Article XIX of the California Constitution requires revenues from state excise taxes on motor vehicle fuels for use in motor vehicles upon public streets and highways, over and above the cost of collection and any refunds authorized by law, to be used for various street and highway purposes and for certain mass transit guideway purposes. Existing law requires state excise fuel tax revenues to be deposited in various accounts and to be allocated, in part, for various purposes, including the cost of collection and authorized refunds. Existing law requires the balance of these funds remaining after authorized deductions to be transferred to and deposited monthly in the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund. Existing law provides for formula apportionment of specified revenues in the Highway Users Tax Account to cities and counties for the transportation purposes authorized by Article XIX of the California Constitution, and requires other portions of those revenues to be transferred to and deposited in the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund. Existing law provides that the money in the Highway Users Tax Account is appropriated for the above-described transportation purposes, but also generally provides that the money in the State Highway Account may not be expended until appropriated by the Legislature. This bill, in any year in which the Budget Act has not been enacted by July 1, would provide that all moneys in the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund, except as specified, are continuously appropriated and may be encumbered for certain purposes until the Budget Act is enacted. The bill would thereby make an appropriation. The bill would authorize the Controller to make estimates in order to implement these provisions.
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Existing law requires a health care service plan, that is not a health maintenance organization or is not a plan that enters exclusively into specialized health care service plan contracts, and a health insurer issuing policies on a groupwide basis, to offer acupuncture coverage under those terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties. Existing law provides that a plan or insurer is not required to offer "that Coverage as" part of a contract or policy covering public employees. A willful violation of the laws regulating health care service plans is a crime. This bill would instead require every health care service plan, except a plan that enters exclusively into contracts that are accident-only, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, or specialized health care service plan contracts, and every health insurer issuing policies on a groupwide basis, except for policies that are accident-only, specified disease, hospital indemnity, Medicare supplement, or specialized health insurance policies, to provide acupuncture coverage under those terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the parties. Because a violation of this bill's requirements with respect to a health care service plan would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. Existing law authorizing a disability insurance policy to provide payment for acupuncture services requires that the disability insurance policy or contract expressly include acupuncture as a benefit in order for a licensed or certified acupuncturist to be paid or reimbursed under the policy for his or her services. This bill would delete the requirement conditioning the payment and reimbursement of a certified or licensed acupuncturist, for his or her services, on the express inclusion of acupuncture as a benefit in a disability insurance policy or contract. This bill would also make technical and conforming changes. 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 Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 provides the exclusive authority and procedure for the initiation, conduct, and completion of changes of organization and reorganization for cities and districts, except as specified. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that act.
The Sales and Use Tax Law provides a presumption that all gross receipts are subject to tax until the contrary is established. This law relieves a seller from liability for sales tax if the seller in good faith takes a resale certificate from a purchaser holding a seller's permit, and the resale certificate is signed and completed as specified. This bill would make nonsubstantive, technical changes to this provision.
Existing law creates and establishes in each community, as defined, a public body, corporate and politic, known as the community development commission. Existing law creates and establishes the commission in order that a community may have the option of operating and governing its redevelopment agency, or its redevelopment agency and housing authority, under a single operating entity and board. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the definition of the term "community."
The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined, in blighted areas in those communities known as project areas. The California Constitution authorizes a redevelopment agency to receive funding through tax increments attributable to increases in assessed property tax valuation in a project area due to redevelopment. Existing statutory law also requires an agency to remit specified funds based on net tax increment apportioned to the agency for deposit in separate funds for various purposes. This bill would authorize a redevelopment plan to contain a provision that limits the dollar amount of property tax increment revenue that may be divided and allocated to the agency, as specified, in any single year. The bill would also require that a certain portion of taxes received by or apportioned to an agency be based on a prescribed amount in the course of making a calculation relating to a required agency payment or allocation. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to approve, on or before September 15 of each year, in a format prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, an annual statement of all receipts and expenditures of the district for the preceding fiscal year. Existing law further requires that this annual statement be filed, along with an annual statement of receipts and expenditures required of each charter school, with the county superintendent of schools, and that copies of these statements be transmitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to print and distribute in pamphlet form an annual financial statement of the receipts and expenditures of the district. This bill would require the governing board of a school district to prepare and maintain a monthly public record of all expenditures of the district, and specify information to be included about each item of expenditure. The bill would require the governing board to make this public record available for public viewing by posting it on the Internet Web site of the district, and updated at least once every 30 calendar days. The bill would require the public record to include an explanation of any codes, acronyms, or abbreviations used to identify a payee or expenditure. The bill would also require that the public record not include any information that could be used to identify an individual employee. Because the bill would impose new duties on a school district, it would constitute a state-mandated local program. (2) 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 these statutory provisions.
The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission, with jurisdiction over public utilities, and provides for the membership and tenure of the members of the commission. Existing law requires each commissioner, before entering upon the duties of the office, to take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to the oath requirement.
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 each 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 law, or with the rules prescribed by the State Board of Education, for its own government. This bill would amend this provision to make a technical, nonsubstantive change.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of the practice of various healing arts practitioners by boards under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law makes it unlawful for those practitioners to disseminate a false, fraudulent, misleading, or deceptive statement and defines those terms for its purposes. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.