This measure would request the President and the Congress of the United States to express their support for access to comprehensive reproductive health care, including the services provided by Planned Parenthood, and to oppose efforts to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
The California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act authorizes the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to, among other things, make loans from the continuously appropriated California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund to participating health institutions, as defined, for financing or refinancing the acquisition, construction, or remodeling of health facilities. This bill would expand the program to include for-profit skilled nursing facilities by adding those entities to the definition of "participating health institutions." The bill would, until January 1, 2024, require the authority to provide funding to skilled nursing facilities in a specified order of priority, including by requiring skilled nursing facilities for which at least 95% of their patients are Medi-Cal beneficiaries to be given first priority. Because this bill would expand the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be used, it would make an appropriation. Existing law establishes the California Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Law to provide, without cost to the state, an insurance program for health facility construction, improvement, and expansion loans in order to stimulate the flow of private capital into health facilities construction, improvement, and expansion and in order to rationally meet the need for new, expanded, and modernized public and nonprofit health facilities necessary to protect the health of all the people of this state. Existing law establishes the Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Fund in the State Treasury, to be continuously appropriated to carry out the provisions and administrative costs of the insurance program. Under existing law, political subdivisions, as defined, and nonprofit corporations are authorized to apply for state insurance of needed construction, improvement, or expansion loans for construction, remodeling, or acquisition of health facilities, as provided, and applicants are required to pay an application fee not to exceed $500, which is deposited into the fund. This bill would expand the program to include for-profit corporations that operate skilled nursing facilities by, among other things, adding those entities to the definition of "health facilities" and making those entities eligible to apply for the insurance program. The bill would, until January 1, 2024, require loan insurance to be granted to skilled nursing facilities in a specified order of priority, including by requiring skilled nursing facilities for which at least 95% of their patients are Medi-Cal beneficiaries to be given first priority. Because this bill would add a new source of revenue and expand the purposes for which a continuously appropriated fund may be used, it would make an appropriation.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Bank and Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit for a farmer to donate fresh foods and vegetables to a food bank. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year, beginning on and after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2023, to a taxpayer that donates qualified food, as defined, of its trade or business to an organization located in California and exempt from federal income taxation, as specified. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This measure would commend Muslim Americans for their economic, political, and cultural impact on California and the United States. This measure would call upon Members of the United States Congress to respect the First Amendment, and to speak out against and reject efforts to monitor mosques, efforts to police and profile Muslim Americans, and efforts to prohibit Muslims from immigrating to the United States, and to speak out against and reject any efforts to pursue an immigration policy based on religion.
This measure would declare the month of April 2016 as Financial Aid and Literacy Month, with the theme of "Prosperity Through Education," to raise public awareness about the continuing need for increased financial literacy.
This measure would recognize May 2016 as National Mental Health Awareness Month in California to enhance public awareness of mental illness.
The measure would urge the Members of Congress to work to recognize Mexican American families' needs to visit family members in Mexico and increase commerce between our nations by reducing border delays through a more open border and to speak out against and to reject efforts to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border.
This measure would recognize Nowrūz, the Persian New Year celebration.
