Existing law requests the University of California to establish and administer the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program, until January 1, 2018, for the purpose of collecting units of umbilical cord blood for public use, as defined, in transplantation and providing nonclinical units for specified research. This bill would extend the provisions of the program until January 1, 2025. Until January 1, 2018, existing law requires an applicant to pay an $18 fee for a certified copy of a birth certificate, except as specified. Existing law requires $2 of the $18 fee to be paid to the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Fund. Moneys in the fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program. This bill would, until January 1, 2025, instead require the collection of a $19 fee for a certified copy of a birth certificate. The bill would also, until January 1, 2025, require $3 of that $19 fee to be paid to the Umbilical Cord Blood Collection Program Fund. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law authorize various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, and before January 1, 2023, would allow as a credit against those taxes an amount equal to 50% of the qualified amount paid or incurred, not to exceed $10,000, to a robotics club at a school in California during the taxable year. The bill would limit the aggregate amount of these credits to be allocated in each calendar year to up to $1,000,000. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to allocate and certify these tax credits to taxpayers on a first-come-first-served basis. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Those laws provide various exemptions from those taxes. This bill, on and after January 1, 2018, would exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, tampons, sanitary napkins, menstrual sponges, and menstrual cups. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires, in the event that the debtor has more than one debt being collected by the Franchise Tax Board and the amount collected is insufficient to satisfy the total amount owed, the amount collected to be applied to specified priorities. Existing law also establishes, for tax liabilities that are due and payable, as defined, before, on, or after July 1, 2006, a statute of limitations on collections of those liabilities to limit the collection period to 20 years beginning from the last statutory lien date for each taxable year, and would extinguish that liability for that taxable year by abating the underlying tax. This bill, beginning January 1, 2020, would make restitution payments to victims of crimes the first priority for debt collected by the Franchise Tax Board and would provide for a stay on the statute of limitations for collection of tax due for the period for which an outstanding restitution amount exists.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the taxes imposed by that law including in modified conformity with federal tax law, a deduction for that portion of medical expenses that is more than 7.5% of adjusted gross income. Self-employed individuals are allowed to deduct health insurance premiums for medical expenses incurred by the taxpayer in lieu of the itemized deduction for medical expenses. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2017, would allow a deduction from gross income under the Personal Income Tax Law for the amounts paid or incurred by a taxpayer during the taxable year for medical insurance for medical care, as defined, and for transportation for and essential to that medical care, as provided. The bill would not allow as an itemized deduction, the amount allowed as a deduction from gross income as provided. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
The Personal Income Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax laws, allows various exclusions from gross income, and allows various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the taxes imposed by that law, including miscellaneous itemized deductions that are allowed only to the extent that the aggregate amount of those deductions exceeds 2% of adjusted gross income. This bill, upon appropriation of specified funds by the Legislature, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2017, and before January 1, 2019, would allow a deduction, not to exceed specified amounts, of the amount a qualified taxpayer, as defined, contributed in any taxable year to a homeownership savings account and would exclude from gross income any income earned on the moneys contributed to a homeownership savings account. The bill would provide that a qualified taxpayer may withdraw amounts from a homeownership savings account to pay for qualified homeownership savings expenses, defined as expenses paid or incurred in connection with the purchase of a principal residence in this state. The bill would provide that any amount withdrawn from that account that is not used for these expenses would be included as income for that taxpayer. The bill would define various terms for its purposes. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds. Under existing law, the county is required to annually redetermine eligibility for CalWORKs benefits and, at the time of redetermination, require the family to complete a certificate of eligibility. Existing law additionally requires the county to redetermine recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a semiannual basis and requires the recipient to submit a semiannual report form during the first semiannual reporting period following the application or annual redetermination of eligibility. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known in California as CalFresh, under which food assistance benefits are distributed to eligible individuals by the counties. Existing law requires, to the extent permitted by federal law, the department to implement the semiannual reporting system, including use of the semiannual report form, in the CalFresh program This bill would require the county to use either a prepopulated renewal form or a blank semiannual report form as the certificate of eligibility for the purposes of CalWORKs and CalFresh.
Existing law defines "probation" as the suspension of the imposition or execution of a sentence and the order of conditional and revocable release into the community. Existing law requires a person placed on probation to be under the supervision of the county probation officer, and authorizes that officer to determine the level and type of supervision consistent with the conditions of probation ordered by the court. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Existing law authorizes a person who served a term in county jail or state prison and was, thereafter, granted a pardon by the Governor or determined to be innocent of the crime for the reason that the crime with which he or she was charged was either not committed at all or, if committed, was not committed by him or her, to petition the California Victim Compensation Board for compensation for the injury sustained by him or her through erroneous conviction and imprisonment. Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation Board to determine eligibility for compensation and the amount of compensation. This bill would require the Governor to appoint a special master, subject to confirmation by the Senate, to serve at the pleasure of the Governor, to oversee all claims requiring a hearing to determine compensation after wrongful conviction.
Existing state and federal law sets specified limits on the total gross weight imposed on the highway by any group of 2 or more consecutive axles. Existing federal law authorizes a vehicle operated by an engine fueled primarily by natural gas to exceed these weight limits, up to a specified maximum, by an amount equal to the difference between the weight of the vehicle attributable to the natural gas tank and fueling system carried by that vehicle and the weight of a comparable diesel tank and fueling system. This bill would authorize a vehicle operated by an engine fueled primarily by natural gas to exceed these weight limits by an amount, up to a specified maximum, equal to the difference between the weight of the vehicle attributable to the natural gas tank and fueling system carried by that vehicle and the weight of a comparable diesel tank and fueling system. The bill would additionally require the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies or the Department of Transportation to estimate the damage caused by vehicles operating pursuant to this authorization and report its findings to the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing and the Assembly Committee on Transportation on or before October 1, 2018.