Existing law establishes the Multifamily Housing Program, under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development, to provide financial assistance in the form of a deferred payment loan to fund projects for, among other things, the development and construction of new transitional or rental housing developments. Existing law establishes the Predevelopment Loan Program, under the administration of the Department of Housing and Community Development, to make predevelopment loans and land purchase loans to eligible sponsors for use in developing assisted housing for occupancy primarily by persons of low income. This bill would establish the California Developmental Disabilities Community Support Housing Fund, to be administered by the department. The bill would require specified moneys to be paid into the fund, including, among others, moneys saved from transitioning individuals with developmental disabilities from an institution to housing in the community. The bill would require the department, in collaboration and consultation with the State Department of Developmental Services and regional centers, to expend moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to develop housing through the Multifamily Housing Program and the Predevelopment Loan Program for individuals with developmental disabilities.
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(1) Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. Existing law provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. This bill would repeal these provisions. (2) Under existing law, various measures have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water supply and protection facilities and programs. This bill would enact the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Water Supply Act of 2014, which, if adopted by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $7,500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water, water quality, and water supply program. The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. (3) Existing law, the Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Law of 1986, approved by the voters at the June 3, 1986, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $150,000,000 for the Department of Water Resources to make prescribed loans to local agencies for the purposes of financing a water conservation and water quality program. Existing law, the Water Conservation Bond Law of 1988, approved by the voters at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $60,000,000 for the Department of Water Resources to make prescribed loans to local agencies for the purposes of financing a water conservation program. Existing law, the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Act, a bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $995,000,000 for grants, loans, and direct expenditures for the purposes of financing a safe, clean, reliable water supply program. Existing law, the Costa-Machado Water Act of 2000, a bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $1,970,000,000 for grants, loans, and direct expenditures for the purposes of financing a safe drinking water, clean water, watershed protection, and flood protection program. This bill would authorize the Legislature to appropriate any unencumbered proceeds of bonds from the above-described bond acts in their respective bond funds as of November 5, 2014, for prescribed purposes as described in the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Water Supply Act of 2014. This bill would provide for the submission of these provisions to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to make or cause to be made investigations and gather or cause to be gathered data as needed for a proper review and study of the various features of the design and construction of dams, reservoirs, and appurtenances. This bill would require the department, in collaboration with specified entities, to make or cause to be made investigations and to gather or cause to be gathered data for a proper review and study of the loss of storage capacity behind dams resulting from sedimentation and would authorize the department to limit the study to certain reservoirs. The bill would require results of the study to be reflected in the quinquennial update of The California Water Plan and be provided to the appropriate policy committees of the Senate and the Assembly. The bill would require the department to identify high-priority reservoirs for additional evaluation, for which the department would be required to evaluate and characterize the sediment for mercury and sediment size and to identify and evaluate cost-effective strategies for sediment removal, relative to the costs of alternative methods of flood protection and water supply. Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update The California Water Plan, which is a plan for the conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, every 5 years. Existing law requires the department, as part of the update, to conduct a study to determine the amount of water needed to meet the state's future needs. The department is required, one year prior to issuing each update to the California Water Plan, to release a draft of assumptions and estimates upon which the study will be based. Existing law prescribes a list of subjects for which the department is required to release those assumptions and estimates. This bill would add estimated loss of storage capacity behind dams resulting from sedimentation to that list.
Existing law establishes the Assumption Program of Loans for Education, administered by the Student Aid Commission, under which any person enrolled in a participating institution of postsecondary education, or any person who agrees to participate in a teacher trainee or teacher internship program, is eligible to enter into an agreement for loan assumption, to be redeemed pursuant to a prescribed procedure upon becoming employed as a teacher if he or she satisfies certain conditions. Existing law requires the applicant to agree, among other things, to teach full time for at least 4 consecutive academic years or on a part-time basis the equivalent of 4 consecutive academic years at an eligible school. Existing law defines "eligible school" to mean, among other things, a school that is ranked in the lowest 2 deciles on the Academic Performance Index, a measure of the performance of schools and school districts. This bill would establish the Educator Excellence Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. The bill would require the commission to develop procedures for the evaluation and selection of qualified applicants for participation in the program. The bill would specify eligibility criteria that participants in the program would be required to meet. The bill would authorize the issuance, under that program, of up to 6,500 agreements for the assumption of student loans in a school year, of which up to 400 would be for credentialed teachers as specified, up to a total loan assumption of $11,000 after 4 years of qualifying service in a school district that has qualified for a local control funding formula concentration grant, teaching in a subject area that has been designated by the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a current or projected area of teacher shortage. The bill would express the intent of the Legislature that this program be fully funded commencing with the Budget Act of 2015.
Under existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, the State Department of Developmental Services is authorized to contract with regional centers to provide support and services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Existing law requires a regional center to include specified information on its Internet Web site for the purpose of promoting transparency and access to public information that includes specified information. This bill would require that information to include specified information about payments to vendors and to nonprofit housing organizations.
The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases. The act authorizes the state board to include use of market-based compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation. Existing law requires the Department of Finance, in consultation with the state board and any other relevant state agency, to develop, as specified, a 3-year investment plan for the moneys deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing law authorizes moneys from the fund to be allocated for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in this state through specified investments, including funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through strategic planning and development of sustainable infrastructure projects. Existing law requires certain transportation planning activities by designated regional transportation planning agencies, including development of a regional transportation plan. Certain of these agencies are designated under federal law as metropolitan planning organizations. Existing law requires metropolitan planning organizations to adopt a sustainable communities strategy, subject to specified requirements, as part of a regional transportation plan, which is to be designed to achieve certain targets established by the State Air Resources Board for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles and light trucks in the region. Existing law establishes the Strategic Growth Council and requires the council to, among other things, manage and award grants and loans to support the development, adoption, or implementation of a regional plan or other planning instrument consistent with a regional plan that achieves specified objectives, including meeting the goals of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Existing law specifies that the financial assistance provided shall be funded by the bond proceeds from the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006. This bill would additionally authorize the council to manage and award financial assistance for the purpose of supporting the implementation of sustainable communities strategies or alternative planning strategies, to be funded from moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The bill would require the council to adopt guidelines for the use of the funds by recipients. The bill also would authorize the council to award financial assistance for the development and implementation of agricultural, natural resource, and open space land protection plans that are consistent with the implementation of sustainable communities strategies, alternative planning strategies, or other regional greenhouse gas emission reduction plans.
(1) Existing law creates the enhanced fleet modernization program, administered by the Bureau of Automotive Repair in the Department of Consumer Affairs, to provide compensation for the retirement of passenger vehicles, and light-duty and medium-duty trucks that are high polluters. Existing law provides that under this program compensation for retired vehicles for a low-income motor vehicle owner, as defined, is $1,500, and for all other motor vehicle owners, it is $1,000. Existing law authorizes this compensation to be increased by the department based on various factors, including the emissions benefits of the vehicle's retirement. This bill would require the state board, in consultation with the bureau and no later than June 30, 2015, to update the guidelines for the enhanced fleet modernization program to include specified elements and to study and consider specified elements. The bill, in addition, would establish compensation for replacement vehicles for low-income vehicle owners at not less than $2,500 and would make this compensation available to an owner in addition to the compensation for a retired vehicle. The bill also would instead authorize an increase in the compensation under these programs for either retired or replacement vehicles only for low-income motor vehicle owners as necessary to balance maximizing air quality benefits of the program while ensuring participation by low-income motor vehicle owners, as specified. (2) Existing law, until January 1, 2016, increases vehicle registration fees, vessel registration fees, and specified service fees for identification plates by a specified amount. Existing law requires the revenue generated by the increase in those fees to be deposited in the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, and either the Air Quality Improvement Fund or the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount, as provided. Existing law, until January 1, 2016, imposes on certain vehicles a smog abatement fee of $20, and requires a specified amount of this fee to be deposited in the Air Quality Improvement Fund and in the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund. This bill would extend those fees in the amounts required to make these deposits into the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund, the Air Quality Improvement Fund, and the Enhanced Fleet Modernization Subaccount until January 1, 2024, at which time the fees would be reduced by those amounts. (3) Existing law establishes the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program, which is administered by the state board, to provide grants to offset the incremental cost of eligible projects that reduce emissions of air pollutants from sources in the state and for funding a fueling infrastructure demonstration program and technology development efforts. Existing law, beginning January 1, 2015, limits the Carl Moyer program to funding projects that reduce emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) . This bill would extend the current authorization for the Carl Moyer program to fund a broader range of projects that reduce emissions until January 1, 2024, and would make other conforming changes in that regard. The bill also would delete obsolete references and make conforming changes to the Carl Moyer program. (4) Section 3 of Article XIX of the California Constitution restricts the expenditure of revenues from fees and taxes imposed by the state on vehicles to specified purposes, subject to certain exceptions. This bill would require the commission and the state board to ensure that revenues from specified fees imposed on vehicles that are used for purposes of the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program and the Air Quality Improvement Program are expended in compliance with Section 3 of Article XIX of the California Constitution. (5) This bill would make its provisions contingent on the enactment of AB 8 of the 2013–14 Regular Session. (6) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law authorizes a charter school that is unable to locate within the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering school district to establish one site outside the boundaries of the school district, but within the county in which that school district is located, if the school district where the charter school proposes to operate is notified in advance of the charter petition approval, the county superintendent of schools is notified of the location of the charter school before it commences operations and either the charter school has attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire program, but such a site or facility is unavailable in the area in which the school chooses to locate or the site is needed for temporary use during a construction or expansion project. This bill would delete the authority of a charter school to locate outside the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering school district because the charter school has attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire program, but a site or facility is unavailable in the area in which the charter school chooses to locate. The bill would authorize a charter school to establish one facility outside the boundaries of the school district, as described above, if either (1) the school district within the jurisdiction of which the charter school proposes to operate provides written approval to the chartering school district before the charter petition is approved for that facility and before each charter petition renewal, or (2) the facility is needed for temporary use during the period of construction for a construction or expansion project, for up to 18 months, unless the school district in which the charter school intends to operate approves of a longer period of time. The bill would require a charter school locating outside the boundaries of the chartering school district for temporary use to provide the parents of pupils enrolled at the charter school with specified information at least 60 days before the beginning of the school year. The bill would also authorize a charter school to operate a facility outside the boundaries of the chartering school district if (1) the charter school was authorized before April 1, 2013, to locate at that facility and the charter school operated that facility with pupils enrolled and attending before September 15, 2014, (2) the school district within the jurisdiction of which the charter school operates provides written approval to the chartering school district, (3) the charter school is an American Indian charter school, as defined, or (4) the charter school meets the eligibility criteria for the Alternative Schools Accountability Model adopted by the State Board of Education. The bill would prohibit a school district that is assigned a negative certification, as specified, from authorizing new charter schools to locate outside the boundaries of the school district. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
(1) Under existing law, the Department of Conservation, under the supervision of the Director of Conservation, is comprised of various entities, including the State Mining and Geology Board, and the work of the department is divided into divisions including the California Geological Survey and the Office of Mine Reclamation. Existing law requires the board to nominate, and the director to appoint, the State Geologist to advise the director regarding technical, scientific, and engineering issues, including the scientific quality of the products and activities of the California Geological Survey, and requires the State Geologist to meet specific qualifications. This bill would require the board to nominate at least 2 individuals for appointment as the State Geologist and would make the State Geologist responsible for the management of the California Geological Survey. The bill would also designate the Office of Mine Reclamation as the Division of Mines, would require the board to nominate at least 2 individuals to serve as, and the director to appoint a, State Mine Inspector to be responsible for the management of the Division of Mines, and would prescribe the specific qualifications for that person. (2) Existing law requires the owner or operator of a mining operation to forward annually to the director and the lead agency a report that provides specified information with respect to the mining operation. This bill would require, among other changes, that the report be submitted to the State Mine Inspector and the lead agency. The bill would additionally require the State Mine Inspector to submit to the board and the director an annual report relating to abandoned mines, as provided. (3) The Surface Mining and Reclamation Act of 1975, administered by the board, prohibits a person, with exceptions, from conducting surface mining operations unless, among other things, a permit, as defined, is obtained from, a reclamation plan, as specified, is submitted to and approved by, and financial assurances for reclamation have been approved by, the lead agency for the operation. Existing law provides an appeals process for decisions of the lead agency in approval or denial of approval of a reclamation plan. This bill would prohibit a person from conducting surface mining operations, unless, in addition to the above, any required amendments to the reclamation plan are approved, and financial assurances are approved and adjusted annually, as provided. The bill would make the lead agency or, in certain circumstances, the State Mine Inspector responsible for reviewing and approving financial assurances in surface mining operations and would require the lead agency or the State Mine Inspector to take specified actions in seeking forfeiture of those financial assurances. The bill would also provide an appeals process for the State Mine Inspector's approval or denial of approval of financial assurances. The bill would require a portion of the reclamation plan to be certified by a registered professional geologist, geophysicist, or civil engineer and to include a schedule with time limits for completing reclamation, as specified. The bill would require the lead agency or the State Mine Inspector to determine a time period for reclamation to be complete in certain circumstances. By imposing additional duties on lead agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. For purposes of the act, the bill would also revise the definition of permit. (4) Existing law requires the lead agency to conduct an inspection of a surface mining operation within 6 months of receipt by the lead agency of the annual report described in paragraph (2) above. Under existing law, if the lead agency or the director determines that a surface mining operation is not in compliance, the lead agency or director is required to notify the operator of that violation. This bill would also require the State Mine Inspector, in certain circumstances, to conduct an inspection of those operations within 6 months of receipt of the report by the State Mine Inspector and to provide notice of the inspection to the lead agency. The bill would require the notice of violation to include, among other things, specific remedial steps to be taken to correct the noncompliance and also information on the time to comply. The bill would require the State Mine Inspector, on and after January 1, 2018, and on an ongoing basis after that date, to offer continuing education opportunities to lead agency employees that qualifies those employees to be credentialed to inspect mines. (5) Existing law requires the board to assume the powers and duties under the act of the lead agency if, following a public hearing, as prescribed, the board finds deficiencies in the lead agency's implementation and enforcement of the act. This bill would require the board, in those circumstances, to assign those powers and duties to the State Mine Inspector. The bill would also authorize a lead agency to unilaterally and voluntarily relinquish its responsibilities under the act and would require the State Mine Inspector to assume those responsibilities. The bill would authorize the lead agency to resume its relinquished role if certain requirements are met. (6) Existing law requires the board to adopt a schedule of fees to cover the department's costs of carrying out specified provisions and to impose an annual reporting fee on each mining operation, not to exceed $4,000 annually for any single mining operation and not to be less than $100. Existing law requires the board to adjust the fees if the director determines the resources collected were greater to or less than the department's costs. This bill would require that an annual reporting fee, which would also be required to cover the board's costs, as provided, on each mining operation not be less than $1,000 or more than an unspecified amount and would require the fee to be based on a cost per acre as determined by the board. The bill would require the board to adjust the fees if the State Mine Inspector determines the revenues collected were greater to or less than the department's costs. (7) 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.
The California Constitution conditions the imposition of a special tax by a city, county, or special district upon the approval of 23 of the voters of the city, county, or special district voting on that tax, except that certain school entities may levy an ad valorem property tax for specified purposes with the approval of 55% of the voters within the jurisdiction of these entities. This measure would provide that the imposition, extension, or increase of a special tax by a local government for the purpose of providing funding for local transportation projects requires the approval of 55% of its voters voting on the proposition, if the proposition proposing the tax includes certain requirements. This measure would prohibit a local government from expending any revenues derived from a special transportation tax approved by 55% of the voters at any time prior to the completion of a statutorily identified capital project funded by revenues derived from another special tax of the same local government that was approved by a 23 vote. The measure would also make conforming and technical, nonsubstantive changes.