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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 declare the week of January 7 to January 13, 2018, as California Fitness Week and would encourage Californians to enrich their lives through proper nutrition and exercise.
This measure would proclaim January 13, 2018, as Korean American 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 finds that women and children's residential treatment services (WCRTS) programs pursue 4 primary goals, including demonstrating that alcohol and other drug abuse treatment services delivered in a residential setting and coupled with other services can improve overall treatment outcomes, and declares the intent of the Legislature for specified outcomes to be achieved through the WCRTS program, including preserving family unity. Existing law authorizes a county to establish a WCRTS program designed to meet those goals and produce those same outcomes. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law authorizes a municipal water district to issue bonds for the purpose of providing money required to be paid to any district or authority organized under the Metropolitan Water District Act or the County Water Authority Act for a certain purpose, and specifies that the amount of those bonds may include the expenses of all proceedings for the authorization, issuance, and sale of the bonds. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes in that provision.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2023, in an amount equal to 50% of the amount paid or incurred during the taxable year by a taxpayer for qualified veterinary costs, as defined, for a taxpayer's pets, as defined, not to exceed $2,000 per taxable year. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.