This resolution would memorialize the National Park Service to declare McDonnell Hall a national historic landmark. This resolution would also urge the City of San Jose to similarly designate McDonnell Hall as a historic landmark.
This measure would recognize the 61st anniversary of National Flag Day, honor the 51st anniversary of the flying of the current American flag, and would encourage all Californians to celebrate the occasion with appropriate activities.
This measure would recognize September 2011 as Sickle Cell Awareness Month in California and would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to restore funding for sickle cell anemia centers and research and to make sickle cell anemia and other genetic hemoglobinopathies a public health priority.
This measure would urge Congress and the President of the United States to increase funding for specified law enforcement and crime prevention programs and to pay the full costs of incarcerating undocumented criminals, as provided.
This measure would congratulate the California State University system on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, commend the invaluable contributions it has made to the intellectual and social growth of its students, and extend best wishes for its continued success in the future.
This measure would recognize the month of November 2011 as Native American Heritage Month, would encourage Californians to participate in appropriate observances that celebrate and commemorate Native Americans, and would applaud and encourage the observance of California Indian nations for their outstanding contributions to this state.
(1) The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA establishes administrative procedures for the review and certification of the EIR for a project and judicial review procedures for any action or proceeding brought to challenge the lead agency's decision to certify the EIR or to grant project approvals. This bill would establish specified administrative and judicial review procedures for the administrative and judicial review of the EIR and approvals granted for a project related to the development of a specified stadium in the City of Los Angeles. Because the lead agency would be required to use these alternative procedures for administrative review of the EIR if the project applicant so chooses, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the lead agency and applicant to implement specified measures, as a condition of approval of the project, to minimize traffic congestion and air quality impacts that may result from spectators driving to the stadium. (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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (3) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the development of a stadium in the City of Los Angeles.
This measure would designate the month of September of every year as Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month throughout the State of California, and would encourage and promote efforts to educate the people and the health care practitioners of the state regarding ovarian cancer and its early detection and prevention, the risk factors involved in its development, and the early warning symptoms and signs.
This measure would proclaim May 2 through May 9, 2011, as Cinco de Mayo Week, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
(1) The Enterprise Zone Act provides that its purpose is to stimulate business and industrial growth in the depressed areas of the state by relaxing regulatory controls that impede private investment. The act defines a targeted employment area as an area composed solely of those census tracts in which at least 51% of the residents of those census tracts, determined as specified, are of low- or moderate-income levels. This bill would modify the definition of a targeted employment area, as specified. (2) The act provides that the purpose of a targeted employment area is to encourage businesses in an enterprise zone to hire eligible residents of certain geographic areas within a city, county, or city and county. This bill would delete that provision of the act and instead provide that the purpose of a targeted employment area is to help identify neighborhoods of low- and moderate-income workers for the purpose of providing those workers with employment assistance, training, and job placement. (3) The act requires each governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, the boundaries of its targeted employment area. This bill would delete that requirement, and instead require the governing body of the jurisdiction administering the enterprise zone to adopt a resolution or ordinance designating a targeted employment area that meets specified conditions. The bill would also require, if 2 or more jurisdictions are jointly administering a zone, each of the governing bodies of the 2 jurisdictions to adopt the resolution. (4) The act requires, within 180 days of updated United States census data becoming available, each governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, new boundaries for the area that reflect the new census data. The act authorizes an enterprise zone, if no changes to the boundaries of an area are necessary to conform the area with the most current census data, to send a letter to the Department of Housing and Community Development stating that a review has been undertaken and no boundary changes are required. This bill would delete those provisions, and instead require the governmental entity of each city, county, or city and county that has jurisdiction over an enterprise zone to approve, by resolution or ordinance, new boundaries for its targeted employment area that reflect the new household data provided by the United States Census Bureau in its 5-year American Community Study, and to send that resolution or ordinance to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The bill would require the city, county, or city and county, if no changes to the boundaries of an area are necessary, to send a letter to the department stating that a review has been undertaken and no boundary changes are required. The bill would provide that if the area's boundaries are not updated, and the department does not receive the letter within 180 days of the release of new census information, then the area is invalidated for a period of 2 years, except as specified. (5) The act sets forth various requirements and limitations relating to the formation and composition of a targeted employment area. This bill would revise and recast these requirements and limitations, as specified. (6) The act authorizes a governing body that has already designated a targeted employment area to request to redesignate the area using more current census data, as specified, and requires an area to be comprised of a census tract from only one decennial census. This bill would delete that provision. (7) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize a taxpayer to claim certain tax incentives for activities conducted in an enterprise zone, including a credit for wages paid during the taxable year to a qualified employee, as defined, who is employed by the taxpayer during the taxable year in an enterprise zone, and those laws each set forth a schedule for the amount of the credit based on the qualified wages of the qualified employee in each of the first 5 years of employment. This bill would modify the requirements that must be met for an individual to be a qualified employee, as specified, under the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, thereby reducing the scope of the credits, and make other specified changes relating to the requirements for a taxpayer to take advantage of the credits. The bill would require that changes made to the Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporations Tax Law by its provisions apply to taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2011. (8) 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 XIII A of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. (9) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. Governor Schwarzenegger issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 6, 2010. Governor Brown issued a proclamation on January 20, 2011, declaring and reaffirming that a fiscal emergency exists and stating that his proclamation supersedes the earlier proclamation for purposes of that constitutional provision. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared and reaffirmed by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 20, 2011, pursuant to the California Constitution. (10) This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
