Under existing law, certain specified felonies shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, or where the term is specified, for the term described in the underlying offense. Notwithstanding these provisions, existing law requires that a sentence be served in state prison where the defendant has a prior or current conviction for a serious or violent felony, has a prior felony conviction in another jurisdiction that has all of the elements of a serious or violent felony, is required to register as a sex offender, or has an aggravated white collar crime enhancement imposed as part of the sentence. This bill would additionally require a sentence to be served in state prison when the defendant is convicted of a felony otherwise punishable in a county jail and is sentenced to more than 3 years.
Sponsored bills
This measure would designate April 18, 2012, as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2012 as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California, and would encourage all Californians to be organ, tissue, and blood donors.
This measure would designate February 2012 as No Place for Hate (registered trademark) Month.
This measure would honor and recognize the service and sacrifice made by members of the Armed Forces and their families on the occasion of Armed Forces Day on May 19, 2012.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, would allow a credit against the taxes imposed under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law for monetary contributions to a public school for support of cocurricular activities or to an educational improvement organization that supports innovative programs in public schools, as specified, and would allow a credit against the taxes imposed under the Corporation Tax Law for contributions to an education scholarship-granting organization, as specified. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, participating counties, and the State Public Works Board (SPWB) to acquire, design, and construct local jail facilities approved by the Corrections Standards Authority. Existing law authorizes the SPWB to issue revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes in specified amounts to finance the acquisition, design, or construction, and a reasonable construction reserve, of approved local jail facilities, as specified. Existing law authorizes a participating county that has received a conditional award under one specified jail facilities financing program to relinquish its conditional award, provided that no state moneys have been encumbered in contracts let by the county, and reapply for a conditional award under a separate financing program that requires the county to contribute 10% of the total project costs. Moneys derived under the separate financing program are continuously appropriated for the acquisition, design, or construction of approved jail facilities. This bill would require that, notwithstanding the provisions above, any qualified county, as defined, that has received a conditional award under one specified jail facilities financing program whereby state moneys have been encumbered in contracts let by the county, to be awarded $16,000,000 by December 31, 2012, from the separate financing program. By expanding the purposes of a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.
Under existing law, various duties and responsibilities are imposed upon the Governor and the Department of Finance in connection with the preparation and submission of the annual State Budget to the Legislature at each regular session thereof, including, among other things, the requirement to include a complete plan of all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. This bill additionally would require the Governor, or the Department of Finance acting on his or her behalf, at the same time as the Governor's Budget is submitted to the Legislature, to submit specified information to the Legislature, including a list of the state's key liabilities relating to debt, infrastructure, retirement, and other liabilities that will affect the state's financial health in the future. The bill also would require the Governor's Budget to include a section that specifies the percentages and amounts of General Fund revenues that must be set aside and applied toward paying off key liabilities. The bill further would restrict the Governor from including in the budget as estimated revenues those revenues estimated to be generated from laws, programs, or executive actions not in effect or effectuated at the time the budget is submitted to the Legislature.
This measure would recognize April 23, 2012, to April 30, 2012, inclusive, as Black April Memorial Week, and April 2012 as Vietnamese American month.
This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2012 as Child Abuse Prevention Month, and encourage the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
Existing law requires the Franchise Tax Board to administer the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, and requires the State Board of Equalization to administer various other taxes. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board and the State Board of Equalization, before January 1, 2014, to jointly conduct a study and deliver a report to the Legislature determining the cost of administration and compliance with the Revenue and Taxation Code, as provided, and to determine how much revenue is being lost by California's economy due to its complex system of taxation.