Under existing law, there are programs providing assistance for, among other things, multifamily housing, emergency housing, farmworker housing, home ownership for very low and low-income households, and downpayment assistance for first-time home buyers administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development. The Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program provides grants and loans for the construction or rehabilitation of housing for agricultural employees and their families or for the acquisition of manufactured housing to address and remedy the impacts of displacement of farmworker families. The CalHome Program provides grants and loans to enable low- and very low income households to become or remain homeowners. The Building Equity and Growth in Neighborhoods (BEGIN) Program is established to make grants and loans to be used for downpayment assistance to qualifying first-time home buyers of low- and moderate-incomes purchasing newly constructed homes in a BEGIN project. Existing federal law establishes the HOME Investment Partnership Act, which allocated funds to states and local governments to eligible states to, among other things, expand the supply of affordable housing. The department is the state agency responsible for the state's allocation of HOME funds. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations relating to the securitization of second mortgage loans with funds made available by the department. The bill would authorize, for the purposes of each of the above programs, a grant or loan for an individual household to include a deferred payment future value loan due on sale or transfer, or when the property ceases to be owner-occupied, as specified. The bill would require the department to implement its provisions through guidelines exempt from a specified provision of existing law.
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Existing law requires that all units of the state park system be classified by the State Park and Recreation Commission into one of several categories. This bill would prohibit, with exceptions, a modification or adjustment of boundaries or uses of state park units, that lie within a unit of the state park system, that is incompatible with state park purposes and that would significantly reduce public use or the material, cultural, or historic significance of the unit, as determined by the Director of Parks and Recreation, or the removal of state park units from within the state park system, without the commission making that recommendation to the Legislature, as prescribed, and the Legislature enacting legislation or adopting a resolution approving the recommendation.
Existing law establishes a comprehensive statewide domestic violence program in the California Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA) and requires the agency to provide financial and technical assistance to local domestic violence centers. Existing law requires the Maternal and Child Health Branch of the State Department of Public Health to administer a comprehensive shelter-based services grant program to battered women's shelters, as prescribed. This bill would, among other things, require Cal EMA to administer the above-described grant program. This bill would require the Department of Finance, upon the enactment of this bill, to transfer $16,300,000 from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Fund to the General Fund as a loan. The bill would require the full amount of the loan to be repaid, with interest at the rate earned by the Pooled Money Investment Account at the time of the transfer, on or before June 30, 2013. The bill would appropriate $16,300,000 from the General Fund to Cal EMA for the purpose of funding the above-described comprehensive shelter-based services grant program to shelters for victims of domestic violence. This bill would require grantees funded under the above-described grant program, during the 2008–09 fiscal year, to be funded by Cal EMA for a period of one fiscal year, retroactively, commencing July 1, 2009. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on December 19, 2008. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on December 19, 2008, pursuant to the California Constitution. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Attorney General to pay certain judgments against the state. This bill would appropriate $110,464.40 to the Department of Justice to pay a settlement in Maternal and Child Health Access v. Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, San Francisco Superior Court, Case No. CPF-08-508296, and $159,084 to the department to pay the judgment in McAllister v. California Coastal Commission, Monterey Superior Court, Case No. M73043. The bill would require any funds appropriated in excess of the amount required for the payment of these claims to revert to the General Fund. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations, as defined. Existing law requires the PUC, in consultation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , to administer, until January 1, 2012, a self-generation incentive program for distributed generation resources. The program is applicable to all eligible technologies, as determined by the PUC and subject to certain air emissions and efficiency standards, until January 1, 2008, except for solar technologies, which the PUC is required to administer separately, after January 1, 2007, pursuant to the California Solar Initiative. Commencing January 1, 2008, until January 1, 2012, existing law limits eligibility for nonsolar technologies to fuel cells and wind distributed generation technologies that meet or exceed emissions standards adopted by the State Air Resources Board (state board) . Existing law authorizes the PUC, in administering the program, to include other ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation technologies, as defined. Pursuant to decisions of the PUC, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern California Edison, and Southern California Gas Company are the program administrators throughout their respective service territories and the Center for Sustainable Energy is the program administrator for the San Diego Gas and Electric Company service territory. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board (state board) to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990, to be achieved by 2020. Existing law prohibits any load-serving entity, as defined, and any local publicly owned electric utility, as defined, from entering into a long-term financial commitment, as defined, unless any baseload generation, as defined, complies with a greenhouse gases emission performance standard. Existing law requires the commission, in consultation with the Energy Commission and the state board, to establish a greenhouse gases emission performance standard for all baseload generation of load-serving entities. This bill would authorize the commission to authorize the annual collection of not more than the amount authorized for the self-generation incentive program in the 2008 calendar year, through December 31, 2011. The bill would require the commission to extend the administration of the program until January 1, 2016, and, on that date, would require the commission to provide repayment of all unexpended funds collected to reduce ratepayer costs. The bill would limit the eligibility for incentives pursuant to the program to distributed energy resources that the commission, in consultation with the state board, determines will achieve reduction of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. The bill would require the PUC to ensure that distributed energy resources are made available in the program for all ratepayers. The bill would prohibit recovery of the costs of the program from ratepayers that participate in the California Alternative Rates for Energy (CARE) program. The bill would delete the authorization for the PUC, in administering the program, to include other ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation technologies. (2) Existing law requires the Energy Commission, by November 1, 2008, and in consultation with the PUC and state board, to evaluate the costs and benefits of providing ratepayer subsidies for renewable and fossil fuel ultraclean and low-emission distributed generation. This bill would delete that requirement. (3) Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the program that is extended under the provisions of this bill is within the act and a decision or order of the commission implements the program requirements, a violation of these provisions would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. 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.
(1) The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes a redevelopment agency, with the consent of the legislative body, to pay all or a part of the value of the land for, and the cost of the installation and construction of, any building, facility, structure, or other improvement that is publicly owned either within or without the project area if the legislative body makes specified determinations. These determinations by the agency and the local legislative body are final and conclusive. Existing law requires the agency, with respect to the financing, acquisition, or construction of a transportation, collection, and distribution system and related peripheral parking facilities, in a county with a population of 4 million persons or more, to enter into an agreement with the rapid transit district that includes the county, or a portion thereof, under which the rapid transit district is required to be given specified responsibilities. This bill would instead authorize a redevelopment agency, with the consent of the legislative body, to pay all or a part of the value of the land for, and the cost of the installation and construction of, any building, facility, structure, or other improvement that is publicly owned and is located inside or contiguous to, as defined, the project area if the legislative body makes specified determinations. The bill would delete the requirement that the agency, with respect to the financing, acquisition, or construction of a transportation, collection, and distribution system and related peripheral parking facilities, in a county with a population of 4 million persons or more, enter into an agreement with the rapid transit district that includes the county, or a portion thereof, under which the rapid transit district is required to be given specified responsibilities. The bill would authorize an agency to pay for all or part of the value of the land for, and the cost of the installation and construction of, any building, facility, structure, or other improvement that is publicly owned and is partially located in the project area, but extends beyond the project area's boundaries, if the legislative body makes specified determinations. The bill would also authorize an agency, with the consent of the legislative body, to pay all or a part of the value of the land for, and the cost of the installation and construction of, any building, facility, structure, or other improvement that is publicly owned and is located outside and not contiguous to the project area, but is located within the community, if the legislative body makes specified findings based on substantial evidence in the record. The bill would require an action to challenge these findings to be filed and served within 60 days after the date of the resolution containing the findings. The bill would prohibit an agency from paying for the normal maintenance or operations of buildings, facilities, structures, or other improvements that are publicly owned. These provisions would not apply if the financing, construction, or installation of the land, buildings, facilities, structures, or other improvements is an obligation of the agency under a contract existing on December 31, 2009, is specifically described in the implementation plan prepared by the agency as of July 1, 2009, pursuant to Section 33490, or is specifically provided for in the redevelopment plan as of December 31, 2009. The bill would also prohibit the agency and legislative body from authorizing or approving the settlement of specified judicial actions that contest the validity of the adoption or amendment of a redevelopment plan if the settlement requires the expenditure of funds outside the project area unless the agency and the legislative body have first held a public hearing on the proposed settlement, as specified. The bill would provide specified notice requirements and procedures for the public hearing, and require that copies of the proposed settlement be made available for public inspection and copying not later than the first date of publication of the public notice. (2) Existing law requires the legislative body to hold a public hearing before an agency commits to use the portion of taxes allocated to the agency for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, loans, moneys advanced to, or indebtedness incurred by the agency to finance, or refinance, the redevelopment project to instead pay all or part of the value of the land for, and the cost of the installation and construction of, any publicly owned building, other than parking facilities. Existing law also requires a summary to be available for public inspection and copying, at a cost not to exceed the cost of duplication, and the summary to include specified information. This bill would add to the specified information required to be included in the summary the facts supporting the findings required to be made by the legislative body in order for an agency to be authorized to pay all or a part of the value of the land for, and the cost of the installation and construction of, any building, facility, structure, or other improvement that is publicly owned and is located outside, and not contiguous to, the project area, but is located within the community.
Existing law requires the Governor to proclaim certain days each year for specified reasons. Existing law also designates particular days each year as having special significance in public schools and educational institutions and encourages those entities to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on those dates. This bill would provide that the Governor proclaim May 22 of each year as Harvey Milk Day, and would designate that date as having special significance in public schools and educational institutions and would encourage those entities to conduct suitable commemorative exercises on that date. This bill would incorporate amendments to Section 37222 of the Education Code proposed by both this bill and AB 264, which would become operative only if both bills are enacted and become effective and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law provides that a marriage contracted outside this state that would be valid by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the marriage was contracted is valid in this state. Existing case law provides that, while on and after November 5, 2008, only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California, marriages of same-sex couples that were performed prior to November 5, 2008, are valid. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a marriage between 2 persons of the same sex contracted outside this state that would be valid by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the marriage was contracted is valid in this state if the marriage was contracted prior to November 5, 2008. Existing case law also recognizes that while, effective November 5, 2008, same-sex couples lack the right to enter into a relationship designated "marriage," they possess the right to the core set of basic substantive legal rights and attributes traditionally associated with marriage, including, the opportunity of an individual to establish an officially recognized and protected family possessing mutual rights and responsibilities and entitled to the same respect and dignity accorded a union traditionally designated as marriage. This bill would specify that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 2 persons of the same sex who contracted a marriage on or after November 5, 2008, that would be valid by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the marriage was contracted shall have the same rights, protections, and benefits, and shall be subject to the same responsibilities, obligations, and duties under law, as specified, as are granted to and imposed upon spouses with the sole exception of the designation of "marriage."
The Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act defines and regulates common interest developments and authorizes the association that manages the development to levy assessments to fulfill its obligations. The act establishes limits on the percentage by which an association may increase regular and special assessments based on the amounts of those assessments in the preceding fiscal year. This bill would prohibit an association from levying assessments on separate interests within the common interest development based on the taxable value of the separate interests unless the association, on or before December 31, 2009, in accordance with its declaration, levied assessments on those separate interests based on their taxable value, as determined by the tax assessor of the county in which the separate interests are located. The bill would provide an exception for an association that is responsible for paying taxes on the separate interests within the development.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations and gas corporations, as defined. Existing law requires the PUC, in cooperation with the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission (Energy Commission) , the State Air Resources Board (state board) , air quality management districts and air pollution control districts, electrical and gas corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate and implement policies to promote the development of equipment and infrastructure needed to facilitate the use of electric power and natural gas to fuel low-emission vehicles. The PUC is required to ensure that the costs and expenses of any authorized programs are not passed through to electric or gas ratepayers unless the commission finds and determines that those programs are in the ratepayers' interest. Existing law requires the PUC to provide a progress report to the Legislature on its efforts to evaluate and implement the policies for the above-described purposes by January 30, 1993, and every 2 years thereafter. This bill would require the PUC, in consultation with the Energy Commission, the state board, electrical corporations, and the motor vehicle industry, to evaluate policies to develop infrastructure sufficient to overcome any barriers to the widespread deployment and use of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles and, by July 1, 2011, to adopt rules that address specified matter. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the provisions of this bill are within the act and require action by the commission to implement its requirements, a violation of these provisions would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. 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.