The Bergeson-Peace Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank Act establishes the Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank within the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development. The bank is authorized to, among other things, issue bonds, approve the issuance of certain bonds, invest moneys, and make loans, as specified. This bill would, until January 1, 2020, establish a pilot program whereby certain local government entities, upon the approval and oversight of the bank, are authorized to reallocate their annual payments of property tax revenue directed to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund to instead finance certain kinds of public works that further state policy, as specified. This bill would require each local government entity operating a project under the pilot program and the bank to submit annual reports, as specified, on the results of the pilot program.
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Existing law requires a prisoner who has a severe mental disorder to be treated by the State Department of State Hospitals as a condition of parole. Existing law specifies the criteria for this parole condition to apply, and allows a prisoner to request a hearing before the Board of Parole Hearings for the purpose of proving that the prisoner meets the criteria. Existing law allows a prisoner who disagrees with the determination of the Board of Parole Hearings to file a petition in court for a hearing on whether he or she met the criteria. Existing law provides that if the determination of the Board of Parole Hearings is reversed, the court is to stay the execution of the decision for 5 working days to allow for an orderly release of the prisoner. Existing law requires that specified persons released from prison on and after October 1, 2011, after serving a prison term for a felony, be subject to postrelease community supervision provided by a county agency for a period of 3 years immediately following release. Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to notify a county of specified information about a person subject to postrelease community supervision by a county 30 days prior to the release of that person. This bill would instead provide that if the determination of the Board of Parole Hearings is reversed, the court shall stay the execution of the decision for 30 working days to allow for an orderly release of the prisoner. The bill would require that if the determination of the Board of Parole Hearings is reversed, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, upon a determination that the individual is eligible for release pursuant to postrelease community supervision provisions, is to notify the probation department of the county of supervision of the pending release within 5 working days of the court order and work with the county of supervision to coordinate the orderly and safe release of the prisoner. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including various hiring credits. This bill would state that it is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide a more effective hiring tax credit.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of that act a crime. Existing law also provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires every health care service plan that provides prescription drug benefits that maintains one or more drug formularies to provide to members of the public, upon request, a copy of the most current list of prescription drugs on the formulary. This bill would prohibit a health care service plan or health insurer that provides prescription drug benefits from requiring an enrollee or insured to use mail order pharmacy services for covered prescription drugs that are available at an in-network retail pharmacy, and would prohibit the enrollee's or insured's exercise of choice with regard to obtaining those drugs from an in-network mail order pharmacy or an in-network retail pharmacy from requiring any authorization by the plan or insurer or the prescriber. The bill would specify that these requirements would not apply to drugs that are not available in retail pharmacies due to a manufacturer's instructions or restrictions. Because a willful violation of these requirements by a health care service plan would be a crime, the 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.
The Enterprise Zone Act provides for the designation and oversight by the Department of Housing and Community Development of various types of economic development areas throughout the state, including enterprise zones, targeted tax areas, and manufacturing enhancement areas, collectively known as geographically targeted economic development areas, or G-TEDAs. Pursuant to these provisions, qualifying entities in those areas may receive certain tax and regulatory incentives. This bill would revise various definitions for purposes of the act and modify specified requirements for designating and administering enterprise zones and G-TEDAs, collectively. The bill would impose new requirements on the Department of Housing and Community Development with respect to the enterprise zone program and modify department and Franchise Tax Board reporting requirements. Existing law, the Enterprise Zone Act, authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to assess a fee of not more than $15 on each enterprise zone and manufacturing enhancement area for each application for issuance of a certificate pursuant to specified tax credit provisions. This bill would instead authorize the department to charge a fee for those applications not to exceed the reasonable cost of administering the Enterprise Zone Act, but not to exceed $20. The bill would require any increase in the fee higher than the amount that was charged by the department as of January 1, 2014, to be adopted by regulation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Medi-Cal Act establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments to be reduced by 1% or 5%, and provider payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 1%, for dates of service on and after March 1, 2009, and until June 1, 2011. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments and payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 10% for dates of service on and after June 1, 2011. This bill would instead require that, to the extent permitted by federal law, this payment reduction not apply to skilled nursing facilities or subacute care units that are a distinct part of a general acute care hospital, intermediate care or other specified facilities serving developmentally disabled individuals, or specified Medi-Cal provider payments for fee-for-service benefits, including payments to pharmacies, for dates of service on or after June 1, 2011. The bill would also provide that this payment reduction shall not apply to managed health care plans for dates of service after the effective date of the bill. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the federal Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, establishes a grant program to make grants to states to assist states and local jurisdictions to identify, plan, and implement the most efficient and effective way to utilize and integrate the infrastructure, equipment, and other architecture associated with the nationwide public safety broadband network to satisfy the wireless communications and data service needs of those jurisdictions. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations relating to the criticalness of maintaining signal strength and call reliability for 911 calls from cellular telephones, and would state the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would increase network capacity on existing wireless structures in order to serve the needs of safety personnel and the people of the state.
Existing law establishes specified requirements applicable to contracts entered into by state agencies, including, among other things, that a contractor certify that no apparel, garments, corresponding accessories, equipment, materials, or supplies furnished to the state pursuant to a contract has been laundered or produced by various unauthorized and exploitive labor conditions, such as sweatshops, as prescribed. This bill would prohibit a contractor, as defined, that has entered into a contractual relationship with a public entity from engaging in trafficking-related activities, including destroying, concealing, confiscating, or otherwise denying access to the employee's identity documents, such as passports or drivers' licenses.
(1) Existing law prohibits every person from possessing any moneys or negotiable instruments in excess of $100,000 which have been obtained as the result of the unlawful sale, possession for sale, transportation, manufacture, offer for sale, or offer to manufacture any specified controlled substance, with knowledge that the moneys or negotiable instruments have been so obtained, and prohibits any person from possessing any moneys or negotiable instruments in excess of $100,000 which are intended by that person for the unlawful purchase of any specified controlled substance, and from committing an act in substantial furtherance of the unlawful purchase. Existing law requires that a person who violates one of those provisions be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for a term not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in a county jail for 2, 3, or 4 years. This bill would require that a person who violates one of those provisions be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, rather than a county jail, for the specified term. (2) Existing law, except as specified, prohibits every person from manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, deriving, processing, or preparing, either directly or indirectly by chemical extraction or independently by means of chemical synthesis, any specified controlled substance, and requires that the person be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for 3, 5, or 7 years and by a fine not exceeding $50,000. Existing law also, except as specified, prohibits every person from offering to perform an act which is punishable under the preceding provision, and requires that the person be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for 3, 4, or 5 years. This bill would require that a person who violates either of those provisions be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, rather than a county jail, for the specified term. (3) Under existing law, where the defendant has a prior or current felony conviction for a specified serious felony or a prior or current conviction for a specified violent felony, or has a prior felony conviction in another jurisdiction for an offense that has all the elements of a specified serious felony or a specified violent felony, that defendant is required to register as a sex offender, as specified. Existing law requires that where the defendant is convicted of a crime and as part of the sentence a specified enhancement is imposed, an executed sentence for a specified felony shall be served in state prison. This bill would specify which sentence enhancements would require the executed sentence for specified felonies be served in state prison.
Existing law creates the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, with various powers and duties relative to the construction of a rail transit project between Los Angeles and Montclair and intermediate locations. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would enable the Metro Gold Line extension to be completed at the terminus of Ontario Airport with intermediate stops in San Dimas, La Verne, Pomona, Claremont, and Montclair, and for regional cooperation to continue.