This measure would acknowledge the month of April 2018 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and encourage the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
This measure would designate the week of May 6, 2018, through May 12, 2018, as Compost Awareness Week.
This measure would dedicate the month of May 2018 as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month.
This measure would proclaim the month of May 2018 as Lyme Disease Awareness Month.
This measure would designate May 29, 2018, as 529 College Savings Day, to raise awareness about the importance of saving for college with the help of 529 college savings plans.
This measure would recognize May 2018 as Blue Star Mothers of America Month in California, as specified.
This measure would urge lawmakers in Poland to reverse or revise a recent Polish law on speech related to the Holocaust, would call on Congress to join that effort, and would call for a renewed commitment to Holocaust education in California.
This measure would recognize the month of May 2018 as Foster Care Month as an opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges that children, and particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth, face in the foster care system, as specified.
The Personal Income Tax Law imposes taxes based upon taxable income of individuals, estates, and trusts at specified rates from 1% to 9.3%, as provided. This bill would impose a tax of 17% on that portion of an individual's taxable income derived from an investment management services interest, as defined. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to report to the Legislature, no more than 30 days thereafter, if the United States Congress passes and the President of the United States signs legislation having an identical effect as the above-described tax applicable to that income earned in all of the states and territories, and would further require the Legislature to determine whether to repeal, make inoperative, or continue in effect the tax. The bill would also require the revenues derived from this tax to be deposited in the College, Career, and Community Ready Fund, which the bill would establish. The bill would require the moneys deposited in the College, Career, and Community Ready Fund to be continuously appropriated to the State Department of Education for apportionment to local educational agencies for designated categories of programs, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations and procedures to implement these provisions of the bill relating to the distribution of the apportioned funds and to effectuate the intent of the Legislature as to the distribution of these funds among those categories. The bill would also authorize the Franchise Tax Board to prescribe rules, guidelines, or procedures necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of the bill, as specified. The funds apportioned to local educational agencies pursuant to this bill for the specified purposes would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
