Existing law establishes the County of San Diego and various offices within the county for administration of the county government. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including motion picture credits for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2020, and before July 1, 2025. This bill would establish the San Diego Regional Film Financial Incentive Pilot Program to be administered by the San Diego Regional Film Financial Incentive Pilot Program Office within the County of San Diego for purposes of awarding grants to qualified projects that, among other things, have a production budget with at least 70% of expenditures to laborers, retailers, or suppliers who are permanent residents of the County of San Diego. The bill would require an applicant to submit a specified application to the office, and would require the office to award grants in order of priority based on the ratio of the total moneys expected to be paid by the applicant as wages to laborers who are permanent residents of the County of San Diego divided by the total production budget. The bill would appropriate $50,000,000 to the County of San Diego over a 3-year period for purposes of the program. The bill would require the office to submit, on or before January 1, 2024, a report to the Legislature and the California Film Commission on the results of the program. By placing new requirements on the County of San Diego, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of San Diego. 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 requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, at least every 2 years, to conduct assessments and forecasts of all aspects of energy industry supply, production, transportation, delivery and distribution, demand, and prices. Existing law requires the commission to use these assessments and forecasts to develop and evaluate energy policies and programs that conserve resources, protect the environment, ensure energy reliability, enhance the state's economy, and protect public health and safety. This bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2024, to also use these assessments and forecasts to create energy efficiency grades, based on the federal Environmental Protection Agency's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager, for buildings with more than 50,000 square feet of gross floor area. The bill would require that the energy efficiency grade received by a building be displayed in a conspicuous location near each public entrance to the building.
Existing law establishes the Climate Ready Program in the State Coastal Conservancy to address the impacts and potential impacts of climate change on resources within the conservancy's jurisdiction. Existing law authorizes the conservancy to undertake projects within its jurisdiction, including projects related to beach and bluff erosion and other coastal hazards that threaten coastal communities, infrastructure, and natural resources. Existing law requires the Office of Emergency Services, in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology, the California Geological Survey, the University of California, the United States Geological Survey, the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission, and other stakeholders, to develop a comprehensive statewide earthquake early warning system in California through a public-private partnership, which is required to include, among other things, the installation of field sensors. This bill would appropriate from the General Fund the sum of $2,500,000 to Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego to conduct research on coastal cliff landslides and erosion in the County of San Diego, as provided. The bill would require the research to be completed by January 1, 2023. The bill would require by no later than March 15, 2023, the institution to provide a report to the Legislature with recommendations for developing an early warning coastal cliff landslide and erosion warning system based on that research.
This measure would designate the month of January 2020 as Positive Parenting Awareness Month in California.
This measure, among other things, would declare that California is a Reproductive Freedom State for All and provide that the Legislature is committed to guaranteeing the constitutionally protected right to an abortion and supporting efforts to increase access to the best available reproductive and pregnancy-related care for women and pregnant individuals.
This measure would honor the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The Cigarette and Tobacco Products Licensing Act of 2003 requires a retailer to have a license to engage in the sale of cigarette and tobacco products in this state. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision relating to the citation of the act.