The Corporation Tax Law specifies that its provisions are applicable to specified taxes. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those specification provisions.
(1) Under existing law, various measures have been approved by the voters to provide funds for water supply and protection facilities and programs. This bill would enact the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $9,785,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a water supply reliability and water source protection program. The bill would authorize the Department of Water Resources to establish and impose fees on water users in the state, including residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural water users. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization to collect the fee pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedure Law. The bill would require the funds generated from the imposition of the fee to be deposited in the California Water Resources Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury. The bill would continuously appropriate the moneys in the California Water Resources Fund to the department to pay for certain administrative costs and refunds, and to reimburse the General Fund for payments made to finance the debt service on the bonds issued pursuant to the bond act. The bill would provide for submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 2, 2010, statewide general election. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law establishes various public programs to provide health care coverage to eligible children, including the Medi-Cal program administered by the State Department of Health Care Services and county welfare agencies, and the Healthy Families Program administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board. Children through 18 years of age are eligible for health care coverage under these programs if they meet certain household income and other criteria including specified citizenship and immigration status requirements. Under existing law, the applicant's signed statement as to the value or amount of income is accepted for eligibility purposes under the Healthy Families Program if documentation cannot otherwise be provided. This bill would expand eligibility for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program by modifying the income requirements applicable to those programs, and by making coverage available regardless of citizenship or immigration status, as specified. The bill would require a parent or caretaker relative of a child applying for the Medi-Cal program to sign a specified attestation under penalty of perjury regarding the child's immigration status, as specified, thereby expanding the crime of perjury and imposing a state-mandated local program. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, by July 1, 2011, to implement a process for an applicant's self-certification of income and income deductions for purposes of establishing eligibility for the Healthy Families Program. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services, by July 1, 2011, to simplify the annual renewal forms for children enrolled in the Healthy Families Program or the Medi-Cal program and to establish a process to allow families to renew their child's coverage by telephone. The bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services to make specified technological improvements to the existing eligibility determination and enrollment systems for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program and to develop a process to transition the enrollment of children from local children's health initiatives into those programs. The bill would also make various related modifications to the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program and would require the State Department of Health Care Services and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to maximize federal matching funds for the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program. Because the expansion of, and modifications to, the Medi-Cal program would impose certain duties on counties relative to administration of that program, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes the Healthy Families Presumptive Eligibility Program, administered by the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, to provide a child who, among other requirements, has been receiving full-scope Medi-Cal benefits with health care benefits while the board determines the child's eligibility for the Healthy Families Program. Existing law also creates a Medi-Cal presumptive eligibility program to provide a child who, among other requirements, has been receiving benefits under the Healthy Families Program with health care benefits until a Medi-Cal eligibility determination is made. This bill would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the State Department of Health Care Services to monitor those programs to ensure children are timely enrolled in the presumptive eligibility benefits for which they are eligible. Existing law requires the state to administer, to the extent allowed under federal law, and only if federal financial participation is available, the Medi-Cal to Healthy Families Presumptive Eligibility Program to provide a child not receiving no-cost Medi-Cal benefits or Healthy Families benefits who meets specified eligibility requirements, including the income requirements of the Healthy Families Program, with benefits identical to full-scope benefits under the Medi-Cal program with no share of cost for the period during which the child has an application pending for coverage under the Healthy Families Program. This bill would establish, to the extent allowed by federal law and to the extent federal financial participation is available, the Medi-Cal Presumptive Eligibility Program that would provide a child not receiving no-cost Medi-Cal benefits or Healthy Families Program benefits who meets specified eligibility requirements with presumptive eligibility benefits identical to full-scope benefits under the Medi-Cal program with no share of cost until the child's eligibility for the Medi-Cal program is determined, as specified. The bill would require the county to forward the child's application to the Healthy Families Program if it finds the child eligible for the Medi-Cal program with a share of cost. The bill would require this program to be implemented by July 1, 2011. Under existing law, the Robert W. Crown California Children's Services Act, the State Department of Health Care Services and each county administer the California Children Services Program (CCS program) for treatment services for persons under the age of 21 years diagnosed with severe chronic disease or severe physical limitations, as specified. Existing law limits eligibility for those services to persons in families with an annual adjusted gross income of $40,000 or less. This bill would change that eligibility limitation to persons in a family with an annual, or equivalent monthly income, that is equal to or less than $40,000, or that meets the income eligibility requirements for the Healthy Families Program, as specified. The bill would also create the Healthy Families Buy-In Program (buy-in program) and would require the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board to implement that program by July 1, 2011. Under the buy-in program, the coverage provided under the Healthy Families Program would be available to children whose household income exceeds 300% of the federal poverty level and who meet other specified criteria. The bill would specify that coverage under the buy-in program would include services provided under the CCS program for children eligible for the CCS program and would deem the child's family financially eligible for benefits under the CCS program. Because the bill would thereby expand eligibility for the CCS program, which is administered by a county's public health or social welfare department, it would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would specify the family contribution required for children enrolled in the buy-in program. Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties for 50% of the amount required to meet state administrative standards for that portion of the county caseload under the CCS program that is ineligible for Medi-Cal, to the extent funds are available in the state budget. This bill would also require the state to reimburse counties for 100% of the amount required to provide CCS program services to children enrolled in the buy-in program. Existing law, the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) , authorizes establishment of a statewide program, administered by the State Department of Public Health, for providing nutritional food supplements to low-income pregnant women, low-income postpartum and lactating women, and low-income infants and children under 5 years of age, who have been determined to be at nutritional risk. The program, which implements a program authorized under existing federal law, provides for the redemption of nutrition coupons by recipients at any authorized retail food vendor. Existing law requires the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board and the department, in collaboration with WIC program offices and other designated entities, to design, promulgate, and implement policies and procedures for an automated enrollment gateway system to obtain presumptive eligibility for, and to facilitate application for enrollment in, the Medi-Cal program and the Healthy Families Program for children applying to the WIC program. Existing law requires the WIC gateway system to be constructed with the capacity to be used by entities operating the WIC program. This bill would require all WIC local agencies that serve large numbers of participants and a high proportion of uninsured participants, as specified, to use the WIC gateway system only to the extent funding is available, as specified, and would permit all other local WIC agencies to use the WIC gateway system at their option. Existing law creates the Healthy Families Fund, and provides that money in the fund is continuously appropriated for purposes of the Healthy Families Program. This bill would provide that the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board may implement the provisions of the bill expanding the Healthy Families Program only to the extent that funds are appropriated for those purposes in the annual Budget Act or in another statute. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Existing law authorizes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to expend moneys appropriated for enforcement of laws under its jurisdiction. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to this provision.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of any high school district to provide for the maintenance on Saturday of special day and evening classes in career technical training authorized and provided for by any program of national defense of the federal government, or any agency thereof, acting through the State Department of Education. Existing law additionally authorizes school districts, upon the approval of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to establish pilot programs to provide for the maintenance on Saturday of classes in career technical training. This training is authorized, among other things, to be a part of a program of national defense of the federal government, or any agency thereof. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
(1) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt regulations to require the reporting and verification of emissions of greenhouse gases and to monitor and enforce compliance with the reporting and verification program, and requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit equivalent to the statewide GHG emissions levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations in an open public process to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective GHG emission reductions. The act requires all state agencies to consider and implement strategies to reduce their GHG emissions. This bill would create the Climate Action Team (CAT) , consisting of representatives from specified state agencies, that would be responsible for coordinating the state's overall climate policy. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2011, and annually thereafter, would be required to prepare, adopt, and present to the Legislature, a strategic research, development, demonstration, and deployment plan that establishes priorities and identifies key expenditure categories for research, development, demonstration, and deployment funds to be expended by the state agencies represented on the CAT for the following fiscal year. The bill would require a state agency that is represented on the CAT to expend research, development, demonstration, and deployment funds, which would be administered by the Department of Transportation and allocated for clean technology, environmental protection, and public interest energy research, consistent with this plan. The CAT, on or before January 1, 2011, and biennially thereafter, would also be required to prepare and adopt a climate change impact mitigation and adaptation plan that includes specified information. (2) Existing law requires specified state agencies to prepare and submit to the Secretary for Environmental Protection, in a standardized format as determined by the California Environmental Protection Agency, specified information relating to the state agency's GHG emissions, including a list of measures adopted and implemented by the agency to meet GHG emission reduction targets, as defined, and a status report on GHG emissions reduced as a result of these measures. The California Environmental Protection Agency, on or before March 1, 2008, and January 1, annually thereafter, is required to provide that information on its Internet Web site in the form of a state agency greenhouse gas emission reduction report card. This bill would, instead, require the specified state agencies to prepare and submit to the CAT, the information in a standardized format as determined by the Secretary for Environmental Protection. The CAT would compile and organize the information submitted. The bill would additionally require the specified state agencies to submit information on other technologically feasible and cost-effective measures related to operations and programs managed by the state agencies that require statutory or regulatory changes for their adoption, and an estimate of potential GHG emission reductions from those measures. Existing law requires the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to develop, implement, and administer the Public Interest, Development, and Demonstration Program to include a full range of research, development, and demonstration projects that are not adequately provided for by competitive and regulated energy technology markets. This bill would provide that demonstration, for purposes of this program, includes, but is not limited to, grants and loans to entities to commercialize new, cost-effective technologies in the California marketplace.
Existing law provides parameters for the expenditure of moneys appropriated to the Department of Industrial Relations for the administration of the provisions of labor laws. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to administer the School-to-Career Program, and, in the course of administering the program, to serve specified roles, including, but not limited to, developing or participating in the development of accountability measurements for school-to-career programs to ensure that the goals of the program are being met, and providing technical and professional assistance to all local partnerships, as defined. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
The Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, the violation of which is a crime, imposes a tax on every distributor of cigarettes and tobacco products at specified rates, including additional taxes imposed under the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act of 1988 (Proposition 99) and the California Families and Children Act of 1998 (Proposition 10) . A provision of that law imposes a tax upon the distribution of tobacco products at a tax rate which is equivalent to the combined rate of all taxes imposed on cigarettes, which is deposited in specified accounts. This bill would, commencing on or after the first day of the first calendar quarter commencing more than 90 days on or after the effective date of the bill, impose an additional tax on the distribution of cigarettes at the rate of ($0.075) or 75 mills for each cigarette distributed, and would require a dealer or wholesaler to file a return with the State Board of Equalization showing the number of cigarettes in his or her possession or under his or her control on that date, as specified. Because the bill would impose an additional tax on cigarettes under the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, it would increase the tax upon the distribution of tobacco products under that law. The bill would provide that the revenues collected from the additional tax would be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for certain purposes. The bill would require funds to be transferred from the fund to the California Children and Families First Trust Fund, which is a continuously appropriated fund, the Hospital Services Account, the Physician Services Account, the Unallocated Account of the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund, the Public Resources Account, and the Breast Cancer Fund, as necessary to offset revenue decreases to those accounts directly resulting from imposition of additional taxes by these provisions. Because this bill would require funds to be transferred to a continuously appropriated fund, it would make an appropriation. This bill would result in a change in state taxes for the purpose of increasing state revenues within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. Because this bill would impose new requirements under the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Law, the violation of which is a crime, it would impose a state-mandated local program. 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 bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law sets forth the Legislature's finding and declarations regarding the availability of affordable housing throughout California. 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 downpayments for first-time homebuyers. This bill would enact the Housing Market Stabilization Act of 2010, which would create in the State Treasury the Housing Market Stabilization Fund. The bill would provide that moneys in the fund be available, upon appropriation, to the Department of Housing and Community Development for local assistance loans and grants for purposes related to increasing the supply of safe, affordable, and sustainable homes.
