This measure would designate the month of October 2021 as Women's Small Business Month and encourage all citizens to recognize the economic importance of women's small businesses in California.
This measure would designate the month of September 2021 as Opioid Awareness Month in California.
This measure would extend to the people of the Province of Syunik in Armenia an invitation to join with California in a sister state relationship until January 1, 2026.
This measure would proclaim the month of September 2021 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in California and state the commitment of the Legislature to support efforts to find cures for, and achieve prevention of, childhood cancer.
Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is composed of various boards, bureaus, commissions, committees, and similarly constituted agencies that license and regulate the practice of various professions and vocations. Existing law authorizes the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs to create an interdepartmental committee to assist and advise the director in the implementation of the director's duties, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law authorizes a person who owns, controls, operates, or maintains an electrical transmission or distribution line to traverse land as necessary, regardless of land ownership or express permission to traverse land from the landowner, after providing notice and an opportunity to be heard to the landowner, to prune trees to maintain clearances, as provided. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this law.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 imposes various requirements and limitations with respect to the conduct of public officials, campaign expenditures and disclosures, lobbyists, the ballot pamphlet, and other aspects of political reform. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation related to the Political Reform Act of 1974.
(1) The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 provides the authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization, reorganization, and sphere of influence changes for cities and districts, as specified. Under the act, each local agency formation commission is required to initiate and make studies of existing governmental agencies, including, but not limited to, studies to determine each local agency's maximum service area and service capacities. This bill would require the local agency formation commissions for the County of Imperial and the County of Riverside to conduct and publish on their internet websites a joint study of options for providing continued publicly owned and managed electrical service in perpetuity to the Imperial Irrigation District's electrical service area, as defined, customers and options for alternative governance structures that would extend voting rights to registered voters who reside within the Imperial Irrigation District electrical service area to provide for proportional representation on a governing board that will have primary jurisdiction on all electrical service matters, as specified. The bill would require the study to be published no later than July 1, 2022. By imposing new duties on the specified local agency formation commissions, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Imperial Irrigation District. (3) 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. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law permits a group of voters to form a new political party by filing a formal notice with the Secretary of State that states an intent to qualify to participate in a primary election or a presidential general election and by holding a caucus or convention at which the group elects temporary officers and designates a party name that does not mislead the voters or conflict with the name of an existing party or political body that has previously filed notice, as specified. This bill would require the Secretary of State to notify a political body's temporary officers in writing if a designated party name is rejected and to provide reasons for the rejection. The bill would authorize a temporary officer to request that the Secretary of State reconsider the rejection, as provided. The bill would allow the party name of a political body that has not qualified as a political party and is considered to have abandoned its attempt to qualify as a political party to be used by a future political body on or after the date the political body is considered to have abandoned its attempt to qualify as a political party. Existing law authorizes a political body, after filing formal notice to qualify as a political party, to request the Secretary of State to count toward its qualification as a political party affidavits of registration in which voters declared affiliation with the political body prior to the date on which the formal notice to qualify as a political party was filed. This bill would require a political body to provide from its temporary officers a signed affidavit stating that it is the same political body that voters declared affiliation with in order for the Secretary of State to count previous affidavits of registration toward the body's qualification as a political party, as specified. Under existing law, a political body that files notice to qualify as a political party but that has not qualified by the 135th day before a primary election or the 102nd day before a presidential general election is considered to have abandoned its attempt to qualify as a political party and is ineligible to participate in the following election. This bill would provide that a political body that has not qualified by those deadlines has not abandoned its attempt to qualify as a political party if the political body files a new notice of intent to qualify as a political party within 2 years of becoming ineligible to participate in an election. Under existing law, a political party is qualified to participate in a primary election or presidential general election if, among other methods of qualification, a petition declaring an intent to form a party and participate in the election is signed by voters equal in number to at least 10% of the entire statewide vote at the last preceding gubernatorial election and is filed with the Secretary of State on or before the 135th day before the election. The bill would reduce the number of voter signatures required to qualify for a primary election or presidential general election by filing a petition with the Secretary of State to 3% of the entire statewide vote at the last preceding gubernatorial election. By imposing new duties on county elections officials with respect to the conduct of elections, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 5100 of the Elections Code proposed by AB 796 to be operative only if this bill and AB 796 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. 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.
The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, generally imposes a tax on the income of residents in the state, as specified, and allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. The Personal Income Tax Law also imposes an annual tax on every limited partnership, limited liability partnership, and limited liability company doing business in this state, as specified, in an amount equal to the minimum franchise tax. The Corporation Tax Law imposes an annual tax on "S" corporations at a rate of 1.5% of its net income, or if greater, the minimum franchise tax, as specified. Existing law requires any bill introduced on or after January 1, 2020, authorizing certain tax expenditures, as defined, to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, would authorize a partnership or "S" corporation that meets certain other requirements to elect to pay an elective tax at a rate based on its net income, as specified, for the taxable year. The bill would authorize the Franchise Tax Board to adopt regulations to implement the elective tax and exempt those regulations from the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, would allow a credit against the personal income tax to a taxpayer, other than a partnership, that is a partner, shareholder, or member of an entity that elects to pay the elective tax authorized by the bill, in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the partner's, shareholder's, or member's pro rata share or distributive share, as applicable, of income subject to the elective tax paid by the entity. The bill would also provide findings to comply with the additional information requirement for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure.
