Existing property tax law establishes a veterans' organization exemption under which property is exempt from taxation if, among other things, that property is used exclusively for charitable purposes and is owned by a veterans' organization. This bill would provide that the veterans' organization exemption shall not be denied to a property on the basis that the property is used for fraternal, lodge, or social club purposes, and would make specific findings and declarations in that regard. The bill would also provide that the exemption shall not apply to any portion of a property that consists of a bar where alcoholic beverages are served. Section 2229 of the Revenue and Taxation Code requires the Legislature to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2229 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
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This measure would proclaim and acknowledge the month of June 2015 and June of every year thereafter as Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Awareness Month.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA, until January 1, 2016, exempts a project or an activity to repair, maintain, or make minor alterations to an existing roadway, as defined, if the project or activity is carried out by a city or county with a population of less than 100,000 persons to improve public safety and meets other specified requirements. This bill would extend the above exemption to January 1, 2020.
The Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, based in part on the model Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, generally establishes the conditions under which a transfer made or obligation incurred by a debtor is fraudulent as to a creditor, and sets forth the remedies of a creditor with respect to a fraudulent transfer or obligation, including, but not limited to, voiding the transfer. The act defines terms for its purposes. This bill would rename the act the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act and would revise the act to adopt certain provisions proposed by the 2014 Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, which is based upon the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, both of which were promulgated by the Uniform Law Commission. This bill would specify the burden of proof in making and defending a claim for relief and the basis for determining the governing law for a claim for relief under the act. This bill would modify definitions applicable to the act, would remove a definition of insolvency relating to a partnership debtor, and would add new definitions, including, but not limited to, definitions of "record" and "sign." This bill would replace the term "fraudulent" with the term "voidable," as specified. This bill would limit the applicability of the modifications to the act proposed by this bill to a right of action that accrued, transfer made, or obligation incurred on or after the effective date of this bill. This bill would revise cross-references to the act and would make conforming changes to related provisions.
Existing law authorizes school districts and county superintendents of schools to provide transportation services to pupils. Existing law, among other things, requires each school district or county office of education that provides transportation to receive the same home-to-school and special education transportation allowances that it received in the prior fiscal year and prohibits the transportation allowances from exceeding the prior year's approved transportation costs, increased by the amount provided in the annual Budget Act. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2015–16 fiscal year to the 2021–22 fiscal year, inclusive, to apportion to each school district, county office of education, entity providing services under a school transportation joint powers agreement, or a regional occupational center or program that provides pupil transportation services, an amount equal to a specified annually increasing percentage of its approved transportation costs for the prior fiscal year or 100% of its school transportation apportionment for the 2014–15 fiscal year, annually adjusted as specified, whichever is greater. The bill would provide that implementation of its provisions is subject to an appropriation being made for purposes of those provisions in the annual Budget Act or another statute.
This measure would declare that the Legislature of the State of California supports finding the best long-term solution for peace and security in the Middle East and a nuclear-free Iran, and believes that any agreement signed with Iran should provide for ongoing international oversight.
This measure would proclaim the week of May 17, 2015, to May 23, 2015, inclusive, as Emergency Medical Services Week.
This measure would recognize the month of May 2015 as National Military Appreciation Month.