Asm. V. Manuel Pérez

This measure would designate the month of September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout the State of California, and would encourage and promote efforts to educate the people and the health care practitioners of the state regarding ovarian cancer and its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 8 in Imperial County as the Deputy Probation Officer Irene Rios Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing the designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would proclaim May 2 through May 9, 2011, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, as defined. Existing law requires the PUC to administer, until January 1, 2016, a self-generation incentive program (SGIP) for distributed generation resources and to separately administer solar technologies pursuant to the California Solar Initiative. The PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , may authorize electrical corporations to annually collect not more than the amount authorized for the SGIP in the 2008 calendar year through December 31, 2011. This bill would extend the authority of the PUC to authorize electrical corporations to continue making the annual collections through December 31, 2014. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the program that is extended under the provisions of this bill are within the act and a decision or order of the commission implements the program requirements, a violation of these provisions would impose a state-mandated local program by expanding the definition of a crime. 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.

This measure would call upon the Secretary of the United States Department of Energy to reject Sempra Energy's application to construct the Energía Sierra Juárez cross-border transmission line between Mexico and California in order to preserve jobs in California, promote energy independence, and uphold California's labor and environmental laws.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 8 in the City of El Centro as the Caltrans Highway Maintenance Leadworker Jaime Obeso Memorial Highway and would designate the Sunbeam Rest Area in Jaime Obeso's honor. The bill would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 99, north of the City of Chico, as the Caltrans Leadworker Gary Wayne Smith Memorial Highway, and would designate a specified interchange between State Highway Route 5 and State Highway Route 905 in the County of San Diego as the Caltrans Equipment Operator II Richard Gonzalez Memorial Interchange. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of each of the appropriate signs showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the cost of a sign designation, to erect a sign.

(1) The Enterprise Zone Act provides that its purpose is to stimulate business and industrial growth in the depressed areas of the state by relaxing regulatory controls that impede private investment. The act defines a targeted employment area as an area composed solely of those census tracts in which at least 51% of the residents of those census tracts, determined as specified, are of low- or moderate-income levels. This bill would modify the definition of a targeted employment area, as specified. (2) The act provides that the purpose of a targeted employment area is to encourage businesses in an enterprise zone to hire eligible residents of certain geographic areas within a city, county, or city and county. This bill would delete that provision of the act and instead provide that the purpose of a targeted employment area is to help identify neighborhoods of low- and moderate-income workers for the purpose of providing those workers with employment assistance, training, and job placement. (3) The act requires each governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, the boundaries of its targeted employment area. This bill would delete that requirement, and instead require the governing body of the jurisdiction administering the enterprise zone to adopt a resolution or ordinance designating a targeted employment area that meets specified conditions. The bill would also require, if 2 or more jurisdictions are jointly administering a zone, each of the governing bodies of the 2 jurisdictions to adopt the resolution. (4) The act requires, within 180 days of updated United States census data becoming available, each governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, new boundaries for the area that reflect the new census data. The act authorizes an enterprise zone, if no changes to the boundaries of an area are necessary to conform the area with the most current census data, to send a letter to the Department of Housing and Community Development stating that a review has been undertaken and no boundary changes are required. This bill would delete those provisions, and instead require the governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, new boundaries for its targeted employment area that reflect the new household data provided by the United States Census Bureau in its 5-year American Community Study, and to send that resolution or ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would require the city, county, or city and county, if no changes to the boundaries of an area are necessary, to send a letter to the department stating that a review has been undertaken and no boundary changes are required. The bill would provide that if the area's boundaries are not updated, and the department does not receive the letter within 180 days of the release of new census information, then the area is invalidated for a period of 2 years, except as specified. (5) The act sets forth various requirements and limitations relating to the formation and composition of a targeted employment area. This bill would revise and recast these requirements and limitations, as specified. (6) The act authorizes a governing body that has already designated a targeted employment area to request to redesignate the area using more current census data, as specified, and requires an area to be comprised of a census tract from only one decennial census. This bill would delete that provision. (7) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize a taxpayer to claim certain tax incentives for activities conducted in an enterprise zone, including a credit for wages paid during the taxable year to a qualified employee, as defined, who is employed by the taxpayer during the taxable year in an enterprise zone, and those laws each set forth a schedule for the amount of the credit based on the qualified wages of the qualified employee in each of the first 5 years of employment. This bill would modify the requirements that must be met for an individual to be a qualified employee, as specified, under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, thereby reducing the scope of the credits, and make other specified changes relating to the requirements for a taxpayer to take advantage of the credits. The bill would require that changes made to the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporations Tax Law by its provisions apply to taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2011. (8) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax 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. (9) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. (10) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

The Vehicle License Fee Law, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, imposes an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 1% of the market value of that vehicle, as provided, for a specified amount of time. Existing law also, until June 30, 2011, imposes an additional tax equal to 0.15% of the market value of specified vehicles, as determined by the Department of Motor Vehicles, to the vehicle license fee, to be deposited in the General Fund and transferred to the Local Safety and Protection Account, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would repeal the provision relating to the sunset date and repeal of the additional 0.15% tax, thereby depositing additional moneys into a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would constitute a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax 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.

(1) The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined, in blighted areas in those communities known as project areas. Existing law requires redevelopment agencies in specified years to remit to the county auditor an amount of revenue, determined in accordance with specified calculations made by the Director of Finance and based on a specified report of the Controller, for deposit in the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund or Supplemental Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in each county for allocation to school entities, as prescribed. This bill would authorize a redevelopment agency to make a voluntary payment to local educational agencies, as defined, from property tax revenues allocated pursuant to a specified provision of existing law for the 2011–12 fiscal year, in an amount as prescribed. The bill would authorize an agency electing to make the voluntary payment to amend and extend specified redevelopment plan time limitations, as prescribed. The bill would also authorize certain joint powers authorities to issue bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness and loan the net proceeds to an agency, as prescribed, for purposes of making certain of the above-described voluntary payments to local educational agencies, as specified. The bill would require that a first lien be placed upon the property tax revenues allocated to the legislative body that established the agency, which, in the event that the agency fails to timely repay the loan, the county auditor would be required to reallocate for the payment of any past due amount of the agency's loan. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to apportion to each school district in the county a revenue amount each fiscal year less a sum that includes amounts received under specified provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law. The bill would include in the above-described sum the amount of voluntary agency payments by the agencies to the local educational agencies, as specified. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. (4) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution.

This measure would proclaim October 22 to October 30, 2011, as including Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.