(1) Existing law establishes a low-income housing tax credit program pursuant to which the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC) provides procedures and requirements for the allocation, in modified conformity with federal law, of state insurance, personal income, and corporation tax credit amounts to qualified low-income housing projects that have been allocated, or qualify for, a federal low-income housing tax credit, and farmworker housing. Existing law limits the total annual amount of the state low-income housing credit for which a federal low-income housing credit is required to the sum of $70,000,000, as increased by any percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the preceding calendar year, any unused credit for the preceding calendar years, and the amount of housing credit ceiling returned in the calendar year, and authorizes CTCAC, for calendar years beginning in 2020, to allocate an additional $500,000,000 to specified low-income housing projects and, for calendar years beginning in 2021, requires this additional amount only to be available for allocation pursuant to an authorization in the annual Budget Act or related legislation, and specified regulatory action by CTCAC. This bill would remove the requirement that, beginning in the 2021 calendar year, the above-described additional $500,000,000 allocation only be available pursuant to an authorization in the annual Budget Act or related legislation, and specified regulatory action by CTCAC. (2) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
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The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit for qualified renters in the amount of $120 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is $50,000, as adjusted, or less, and in the amount of $60 for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $25,000, as adjusted, or less. Existing law requires the Franchise Tax Board to annually adjust for inflation these adjusted gross income amounts. For 2018, the adjusted gross income limit is $83,282 and $41,641, respectively. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax credit to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account in the General Fund and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons from the Personal Income Tax Fund are to be paid from that account, including any amount allowable as an earned income tax credit in excess of any tax liabilities. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2025, and only when specified in a bill relating to the Budget Act, would increase the credit amount for a qualified renter to $220 and $434, as provided. In the event the increased credit amount is not specified in a bill relating to the Budget Act, the existing credit amounts of $120 and $60, as described above, respectively, would be the credit amounts for that taxable year. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to annually recompute for inflation the credit amount for taxable years on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2025, unless otherwise provided. The bill would provide findings and declarations relating to the goals, purposes, and objectives of this credit. The bill, for credits allowable for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2025, would provide that the credit amount in excess of the qualified renter's liability would be refundable and paid from the Tax Relief and Refund Account to the qualified renter upon appropriation by the Legislature. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
(1) Existing law vests with the State Lands Commission jurisdiction over specified public lands in the state, including tidelands and submerged lands. The California Coastal Act of 1976 also establishes the California Coastal Commission and requires the commission to regulate development in the coastal zone, as defined. Existing law creates the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program to be administered by the Office of Planning and Research, and requires the Director of State Planning and Research, no later than January 1, 2017, to establish the program to coordinate regional and local efforts with state climate adaptation strategies to adapt to the impacts of climate change, as specified. This bill would establish the Program for Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access for the purpose of funding specified activities intended to help the state prepare, plan, and implement actions to address and adapt to sea level rise and coastal climate change. The bill would create the Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access Fund in the State Treasury, and would authorize the California Coastal Commission and specified state agencies to expend moneys in the fund, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to take actions, based upon the best scientific information, that are designed to address and adapt to sea level rise and coastal climate change, as prescribed. The bill would require the Natural Resources Agency to annually make available information regarding any activity funded under the program on a publicly accessible internet website. The bill would also require the Natural Resources Agency, and any other state agency to which funding is allocated, to consider the guidance and resources developed by the Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resiliency Program to help inform decisions relating to activities funded with moneys from the Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access Fund. (2) Existing law requires the State Lands Commission, with specified exceptions, to deposit all revenue, money, and remittances received by the commission from certain state lands in the General Fund, and requires that sufficient moneys from those deposits be made available each fiscal year for payments for expenditures of the commission, specified payments to cities and counties pursuant to agreements covering transferred lands, mineral rights, and oil and gas well removal and remediation, as prescribed. This bill would require, for the 2020–21 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, an amount equal to 30% of those funds received by the commission and required to be deposited into the General Fund by the commission pursuant to those provisions, except as provided, but not to exceed $50,000,000, to be transferred to the Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access Fund and made available, upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, for expenditure for purposes of the Program for Coastal Resilience, Adaptation, and Access.
Existing law establishes various programs, including, among others, the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program, to provide assistance to homeless persons. Existing law requires a state agency or department that funds, implements, or administers a state program that provides housing or housing-related services to people experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, except as specified, to revise or adopt guidelines and regulations to include enumerated Housing First policies. Existing law establishes the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to oversee the implementation of the Housing First guidelines and regulations and, among other things, to identify resources, benefits, and services that can be accessed to prevent and end homelessness in California. This bill would require the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, by July 1, 2021, to develop and implement a statewide strategic plan for addressing homelessness in the state, as specified. The bill would require the council, by January 1, 2021, to implement strategic plans to assist federal Housing and Urban Development Continuum of Care lead agencies in better implementing Housing and Urban Development recommended activities and meeting Housing and Urban Development requirements.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Board of Trustees of the California State University, as one of the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in California. Existing law requires the trustees to take action in open session on an executive compensation proposal concerning the Chancellor of the California State University, the president of an individual campus, a vice chancellor, the treasurer, the assistant treasurer, the general counsel, or the trustees' secretary. This bill would require, for any proposed increase to the compensation of the specified executive officers, or change to policies and procedures relating to the compensation of those executive officers, that the board include the proposed increase, or change to policies and procedures, and related information as an informational item on a meeting agenda, with a public vote at the subsequent, consecutive, quarterly meeting. The bill would prohibit an increase of compensation for an executive officer in a year in which tuition is increased. Existing law requires the California State University to report biennially to the Legislature and the Department of Finance on the total costs of education at the university on a systemwide and campus-by-campus basis, as specified. This bill would require the chancellor's office to require each campus to annually prepare a comparison of the campus' budget to its actual spending levels, including a summary report of its expenditures of state appropriations received for the academic year and to submit 2 years of comparisons and summary reports to the chancellor's office on or before January 15, 2022, and biennially thereafter. The bill would require the chancellor's office to compile the campus-based reports into a systemwide report submitted to the Legislature and Department of Finance on or before March 31, 2022, and biennially thereafter.
Existing law, the Children's Mental Health Services Act, establishes an interagency system of care for the delivery of mental health services to seriously emotionally and behaviorally disturbed children and their families. Existing law, the Mental Health Services Act, an initiative statute enacted by the voters as Proposition 63 at the November 2, 2004, statewide general election, also funds a system of county mental health plans for the provision of mental health services, as specified. Existing law provides for the operation and administration of various mental health programs by the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission. This bill would require the commission, subject to an appropriation, to administer an Integrated Youth Mental Health Program for purposes of establishing local centers to provide integrated youth mental health services, as specified. The bill would authorize the commission to establish the core components of the program, subject to specified criteria, and would require the commission to develop the selection criteria and process for awarding funding to local entities for these purposes. The bill would authorize the commission to implement these provisions by means of an informational letter, bulletins, or similar instructions.
This measure would recognize the 3rd Saturday in September as Coastal Cleanup Day and proclaim September 21, 2019, as the 35th annual Coastal Cleanup Day in California.
This measure would recognize June 12, 2019, as the 121st Anniversary of Philippine Independence and would call upon the people of the state to observe the month of June with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and activities.