Existing law, the California Control of Profits of Organized Crime Act, provides the procedure for the forfeiture of property and proceeds acquired through a pattern of criminal profiteering activity, as specified. Under existing law, criminal profiteering activity is defined as certain acts or threats made for financial gain or advantage that may be charged as specified crimes, including, among others, gambling. This bill would include specified crimes within the definition of gambling for the purposes of these provisions. By increasing the burdens on local prosecuting agencies, 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.
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This measure would designate a specified portion of State Route 55 from 19th Street to MacArthur Boulevard in the County of Orange as the Costa Mesa Fire Captain Michael Kreza Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.
Existing law, 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 state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by gross receipts on 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. These taxes are remitted to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, establish the Creative Economy Incentive Act, which would be administered by GO-Biz, for the purpose of providing financial support to any nonprofit organization, city, county, special district, or any politicalsubdivision of state or local government, including a department, agency, commission, district, joint powers authority, or a combination thereof for the purpose of assisting in financing a creative economy event, as defined. The bill would require an applicant to apply to GO-Biz for financial support pursuant to the program on an application that contains specified minimum information, including the adopted resolution of a county or city, if any, within the designated market area for the creative economy event evidencing that city's or county's commitment to contribute a portion of its respective local sales and use tax revenue or other local revenue as a local contribution to the creative economy event. The bill would require an applicant who receives financial support under these provisions to comply with specified reporting requirements and would require the office to complete a study of a creative economy event, as specified. The bill would require the office to form a steering committee to make recommendations to the office regarding the development of guidelines and the review of applications under these provisions. The bill would establish the Creative Economy Incentive Program Account, which, upon appropriation, would be used to carry out these provisions. The bill would require the office to annually prepare a report on its activities and outcomes under these provisions and submit the report to specified committees in the Senate and the Assembly on March 15 of each year, beginning with the year 2021. The bill would require the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to transfer specified sales and use tax receipts correlated with a creative economy event into the Creative Economy Incentive Program Fund until an amount equal to the total amount of financial support funding awarded to the applicant for the creative economy event has been transferred.
Existing property tax law establishes a veterans' organization exemption under which property is exempt from taxation if, among other things, that property is used exclusively for charitable purposes and is owned by a veterans' organization. This bill would provide that the veterans' organization exemption shall not be denied to a property on the basis that the property is used for fraternal, lodge, or social club purposes, and would make specific findings and declarations in that regard. The bill would also provide that the exemption shall not apply to any portion of a property that consists of a bar where alcoholic beverages are served. The bill would apply these changes to lien dates occurring on and after January 1, 2020, and before January 1, 2030. Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Civil Discovery Act permits a party to a civil action to obtain discovery, as specified, by inspecting documents, tangible things, land or other property, and electronically stored information in the possession of any other party to the action. The Civil Discovery Act requires any documents produced in response to an inspection demand to be produced as they are kept in the usual course of business, or be organized and labeled to correspond with the categories in the demand. This bill would eliminate the option to produce documents as they are kept in the usual course of business, thereby requiring all documents or category of documents produced in response to a demand for inspection, copying, testing, or sampling to be identified with the specific request number to which the documents respond.
The State Bar Act provides for the licensure and regulation of attorneys by the State Bar of California, a public corporation governed by a board of trustees. Existing law provides for the creation of an examining committee within the State Bar with specified powers, which include the power to examine applicants for admission to practice law. The act imposes specified requirements for a person to be certified to the Supreme Court for admission and a license to practice law, including a requirement that an applicant be of good moral character. This bill would prohibit the staff of the State Bar or members of the examining committee, in reviewing whether an applicant is of good moral character, from reviewing or considering the person's medical records relating to mental health, except as specified. The bill would prohibit the staff of the State Bar or members of the examining committee from requesting or seeking to review any medical records relating to mental health, including by obtaining the consent of the applicant to disclose the records, except as specified.
(1) Existing law provides for specific procedures by which the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the American Independent Party, the Peace and Freedom Party, and the Green Party participate in the presidential primary election. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to place the name of a candidate seeking the nomination of one of those parties for the office of President of the United States on the presidential primary ballot when the Secretary of State determines that the candidate is generally advocated for or recognized throughout the United States as actively seeking the nomination of the party, and to announce and distribute to the news media a list of the candidates the Secretary of State intends to place on the ballot a specified number of days before the presidential primary election. Existing law requires the Secretary of State to send a letter to specified officials in the Green Party of California and the Peace and Freedom Party of California soliciting additional information regarding the placement of candidates from those parties on the ballot on or before the 150th day before the election. This bill would define the phrases "generally advocated for or recognized candidate" or "recognized candidate" for these purposes to mean an individual who has an authorized campaign committee registered with the Federal Election Commission for the office of President of the United States and who meets specified criteria. The bill would require a candidate to complete and submit to the Secretary of State a form that substantiates the criteria met by the candidate. The bill would extend the deadline by which the Secretary of State is required to announce and distribute the names of candidates to be placed on the ballot to the 88th day before the date of the presidential primary election. The bill would extend the deadline for the Secretary of State to send the letter described above to the 120th day before the primary election. (2) Existing law requires an unselected candidate or uncommitted delegation seeking the nomination of a party that desires to be placed on the presidential primary ballot to have nomination papers circulated for signature on behalf of the candidacy. Existing law authorizes a circulator of those nomination papers to obtain signatures during a specified period before the presidential primary election, and requires the nomination papers to be prepared, circulated, signed, verified, and left for examination with the county elections official of the county in which the papers are circulated a specified number of days before the presidential primary election. This bill would change the period during which a circulator may obtain signatures to a nomination paper to the period between 120 days and 81 days, inclusive, before the primary election, and require all nomination papers to be left for examination by the county elections official at least 81 days before the primary election. The bill would make other conforming and technical, nonsubstantive changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would commemorate the American Legion for 100 years of service to the United States.
This measure would urge the United States Congress to act favorably in regard to legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Merrill's Marauders.