This measure would designate the month of November 2012 as California Runaway and Homeless Youth Month and would recognize the need for individuals, schools, communities, businesses, local governments, and the state to take action on behalf of runaway and homeless youth in California.
This measure would proclaim April 15 through April 22, 2012, as California Holocaust Memorial Week and would urge Californians to observe these days of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust in an appropriate manner.
Under existing law, no bill other than the Budget Bill may be heard or acted upon by a committee or either house of the Legislature until the 31st day after the bill is introduced, unless the house dispenses with this requirement via a 34 vote. This bill would require that the Budget Bill be in print and posted on a publicly accessible Internet Web site for 72 hours before it could be passed and sent to the Governor. Under existing law, a state agency or court for which an appropriation is made is generally required to submit to the Department of Finance for approval a complete and detailed budget setting forth all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. This bill would require each state agency and court for which a General Fund appropriation is made to submit a budget that reduces its General Fund appropriation by 20% from the previous year. This bill would also require each state agency and court to identify any mandates or capital projects that would be impacted by the reduction in funding and to develop a system for evaluating the effectiveness of the agency in meeting its stated core functions that identifies the impact of the reduction in General Fund funding on those core functions.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs and these boards may require licensees to satisfy continuing education course requirements. This bill would provide, if applicable, that continuing education or competency courses, as specified, that advance or promote labor organizing on behalf of a union, or that advance or promote statutory or regulatory changes, political candidates, political advocacy, or political strategy shall not be considered content relevant to the practice regulated by the board and shall not be acceptable for meeting requirements for licensure renewal. The bill would also prohibit, to the extent applicable, an approved provider from representing that such a continuing education or competency course is acceptable for meeting requirements for licensure renewal and would require a board, subject to specified procedural requirements, to withdraw its approval of a provider that violates that requirement for no less than 5 years, as specified.
Existing law designates the Judicial Council as the entity having full responsibility, jurisdiction, control, and authority over trial court facilities for which title is held by the state, including the acquisition and development of facilities, subject to specified requirements, including the requirement that the acquisition and construction of court facilities be subject to the State Building Construction Act of 1955 and the Property Acquisition Law, as provided. This bill would instead require that contracts pertaining to the acquisition and construction of the court facilities to be subject to the provisions of the Public Contract Code, as provided. Provisions within the Public Contract Code require bidders to submit specified information under penalty of perjury. By now requiring bidders for the acquisition and construction of court facilities to execute bids under the Public Contract Code and be subject to criminal prosecution, this bill creates a new crime and thereby imposes 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.
Existing law provides that disobedience of the terms of an injunction that restrains the activities of a criminal street gang or any of its members constitutes contempt of court, and is punishable as a misdemeanor. The punishment for a misdemeanor is imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 6 months, or a fine not exceeding $1,000, or both. This bill would specify the penalties for a violation of the above provision to include imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 6 months, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. For a 2nd violation occurring within 7 years of the first violation, the bill would provide for imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 9 months, or by a fine not exceeding $2,500, or by both that fine and imprisonment. For a 3rd and subsequent violation occurring within 7 years of a prior violation, the bill would provide for imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Because this bill would increase the penalties for an existing crime, it 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.
(1) Existing law provides for the establishment of the Franchise Tax Board and prescribes its various powers and duties regarding the administration of state personal income taxes and corporation franchise and income taxes. The State Board of Equalization collects and administers various taxes and fees imposed under specified programs and serves as an arbiter for the resolution of tax disputes involving the imposition of fees and taxes, including those taxes administered by the Franchise Tax Board. This bill would abolish the Franchise Tax Board, and would provide for the transfer of its powers and duties to the State Board of Equalization, effective January 1, 2013. (2) Existing law imposes, on employers in this state, unemployment insurance taxes that are administered by the Employment Development Department. Existing law also imposes taxes on insurance companies that are administered by the Department of Insurance. This bill would also provide for the transfer of the tax administrative functions performed by the Employment Development Department and the Department of Insurance to the State Board of Equalization, effective January 1, 2013. (3) This bill would require the State Board of Equalization to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before June 30, 2012, regarding the board's assumption of the duties of the Franchise Tax Board and the assumption of the tax administration functions of the Employment Development Department and the Department of Insurance, as specified. This bill would also repeal this reporting requirement on June 30, 2016.
Existing law prohibits a person who has been or is adjudged a ward of the juvenile court on the ground that he or she has violated a law or ordinance defining a crime, other than a curfew based solely on age, from being committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities if that person's most recent offense is not a specified serious or violent offense, or a specified sex offense. This bill would expand the class of persons who may be committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities to include a person described above if he or she was previously the subject of a petition in which it was alleged and was subsequently admitted or found to be true by the court that the ward committed a specified serious or violent offense, or a specified sex offense.
The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of time. Existing law, operative until June 30, 2011, also imposes an additional tax to the vehicle license fee equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would appropriate $506,400,000 from the General Fund to be deposited in the Local Safety and Protection Account, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
