This measure would designate March 25 through March 31, 2012, as California Tsunami Awareness Week.
This measure would declare the week of March 12, 2012, through March 16, 2012, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
This measure would declare March 2012 to be Campus Safety Month, and would encourage citizens to visit the Internet Web site of the national nonprofit organization Security On Campus, Inc., to view public safety information about public and private colleges and universities.
This measure would recognize the month of February 2012 as American Heart Month in California and recognize February 3, 2012, as Wear Red Day in California.
Existing law sets forth legislative findings and declarations stating, among other things, that the introduction of Mexican fruit flies into California presents a serious threat to California's economy. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to establish and operate a facility outside of the state to produce sterile Mexican fruit flies or enter into an agreement with any other public or private entity to jointly establish and operate the facility. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those findings and declarations.
Existing law makes various findings and declarations of the Legislature regarding the need to improve and facilitate access to health services in rural areas. This bill would add to those findings and declarations that rural areas have a shortage of health care professionals with the cultural competency necessary to address the health needs of diverse communities. The bill would also make related nonsubstantive changes.
Existing law provides that California's public schools have an affirmative obligation to combat racism, sexism, and other forms of bias, and a responsibility to provide equal educational opportunity. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision and other related provisions.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit in the amount of $3,000 for each full-time employee hired by a qualified employer applicable to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and ending upon a cutoff date calculated based upon an estimate by the Franchise Tax Board of claims cumulatively totaling $400,000,000 for all taxable years, as specified. Existing law also creates the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, which has specified duties in regard to low-income housing credits. This bill would instead calculate the cutoff date for the above-described hiring credit based upon an estimate by the Franchise Tax Board of claims cumulatively totaling $100,000,000 for all taxable years, as specified. This bill would also authorize a credit under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2013, and before January 1, 2020, in a specified amount for investments in low-income communities. The bill would limit the total amount of credit allowed pursuant to these provisions to $50,000,000 per year. This bill would impose specified duties on the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee with regard to the application for, and allocation of, the credit. The bill would require the committee to establish and impose reasonable fees upon entities that apply for the allocation of the credit and use the revenue to defray the cost of administering the program, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would also appropriate $150,000 from the Tax Credit Allocation Fee Account to the committee for purposes of implementing the tax credit. 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 XIII A 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.
