Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, in addition to a base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of unduplicated pupils, defined as pupils who are English learners, foster youth, or eligible for free or reduced-price meals, served by the county superintendent of schools, school district, or charter school. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations, on or before January 31, 2014, that govern the expenditure of funds apportioned pursuant to the supplemental and concentration grant add-ons. This bill would require the state board to update those regulations on or before March 31, 2021. The bill would require the regulations to authorize local educational agencies to use funds apportioned on the basis of the number of unduplicated pupils in a manner that is no more restrictive than the requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act for local educational agencies meeting certain criteria, and no more flexible than the requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act for local educational agencies that do not meet those criteria. Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a template adopted by the state board. Existing law requires the local control and accountability plan to include a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each of certain state priorities, including the degree to which teachers are appropriately assigned and fully credentialed, every pupil has sufficient access to the standards-aligned instructional materials, and school facilities are maintained in good repair. This bill would also include as part of that state priority the degree to which all schools offering grades 9 to 12, inclusive, offer sufficient courses for all capable pupils to complete a course of study to meet the admission requirements of the University of California and the California State University. To the extent the bill imposes additional requirements on local educational agencies, the 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to administer provisions relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health, including, but not limited to, conducting research, studies, and demonstration programs relating to the provision of a dependable, safe supply of drinking water, enforcing the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and adopting implementing regulations. The implementing regulations are required to include, but are not limited to, the monitoring of contaminants, including the type of contaminant, the frequency and method of sampling and testing, and the reporting of results. The act authorizes the state board to order a public water system to monitor for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, in accordance with conditions set by the state board, and requires a laboratory that has a specified accreditation or certification to perform the analysis of any material required by an order to monitor for those substances. This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1, 2022, to certify a methodology or methodologies for testing drinking water, groundwater, and surface water for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, as provided, and to accredit qualified laboratories in California to analyze perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances pursuant to the adopted methodology or methodologies.
State law, repealed as of January 1, 2018, required a court to impose an additional term of imprisonment, as specified, on any person who takes, damages, or destroys any property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as specified. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, authorize the court, if a person takes, damages, or destroys property in the commission or attempted commission of a felony, with the intent to cause that taking, damage, or destruction, to impose an additional term of imprisonment of up to 2 years if the property loss exceeds $235,000, an additional term of imprisonment of up to 3 years if the property loss exceeds $1,500,000, or an additional term of imprisonment of up to 4 years if the property loss exceeds $3,700,000. Because this bill would increase the penalty for existing felonies, it 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.
Under existing law, a person is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, if they intentionally distribute an image that was intended to remain private of the intimate body parts of another or of the person depicted engaged in a sex act, as specified. Existing law requires prosecution for this offense to be commenced within one year after commission of the offense. This bill would instead allow prosecution for this offense to commence within one year of the discovery of the commission of the offense.
Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop program guidelines for dyslexia to be used to assist regular education teachers, special education teachers, and parents to identify and assess pupils with dyslexia, as provided. Existing law requires a pupil who is assessed as being dyslexic and meets specified eligibility criteria to be entitled to special education and related services. This bill would require, on or before June 30, 2021, the State Board of Education to identify at least one assessment or series of assessments to be used by a local educational agency, as defined, to screen pupils for risk of dyslexia, as provided. The bill would require, beginning in the 2021–22 school year, and annually thereafter, a local educational agency serving pupils in any of the grades kindergarten to grade 2, inclusive, to screen each pupil in those grades for dyslexia by using the assessment identified above, as provided. The bill would require results from the screening, among other things, to be made available to an assessed pupil's parent or guardian in a timely manner. By expanding the duties of a local educational agency, the 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law permits the Department of Justice to charge a fee sufficient to reimburse it for specified costs related to the sale or transfer of firearms, such as the preparation, sale, processing, and filing of required reports and costs associated with the submission of a Dealers' Record of Sale (DROS) , as specified. Existing law requires that firearm purchaser information be provided to the department exclusively by electronic means. Existing law directs the department to electronically approve the purchase or transfer of ammunition through a vendor at the time of purchase or transfer and prior to the purchaser taking possession of the ammunition, and permits the department to collect certain fees for these purposes. Existing law, commencing on July 1, 2025, directs the department to electronically approve the purchase or transfer of firearm precursor parts through a vendor at the time of purchase or transfer and before the purchaser taking possession of the firearm precursor part, and permits the department to collect certain fees for these purposes. This bill would delete obsolete provisions relating to the department's authority to impose fees for nonelectronic transfers of firearm purchaser information to the department. The bill would also update 2 cross-references.
This measure would designate the week of February 24, 2020, to March 1, 2020, as Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Existing law creates the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority for the purpose of awarding and overseeing all design and construction contracts for completion of the Los Angeles-Pasadena Foothill Extension Gold Line light rail project extending from Union Station in the City of Los Angeles to Sierra Madre Villa Boulevard in the City of Pasadena and any mass transit guideway that may be planned east of Sierra Madre Villa Boulevard along the rail right-of-way extending to the City of Montclair. This bill would create the Montclair to Ontario Airport Construction Authority for purposes of awarding and overseeing all design and construction contracts for completion of an extension of the Metro Gold Line light rail project from the City of Montclair to the Ontario International Airport. The bill would prescribe the powers and duties of the construction authority. The bill would require the construction authority to be governed by a board consisting of 7 voting members and one nonvoting member. The city councils of the Cities of Montclair, Ontario, Rancho Cucamonga, and Upland would each appoint one member to the governing board and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) , Ontario International Airport Authority (OIAA) , and San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) would each appoint one member. The nonvoting member would be appointed by the Governor. The bill would require the construction authority and SBCTA to enter into an agreement for the construction authority to hold in trust all real property interests held by SBCTA that are necessary for the planning, design, and construction of the project at no cost to the construction authority. The bill would require SBCTA to transfer the unencumbered balance of all local funds programmed for completion of the project, the unencumbered balance of all funds identified by a local transaction and use tax measure, and an unspecified source of funding to the construction authority for completion of the project. The bill would authorize the construction authority to receive allocations of state and federal funds for the project, and would require the unencumbered balance of funds programmed or allocated by SBCTA for completion of the project and that have been identified in unspecified documents to be allocated to the construction authority for completion of the project. The bill would require the construction authority to enter into a memorandum of understanding with LACMTA that specifically authorizes LACMTA to review any significant changes in the scope of the design or construction, or both design and construction, of the project, as specified. The bill would require the construction authority to coordinate its work in the City of Montclair with the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority, as specified, and would require the construction authority to coordinate its work in the City of Ontario with the OIAA. The bill would prohibit the construction authority from encumbering the project with any obligation that is transferable to LACMTA or SBCTA upon completion of the design and construction of the project without the consent of those entities, except the bill would require LACMTA to assume responsibility for operating all completed phases of the project and would require SBCTA to reimburse LACMTA for the costs of operating the project. The bill would require the construction authority to be dissolved upon completion of the project. This bill would create a state-mandated local program by imposing these duties on local government entities. 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws, including (1) in modified conformity to a credit allowed by federal income tax laws, a credit under both laws in an amount equal to 15% of the excess of qualified research expenses for the taxable year over the base amount, as defined, and, for purposes of the Corporation Tax Law, 24% of the basic research payments, as defined, (research and development income tax credit) and (2) a credit against the taxes imposed under those laws for each taxable year beginning on and after January 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2030, in an amount provided in a written agreement between the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development and the taxpayer, approved by the California Competes Tax Credit Committee, and based on specified factors, including the number of jobs the taxpayer will create or retain in the state and the amount of investment in the state by the taxpayer (Cal Competes income tax credit) . Existing state sales and use tax laws impose 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. 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 laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. This bill would permit a qualified person who has paid qualified sales tax reimbursement to a retailer on the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or has paid qualified use tax 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, in lieu of claiming the research and development income tax credit or the Cal Competes income tax credit under the Personal Income Tax Law or the Corporation Tax Law, to file a claim for a refund equal to the amount of the credit, as specified. The bill would define qualified sales tax reimbursement and qualified use tax to include state sales and use taxes and those local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to, or in accordance with, the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law and the Transactions and Use Tax Law. The bill would require that a claim for refund be accompanied by proof of payment by the qualified person of the sales tax reimbursement or the use tax and would require any person who claims a refund to make an irrevocable election to waive the equivalent amount of research and development income tax credit or Cal Competes income tax credit for which a refund is made. The bill would require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to provide an annual listing to the Franchise Tax Board of the qualified persons who, during the year, have made a claim for refund and an irrevocable election and the amount of the refund issued to each qualified person pursuant to the bill. The bill would provide that any refunds made by the department pursuant to a claim for refund under the bill is payable from the General Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature.