(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to establish and appoint members to an independent citizens' oversight committee, as specified, if a bond measure authorized pursuant to certain provisions of the California Constitution is approved by 55% of the voters. Existing law requires the citizens' oversight committee to convene to at least ensure the bond revenues are expended only for specified purposes and not used for any teacher or administrative salaries or other school operating expenses. This bill would require citizens' oversight committees to perform several functions that are optional under existing law, including receiving and reviewing copies of specified audit documents and plans, and performing specified inspections of school facilities and grounds. The bill would require a county office of education, at the request of a citizens' oversight committee, to review a school district's employment of a professional firm or construction contractor, as specified. By imposing new duties on county offices of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or community college district, without expending bond funds, to provide the citizens' oversight committee with any necessary technical assistance, administrative assistance, and sufficient resources to publicize the conclusions of the citizens' oversight committee. This bill would require this assistance to be made promptly. To the extent that this provision would impose new duties on school districts and community college districts with previously appointed citizens' oversight committees that are operating as of the date that this bill becomes operative, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law authorizes an action to obtain an order restraining and preventing any expenditure of funds received by a school district or community college district through the sale of bonds described above against any officer, agent, or other person acting on behalf of, that school district or community college district, by citizens who are or were liable to pay an ad valorem tax on real property within the school or community college district if it appears by the complaint or affidavits that certain conditions are present, including, among others, that the governing board of a school district or community college district has willfully failed to appoint the citizens' oversight committee. This bill would add to these conditions a situation in which the governing board of the school district or community college district has failed to cooperate with the citizens' oversight committee. (4) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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Existing law establishes the Homeless Youth and Exploitation Program, under which homeless youth emergency service projects are established in the Counties of Los Angeles, Santa Clara, San Diego, and the City and County of San Francisco through a grant program to eligible private, nonprofit agencies with a demonstrated record of success in the delivery of services to homeless youth. Under existing law, this program is administered by the Office of Emergency Services. Existing law requires each project to provide specified services, including food and access to overnight shelter, counseling to address immediate emotional crises and problems, and long-term stabilization planning. This bill would establish the Transitional Housing for Homeless Youth Grant Program to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services to award grants to qualified nonprofit entities to provide transitional living services, such as long-term residential services, access to resources, and counseling services, to homeless youth ages 18 to 24 years of age, inclusive, for a period of up to 36 months. The bill would require the office, in consultation with specified stakeholders, to establish minimum standards and procedures for awarding the grant moneys. The bill would require each grant recipient to submit a report to the office on or before January 31, 2020, and on or before January 31 each year thereafter, that contains specified information regarding services provided during the previous calendar year, including the number of youth served that year and the average length of stay for each youth who left the program. The bill would require the office to submit a report to the Legislature on or before March 31, 2020, and on or before March 31 each year thereafter, that contains, in aggregate form, the information the grant recipients submitted to the office. The bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of awarding grants under the program.
Existing law authorizes various state entities to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations for various specified purposes. The Administrative Procedure Act requires the Office of Administrative Law and a state agency proposing to adopt, amend, or repeal a regulation to review the proposed changes for, among other things, consistency with existing state regulations. This bill would require each state agency to, on or before January 1, 2020, review that agency's regulations, identify any regulations that are duplicative, overlapping, inconsistent, or out of date, to revise those identified regulations, as provided, and report to the Legislature and Governor, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2021.
Existing sales and use tax laws impose a tax 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. Those laws provide various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on and after January 1, 2018, would exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tampons, sanitary napkins, menstrual sponges, and menstrual cups. 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.
Existing law prohibits a person who has 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood from driving a vehicle. Existing law also prohibits a person while having 0.08% or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood from driving a vehicle and concurrently doing any act forbidden by law, or neglecting any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, when the act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to a person other than the driver. A violation of either of these prohibitions is a crime. Existing law authorizes a court, in addition to imposing penalties and sanctions for those violations, to require the person to enroll and participate in, and successfully complete, a driving-under-the-influence program, which may include, among other things, education, group counseling, and individual interview sessions. Existing law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to immediately suspend a person's privilege to operate a motor vehicle for a specified period of time if the person has driven a motor vehicle when the person had a certain blood-alcohol concentration. Existing law also requires the department to suspend or revoke the driving privilege of a person who refuses an officer's request or fails to complete a chemical test or tests, as specified. Existing law authorizes certain individuals whose privilege is suspended or revoked pursuant to that provision to receive a restricted driver's license if specified requirements are met, including the completion of specified periods of license suspension or revocation and, in some instances, the installation of an ignition interlock device on the person's vehicle. This bill would, until January 1, 2022, authorize the court to order a person convicted of a crime described above to enroll and participate in, and successfully complete, a qualified "24/7 Sobriety program," as defined, as a condition of probation, if the program is available and deemed appropriate, and the person committed the crime within 10 years of one or more separate crimes described above that resulted in a conviction. The bill would define a "24/7 Sobriety program," in part, as requiring a person in the program to abstain from alcohol and unauthorized controlled substances and be subject to frequent testing for alcohol and controlled substances, as specified. The bill would authorize use of participation in a 24/7 Sobriety program in conjunction with participation in an ignition interlock device program. The bill would require a person participating in the program to pay the program costs, commensurate with the person's ability to pay, as specified.
Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that the law enforcement agencies and the county welfare or probation department of each county develop and implement cooperative arrangements in order to coordinate existing duties in connection with the investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect cases. Existing law requires a local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over a reported case of child abuse to report to the county welfare or probation department that it is investigating the case, and requires the county welfare department or probation department, in certain cases, to evaluate what action or actions would be in the best interest of the child and to submit its findings to the district attorney, as specified. This bill would authorize a county, in order to implement a multidisciplinary response to investigate reports involving child physical or sexual abuse, exploitation, or maltreatment, to use a Child Advocacy Center. The bill would require a Child Advocacy Center to meet specified standards, including the use of representatives from specified disciplines and providing dedicated child-focused settings for interviews and other services. The bill would authorize multidisciplinary team members to share with each other information in their possession concerning the child, the family of the child, and the person who is the subject of the abuse or neglect investigation, as specified.
Existing law requires the State Council on Developmental Disabilities to, among other responsibilities, form a standing Employment First Committee to identify strategies and recommend legislative, regulatory, and policy changes to increase integrated employment, as defined, self-employment, and microenterprises for persons with developmental disabilities, as specified. This bill would establish within the State Council on Developmental Disabilities the office of the Competitive Integrated Employment Ombudsperson. The bill would require the executive director of the council to appoint a qualified individual to serve as the ombudsperson and would specify the duties of the ombudsperson, including, among other things, the duty to serve as a resource regarding the rights and services available under the California Competitive Integrated Employment Blueprint, as defined. The bill would require the ombudsperson to submit an annual report to the Governor, the Director of Developmental Services, and the Employment First Committee of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities, as specified. The bill would also specify that all communications received by the Competitive Integrated Employment Ombudsperson in the course of his or her duties are confidential. Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
Existing law imposes an annual tax on the gross premiums of an insurer, as defined, doing business in this state at specified rates. Existing law, until January 1, 2017, allows a credit under the Personal Income Tax Law, the Corporation Tax Law, and a credit against the tax imposed on an insurer in an amount equal to 20% of a qualified investment, as defined, made in a community development financial institution, as defined, but not to exceed, in the aggregate amount under all those laws, $50,000,000 per year and authorizes the California Organized Investment Network to certify investments for the credit until January 1, 2017. Existing law provides that if a qualified investment is reduced before the end of the 60th month, but not below $50,000, an amount equal to 20% of the total reduction for the year shall be added to the tax imposed on the taxpayer. Existing law also provides that if a qualified investment is withdrawn before the end of the 60th month and not reinvested in another community development financial institution within 60 days, the entire amount of any credit previously allowed for that taxable year is required to be added to the tax imposed on the taxpayer. These provisions are repealed on December 1, 2017. This bill would establish similar credits under the Personal Income Tax Law, the Corporation Tax Law, and the tax imposed on an insurer for taxable years or years, as specified, beginning on or after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2022. The bill would, as compared to the tax credit that expired on January 1, 2017, require priority for the tax credit to be given to insurance company investors over all other tax credit investors and would instead require that the provision regarding withdrawal, without reinvestment, of a qualified investment also applies when a qualified investment is reduced. This bill would repeal these provisions on December 1, 2022. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires the Department of Parks and Recreation to administer, protect, develop, and interpret the property under its jurisdiction in the state park system for the use and enjoyment of the public. Existing law provides for the department to charge various fees for use of state parks, but requires the department to offer free or reduced-rate admission to eligible persons under certain circumstances. This bill would require the department to grant 50 percent-discounted admission to the general public to each unit of the state park system on September 9, California Admission Day.