This measure would recognize the week of March 23, 2014, to March 29, 2014, inclusive, as National Agriculture Week, and would designate March 19, 2014, as California Agriculture Day.
Existing laws impose state sales and use taxes 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, measured by the sales price. The Sales and Use Tax Law defines the terms "gross receipts" and "sales price." This bill would, on and after January 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2022, in the sale of a new alternative fuel motor vehicle, exclude from the terms "gross receipts" and "sales price," any amount allowed as a credit under a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, and any amounts received, awarded, or allowed pursuant to a state incentive program for the purchase or lease of an alternative fuel vehicle. 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 law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. This bill would specify that this exclusion does not apply to local sales and use taxes and transactions and use taxes. The Vehicle License Fee Law provides that the annual amount of the license fee for any vehicle is 0.65% of the market value of the vehicle, as specified. That law provides for the determination of the market value of any vehicle, for reclassification to increase the market value of a vehicle, and for the exemption of certain vehicles from the imposition of the license fee. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2022, for purposes of determining the vehicle license fee, exempt from the determination of market value of a new motor vehicle propelled by alternative fuels any amount allowed as a credit under a specified provision of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles, and any amounts received, awarded, or allowed pursuant to a state incentive program for the purchase or lease of an alternative fuel vehicle. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law, the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care and makes a willful violation of the act a crime. Existing law, the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) , enacts various health care coverage market reforms that take effect on January 1, 2014. The PPACA, among other things, allows for the establishment of provider-based accountable care organizations to promote accountability for a patient population and coordinate items and services, as provided under federal law. This bill would require an accountable care organization, as defined, operating in the state to have a clinical laboratory testing advisory board, as specified, to recommend testing guidelines that the accountable care organization may adopt. Because a willful violation of that requirement by an accountable care organization would be a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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 change the name of the act to the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2014 and declare the intent of the Legislature to amend the act for the purpose of reducing and potentially refocusing the $11,140,000,000 bond. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the Assumption Program of Loans for Education, administered by the Student Aid Commission, under which any person enrolled in an eligible institution of postsecondary education, as defined, 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 in an eligible school, as defined, if he or she satisfies certain conditions. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to restore the funding for the Assumption Program of Loans for Education to its 2011–12 fiscal year level. The bill would require the commission to award 7,200 new warrants for the assumption of loans under the program in the 2013–14 fiscal year. The bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission for the funding of warrants for the assumption of loans under the program for the 2013–14 fiscal year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Medi-Cal Act establishes the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments to be reduced by 1% or 5%, and provider payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 1%, for dates of service on and after March 1, 2009, and until June 1, 2011. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments and payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 10% for dates of service on and after June 1, 2011. This bill would instead require that, to the extent permitted by federal law, this payment reduction not apply to skilled nursing facilities or subacute care units that are a distinct part of a general acute care hospital, intermediate care or other specified facilities serving developmentally disabled individuals, or specified Medi-Cal provider payments for fee-for-service benefits, including payments to pharmacies, for dates of service on or after June 1, 2011. The bill would also provide that this payment reduction shall not apply to managed health care plans for dates of service after the effective date of the bill. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law ratified the "Tahoe Regional Planning Compact," a bilateral agreement between the States of Nevada and California to regulate development in the Lake Tahoe basin. The compact established the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as a separate legal entity, comprised of members from the States of Nevada and California, responsible for implementing a "regional plan," as defined, regulating development in the Lake Tahoe region, as defined. Existing law also creates the California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as a separate legal entity and as a political subdivision of the State of California, and prescribes the membership, functions, and duties of the agency, as specified. Existing law requires the agency, within 18 months of its formation, to prepare, adopt, and review and maintain a comprehensive long-term general plan for the development of the Tahoe region, referred to as the "regional plan," as prescribed. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations relating to an agreement between the Governors of the States of Nevada and California covering the implementation of the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact that was jointly announced by the governors of these states on May 14, 2013, which is proposed to be codified in specified legislation in Nevada and California. The bill would declare that the State of Nevada has agreed to repeal its 2011 statutory provisions requiring its withdrawal from the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact and proposing a change in the voting structure of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Existing law, contained in the bistate Tahoe Regional Planning Compact in the Government Code, requires that within one year after adoption of environmental threshold carrying capacities for the Tahoe region, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency amend its regional plan so that, at a minimum, the plan and all of its elements, as implemented through agency ordinances, rules, and regulations, achieves and maintains the adopted environmental threshold carrying capacities, and requires that the advisory planning commission appointed by the agency and the governing body of the agency continuously review and maintain the regional plan. This bill would revise the compact to require that, in reviewing and maintaining the plan, the planning commission and the governing body also ensure that the regional plan reflects changing economic conditions and the economic effect of regulation on commerce. The bill would further revise the compact to require that, when adopting or amending a regional plan or taking an action or making a decision, the agency act in accordance with the requirements of the compact and its implementing ordinances, rules, and regulations and to place upon a party challenging any element of the regional plan, or an action or decision of the agency, the burden of showing that the regional plan is not in conformance with those requirements. This bill would require the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, until January 1, 2018, to annually prepare and submit to the Department of Finance and the appropriate legislative budget committees a report, in a format established by the department, of the revenues provided to the agency by the States of Nevada and California, including a complete summary and explanation of the expenditure of the revenues received and expended by the agency. (2) Under existing law, the State Lands Commission may administer, sell, lease, or dispose of public lands owned or controlled by this state. Under existing law, with specified exceptions, all rental income received for surface uses upon lands under the jurisdiction of the commission is required to be deposited in the General Fund. This bill would additionally exclude from the requirement for deposit of this rental income in the General Fund the rental income from surface uses for lands at Lake Tahoe. The bill would require this income to be deposited in the Lake Tahoe Science and Lake Improvement Account, which this bill would create in the General Fund. The bill would authorize the moneys in the account to be expended by the Natural Resources Agency, upon appropriation by the Legislature, and would require that information regarding finding activity be annually available on a publicly accessible Internet Web site. The bill would allow the funds in the account to be expended for activities and projects that include, but are not limited to, aquatic invasive species prevention projects, projects to improve public access to sovereign land in Lake Tahoe, and projects to improve near-shore water quality monitoring, as specified. The bill would also authorize the moneys in the account to be expended for the costs associated with establishing and operating a bistate science-based advisory council, and would authorize the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to enter into a memorandum of agreement with the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to establish the council. The bill would require the agency, or another agency designated by it, to annually make certain information available regarding any activity funded from the account.
(1) Existing law makes it a crime for a person, with knowledge that another person is a minor, to knowingly distribute, send, cause to be sent, exhibit, or offer to distribute or exhibit by electronic mail or the Internet any harmful matter, as defined, to a minor with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of that person or the minor, and with the intent or the purpose of seducing a minor. This bill would instead make it a misdemeanor or a felony for every person who knows, should have known, or believes that another person is a minor to distribute or exhibit harmful matter, as defined, depicting a minor or minors engaging in sexual conduct, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires of that person or of a minor, and with the intent or for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation, or with the intent that either person touch an intimate body part of the other. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison for 2, 3, or 5 years. If the matter used was harmful matter, as defined, but does not include a depiction of a minor engaged in sexual conduct, the bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years. By increasing the punishment for a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law makes it a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 3 years, or in a county jail for up to one year, or by a fine not exceeding $2,500, or by both the fine and imprisonment, to knowingly possess or control child pornography, as specified. The bill would make it either a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or 2 or 5 years, or a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year, or by a fine not exceeding $2,500, or by both the fine and imprisonment, if the person knowingly possesses or controls child pornography, as specified, and the matter contains more than 600 images, as defined, at least 10 of which are images of prepubescent minors or minors under 12 years of age; or the matter portrays sexual sadism or sexual masochism involving a minor, as defined. This bill would make other technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes. Existing law, Proposition 83, as approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, amended Section 311.11 of the Penal Code. The act authorizes the Legislature to amend its provisions to expand the scope of its application or to increase the punishments or penalties established by the act by a statute passed by a majority vote of each house thereof. Because the bill would increase punishments provided in the act, the bill may be passed by a majority vote of each house of the Legislature. Because a violation of the provisions would be a crime, this 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
Existing law authorizes certain school districts to operate one or more schools on a 4-day school week if the school district complies with specified instructional time requirements and other requirements related to the 4-day school week. This bill would, beginning in the 2013–14 fiscal year, authorize the Moorpark Unified School District to operate one or more high schools offering a middle college program on a 4-day school week if it complies with the specified instructional time requirements and other requirements related to the 4-day school week. The bill would require the authority of a school in the Moorpark Unified School District to operate on a 4-day school week to be permanently revoked if the school fails to achieve its Academic Performance Index growth target. The bill would authorize the Moorpark Unified School District operating a school on a 4-day school week, as described above, to claim a day of attendance pursuant to a provision related to attendance in early college high schools and middle college high schools, and specified provisions related to the operation of middle college high schools. The bill would update funding calculations to reflect changes to be made by the implementation of the local control funding formula. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on June 30, 2018, and would repeal these provisions as of January 1, 2019. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Moorpark Unified School District. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Developmental Services and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the administration of the state developmental centers. Existing law establishes the State Department of State Hospitals and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the administration of state hospitals. This bill would require designated investigators of developmental centers and state hospitals to request a sexual assault forensic medical examination for any resident of a developmental center or any resident of a state hospital, as applicable, who is a victim or is reasonably suspected to be a victim of sexual assault, as defined, performed at an appropriate facility off the grounds of the developmental center or state hospital in accordance with specified provisions. The bill would authorize a sexual assault forensic medical examination to be performed at a developmental center or a state hospital by an independent sexual assault forensic examiner designated to perform examinations of victims of sexual assault in the jurisdiction of the developmental center or state hospital only under specified circumstances. Existing law requires a developmental center to immediately report specified incidents involving a resident to the local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the city or county in which the developmental center is located. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including long-term health care facilities, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law provides for a citation system for the imposition of civil penalties against long-term health care facilities, including penalties specifically applicable to certain skilled nursing facilities and intermediate care facilities, in violation of applicable laws and regulations. This bill would deem a developmental center's failure to report an incident that occurs in a distinct part long-term health care facility to local law enforcement a class B violation subject to certain penalties, as specified. The bill would provide that if the incident occurs in the general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital portion of the developmental center, a failure to immediately report the incident would be subject to a civil penalty of $100 for each day the incident is not reported. The bill would make other related changes. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 4427.5 of the Welfare and Institutions Code made by AB 602, to become operative if AB 602 and this bill are both enacted and become effective on or before January 1, 2014, and this bill is enacted last.
