Existing law authorizes a city or county to establish infrastructure financing districts to finance specified types public facilities. Existing law requires any district that constructs dwelling units to set aside not less than 20% of those units to increase and improve the community's supply of low- and moderate-income housing available at an affordable housing cost to persons and families of low- and moderate-income. This bill would eliminate the requirement of a district that constructs dwelling units to set aside not less than 20% of those units for the purpose described above. Existing law requires the legislative body of the district, if dwelling units are proposed to be removed or destroyed in the course of private development or public works construction within the area of the district, to, among other things, cause or require the construction or rehabilitation, within 4 years of the removal or destruction, for rental or sale to persons or families of low or moderate income, an equal number of replacement dwelling units at affordable housing cost, as specified, and a number of dwelling units that is at least one unit but not less than 20% of the total dwelling units removed at affordable cost, as specified. This bill would instead require the district to dedicate no less than 25% of allocated tax increment revenues for affordable housing purposes in accordance with the applicable affordable housing provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law. This bill would require the district to ensure that the number of housing units occupied by extremely low, very low, and low-income households in the area of the district is not reduced during the effective period of the district, to ensure the replacement of dwelling units that house extremely low, very low, or low-income households within 2 years of their removal by public or private action from the area of the district, and to ensure that during the effective period of the district at least 20% of all new and substantially rehabilitated dwelling units developed are available at affordable housing cost to, and occupied by, persons and families of low or moderate income. This bill would require the district to require that housing units built remain available at affordable housing cost to, and occupied by, persons and families of low- or moderate-income households for the longest feasible time, as provided. This bill would also require the district to contract for an independent financial and performance audit every 5 years pursuant to guidelines established by the Controller, as provided. The Community Redevelopment Law authorizes the establishment of redevelopment agencies in communities to address the effects of blight, as defined. Existing law dissolved community redevelopment agencies, as of February 1, 2012, and provides for the designation of successor agencies. Senate Bill 1 of the 2013–14 Regular Session, if enacted, would authorize certain public entities of a Sustainable Communities Investment Area, as described, to form a Sustainable Communities Investment Authority (authority) to carry out the Community Redevelopment Law in a specified manner. The bill would require the authority to adopt a Sustainable Communities Investment Plan for a Sustainable Communities Investment Area, and would authorize the authority to include in that plan a provision for the receipt of tax increment funds provided that certain economic development and planning requirements are met, including, among others, a requirement in an ordinance for the replacement of dwelling units that house extremely low, very low, and low-income households, as specified. The bill would require the authority to contract for an independent financial and performance audit every 5 years, conducted according to guidelines established by the Controller. The bill would, where compliance has not been achieved, require the authority to adopt and submit to the Controller, as part of the audit, a plan to achieve compliance with the economic development and planning requirements, which includes, among other things, a means of achieving an increase in the production of housing for very low income households as required by other provisions of this bill. This bill would require the low-income housing ordinance to require the replacement of dwelling units that house extremely low, very low, and low-income households within 2 years of their removal by public or private action, and to also require, prior to the time limit on the effective period of the Sustainable Communities Investment Plan, that at least 20% of all new and substantially rehabilitated dwelling units developed in the Sustainable Communities Investment Area meet specified affordability and occupancy requirements. This bill would make the operation of its provisions contingent upon the enactment of specified bills.
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(1) Existing law provides that the Department of Transportation has full possession and control of the state highway system and associated property. Existing law authorizes the department to purchase or rent any necessary supplies, instruments, tools, equipment, and conveniences as may be necessary for the proper discharge of its duties. This bill would require the department, on or before February 1, 2015, to develop and implement an asset management program that will efficiently and effectively catalog the department's assets to ensure the most efficient usage and maintenance of those assets, and would require the department to update the program at least once every 5Â years. (2) Existing law, the State Records Management Act, imposes certain requirements on state agencies with respect to retention of records that have administrative, legal, or fiscal value. This bill would impose additional record retention requirements on the Department of Transportation with respect to documents that are associated with construction projects. The bill would provide that the department shall be liable for any loss or damage to any party resulting from failure to retain these documents, and would provide for a civil penalty of up to $500 for each occurrence of a missing document. (3) Existing law, the State Contract Act, generally provides for a contracting process by state agencies for public works of improvement via a competitive bidding process, under which bids are awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, with certain alternative bidding procedures authorized in certain cases. Existing law requires a department, as defined for purposes of the State Contract Act, including the Department of Transportation, to prepare full, complete, and accurate plans and specifications and estimates of cost before entering into any competitively bid contract for a public works project. This bill would, with respect to competitively bid projects, require the department, before it commences the design of a project's plans, to first obtain full, complete, and accurate survey information of the field conditions existing in the location where construction of the project is to be performed. The bill would also require the department, when preparing the project's plans, to use state-of-the-art design software that allows for the preparation of full, complete, and accurate plans and that does not automatically fix errors in the design but rather requires the project designer to correct errors on an individualized, contemplative basis. (4) Existing law requires the department to annually prepare and submit to the Governor a proposed budget, and to inform the California Transportation Commission of all pertinent assumptions and policy directions it intends to use in preparing the budget. Existing law also requires the department to develop budgeting, accounting, fiscal control, and management information systems in order to support its proposed budgets and to improve its program management, as specified. This bill would require the department, in preparing the proposed budget, to include detailed information about outstanding contractor claims, as defined, relating to construction projects, and to reserve sufficient moneys in each budget to pay accumulated outstanding claims, as specified, and to report on those claims and reserves in budget-related reports.
(1) Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water and water supply reliability program. Existing law provides for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. This bill would repeal these provisions. (2) 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 Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Water Supply Act of 2014, which, if adopted by the voters, would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $7,500,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking water, water quality, and water supply program. The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. (3) Existing law, the Water Conservation and Water Quality Bond Law of 1986, approved by the voters at the June 3, 1986, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $150,000,000 for the Department of Water Resources to make prescribed loans to local agencies for the purposes of financing a water conservation and water quality program. Existing law, the Water Conservation Bond Law of 1988, approved by the voters at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $60,000,000 for the Department of Water Resources to make prescribed loans to local agencies for the purposes of financing a water conservation program. Existing law, the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Act, a bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $995,000,000 for grants, loans, and direct expenditures for the purposes of financing a safe, clean, reliable water supply program. Existing law, the Costa-Machado Water Act of 2000, a bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, statewide primary election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $1,970,000,000 for grants, loans, and direct expenditures for the purposes of financing a safe drinking water, clean water, watershed protection, and flood protection program. This bill would authorize the Legislature to appropriate any unencumbered proceeds of bonds from the above-described bond acts in their respective bond funds as of November 5, 2014, for prescribed purposes as described in the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Water Supply Act of 2014. This bill would provide for the submission of these provisions to the voters at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. (4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The Personal Income Tax Law allows various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including certain credits that are allowed in modified conformity to credits allowed by federal income tax laws. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2026, allow a credit based upon earned income that is equal to 15% of the earned income tax credit allowed by federal law. The bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to report to the Legislature regarding the utilization of the tax credit, as provided. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
(1) Existing federal law, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, regulates, among other things, the quality and packaging of foods introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce and generally prohibits the misbranding of food. Existing federal law, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, governs state and local labeling requirements, including those that characterize the relationship of any nutrient specified in the labeling of food to a disease or health-related condition. Existing state law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, generally regulates misbranded food and provides that any food is misbranded if its labeling does not conform with the requirements for nutrient content or health claims as set forth in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the regulations adopted pursuant to that federal act. Existing law requires that a food facility, as defined, make prescribed disclosures and warnings to consumers, as specified. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing state law, the Pupil Nutrition, Health, and Achievement Act of 2001, also requires the sale of only certain beverages to pupils at schools. The beverages that may be sold include fruit-based and vegetable-based drinks, drinking water with no added sweetener, milk, and in middle and high schools, an electrolyte replacement beverage if those beverages meet certain nutritional requirements. This bill would establish the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Act, which would prohibit a person from distributing, selling, or offering for sale a sugar-sweetened beverage in a sealed beverage container, or a multipack of sugar-sweetened beverages, in this state unless the beverage container or multipack bears a specified safety warning, as prescribed. The bill also would require every person who owns, leases, or otherwise legally controls the premises where a vending machine or beverage dispensing machine is located, or where a sugar-sweetened beverage is sold in an unsealed container to place a specified safety warning in certain locations, including, on the exterior of any vending machine that includes a sugar-sweetened beverage for sale. (2) Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health, upon the request of a health officer, as defined, may authorize the local health department of a city, county, city and county, or local health district to enforce the provisions of the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law. Existing law authorizes the State Department of Public Health to assess a civil penalty against any person in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per day, except as specified. Existing law authorizes the Attorney General or any district attorney, on behalf of the State Department of Public Health, to bring an action in a superior court to grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining a person from violating any provision of the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law. This bill, commencing July 1, 2015, would provide that any violation of the provisions described in (1) above, or regulations adopted pursuant to those provisions, is punishable by a civil penalty of not less than $50, but no greater than $500. By imposing additional enforcement duties on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would also create the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Safety Warning Fund for the receipt of all moneys collected for violations of those provisions. The bill would allocate moneys in this fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the local enforcement agencies for the purpose of enforcing those provisions. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations relating to the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, obesity, and dental disease. (3) 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which qualified low-income individuals receive health care services. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act, which revises hospital supplemental payment methodologies under the Medi-Cal program in order to maximize the use of federal funds consistent with federal Medicaid law and to stabilize the distribution of funding for hospitals that provide care to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and uninsured patients. Existing law requires the department to seek a successor demonstration project or federal waiver of Medicaid law to implement specified objectives, which may include better care coordination for seniors, persons with disabilities, and children with special health care needs. Existing law provides that to the extent the provisions under the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act do not conflict with the provisions of, or the Special Terms and Conditions of, this demonstration project, the provisions of the Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act apply. Existing law also defines designated public hospital for purposes of these provisions and requires that designated public hospitals be eligible for specified payments under the demonstration project. This bill would require the department to seek federal approval to add Doctors Medical Center, operated by West Contra Costa Healthcare District, to the list of designated public hospital for purposes of the demonstration project. The bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature that Doctors Medical Center be eligible for any funding available to designated public hospitals under the demonstration project. The bill would appropriate $3,000,000 from the General Fund to the West Contra Costa Healthcare District for support of the Doctors Medical Center. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute relating to the Doctors Medical Center, operated by the West Contra Costa Healthcare District. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
(1) Existing law imposes weight fees on the registration of commercial motor vehicles and provides for the deposit of net weight fee revenues into the State Highway Account. Existing law provides for the transfer of certain weight fee revenues from the State Highway Account to the Transportation Debt Service Fund to reimburse the General Fund for payment of debt service on general obligation bonds issued for transportation purposes. Existing law also provides for the transfer of certain weight fee revenues to the Transportation Bond Direct Payment Account for direct payment of debt service on designated bonds, which are defined to be certain transportation general obligation bonds issued pursuant to Proposition 1B of 2006. Existing law also provides for loans of weight fee revenues to the General Fund to the extent the revenues are not needed for bond debt service purposes, with the loans to be repaid when the revenues are later needed for those purposes, as specified. This bill would repeal these provisions, thereby retaining the weight fee revenues in the State Highway Account. The bill would make other conforming changes in that regard. (2) Existing law provides for the deposit of fuel excise tax revenues imposed by the state on fuels used in motor vehicles upon public streets and highways in the Highway Users Tax Account, and appropriates those revenues to various purposes. Existing law, with respect to the portion of these revenues that is derived from increases in the motor vehicle fuel excise tax beginning in 2010, requires an allocation of revenues to reimburse the State Highway Account for the amount of weight fee revenues that the State Highway Account is not receiving due to use of weight fee revenues to pay debt service on transportation general obligation bonds and to make certain loans to the General Fund, with the remaining amount of this portion of revenues allocated 44% to the State Transportation Improvement Program, 12% to the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, and 44% to city and county streets and roads. This bill, with respect to the portion of these revenues that is derived from increases in the motor vehicle fuel excise tax beginning in 2010, would instead require 56% of the revenues to be deposited by the Controller in the State Highway Account and 44% to be allocated by the Controller to city and county streets and roads. This bill would require a minimum of 21.453% of the revenues deposited in the State Highway Account under these provisions to be allocated to the State Highway Operation and Protection Program. The bill would thereby make an appropriation. (3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute, with certain provisions to become operative on July 1, 2014.
Existing law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations. Pursuant to its existing authority, the commission issued Electrical Rule 21 establishing operational and metering requirements for a generation facility to be connected to an electrical corporation's distribution system. Existing law relative to private energy producers requires every electric utility, as defined, to develop a standard contract or tariff providing for net energy metering, as defined, and to make this contract or tariff available to eligible customer-generators, as defined, upon request for generation by a renewable electrical generation facility, as defined. The existing definition of an eligible customer-generator requires that the generating facility use a renewable source of energy, as specified, and have a generating capacity of not more than one megawatt. Existing law requires that every electric utility ensure that requests for an interconnection agreement from an eligible customer-generator are processed in a time period not to exceed 30 working days from the date it receives a completed application form from the eligible customer-generator for an interconnection agreement. This bill would require the commission to determine criteria that would allow an independent generation facility, as defined, to apply for interconnection to the utility electric distribution grid under the fast track review process, as defined under Rule 21. Under existing law, a violation of an order, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because a failure of an electric utility to process an interconnection request from an independent generation facility pursuant to Rule 21 would be a crime, this bill 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 measure would urge the President and United States Senate to negotiate and ratify, respectively, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement with the European Union.
Existing law generally provides for the programming and allocation of state and federal transportation capital improvement funds pursuant to the state transportation improvement program process administered by the California Transportation Commission. Existing law additionally requires the Department of Transportation to prepare a state highway operation and protection program for the expenditure of funds for major capital improvements that are necessary to preserve and protect the state highway system but that do not add a new traffic lane to the system. The state highway operation and protection program is based on a 10-year rehabilitation plan and a 5-year maintenance plan prepared by the department. Existing law provides for the program to be submitted to the commission for approval in every even-numbered year. Existing law authorizes the commission to review the program relative to its overall adequacy, level of annual funding needed to implement the program, and impact of those expenditures on the state transportation improvement program, but does not provide for the commission to allocate funds to specific projects in the state highway operation and protection program. This bill would require the commission to allocate funding for all capital and support costs for a project in the state highway operation and protection program. For a project that experiences increases in capital or support costs above the amount originally allocated, the bill would require the department to submit a supplemental project allocation request for approval by the commission. The bill would authorize the commission to establish guidelines to provide exceptions to the requirements relating to these supplemental project allocation requests that it determines may be necessary to ensure projects are not unnecessarily delayed.