Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine the amount of funding to be provided for each special education local plan area in accordance with specified calculations. Existing law requires the Superintendent, for the 2013–14 fiscal year, to compute an equalization adjustment for each special education local plan area for purposes of increasing the funding rates for special education local plan areas with funding rates below the 90th percentile, as specified. This bill would increase that percentile to the 95th percentile and would require the Superintendent to compute that equalization adjustment commencing with the first fiscal year after funds are apportioned pursuant to a specified formula and for each fiscal year thereafter in which an equalization appropriation is made, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent to make certain computations following each year in which an equalization appropriation is made. The bill would establish the high-cost service allowance for the purpose of providing supplemental funding to a special education local plan area on the basis of the number of pupils with severe disabilities and the number pupils with both deafness and blindness, traumatic brain injury, or multiple disabilities, and would require the Superintendent to make specified computations that would determine the high-cost service allowance for each special education local plan area. The bill would require, commencing with the first fiscal year after funds are apportioned pursuant to a specified formula, a special education local plan area that reports serving children 3 or 4 years of age who meet the definition of an "individual with exceptional needs" to count 3 times all units of average daily attendance generated by children enrolled in kindergarten less those children eligible for transitional kindergarten, for purposes of calculating units of average daily attendance, except as provided. By adding to the duties of special education local plan areas, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law defines "average daily attendance reported for the special education local plan area" for purposes of these and other provisions to mean the total number of units of average daily attendance reported in the school district or districts and in the county office of education or county offices of education, or portion of a county office of education that is a part of more than one special education local plan area, as specified. The bill would revise that definition to mean the total number of units of average daily attendance reported for the current school year or the prior school year, whichever is greater, in those same entities, as specified. 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 creates the Human Trafficking Victims Assistance Fund in the State Treasury. Existing law makes the Office of Emergency Services responsible for awarding grants, based on specified criteria, to qualified nonprofit organizations that provide services to victims of human trafficking. This bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for the purpose of awarding grants to support programs for victims of human trafficking.
The Gambling Control Act provides for the licensure and regulation of various legalized gambling activities and establishments by the California Gambling Control Commission and the investigation and enforcement of those activities and establishments by the Department of Justice. A willful violation of the act is generally punishable as a misdemeanor. The Gambling Control Act establishes the California Gambling Control Commission and grants the commission jurisdiction and supervision over gambling establishments, as defined, in this state and over all persons or things having to do with the operations of gambling establishments. The California Gambling Control Commission consists of 5 members appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate. Existing law requires each member of the commission to be a citizen of the United States and a resident of this state. Existing law provides that no more than 3 of the 5 members of the commission shall be members of the same political party. Existing law also requires 4 of the 5 members to come from career backgrounds, as specified. This bill would eliminate the requirement that members have certain career backgrounds. The bill would instead state the intent of the Legislature that the commission be comprised of the most qualified individuals available, preferably no 2 of whom come from the same profession, field, or industry. Existing law makes a person ineligible for appointment to the commission if, within 2 years prior to appointment, they were employed by, retained by, or derived substantial income from, any gaming establishment, as defined. This bill would expand this disqualification to include participation in, or a pecuniary interest in, any gaming establishment. Existing law also requires members of the commission to take an oath of office and to pledge that they do not, nor will they during their term of office, hold any financial interest in or business association with any person, business, or organization holding a gambling license. This bill would extend this required pledge to include any person, business, or organization engaged in the business of gaming.
The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to their employees. CERL authorizes the retirement boards of 5 specified counties to appoint assistant administrators and chief investment officers who, following appointment, are outside county charter, civil service, and merit system rules, except as specified. CERL provides that these administrators and officers are employees of the county, as specified, while serving at the pleasure of the appointing boards, and that they may be dismissed without cause. This bill would apply these provisions to any county if the board of supervisors for that county, by resolution adopted by majority vote, makes those provisions applicable in the county.
Existing law requires a person, when leaving a handgun in an unattended vehicle, to lock the handgun in the vehicle's trunk, lock the handgun in a locked container and place the container out of plain view, or lock the handgun in a locked container that is permanently affixed to the vehicle's interior and not in plain view. This bill would additionally authorize locking the handgun in a toolbox or utility box. The bill would define "toolbox or utility box" as a fully enclosed container that is permanently affixed to the bed of a pickup truck or vehicle that does not contain a trunk, and is locked by a padlock, keylock, combination lock, or other similar locking device.
The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act defines and regulates common interest developments. Existing law requires a common interest development to be managed by an association, which may be a nonprofit corporation or an unincorporated association created for the purpose of managing the development. Existing law requires the owner of a separate interest in a common interest development to annually provide the association with specified written information, including an address for the purpose of receiving notices from the association. Existing law requires the association to solicit these annual notices of each owner, and authorizes the association, when an owner fails to provide the required notice, to use the last address provided in writing by the owner, except as specified. The Vacation Ownership and Time-share Act of 2004 requires the association for a time-share plan to maintain among its records a complete list of the names and addresses of all owners of interests in the time-share plan, to update this list no less than every 6 months, and to not publish this list or provide a copy of it to any time-share interest owner or to any 3rd party or use or sell the list for commercial purposes. This bill would deem a common interest development association, which includes time-share plan interests that are part of a mixed-use project, to have complied with the notice requirements under the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act if, at least once annually, it obtains from the time-share plan association a copy of the list of owners in the time-share plan and enters that data into its books and records. The bill would require the time-share plan association to provide this list to the common interest association at least annually for this purpose.
This measure would honor the men and women who have served and are serving in our nation's military, and would recognize the month of May 2018 as National Military Appreciation Month.
This measure would proclaim the month of May 2018 as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Awareness Month in California, and would encourage continued research in order to find treatments and eventually a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow a credit against those taxes for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2019, and before January 1, 2024, in an amount equal to 50% of the first $2,500 of qualified wages paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year to a student intern, as defined, for the first 90 calendar days of employment. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.