(1) The Economic Revitalization Act establishes the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as "GO-Biz," to, among other duties, serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and the marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth. Existing law authorizes the Director of GO-Biz to establish and terminate international trade and investment offices outside of the United States as he or she determines is appropriate, if specific requirements are met. Existing law establishes the Economic Development and Trade Promotion Account, a continuously appropriated account, to accept private moneys to fund international trade and investment offices. This bill would, notwithstanding provisions authorizing the Director of GO-Biz to establish and terminate international trade and investment offices outside of the United States if specified conditions are satisfied, and to the extent private moneys are available, require the Director of GO-Biz to enter into an agreement, on or before July 1, 2018, to establish, and thereafter to operate, an international trade and investment office in Mexico City, Mexico, as specified. The bill would require the Director of GO-Biz to include information regarding the Mexico City trade and investment office in existing reporting requirements relating to an International Trade and Investment Program, as specified. The bill would require GO-Biz to accept and administer private moneys through the Economic Development and Trade Promotion Account. By expanding the use of a continuously appropriated account, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill would require the Mexico City trade and investment office to, among other things, promote the export of California goods and services into Mexico and facilitate access to educational exchange programs between California and Mexico. (2) Existing law requires the Director of GO-Biz to develop an International Trade and Investment Program for the state and to submit the strategy and business plan for the International Trade and Investment Program to the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, the Secretary of the Senate, the Speaker of the Assembly, the President pro Tempore of the Senate, the chair of the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economic Development, and the Economy and the chair of the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, or respective successor committees, with jurisdiction over the international trade and economic development programs. This bill would also require the Director of GO-Biz to submit the strategy and business plan to the Senate Select Committee on California-Mexico Cooperation and the chair of the Assembly Select Committee on California-México Bi-National Affairs.
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Existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, authorizes a retail licensee to return beer to the wholesaler or manufacturer from whom the retail licensee purchased the beer, or any successor thereto, and the wholesaler, manufacturer, or successor thereto is authorized to accept that return if the beer is returned in exchange for the identical quantity and brand of beer. This bill would authorize the return of regular beer in exchange for an identical quantity of a specific full-calorie brand or a specific reduced-calorie brand of the same manufacturer or importer, as specified.
Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and each county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan using a template adopted by the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the local control and accountability plan to include a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each of certain state priorities, which include implementation of the academic content and performance standards adopted by the state board, as specified, and the specific actions that will be taken to achieve the annual goals. This bill would add to the enumerated state priorities specified consideration of the Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools. By imposing additional duties upon school districts and county boards of education, 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, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Under existing law, the Department of Consumer Affairs is comprised of various boards, bureaus, and commissions that license and regulate the practice of various professions and vocations deemed to engage in activities that have potential impact upon the public health, safety, and welfare for the purpose of ensuring that those professions and vocations are adequately regulated in order to protect the people of California. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA) , an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under the AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The AUMA authorizes the Legislature to amend, by a majority vote, certain provisions of the act to implement specified substantive provisions, provided that the amendments are consistent with and further the purposes and intent of the act. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA) , among other things, consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. The MAUCRSA prohibits a licensee from performing certain acts, including selling any cannabis or cannabis products at less than its cost for the purpose of injuring competitors, destroying competition, or misleading or deceiving purchasers or prospective purchasers. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law requires revenues derived from a portion of the state sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to Proposition 172, approved by the voters on November 2, 1993, to be allocated among the county and the cities in the county that provide public safety services, as provided, to be expended exclusively for the funding of those services. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would limit the amount of revenues derived from the imposition of the tax pursuant to Proposition 172 that are maintained in reserves by counties to 5% of the total allocation of those revenues received in the previous budget year and would make related findings and declarations.
Existing law requires revenues derived from a portion of the state sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to Proposition 172, approved by the voters on November 2, 1993, to be allocated among the county and the cities in the county that provide public safety services, as provided, to be expended exclusively for the funding of those services. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would limit the amount of revenues derived from the imposition of the tax pursuant to Proposition 172 that are maintained in reserves by counties to 5% of the total allocation of those revenues received in the previous budget year and would make related findings and declarations.
Existing law creates the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS) and the Public Employees' Retirement System (PERS) , which provide pension and other benefits to their respective members. Both STRS and PERS are funded by employer and employee contributions and investment returns. This bill would require certain employers that fail to make a required employer contribution to STRS or PERS to notify members of the delinquency within 30 days, as specified.
Existing law establishes the State Board of Education to consist of 10 members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of 23 of the Senate. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these State Board of Education provisions.
Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Parks and Recreation and requires the department to be conducted under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Parks and Recreation. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in these provisions.