Sen. Joel Anderson

This measure would proclaim January 13, 2010, as Korean-American Day.

The Personal Income Tax Law and Corporation Tax Law authorize various deductions in computing the income that is subject to the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2009, and before January 1, 2013, a deduction under those laws for the qualified costs paid or incurred during the taxable year by a qualified taxpayer to create a defensible space, as defined, around a qualified property, as defined, by removing all brush, flammable vegetation, and combustible growth within 100 feet of certain structures on that property. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

Existing law requires the operator of a commercial Internet Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial Internet Web site or online service to post its privacy policy on its Internet Web site or make that policy available, as specified. This bill would prohibit an operator, as defined, of a commercial Internet Web site or online service that makes a virtual globe browser available to members of the public from providing aerial or satellite photographs or imagery of places in this state that have been identified on the Internet Web site by the operator as a school, place of worship, or government or medical building or facility unless those photographs or images have been blurred. The bill would also prohibit that operator from providing street view photographs or imagery of those buildings and facilities.

Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt procedures for determining the compliance of any system designed for the control of gasoline vapor emissions during gasoline marketing operations, including storage and transfer operations, and additional performance standards to ensure that systems for the control of gasoline vapors from motor vehicle fueling operations do not cause excessive spillage and emissions. Existing law prohibits the state board from requiring a gasoline dispensing facility that meets certain requirements from undergoing an Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II upgrade until April 1, 2011. This bill, except as specified, would limit the fines imposed on a gasoline dispensing facility that fails to meet an April 1, 2009, compliance deadline to a total of no more than $1,000 for all violations that occur between April 1, 2009, and December 31, 2009, if the gasoline dispensing facility meets specified requirements. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Existing law provides that delinquent fines, state or local penalties, forfeitures, restitution fines and orders, and any other amounts imposed by a superior court upon a person or entity for criminal offenses, that total at least $100 in the aggregate, may be referred by the court, county, or state to the Franchise Tax Board for collection, as specified. Existing law authorizes the board to collect any amount referred to the board under these provisions, and any interest thereon, in any manner authorized for collection of a delinquent personal income tax liability. This bill would require the superior court to refer these delinquent fines, state or local penalties, forfeitures, restitution fines and orders, and any other amounts imposed by a superior court upon a person or entity for criminal offenses to the board for collection, regardless of the amount. The bill would authorize the board to collect actual and reasonable costs of collection in addition to any amounts referred and interest thereon.

Existing law, scheduled to become inoperative on March 1, 2011, establishes the Pierce's Disease Control Program in the Department of Food and Agriculture. Existing law also establishes the Pierce's Disease Management Account in the Food and Agriculture Fund, money in which is to be expended as specified to combat Pierce's disease and its vectors. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to prepare and update, every 5 years, the California Water Plan, which is the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state. This bill would require the department to study whether the Legislature should establish a statewide water usage and water efficiency measuring system.

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to prepare and update, every 5 years, the California Water Plan, which is the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the Pacific Quality Water Association, to study whether the Legislature should establish a rating system to measure the efficiency levels of self-regenerating water softener systems.

Existing law entitles a member of a corporation to inspect, or obtain a copy of, the record of the names, addresses, and voting rights of those members entitled to vote for the election of directors. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.