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.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act, which revises hospital supplemental payment methodologies under the Medi-Cal program in order to maximize the use of federal funds consistent with federal Medicaid law and to stabilize the distribution of funding for hospitals that provide care to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and uninsured patients. Existing law requires the department to seek a successor demonstration project or federal waiver of Medicaid law to implement specified objectives, which may include better care coordination for seniors, persons with disabilities, and children with special health care needs. Existing law provides that to the extent the provisions under the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act do not conflict with the provisions of, or the Special Terms and Conditions of, this demonstration project, the provisions of the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act shall apply. Existing law requires the department, pursuant to federal approval of the successor demonstration project, to authorize a local Low Income Health Program (LIHP) to provide health care services to eligible low-income individuals under certain circumstances. Under existing law, a county, city and county, consortium of counties serving a region of more than one county, or a health authority may be eligible to operate an approved LIHP. This bill would require the department to request any additional federal funding identified in the recalculation of the successor demonstration project and make those funds available to district hospitals in an amount proportionate to the amount of uncompensated care provided by those hospitals. This bill would require the department to encourage LIHP contractors to permit district hospitals to utilize certified public expenditures or intergovernmental transfers, or both, to access federal funds to provide reimbursement for LIHP eligible patients. Existing law requires the department to design and implement an intergovernmental transfer program relating to Medi-Cal managed care services provided by designated and nondesignated public hospitals in order to increase capitation payments for the purpose of increasing their reimbursement. This bill would, with respect to district hospitals, require the department to implement this program and secure federal funding by July 1, 2013.
This measure would proclaim California as a Purple Heart State, honoring the service and sacrifices of our nation's men and women in uniform wounded or killed by the enemy while serving to protect the freedoms enjoyed by all Americans.
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.
(1) The Administrative Procedure Act governs the procedure for the adoption, amendment, or repeal of regulations by state agencies and for the review of those regulatory actions by the Office of Administrative Law. This bill would also require state agencies to submit these regulatory actions to the Joint Rules Committee of the Legislature, which would be authorized to submit a regulatory action to the appropriate policy committee in each house for review. The bill would authorize the policy committee to either make recommendations to the agency or to send the action to the floor of either house, which could reject the regulatory action by a resolution, as specified. (2) Existing law provides for the establishment of the California Travel and Tourism Commission as a nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, as specified. This bill would provide for the establishment of 6 regional innovation and job creation boards as nonprofit mutual benefit corporations, to perform certain functions, and would require the Lieutenant Governor to appoint 12 members to each board, as specified. The bill would require that the staff of each board be employees solely of the commission. (3) The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. That law provides various exemptions from those taxes. On and after January 1, 2013, this bill would exempt from those taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property, as defined, purchased for use by a qualified person, as defined, primarily in any stage of manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property, as specified. (4) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit for certain research and development expenses, as provided. This bill would, for taxable years commencing on and after January 1, 2013, increase the credit for research and development expenses, as provided, and would require taxpayers utilizing these credits on or after that date to report specified information to the Franchise Tax Board. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013, allow a credit against those taxes for a qualified taxpayer, as defined, of 40% of the amount of a qualified contribution, as defined, made in that taxable year by a business entity to a postsecondary educational institution for curriculum or research leading to job opportunities in the private sector, or consultation services associated with the establishment of curriculum or research leading to job opportunities in the private sector, where the business entity and the postsecondary educational institution agree that there is a substantial potential for the future employment of students as a result of the contribution. (5) This bill would provide that the provisions of this bill are severable. (6) The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code provides that the state will reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA establishes judicial review procedures for challenging a lead agency action on the ground of noncompliance with CEQA. This bill would require a judicial proceeding challenging a project, except for a high-speed rail project, located in a distressed county, as defined, to be filed with the Court of Appeal with geographic jurisdiction over the project.
Existing federal law provides that a nonresident seeking admission to the United States as an immediate relative of a citizen of the United States or as a family sponsored immigrant is inadmissible as a public charge, unless, among other methods, a person petitioning for that person's admission has executed an affidavit of support with respect to that person. The affidavit of support requires that the sponsor pledge to take certain actions to maintain and support the nonresident while he or she resides in the United States. This bill would establish the California High-Skilled Worker Retention and Family Act of 2012. This bill would require the Employment Development Department to create a program that would authorize a foreign national who meets certain requirements to apply to the department for resident immigrant status. This bill would require that in order to be eligible for the program the foreign national must be sponsored by a person or small business. This bill would require that the sponsor of the foreign national execute an affidavit of sponsorship that would impose a contractual obligation on the sponsor to support the foreign national, and to reimburse certain entities for any means-tested public benefit provided to the foreign national. This bill would provide that an affidavit of sponsorship may be terminated only under certain circumstances. This bill would authorize the department to approve the application for resident immigrant status based on certain criteria, and to issue to the foreign national a permit that grants to the foreign national resident immigrant status. This bill would authorize a resident immigrant to work, study, and live in this state. This bill would require a resident immigrant, or a resident immigrant's employer, to pay all income taxes and employment taxes, fees, or charges. This bill would authorize the Franchise Tax Board to adopt regulations that would authorize a person that employs a resident immigrant to withhold from compensation paid to the resident immigrant an amount that is as close as possible to the amount that would be withheld under state law if the resident immigrant had a social security number. This bill would provide that none of the provisions of this bill shall be carried out unless the Director of Employment Development receives the necessary authority, consistent with federal law, from the federal government to administer the program.
