This measure would recognize the Dalai Lama for his contributions to world peace and leadership in seeking nonviolent solutions to international problems, designate March 10, 2009, as Dalai Lama and Tibet Awareness Day.
Existing law establishes various programs to recruit and encourage individuals to complete the required education and training to serve as elementary and public school teachers. Existing law requires individuals teaching in public schools to hold an appropriate credential, permit, certificate, or other document issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing. This bill would establish the California Teaching Fellowship, to be administered by the State Department of Education, for the purpose of encouraging graduates of postsecondary institutions and professionals with backgrounds in mathematics and science to teach in the fields of mathematics and science. The bill would require each applicant accepted into the program to teach at a public school for a 2-year period, during which time the applicant would be authorized to receive a stipend from the department, as determined by the program budget. The bill, notwithstanding the requirement that an individual teaching in the public schools hold an appropriate credential, permit, certificate, or other document issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, would authorize individuals accepted into the program to teach without a credential, permit, certificate, or other document issued by the commission. The bill would require that each applicant, among other things, not have been previously certified to teach, and not have previously withdrawn from the program after the commencement of training. The bill would require each applicant to pass the California Basic Educational Skills Test, and to successfully undergo a background check administered by the department. The bill would require that the program be funded by revenue growth, as identified by the Director of Finance, that is generated by increased economic activity from the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority, as well as by private grants.
This measure would recognize the Lunar New Year 4708 celebration.
This measure would declare February 23, 2010, to be Spay Day USA 2010 in California, and would request that Californians observe that day by having their dogs and cats spayed or neutered and by providing voluntary services or other support to organizations that provide spay and neuter services.
Existing law prohibits the recreational use of reservoirs where water is stored for domestic use and defines recreational use for this purpose to include recreation in which there is bodily contact with the water by a participant. Existing law exempts certain reservoirs from this prohibition, including, but not limited to, Nacimiento Reservoir, and sets forth conditions and restrictions to ensure water purity. Existing law imposes water treatment requirements on an agency that removes water from the Nacimiento Reservoir that must be completed prior to its domestic use. This bill would impose additional minimum water treatment requirements that must be met by the agency removing water from that reservoir. This bill would also allow the entity operating the water supply reservoir or the department to subject the recreational use to additional conditions and restrictions. By imposing additional requirements upon a local agency. This bill would create 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 law authorizes the State Air Resources Board to regulate pollution from primarily vehicular sources, and designates the state board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. This bill would require the state board to complete and place into the rulemaking record a related impacts analysis for a proposed adoption, amendment, or repeal of a major regulation that will have an adverse economic impact on California business enterprises and individuals in an amount exceeding $10,000,000, as provided. The bill would authorize a person to request the state board to submit the related impacts analysis for external peer review in accordance with specified requirements. The state board would be authorized to assess a fee on a person making a request for external peer review to cover the administrative costs of processing that request.
The Personal Income Tax Law provides, in modified conformity to federal income tax laws, for the manner in which taxable gains are to be recognized upon the disposition of property, including real property that is the principal residence of the taxpayer. This bill would provide additional conformity to those federal income tax laws relating to the exclusion of gain from the sale of a principal residence by a surviving spouse. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
This resolution would respectfully request that the International Maritime Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, adopt the North American Emission Control Area, as proposed by the United States, Canada, and France at the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee, scheduled for March 2010.
The Personal Income Tax Law conforms to specified provisions of the federal Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, relating to the exclusion of the discharge of qualified principal residence indebtedness, as defined, from a taxpayer's income if that debt is discharged after January 1, 2007, and before January 1, 2010, as provided. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 extended the operation of those provisions to debt that is discharged before January 1, 2013. This bill would provide further conformity to those federal acts, as provided. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, known as the California Land Conservation Act of 1965, or the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county, by contract, to limit the uses of land to agricultural uses or as an agricultural preserve in exchange for reduced property taxes. Existing law provides replacement revenues to local governments by reason of the reduction of the property tax on open-space lands assessed under specified provisions of the Revenue and Taxation Code (subvention payments) , including lands enrolled under the Williamson Act. Existing law continuously appropriates to the Controller from the General Fund a sum sufficient to make the payments required under those provisions. This bill would appropriate $36,000,000 from the General Fund to the Controller, for subvention payments for those parcels enrolled under the Williamson Act for purposes of making those payments during the 2010–11 fiscal year.
