(1) Existing law specifies the manner in which bonded indebtedness of a school district on general obligation bonds is reallocated among school districts when school districts are reorganized. Existing law, notwithstanding the provisions above, specifies the manner in which bonded indebtedness of the Wiseburn Unified School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District are determined upon the reorganization of the Wiseburn School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District by the formation of the Wiseburn Unified School District and the termination of the Wiseburn School District. Existing law authorizes the Local Public Schools Funding Authority, a joint powers authority created by the Wiseburn School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District, or the 2 surviving school districts, to issue school facilities construction bonds, as provided. Existing law, if the Local Public Schools Funding Authority maintains outstanding bonded indebtedness issued pursuant to specified programs, requires the bonded indebtedness of the Local Public Schools Funding Authority to be allocated to the Wiseburn Unified School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District, respectively, in proportionate amounts calculated based on the assessed value of taxable property within each respective school district securing repayment of the bonds. This bill would instead require the bonded indebtedness of the Local Public Schools Funding Authority to be allocated to the Wiseburn Unified School District and the Centinela Valley Union High School District, respectively, for bonds issued before January 1, 2018, including refunding bonds issued thereafter and related to such bonds, in proportionate amounts calculated based on the assessed value of taxable property within each respective school district securing repayment of the bonds, and, for bonds issued following January 1, 2018, in appropriate amounts calculated based on the amount of proceeds of the bonds of such series expended for projects within each respective school district. To the extent these provisions would require local taxing authorities to perform additional duties, the bill would impose 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
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This measure would recognize June 19, 2018, as Juneteenth and would urge the people of California to join in celebrating Juneteenth as a day to honor and reflect on the significant role that African Americans have played in the history of the United States and how they have enriched society through their steadfast commitment to promoting unity and equality.
(1) Existing law establishes a system of state prisons under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Existing law authorizes the department to institute various programs for inmates, including programs for education and job training. This bill would require the department to develop guidelines for inmate participation in preapprenticeship training programs, as specified. The bill would also require the department to coordinate with local state-approved apprenticeship programs and local building trade councils so that inmates who complete an inmate preapprenticeship program have a pathway to employment upon release. (2) Existing law authorizes the Department of General Services, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and various local agencies to use the design-build procurement process for specified public works under different laws. This bill would authorize the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to award contracts for construction projects over $500,000 using the design-build contracting process or construction manager at-risk contracts, as defined, if, on or before September 30, 2019, the department enters into a 10-year community workforce agreement with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California that applies to all construction contracts over $500,000. The bill would require the community workforce agreement to include provisions to encourage work opportunities for previously incarcerated individuals who have completed an inmate preapprenticeship program and include a plan for outreach and retention of women and military service veterans to help increase employment opportunities in the building and construction trades. The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to renew or modify the agreement for 5-year terms.
Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Under the local control funding formula, an important component is the number of "unduplicated pupils," as defined to be pupils classified as English learners, as eligible for free or reduced-price meals, or as foster youth, for purposes of supplemental grants. This bill would, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, adjust the definition of "unduplicated pupils" to include pupils who are included in the lowest performing subgroup or subgroups, as defined, based on the most recently available mathematics or language arts results on the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to annually identify the lowest performing pupil subgroup or subgroups. The bill would require that implementation of these provisions be contingent upon the appropriation of funds for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or other statute.
Existing law imposes an additional 3-year sentence for each prior separate prison term served by a defendant where the prior and current offense was a violent felony, as defined. If that provision does not apply, existing law instead imposes a one-year term for each prior separate prison term or county jail felony term under the law, except under specified circumstances. This bill would delete the provision that requires an additional one-year term. The bill would make additional technical, nonsubstantive changes.
(1) The California Financing Law (CFL) provides for the licensure and regulation of finance lenders and brokers by the Commissioner of Business Oversight. The CFL prohibits anyone from engaging in the business of a finance lender or broker without obtaining a license. A willful violation of the CFL is a crime, except as specified. Under existing law, a licensee who lends any sum of money is authorized to contract for and receive charges at a maximum rate that does not exceed specified sums on the unpaid principal balance per month, ranging from 2 12% to 1%, based on the consumer loan amount, as specified. This provision, however, does not apply to any loan of a bona fide principal amount of $2,500 or more, as determined in accordance with a provision governing regulatory ceilings and evasion of the CFL. The CFL also authorizes a licensee, as an alternative to the above-described rate charges for consumer loan amounts, to instead contract for and receive charges at the greater of a rate not exceeding 1.6% per month on the unpaid principal balance or a rate not exceeding 56 of 1% per month, plus a specified percentage per month, as established by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, on advances to member banks under federal law, or if there is no single determinable rate, the closest counterpart of this rate. Under existing law, these provisions do not apply to a loan of a bona fide principal amount of $2,500 or more, as specified. The CFL authorizes a licensee to contract for and receive an administrative fee of a specified amount that varies with the bona fide principal amount of the loan, including authorizing a licensee to receive an administrative fee of $75 with respect to a loan of a bona fide principal amount in excess of $2,500. This bill would authorize a licensee, with respect to a loan of a bona fide principal amount of $2,500 or more but less than $5,000, to contract for or receive no more than moneys paid for specified insurance and for charges, inclusive of an administrative fee that does not exceed $75, which in the aggregate amount exceed an annual simple interest rate of 36%. The bill would also authorize a licensee, as an alternative to these provisions, to contract for or receive no more than moneys paid for an administrative fee that does not exceed $90 and for charges, which in the aggregate amount do not exceed an annual simple interest rate of 36% or the sum of 30.75% plus the United States Prime Rate. (2) Existing law prohibits licensees subject to the CFL from entering into a contract for a consumer loan that provides for a scheduled repayment of principal over more than the maximum terms set forth in relation to the respective size of the loan. Among other things, this provision prohibits a loan of $3,000 but less than $5,000 from exceeding a maximum term of 60 months and 15 days. This bill would increase the maximum principal loan amount under the above schedule to $10,000. The bill would also prohibit a licensee from entering into a contract for a consumer loan that is in excess of $2,500 but less than $10,000 that provides for a scheduled repayment of principal that is less than 12 months. By expanding the application of the CFL to cover more loans, the bill would expand the scope of an existing crime, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. (3) The CFL requires a statement showing in clear and distinct terms specified information relating to the loan to be delivered to the buyer when it is made. This bill would also require each licensee, prior to disbursement of loan proceeds in connection with certain loans exceeding $2,500 but less than $10,000, to offer a free credit education program or seminar to each borrower in accordance with certain conditions. (4) The CFL requires a licensed finance lender to permit payment to be made in advance in any amount on any contract of any loan at any time and authorizes the licensee to apply that payment first to any agreed prepayment penalty. This bill would prohibit a licensee from charging, imposing, or receiving any penalty for the prepayment of a loan, except as specified, and would make conforming changes to that effect. The bill would also make certain moneys paid to, and commissions and benefits received by, a licensee in connection with a loan that a buyer separately authorized as optional subject to adjustment and rebate if a loan contract is paid in full, as prescribed. (5) The CFL defines charges for its purposes to include aggregate interest, fees, bonuses, commissions, brokerage, discounts, expenses, and other forms of costs charged, contracted for, or received by a licensee or any other person in connection with the investigating, arranging, negotiating, procuring, guaranteeing, making, servicing, collecting, and enforcing of a loan or forbearance of money, credit, goods, or things in action, or any other service rendered. Existing law also specifies that charges do not include, among other things, fees paid to a licensee for the privilege of participating in an open-end-credit program, which fees are to cover administrative costs and are imposed upon executing the open-end loan agreement and on annual renewal dates or anniversary dates. This bill would delete the above exception for fees paid to a licensee for the privilege of participating in an open-end credit program, as specified. (6) 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 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 AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. 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. MAUCRSA authorizes a licensee who obtains a retailer, microbusiness, or a specified type of nonprofit to deliver cannabis or cannabis products, and imposes requirements on the delivery of cannabis or cannabis products. MAUCRSA prohibits a local jurisdiction from preventing the delivery of cannabis or cannabis products on public roads by a licensee who is acting in compliance with MAUCRSA as well as any local law adopted pursuant to MAUCRSA. MAUCRSA generally authorizes a local jurisdiction to adopt and enforce local ordinances to regulate licensed businesses located within the local jurisdiction. This bill would prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing any ordinance that would prohibit a licensee from delivering cannabis within or outside of the jurisdictional boundaries of the local jurisdiction. The bill would include findings that the changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern, rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities. The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, an initiative measure, authorizes the Legislature to amend the act to further the purposes and intent of the act with a 23 vote of the membership of both houses of the Legislature. This bill would declare that its provisions further specified purposes and intent of the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
Existing law imposes penalties when a taxpayer fails to timely file an income tax return or fails to timely pay the tax due as shown on, or as required to be shown on, the tax return, unless it is shown that the failure is due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect. This bill, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2019, would require the Franchise Tax Board, upon request by an individual taxpayer, to grant a oneÂtime abatement of a failure-to-file or failure-to-pay timeliness penalty if the taxpayer was not previously required to file a California personal income tax return or has not previously been granted abatement under this section, the taxpayer has filed all required returns as of the date of the request for abatement, and the taxpayer has paid, or is in a current arrangement to pay, all tax currently due.
Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law makes an employer liable only for the percentage of permanent disability directly caused by the injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment. Existing law also requires that apportionment of permanent disability be based on causation and requires a physician who prepares a report addressing the issue of permanent disability due to a claimed industrial injury to address in that report the issue of causation of the permanent disability. This bill would require that heredity and genetics be excluded as bases of causation for purposes of determining the apportionment of permanent disability.