Existing law requires the payment of interest on late payments, or late prepayments, of tax, fee, or surcharge payments at the modified adjusted rate per month under the provisions of the Sales and Use Tax Law, Motor Vehicle Fuel Tax Law, Use Fuel Tax Law, Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, Alcoholic Beverage Tax Law, Energy Resources Surcharge Law, Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act, Hazardous Substances Tax Law, Integrated Waste Management Fee Law, Oil Spill Response, Prevention, and Administration Fees Law, Underground Storage Tank Maintenance Fee Law, Fee Collection Procedures Law, Diesel Fuel Tax Law, and the law governing the taxation of insurance companies. Interest is charged on a per-month basis, with one month's interest charged for each month, or fraction of a month, that a payment or prepayment is unpaid. Existing law, until January 1, 2016, allowed the members of the State Board of Equalization, meeting as a public body, to find, under specified circumstances, that it is inequitable to compute interest on a monthly basis and to instead compute interest on a daily basis with respect to electronic payments or prepayments of taxes, fees, and surcharges. This bill would reinstate those provisions.
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This measure would designate the portions of State Highway Routes 16, 20, and 45 in the County of Colusa for inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost for the installation and maintenance of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.
This measure would congratulate the United States Women's National Soccer Team on its impressive and historic World Cup victory on July 5, 2015.
Existing law establishes statewide participation goals that apply to the overall dollar amount expended each year by an awarding department, as defined, to facilitate the participation of disabled veteran business enterprises in state contracts, and establishes the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program for this purpose. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to make available a report on contracting activity containing specified information, including a statistical summary detailing each awarding department's goal achievement under the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program and a statewide total of those goals. This bill would specify that an awarding department's goal achievement under the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program, and statewide total of those goals, be measured as specified. The bill would also make a legislative finding that this bill is clarifying and declaratory of existing law. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 10111 of the Public Contract Code proposed by SB 1219 that would become operative if this bill and SB 1219 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Existing law provides for the acquisition of public park property and facilities and compensation for that transfer under specified circumstances. The State Beach, Park, Recreational and Historical Facilities Bond Act of 1974 authorized the state to issue and sell bonds to provide funding for, among other things, grants to counties, cities, or cities and counties for the acquisition and development of real property for park, recreation area, beach, and historical purposes. The Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2000 (the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) authorizes the issuance of bonds for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, improvement, rehabilitation, restoration, enhancement, and protection of park, recreational, cultural, historical, fish and wildlife, lake, riparian, reservoir, river, and coastal resources, as specified. The act prohibits the use of the grant funds unless the applicant has agreed to certain conditions, including, but not limited to, using the property only for the purposes for which the grant was made and making no other use or sale or other disposition of the property, except as authorized by a specific act of the Legislature. The act requires that, if the use of the property is changed to a use that is not permitted by the act or if the property is sold or otherwise disposed of, an amount equal to the amount of the grant, the fair market value of the real property, as specified, or the proceeds from the sale or other disposition be used by the grantee for a purpose authorized by the act or that this amount be reimbursed to the fund. This bill would authorize the County of Tehama to transfer to the Evergreen Union School District certain parkland if the county and the district enter into an agreement with the Department of Parks and Recreation that transfers to the district all ongoing obligations of the county relating to the property, as specified, and certain other conditions are met. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Tehama.
This measure would declare August 7, 2016, as Purple Heart Day in California.
This measure would recognize the contributions of the California Conservation Corps on the 40th anniversary of its creation.
Existing law authorizes an owner of a vehicle that is a 1969 or older model-year or the owner of a commercial vehicle or pickup truck that is a 1972 or older model year to, if specified requirements are met, utilize license plates of this state with the date of the year corresponding to the model-year date when the vehicle was manufactured, if the model-year date license plate is legible and serviceable. This bill would expand the authorization for those plates to include the owner of a 1980 or older model-year vehicle.
This measure would proclaim the month of June 2016 to be Dairy Month in California and would encourage Californians to continue to support the American dairy industry by including dairy products as part of a healthy diet.