Under the California Training Benefits Program, until January 1, 2015, an unemployed individual, who is otherwise eligible for unemployment benefits, and who files a claim for unemployment compensation benefits, extended duration benefits, or federal-state extended benefits or any federally funded unemployment compensation benefits, may apply to the Employment Development Department for a determination of potential eligibility for benefits during a period of training or retraining. Existing law requires a determination of automatic eligibility for those benefits if any of specified conditions apply. Existing law requires, if training or retraining is not authorized under those provisions governing automatic eligibility for those benefits, that a determination of potential eligibility for benefits be issued to the unemployed individual if the Director of Employment Development finds that specified criteria apply. Under existing law, the Commission on Teacher Credentialing is authorized to issue teaching credentials in single subject instruction or specialist instruction in, among other subjects, math, science, and special education. Existing law also requires the commission to adopt general standards for the accreditation or approval of preparation programs for teachers. This bill would extend the repeal date of the California Training Benefits Program to January 1, 2019. The bill would also require a determination of automatic eligibility for benefits under the California Training Benefits Program to be issued to an unemployed teacher, as defined, who is otherwise eligible for unemployment benefits, if the Director of Employment Development finds that the unemployed teacher is a permanent or probationary public school teacher who participates in a credential preparation program or training program approved or accredited by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for additional certification in math, science, or special education, for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and was laid off, as specified. This bill would make those changes operative on January 1, 2014. Because the bill would extend the operation of the California Training Benefits Program and make various changes to existing eligibility requirements for training and retraining benefits, which would result in additional amounts being payable from the Unemployment Fund for those benefits, the bill would make an appropriation.
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This measure would declare the week of May 20, 2012, through May 26, 2012, as California Mental Health No Stigma Week.
This measure would (1) designate the bicycle pedestrian path on the replacement Gerald Desmond Bridge on State Highway Route 710, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Mark Bixby Memorial Bicycle Pedestrian Path, (2) designate a portion of State Highway Route 129, in the County of Santa Cruz, as the Ohlone Kallentaruk Highway, (3) designate a portion of State Highway Route 5, in the County of San Diego, as the Oceanside Police Officer Daniel S. Bessant Memorial Highway, (4) designate a portion of State Highway Route 101, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Los Angeles Police Officer Ian J. Campbell Memorial Highway, (5) designate a portion of State Highway Route 10, in the City of Alhambra, as the Officer Ryan Stringer Memorial Highway, (6) designate a specified safety roadside rest area on State Highway Route 280, in the County of San Mateo, as the Officer Dale M. Krings Memorial Rest Area, (7) designate the Talmage Road and State Highway Route 222 bridge across the Russian River, in the County of Mendocino, as the Ron Ledford Memorial Bridge, (8) designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 405, in the County of Los Angeles, as the Hawthorne Police Officer Andrew Garton Memorial Highway, (9) designate a portion of State Highway Route 99, in the County of San Joaquin, as the Donald Mark Lichliter Memorial Highway, (10) designate a portion of State Highway Route 101, in the County of San Luis Obispo, as the Christopher Meadows Memorial Highway, (11) designate the interchange of State Highway Route 5 and State Highway Route 50, in the County of Sacramento as the California State Engineer Memorial Interchange, (12) designate a portion of State Highway Route 198, in the County of Kings, as the Christian Vasquez Memorial Highway, (13) designate a portion of State Highway Route 86S, in the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Saul Martinez Memorial Highway, (14) designate a portion of State Highway Route 12, in the County of Sacramento, as the CHP Officer Charles "Chuck" Sorenson Memorial Highway, (15) designate a portion of State Highway Route 101, in the County of Santa Clara, as the CHP Officer Charles Lilly Memorial Highway, (16) designate a portion of State Highway Route 1, in the City of Fort Bragg, as Jere Melo Memorial Highway, (17) designate a portion of State Highway Route 680, in the City of Fremont, as the CHP Officers Frederick Wayne Enright and Adolfo Martinez Hernandez Memorial Highway, (18) designate a portion of State Highway Route 74, in the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Michael Allen Brandt Memorial Highway, (19) designate a portion of State Highway Route 80, in the County of Yolo, as the CHP Officer William "Ivan" Casselman Memorial Highway, (20) designate the interchange of State Highway Route 154 and State Highway Route 101, in the County of Santa Barbara, as the CHP Officer James C. O'Connor Memorial Interchange, (21) designate a portion of State Highway Route 10, in the unincorporated area of the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Ambers O. "Sonny" Shewmaker Memorial Highway, (22) designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 10, in the County of San Bernardino, as the Sergeant Darrell Keith Lee, Sergeant Gary Wayne Wolfley, and Officer Sergio Carrera, Jr., Memorial Highway, (23) designate a portion of State Highway Route 10 and Date Palm Drive Memorial Overcrossing, in the County of Riverside, as the CHP Officer Mark Thomas Taylor Memorial Overcrossing, (24) designate a portion of State Highway Route 40, in the County of San Bernadino, as the CHP Officer John "Jack" Armatoski Memorial Highway, (25) designate a portion of State Highway Route 1, in the County of Santa Cruz, as the CHP Officer A. Donald Hoover Memorial Highway, and (26) designate a portion of State Highway Route 880, in the County of Alameda, as the CHP Officer William P. Sniffen Memorial Highway. The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing these special designations and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
The Corporation Tax Law imposes taxes measured by income and, in the case of a business with business income derived from or attributable to sources both within and without this state, apportions the business income between this state and other states and foreign countries in accordance with a specified 4-factor formula based on the property, payroll, and sales within and without this state, except that in the case of an apportioning trade or business that derives more than 50% of its gross business receipts from conducting one or more qualified business activities, as defined, business income is apportioned in accordance with a specified 3-factor formula. That law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, allows a taxpayer to apportion its business income in accordance with a single sales factor formula, except as provided, pursuant to an irrevocable annual election, as specified. That law also provides that sales of tangible personal property and sales of other than tangible personal property are in this state in accordance with specified criteria. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, would require a taxpayer, except as provided, to apportion its business income in accordance with a single sale factor and would allow a taxpayer to annually elect to apportion business income in accordance with the 4-factor formula, as provided. This bill also would revise the rules that determine whether a taxpayer is doing business in this state and would revise the provisions that determine whether sales other than tangible personal property occur in this state, including specific provisions for cable systems or networks. This bill would require any aggregate increase in revenues derived from its provisions less a specified amount, as provided, to be deposited into the Middle Class Scholarship Fund, which the bill would establish, and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, allocate those revenues for the purpose of increasing the affordability of higher education. This bill would become operative only if a specified measure is chaptered and establishes a middle-class scholarship program. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law provides for a public postsecondary education system in this state. This system consists of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes these institutions to require that mandatory systemwide fees, among other fees, be paid by students at these institutions. This bill would establish the Middle Class Scholarship Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The bill would provide that, commencing with the 2012–13 fiscal year, undergraduate students enrolled at the University of California or the California State University would receive a scholarship grant award credit that, combined with other publicly funded student financial aid, as defined, received by an eligible student, would be 60% of the amount charged that student for mandatory systemwide fees in that fiscal year if the student meets the following conditions: annual household income does not exceed $150,000; is a resident of this state or exempt from paying nonresident tuition; files specified financial aid forms; makes timely application or applications for publicly funded student financial aid, as defined, for which he or she is eligible; and meets prescribed eligibility requirements of the Cal Grant Program, except as specified, and attains at least a 2.0 high school or community college grade point average. The bill would provide that a student whose annual household income exceeds $150,000, and who otherwise meets the requirements, would receive a scholarship grant award credit that is reduced in accordance with prescribed calculations. The bill would require, in order for students enrolled in their respective segments to remain eligible to receive financial aid under the bill, the University of California and the California State University to maintain their respective institutional need-based grant programs at a level that, at a minimum, is equivalent to the level maintained during the 2011–12 fiscal year. The bill would continuously appropriate from the General Fund $150,000,000 to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges for allocation to community college districts based on calculations of full-time equivalent credit, to be expended, after consultation with student representatives as specified, for the provision of scholarship grants to students to reduce the impact of enrollment fees or to help cover the cost of textbooks and other educational expenses. The bill would require the Student Aid Commission to report the amount of the scholarship grant award credit for each student to the Franchise Tax Board, and to report the aggregate amount of scholarship grant award credits to the Department of Finance. The bill would authorize the Student Aid Commission to determine if sufficient funding is available for purposes of the bill in the 2012–13 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years, and would further authorize the commission to reduce scholarships proportionately if it determines that sufficient funding is not available. (2) Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account, and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons from the Personal Income Tax Fund are to be paid from that account. This bill, for fiscal years beginning with the 2012–13 fiscal year, would authorize an amount equal to a qualified student's scholarship grant award credit under the Middle Class Scholarship Program, as determined by the Student Aid Commission pursuant to the bill, to be refunded from the Tax Relief and Refund Account, thereby making an appropriation. (3) This bill would become operative only if AB 1500 of the 2011–12 Regular Session is chaptered. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act permits a winegrower or distilled spirits manufacturer, or its authorized agent, to instruct consumers on the subject of wine or distilled spirits subject to specified provisions, including that the winegrower or distilled spirits manufacturer remove any unfinished alcoholic beverages. This bill would revise the provision requiring the removal of unfinished alcoholic beverages by the winegrower or distilled spirits manufacturer.
This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 1 in the County of Los Angeles as the Honorable Jenny Oropeza Memorial Overcrossing. This measure would also request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering those costs, to erect those signs.
Existing law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction in social sciences, and authorizes that instruction to include instruction on World War II and the roles of Americans and Filipinos in that war. This bill would authorize instruction in social sciences for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to include instruction on the Bracero program, and would authorize that instruction to include a component drawn from personal testimony, as provided. The bill would specify that this instruction shall be carried out in a manner that does not result in new duties or programs being imposed on school districts.
This measure would express the Legislature's support of the use of a portion of federally generated seafood product import revenues for the domestic marketing and promotion of California fish and seafood.
Existing law imposes an oil spill prevention and administration fee in an amount determined by the administrator to implement oil spill prevention activities, but not to exceed, until January 1, 2015, $0.065 per barrel of crude oil or petroleum products, on persons owning crude oil or petroleum products at a marine terminal. The fee is deposited into the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund in the State Treasury. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the fund are available for specified purposes, including to cover the costs incurred by the Oiled Wildlife Care Network for training and field collection, and search and rescue activities. This bill would, until January 1, 2015, increase the maximum annual assessment from $0.065 to $0.068 per barrel of crude oil or petroleum products. The bill would subsequently decrease the annual assessment, beginning January 1, 2015, to a maximum of $0.050 per barrel of crude oil or petroleum products. Existing law permits the administrator to charge a nontank vessel owner or operator a reasonable fee, to be collected with each application to obtain a certificate of financial responsibility, in an amount that is based upon the administrator's costs in implementing oil spill prevention relating to nontank vessels. This bill would, until January 1, 2015, require the fee to be at least $3,500 per nontank vessel but would give the administrator discretion to reduce the fee for nontank vessels that pose a reduced risk of pollution. Existing law requires the administrator to submit for each fiscal year, as a part of the Governor's Budget, a proposed appropriation from interest earned on moneys deposited into the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund, in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000, for the purposes of equipping, operating, and maintaining the network of oiled wildlife rescue and rehabilitation stations, proactive oiled wildlife search and collection rescue efforts, and supporting technology development and research related to oiled wildlife care. Existing law requires that any remaining interest earned be deposited into the Oil Spill Prevention and Administration Fund. This bill would, until January 1, 2015, transfer 3 mills of the per barrel of crude oil or petroleum products fee collected, and $250 of the per nontank vessel fee collected, to fund specified activities the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. The bill would also allow another additional amount, not to exceed the difference between the interest earned and $2,000,000, to be included in the proposed appropriation from funds deposited into the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund if this proposed appropriation exceeds the interest earned on the funds deposited into the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund available for the fiscal year for which the appropriation is proposed.