Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers to provide services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families, and requires regional centers to identify and pursue all possible sources of funding for consumers receiving those services. Existing law defines a "developmental disability" as a disability that originates before an individual attains 18 years of age, continues, or can be expected to continue, indefinitely, and constitutes a substantial disability for the individual. This bill would modify that definition to mean a disability that originates before an individual attains 22 years of age, continues, or can be expected to continue, indefinitely, and constitutes a substantial disability for the individual.
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Under existing law, a person who intentionally taps or makes an unauthorized connection with a telegraph or telephone wire, line, cable, or instrument or who willfully and without the consent of all parties to the communication, reads or attempts to read or learn the contents or meaning of a message, report, or communication while the communication is in transit, is guilty of a crime, punishable as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law, the California Discount Prescription Drug Program, requires the State Department of Health Care Services to negotiate drug discount agreements with drug manufacturers, as specified. Existing law authorizes any licensed pharmacy and any drug manufacturer, as defined, to participate in the program. Existing law establishes eligibility criteria and application procedures for eligible Californians to participate in the program. Existing law also establishes the California Discount Prescription Drug Program Fund into which all payments received under the program would be deposited and provides that moneys in the fund be made available, upon appropriation, to the department for purposes of the program. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Existing law regulates the wages, hours, and working conditions of employees with specified exceptions. Under existing law, these provisions apply to and include men, women, and minors employed in any occupation, trade, or industry, except as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
The Corporation Tax Law specifies that its provisions are applicable to specified taxes. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
(1) Existing law authorizes the Controller, upon approval of a claim for the postponement of ad valorem property taxes, to directly pay a county tax collector for the property taxes owed by the claimant, as provided. Existing law establishes the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the Controller for specified purposes, including disbursements relating to the postponement of property taxes pursuant to the Property Tax Postponement Law. Existing law requires the Controller to, on June 30, 2018, and on June 30 each year thereafter, transfer any moneys in the fund in excess of $15,000,000 to the General Fund. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the Controller transfer any moneys in the fund in excess of $15,000,000 to the General Fund. By authorizing the expenditure of additional General Fund moneys for the purpose of the property tax postponement program, this bill would make an appropriation. (2) Existing law requires that all sums paid for the postponement of property taxes be secured by a lien in favor of the state. In the case of a lien on real property for this purpose, existing law requires, among other things, the recorder for the county in which the real property is subject to the lien to provide a copy of the notice of lien to the county tax collector. This bill would additionally require the county recorder to provide a copy of the notice of lien to the county assessor. (3) Existing law establishes a formula for calculating the interest on a payment made by the Controller for postponed property taxes from the time a payment is made. Under existing law, for purposes of this provision, a payment is deemed to be made at the time an electronic funds transfer is made by the Controller to the tax collector or the delinquency date of the respective tax installment, whichever is later. Existing law, in the event of willful neglect, authorizes an electronic funds transfer for that current fiscal year to be used to pay delinquent taxes only if accompanied by sufficient amounts to pay all of the delinquent penalties, costs, fees, and interest. Existing law, if a denial of a claim for postponement is reversed on appeal, requires the Controller to electronically transfer funds to the county. This bill would instead deem a payment to be made at the time a payment is made by the Controller to the tax collector or the delinquency date of the respective tax installment, whichever is later. The bill would instead authorize a payment from the Controller to be used to pay delinquent taxes under the circumstances described above. The bill would eliminate the requirement that funds be transferred electronically if a denial of a claim for postponement is reversed on appeal. The bill would also make various conforming changes. (4) Existing law requires the Controller to reduce the amount of the obligation secured by the lien against the real property by the amount of any payments received for that purpose and by specified amounts paid by the Franchise Tax Board or by certain other authorized amounts. This bill would require that payments received for the reduction of the obligation be applied first to any interest due on the loan, 2nd to the principal property tax amount, and finally, if there is any remaining balance, to administrative fees. (5) Existing law authorizes recordation of certain documents, including a release, discharge, or subordination of a lien for postponed property taxes, without acknowledgment, certificate of acknowledgment, or further proof. This bill would delete the reference to the subordination of a lien for postponed property taxes from the above-described list of documents that may be recorded without acknowledgment, certificate of acknowledgment, or further proof. (6) Existing property tax law, except as provided in the property tax postponement program, prohibits the use of a certificate of eligibility to pay any delinquent taxes, assessments, penalties, costs, fees, or interest, or any redemption charges. This bill would delete this prohibition. (7) Existing law requires, with respect to a claimant whose property taxes are paid by a lender from an impound, trust, or other specified type of account, the tax collector to notify the auditor of the claimant's name and address, and the duplicate amount of money the Controller transferred to the tax collector via an electronic fund transfer. Existing law requires the county auditor, treasurer, or disbursing officer to send a check, in the amount of money based on the electronic transfer by the Controller, to the Controller within 60 days of the replicated payment. This bill would require the county tax collector to notify the auditor, as described above, upon receipt of the payment by the Controller. The bill would require the tax collector to maintain a record of the fact that taxes on the property have been postponed and, in the case of the secured roll, authorize entry of this information in that portion of the roll which has been designated for tax default information. The bill would require the county auditor, treasurer, or disbursing officer to refund a replicated payment to the claimant, instead of the Controller. (8) Existing law, upon receipt of a "notice of lien for postponed property taxes" from the Controller, requires the tax collector or the assessor, whichever is applicable, to immediately enter on the assessment records applicable to the property the fact that the taxes on the property have been postponed and the Controller's identification number and to notify the Controller of a subsequent change in ownership status, as provided. This bill would instead require the assessor to maintain a record of the fact that the taxes on the property have been postponed and the Controller's identification number and to notify the Controller as described above. (9) Existing law requires, for purposes of the Gonsalves-Deukmejian-Petris Senior Citizens Property Tax Assistance Law, that all losses and nonexpenses be converted to zero for the purpose of determining whether the homeowner meets the property tax postponement requirement. This bill would instead require that all losses and nonexpenses be converted to zero, as specified above, for the purposes of the Property Tax Postponement Law. (10) Existing law requires that a claimant for property tax postponement, generally, be an individual who is a member of the household, is either an owner-occupant, tenant stockholder occupant, or possessory interestholder occupant of the residential dwelling as to which postponement is claimed, and is either 62 years of age or older, blind, or disabled. With respect to blind and disabled claimants, existing law requires that the claimant be blind or disabled, as specified, at the time of application or on December 10 of the fiscal year for which postponement is claimed, whichever is earlier. This bill would instead require, for blind and disabled claimants, that the claimant be blind or disabled at the time of application or on February 10 of the fiscal year for which postponement is claimed. (11) Existing law requires that a claim for postponement of property taxes be for the residential dwelling, defined generally as the principal place of residence of the claimant and so much of the land surrounding it as is reasonably necessary for the use of the dwelling as a home that is owned by the claimant alone or by the claimant and other specified individuals. Existing law authorizes an applicant, defined as including a public agency, an entity acting on behalf of and with the written consent of a public agency, or a financial institution for specified purposes, to assist property owners in financing the installation of distributed generation renewable energy sources, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, or energy or water efficiency improvements through the issuance of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) bonds that are secured by a voluntary contractual assessment on property or a special tax on property. This bill would exclude from a residential dwelling eligible for the property tax postponement program any residential dwelling that is subject to a PACE bond. (12) Existing law authorizes a claimant to file with the Controller a claim for postponement in a specified amount for the fiscal year for which the claim is made. Existing law requires the Controller, upon verification of specified eligibility requirements, to mail to the claimant a Notice of Election to Postpone, as specified. When the Controller approves the Notice of Election to Postpone, existing law requires the Controller to make payments directly to the county tax collector. This bill would instead require the Controller to issue payment to the county tax collector or other appropriate payee, as determined by the Controller. (13) This bill would make various technical changes related to the property tax postponement program, including updating statutory references to the Senior Citizens and Disabled Citizens Property Tax Postponement Fund and deleting obsolete references to certificates of eligibility and postponement for mobilehomes. (14) By changing the duties of local officials with respect to the administration of the property tax postponement program, 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, 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. (15) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides various sources of funding for transportation purposes, including funding for the state highway system, the local street and road system, and public transportation. This bill, until July 1, 2025, would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the Franchise Tax Board, to estimate, on an annual basis by November 1 of each year, the amount of revenue to be received from state taxes in the next fiscal year as a consequence of enactment of a federal corporate repatriation statute pursuant to which foreign earnings of United States-based corporations that are currently invested abroad are moved to the United States. The bill, until July 1, 2025, after reservation of appropriate amounts required to be allocated by the California Constitution for Proposition 98 education funding requirements and the Budget Stabilization Account, would require the remaining repatriation revenues to be transferred to the Repatriation Infrastructure Fund in the State Transportation Fund, which the bill would create. The bill would continuously appropriate the revenues in the Repatriation Infrastructure Fund to the California Transportation Commission. The bill would require 65% of available revenues to be allocated by the commission to trade corridor improvement projects, and would require the Controller to apportion 30% of available revenues to cities and counties for local street and roads and 5% of available revenues to public transportation, as specified.
Existing law defines various crimes against property, including burglary, theft, and shoplifting. Existing law requires a peace officer, upon arresting a person for a misdemeanor offense, to issue him or her a notice to appear in court and to release the person, unless the individual demands to be taken before a magistrate. Existing law permits a peace officer to not release a person if, among other reasons, the person is so intoxicated that he or she is a danger to himself or herself or others, there are one or more outstanding arrest warrants for the person, or the person cannot provide satisfactory evidence of personal identification. This bill would also permit a peace officer to not release an individual if he or she was arrested for a misdemeanor violation of various crimes related to burglary, theft, and shoplifting. By increasing the number of persons subject to detention at the county jail, this bill would create 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.
Existing law requires every employer who pays wages to an employee for services performed in this state to withhold from those wages specified income taxes, with certain exclusions, including an exclusion from withholding wages, salaries, fees, or other compensation paid by a corporation for services performed in the state for that corporation to a nonresident corporate director for director services. Existing law authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to impose specified requirements for withholding of those taxes. This bill also would exclude from withholding wages, salaries, fees, or other compensation paid to a resident of the state while he or she is in active military duty.
(1) Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program as a state education, economic, and workforce development initiative with the goal of providing pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, with the knowledge and skills necessary to transition to employment and postsecondary education. Existing law appropriates $200,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for purposes of this grant program for the 2017–18 fiscal year. Existing law requires applicants for grants under the program to demonstrate that they have local matching funds, as specified. Existing law specifies that no applicant may receive a renewal grant under the program for the 2018–19 fiscal year. This bill would change the name of the program to the California Career Technical Education Grant Program. The bill would increase to $300,000,000 the General Fund appropriation to the State Department of Education for this program for the 2017–18 fiscal year, and would further provide for an appropriation to the department in this amount for the 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020–21 fiscal years. The bill would lower the amount of local matching funds required of an applicant from $1.50 for every dollar received to $1 for every dollar received, for the 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, and 2020–21 fiscal years. The bill would also provide that an applicant receiving a grant from this program in the 2017–18, 2018–19, or 2019–20 fiscal year would be eligible for a renewal grant in the next fiscal year if that applicant demonstrates continued compliance with program requirements. (2) The funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.