing board of an accelerating student success college to annually submit a report to specified persons that includes a description of specified progress. The bill would require an accelerating student success college that has been granted relief from specified provisions of law to prepare and submit a report to the chancellor within 5 years of being granted the relief. By requiring community college districts to perform specified functions to become an accelerating student success college, 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 these statutory provisions.
(1) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity to specified provisions of the federal Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, allows an exclusion from a taxpayer's income for the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness, as defined, if that debt is discharged after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2009, as provided. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extended the operation of those federal provisions to debt that is discharged before January 1, 2013. This bill would provide further conformity to those federal acts, including allowance of the exclusion for debt that is discharged before 2013, as provided. (2) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This measure would recognize the 45th Anniversary of the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, otherwise known as the Williamson Act, and would recognize the value to the state of agricultural land conservation contracts.
This measure would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
This measure would declare April 2010 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes a credit against the taxes imposed by that law in an amount equal to the lesser of 5% of the purchase price or $10,000 in the case of the purchase of a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before March 1, 2010, but not to exceed an aggregate limitation of $100,000,000 for all credits allowable. Existing law requires a certification that the residence has never been occupied be provided to the Franchise Tax Board within one week of the sale of the qualified principal residence. This bill would limit the credit to taxpayers who purchased a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before July 3, 2009, and on and after the effective date of this bill and before March 1, 2010. This bill would also require the aggregate limitation of credits to be reduced by a specified amount per certification received by the Franchise Tax Board. (2) The bill would appropriate the sum of $44,000 from the General Fund to the Franchise Tax Board, in augmentation of a specified appropriation made in the 2009-10 Budget Act. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides that the minimum schoolday in any high school, except as specified, is 240 minutes. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.