The Mobilehome Parks Act sets forth findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to mobilehomes and mobilehome parks. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that act.
Existing law requires that all fines and forfeitures imposed and collected for crimes other than parking offenses resulting from a filing in a court be deposited with the county treasurer, to be distributed monthly, as required by law. Existing law authorizes the University of California to establish a spinal cord injury research fund, independent of the State Treasury, to accept public and private funds for spinal cord injury research programs and grants. This bill would impose an additional penalty of $3 to be imposed upon every conviction for a violation of state or local traffic laws, as specified, except for offenses relating to parking. The bill would require the penalty to be deposited with the county treasurer and distributed each month for transfer to the spinal cord injury research fund created within the University of California. The bill would also provide that, prior to the transfer of funds to the spinal cord injury research fund, the county treasurer may withhold a sufficient amount necessary to reimburse the county and the courts for their actual, reasonable, and necessary costs associated with administering these provisions. If those amounts are withheld, the bill would authorize the county to send an accounting report detailing its costs to the Regents of the University of California.
The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities in order to address the effects of blight, as defined, in those communities and requires to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and to approve a redevelopment plan for each project area. That law sets forth various procedural requirements of a redevelopment agency for its adoption of a redevelopment plan. This bill would authorize the Fremont Redevelopment Agency to adopt a redevelopment plan for a project area encompassing or surrounding the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) automobile manufacturing plant and the Warm Springs Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station. The bill would set forth alternative conditions that cause blight for the purpose of the adoption of this redevelopment plan. The bill would provide that the redevelopment plan would not be required to demonstrate conformance with the community's general plan, but would prohibit the agency from receiving or using tax increment funds from the project area until its legislative body determines that the redevelopment plan is consistent with the general plan. The bill would also make other changes to the plan adoption process in order to streamline that process. The bill would require the county assessor of the County of Alameda to review the assessed value of the taxable properties in the project area prior to the effective date of the ordinance adopted by the Fremont Redevelopment Agency for purposes of establishing the assessment roll to be used in connection with the taxation of the subject properties. By adding to the duties of local government officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also authorize the agency to use tax increment revenue derived from the project area to assist in funding school facilities that will serve the future residents of the project area, as specified. The bill would specify that this use of tax increment funding would be in addition to any transfer of tax increment revenue to a taxing agency or school district for educational purposes required under the Community Redevelopment Law. The Planning and Zoning Law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to require, by ordinance, the payment of a development impact fee for school facilities as a condition to the approval of a residential development, in specified circumstances. This bill would authorize the City of Fremont, upon the request of the Fremont Redevelopment Agency, to impose a higher maximum school facilities development impact fee with respect to residential developments in the project area than that provided for under existing law. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Fremont Redevelopment Agency. 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 these statutory provisions.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates mass mailings, known as slate mailers, that support or oppose multiple candidates or ballot measures for an election. The act requires that each slate mailer identify the slate mailer organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one or more ballot measures that is sending the slate mailer, and to contain other specified information in specified formatting. The act requires that each candidate and each ballot measure that has paid to appear in the slate mailer be designated by an asterisk. This bill would instead require that a candidate or ballot measure appearing in the slate mailer be designated by an asterisk if the slate mailer organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one or more ballot measures that is sending the slate mailer has received payment to include the candidate or ballot measure in the slate mailer. The bill would also recast the language of the prescribed notice to voters that must be included on a slate mailer. The act also regulates advertisements, which are defined as any general or public advertisement that is authorized and paid for by a person or committee for the purpose supporting or opposing a candidate for elective office or a ballot measure or ballot measures. The act places certain disclosure requirements on advertisements for or against any ballot measure, including that the advertisement disclose any person who has made cumulative contributions of $50,000 or more, as prescribed. The act places more specific disclosure requirements on broadcast or mass mailing advertisements that are paid for by independent expenditures that support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure. This bill would repeal provisions relating to disclosures for advertisements paid for by an independent expenditure and required disclosures of persons who have made cumulative contributions of $50,000 or more. This bill would, instead, impose specified disclosure requirements on radio, television, and video advertisements, and certain mass mailing and print advertisements that support or oppose a candidate or ballot measure or solicit contributions in support of those purposes. The bill would require advertisements that are authorized by a candidate or agent of the candidate to include a statement in which the candidate identifies himself or herself and states that he or she approves the message. The bill would require advertisements that are not authorized by a candidate or an agent of the candidate to disclose, in a prescribed format, the 3 largest identifiable contributors, as defined, of the committee that paid for the advertisement. The bill would require mass mailings or print advertisements that are paid for by certain persons who are not committees to disclose the name of that person as the funder of the mass mailing or print advertisement. The bill would also require that certain committees establish and maintain a committee disclosure Internet Web site, as defined, which discloses the top 5 identifiable contributors and provides a link to the Internet Web site maintained by the Secretary of State for campaign finance disclosures of the committee. The bill would require these advertisements to identify the address for the committee disclosure Internet Web site. Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating additional crimes. 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. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
This measure would call upon the President of the United States to lift the restrictions currently in place that prevent the Republic of Poland from being admitted to the Visa Waiver Program.
This bill would urge the United States Patent and Trademark Office to place a satellite office in California.
This measure would designate that January 16, 2012, be observed as the official memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement in changing public policy in California and in the United States of America.
Under existing law, any taxing agency or instrumentality of the state may file a petition and prosecute to completion bankruptcy proceedings permitted under the laws of the United States. This bill would prohibit a local public entity from filing under federal bankruptcy law unless the local public entity has participated in a specified neutral evaluation process with interested parties, as defined, or the local public entity has declared a fiscal emergency and has adopted a resolution by a majority vote of the governing board at a noticed public hearing that includes findings that the financial state of the local public entity jeopardizes the health, safety, or well-being of the residents of the local public entity's jurisdiction or service area absent bankruptcy protections.
Existing law requires an employer to withhold the amounts required by an earnings withholding order from all earnings of the employee payable for any pay period of the employee that ends during the withholding period. Under existing law, the portion of the judgment debtor's earnings that the judgment debtor proves is necessary for the support of the judgment debtor or the judgment debtor's family supported in whole or in part by the judgment debtor is exempt from the levy of an earnings withholding order. This exemption is not available if the debt was incurred for the common necessaries of life furnished to the judgment debtor or the family of the judgment debtor. This bill would delete that exception for the common necessaries of life. This bill would, instead, provide an exception for a debt incurred pursuant to an order or award for the payment of attorney's fees in connection with certain family law proceedings. The bill would also make a conforming change.
Existing law makes the Environmental Protection Trust Fund and the training account in that fund inoperative as of July 1, 2011, and repeals the fund and account as of January 1, 2012. Until July 1, 2011, existing law authorizes the expenditure of a portion of the moneys in the Environmental Protection Trust Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of a training account established and maintained by the Secretary for Environmental Protection and allocates all remaining funds to the unified program agencies for expenditure to implement the Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act. This bill would make the fund and account operative until July 1, 2013, and would repeal the fund and the account on January 1, 2014.
