Asm. Mike Gipson

This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year Celebration.

This measure would proclaim the month of January 2018 as National Mentoring Month.

This measure would proclaim January 13, 2018, as Korean American Day.

This measure would honor the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

This measure would designate the month of January 2018 as Gang Awareness and Prevention Month in the State of California and would encourage cities and constituents across the state to observe the month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities to prevent future gang activity and honor those who lost their lives due to gang activity.

Existing law, the California Finance Lenders Law, prohibits acting as a finance lender without a license from the Commissioner of Business Oversight and defines a "finance lender" as a person in the business of making consumer or commercial loans. Existing law defines a "consumer loan" as a loan, secured or unsecured, the proceeds of which are to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. Existing law, in certain instances, prescribes the maximum rate of the charges that may be received for making a consumer loan in relation to the amount of the loan. This bill would require the commissioner to prepare and submit a report to the Legislature on or before July 1, 2018, that identifies the availability of credit for low-income and low- and no-credit borrowers in California, and the extent to which the interest rate limitations in the Consumer Finance Lenders Law limit access to credit. The bill would require that report to include specified information. The bill would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2022.

Existing law authorizes the furnishing of utility services by publicly owned public utilities, including municipal corporations, which are subject to control by their governing bodies. Existing law authorizes any municipal corporation to acquire, construct, own, operate, or lease any public utility, as defined, and authorizes a municipal corporation to sell or dispose of any public utility it owns. Existing law establishes an alternative procedure whereby a municipal corporation can lease, sell, or transfer that portion of a water utility used for furnishing water service outside or inside the boundaries of the municipal corporation, including the determination that the public utility is not necessary for supplying water to its own inhabitants or that its inhabitants will be provided with equal or better service by the acquiring entity, the sale or transfer is approved by a majority of all voters voting on this issue in an election, and that the acquiring entity disclose specified information before the election. This bill would permit a city that owns and operates a public utility for furnishing water service to sell the public utility for the purpose of consolidating its public water system with another public water system pursuant to the procedures that are generally applicable to the sale of real property by a city, only if the potentially subsumed water system is wholly within the boundaries of the city, if the city determines that it is uneconomical and not in the public interest to own and operate the public utility and if certain requirements are met.

Existing law grants the Department of Finance general powers of supervision over all matters concerning the financial and business policies of the state. This bill would require the department to convene a working group to create a report on the anticipated financial impact to cities if federal funding is reduced or eliminated for those cities because of being identified as a sanctuary city. The bill would require the report to be published on the department's Internet Web site.