Existing law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to release a prisoner on a specified period of parole after the expiration of a specified term of imprisonment. Under existing law, the department is authorized to return a parolee to prison if the Board of Parole Hearings determines that the parolee violated the terms of his or her parole, as specified. Existing law prohibits the department from returning certain parolees to prison, placing a parole hold on the parolee, or reporting the parolee to the Board of Parole Hearings for a violation of parole, as specified. This bill would provide that a parolee to whom these limitations on the department are applicable may be required to wear an electronic monitoring device, for the duration of the parole period, by a local law enforcement agency that has primary jurisdiction over the location where the parolee resides and has been authorized by the department, in its discretion, to use global positioning system technology or otherwise monitor nonrevocable parolees. This bill would provide that any local law enforcement agency meeting those conditions shall, prior to any electronic monitoring of nonrevocable parolees, enter into a memorandum of understanding with the department, as specified, at the agency's expense. The bill would provide that the cost of acquiring, leasing, and monitoring an electronic monitoring device shall be the responsibility of the local law enforcement agency requiring the wearing of the device.
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(1) Existing law authorizes a school district or community college district that has submitted a school construction application for review to the Department of General Services to request that the department refer the documents necessary for the review of the application to a qualified plan review firm operating under contract with the department, as specified. Existing law requires the department immediately to grant the request. This bill instead would authorize the department to grant the request as it deems appropriate. (2) Existing law requires the Department of General Services to issue a certification that a school building complies with specified statutory requirements when construction on the building is completed, specified documents have been submitted, and other specified requirements have been satisfied. Existing law allows a school district or community college district to occupy the building prior to the issuance of the certification. This bill instead would prohibit the use or occupancy of a school building that has been constructed, reconstructed, altered, or added to, except as specified, until the department has issued the certification.
Existing law authorizes the State Board of Equalization to take various collection actions to effect the collection of delinquent amounts due under the Sales and Use Tax Law and also authorizes the board to contract with a private collection company to identify and collect out-of-state sales and use tax delinquent accounts. This bill would authorize the board to enter into agreements with one or more persons for the purpose of collecting delinquent accounts with respect to amounts assessed or imposed under specified statutes requiring the payment of sales and use taxes, but only if the agreements do not displace, as defined, civil service employees, and the board has exhausted all internal procedures to collect on delinquent accounts. The bill would require that any amounts received by the board from collections on delinquent accounts pursuant to those provisions be deposited into the Delinquent Sales and Use Tax Collection Fund, which the bill would create in the State Treasury. This bill would continuously appropriate moneys in the new fund to reimburse the board for its contracting costs and would prohibit these funds from being used in place of funds from other sources that are available for appropriation to the board, as provided.
(1) Existing law provides for the establishment of the Franchise Tax Board and prescribes its various powers and duties regarding the administration of state personal income taxes and corporation franchise and income taxes. The State Board of Equalization collects and administers various taxes and fees imposed under specified programs and serves as an arbiter for the resolution of tax disputes involving the imposition of fees and taxes, including those taxes administered by the Franchise Tax Board. This bill would abolish the Franchise Tax Board, and would provide for the transfer of its powers and duties to the State Board of Equalization, effective January 1, 2012. (2) Existing law imposes, on employers in this state, unemployment insurance taxes that are administered by the Employment Development Department. Existing law also imposes taxes on insurance companies that are administered by the Department of Insurance. This bill would also provide for the transfer of the tax administrative functions performed by the Employment Development Department and the Department of Insurance to the State Board of Equalization, effective January 1, 2012. (3) This bill would require the State Board of Equalization to submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before June 30, 2011, regarding the board's assumption of the duties of the Franchise Tax Board and the assumption of the tax administration functions of the Employment Development Department and the Department of Insurance, as specified. This bill would also repeal this reporting requirement on June 30, 2015.
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. That law provides various exemptions from those taxes. The bill would partially exempt from those taxes, on or after January 1, 2011, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use in the manufacturing process or for use in research and development, as specified or to maintain, repair, measure, or test that property. This bill would also partially exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes, transactions and use taxes, and specified state sales and use taxes imposed for the purpose of finding locally provided services. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, or the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property. In order to facilitate the collection of the use tax, a qualified purchaser, as defined, is required to register with the State Board of Equalization and to report and pay by April 15 the use tax owed for the previous calendar year, as provided. This bill, for reporting periods commencing on and after January 1, 2010, would revise the above requirements to instead provide that a qualified purchaser is subject to other related provisions governing returns and payments and would authorize the board, for the 2009 calendar year reporting period only, to grant a reasonable extension of time for filing a return when it determines that good cause exists pursuant to these provisions. The bill would declare that its provisions and retroactive application serve a public purpose, as specified. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Under existing law, businesses are required to obtain various licenses from regulatory agencies. Existing law also requires state agencies to take specified actions, including, but not limited to, designating a small business liaison to assist small businesses to comply with statutory and regulatory requirements. This bill would create the Business Master License Center, which would have prescribed duties, including, but not limited to, developing and administering a computerized one-stop master license system capable of storing, retrieving, and exchanging license information, as well as issuing and renewing master licenses, as specified. The bill would permit the Governor to appoint a 3rd-party facilitator from the business community, to provide oversight over the creation of the center and the development of its master license system. This bill would charge license applicants, in addition to any other fees or deposits required to obtain a particular license, a master license administrative fee in specified amounts, to be deposited into the Business Master License Fund, which this bill would create. This bill would require that the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used only to administer the Business Master License Center.
The State Assistance for Fire Equipment Act authorizes the Secretary of Emergency Management to acquire specified firefighting apparatus and equipment for resale to a local agency, as defined, that provides fire suppression services or a fire company. Existing law also establishes the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Account, a continuously appropriated fund, for purposes of the act. Existing law requires the secretary to consult with a specified committee before adopting regulations implementing the act. This bill would annually appropriate $45,600,000 of revenue received by the state from the accessing of oil and gas reserves located beneath state coastal waters, generally known as the "T-Ridge Project," for firefighting purposes, including, but not limited to, the purchase of firefighting and rescue vehicles and equipment, vegetation management and defensible space projects, and specified training courses and materials, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would also require the secretary to consult with additional specified individuals involved in firefighting before adopting certain regulations.
Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, for governing boards. Existing law sets forth a schedule for the submission of instructional materials to the state board for adoption. Notwithstanding this schedule, existing law prohibits the state board from adopting instructional materials or following the procedures related to that adoption until the 2013–14 school year. This bill would require the state board to adopt a revised curriculum framework and evaluation criteria for instructional materials in history-social science in 2011. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.