Existing law authorizes the Department of Justice to require firearm dealers to charge firearm purchasers a fee to fund, among other specified costs, the processing of firearm purchaser information. Existing law also authorizes the department to charge a fee to reimburse it for, among other things, the actual costs associated with the preparation, sale, processing, and filing of specified forms or reports and the actual processing costs associated with the submission of a dealer's record of sale. Existing law requires all moneys received by the department pursuant to these provisions to be deposited in the Dealers' Record of Sale Special Account of the General Fund, to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure by the department to offset specified costs. This bill would require the Department of Justice, on or before July 1 to annually issue a report to the Legislature regarding the status of the revenues generated by the Dealers' Record of Sale fees pursuant to this article. The bill would require the report to contain information regarding the balance of the account and expenditures and loans from the account, as specified.
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Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the State Water Project and exercises other functions relating to the state's water resources. Under existing law, the State Water Project is comprised of, among other facilities, specified dams and reservoirs. Existing law, the Byrne Act, authorizes the Governor to designate, and authorizes specified local government agencies to request designation as, impact areas for purposes of receiving state financial assistance for certain local governmental services and facilities associated with the construction of state water resources projects. This bill would authorize a county, in accordance with prescribed procedures, to prepare and adopt a county services impact report containing, among other things, a description of the costs of county services, as defined, related to the operation of specified dams and reservoirs as State Water Project facilities within the county. The bill would require the department to compensate the county for those costs by compensating the county directly, by providing the county with specified services and facilities, or by contracting with the county or a service provider to provide the services or facilities within the county.
Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to another person or death to stop the vehicle at the scene of the accident and provide certain information to a traffic or police officer, as specified. A violation of this provision involving an accident that results in death or serious injury is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years, or in a county jail for not less than 90 days nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or by both that imprisonment and fine. Existing law generally requires the prosecution of an offense punishable by imprisonment in the state prison to commence within 3 years. This bill would enact the Joshua Lacy Law, which would require the prosecution of an offense described above to commence within 6 years.
The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes 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, and provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by that law. Existing law authorizes, until January 1, 2012, the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority to evaluate project applications and to approve projects, as defined by the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act, for financial assistance in the form of an exclusion from a "sale" or "purchase" subject to Sales and Use Tax Law. This bill would additionally include advanced manufacturing, as defined, as a project eligible for the above exclusion from the Sales and Use Tax Law. 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 law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code provides that the state will 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 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 establishes the California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program, which requires the Public Utilities Commission to implement annual procurement targets for the procurement of eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, for all retail sellers, as defined, to achieve the targets and goals of the program. The existing definition of an eligible renewable energy resource includes small hydroelectric generation facilities of 30 megawatts or less that meet specified criteria. This bill would revise the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource to include a hydroelectric generation facility of any size, and remove other restrictions regarding which hydroelectric generation facilities meet the definition of an eligible renewable energy resource. The bill would also make conforming changes. This bill would incorporate certain changes in Section 399.12 of the Public Utilities Code, proposed by SB 2 of the First Extraordinary Session, to be operative only if SB 2 and this bill are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2012, and this bill is chaptered last.
Existing law requires the State Fire Marshal to adopt and administer the regulations and building standards necessary to establish and control a program for servicing, testing, and maintaining all automatic fire extinguishing systems, including, but not limited to, fire sprinkler systems. Existing law requires the installation of a sprinkler system or automatic fire device in specified buildings, and requires the installation of a smoke detector in each dwelling intended for human occupancy, as specified. Existing law authorizes a city, county, or city and county to, by ordinance, make changes or modifications that are more stringent than the requirements published in the California Building Standards Code relating to fire and panic safety and other regulations adopted by the State Fire Marshal. This bill would authorize, until January 1, 2014, a county, by ordinance or resolution, to opt not to be subject to a regulation published in the California Building Standards Code requiring the installation of a fire sprinkler system in a single-family residential dwelling.
(1) Existing law establishes a motor vehicle inspection and maintenance (smog check) program, developed, implemented, and administered by the Department of Consumer Affairs. The smog check program provides for the inspection of a motor vehicle, among other circumstances, upon its initial registration, upon transfer of ownership, and for vehicles registered in certain areas of the state, biennially upon renewal of registration. A violation of smog check requirements is a crime. Existing law requires the smog test to include a visual or functional check of emission control devices specified by the department. This bill, notwithstanding this provision, would prohibit a smog check technician from conducting an under-the-hood visual inspection as part of a smog check inspection. Because a violation of this prohibition would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) 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.
Existing law provides that expenses authorized and necessarily incurred in the preparation for and conduct of elections are to be paid from the county treasuries, except as specified. This bill would provide that expenses authorized and necessarily incurred on or after January 1, 2009, and before April 19, 2011, for elections proclaimed by the Governor to fill a vacancy in the office of Senator or Member of the Assembly, or to fill a vacancy in the office of United States Senator or Member of the United States House of Representatives, shall be paid by the state. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The existing Political Reform Act of 1974 defines a committee to mean any person or combination of persons who, in a calendar year, receives contributions or makes independent expenditures of $1,000 or more, or makes contributions of $10,000 or more to, or at the behest of, candidates or committees. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
This bill would urge the United States Patent and Trademark Office to place a satellite office in California.