The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would authorize a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2011, and before January 1, 2016, in an amount equal to 5% of the amount paid or incurred during the taxable year for the purchase and installation of an emergency standby generator, as defined, at a service station, as defined, located in this state. This bill would, if, in any calendar year, the State Air Resources Board or the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission establishes a certification standard for energy efficient or low emission emergency standby generators, limit this credit to emergency standby generators that satisfy that certification standard, as specified. This bill would require the State Air Resources Board or the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to notify the Franchise Tax Board of the establishment of a certification standard, as provided, and would require the Franchise Tax Board to post, on its Internet Web site, a notice to taxpayers, as provided. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
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Existing law, subject to exceptions, provides that any person who reasonably believes that he or she has observed the commission of a murder, rape, or lewd and lascivious act committed by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, where the victim of any of these crimes is under 14 years of age, shall notify a peace officer. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,500 or incarceration not exceeding 6 months in a county jail, or both the fine and incarceration. This bill would expand those provisions to apply when the victim of the offense observed is under 18 years of age, and would specify that this obligation to report crimes to a peace officer applies to sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration, as specified, where those crimes are accomplished by use of force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another person, and rape in concert. The bill would provide additional exceptions to the reporting requirement for domestic partners, for children under 12 years of age, and for victims of the offenses that are subject to reporting. The bill would provide that a violation of these reporting obligations may also be punished as an infraction by a fine of $250. By expanding the scope of an existing 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.
This measure would designate the week of May 2 to May 8, 2010, as Public Service Recognition Week, and encourage all Californians to recognize the crucial role of public employees in this state.
Existing law authorizes state agencies to contract on behalf of the state, and to terminate, amend, or modify the contract, as specified. Existing law requires the State Auditor to examine and report annually upon the financial statements prepared by the executive branch, and to perform audits that are mandated by statute. This bill would requires each state agency to post on the state's Reporting Transparency in Government Internet Web site, by February 15, 2011, every audit of its operations finalized between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2010, and every contract entered with a total value of $5,000 or more entered into by a state agency between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2010, and commencing January 1, 2011, post audit results on that site within 15 days of completion of an audit, and every contract with a value of $5,000 or more, entered into by a state agency. The bill would also require the Chief Information Officer, commencing January 1, 2011, to post specified information relating to new contracts entered into by a state agency, and would require the office of the Governor to post every statement of economic interest and travel and expense report of its staff, agency secretaries, department heads, and any official under the direct supervision of the Governor on the site.
Existing law authorizes the Governor to appoint and fix the salaries of assistants and other personnel as the Governor deems necessary for his or her office. This bill would require the Governor to create, within the Office of the Governor, the position of Director of California Biotechnology Retention and Recruitment, as specified. The bill would make the director responsible for serving as an informational resource for biotechnology, life science, and medical companies, as specified.
This measure would designate that January 18, 2010, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Existing law, known as the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Department of Public Health to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, adoption of enforcement regulations, and conducting studies and investigations to assess the quality of water in domestic water supplies. Existing law authorizes the department to enter into primacy delegation agreements with local health officers for enforcement of these provisions. Existing law authorizes the department to establish less stringent requirements applicable to state small water systems, as defined, and requires local health officers to enforce those standards. This bill would, notwithstanding provisions of law to the contrary, require the local public health officer to establish standards for, and be the primary enforcement agency over, local small water systems, as defined. By imposing these new requirements on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also allow specified properties, after applying to the county and having the county make specified findings, to use hauled water when no other water source is available for a single-family dwelling. The bill would require the applicant for the use of hauled water to meet various requirements, including filing a covenant and agreement containing specified conditions, to be filed with the county against the property. The bill would exempt properties approved to use hauled water from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) . By imposing new requirements on local agencies, 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 shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions for costs mandated by the state pursuant to this act, but would recognize that local agencies and school districts may pursue any available remedies to seek reimbursement for these costs.
Existing law sets out the requirements for the submission of written reports to the Legislature. This bill would require any entity submitting a written report to the Legislature, a Member of the Legislature, or a committee of the Legislature to include a signed statement by the head of the entity submitting the written report declaring that the factual contents of the written report are true, accurate, and complete to the best of his or her knowledge.
This measure would declare April 2010 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
The Public Employees' Retirement Law (PERL) creates the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provides a defined benefit to its employees based on age at retirement, service credit, and final or highest compensation paid to the employee. In the case of an employee who has been employed by one or more contracting public agencies, retirement benefits distributed to that employee is the obligation of all of contracting public agency employers and is prorated to each of the contracting public agencies based upon the number of years that the employee worked for each of those agencies. This bill would provide that the obligations for retirement benefits that are attributable to excess compensation earned by a nonrepresented employee who was employed by one or more public agencies shall be the sole obligation of the subsequent contracting agency that paid the excess compensation. This bill would define "excess compensation" as the final compensation of an employee of a contracting agency who previously worked for another contracting agency to the extent the final compensation received from the current contracting agency is in excess of 15% of the salary paid by the prior contracting agency, as adjusted for actuarial increases in that salary.