Existing law requires a corporation, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, a nonprofit religious corporation, a consumer cooperative corporation, other specified corporations, a limited liability company, and a credit union, to file a return with the Franchise Tax Board within a specified period following the close of its taxable year, except as otherwise specifically provided, and to file annually or biennially, as provided, a statement with the Secretary of State containing specified information during the calendar month during which the organization's original articles were filed or during the immediately preceding 5 calendar months. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to provide notice to each organization to comply with this provision approximately 3 months prior to the close of the applicable filing period. This bill would instead require those corporations, limited liability companies, and credit unions to file the statement with the Secretary of State during the calendar month of, or within the 5 months preceding, the organization's due date for filing its return, excluding extensions, with the Franchise Tax Board or if no return is required, by May 15, as provided.
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Existing law establishes procedures for voters to apply for a vote by mail ballot and use the ballot to vote in an election. Existing law allows a jurisdiction in which vote by mail ballots are cast to begin processing vote by mail ballots 29 days before the election. This bill would require the Secretary of State to provide guidance to local elections officials in performing specified tasks for the purpose of promoting and expanding the practice of early voting, as defined, consistent with specified statutory authority. The bill would define "early voting" to mean voting a vote by mail ballot in person at the office of the elections official or another location designated by the elections official either before or on the day of the election. The bill would allow county elections officials to apply for funding to provide early voting. If a county obtains funding sufficient to satisfy all associated costs, the bill would require an elections official, on at least one Saturday and Sunday on or after the date the elections official first delivers ballots to vote by mail voters for a statewide election, or for any other election as determined by the elections official based on voter demand, to allow voters to vote in the election by means of early voting at the early voting location designated for this purpose, provided that the location is accessible and complies with disability access requirements under federal and state law. The bill would permit the elections official to determine the hours of operation for the designated early voting location or locations for each Saturday and Sunday on which early voting is offered, provided that each location shall be open to voters for a minimum of 6 hours on each designated Saturday and Sunday. These provisions regarding Saturday and Sunday voting would not apply to elections conducted wholly by mail or to precincts in which each voter is furnished with a vote by mail ballot, as specified. This bill would become operative on January 1, 2016.
(1) Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update The California Water Plan, which is a plan for the conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, every 5 years. The department, as part of the update, is required to release assumptions and estimates relating to current and projected water use, including industrial uses and parks and open spaces. This bill would require the department to release assumptions and estimates relating to water use for urban waterway restoration. (2) The Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act authorizes a regional water management group to prepare an integrated regional water management plan, in accordance with certain procedures, for the implementation or operation of specified qualified projects or programs pertaining to water supply, water quality, or related matters. The act defines "regional projects or programs" as projects or programs identified in an integrated regional water management plan that accomplish specified water-related goals, including an increase in water supplies through the use of certain means. This bill would specifically include urban waterway restoration that increases water supplies for any beneficial use, as a regional project or program. (3) Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every public and private urban water supplier that directly or indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan. Existing law requires the plan to provide a description of, among other things, the supplier's water demand management measures, as specified. This bill would require the description of the water demand management measure to include a description of an urban waterway restoration program. (4) Existing law, the Environmental Water Act of 1989, authorizes the City of Los Angeles to submit one or more grant applications to the Department of Water Resources to protect and preserve the Mono Lake Basin, as specified, and, upon acceptance of an application, requires the department to expend moneys available from the Environmental Water Fund for an eligible project, as defined, to preserve the wildlife and environment of the Mono Lake Basin. Under existing law, the department is required to expend the money appropriated to the department from the fund for projects or programs concerning the water resources of the state that will contribute significant environmental benefits. This bill would include an urban waterway restoration project as an eligible project for this grant program.
This measure would declare that the Legislature joins the County of Riverside in opposing base realignment and closure affecting the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, and March Air Reserve Base.
(1) The Radiation Control Law requires the State Department of Public Health to regulate the use and control of radiologic materials. The department is required to adopt the regulations pursuant to that law in accordance with the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act. A violation of the Radiation Control Law, or a regulation adopted pursuant to that law, is a misdemeanor. The federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, authorizes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to enter into agreements with the governor of a state providing for discontinuance of certain regulatory authority of the commission with respect to byproduct materials, source materials, and special nuclear materials in quantities not sufficient to form a critical mass. This bill would authorize the department to adopt a regulation adopted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that is in effect on or after January 1, 2015, by either the procedures specified in the bill or pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act. The procedures specified in the bill would require the department to take specified actions with regard to providing public notice, conducting a hearing, providing comments, and publishing a final notice of the regulations. The bill would require the department, upon receiving a formal request, as specified, during the comment period, to instead adopt the regulation in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. The bill would prohibit the department from using the procedures established by the bill to adopt a federal regulation that either conflicts with state law or requires the operation of certain federal regulations relating to facilities decommissioning. The bill would also prohibit the department from adopting regulations that are determined by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or its successor, to address areas of regulation that cannot be relinquished to agreement states. The bill would repeal the department's authority to adopt regulations pursuant to the bill's procedures on January 1, 2020. The bill would also make conforming changes and would delete obsolete provisions and erroneous or duplicative references. Since a violation of the regulations adopted pursuant to the law is a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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 authorizes the governing board of a school district to allow pupils whom the district has determined would benefit from advanced scholastic or vocational work to attend community college as special part-time or full-time students, subject to parental permission. This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district to authorize a pupil, at the recommendation of a community college dean of a computer science department or other appropriate community college career computer science administrator, and with parental consent, to attend a community college during any session or term and to undertake one or more courses of computer science offered at the community college. Existing law makes the authority of a school principal to recommend a pupil for community college summer session contingent upon a determination that the pupil meets various criteria and prohibits the principal from recommending more than 5% of the total number of pupils from any particular grade level who completed that grade immediately prior to the time of recommendation for summer session attendance, except as specified. This bill would add specified computer science courses to the list of courses exempted from this 5% limitation. This bill would also authorize the governing board of a community college district to enter into a formal partnership with a school district or school districts located within its immediate service area to allow secondary school pupils to undertake one or more courses of computer science at a community college if those pupils have exhausted all opportunities to enroll in an equivalent computer science course at the high school of attendance.
Existing law authorizes a high school district, unified school district, or county office of education to retroactively grant a high school diploma to veterans of World War II, the Korean War, or the Vietnam War, under specified conditions. Existing law also defines "veteran" for the purpose of retroactive high school diplomas. This bill would make those provisions applicable to all veterans, and would revise the definition of veteran for purposes of those provisions to include, among other things, service in humanitarian missions. Existing law also requires each pupil completing grade 12, unless he or she is granted a waiver for specified reasons, to successfully pass the high school exit examination as a condition of receiving a diploma of graduation or a condition of graduation from high school. This bill would require the governing board of a high school district, unified school district, or county office of education, before granting a retroactive high school diploma, as specified, to require a person eligible to receive a retroactive high school diploma who began service after May 1, 1973, to pass the high school exit examination, unless the person has satisfactorily completed at least 12 of the coursework required for grade 12.
Existing law designates area agencies on aging as local units on aging in California, which are financially supported by a variety of sources, including federal funding, state and local government assistance, the private sector, and individual contributions. Existing law also provides for independent living centers, for the purpose of assisting individuals with disabilities in their attempts to live fuller and freer lives outside institutions, and achieve social and economic independence. This bill would continuously appropriate from the Federal Trust Fund, in the absence of enactment of the annual Budget Act by July 1 of a fiscal year, (1) to the California Department of Aging, the amount of federal funds contained in the Federal Trust Fund necessary to pay area agencies on aging for the administration of programs under their jurisdiction, and (2) to the Department of Rehabilitation, the amount of federal funds contained in the Federal Trust Fund necessary to pay independent living centers for the administration of programs under their jurisdiction, pending enactment of the Budget Act. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Under existing law, when the Department of Motor Vehicles determines that an applicant is lawfully entitled to a driver's license, the department is required to issue that license to the applicant. Existing law specifies the contents of a driver's license and requires the application for a driver's license or identification card to contain a space for an applicant to indicate whether he or she has served in the Armed Forces of the United States and to give his or her consent to be contacted regarding eligibility to receive state or federal veterans' benefits. This bill would, commencing November 11, 2015, allow an applicant for a driver's license or identification card to allow a person to request the driver's license or identification card be printed with the word "VETERAN." The applicant would be required to present to the Department of Motor Vehicles, on a form developed jointly by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Motor Vehicles, proof of veteran status. The bill would require county veterans service offices to verify an applicant's veteran status for these purposes, as specified. The department would be required to print the word "VETERAN" on the face of a driver's license or identification card issued to a person who makes that request and presents that verification to the department. (2) Existing law establishes certain fee amounts for the applications for, and renewal of, driver's licenses and identification cards. This bill would authorize the department to charge an additional fee in an unspecified amount to a person who requests that the person's driver's license or identification card be designated as provided above.
Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to disburse funds, appropriated to the department for the purpose of supporting county veterans service officers pursuant to the annual Budget Act, on a pro rata basis, to counties that comply with certain conditions. This bill would authorize the department, in conjunction with the California Association of County Veterans Service Officers, no later than July 1, 2015, to develop an allocation formula based upon performance standards that encourage innovation and reward outstanding service by county veterans service officers, and, if that allocation formula is developed, the bill would require those moneys appropriated for support of county veterans service offices in the annual Budget Act to be allocated in accordance with that formula, as specified.