This measure would declare the week of March 12, 2012, through March 16, 2012, as Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week.
This measure would designate March 2012 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would recognize January 2012 as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and would encourage prompt access to preventive services and medical care in order to overcome barriers to care and treatment for cervical cancer.
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.
(1) The California Constitution requires the Governor to submit annually to the Legislature a budget itemizing state expenditures and estimating state revenues and requires the Legislature to pass the Budget Bill by midnight on June 15. This bill would require that the budget submitted by the Governor to the Legislature for the 2013–14 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, as specified in a plan developed by the Department of Finance and distributed to the appropriate committees of the Legislature by August 1, 2012, be developed pursuant to performance-based budgeting, as defined, for each state agency. (2) Under existing law, a state agency for which an appropriation is made is generally required to submit to the Department of Finance for approval a complete and detailed budget setting forth all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. The bill would require the budget of a state agency, as defined, submitted to the department as specified in the plan developed by the department, to utilize performance-based budgeting for all programs, as defined to include those performed not only by state agencies, but by local agencies, contractors, or others that have a material relationship with the state, or its authorities and activities. For those programs not administered by the state, but which confer a benefit that would not otherwise be conferred but for the action of state government, state departments would be required to develop a process for consulting with responsible local agencies, contractors or other responsible entities, and stakeholders to develop information related to performance standards and program performance. The bill would require the department to include specified performance-based budgeting information in the Governor's Budget proposal and to post that information on the department's Internet Web site. Implementation of the requirement to use performance-based budgeting for departments and programs would be contingent on an appropriation of funding for that requirement in the annual Budget Act.
The Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act of 2002 authorizes a regional water management group, as defined, to prepare and adopt an integrated regional water management plan. The act requires an integrated regional water management plan to address specified water quality and water supply matters. This bill would additionally require an integrated regional water management plan to identify the manner in which the plan furthers a specified state policy concerning reducing reliance on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta for water supply and improving regional self-reliance for water, if the region depends on water from the Delta watershed. The bill would require integrated regional water management plans to incorporate that requirement when they are developed, updated, or amended in accordance with guidelines established by the Department of Water Resources. For an application for funding for a plan that is made prior to an update or amendment of the plan, the bill would require an applicant to specify how the existing plan advances the specified state policy concerning reducing reliance on the Delta for water supply and improving regional self-reliance for water.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits with respect to the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would, with respect to any business tax credit, as defined, enacted after the effective date of this bill, require a qualified taxpayer, as defined, that claims a business tax credit and that has a specified net decrease in its employees in this state to pay a penalty, as specified. This bill would also require a qualified taxpayer to submit to the Franchise Tax Board on the original return specified information, including the number of annual full-time equivalent employees employed by the qualified taxpayer in the state in the current and previous year, as provided. The bill would impose a penalty if that information is not provided.
Under the Unclaimed Property Law, all escheated property delivered to the Controller is required to be sold by the Controller to the highest bidder at public sale, as specified. All money received by the state by escheat under the law, including proceeds from the sale of escheated property, is required to be deposited in the Abandoned Property Account of the Unclaimed Property Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the Controller for expenditure in carrying out and enforcing the Unclaimed Property Law, including the payment of claims allowed by the Controller under the law, the refund of amounts deposited in error to the fund, and the payment of costs incurred by the Controller for the repair, maintenance, and upkeep of property held in the name of an account in the fund. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
This resolution would recognize the month of January 2012, and each following January, as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and it would recognize February 1, 2012, and each following February 1, as California's Free From Slavery Day.
