This measure would recognize August 8, 2012, as "Are You Dense?" Day 2012, to raise awareness of the risks associated with breast density and the potential benefits of other screening tools to supplement mammography.
This measure would commemorate the 40th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, 2012, commend the movement toward increased equality and fair treatment of female athletes, and praise the goal of greater opportunities in sports for girls and young women in California.
This measure would proclaim June 2012 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, in the amount of $3,000 for each full-time employee hired by a qualified employer, with a maximum cumulative credit of $400,000,000 for all taxable years. Those laws define "qualified employer" as a taxpayer that employed 20 or fewer employees as of the last day of the preceding taxable year. This bill would, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, redefine "qualified employer" to mean a disabled veteran business enterprise, a disadvantaged business enterprise, a microbusiness, or a small business, as defined. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, allow a credit in the amount of $4,500 for each net increase in full-time employees, who are paid qualified wages of less than $16 per hour and a credit in the amount of $9,100 for each net increase in full-time employees, who are paid qualified wages of $16 or more per hour, as provided. 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 XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Under existing law, a member of a veterans' home is required to pay fees and charges as determined by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Existing law requires the administrator of the home to provide each member with a quarterly statement or accounting of all charges for the costs of care rendered to the member in excess of the member fee, as defined. This bill would require the quarterly statement or accounting of all charges to include information relating to payment of any outstanding charges at the time of the veteran's death, including the use of a deceased veteran's personal property or money for payment of outstanding charges, and a statement advising the member to seek counsel from a legal expert to protect his or her assets.
This measure would memorialize the Legislature's disagreement with the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and would call upon the United States Congress to propose and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and to restore constitutional rights and fair elections to the people.
(1) Existing law authorizes a county superintendent of schools, with the approval of the county board of education, to temporarily transfer moneys to a school district under specified circumstances. The Charter Schools Act of 1992 authorizes any one or more persons to submit a petition to the governing board of a school district to establish a charter school that operates independently from the existing school district structure as a method of accomplishing specified goals. This bill, until July 1, 2017, would authorize a county board of education, subject to the concurrence of the county superintendent of schools, to loan moneys from the proceeds of revenue anticipation notes to a charter school for which the county board of education or the county superintendent of schools has a supervisory responsibility or, regardless of whether the charter school is within or outside of the county, with which a county board of education or county superintendent of schools has a contractual relationship. The bill would require the county superintendent of schools, before the county board of education makes the loan, to take specified actions regarding the advisability of the loan. The bill would provide that any loan of moneys pursuant to these provisions would not constitute a debt or liability for the county superintendent of schools, the county board of education, or the State of California. The bill would prohibit a charter school from receiving more than one of these loans per fiscal year. The bill would require the county board of education, as a condition of making a loan to a charter school, to report to the State Department of Education by September 15 of each prior year specified information on loans made to charter schools within the fiscal year and would require the department to compile that information into one report to be submitted by December 1 of each year to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Legislative Analyst's Office. (2) Existing law states that existing law governing charter schools does not prohibit a private person or organization from providing funding or other assistance to the establishment or operation of a charter school. This bill, until July 1, 2017, would authorize a charter school to contract with a county superintendent of schools or a county board of education for purposes of borrowing moneys, as described above. The bill would require the borrowed moneys to be expended by a charter school solely for purposes of meeting the cash management needs of the charter school due to the deferral of apportionment payments and not for purposes of making capital acquisitions. (3) This bill also would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law governing contracts for port districts requires that contracts for new construction work exceeding $10,000, or the purchase of supplies exceeding $25,000, or projects involving building maintenance and improvements exceeding $10,000, be let by the board of the port district by competitive bidding, in accordance with specified procedures. This bill would authorize the Ventura Port District to contract for the performance of dredging work within district boundaries without competitive bidding, provided that both the dredging contractor has been selected through a competitive bidding process for a federal dredging project then underway in the County of Ventura and the board of the Ventura Port District makes certain findings regarding cost savings. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Ventura Port District.
Existing law authorizes the development and implementation of various electronic bridge and highway toll collection mechanisms. Existing law prohibits a transportation agency, as defined, from selling or providing personally identifiable information of a person obtained pursuant to the person's participation in an electronic toll collection system or use of a toll facility that uses an electronic toll collection system, subject to specified exceptions. Existing law requires a transportation agency that uses an electronic toll collection system to establish a privacy policy regarding the collection and storage of personally identifiable information in that regard, to provide the policy to subscribers, and to post the policy on its Internet Web site. Existing law permits a transportation agency to share data collected via an electronic toll collection system with another transportation agency solely to comply with interoperablility specifications and standards for electronic toll collection devices. Existing law also permits a transportation agency to perform billing and other financial functions necessary to operate and manage toll facilities. This bill would permit a transportation agency or its designee to share data regarding a vehicle's use of toll facilities with another transportation agency, whether in the state or not, solely to comply with the above specifications and standards. This bill would also permit a transportation agency to share specified information with transportation agencies in other states as part of a nationwide interoperability toll collection program. This bill would also permit a transportation agency to perform toll collection and violation enforcement functions required to operate and manage toll facilities, whether in the state or not.
