(1) The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority and authorizes the authority to issue revenue bonds to provide industry with an alternative method of financing in providing and promoting the establishment of facilities utilizing alternative methods and sources of energy and facilities needed for the development and commercialization of advanced transportation technologies. Existing law authorizes a public agency and a property owner to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently affixed on real property. This bill would require the authority to establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements meeting specified requirements that are permanently affixed on real property through the use of a voluntary contractual assessment. The bill would, until January 1, 2015, appropriate up to $50,000,000 from the Renewable Resource Trust Fund to the authority for the purposes of the PACE Reserve program. The bill would require the authority, on March 31, 2011, and annually thereafter until January 1, 2015, to submit to the Legislature a report containing specified information regarding the implementation of the above provisions. (2) Existing law vests the authority with specified powers in the implementation of the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act. This bill would authorize the authority to purchase bonds issued by a public agency meeting specified criteria. The bill would authorize the authority to hold the purchased bonds or to sell the purchased bonds, in whole or in part, to public or private purchasers. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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(1) The California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority and authorizes the authority to issue revenue bonds to provide industry with an alternative method of financing in providing and promoting the establishment of facilities utilizing alternative methods and sources of energy and facilities needed for the development and commercialization of advanced transportation technologies. Existing law authorizes a public agency and a property owner to enter into voluntary contractual assessments to finance the installation of distributed generation of renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently affixed on real property. This bill would require the authority to establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Reserve program to assist local jurisdictions in financing the installation of distributed generation of renewable energy sources or energy or water efficiency improvements that are permanently affixed on real property through the use of a voluntary contractual assessment. The bill would, until January 1, 2015, appropriate up to $50,000,000 from the Renewable Resource Trust Fund to the authority for the purposes of the PACE Reserve program, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the authority, on March 31, 2011, and annually thereafter, to submit to the Legislature, a report containing specified information regarding the implementation of the above provisions. (2) Existing law vests the authority with specified powers in the implementation of the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act. This bill would authorize the authority to purchase bonds issued by a public agency meeting specified criteria. The bill would authorize the authority to hold the purchased bonds or to sell the purchased bonds, in whole or in part, to public or private purchasers. (3) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Under existing law, the State Air Resources Board has the primary responsibility for the control of emissions from motor vehicles. The state board is required to administer the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program to provide grants to offset the incremental cost of projects that reduce covered emissions from covered sources. The state board is required to establish and update grant criteria and guidelines for covered vehicle projects. This bill would require the state board to make grants available to covered vehicles and engines without regard to cost-effectiveness criteria from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2011, inclusive. (2) Existing law creates the Air Quality Improvement Fund, which is administered by the State Air Resources Board. The moneys in the fund are available to the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement the Air Quality Improvement Program. This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the Air Quality Improvement Fund to the state board for the purpose of providing direct grants and zero- or low- interest loans, from January 1, 2010, to January 1, 2011, inclusive, to owners of on-road heavy-duty diesel-fueled motor vehicles in order to purchase equipment for compliance with any regulation adopted by the state board for the reduction of air pollution from those vehicles. (3) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution.
(1) Existing law establishes various grant, loan, and loan guarantee programs that are administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) to provide assistance to private and public entities to maximize energy use savings in existing and planned buildings and facilities. Existing law requires the commission to administer federal funds allocated to, and received by, the state for energy-related projects pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or related federal acts. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. This bill would require the Energy Commission to award to the board of governors grants in the amount of $20,000,000 from the moneys appropriated to the Energy Commission under the 2009–2010 Budget Act that are received by the state pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or related federal acts to the board of governors for purposes of implementing an energy management program including specified components. The bill would require the board of governors to ensure that prescribed requirements are met with respect to implementing the program. (2) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution.
Existing law generally prohibits a manufacturer of alcoholic beverages and a winegrower from paying, crediting, or compensating a retailer for advertising or paying or giving anything of value for the privilege of placing a sign or advertisement with a retail licensee. It authorizes, as an exception, the holder of a winegrower's license, a beer manufacturer, a distilled spirits manufacturer, or a distilled spirits manufacturer's agent, to purchase advertising space and time from, or on behalf of, an on–sale retail licensee, under certain conditions, if the on–sale retail licensee is the owner, manager, agent of the owner, assignee of the owner's advertising rights, or major tenant of specified facilities, including specified facilities located in the County of Los Angeles. This bill would instead limit this exception to specified facilities located in the City of Los Angeles. This bill would make findings regarding the need for special legislation.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit in an amount equal to 50% of specified adoption costs, not to exceed $2,500 per minor child who is a citizen or legal resident of the United States and who is in the custody of a public agency in this state. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, and before January 1, 2015, increase the credit limitation to a maximum of $5,000 with respect to the adoption of a minor child, as described, who is over 12 years of age or who was living in a group home or residential treatment facility, as defined, for a period of at least 6 months within 18 months prior to the time the adoption is completed. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. The act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make the act applicable. Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is a person without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit relating to obtaining lawful immigration status, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. Existing law also requires the waiver of student fees charged by community college districts for students who demonstrate financial need or are otherwise eligible for the waiver. Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to allocate, to community college districts for determining financial need and delivering student financial aid services, an amount based on the amount of fees waived. This bill would amend the Donahoe Higher Education Act to require the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and to request the Regents of the University of California, to establish procedures and forms that enable persons who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under that provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, to be eligible to receive institutional financial aid awards. The bill would define institutional financial aid as financial assistance offered by a campus of the California Community Colleges, California State University, or University of California, including grant, scholarship, workstudy, and loan programs. The bill would specify that institutional financial aid does not include a specified board of governors fee waiver. The bill would declare that it is a state law within the meaning of a federal statute that permits a state to provide an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States with eligibility for a state or local public benefit only through the enactment of a state law affirmatively providing for that eligibility. The bill would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, act to make it applicable.
The Corporation Tax Law authorizes various credits and deductions in computing income subject to taxation. This bill would suspend specified credits and deductions for a taxpayer that is a participant, as specified, in the federal Troubled Assets Relief Program, as provided. This bill would result in a change in state taxes for the purpose of increasing state revenues within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
(1) Existing law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide assistance to housing projects in the form of a deferred payment loan to pay for the eligible costs of specified developments. Existing law includes as eligible costs, the cost of developing dwelling units, transitional housing, and child care, and after school care and social service facilities integrally linked to the assisted dwelling units. This bill would include as an eligible cost the cost of supportive service facilities integrally linked to homeless veteran dwelling units assisted pursuant to the Homeless Veterans Housing and Supportive Services Act of 2010. (2) Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, multifamily housing, emergency housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers. This bill would enact the Homeless Veterans Housing and Supportive Services Act of 2010, which, if adopted, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $1,500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law. Proceeds from the sale of these bonds would be used to finance supportive housing projects for homeless veterans, or veterans at risk of homelessness, with incomes below limits determined by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election in accordance with specified law. (3) Existing law defines "veteran" for the purposes of the various programs bestowing benefits upon veterans. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that definition. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.