This measure would recognize the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks as a day of solemn commemoration.
The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law provide for the carryover to specified taxable years of specified losses sustained as a result of certain disasters occurring in California in an area determined by the President of the United States to warrant specified federal assistance, or proclaimed by the Governor to be in a state of emergency. This bill would extend these provisions to losses sustained in the County of Mendocino as a result of the tsunami that occurred in March 2011. This bill would authorize a taxpayer to make an election to claim a deduction for those losses on the tax return for the preceding year. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes the crime of assault against specified public safety officers, such as peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians, among others, while engaged in the performance of their duties, as specified. The offense is punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment. This bill would expand the scope of the offense to include search and rescue members, as defined, while engaged in the performance of their duties, as specified. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes the crime of battery against specified public safety officers, such as peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians, among others, while engaged in the performance of their duties, as specified. The offense is punishable, except when the victim sustains an injury, by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment. This bill would expand the scope of the battery offense described above where the victim does not sustain an injury, to include a search and rescue member, as defined, while engaged in the performance of his or her duty, as specified. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 243 of the Penal Code made by AB 109, which has been chaptered but is not yet operative. The bill would also incorporate additional changes proposed by SB 406 to become operative only if this bill and SB 406 are chaptered and this bill is chaptered last. 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.
This measure would continue designation and observance of the month of October as Italian American Heritage Month. This measure would also encourage the Legislature to continue the Italian American Legislator Project and welcome the exhibit "The Italian American Legislator Project of 2011: A Legacy of Service to the California Legislature" to the State Capitol Building in October 2011 and encourage all Californians, through the K–12 curriculum and otherwise, to learn about the history, role, and contributions of Italian Americans to the State of California.
This measure would commemorate the 100-year anniversary of California's initiative process.
This measure would resolve that the month of April be designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, would recognize April 27, 2011, as Denim Day California, and would encourage everyone to wear jeans on that day to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and never an invitation to, rape or sexual assault.
Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail and related purposes. Existing law, the California High-Speed Rail Act, creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed train system in the state, with specified powers and duties. Existing law requires the authority to approve and submit to the Director of Finance, a specified peer review group, the transportation policy committees and fiscal committees of the Legislature, a detailed funding plan for that corridor or a usable segment thereof of the high-speed train system. Existing law requires the funding plan to include certain information and meet specified requirements. This bill would require the authority to approve an investment grade analysis, to be prepared by the State Auditor, and to submit that investment grade analysis to those same entities. The bill would require that investment grade analysis to include certain information and meet specified requirements.
(1) Existing law exempts, until January 1, 2012, licensed carriers of livestock from certain limitations of access when those carriers are directly en route to or from a point of loading or unloading of livestock on specified portions of State Highway Route 101 located in the Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, and Mendocino from its junction with State Highway Route 1 near Leggett north to the Oregon border, if the travel is necessary, incidental to the shipment of the livestock, and certain conditions are met. This bill would extend this exemption until January 1, 2015, and would also delete obsolete requirements from these provisions. (2) Existing law requires the Director of Transportation to notify the Secretary of State if, prior to January 1, 2012, the director determines that certain safety improvements to a portion of State Highway Route 101 have resulted in the reclassification of the entire segment as a terminal access route pursuant to specified provisions of the Vehicle Code and repeals the exemption described in (1) above on the date the secretary receives this notice. This bill would extend this date to January 1, 2015.
Existing law, the Williamson Act, authorizes a city or county to enter into 10-year contracts with owners of land devoted to agricultural use, whereby the owners agree to continue using the property for that purpose, and the city or county agrees to value the land accordingly for purposes of property taxation. Existing law sets forth procedures for reimbursing cities and counties for property tax revenues not received as a result of these contracts. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2011, and until January 1, 2016, authorize a county, in any fiscal year in which payments authorized for reimbursement to a county for lost revenue are less than12 of the participating county's actual foregone general fund property tax revenue, to revise the term for newly renewed and new contracts and require the assessor to value the property, as specified, based on the revised contract term. The bill would provide that a landowner may choose to nonrenew and begin the cancellation process. The bill would also provide that any increased revenues generated by properties under a new contract shall be paid to the county. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
This measure would declare June 2011 as Scleroderma Awareness Month.
