The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city or county and of any land outside its boundaries that bears relation to its planning. That law also requires the general plan to contain specified mandatory elements, including, among others, a housing element for the preservation, improvement, and development of the community's housing. Existing law requires the Strategic Growth Council to manage and award financial assistance to specified regional and local governments to support the planning and development of sustainable communities, as specified, from bond funds made available through the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006. This bill would establish the Future Sustainable Communities Pilot Project. The bill would authorize a city or county with a disadvantaged unincorporated community, as defined, inside or near its boundaries to apply to the Strategic Growth Council, as specified, to receive the financial assistance necessary to update its general plan to facilitate the transformation of the disadvantaged unincorporated community into a sustainable community. The bill would require the Strategic Growth Council to choose 5 cities and 5 counties with a disadvantaged unincorporated community inside or near their boundaries to receive financial assistance. The bill would require, upon receipt of the financial assistance from the council, the city or county to review, prepare, and adopt amendments to one or more elements of its general plan, as necessary to include data and analysis, goals, implementation measures, policies, and objectives to address the presence of unincorporated island, unincorporated fringe, or unincorporated legacy communities, as respectively defined, inside or near its boundaries, and to incorporate into the general plan specified purposes relating to the establishment of sustainable communities. The bill would also require the updated general plan to include specified information. This bill would further require the city or county to make a diligent effort to involve all members of the public in preparing the review and update of the general plan.
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Existing law imposes various taxes and allows specified credits, deductions, exclusions, and exemptions in computing those taxes. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, require any bill that would authorize a personal income or corporation tax credit to contain, among other provisions, (1) specified goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, (2) detailed performance indicators to measure whether the tax credit is meeting those goals, purposes, and objectives, and (3) a requirement that the tax credit cease to be operative 7 taxable years after its effective date, as specified.
This measure would memorialize the Congress and the President of the United States to uphold protections of women's equality and to encourage all Americans to participate in the celebration of Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2010, the 90th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.
The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes a credit against the taxes imposed by that law in an amount equal to the lesser of 5% of the purchase price or $10,000 in the case of the purchase of a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before March 1, 2010, but not to exceed an aggregate limitation of $100,000,000 for all credits allowable. Existing law requires a certification that the residence has never been occupied be provided to the Franchise Tax Board within one week of the sale of the qualified principal residence. This bill would limit the credit to taxpayers who purchased a qualified principal residence on and after March 1, 2009, and before July 3, 2009, and on and after the effective date of this bill and before March 1, 2010. This bill would also require the aggregate limitation of credits to be reduced by a specified amount per certification received by the Franchise Tax Board. (2) The bill would appropriate the sum of $44,000 from the General Fund to the Franchise Tax Board, in augmentation of a specified appropriation made in the 2009-10 Budget Act. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) The California Constitution requires the Governor to submit annually to the Legislature a budget itemizing state expenditures and estimating state revenues and requires the Legislature to pass the Budget Bill by midnight on June 15. This bill would require that the budget submitted by the Governor to the Legislature for the 2014–15 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter be developed pursuant to performance-based budgeting, as defined, for each state agency. (2) Under existing law, a state agency for which an appropriation is made is generally required to submit to the Department of Finance for approval a complete and detailed budget setting forth all proposed expenditures and estimated revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. The bill would require the budget of a state agency, as defined, submitted to the department to utilize performance-based budgeting, for all programs, as defined. The bill would authorize a joint committee, utilizing the recommendations of specified entities, to propose changes to those programs. The bill also would establish a task force comprised of the Director of Finance, the Controller, and the chairpersons and vice chairpersons of the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review and Assembly Committee on Budget to develop performance-based budgeting guidelines and procedures, including a process for phasing in requirements of performance-based budgeting, and to review and comment on a training and education program for state agency personnel involved in the budget process developed by the Department of Finance.
This measure would commend the Girl Scouts for 98 years of service and for inspiring millions of girls with the highest ideals of confidence, courage, and character.
Existing law requires the collection of fees for issuing marriage licenses and for confidential marriage licenses. Existing law requires the collection of a fee in addition to the basic fee for the issuance of a marriage license and for the issuance of an authorization for the performance of marriages without a license, in the amount of $23. Existing law requires the additional $23 fee to be collected by the county clerk for deposit into county domestic violence shelter-based programs special funds. Existing law requires fees collected in the special funds to be disbursed to approved domestic violence shelter-based programs that meet certain requirements on a yearly or more frequent basis. This bill would authorize a county board of supervisors to authorize an increase of the above-described fee from $23 to $33. Existing law provides that proposed or existing domestic violence shelter-based programs that meet the aforementioned requirements shall receive funding from the county domestic violence shelter-based programs special funds. This bill would, instead, provide that only existing domestic violence shelter-based programs that meet the requirements shall receive funding. Existing law allows specified local jurisdictions to retain fees received at the time of issuance of a marriage license in excess of the $23 fee. This bill would add Sonoma County as a jurisdiction to whom this provision applies. Existing law requires the money in the special funds to be disbursed using a request for qualification (RFQ) process. This bill would require the RFQ process to involve a determination of whether a domestic violence shelter-based program meets the aforementioned requirements. If a domestic violence shelter-based program meets those requirements, the bill would provide that the program has successfully completed the RFQ process. The bill would provide that an RFQ process shall not be construed to mean a competitive bidding process. Existing law authorizes a county to establish a program for reducing the incidence of domestic violence in the county by establishing or funding domestic violence shelter-based programs that meet the aforementioned requirements. Existing law authorizes geographically adjacent counties to combine their respective domestic violence shelter-based programs funds in order to establish one or more domestic violence shelter-based programs, in order to provide services to the clients of each county that combines its funds with another county. This bill would provide that a county may only fund a domestic violence shelter-based program that is located outside of the county if the funding county is funding all domestic violence shelter-based programs located within its borders that meet the aforementioned requirements and the program located outside of the funding county provides services to residents of the funding county.
(1) The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a statewide program for the control of the quality of all the waters in the state. This bill would define rainwater and raw water for purposes of the act. (2) Existing law declares that the use of potable domestic water for nonpotable uses is a waste or an unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available, as determined by the State Water Resources Control Board, and other requirements are met. This bill, instead, would declare that the use of raw or potable domestic water for nonpotable municipal or industrial uses is a waste or unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met, including, but not limited to, a requirement that the source of recycled water is reliable for those uses. (3) Existing law prohibits a person or public agency from using any water that is suitable for potable domestic use for nonpotable uses if suitable recycled water is available, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met. This bill, instead, would prohibit a person or public agency from using raw or potable water that is suitable for nonpotable municipal or industrial uses if suitable recycled water is available, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met. (4) Existing law declares that the use of potable domestic water for the irrigation of residential landscaping is a waste and unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available to residents, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met. This bill, instead, would declare that the use of raw or potable water for the irrigation of landscaping is a waste and unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available to users, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met. (5) Existing law declares that the use of potable domestic water for floor trap priming, cooling towers, and air-conditioning devices is a waste and unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met. This bill, instead, would declare that the use of raw or potable water for those purposes is a waste and unreasonable use of water if recycled water is available, as determined by the board, and other requirements are met.
This measure would proclaim the month of May to be Women Veterans Recognition Month.
Under existing law the State Board of Equalization serves as the appellate body for disputes arising from actions of the Franchise Tax Board. If a taxpayer disagrees with the decision of the State Board of Equalization, that taxpayer may, after payment of the disputed tax, file an action with the superior court in any city or city and county in which the Attorney General has an office. This bill would, for determinations issued by the State Board of Equalization on or after January 1, 2011, authorize the Franchise Tax Board to bring an action for a trial de novo in superior court to determine the deficiency amount, the amount of refund or credit, or disallowance of interest that was the subject of the determination of the State Board of Equalization, where the amount of the deficiency, overpayment, or disallowance of interest exceeds $100,000 for taxpayers subject to tax imposed under the Personal Income Tax Law, or $1,000,000 for taxpayers subject to tax imposed under the Corporation Tax Law. This bill would also authorize a taxpayer to file a motion to change the venue to a venue closer to the taxpayer's principal residence or principal place of business.