This measure would congratulate the California State University system on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, commend the invaluable contributions it has made to the intellectual and social growth of its students, and extend best wishes for its continued success in the future.
This measure would recognize the month of November 2011 as Native American Heritage Month, would encourage Californians to participate in appropriate observances that celebrate and commemorate Native Americans, and would applaud and encourage the observance of California Indian nations for their outstanding contributions to this state.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA establishes administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency's decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals. This bill would establish specified administrative and judicial review procedures for the administrative and judicial review of the EIR and approvals granted for a project related to the development of a specified stadium in the City of Los Angeles. Because the lead agency would be required to use these alternative procedures for administrative review of the EIR if the project applicant so chooses, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the lead agency and applicant to implement specified measures, as a condition of approval of the project, to minimize traffic congestion and air quality impacts that may result from spectators driving to the stadium. (2) 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. (3) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the development of a stadium in the City of Los Angeles.
This measure would designate the month of September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout the State of California, and would encourage and promote efforts to educate the people and the health care practitioners of the state regarding ovarian cancer and its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.
This measure would proclaim May 2 through May 9, 2011, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
This measure would designate a specified location on State Highway Route 1 in the City of Guadalupe in Santa Barbara County as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway. This measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
(1) Existing law establishes the California State University under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, and the University of California under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. This bill would prohibit the trustees from entering into or renewing, and would request the regents not to enter into or renew, a contract that provides for a compensation increase, as defined, for any administrator, as defined, using state moneys or moneys in a fiscal year from tuition or fees if the amount of General Fund moneys appropriated to the respective segment in the annual Budget Act is less than the amount of moneys appropriated to that segment in the annual Budget Act for the immediately preceding fiscal year, or if tuition or fees have been increased in the same fiscal year. This bill would prohibit the trustees from entering into, or renewing, a contract that provides for the compensation of a president of a campus of the California State University to exceed $300,000, as adjusted annually by the percentage of inflation, as specified. The bill would request the regents not to enter into, or renew, a contract that provides for the compensation of a chancellor of a campus of the University of California to exceed $326,000, as adjusted annually by the percentage of inflation, as specified. (2) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution.
(1) The Enterprise Zone Act provides that its purpose is to stimulate business and industrial growth in the depressed areas of the state by relaxing regulatory controls that impede private investment. The act defines a targeted employment area as an area composed solely of those census tracts in which at least 51% of the residents of those census tracts, determined as specified, are of low- or moderate-income levels. This bill would modify the definition of a targeted employment area, as specified. (2) The act provides that the purpose of a targeted employment area is to encourage businesses in an enterprise zone to hire eligible residents of certain geographic areas within a city, county, or city and county. This bill would delete that provision of the act and instead provide that the purpose of a targeted employment area is to help identify neighborhoods of low- and moderate-income workers for the purpose of providing those workers with employment assistance, training, and job placement. (3) The act requires each governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, the boundaries of its targeted employment area. This bill would delete that requirement, and instead require the governing body of the jurisdiction administering the enterprise zone to adopt a resolution or ordinance designating a targeted employment area that meets specified conditions. The bill would also require, if 2 or more jurisdictions are jointly administering a zone, each of the governing bodies of the 2 jurisdictions to adopt the resolution. (4) The act requires, within 180 days of updated United States census data becoming available, each governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, new boundaries for the area that reflect the new census data. The act authorizes an enterprise zone, if no changes to the boundaries of an area are necessary to conform the area with the most current census data, to send a letter to the Department of Housing and Community Development stating that a review has been undertaken and no boundary changes are required. This bill would delete those provisions, and instead require the governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, new boundaries for its targeted employment area that reflect the new household data provided by the United States Census Bureau in its 5-year American Community Study, and to send that resolution or ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would require the city, county, or city and county, if no changes to the boundaries of an area are necessary, to send a letter to the department stating that a review has been undertaken and no boundary changes are required. The bill would provide that if the area's boundaries are not updated, and the department does not receive the letter within 180 days of the release of new census information, then the area is invalidated for a period of 2 years, except as specified. (5) The act sets forth various requirements and limitations relating to the formation and composition of a targeted employment area. This bill would revise and recast these requirements and limitations, as specified. (6) The act authorizes a governing body that has already designated a targeted employment area to request to redesignate the area using more current census data, as specified, and requires an area to be comprised of a census tract from only one decennial census. This bill would delete that provision. (7) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize a taxpayer to claim certain tax incentives for activities conducted in an enterprise zone, including a credit for wages paid during the taxable year to a qualified employee, as defined, who is employed by the taxpayer during the taxable year in an enterprise zone, and those laws each set forth a schedule for the amount of the credit based on the qualified wages of the qualified employee in each of the first 5 years of employment. This bill would modify the requirements that must be met for an individual to be a qualified employee, as specified, under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, thereby reducing the scope of the credits, and make other specified changes relating to the requirements for a taxpayer to take advantage of the credits. The bill would require that changes made to the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporations Tax Law by its provisions apply to taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2011. (8) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. (9) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. (10) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee on any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount, on and after July 1, 2011, of 0.65% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided. For all initial and renewal registrations due on and after May 1, 2009, but before July 1, 2011, existing law also imposes an additional fee equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account. Existing law continuously appropriates all moneys in the Local Safety and Protection Account without regard to fiscal year, to the Controller for allocation, as provided. This bill would, for all initial and renewal registrations due on and after January 1, 2012, impose an additional vehicle license fee equal to 0.15% of the market value of the above-described vehicles, as specified. It would also require all revenues from the additional license fee to be deposited in the General Fund. During the 2011–12 fiscal year, the bill would transfer an amount to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, a continuously appropriated fund, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties, as specified. The bill would require a transfer of revenues, during the 2012-13 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter to be allocated according the following order: first to be transferred to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, as specified; and second, a total of $35,000,000 to be transferred to the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement and Bureau of Investigation and Intelligence Fund, which the bill would create as a continuously appropriated fund. Funds not transferred would continue to be General Fund moneys. By depositing moneys into a continuously appropriated fund and by establishing a new, continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. Existing law requires that a specified portion of the motor vehicle license fee revenues deposited to the credit of the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund be allocated or transferred by the Controller with those revenues being allocated on or after July 1, 2004, but before July 1, 2011, first to the County of Orange and next to each city and county meeting specified criteria; and those revenues being allocated on or after July 1, 2011, to the Local Law Enforcement Services Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011, for allocation to cities, counties, and cities and counties. This bill would instead limit that allocation for the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter to $300,000,000 in monthly installments. The bill would then allocate the moneys to the County of Orange, and to other cities and counties meeting specified criteria in the order specified prior to July 1, 2011, as provided. By authorizing revenues deposited in the Motor Vehicle License Fee Account in the Transportation Tax Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to be used for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law establishes the University of California, which is administered by the Regents of the University of California; the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University; and the California Community Colleges, which is administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law authorizes the regents, the trustees, and the board to employ officers and other employees. This bill would prohibit the trustees from increasing the monetary compensation, as defined, of, or approving a monetary bonus for, any executive officer, as defined, of the California State University in any fiscal year in which the General Fund appropriation to the California State University in the annual Budget Act is less than, or equal to, the General Fund appropriation to the university in the annual Budget Act for the immediately preceding fiscal year. The bill would request the regents to not increase the monetary compensation of, or approve a monetary bonus for, any executive officer, as defined, of the University of California, in any fiscal year in which the General Fund appropriation to the University of California in the annual Budget Act is less than, or equal to, the General Fund appropriation to the university in the annual Budget Act for the immediately preceding fiscal year. (2) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution.
