Sen. Scott Wilk

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable communicable and noncommunicable diseases and conditions and specify the timeliness requirements related to the reporting of each disease and condition. Existing law also supports research into the development of a vaccine to protect against coccidioidomycosis, also known as Valley Fever. This bill would require the department to develop standardized methodology for coccidioidomycosis tests to ensure comparable sensitivity and specificity among laboratories, among other things.

Existing law, the Corporation Tax Law, provides for various exclusions from gross income in determining tax liability. This bill, for space transportation companies, would exclude from gross income any business income attributable to sources within this state, as specified, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including water corporations. Existing law authorizes the commission to fix the rates and charges for every public utility and requires that those rates and charges be just and reasonable. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation reforming the rate of return earned by water corporations.

Existing law requires the Judicial Council to seek to promote uniformity in sentencing by the adoption of rules providing criteria for the consideration of the trial judge at the time of sentencing regarding the court's decision to, among other acts, grant or deny probation, or impose concurrent or consecutive sentences. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to collect and analyze relevant information relating to sentencing practices in this state and other jurisdictions, and to take that information into consideration in the adoption of those rules. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the provision requiring the Judicial Council to collect and analyze relevant information relating to sentencing practices.

Existing law requires a refinery-related community air monitoring system, as defined, to be installed on or before January 1, 2020, as specified, and requires an air district to design, develop, install, operate, and maintain the refinery-related community air monitoring system or to contract with a third party to provide those services. Existing law also requires an owner or operator of a petroleum refinery to develop, install, operate, and maintain a fence-line monitoring system, as defined, on or before January 1, 2020, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

This measure would express the Legislature's support for reinvesting revenues and cost savings from the closure and sale, lease, or repurposing of developmental centers into the community of persons with developmental disabilities, including through creation of a self-sustaining income mechanism to support persons with developmental disabilities and the establishment of a working group to examine the potential sale, lease, or repurposing of developmental center properties. The measure would express the Legislature's intent that all savings from the developmental centers should be allocated for the support of persons with developmental disabilities, as specified.

The Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975 prohibits a person, with exceptions, from conducting surface mining operations unless, among other things, a permit is obtained from, a specified reclamation plan is submitted to and approved by, and financial assurances for reclamation have been approved by the lead agency, as defined, for the operation of the surface mining operation. The act requires a lead agency, within 12 months of receiving specified mineral information and within 12 months of the designation of an area of statewide or regional significance within its jurisdiction, to establish mineral resource management policies to be incorporated in the lead agency's general plan, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

Existing law, the Tanner Consumer Protection Act, establishes a presumption that a reasonable number of attempts have been made to conform a new motor vehicle to the applicable express warranties if, within 18 months from delivery or 18,000 miles on the odometer, whichever occurs first, one or more specified conditions occur. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state, and provides for their funding and governance. Existing law establishes school districts throughout the state to administer the public elementary and secondary schools within their respective jurisdictions. A provision of existing law requires that every school district be under the control of a board of school trustees or a board of education and further requires the governing board of each school district to prescribe and enforce rules not inconsistent with the law, or with the rules prescribed by the State Board of Education, for its own government. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision.