This measure would proclaim March 2, 2020, to March 6, 2020, inclusive, as School Breakfast Week.
Existing law regulates the formation and enforcement of contracts, including what constitutes an unlawful contract. Under existing law, a contract is unlawful if it is contrary to an express provision of law, contrary to the policy of express law, though not expressly prohibited, or otherwise contrary to good morals. Existing law regulates licensees who are subject to the jurisdiction of a state licensing entity, including the State Bar of California, the Department of Real Estate, the Department of Consumer Affairs, or any other state agency that issues a license, certificate, or registration authorizing a person to engage in a business or profession. This bill would prohibit a contract or proposed contract involving the provision of a consumer service by a licensee regulated by a licensing board from including a provision limiting the consumer's ability to file a complaint with that board or to participate in the board's investigation into the licensee. The bill would specify that a waiver of these provisions is contrary to public policy and is void and unenforceable. The bill would provide that a violation of these provisions by a licensee constitutes unprofessional conduct subject to discipline by the licensee's regulatory board.
Under the Sales and Use Tax Law, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration is authorized to relieve a person from the payment of sales and use taxes, penalties, and interest if the department finds that a person's failure to make a timely return or payment is due to that person's reasonable reliance on written advice from the department, as specified. This bill would require the department to confirm receipt of a request by a person for written advice from the department other than presentation of a taxpayer's books and records for audit by sending a letter or email within 30 days from the date of receipt of the request. The bill would require the department to provide a response within 180 days from the date the request by a person for written advice from the department is received by the department, except as specified. The bill would make the changes to the written advice provisions apply to written requests received by the department on or after January 1, 2021. Under existing law, the Katz-Harris Taxpayers' Bill of Rights Act, the Franchise Tax Board is authorized to relieve a person from the payment of taxes under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, interest, additions to those taxes, or penalties if the Franchise Tax Board finds that a person's failure to make a timely return or payment is due to that person's reasonable reliance on written advice from the board or written advice of a legal ruling by the Chief Counsel of the Franchise Tax Board, as specified. Existing law requires chief counsel rulings to be issued as provided in published guidelines. This bill would require the chief counsel to confirm receipt of a request by a person fora chief counsel ruling by sending a letter or email within 30 days of the date of receipt of the request for a chief counsel ruling. The bill would require the chief counsel to provide a response within 180 days from the date the request by a person for a chief counsel ruling is received. Under the bill, all published guidelines issued pursuant to the chief counsel rulings provisions in effect on December 31, 2020, would remain in effect and be fully enforceable unless and until modified or superseded by the board. The bill would make the changes to the chief counsel rulings provisions apply to a written request for a chief counsel ruling received on or after January 1, 2021.
This measure would declare the week of February 17 to February 21, 2020, inclusive, as California Fitness Week, and would encourage Californians to enrich their lives through proper nutrition and exercise.
This measure would proclaim February 20, 2020, as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.
This measure would recognize February 2020 as Black History Month, urge all citizens to join in celebrating the accomplishments of African Americans during Black History Month, encourage the people of California to recognize the many talents of African Americans and the achievements and contributions they make to their communities to create equity and equality for education, economics, and social justice, and recognize the significance in protecting citizens' right to vote and remedying racial discrimination in voting.
The California Constitution requires the Legislature to convene in regular session on specified dates and provides that a majority of the membership constitutes a quorum, although a lesser number may recess from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members. The California Constitution requires the proceedings of each house of the Legislature to be open and public and recognizes the right of the public to attend, record, and broadcast those proceedings. The California Constitution authorizes the Legislature to provide for the convening of the Legislature to meet the needs resulting from a war-caused or enemy-caused disaster in the state. This measure would permit Members to remotely attend and vote in a legislative proceeding, or to vote by proxy in a legislative proceeding if permitted by their house, during the pendency of a state of emergency declared by the Governor or the President of the United States, under specified conditions. The measure would provide, among other conditions, that a Member may remotely attend and vote, or vote by proxy as authorized, in a proceeding only if the state of emergency prevents the Member from safely attending the proceeding in person. The measure would also provide that a Member attending remotely would be included in the determination of a quorum. The measure would provide that if 15 or more of the Members of a house cannot attend a proceeding during a state of emergency because they are deceased, disabled, or missing, a quorum may be established by a majority of those Members able to attend. The measure would specify that the Legislature may provide by statute for temporarily filling the vacant offices of Members with pro tempore members in the event that 15 or more of the Members of a house are deceased, disabled, or missing during a state of emergency. The measure would require the Legislature by concurrent resolution, or each house by separate resolutions, 23 of the membership concurring, to adopt rules to implement this provision no later than the end of the biennial legislative session in which this measure takes effect, except as specified.
(1) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, would allow a credit against those taxes to a taxpayer that is transferred, and allocated, credits pursuant to the sale of a multifamily rental housing development or mobilehome park to a qualified developer, as defined, that has received a credit reservation from the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, in specified amounts. The bill would require the credits to be reserved on a first-come-first-served basis. The bill would limit the aggregate amount of credit that may be allocated by the committee, as provided. The bill would also provide that the credit amount shall be $0 for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, unless otherwise specified in a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Act. (2) Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new income tax credit. (3) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law establishes the various segments of the public higher education system in the state. These segments include the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California, the California State University, administered by the Trustees of the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law establishes the California Educational Facilities Authority Act and the California Educational Facilities Authority (1) to provide private institutions of higher education within the state with an additional means by which to expand, enlarge, and establish dormitory, academic, and related facilities, to finance those facilities, and to refinance existing facilities, and (2) to enter into agreements with nonprofit entities, as defined, to develop student, faculty, and staff housing on near the campuses of the University of California, the Hastings College of the Law, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, or a participating private college, as specified. The act authorizes the authority to fund, as specified, and to construct, acquire, or otherwise provide projects for these purposes. The acts defines "projects" for a participating private college to mean a dormitory, an educational facility, or faculty or staff housing, and defines "projects" for a participating nonprofit entity to mean the construction or acquisition of student housing or faculty and staff housing. The act requires, for a participating nonprofit entity project, that the project include and maintain for 40 years a restriction to the grant deed on the real property on which the student or faculty or staff housing is to be located, with specified rights for the participating institution and its students, faculty, or staff. This bill would amend the definitions applicable to the California Educational Facilities Authority Act to also provide authority assistance for student housing projects for a participating private college, and to also provide that assistance for educational facilities projects for a participating nonprofit entity. The bill would require a project of a nonprofit entity to include and maintain the grant deed restriction on a project only if the project is for student, faculty, or staff housing located on property outside the boundary of a campus on land not owned by the applicable institution. Because this bill would authorize the authority to expend funds for new purposes, it would make an appropriation.
