Sen. Sam Aanestad

Existing law provides that the Adjutant General is chief of staff to the Governor and the commander of all state military forces. Existing law requires the Adjutant General to perform duties as specified and consistent with the regulations and customs of the United States Army, Air Force, and Navy, as provided. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow a taxpayer to claim certain tax incentives for activities conducted in an enterprise zone, including a credit in an amount equal to the specified percentage of wages paid during the taxable year to a qualified employee, as defined, who is employed by the taxpayer during the taxable year in an enterprise zone. This bill would authorize the sale of a tax credit by a taxpayer where that credit is attributable to the percentage of wages paid by a taxpayer during a taxable year to a qualified employee employed in the City of Oroville enterprise zone, to an unrelated party. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Oroville. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.

(1) The California Constitution requires the Legislature to convene in regular biennial session at noon on the first Monday in December of each even-numbered year to consider legislation and the Budget Bill. This measure would require the Legislature to convene in regular biennial session, but would require, commencing on December 6, 2010, that the sessions held in odd-numbered years be budget sessions, and sessions held in even-numbered years be general sessions. The measure would require the Legislature in the budget session to adopt Budget Bills for each of the 2 subsequent fiscal years. The measure would require the Legislature, during a budget session, to meet only to conduct oversight and review of the revenues and expenditures of the state and to consider Budget Bills, budget implementation bills, as defined, and related revenue bills, except the Legislature could consider urgency statutes. (2) The California Constitution requires that a budget be submitted by the Governor, and that the Legislature pass a Budget Act on or before June 15. Funds may be expended from the State Treasury for support of the state government only through an appropriation made by the Legislature. This measure would require, in each odd-numbered calendar year, commencing in 2011, that the Governor submit to the Legislature 2 proposed budgets for the 2 subsequent fiscal years, respectively. (3) The California Constitution permits revenues from taxes imposed by the state on motor vehicle fuels and funds in the Public Transportation Account in the State Transportation Fund to be loaned to the General Fund. That loan is required to be repaid in full either during the same fiscal year in which the loan was made or within 3 fiscal years from the date on which the loan was made if specified conditions apply. If the loan is to be repaid in full during the same fiscal year, the repayment may be delayed until a date not more than 30 days after the date of enactment of the Budget Bill for the subsequent fiscal year. The measure would provide that the repayment may be delayed until a date not more than 30 days after the date of enactment of the Budget Bill for the subsequent fiscal year, or July 31 of that subsequent fiscal year, whichever is later.

Existing law provides for the regulation of veterinary medicine by the Veterinary Medical Board. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to a provision related to veterinary medicine.

Under the Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act, the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System contracts for and administers health care benefit plans for public employees and annuitants. Existing state and federal income tax laws allow a deduction for contributions to a qualifying medical savings account by a taxpayer who is covered under a high deductible health plan, as defined. Money within this type of account may be used to pay for qualified medical expenses, as defined. This bill would require the board to offer a high deductible health plan, as defined in the federal tax law, and a Health Savings Account option to public employees and annuitants, as specified. The bill would establish the Public Employees' Health Savings Fund, a continuously appropriated trust fund within the State Treasury, for payment of qualified medical expenses of eligible employees and annuitants who elect to enroll in the high deductible health plan and participate in the Health Savings Account option, and would require those employees and annuitants, and their employers, to make specified contributions to that fund, thereby making an appropriation. The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various deductions in computing income subject to taxation. This bill would also allow a deduction in connection with Health Savings Accounts in conformity with federal law. In general, the deduction would be an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in cash during the taxable year by, or on behalf of, an eligible individual, as defined, to a Health Savings Account of that individual, as provided. This bill would also provide related conformity to that federal law with respect to treatment of the account as a tax-exempt trust, the allowance of rollovers from Archer Medical Savings Accounts to a Health Savings Account, and penalties in connection therewith.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to consider the removal of commercial, economic, and financial restrictions relating to agricultural sales to Cuba.

Existing law provides that a person who is a federal firearms licensee, as specified, may not deliver, sell, or transfer a firearm to a person in California who is a federal firearms licensee, as specified, unless, prior to delivery, the person intending to deliver, sell, or transfer the firearm obtains a verification number from the Department of Justice, as specified. This bill would exempt from those requirements the sale, delivery, loan, or transfer of a firearm that is a curio or relic, as defined, by a firearms dealer to a federally licensed firearms collector, as specified.

Existing law provides for interest to accrue at a rate of 10% per annum on the principal amount of a money judgment remaining unsatisfied. Existing law also permits the Legislature to decrease the interest rate to less than 10%. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

Under existing law, businesses are required to obtain various licenses from regulatory agencies. Existing law also requires state agencies to take specified actions, including, but not limited to, designating a small business liaison to assist small businesses to comply with statutory and regulatory requirements. This bill would create the Business Master License Center, which would have prescribed duties, including, but not limited to, developing and administering a computerized one-stop master license system capable of storing, retrieving, and exchanging license information, as well as issuing and renewing master licenses, as specified. The bill would permit the Governor to appoint a 3rd-party facilitator from the business community, to provide oversight over the creation of the center and the development of its master license system. This bill would charge license applicants, in addition to any other fees or deposits required to obtain a particular license, a master license administrative fee in specified amounts, to be deposited into the Business Master License Fund, which this bill would create. This bill would require that the moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used only to administer the Business Master License Center.

The State Assistance for Fire Equipment Act authorizes the Secretary of Emergency Management to acquire specified firefighting apparatus and equipment for resale to a local agency, as defined, that provides fire suppression services or a fire company. Existing law also establishes the State Assistance for Fire Equipment Account, a continuously appropriated fund, for purposes of the act. Existing law requires the secretary to consult with a specified committee before adopting regulations implementing the act. This bill would annually appropriate $45,600,000 of revenue received by the state from the accessing of oil and gas reserves located beneath state coastal waters, generally known as the "T-Ridge Project," for firefighting purposes, including, but not limited to, the purchase of firefighting and rescue vehicles and equipment, vegetation management and defensible space projects, and specified training courses and materials, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would also require the secretary to consult with additional specified individuals involved in firefighting before adopting certain regulations.