This measure would recognize May 2018 as Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Month.
Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging and maintaining the delivery of career technical education programs during implementation of the school district and charter school local control funding formula. Existing law appropriates specified amounts for the program from the General Fund for the 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18 fiscal years, and provides minimum eligibility standards for grant applicants. This bill would instead specify that the purpose of the program is to encourage and maintain the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. The bill would specify that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, $500,000,000 shall be made available for the program to the department each year for the 2018–19 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, and would require a grant applicant to demonstrate a proportional dollar-for-dollar match for a grant award for those fiscal years. The bill would, among other things, add to the minimum eligibility standards that a grant applicant demonstrate that it provides opportunities for pupils to participate in leadership development opportunities and career and technical education student organizations, and provides opportunities for pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs to participate in all of the grant applicant's programs. The bill would revise reporting requirements for program participants, and would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to evaluate and deem successful a grant recipient's program as a condition of receiving a renewal grant. Existing law requires the department and the State Board of Education to give positive consideration for specified characteristics when determining grant recipients, including that the applicant did not operate a career technical education program during the 2014–15 fiscal year. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the department and state board give positive consideration to an applicant that did not operate a career technical education program during the 2014–15 fiscal year. The bill would require, instead of authorize, the Superintendent to take certain actions for purposes of administering the program, including that the Superintendent also determine, in collaboration with the executive director of the state board, the allocation formula, the purposes for which grant funds may be used, and allowable and nonallowable expenditures. The bill would provide that, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, $12,000,000 would be made available, upon appropriation, to the department to provide regional career technical education coordinators for the provision of technical assistance and support to local educational agencies in implementing career technical education courses, programs, and pathways. The bill would specify certain duties of the regional career technical education coordinators. The bill would further provide that the Superintendent would determine the distribution of funding for the provision of these regional career technical education coordinators on the basis of average daily attendance of the K–12 public schools in a county. The bill would require the Superintendent to evaluate the progress of the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program in achieving the goals of the program, and identify appropriate changes to the program no later than June 30, 2021, and no later than June 30 every 3 years thereafter. The bill would require the Superintendent to submit the progress report to the Legislature, the Department of Finance, and the Governor, as specified.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law. This bill would allow a refundable tax credit, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2019, to a qualified taxpayer who is a physician and surgeon, nurse practitioner, physician's assistant, podiatrist, optometrist, or dentist who is licensed and practices within his or her scope of practice for at least 100 hours during the taxable year as a volunteer for a nonprofit licensed health clinic located in California. The bill would require a nonprofit licensed health clinic to provide the qualified taxpayer with a document that includes certain information and would authorize the Franchise Tax Board to request that document and to create a model document for use by a nonprofit licensed health clinic. Existing law establishes the continuously appropriated Tax Relief and Refund Account and provides that payments required to be made to taxpayers or other persons from the Personal Income Tax Fund are to be paid from that account, including any amount allowable as an earned income credit in excess of any tax liabilities. By authorizing new payments from that account for additional amounts in excess of personal income tax liabilities, this bill would make an appropriation.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. The California State University comprises 23 institutions of higher education located throughout the state. This bill would establish the Emergency Student Housing Loan Program, commencing with the 2019–20 academic year, at 3 campuses of the California State University, contingent upon the enactment of an appropriation of state funds for this purpose. This bill would define homeless, homelessness, and rapid rehousing for the purposes of this article. Under the program, the 3 participating campuses of the university, as designated by the trustees, would establish an Emergency Student Housing Loan Program pursuant to which the participating campus would design a program enabling students at their campus who are experiencing an individual housing emergency, as specified, to receive a loan to pay for their housing for up to 12 months. The bill would establish eligibility requirements and priorities for the selection of participating students. The bill would require the trustees to submit a report, including specified information about the program, to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature no later than June 30, 2022. This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2022, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2023.
The Personal Income Tax law authorizes a credit of $227 for each dependent of a taxpayer for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 1999, as adjusted for inflation, which may be reduced if a taxpayer's federal adjusted gross income exceeds a threshold amount. The credit for the 2017 taxable year is $353. This bill would increase that credit to $389 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, which would be adjusted for inflation in taxable years thereafter. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to collect, publish, and make available to the public information about laws regarding housing and community development and authorizes the department to provide a statistics and research service for the collection and dissemination of information affecting housing and community development. Existing law also requires the department, by June 30, 2019, to complete a study to evaluate the reasonableness of local fees charged to new developments, as provided. This bill, by December 31, 2019, would additionally require the department to collect information from cities, counties, and special districts on the fees imposed for new developments and to publish and make available a database of the fees charged by those public agencies to new developments by jurisdiction. The bill would also require the department to periodically update this database. The bill would require each special district to annually report to the department the fees that the special district charges to new developments. The Planning and Zoning Law requires a city or county to adopt a general plan for land use development within its boundaries. Existing law requires the planning agency of each city and county, after the legislative body has adopted all or part of a general plan, to annually report specified information to the legislative body, the Office of Planning and Research, and the Department of Housing and Community Development, including the status of the plan and progress in its implementation. This bill would require the planning agency to also include in its annual report the fees charged to new developments. By imposing new reporting duties on local agencies, the 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.
This measure would designate April 14, 2018, as Mendez v. Westminster School District Day.
Existing law vests with the State Lands Commission control over certain state lands, including certain tidelands and submerged lands. This bill would grant and convey in trust to the City of Huntington Beach all of the rights, title, and interest of the state, held by the state by virtue of its sovereignty, acting by and through the commission, in specified real properties in Huntington Harbor in the County of Orange. The bill would require the City of Huntington Beach to submit to the commission for approval a trust lands use plan, as specified, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Huntington Harbor. 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.
This measure would recognize September 20, 2018, and every year on that date thereafter, as California Surfing Day to celebrate the California surfing lifestyle, would commend all those who honor the history, culture, and future of surfing, as well as the sport of surfing and the protection of our beach and ocean environments, would express support for future surfers and encourage potential surfing Olympians to work diligently, and would encourage all Californians to enjoy California Surfing Day.
