Existing law suspends various activities of redevelopment agencies, including, among other things, refunding, restructuring, or refinancing indebtedness or obligations that existed prior to January 1, 2011, or amending or modifying existing agreements, obligations, or commitments with any entity for any purpose. Existing law authorizes a redevelopment agency to issue Emergency Refunding Bonds in specified circumstances, including, among others, when it is the only means available to the agency to avoid a default on outstanding agency bonds. Existing law also dissolves redevelopment agencies and community development agencies, as of October 1, 2011, and designates successor agencies, as defined. The bill would, notwithstanding these restrictions, authorize a redevelopment agency, for purposes of certain bonds secured with a credit enhancement issued by a 3rd-party credit provider, to seek an extension of the credit enhancement or to modify or amend the terms of existing agreements with the credit provider to avoid or delay the incurrence of certain types of reimbursement obligations. This bill would also authorize a redevelopment agency to issue Emergency Refunding Bonds in specified situations relating to lines of credit obtained from a financial institution. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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The Personal Income Tax Law allows individual taxpayers to contribute amounts in excess of their tax liability for the support of specified funds. This bill would, until January 1, 2016, allow a taxpayer to designate on a tax return that a specified amount in excess of his or her tax liability be deposited into the General Fund. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution.
This measure would recognize the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks as a day of solemn commemoration.
Existing law provides for state mental hospitals for the treatment of mentally disordered persons. Existing law places these hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, and authorizes the department to adopt uniform rules and regulations regarding the conduct and management of these facilities, including prohibiting patients from possessing certain items. This bill would make the possession with the intent to deliver, or delivery, to a patient in a state hospital specified items, if they have been prohibited for possession by a patient either by statute or by regulation, a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 for each item. The bill would also require the confiscation from a visitor of an item prohibited for possession by a patient if discovered upon being searched or subjected to a metal detector and would require, unless the item is held as evidence, the return of the item the same day. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose 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.
This measure would commemorate the 100-year anniversary of California's initiative process.
This measure would declare June 2011 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
Existing law requires that a transferor of real property improved with one to 4 dwellings provide disclosures regarding certain characteristics of the property by means of a prescribed form. Existing law requires that, on or before January 1, 2017, a single-family residential property built and available for use on or before January 1, 1994, be equipped with water-conserving plumbing fixtures, as defined. This bill would revise the form described above to require that a transferor of real property, as described above, disclose whether or not the property is equipped with water-conserving plumbing fixtures.
Existing law requires, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, the elections official conducting the election to conduct a public manual tally of the ballots tabulated by those devices, including vote by mail voters' ballots, cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official. This bill would, during the official canvass of an election in which a voting system is used, authorize the elections official conducting the election to conduct a public manual tally by alternative means than those described above. Specifically, this bill would permit the elections official conducting the election to conduct a manual tally of the ballots cast in 1% of the precincts chosen at random by the elections official and a separate manual tally of not less than 1% of the vote by mail ballots cast in the election.
(1) The California Constitution requires the Legislature to pass, by midnight on June 15 of each year, a Budget Bill for the ensuing fiscal year. The Legislature is prohibited from sending to the Governor for consideration a Budget Bill that would appropriate from the General Fund for that fiscal year a total amount that, when combined with other specified amounts, exceeds General Fund revenues for that fiscal year estimated as of the date of the Budget Bill's passage and set forth in the Budget Bill. In any year in which the Budget Bill is not passed by the Legislature by midnight on June 15, the California Constitution prohibits an appropriation from the current or a future budget to pay any salary or reimbursement for travel or living expenses for Members of the Legislature during any regular or special session for the period from midnight on June 15 until the day that the Budget Bill is presented to the Governor. The California Constitution creates the office of the Controller, and existing law vests in the Controller specified responsibilities with respect to the fiscal concerns of the state. This measure would require the Controller, no later than 3 days following the date upon which the Legislature has presented to the Governor the Budget Bill for a fiscal year, to determine whether the total amount the Budget Bill would appropriate from the General Fund for that fiscal year, when combined with other specified amounts, exceeds General Fund revenues for that fiscal year as estimated by the Controller, and to notify the Legislature and the Governor accordingly. If the Controller determines that his or her estimate of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year is so exceeded, payments of salary and reimbursement for travel or living expenses for Members of the Legislature would be forfeited for the period from midnight on the date of that notification or midnight on June 15, whichever is later, until the Budget Bill has been enacted and the Controller's estimate of General Fund revenues for that fiscal year is no longer exceeded, or, if the Budget Bill has been enacted and that excess has not been eliminated, until the Legislature presents to the Governor one or more bills that would increase General Fund revenues, decrease General Fund appropriations, or both, in an amount that would eliminate that excess. This measure would also prohibit the Budget Bill and other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill, as defined, from being heard or acted on by a committee or either house until the 3rd day after those bills have been printed and distributed, or otherwise made available, to the Members of the Legislature. (2) If, following the enactment of the Budget Bill for a fiscal year, the Governor determines that General Fund revenues for that fiscal year will decline substantially below the estimate of General Fund revenues upon which the Budget Bill was based or General Fund expenditures will increase substantially above that estimate of General Fund revenues, or both, the California Constitution permits the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and require the Legislature to assemble in special session. If the Legislature fails to pass and send to the Governor a bill or bills to address the fiscal emergency by the 45th day following the Governor's declaration of a fiscal emergency, the Legislature is prohibited from acting on any other bill or adjourning for a joint recess until that bill or those bills have been passed and sent to the Governor. This measure would require the Governor's declaration of a fiscal emergency to specify the amount by which General Fund revenues will decline substantially below the estimate of General Fund revenues determined by the Controller or by which General Fund expenditures will increase substantially above that estimate of General Fund revenues, or both. This measure would also provide that, if the Legislature fails to send to the Governor a bill or bills that address the fiscal emergency by the 45th day following the Governor's declaration of a fiscal emergency, the actions the Legislature is prohibited from taking include hearing, amending, or voting on any other bill in either house of the Legislature or a committee thereof, except a bill addressing an emergency, as defined, declared by the Governor. In addition, this measure would specify that a bill or bills shall be deemed to address the fiscal emergency only if the bill or bills, if enacted, would increase General Fund revenues, decrease General Fund expenditures, or both, by an amount at least equal to the sum of the revenue shortfall and expenditure increase, as applicable, identified in the Governor's declaration of a fiscal emergency. The measure would require a bill addressing the fiscal emergency to declare the amount by which it would increase General Fund revenues, decrease General Fund expenditures, or both. (3) The California Constitution provides for the power of referendum, whereby voters may approve or reject statutes or part of statutes, except urgency statutes, statutes calling elections, statutes providing for tax levies, and statutes providing for appropriations for the usual current expenses of the state. This measure would declare that the Budget Bill and other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill are subject to referendum.