(1) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor, following the enactment of the budget bill for any fiscal year and based on a determination that General Fund expenditures will exceed General Fund revenues, to issue a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency and to cause the Legislature to assemble in special session to enact legislation to address the emergency. If the Legislature fails to pass and send to the Governor a bill or bills to address the fiscal emergency by the 45th day following the issuance of the proclamation, the Constitution prohibits the Legislature from acting on any other bill or adjourning for a joint recess until a bill or bills to address the emergency have been passed and sent to the Governor. This measure would require that a bill addressing a fiscal emergency in this context be passed in each house of the Legislature by a 23 vote. 2 3 vote."?> (2) The California Constitution provides that the Budget Bill and other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill, as defined, take effect immediately upon being signed by the Governor after passage by a majority vote of each house of the Legislature. This measure would delete all references to other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill and instead provide that bills that amend the Budget Bill and bills that implement the Budget Bill, as defined, take effect immediately upon being signed by the Governor after passage by a majority vote of each house of the Legislature. The measure would define "budget bill" as a single bill that, as passed for each fiscal year, makes a comprehensive set of appropriations for the support of state government for that fiscal year. The measure would also prohibit the Legislature from passing a Budget Bill, a bill that amends the Budget Bill, or a bill that implements the Budget Bill, if the bill was not published on the Internet for at least 72 hours prior to passage. This measure would require the Legislature, from July 1 to July 31, inclusive, of each even-numbered year, to conduct oversight and review of state programs. The measure would prohibit the Legislature from acting on any bill during this period of time, except a bill that addresses a state of emergency, as defined, declared by the Governor, and that is passed by a 23 vote of both houses.
Sponsored bills
Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid Program provisions. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments to be reduced by 1% or 5%, and provider payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 1%, for dates of service on and after March 1, 2009, and until June 1, 2011. Existing law requires, except as otherwise provided, Medi-Cal provider payments and payments for specified non-Medi-Cal programs to be reduced by 10% for dates of service on and after June 1, 2011. This bill would, instead, prohibit the application of those reductions for payments to providers for dates of service on or after June 1, 2011. The bill would also require payments for managed care health plans for dates of service following the effective date of the bill to be determined without application of some of those reductions. The bill would require the Director of Health Care Services to implement this provision to the maximum extent permitted by federal law and for the maximum time period for which the director obtains federal approval for federal financial participation for those payments. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Education, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer child care and development programs that offer a full range of services for eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age. Existing law requires the Superintendent to administer all California state preschool programs, including, but not limited to, part-day and full-day age and developmentally appropriate programs for 3- and 4-year-old children. This bill would, until January 1, 2020, authorize the department, as part of a pilot program, to accept monetary contributions made to the California Preschool Investment Fund, which this bill would create, by a person for purposes of preschool education, as provided. The bill would require the money in the fund to be used, among other things, to fund state preschools part of the California state preschool program located in one of the 5 participating counties, as provided. The bill would require participating counties to report to the department's Early Education & Support Division regarding the county's assessment of how the pilot program is performing. The bill would require any moneys remaining in the fund after January 1, 2020, to be transferred to any other state fund identified by the department that provides funding for increased access to preschool programs for low-income children. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2019, would allow a credit equal to 40% of the amount contributed by the taxpayer during the taxable year to the California Preschool Investment Fund, as provided. The bill would limit the aggregate amount of credit allowed under both laws to not exceed $250,000,000 and would require the State Department of Education to establish a procedure for a person to obtain from the department a receipt indicating specified information, including the amount of monetary contributions made, for purposes of the tax credits allowed under these provisions.
This measure would urge the President and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to comply with all requests related to congressional inquiries related to IRS misconduct in a full and transparent manner, and ensure that all government employees are made available for questions relating to the application of tax exempt status for religious organizations. This measure would also urge the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate the actions of the IRS.
(1) Existing law creates the High-Speed Rail Authority with specified powers and duties relating to the development and implementation of an intercity high-speed train system, including the power to acquire rights-of-way through purchase or eminent domain. Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, authorizes $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail development and other purposes, creates the High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Fund, and requires that moneys in the fund be made available to the authority for expenditures, among other things, related to the acquisition of interests in real property and rights-of-way and the development and construction of the high-speed rail system. This bill would require the authority, with regard to real property acquired by it and from moneys available for expenditure by it from the fund, to annually pay to the county in which the real property is located an amount equal to the property tax equivalent, as defined. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the Attorney General to provide a ballot label and a ballot title for each measure to be submitted to the voters at a statewide election. Existing law requires the Attorney General to prepare a summary of the chief purposes and points of each statewide ballot measure as part of the ballot title. Existing law also requires the Attorney General to prepare a circulating title and summary of an initiative or referendum measure prior to the circulation of an initiative or referendum petition for signatures. This bill would require the Secretary of State, instead of the Attorney General, to prepare the ballot label and the ballot title and summary for all measures submitted to the voters of the state and the circulating title and summary for initiative and referendum measures. The existing law provides that all judicial, school, county, and city offices, and the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, are nonpartisan. Existing law defines a "voter-nominated office" as a congressional or state elective office for which a candidate may choose to have his or her party preference or lack of party preference indicated upon the ballot, and provides a list of voter-nominated offices. This bill would provide that the office of the Secretary of State is also a nonpartisan office and would remove it from the list of voter-nominated offices. The bill would make its operation contingent upon the approval by the voters of ACA ____ of the 2013–14 Regular Session.
Existing law, the California High-Speed Rail Act, creates the High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail system in the state. Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of $9 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail purposes and $950 million for other related rail purposes. Article XVI of the California Constitution requires measures authorizing general obligation bonds to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and a majority of the voters. This bill would provide that no further bonds shall be sold for high-speed rail purposes pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, expect as specifically provided with respect to an existing appropriation for high-speed rail purposes for early improvement projects in the Phase I blended system. The bill, subject to the above exception, would require redirection of the unspent proceeds received from outstanding bonds issued and sold for other high-speed rail purposes prior to the effective date of these provisions, upon appropriation, for use in retiring the debt incurred from the issuance and sale of those outstanding bonds. The bill, subject to the above exception, would also require the net proceeds of other bonds subsequently issued and sold under the high-speed rail portion of the bond act to be made available, upon appropriation, to fund projects in the State Transportation Improvement Program, the State Highway Operation and Protection Program, and the state's freight plan. The bill would make no changes to the authorization under the bond act for issuance of $950 million for rail purposes other than high-speed rail. These provisions would become effective only upon approval by the voters at the next statewide general election. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing provisions of the California Constitution provide for the Legislature and electors to propose amendments or revisions to the Constitution. Any proposed constitutional amendment or revision submitted to the voters becomes effective if it is approved by a majority of votes cast. This measure would increase the vote requirement from a majority to 55% of the votes cast for the electors to amend or revise the Constitution, except that this measure would permit the electors by a majority vote to approve an amendment or revision if the sole effect is to reverse one or more changes made to the Constitution by a previous amendment or revision that, prior to the adoption of this measure, was adopted by a majority vote.
(1) Article XVI of the California Constitution requires a general obligation bond act to specify the single object or work to be funded by the bonds, and further requires a bond act to be approved by a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and by a majority of the voters. Article XVI authorizes the Legislature, at any time after the approval of a general obligation bond act by the voters, to reduce the amount of the indebtedness authorized by the act to an amount not less than the amount contracted at the time of the reduction. Existing law, the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the November 4, 2008, statewide general election, provides for the issuance of $9.95 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail and related rail purposes. This bill, subject to voter approval, would amend the bond act to provide that no further bonds shall be sold for high-speed rail and related rail purposes, and would also explicitly authorize the net proceeds received from outstanding bonds issued and sold prior to the effective date of these provisions, upon appropriation, to be redirected from those high-speed rail purposes to retiring the debt incurred from the issuance and sale of those outstanding bonds. The bill would direct the Secretary of State to submit these provisions to the voters on the ballot of the November 4, 2014, statewide general election. The bill would also provide that, until November 5, 2014, bond funds made available pursuant to the bond act shall not be expended for high-speed rail purposes, and no additional bonds shall be issued or sold pursuant to the bond act. (2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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 includes an exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2022, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person, including persons engaged in aircraft manufacturing, for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property, or research and development, and qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes, as provided. Existing law specifies that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes, transactions and use taxes, and specified state taxes from which revenues are deposited into the Local Public Safety Fund, the Education Protection Account, the Local Revenue Fund, the Fiscal Recovery Fund, or the Local Revenue Fund 2011. This bill, on and after January 1, 2015, would instead provide that the exemption also applies to local sales and use taxes and those specified state taxes with respect to qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person that is engaged in aircraft manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles. 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. Amendments to 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 any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2025, a credit in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the qualified wages, as defined, paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer that manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles with respect to qualified employees, as defined, during the taxable year, not to exceed $20,000 per year, per qualified employee. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.