Asm. Cottie Petrie-Norris

This measure would proclaim Friday, May 27, 2022, as National Poppy Day.

This measure would declare June 8, 2022, as California Nonprofits Day in recognition of the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state.

This measure would urge the President, the Congress of the United States, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to take all measures to ensure that military veterans can access necessary treatment for mental health and substance abuse disorders in a timely manner.

Existing statutory law imposes taxes on the gross premiums of an insurer, as defined, and allows various credits against those taxes. The California Constitution imposes exactions against insurers from another state or country under specified conditions. This bill would establish the California Jumpstart Act. The act would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, until January 1, 2030, in an amount equal to the amount of a relief contribution, as defined, that meets specified requirements. The bill would prohibit a taxpayer allowed a credit under the act for a qualified relief investment from being eligible for any other credit, as specified, with respect to that investment. The bill would require the California Pollution Control Financing Authority (CPCFA) to, among other things, accept applications for approval as a relief fund that meet specified requirements, including that the application include a signed certification from the chief executive officer or another similar officer of each investor committing to make a relief contribution and stating the amount of that commitment, among other attestations. The bill also would authorize the CPCFA to recover any tax credit allowed and revoke the tax credit certificates issued to a taxpayer if the taxpayer engages in specified behavior, including, failing to invest 100% of its investment authority in relief investments within 2 years of the closing date. The bill would require the CPCFA to act in consultation with the Department of Insurance to accomplish these responsibilities where specified. This bill would require, among other things, the CPCFA to undertake outreach activities to encourage investment in impact businesses, including, but not limited to, partnering with organizations representing persons and business enterprises from small businesses more than 50% owned by minorities, women, disabled veterans, lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender persons, as described. The bill would also establish the Treasury Relief Investment Fund in the State Treasury, and would continuously appropriate the fund for purposes of these provisions. The bill would authorize CPCFA to direct the Treasurer to invest moneys in the fund, as specified, and would authorize CPCFA to use proceeds in the fund for administrative purposes. By continuously appropriating moneys in the fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would provide that the California Jumpstart Act is only operative for taxable years for which an appropriation is made for its purposes in the annual Budget Act or other statute. This bill would require various certifications by officers of an investor and would require a relief fund that has not decertified to annually certify under penalty of perjury that the relief fund has not violated any of the grounds for recovery and revocation of credits. By expanding the crime of perjury, 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.

This measure would designate the month of May 2022 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month in California.

This measure would proclaim the month of May 2022 as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month.

Existing law provides that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to their personal reproductive decisions. Existing law prohibits the state from denying or interfering with the right to choose or obtain an abortion before the fetus is viable, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the pregnant person. Existing law requires an abortion to be performed by a specified licensed or certified health care provider and prohibits an abortion from being performed on a viable fetus if continuation of the pregnancy did not pose a risk to the life or health of the pregnant person. The United States Constitution generally requires a state to give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. Existing law sets forth procedures by which a person may enforce a judgment for the payment of money issued by the court of a state other than California. This bill would declare another state's law authorizing a civil action against a person or entity that receives or seeks, performs or induces, or aids or abets the performance of an abortion, or who attempts or intends to engage in those actions, to be contrary to the public policy of this state. The bill would prohibit the application of that law to a case or controversy heard in state court, and would prohibit the enforcement or satisfaction of a civil judgment received under that law. The bill would declare these provisions to be severable. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies. The act declares that access to information concerning the conduct of the people's business is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state. Existing law creates the California State Auditor's Office, which is independent of the executive branch and legislative control, to examine and report annually upon the financial statements prepared by the executive branch. Existing law establishes, within the State Treasury, the State Audit Fund, which is a continuously appropriated fund, for the expenses of the California State Auditor. This bill would establish, within the California State Auditor's Office, the California Public Records Act Ombudsperson. The bill would require the California State Auditor to appoint the ombudsperson subject to certain requirements. The bill would require the ombudsperson to receive and investigate requests for review, as defined, determine whether the denials of original requests, as defined, complied with the California Public Records Act, and issue written opinions of its determination, as provided. The bill would require the ombudsperson to create a process to that effect, and would authorize a member of the public to submit a request for review to the ombudsperson consistent with that process. The bill would require the ombudsperson, within 30 days from receipt of a request for review, to make a determination, as provided, and would require the state agency to provide the public record if the ombudsperson determines that it was improperly denied. The bill would, if requested by the ombudsperson, require any state agency determined to have improperly denied a request to reimburse the ombudsperson for its costs to investigate the request for review. The bill would require the ombudsperson to create a process through which a person whose information is contained in a record being reviewed may intervene to assert their privacy and confidentiality rights, and would otherwise require the ombudsperson to maintain the privacy and confidentiality of records, as provided. The bill would require the ombudsperson to report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, on, among other things, the number of requests for review the ombudsperson has received in the prior year. By expanding the duties of the California State Auditor's Office, this bill would create an appropriation.

The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, generally defines "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income for purposes of computing tax liability. Existing federal law, known as the National and Community Service State Grant Program, gives educational awards to individuals based on the individual's participation in an approved national service position. That law also provides grants to states, subdivisions of states, and other public and private organizations to carry out national service programs, as defined, including grants to the CaliforniaVolunteers program administered by the office of the Governor. CaliforniaVolunteers, through the California For All Education Award program, offers educational awards using funds granted pursuant to the National and Community Service State Grant Program. This bill would exclude from gross income certain educational awards received by a taxpayer pursuant to the federal National and Community Service State Grant Program. These provisions would become operative upon passage of federal legislation that would exclude these educational awards from gross income for federal income tax purposes, and would remain operative for 5 years. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, would exclude from gross income any amount received as a California For All Education Award, as defined. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure, defined to include an exclusion from income, to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

Existing law imposes various sentence enhancements, consisting of additional and consecutive terms of imprisonment, including, among others, enhancements for being armed with a firearm during the commission of a felony, being armed with a firearm during the commission of a street gang crime, as defined, being armed with ammunition designed to penetrate armor during the commission of a felony, furnishing a firearm to another for the purpose of aiding, abetting, or enabling that person to commit a felony, using a firearm during the commission of a felony, and the infliction of great bodily injury on any person other than an accomplice during the commission of a felony. Existing law requires that a court dismiss an enhancement if it is in the furtherance of justice to do so, as specified. This bill, the Alycia "LaLa" Reynaga Act, would impose a sentence enhancement in the state prison of 2, 3, or 4 years for committing or attempting to commit specific offenses at or adjacent to a public or private school, church, temple, synagogue, mosque, or other place of worship or at an activity sponsored by a public or private school, church, temple, synagogue, mosque, or other place of worship, as specified. The bill would also, notwithstanding the limitation on imposing a sentence enhancement if application of the enhancement would result in a sentence of more than 20 years, impose a sentence enhancement in the state prison of 10 years for committing or attempting to commit murder at or adjacent to a public or private school, church, temple, synagogue, mosque, or other place of worship or at an activity sponsored by a public or private school, church, temple, synagogue, mosque, or other place of worship, as specified. Because this bill would impose additional duties on local prosecutors by creating new enhancements with additional elements, it 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.