Asm. Robert Rivas

Existing law makes it a misdemeanor to, by force or threat of force, willfully injure, intimidate, interfere with, oppress, or threaten another person in the free exercise or enjoyment of a right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of this state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States in whole or in part because of one or more of specified actual or perceived characteristics of the victim, including disability, gender, religion, race, or sexual orientation. Existing law also makes it a misdemeanor to knowingly deface, damage, or destroy the real or personal property of another person for the purpose of intimidating or interfering with the free exercise or enjoyment of a right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of this state or by the Constitution or laws of the United States, in whole or in part because of one or more of the same actual or perceived characteristics of the victim. This bill would make the above crimes punishable either as a misdemeanor or as a felony, to be served in county jail for 18 months, or 2 or 3 years. By increasing the punishment for 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.

Existing law permits state agencies to apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles to sponsor a specialized license plate program. The department may establish a program when specified requirements are met, such as receiving 7,500 applications for the agency's specialized license plates. Existing law requires fees in addition to regular license plate fees to be paid for registration and renewal of specialized license plates, as specified. Existing law establishes the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount to make moneys available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to achieve the goals of the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program, including achieving reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases, improvements in air quality, and benefits to low-income residents through the replacement of high-polluter motor vehicles with cleaner and more efficient motor vehicles. This bill would authorize a state agency to apply to the department to sponsor a Go Green specialized license plate program. Go Green specialized license plates would only be available for zero-emission vehicles. This bill would require the Department to deposit revenue generated by the Go Green specialized license plate program, after administrative costs have been deducted, in the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount to help provide additional funding for the retirement of older polluting vehicles and incentivize the purchase of new and used zero-emission vehicles.

Existing law, the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016, creates a schedule that phases in overtime requirements for an agricultural employee, as specified, over the course of 7 years, from 2019 to 2025, inclusive, including a requirement, beginning January 1, 2019, for an employer that employs more than 25 employees, that an agricultural employee receive no less than one and 12 times that employee's regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 9.5 hours in one day or in excess of 55 hours in one week. Beginning January 1, 2022, existing law applies that provision to an employer that employs 25 or fewer employees. Existing law authorizes the Governor to delay the implementation of these overtime pay provisions if the Governor suspends the implementation of a scheduled state minimum wage increase, as specified. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit in an amount measured by the amount of wages paid or incurred to prisoners employed in a specified program and a credit in an amount measured by the wages paid to certain employees within a designated census tract or economic development area. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2023, in an amount equal to the overtime wage premium paid or incurred by the taxpayer in the taxable year to an agricultural employee, as defined, in the taxable year pursuant to the specified provisions of the Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016. The bill would also include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

Existing law establishes the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program, administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. Existing law requires the commission under the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program to provide funding measures to certain entities to develop and deploy innovative technologies that transform California's fuel and vehicle types to help attain the state's climate change policies. Existing law requires the commission to give preference to those projects that maximize the goals of the program based on specified criteria and to fund specified eligible projects, including, among others, alternative and renewable fuel projects to develop and improve alternative and renewable low-carbon fuels, including renewable diesel. This bill would require the State Air Resources Board, by July 1, 2021, to adopt the Clean Fleet Program to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, to improve air quality, and to benefit low-income residents by providing certain incentives for the displacement of petroleum diesel with biofuels, as defined, The bill would require the state board to adopt guidelines for the program and to begin the implementation of the program on January 1, 2022. The bill would require the state board, on July 1, 2021, and every fiscal year thereafter, to set specific and measurable goals for the displacement of petroleum fuel with biofuels.

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.

The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The state board is required to approve a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions level in 1990 to be achieved by 2020 and to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years. This bill would declare the policy of the state to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible, but no later than 2045, and to achieve and maintain net negative greenhouse gas emissions thereafter. The bill would require the state board to work with relevant state agencies to develop a framework for implementation and accounting that tracks progress toward achieving carbon neutrality, and to ensure that updates to the scoping plan identify and recommend measures to achieve carbon neutrality. The bill would require a specified plan prepared by the state board and other specified agencies to include sequestration targets consistent with achieving carbon neutrality, and would impose other requirements on state agencies relating to working toward carbon neutrality.

The California Constitution and existing property tax law authorize a person who is either severely disabled or over 55 years of age to transfer the base year value, as defined, of property that is eligible for the homeowners' property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling that is of equal or lesser value located within the same county as the property from which the base year value is transferred, and if a county ordinance so providing has been adopted, to a replacement dwelling that is located in a different county. This bill, on or after January 1, 2023, would expand this authorization to transfer the base year value of an original property to a person who is the parent or legal guardian of a severely and permanently disabled child and resides with the child. By changing the manner in which local assessors assess property for property taxation purposes, 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 take effect immediately as a tax levy but would become operative only if Senate Constitutional Amendment __ of the 2019–20 Regular Session is approved by the voters.

This measure would proclaim January 23, 2020, as Maternal Health Awareness Day, to draw attention to the efforts that have improved maternal health in California and to highlight the need for continued improvement of maternal health for all women.