Existing law requires the management of a mobilehome park to permit a mobilehome park homeowner to rent his or her home that serves as his or her primary residence or sublet his or her space if a medical emergency or medical treatment requires him or her to be absent from his or her home and the medical emergency or treatment is confirmed in writing by an attending physician. Existing law imposes conditions on that rental or sublease, including the minimum and maximum term of a rental or sublease, and authorizes the management to require approval of a prospective renter or sublessee, as specified. Existing law prohibits a homeowner from charging a renter or sublessee more than an amount necessary to cover the cost of space rent, utilities, and scheduled loan payments on the mobilehome. This bill would additionally authorize the management of a mobilehome park to permit a mobilehome homeowner to sublet his or her mobilehome or space, without regard to whether there is a medical emergency or need for medical treatment on the part of the homeowner, for an amount more than necessary to cover the cost of space rent, utilities, and scheduled loan payments on the mobilehome, if any, and in accordance with the reasonable rules and regulations of the park. The bill would also exempt a space that is sublet pursuant to these new provisions from rent control.
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The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. That law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill would, until January 1, 2017, exempt from those taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state, of tangible personal property, as defined, purchased for use by a qualified person, as defined, primarily in any stage of manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property; in research and development; to maintain, repair, measure, or test specified property; and for use by a contractor purchasing that property as an agent or for the contractor's own account and subsequent resale for use in a construction contract, as specified. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and the Transactions and Use Tax Law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are incorporated in these laws. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes, transactions and use taxes, and specified state taxes. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
(1) The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity to specified provisions of the federal Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, allows an exclusion from a taxpayer's income for the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness, as defined, if that debt is discharged after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2009, as provided. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extended the operation of those federal provisions to debt that is discharged before January 1, 2013. This bill would provide further conformity to those federal acts, including allowance of the exclusion for debt that is discharged before 2013, as provided. (2) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects of blight, as defined, in those communities and requires those agencies to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and approve a redevelopment plan for each area. Existing law also requires that not less than 20% of the tax-increment revenue allocated to a redevelopment agency be used to increase, improve, and preserve the supply of the community's low- and moderate-income housing within the territorial jurisdiction of the agency, and for this purpose, the funds are held in a separate Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund. This bill would redefine the term redevelopment to include improving, increasing, or preserving emergency shelters for homeless persons or households. The bill would authorize donor agencies, as defined, located within the same housing region to create and participate in a joint powers authority and to enter into an interagency agreement for the purpose of pooling a permitted portion of housing funds for emergency shelters for homeless persons or households and transitional housing units. The bill would authorize the agencies to transfer a portion of their housing funds to a joint powers authority or to a receiving agency, as defined, for use by the authority or agency pursuant to these provisions. The bill would require that the emergency shelters assisted with low- and moderate-income housing funds remain available at affordable housing cost to specified persons, families, and households for not less than 55 years, provided that a certain requirement is met.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. These provisions require that corporation to have all powers necessary or convenient for the effective administration of its trust. This measure would, on January 1, 2011, repeal the constitutional provisions relating to the university and the regents and would require the university and the regents to be continued in existence subject to legislative control as may be provided by statute. The measure would require the Legislature to enact legislation to implement these provisions.
This measure would declare April 2010 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month to raise public awareness about the need for increased financial literacy.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes a credit against the taxes imposed by that law in an amount equal to the lesser of 5% of the purchase price or $10,000 in the case of the purchase of a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before March 1, 2010, but not to exceed an aggregate limitation of $100,000,000 for all credits allowable. Existing law requires a certification that the residence has never been occupied be provided to the Franchise Tax Board within one week of the sale of the qualified principal residence. This bill would limit the credit to taxpayers who purchased a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before July 3, 2009, and on and after the effective date of this bill and before March 1, 2010. This bill would also require the aggregate limitation of credits to be reduced by a specified amount per certification received by the Franchise Tax Board. (2) The bill would appropriate the sum of $44,000 from the General Fund to the Franchise Tax Board, in augmentation of a specified appropriation made in the 2009-10 Budget Act. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would recognize the week of April 18, 2010, through April 24, 2010, as Crime Victims' Rights Week.
This measure would proclaim the month of May to be Women Veterans Recognition Month.