Rep. Danny D Gilmore

Existing law requires that a person, in order to be eligible to register to vote, be a United States citizen, a resident of California, not in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony, and at least 18 years of age at the time of the next election. This bill would specify that, for purposes of those eligibility requirements and all other purposes of the Elections Code, "in prison or on parole for the conviction of a felony" includes incarceration in a county jail, or other alternative sentence, resulting from a felony conviction.

Existing law makes it a felony for any person to solicit or recruit another to actively participate in a criminal street gang, as defined, with the intent that the person solicited or recruited participate in a pattern of criminal street gang activity. This bill would instead make it a felony for any person to solicit or recruit another to actively participate in a criminal street gang with the intent that the person solicited or recruited actively participate in the criminal street gang. Because this bill would create a new crime, it 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 establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs within state government and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, administration of veterans benefits programs. Existing law establishes the California Veterans Board within the department and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, its power to determine operational policy for the department. This bill would establish the California Veterans Services and Workforce Development Division within the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of coordinating and administering veterans assistance programs in the state, and would require the division to perform various functions and duties relating to the coordination and administration of veterans assistance programs, as specified. The bill would require the administrative and support staff responsible for the administration of the specified programs to be transferred from the Employment Development Department to the division, and would require the costs of the transfer to utilize existing resources of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to reduce the diversion requirements for rural cities and counties if the rural city or county demonstrates, and the department concurs, based on substantial evidence in the record, that achievement of the diversion requirements is not feasible due to 2 specified conditions. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Existing law, the Motor Carriers of Property Permit Act, defines a "commercial motor vehicle" as, among other things, any motor truck of 2 or more axles that is more than 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) . Existing law defines a "pickup truck" as a motor truck with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of less than 11,500 pounds, an unladen weight of less than 8,001 pounds, and which is equipped with an open box-type bed not exceeding 9 feet in length. This bill would increase this GVWR to 11,500 or more pounds thereby excluding any motor truck of 2 or more axles, and any pickup truck, that is less than 11,500 pounds from the act's provisions.

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 and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit for an increase in qualified employees of a qualified employer. This bill would, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010, allow a credit in an amount equal to 25% of the wages, not exceeding $6,000, paid to each qualified veteran, as defined, by the taxpayer during the taxable year. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

Under existing law, the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development administers various programs relating to homelessness, including the continuum of care program, which is a competitive award program created to address the problems of homelessness in a comprehensive manner. The program authorizes a state to apply for program funding as a balance of state continuum of care that covers geographic areas of the state not included within a community level continuum of care. This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development to apply for McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act funding by establishing a balance of state continuum of care program, as described, on or before September 1, 2011. The bill would also require, in the event that the department fails to apply for the federal funding, that the department, prior to September 30, 2011, notify specified legislative committees of its efforts to comply with the requirements of the bill. The bill would make this notification requirement inoperative on September 30, 2015.

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.