This measure would proclaim April 16, 2018, as California Holocaust Memorial Day and would urge all Californians to observe this day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to implement revised dam safety and inspection requirements, with specified components, for all federally operated and regulated dams and reservoirs for the purpose of ensuring public safety.
Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency, administered by the Director of the California Conservation Corps. Existing law requires that participants in the corps generally be engaged in certain kinds of projects, including projects that accomplish useful and needed public works projects in urban and rural areas. This bill would specify that those projects include the construction of housing. The bill would require the director to establish a Construction Corps Program to provide corpsmembers with job training in construction-related fields, as specified. The bill would require the director, in developing and administering the program, to partner with local builders, apprenticeship programs, preapprenticeship programs, and community colleges to provide relevant training and experience to corpsmembers. The bill would authorize the director to determine the appropriate location or locations for the program based on factors the director determines are appropriate, including, among other things, the local need for housing or construction workers. Existing law authorizes the director to execute contracts with any person, natural or corporate, for the purpose of implementing the objectives of the corps, as specified. This bill would authorize the director to also execute agreements for the same purposes.
Existing law, with certain exceptions, establishes 8 hours as a day's work and a 40-hour workweek, and requires payment of prescribed overtime compensation for additional hours worked. Existing law authorizes the adoption by 23 of employees in a work unit of alternative workweek schedules providing for workdays no longer than 10 hours within a 40-hour workweek. This bill would permit an individual nonexempt employee to request an employee-selected flexible work schedule providing for workdays up to 10 hours per day within a 40-hour workweek, and would allow an employer to implement this schedule without the obligation to pay overtime compensation for those additional hours in a workday, except as specified. The bill would require that the flexible work schedule contain specified information and the employer's and the employee's original signature. The bill would also require the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in the Department of Industrial Relations to enforce this provision and adopt regulations.
This measure would recognize September 20, 2018, and every year on that date thereafter, as California Surfing Day to celebrate the California surfing lifestyle, would commend all those who honor the history, culture, and future of surfing, as well as the sport of surfing and the protection of our beach and ocean environments, would express support for future surfers and encourage potential surfing Olympians to work diligently, and would encourage all Californians to enjoy California Surfing Day.
The California Constitution and existing property tax law authorize a person who is either severely disabled or over 55 years of age to transfer the base year value, as defined, of property that is eligible for the homeowners' property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling that is of equal or lesser value located within the same county as the property from which the base year value is transferred, and if a county ordinance so providing has been adopted, to a replacement dwelling that is located in a different county. This bill, on and after January 1, 2019, would instead require, subject to specified procedures, the base year value of property that is eligible for the homeowner's exemption of any person, regardless of age or disability, to be transferred to any replacement dwelling, regardless of the value of the replacement property or whether the replacement property is located within the same county. The bill would prescribe the method of calculating the base year value of a replacement dwelling that is of greater value than the original property. The bill would deem a replacement dwelling to be of equal or lesser value if the amount of the full cash value of that replacement dwelling does not exceed specified amounts based on the date of the sale of the original property relative to the purchase or new construction of the replacement dwelling. Existing law provides that a person claiming the property tax relief described above is eligible for that relief only if specified conditions are met, including that the claimant has not previously been granted, as a claimant, that property tax relief, except in the case of a person who becomes severely disabled subsequent to being granted, as a claimant, the property tax relief for a person over the age of 55 years. This bill, on and after January 1, 2019, would instead only require that a person not have been previously granted the property tax relief described above if that person is not a person over the age of 55 years or a severely and permanently disabled person. The bill would specify that a "person over the age of 55 years" includes the spouse of a person who has attained the age of 55 years at the time of the sale of the original property. Existing law defines "full cash value of the replacement dwelling" for purposes of this transfer of property tax base year value to mean the replacement dwelling's full cash value, determined in accordance with a specified provision, as of the date on which the replacement dwelling was purchased or new construction was completed. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2019, provide that full cash value of the replacement dwelling may also mean, in specified circumstances, the replacement dwelling's full cash value, determined in accordance with a specified provision, as of the date on which the original property is sold. By changing the manner in which local assessors assess property for property taxation purposes, 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy, but would become operative only if Assembly Constitutional Amendment 20 of the 2017–18 Regular Session is approved by the voters.
This measure would recognize 2018 as the milestone 50th Anniversary of the Napa County Agricultural Preserve, and further recognize the critical part the hundreds of growers, vintners, local leaders, and members of the Napa community play to preserve the beauty and splendor of the valley and its agricultural industries, for this and future generations.
