Sen. Kelly Seyarto

This measure would proclaim March 7, 2022, to March 11, 2022, inclusive, as School Breakfast Week and would recognize the importance of school nutrition programs and school nutrition staff in addressing the needs of the state's pupils.

This measure would proclaim the week of March 6, 2022, to March 12, 2022, inclusive, as Women in Construction Week.

The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal law, generally defines "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income for purposes of computing tax liability. Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022, and before January 1, 2027, would provide an exclusion from gross income for survivor benefits or payments, not to exceed $20,000 per taxable year, received on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2027, under the federal Survivor Benefit Plan. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to submit, on or before June 15, 2025, a report to the Legislature on the income brackets of taxpayers who claimed this exclusion, and would provide findings and declarations relating to the goals, purposes, and objectives of this exclusion. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

This measure would proclaim March 2022 as Visual and Performing Arts Education Month and urge all residents to become interested in and give full support to quality visual and performing arts education programs for children and youth.

Existing law imposes specified duties upon a carrier of messages by telegraph. This bill would delete those provisions. The bill would also amend various other provisions to remove references to use of, maintenance of facilities used for, imposition of fees associated with, or accounting of expenses related to, telegram or telegraph, and telegram or telegraph companies. Existing law authorizes cancellation of various types of contracts and transactions using prescribed methods, including telegram or telegraph. This bill would delete references to the telegram or telegraph as a method for canceling those contracts or transactions. Exiting law authorizes any summons, writ, or order in any civil suit or proceeding, and all other papers requiring service, to be transmitted by telegraph for service, as specified. This bill would delete those provisions. Existing law requires an arbitration agreement to be in writing that is contained in a document signed by the parties or in an exchange of telecommunication, including a telegram. This bill would remove the reference to telegram among those telecommunications that may be a written record of an arbitration agreement. Under existing law, there are multiple crimes that may be committed by way of telegraphs and telegrams, including sending threats to public officers and employees, and officers and employees of public and private educational institutions. Existing law defines a financial institution to include a telegraph company for purposes of money laundering and keeping records of currency transactions that exceed $10,000 and reporting those transactions to the Department of Justice. Existing law further references telegraphs and telegraph equipment and facilities, which includes authorizing the transmission of a copy of a warrant or an abstract of a warrant via telegraph. This bill would delete references to telegraphs and telegrams in the Penal Code. By deleting those references, the bill would decriminalize conduct committed by way of telegraphs and telegrams. The bill would no longer require a telegraph company to report to the Department of Justice currency transactions that exceed $10,000. The bill also would no longer authorize the transmission of a warrant or abstract of warrant via telegraph. The California Constitution establishes the Public Utilities Commission and vests the commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telegraph corporations, subject to control by the Legislature. This bill would delete from the Public Utilities Code all references to telegraph corporations, and, consequently, would repeal the commission's statutory authority to regulate telegraph corporations. Existing law provides that, for purposes of the imposition of sales and use tax, tangible personal property does not include telephone and telegraph lines and the poles, towers, or conduits that support them or contain them. This bill would remove the reference to telegraph lines in the above-specified exception. Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of any county to levy a utility user tax on the consumption of electricity, gas, water, sewer, telephone, telegraph, and cable television services in the unincorporated area of the county. This bill would remove the reference to telegraph services from the authorization described above. The bill would also make other nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Existing law makes it a crime to possess for sale or purchase for purpose of sale, transport, sell, furnish, administer, give away, manufacture, compound, convert, produce, derive, process, or prepare various controlled substances, including, among others, fentanyl, peyote, and various other opiates and narcotics. This bill would require a person who is convicted of, or who pleads guilty or no contest to, the above crimes to receive a written advisory of the danger of manufacturing and distribution of controlled substances and that, if a person dies as a result of that action, the manufacturer or distributor can be charged with murder. The bill would require that the fact the advisory was given be on the record and recorded on the abstract of conviction.

This measure would proclaim February 24, 2022, as Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day.

This measure would recognize the week of February 20, 2022, to February 26, 2022, as Engineers Week.

This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the University of California Student Association as a contributor to the accessibility, affordability, and quality of postsecondary education, and as an influential voice of University of California students. The measure would recognize the continued need to protect and expand student representation by recognizing February 11, 2022, as "Student Representation Day."