Under existing property tax law, unpaid property taxes are declared delinquent and subject to penalties and costs, and, if the taxes remain unpaid, the property is declared tax-defaulted and subject to sale if not redeemed by the owner within a certain amount of time. Existing law requires a tax collector, in the case of the proposed tax sale of property that is the primary residence of the last known assessee, to make a reasonable effort to contact the owner-occupant of the property to be sold, as specified, and requires that the costs incurred by the tax collector in attempting to make contact, not to exceed $100, be added to the required amount for redemption of the property. This bill would remove the $100 limitation described above, and would instead require the actual and reasonable costs incurred by the tax collector in attempting to make contact to be established by the board of supervisors, as specified. Existing law requires the tax collector, when tax-defaulted property subject to a recorded notice is redeemed, to collect certain fees including, among others, a fee of $35 to reimburse the county for its costs of obtaining the names and last known mailing addresses of, and for mailing specified notices to, parties of interest, in addition to the amount required to redeem the tax-defaulted property. Existing law authorizes the tax collector, if the tax-defaulted property is redeemed prior to the proposed sale, but after the county has incurred costs to publish the notice of intended sale in a newspaper, as provided, to collect a fee to reimburse the tax collector for those costs. This bill would remove the $35 limitation described above, and would instead require the tax collector to collect a fee to reimburse the county for its actual and reasonable costs incurred in obtaining the information of, and for mailing the notices to, parties of interest. This bill would also authorize the tax collector to collect a fee to reimburse the tax collector for the costs of publishing a notice of agreement in a newspaper, as provided, under the circumstances described above. This bill would require the amount of any fee collected by the tax collector when tax-defaulted property subject to a recorded notice is redeemed to be established by the board of supervisors of a county, as provided. Existing law requires the price at which certain tax-defaulted property may be offered for sale to be the total amount necessary to redeem the property, plus costs, and prescribes the manner of distribution of proceeds from the sale of tax-defaulted property, including, among others, a distribution to the county general fund, not to exceed $35, to reimburse the county for the cost of giving of a specified notice, and a distribution to the tax collector, not to exceed $100, to reimburse the county for the costs of a personal contact, as specified. The bill would remove the $35 limitation described above, and would instead require any fee collected to reimburse the county for its actual and reasonable costs incurred in giving notice to be distributed to the county general fund. This bill would also remove the $100 limitation described above, and would instead require a distribution to the tax collector equal to the total amount of the actual and reasonable costs incurred by the tax collector in conducting the personal contact.
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Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000, sets forth the procedures for incorporations and changes of organizations of cities, including procedures for disincorporation. This bill would provide that every city with a population of less than 150 people as of January 1, 2010, would be disincorporated into that city's respective county as of 91 days after the effective date of the bill, unless a county board of supervisors determines, by majority vote within the 90-day period following enactment of these provisions, that continuing such a city within that county's boundaries would serve a public purpose if the board of supervisors determines that the city is in an isolated rural location that makes it impractical for the residents of the community to organize in another form of local governance. The bill would also require the local agency formation commission within the county to oversee the terms and conditions of the disincorporation of the city, as specified. The bill would become operative only if AB 781 of the 2011–12 Regular Session is enacted.
Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Under existing law, a health insurer that provides maternity coverage may not restrict inpatient hospital benefits, as specified, and is required to provide notice of the maternity services coverage. This bill, commencing July 1, 2012, would require every individual and group health insurance policy to provide coverage for maternity services for all insureds covered under the policy.
Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act (hereafter the Greene Act) , requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to design and implement a statewide pupil assessment program and requires school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement tests, including a standards-based achievement test pursuant to the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. Existing law authorizes a school district, at its option, to administer to pupils with limited English proficiency who are enrolled in any of grades 2 to 11, inclusive, a second achievement test in their primary language. This bill would authorize the State Department of Education to make these primary language assessments available to school districts and charter schools to assess their nonlimited-English-proficient and redesignated fluent-English-proficient pupils who are enrolled in a dual language immersion program and would require a school district or charter school that chooses to administer a primary language assessment pursuant to this authority to do so at its own expense and to enter into an agreement for that purpose with the state testing contractor, subject to the approval of the department. The bill would state legislative findings and declarations regarding primary language assessments.
This measure would proclaim May 2011 as Buy California Small Business First Month.
This measure would proclaim July 27, 2011, as Korean War Veterans Armistice Day. It would urge Californians to remember the Korean War and those who fought against communism. It would also urge Governor Jerry Brown to proclaim July 27, 2011, as Korean War Armistice Day and instruct all state departments, agencies, interested groups, organizations, and individuals to fly the United States flag at half-mast on July 27, 2011, in memory of the veterans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
This measure would formally endorse the invaluable work of California's ethnic studies programs, and their faculty, staff, and students. The measure would recognize the leadership provided by the beneficiaries of those programs, and would support the continuation of ethnic studies programs in California's institutions of higher education.
This measure would memorialize the Legislature's support for the school-based health center program authorized by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, an appropriation by the United States Congress to fund this program, policies that include school-based health centers as a partner in creating a medical home for all children, and the inclusion of school-based health centers in the reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. This bill would enact the California Dream Act of 2011. This bill would provide that, on and after January 1, 2012, a student attending the California State University, the California Community Colleges, or the University of California who is exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the provision described above would be eligible to receive a scholarship derived from nonstate funds received, for the purpose of scholarships, by the segment at which he or she is a student. The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make a provision applicable. This bill would find and declare that the amendments to the Donahoe Higher Education Act described above are state laws within the meaning of a specified federal provision.