Existing law imposes various taxes, including taxes on the privilege of engaging in certain activities. The Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, provides procedures for the collection of certain fees and surcharges. This bill would impose a tax on persons operating a sexually oriented business, as defined, at the rate of $10 per visit by a customer to the business inclusive of admission and reentry. The tax would be administered by the State Board of Equalization and would be collected pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law. The bill would create the Sexual Assault Treatment and Prevention Fund, and would require that all revenues, less refunds and the costs of the administration of the tax, derived from the tax be transferred to the fund. This bill would provide that moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used by the California Emergency Management Agency for specified purposes related to the treatment and prevention of sexual assault. Because this bill would expand application of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, it 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. This bill would become operative on the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 90 days after the effective date of this bill. This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.
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(1) Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to determine a revenue limit for each school district in the county by, in part, calculating a base revenue limit for a fiscal year by adding a specified inflation adjustment, specified equalization adjustment, and specified add-ons to the base revenue limit for the prior fiscal year. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to compute an add-on for each school district by adding a specified inflation adjustment to the amount of the add-on computed in the 2010–11 fiscal year, which is based, in part, on a specified adjustment. This bill would instead require the Superintendent, for the 2011–12 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to compute the add-on for each school district in a different manner by, among other things, multiplying the sum of 1.0 plus the percentage change determined pursuant to a specified provision. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent, for the 2010–11 fiscal year, to compute an adjustment for each school district by dividing each school district's 2007–08 fiscal year average daily attendance into the sum of funding for Meals for Needy Pupils programs and funding for incentives to increase beginning teachers' salaries received by the school district for the 2007–08 fiscal year pursuant to specified provisions. This bill would instead require the Superintendent, for the 2014–15 fiscal year, to compute an adjustment for each school district by dividing each school district's 2009–10 fiscal year average daily attendance into funding for Meals for Needy Pupils programs received by the school district for the 2009–10 fiscal year. (3) A former provision, which became inoperative on July 1, 2010, and was repealed on January 1, 2011, authorized an adjustment of the revenue limit of a school district to reflect funding for Meals for Needy Pupils programs. This bill would reenact this authorization, which would be operative until July 1, 2014.
Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Existing law provides that a person who is employed as an airport law enforcement officer is a peace officer whose authority extends to any place in the state for the purpose of enforcing the law in or about the properties owned, operated, and administered by the peace officer's employing agency or when making an arrest if there is immediate danger to a person or property, or of an escape of the perpetrator of an offense. Existing law authorizes this category of peace officer to carry a firearm. This bill would place an airport law enforcement officer regularly employed by the Los Angeles World Airports within a different category of peace officers whose authority extends to any place in the state without the above restrictions as to arrest powers and with the authority to carry specified firearms. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles relating to law enforcement at the Los Angeles International Airport.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to provide information and limited financial assistance to school districts and county superintendents of schools to encourage participation in the federal School Breakfast Program and to ensure that the nutrition levels of meals served to schoolage children pursuant to the National School Lunch Act are of the highest quality and greatest nutritional value possible. Existing law requires each school district and county superintendent of schools maintaining any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide for each needy pupil one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday and defines a nutritionally adequate meal as a breakfast or lunch that qualifies for reimbursement under the federal child nutrition program regulations. This bill would require a school district participating in the federal School Breakfast Program or the National School Lunch Program to disseminate specified information regarding the nutritional content of the reimbursable breakfasts or lunches served as part of these programs in a manner that permits parents and pupils to access the nutritional information while they access the daily school breakfast or lunch menu, commencing with the 2013–14 school year. The bill would specify that these requirements apply only to school districts that, as of January 1, 2013, regularly disseminate school menu information online or in printed form.
This measure would designate May 2012 as Foster Care Month in California.
This measure would designate the week of April 15 to 21, 2012, as "National Multicultural Cancer Awareness Week," and would encourage the promotion of policies and programs that seek to reduce cancer disparities and improve cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and followup care for all Californians.
Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors of any county to authorize the correctional administrator, as defined, to offer a program under which only inmates being held in lieu of bail in a county jail or other county correctional facility may participate in an electronic monitoring program if the inmate is not the subject of a hold or an outstanding warrant and any one of certain conditions are met. This bill would authorize a defendant arrested without a warrant for a bailable offense that is a felony punishable in a county jail to apply for release on a reduced bail if the defendant agrees to be placed in an electronic monitoring program administered by the county-authorized correctional administrator. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would designate the second full week in April as California Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
This measure would designate April 18, 2012, as DMV/Donate Life California Day in the State of California, and April 2012 as DMV/Donate Life California Month in the State of California, and would encourage all Californians to be organ, tissue, and blood donors.
This measure would designate February 2012 as No Place for Hate (registered trademark) Month.