The Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 authorizes the formation of a community facilities district to finance various services. The act requires a community facilities district formed after January 1, 1992, to prepare, if requested by a person who resides in or owns property in the district and within 120 days after the last day of each fiscal year, a separate document titled an "Annual Report." The act requires a legislative body to report specific information regarding the sale of bonds to the California Debt and Investment Advisory Commission (CDIAC) . Other existing law requires each county, city, and special district that assesses a parcel tax to provide specific information to the Controller in connection with reports compiled and published by the Controller on the financial transactions of counties, cities, and special districts. This bill would require a legislative body that has an Internet Web site, within 7 months after the last day of each fiscal year of the district, to display prominently on its Internet Web site a copy of that annual report, if requested, a copy of the report to CDIAC, and a copy of the report to the Controller. By increasing the duties of local officials, 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.
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Existing law provides a statutory body of law relating to powers of appointment, including the creation and exercise of, and the revocability of the creation, exercise, or release of, a power of appointment. Existing law provides that a power of appointment can be created only by a donor having the capacity to transfer the interest in property to which the power relates. Existing law for these purposes defines a person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved as a "donee." This bill would revise and recast those provisions. The bill would impose additional requirements on the creation of a power of appointment, including the existence of a legally valid creating instrument that manifests the donor's intent to create a power of appointment and that transfers the appointive property, except as specified. The bill would define the term "power of appointment" for those purposes. The bill would instead define a person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved as a "powerholder." The bill would require, if a powerholder exercises a power of appointment in a disposition that also disposes of property the powerholder owns, the owned property and the appointive property to be allocated in the permissible manner in accordance with the terms of the creating instrument and to carry out the intent of the powerholder. The bill would require, if a powerholder makes a valid partial appointment to a taker in default of appointment, the taker in default of appointment to share fully in unappointed property. The bill would make property subject to a special power of appointment subject to the claims of creditors of the powerholder or of the powerholder's estate or the expenses of administration of the powerholder's estate under specified circumstances. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions, and would make changes to provisions related to an unexercised general power of appointment, as specified.
Existing law provides for the creation, modification, and termination of trusts, and regulates the acts of trustees in administering a trust. Existing law establishes provisions by which a trustee may give a notice of proposed action regarding certain matters, while prohibiting the use of these notices for other specified actions, including preliminary and final distributions and discharge. This bill would instead authorize a trustee to provide a notice of proposed action for preliminary and final distributions. The bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive changes in that regard.
This measure would proclaim May 19, 2016, as Viral Hepatitis Awareness Day in California.
This measure would proclaim the week of May 15, 2016, to May 21, 2016, as Emergency Medical Services Week in California.
This measure would declare the month of May 2016 as Foster Care Month.
This measure would recognize June 12, 2016, as the 118th 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.
This measure would proclaim the month of May 2016 as American Stroke Month in California.
This measure would designate June 22, 2016, as California Nonprofits Day and recognize the importance of nonprofit organizations to the economy and well-being of this state.
This measure would respectfully urge the recognition that the trial and conviction of the 50 African American sailors of the United States Navy for mutiny in connection with their service at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Concord, California, during World War II was wrongfully pursued because of racial prejudice and would respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to publicly exonerate those 50 African American sailors of the United States Navy in order to further aid in healing the racial divide that continues to exist in the United States.