Existing law makes it an infraction to throw an object on or across the court or field of play with the intent to interfere with play or distract a player or to enter upon the court or field of play without permission from an authorized person any time after the authorized participants of play have entered the court or field to begin the sporting event and until the participants of play have completed the playing time of the sporting event. This bill would make the above crime an infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, or a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed 10 days, by a fine not exceeding $2,500, or by both that fine and imprisonment. The bill would make a 2nd or subsequent violation within 5 years of a prior violation of that prohibition a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 60 days, by a fine not exceeding $5,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment. By increasing the punishment for a crime, 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of various professions and vocations by boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law authorizes any licensee or registrant whose license expired while he or she was on active duty as a member of the California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces to reinstate his or her license or registration without examination or penalty if certain requirements are met. Existing law also requires the boards to waive the renewal fees, continuing education requirements, and other renewal requirements, if applicable, of any licensee or registrant called to active duty as a member of the United States Armed Forces or the California National Guard, if certain requirements are met. Existing law requires each board to inquire in every application if the individual applying for licensure is serving in, or has previously served in, the military. Existing law requires a board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to expedite, and authorizes a board to assist with, the initial licensure process for an applicant who has served as an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces and was honorably discharged. This bill would require every board within the Department of Consumer Affairs to grant a fee waiver for the application for and the issuance of an initial license to an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence, as defined, to the board that the applicant has served as an active duty member of the California National Guard or the United States Armed Forces and was honorably discharged. The bill would require that a veteran be granted only one fee waiver, except as specified.
Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, establishes the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state, including the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. This bill would require the California Community Colleges to provide for entrance counseling and assessment or other suitable means to fully inform an incoming student, prior to that student completing registration, of any remedial coursework the student will be required to register for or complete and the reasons for the requirement, exemption policies, and the availability of any test preparation workshops or programs. By placing additional duties upon a community college district, 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.
Existing law, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, among other things, sets forth the missions and functions of the 3 segments of public postsecondary education in this state: the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of University of California; the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University; and the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Provisions of the Donahoe Higher Education Act are applicable to the University of California only to the extent that the regents act, by resolution, to make them applicable. This bill would add a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that would prohibit the California State University from providing, and, notwithstanding any other law, as a condition for the expenditure of funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act, prohibit the University of California from providing, state-funded financial assistance to an undergraduate student who, in the absence of financial assistance, is statutorily required to pay tuition or any mandatory fee at a rate higher than a California resident. The bill would add a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that would require the California State University, and, notwithstanding any other law, as a condition for the expenditure of funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act, require the University of California, to refrain from increasing the total amount of tuition and mandatory systemwide fees charged to undergraduate students from the 2018–19 academic year to the 2022–23 academic year, inclusive. The bill would add a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education Act that, for the 2019–20 academic year, and for each academic year thereafter, would prohibit out-of-state undergraduate students of the California State University from constituting either more than 10% of the incoming undergraduate class or more than 10% of the total undergraduate enrollment at each campus in the California State University system. The bill, notwithstanding any other law, and as a condition for the expenditure of funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act, would also add a provision prohibiting out-of-state undergraduate students of the University of California from constituting more than 10% of the incoming undergraduate class or more than 10% of the total undergraduate enrollment at each campus in the University of California system. The bill would define "out-of-state undergraduate student" for these purposes.
(1) Existing law, as amended by Proposition 83, the Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Act (Jessica's Law) , approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, makes a defendant subject to imprisonment in the state prison for 25 years to life if convicted of certain crimes, including rape, sexual penetration, sodomy, oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, or rape, spousal rape, or sexual penetration in concert, if certain circumstances were present, including, among other things, in the commission of that offense, any person kidnapped the victim, tortured the victim, or committed the offense during the commission of a burglary, as specified. Existing law also makes a defendant subject to imprisonment in the state prison for 15 years to life if convicted of certain crimes, including rape, sexual penetration, sodomy, oral copulation, continuous sexual abuse of a child, or rape, spousal rape, or sexual penetration in concert, if certain circumstances were present, including, among other things, in the commission of that offense any person, except as specified in the provisions above, kidnapped the victim, committed the offense during the commission of a burglary, or used a dangerous or deadly weapon in the commission of the offense. Proposition 83 provides that the Legislature may amend the provisions of the act to expand the scope of their application or increase the punishment or penalties by a statute passed by a majority vote of each house of the Legislature. This bill would add the crimes of rape, sexual penetration, sodomy, and oral copulation, perpetrated against a person who is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, to the above provisions, if the victim is developmentally disabled, as defined. By applying the above enhancements to these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law makes a defendant subject to imprisonment in the state prison for 25 years to life if convicted of certain crimes, including rape, spousal rape or sexual penetration in concert, sexual penetration, sodomy, or oral copulation if certain circumstances were present, including, among other things, in the commission of that offense, any person kidnapped the victim, committed the offense during the commission of a burglary, or used a dangerous or deadly weapon in the commission of the offense, or under other specified circumstances, and the crime was committed against a minor 14 years of age or older. This bill would add the crimes of rape, sexual penetration, sodomy, and oral copulation, perpetrated against a person who is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent, to the above provisions, if the victim is developmentally disabled, as defined. By applying the above enhancements to these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law requires that a person who commits certain enumerated crimes, including rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration, against a person who is 65 years of age or older, or against a person who is blind, deaf, developmentally disabled, a paraplegic, or a quadriplegic, or against a person who is under 14 years of age, receive a one-year sentence enhancement and requires that any person having a prior conviction for any of the enumerated offenses receive a 2-year sentence enhancement. This bill would add to the enumerated list of crimes rape, sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration, perpetrated against a person who is incapable, because of a mental disorder or developmental or physical disability, of giving legal consent. By applying the above enhancements to these crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (4) 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.
Under existing law, the Middle Class Scholarship Program provides that an undergraduate student enrolled at the University of California or the California State University, or enrolled in upper division coursework in a community college baccalaureate program, and meeting certain requirements, is eligible for a scholarship award that, combined with other federal, state, and institutionally administered grants and fee waivers, totals up to 40% of the systemwide tuition and fees. Existing law, for the 2017–18 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, transfers, upon order of the Director of Finance, $117,000,000 from the General Fund to the Middle Class Scholarship Fund, and appropriates that sum to the Student Aid Commission for purposes of the scholarship program. This bill would instead require, for the 2018–19 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that the amount of $117,000,000 or the total amount appropriated from the General Fund for allocation for the 2017–18 fiscal year for purposes of the program, whichever amount is larger, be appropriated from the General Fund and transferred to the Middle Class Scholarship Fund. The bill would delete the requirement that the Director of Finance order the transfer of the appropriated funds from the General Fund to the Middle Class Scholarship Fund. The bill would further require that, on and after July 1, 2018, the funds in the Middle Class Scholarship Fund would be continuously appropriated to the Student Aid Commission for allocation for purposes of the program, thereby making an appropriation.
Existing law establishes the Military Department, which includes the State Military Reserve and the Naval Militia, to perform various duties regarding the state militia. Existing law authorizes the presentation of a good conduct medal to each person who, while an enlisted member of the State Military Reserve or the Naval Militia, has demonstrated fidelity through faithful and exact performance of duty, and efficiency through capacity to produce desired results, and whose behavior has demonstrated that he or she deserves emulation. This bill would establish the State Military Reserve and Naval Militia Length of Service Award Act. This bill would make an appropriation of $100,000 from the General Fund to the Military Department to, among other things, pay an award of $100 per month for life to a qualified person, which this bill would generally define as any person who is 50 years of age or older and who completes 10 years of satisfactory volunteer service in the State Military Reserve or the Naval Militia, as specified.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including certain credits that are allowed in modified conformity to credits allowed by federal income tax laws. Federal income tax laws allow a refundable earned income tax credit for certain low-income individuals who have earned income from wages, salaries, tips, and other employee compensation plus net earnings from self-employment and who meet certain other requirements. The Personal Income Tax Law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows an earned income credit against personal income tax, which is only for earned income from wages, salaries, tips, and other employee compensation, and a payment in excess of that credit amount, to an eligible individual that is equal to that portion of the earned income tax credit allowed by federal law as determined by the earned income tax credit adjustment factor as set forth in the annual Budget Act which, unless otherwise specified in that act, is 0%. This bill, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2017, would expand the earned income credit allowed by the Personal Income Tax Law by providing additional conformity with federal income tax law to include specified net earnings from self-employment in earned income, thus allowing an earned income credit for taxpayers for those earnings. This bill would additionally set the earned income tax credit adjustment factor as 85%. 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. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Barbering and Cosmetology Act provides for the licensure and regulation of barbers, cosmetologists, estheticians, manicurists, electrologists, and apprentices by the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, which is within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law defines nail care as the practice of cutting, trimming, polishing, coloring, tinting, cleansing, manicuring, or pedicuring the nails of any person or massaging, cleaning, or beautifying from the elbow to the fingertips or the knee to the toes. Existing law requires an applicant for a license as a manicurist to meet certain criteria, including that he or she has completed a course in nail care from a school approved by the board. This bill would additionally define nail care as removing superfluous hair from the lip, eyebrows, the elbow to fingertips, or knees to toes by the use of tweezers or waxing. The bill would authorize a licensee as a manicurist to remove superfluous hair only if he or she meets specified educational requirements. The bill would require the board to determine, by regulation, the required number of hours to be added to the existing manicuring curriculum that will allow sufficient training in the practice of superfluous hair removal and would require an approved school to add the required number of training hours to the school's curriculum for any course in manicuring by a specified date.
Existing property tax law establishes a veterans' organization exemption under which property is exempt from taxation if, among other things, that property is used exclusively for charitable purposes and is owned by a veterans' organization. This bill would provide that the veterans' organization exemption shall not be denied to a property on the basis that the property is used for fraternal, lodge, or social club purposes, and would make specific findings and declarations in that regard. The bill would also provide that the exemption shall not apply to any portion of a property that consists of a bar where alcoholic beverages are served. Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.