Asm. Tom Daly

Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system. Existing law authorizes tolls to be imposed on certain facilities that are part of the state highway system, including toll roads, toll bridges, and high-occupancy toll lanes. Existing law, in certain cases, provides for the toll facilities to be administered by local agencies. This bill would require any toll revenues generated from a managed lane on the state highway system that is administered by a local agency to be expended only within the respective corridor in which the managed lane is located. The bill would define "managed lane" for these purposes.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Members of the board are required to be selected from outstanding lay citizens of California who have a strong interest in the further development and improvement of community colleges. This bill would specify that members of the board, to the greatest extent possible, should be inclusive and representative of the many demographic groups found in California, and that the board should reflect diversity of race and gender, and include, among others, disabled persons and veterans. The bill would also provide that each member of the board should bring his or her own best thinking and personal views to the board's discussion, as specified.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including a credit against those taxes for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, in an amount equal to an applicable percentage of either 20% or 25%, respectively, of the qualified expenditures, as defined, attributable to the production of a qualified motion picture in California, or, where the qualified motion picture is a television series that relocated to California or is an independent film, as provided. Existing law imposes specified duties on the California Film Commission related to the administration of the credits, including a requirement to allocate the tax credits until July 1, 2017, and limits the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated to qualified motion pictures in any fiscal year to $100,000,000 through the 2016–17 fiscal year. Existing law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, in lieu of the credits authorized under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law for qualified motion pictures described above, also allows a credit against qualified state sales and use taxes, as provided. Existing law provides for a tentative minimum tax and further provides that, except for specified credits, no other credit shall reduce the tax imposed below the tentative minimum tax. This bill would establish similar credits under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2016, to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2015, and before July 1, 2020. This bill would, as compared to the existing tax credits, extend the scope of the credits for a qualified motion picture to the applicable percentage of qualified expenditures up to $100,000,000, would extend the credit to qualified expenditures for television pilot episodes, and would determine an applicable percentage of 25% or 20% for qualified expenditures, with an additional credit amount available, as specified. This bill would limit the aggregate amount of these new credits to be allocated in each fiscal year to up to $330 million, and would, subject to a computation and ranking of applicants based on the jobs ratio, as defined, require the California Film Commission to allocate credit amounts subject to specified categories of qualified motion pictures. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2016, in lieu of the credits authorized under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law for qualified motion pictures described above, allow a credit against qualified state sales and use taxes, as provided. This bill would also require the Legislative Analyst's Office to prepare reports related to the effectiveness and administration of the qualified motion picture credit under the Sales and Use Tax Law, the Personal Income Tax Law, and the Corporation Tax Law. This bill would, for taxable years, beginning on or after January 1, 2016, additionally allow the credit under the Corporation Tax Law for qualified expenditures for the production of qualified motion pictures to reduce the tentative minimum tax. This bill would also make findings and declarations related to the entertainment industry, and would urge the United States Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission to investigate and impose sanctions on specified motion picture productions and elements of production to combat unfair and illegal competition. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect. The bill would state that its provisions are severable. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 23036 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, proposed by AB 2754, to be operative only if AB 2754 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2015, and this bill is chaptered last. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

The Private Security Services Act provides for the licensure and regulation of private patrol operators by the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services in the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act requires a private patrol operator employing a security guard who carries a firearm to maintain an insurance policy that provides minimum limits of insurance of $500,000 for any one loss due to bodily injury or death and $500,000 for any one loss due to injury or destruction of property. This bill would instead require the bureau to require a private patrol operator or applicant for licensure, as a condition precedent to licensure or continued licensure, to file or have on file with the bureau an insurance policy that provides minimum limits of insurance of $1,000,000 for any one loss due to bodily injury, including death, or property damage, or both, as specified. The bill would provide that if a licensee fails to maintain sufficient insurance or provide proof of insurance as required, the license shall be automatically suspended. The act requires a private patrol operator licensee, qualified manager of a licensee, or security guard who, in the course of his or her employment, may be required to carry a firearm, to satisfy specified requirements prior to carrying a firearm, including the completion of a course of training in the carrying and use of firearms. Existing law exempts from this requirement a duly appointed peace officer, as defined, who has successfully completed a course of study in the use of firearms. The act prohibits the bureau from renewing an expired firearms qualification card unless, among other requirements, the applicant has requalified on the range and successfully passed a written examination, as specified. This bill would exempt a duly appointed peace officer, as defined, who is authorized to carry a firearm in the course of his or her duties and has successfully completed requalification training from the requirements of requalifying on the range and passing the written examination. Existing law generally requires a transfer of a firearm to be conducted by a firearms dealer, and requires specified information about the purchaser and the firearm in the transaction to be submitted to the Department of Justice. The department has created a form for this purpose known as the Dealers' Record of Sale form or DROS form. Existing law authorizes the department to charge a fee for the costs associated with the submission of the DROS form. Existing law does not authorize a business entity to own or register a firearm. This bill would establish procedures, operative July 1, 2016, allowing a Private Patrol Operator (PPO) business entity to be the registered owner of a firearm. The bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature, and express the intent of the Legislature in connection with these procedures. The bill would direct the Department of Justice to modify the DROS form and create a certificate of assignment (COA) , and to charge a reasonable fee for the filing and processing of the COA for these purposes and for enforcement of these provisions. Among other things, the bill would allow a security guard to be assigned a firearm by the PPO through a COA, as specified, and for a firearm custodian to be designated by the PPO. The bill would require submission to the Department of Justice of information pertaining to the ownership of a firearm by a PPO, the assignment of a firearm by a PPO, and the identity of a PPO firearms custodian, as specified. The bill would require PPO-owned firearms acquired prior to July 1, 2016, to be registered, as specified. The bill would provide that an assignment of a firearm by a PPO to a security guard employee for purposes of employment duties would not constitute a loan, sale, or transfer of a firearm. The bill would authorize the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs, through his or her designee, to assess an administrative fine of up to $1,000 against a PPO or a security guard for each willful violation of these and other provisions of the bill relating to firearms. The bill would require a security guard, upon request by the PPO, or upon separation of employment or revocation of the security guard's firearm qualification card, and within 48 hours, to return the assigned firearm to the PPO. The bill would provide that the failure of a security guard to return an assigned firearm as required would be a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. 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.

Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide that the University of California constitutes a public trust and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes, including such competitive bidding procedures as may be applicable to the university by statute for the letting of construction contracts, sales of real property, and purchasing of materials, goods, and services. Existing law requires the Regents of the University of California to accept in public a bid for the sale of University of California real property that offers the combination of price and terms which it deems to be in the best interest of the university. Public notice, as specified, is required when the regents sell real property valued in excess of $500,000. This bill would amend the public notice requirements to apply only when the property to be sold is valued in excess of $1,000,000. This bill would also authorize the regents to consider the bidder's qualifications, as specified, in addition to terms and price in determining which bid or proposal is in the best interests of the university. The bill would also authorize the regents to reject all bids and proposals and would exempt additional property, such as property acquired by foreclosure, from the requirements of these provisions.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue specialty license plates, including environmental license plates and specified special environmental design license plates. Under existing law, a state agency is authorized to apply to the DMV to sponsor a specialized license plate program, and the DMV is required to issue those license plates if the agency meets certain requirements. The DMV is required to charge specified fees for certain services related to the issuance of those plates. Existing law establishes the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund, and requires that funds in that account, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be allocated for the provision of early breast cancer detection services for uninsured and underinsured women. This bill would require the State Department of Health Care Services to apply to sponsor a breast cancer awareness license plate program, and would require the DMV to issue the license plates if the State Department of Health Care Services meets certain requirements. The bill would authorize the State Department of Health Care Services to accept and use donated artwork from California artists for the license plate. The bill would require the revenue generated from the license plates, as specified, to be deposited in the Breast Cancer Control Account in the Breast Cancer Fund. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

This measure would declare November 8, 2014, as California Solar Professionals Day.

This measure would declare November 2014 as Diabetes Awareness Month.

This measure would recognize the month of October 2014 as Filipino American History Month and the 427th anniversary of the first presence of Filipinos in the continental United States.

This measure would proclaim October 23 to October 31, 2014, as Red Ribbon Week, and would encourage all Californians to help build drug-free communities and participate in drug prevention activities.