This measure would recognize the month of February 2010 as American Heart Month in California, would recognize February 4, 2010, as Wear Red Day in California, and would urge public support for Go Red for Women events.
This measure would proclaim January 13, 2010, as Korean-American Day.
Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council that is required to take actions with regard to coordinating programs of member state agencies to improve air and water quality, improve natural resource protection, increase the availability of affordable housing, improve transportation, meet the goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, encourage sustainable land use planning, and revitalize urban and community centers in a sustainable manner. This bill would establish the Community Planning Grant and Loan Fund and would authorize the council to expend the revenues in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to carry out the Community Planning Grant and Loan Program which this bill would establish. The bill would require the council to expend these funds to provide competitive grants and loans to support community planning by providing grants and loans for projects to improve sustainability and livability of California's communities by reducing communities' contributions to global warming. The bill would specify procedures for the council to follow in managing and awarding these grants. The bill would create a local advisory committee to make recommendations to the council regarding the program and would require the council to develop guidelines for awarding financial assistance. The bill would require the council to provide an annual report to the Legislature regarding the grant and loan program.
The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. For purposes of this limitation, "full cash value" is defined as the assessor's valuation of real property as shown on the 1975–76 tax bill under "full cash value" or, thereafter, the appraised value of that real property when purchased, newly constructed, or a change in ownership has occurred. Existing property tax law specifies those circumstances in which the transfer of ownership interests results in a change in ownership of the real property, and provides that certain transfers do not result in a change of ownership. This bill would provide that a transfer of a cotenancy interest, as defined, in real property from one cotenant to the other that takes effect upon the death of the transferor cotenant and before January 1, 2020, does not constitute a change of ownership, as provided. This bill would require the transferor cotenant to sign an affidavit, as specified, under penalty of perjury. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2020. By requiring the transferor cotenant to sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury, this bill would expand the scope of the existing crime of perjury, and thereby 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. Section 2229 of the Revenue and Taxation Code requires the Legislature to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2229 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The California Wilderness Act establishes a California wilderness preservation system composed of state-owned areas designated by the Legislature as wilderness areas and units of the state park system classified as state wildernesses by the State Park and Recreation Commission. The act requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to review specified state-owned roadless areas under his or her jurisdiction as of January 1, 1975, and to report to the Legislature his or her recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of each area for preservation as state wilderness. The act also requires the State Lands Commission to review specified state-owned roadless areas under its jurisdiction and to report to the Legislature its recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of those areas for preservation as wilderness areas. Under the act, the presence of privately owned areas within or contiguous to state-owned areas does not preclude the review of those state-owned areas for suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as state wilderness. The act requires the secretary to report to the Governor and Legislature, on or before December 1, 1975, and each year thereafter, on the status of the California wilderness preservation system, including a list and descriptions of the wilderness areas within the system, guidelines and regulations in effect, and recommendations for additions to the system. This bill would instead require the secretary to review state-owned roadless areas under his or her jurisdiction as of January 1, 2010, and would require that the State Lands Commission review specified state-owned roadless surface areas under its jurisdiction that it holds as trustee of the School Land Bank Fund as of January 1, 2010. The bill would require the secretary and the State Lands Commission to each submit a report to the Legislature of recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of those areas for preservation as wilderness areas and to prioritize reviews and reports as to the suitability or nonsuitability of specified areas for preservation as wilderness. The bill would include additional conditions that would not preclude the review of state-owned areas for suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as state wilderness. The bill would also authorize the State Lands Commission to enter into agreements with federal land management agencies to implement these provisions. The bill would exempt state park lands classified as wilderness by the State Park and Recreation Commission at public hearings, as prescribed, from specified public and governmental notice and hearing requirements of the act. This bill would require that the report, due on or before December 1, 2010, from the secretary to the Governor and Legislature regarding the status of the California wilderness preservation system, include, in consultation with the State Lands Commission and the Department of Fish and Game, a schedule for the required review as to suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as state wilderness of identified state-owned roadless areas. This bill would delete obsolete provisions.
This bill would make appropriations for support of state government for the 2009–10 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes various local governmental entities to impose local taxes for various purposes. This bill would authorize the board of supervisors of any county or city and county, by ordinance, to propose to the voters either a local personal income tax or a local vehicle license fee, or both, in accordance with specified requirements. This bill would require the Department of Motor Vehicles to administer the local vehicle license fee, and would require, prior to the operative date of any ordinance imposing a local vehicle license fee, the county or city and county to contract with the Department of Motor Vehicles to perform this function. This bill would require the county or city and county to reimburse the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to the contract. This bill would require the revenues derived from the local vehicle license fee to be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Vehicle License Fee Account, which this bill would create. This bill would continuously appropriate those moneys to the Controller for allocation to each county and city and county in which the local vehicle license fee is imposed. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to administer the local personal income tax, and would require, prior to the operative date of any ordinance imposing a local personal income tax, the county or city and county to contract with the Franchise Tax Board to perform this function. This bill would require the county or city and county to reimburse the Franchise Tax Board pursuant to the contract. This bill would authorize the Franchise Tax Board to adopt regulations necessary to administer the local personal income tax. This bill would require the revenues derived from the local personal income tax to be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Local Personal Income Tax Account, which this bill would create. This bill would continuously appropriate those moneys to the Controller for allocation to each county and city and county in which the local personal income tax is imposed.
Existing law requires an employer to provide a reasonable amount of break time for lactation purposes and specifies that the break time, if possible, shall run concurrently with any break time already provided to the employee. Under existing law, break time is unpaid if it does not run concurrently with the employee's authorized rest time. Existing law authorizes the Labor Commissioner to issue a citation for the violation of these provisions but exempts the violation from criminal prosecution. This bill would, instead, require an employer to provide a 20-minute paid rest period for lactation purposes during each 4-hour work period, immediately preceding or following the employee's rest period, and would specify that compliance with this requirement does not satisfy or affect an employer's separate obligation to provide a meal or rest period required by statute, an Industrial Welfare Commission order, or a collective bargaining agreement.
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, is required to reduce, recycle, and reuse solid waste generated in the state to the maximum extent feasible in an efficient cost-effective manner to conserve water, energy, and other natural resources. This bill would create the California Product Stewardship Act of 2009 and would require the board to administer the program. The bill would require the board to adopt regulations by July 1, 2011, in order to implement the program to provide environmentally sound product stewardship protocols that encourage producers to research alternatives during the product design and packaging phases to foster cradle-to-cradle producer responsibility and reduce the end-of-life environmental impacts of the product. The bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would require the board to select covered products, as defined, according to certain requirements. The bill would exempt the selection of covered products from the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act. On and after July 1, 2012, a covered product would be prohibited from being sold or used for promotional purposes unless the producer or product stewardship organization, as defined, of the covered product, submits a product stewardship plan to the board that meets certain timelines and content requirements, including, but not limited to, a description of the system for collecting discarded covered products, methods proposed to maximize the recycling of packaging, a description of the processing and disposal system, and strategies for managing and reducing the life cycle impacts of covered products and packaging such as through redesign. The bill would establish an annual reporting requirement for producers or stewardship organizations, require administrative fees to be set by the board, and authorize civil penalties of up to $50,000 to be imposed by the board. The bill would require that the administrative fees be deposited into the Extended Producer Responsibility Account and that the penalties be deposited into the Extended Producer Responsibility Penalty Subaccount that the bill would create in the Integrated Waste Management Fund. The bill would authorize the fees and penalties to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to cover the board's program implementation costs and as incentives to enhance recyclability and redesign efforts and to reduce environmental and safety impacts of covered products.
