(1) Existing law creates the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) and requires all insurers admitted to transact specified insurance lines in this state to become members. Under existing law, CIGA pays and discharges covered claims, which are the obligations of an insolvent insurer that meet specified requirements. Existing law requires CIGA to collect premium payments from its member insurers sufficient to discharge its obligations. Existing law requires CIGA to allocate its claim payments and costs to the categories of workers' compensation claims, homeowners' and automobile claims, and other claims. Under existing law, if CIGA determines that the insolvency of one or more member insurers providing workers' compensation insurance will result in covered claim obligations for workers' compensation claims in excess of CIGA's capacity to pay from current funds, the board of CIGA may ask the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue bonds. Under existing law, if a natural disaster results in covered claim obligations currently payable and owed to CIGA in excess of its capacity to pay from current funds and current premium assessment, the board of CIGA may ask the Department of Insurance to issue bonds. Existing law authorizes CIGA or the department, as appropriate, to levy assessments on CIGA member insurers to pay the principal and interest on the bonds, which member insurers recoup from insureds through a surcharge on applicable policies. Existing law creates the Workers' Comp Bond Fund and the Insurance Assessment Bond Fund, into which proceeds from the sale of bonds are deposited. This bill would repeal the provisions relative to bonds issued to discharge claims after a natural disaster, and would revise the provisions relative to bonds issued to discharge workers' compensation to additionally authorize CIGA to ask the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue bonds if CIGA determines the insolvency of member insurers writing homeowners' and automobile insurance and other insurance will result in covered claim obligations in excess of CIGA's capacity to pay from current funds. If the board of CIGA asks the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank to issue bonds, the bill would require the board to report specified information to the Assembly Committee on Insurance and the Senate Committee on Insurance within 60 days of the request, and annually thereafter while the bonds remain outstanding. The bill would authorize CIGA to levy an assessment on member insurers writing homeowners' and automobile insurance and other insurance to pay the principal of, and interest on, the bonds issued for that claims category, which would be recouped through a surcharge on applicable policies, thereby imposing a tax. The bill would create the Homeowners' and Automobile Bond Fund and the Other Bond Fund into which proceeds from the sale of bonds to cover claims in those categories of insurance would be deposited. The bill would also make conforming changes. This bill would specify that obligations under a policy issued to cover cybersecurity are covered claims, as long as CIGA's total liability does not exceed $1,000,000 or the policy limits, whichever is less. (2) Existing law requires CIGA to adopt a plan of operation that requires a member insurer to recoup the premium charge paid by the member insurer through a surcharge on premiums charged for insurance policies in the year following the premium charge. This bill would require the plan of operation to require a member insurer to recoup the premium charge amount, as determined by CIGA, through a surcharge on premiums, even if a premium charge has not yet been paid to CIGA because the member insurer had no direct written premium for that category of insurance for the prior year. (3) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIII A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
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Existing law establishes the Independent Living Program (ILP) , which has among its purposes providing training in daily living skills, budgeting, locating and maintaining housing, and career planning for foster youth up to 21 years of age. Existing federal law authorizes a state, under certain circumstances, to expand eligibility for the ILP to former foster youth who have not attained 23 years of age. This bill would expand eligibility for the ILP to current and former foster youth up to 22 years of age, subject to an appropriation and the approval of the federal government. The bill would also require the State Department of Social Services to take specified actions relating to the ILP, including updating and expanding the standards and requirements for the ILP to increase consistency in ILPs across counties while retaining some flexibility in services and supports delivered by local ILPs and identifying a minimum set of specific core services and supports that all county ILPs are required to provide. The bill would specify certain services that are required to be included in the core services and supports, including, among others, direct services or linkage to programs and services that will reduce the incidence of homelessness. The bill would require a county to submit a plan for the operation of its ILP to the department and implement that plan within a specified timeframe. The bill would state that any of these provisions that require automation shall become operative on July 1, 2024, or the date the department notifies the Legislature that the statewide child welfare information system can perform the necessary automation to implement the ability to identify ILP core services and supports, whichever is earlier. By creating new duties for counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the department to determine the funding necessary to expand eligibility for the ILP and the stipends described below to include former foster youth up to 23 years of age and to submit a report with that information to the Legislature during budget hearings for the 2023–24 fiscal year budget. The bill would require the department to implement these provisions by all-county letter or similar instruction until regulations are adopted and would make the implementation of certain provisions contingent on an appropriation by the Legislature for those purposes. Existing law requires counties to maintain a stipend to assist youth who have exited the foster care system at or after 18 years of age with independent living needs, as specified. This bill would expand the list of specified independent living needs for which the stipend is authorized. The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require counties to provide that stipend to former foster youth up to 25 years of age. By creating new duties for counties, the 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.
Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including a partial exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before July 1, 2030, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for purchases not exceeding $200,000,000, for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property, as specified; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and development, as provided; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily to maintain, repair, measure, or test any qualified tangible personal property, as provided; and qualified tangible personal property purchased by a contractor purchasing that property for use in the performance of a construction contract for the qualified person, that will use that property as an integral part of specified processes. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2018, and before July 1, 2030, additionally exempts from those taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in the generation or production, as defined, or storage and distribution, as defined, of electric power. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2023, and before January 1, 2028, make this a full exemption for purchases not exceeding $200,000,000. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2028, and would revert to the above-described partial exemption on that date. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure 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 require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to submit a report to the Legislature on the exemption and would provide findings and declarations relating to the goals of the exemption. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This measure would proclaim the month of September 2022 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 44, near Oak Run in the County of Shasta, as the Stan Statham Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
This measure would designate the East End Complex-Block 171 in Sacramento as the Mario Obledo Building, and would request the Department of General Services to determine the cost of erecting appropriate plaques and markers showing the designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources, to cover that cost to erect signage.
This measure would urge the United States Congress to amend the United States Social Security Administration's index of earnings to ensure that a decline in aggregate wages due to COVID-19 does not result in decreased benefits.
This measure would, among other things, on the first anniversary of the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, urge the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol to uncover the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the attack, and honor the individuals who died or were injured as a result of the attack.
This measure would designate the portion of State Route 5 from El Horno Street, at postmile 10.001, to Crown Valley Parkway, at postmile 13.776, in the County of Orange as the Senior Master Sergeant John James Paoletti Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
This measure would designate a portion of State Route 119, between E Kern Street, postmile 0.34, and Cedar Street, postmile 1.300, in the County of Kern as the Corporal Luis Carlos Ruan Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.