Under the Corporation Tax Law, specific tax-exempt organizations are exempted from the requirement to file annual information returns, including those organizations the gross receipts of which in each taxable year are normally not more than $25,000. This bill would increase the gross receipts threshold for the application of the exemption from the annual filing requirement to $50,000.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities, including general acute care hospitals, administered by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law authorizes the department to approve, as prescribed, a general acute care hospital to offer specified special services, including, but not limited to, cardiac catheterization laboratory services, in addition to the basic services offered under the facility's license. This bill would authorize the expansion of a cardiac catheterization laboratory service if specified requirements are met, to apply to no more than two general acute care hospitals. Because this bill would expand the definition of 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 declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law provides that, in addition to any other remedy authorized by law, when a spouse is convicted of attempting to murder the other spouse or of soliciting the murder of the other spouse, the injured spouse shall be entitled to 100% of the community property interest in his or her retirement and pension benefits, and a prohibition of specified support or insurance benefits from the injured spouse to the convicted spouse. Existing law defines "injured spouse" for these purposes. Under existing law, a family court is required to consider specified factors in ordering spousal support, including the criminal conviction of an abusive spouse. This bill would expand the above-described provisions to apply when a spouse is convicted of a specified violent sexual felony against the other spouse, and would require the court to consider the convicted spouse's criminal conviction for a violent sexual felony in ordering spousal support, as specified. The bill would also require the court to order the attorney's fees and costs to be paid from the community assets if warranted by economic circumstances. Under the bill, the injured spouse, as defined, would not be required to pay any of the convicted spouse's attorney's fees out of his or her separate property. The bill would further, at the request of the injured spouse, define the date of the parties' legal separation as the date of the incident giving rise to the conviction, or earlier if the court finds that the circumstances justify an earlier date, for community property purposes.
Existing law prescribes various duties for the Department of General Services in connection with development and maintenance of the park around the State Capitol Building. This bill would authorize the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to plan a statue of Ronald Reagan in the State Capitol Building Annex. The bill would require the Department of General Services and the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation to approve the design and any other aspect of the statue. The bill would require that the planning, construction, and maintenance of the statue be funded with private donations through the Ronald Reagan Centennial Capitol Foundation. The bill would prohibit construction of the statue until the Joint Committee on Rules has approved and adopted the plan for the statue, and the Joint Committee on Rules and the Department of Finance have determined that sufficient private funding is available to construct and maintain the statue.
The Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act generally requires the administrator for oil spill response, acting at the direction of the Governor, to implement activities relating to oil spill response. The act requires a nontank vessel to submit to the administrator specified documents and evidence of financial responsibility. This bill would specifically require, until January 1, 2014, the owner or operator of a nontank vessel within a specific range of gross tonnage that is not used for commercial purposes to submit, as specified, evidence of financial responsibility, payment of the applicable fee, graywater information, sewage information, and vessel particulars at least 96 hours prior to the vessel's arrival in the marine waters of the state, and to submit other required documents within 14 days after the arrival of the vessel. This bill would exempt from these requirements a vessel with insufficient graywater and sewage holding capacity to store graywater and sewage while the vessel is in marine waters of the state and any vessel for which a contingency plan has previously been denied or revoked. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of, an environmental impact report (EIR) on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment. CEQA exempts from its requirements specified projects or activities. This bill would, until January 1, 2016, exempt a project or an activity to repair, maintain, or make minor alterations to an existing roadway, as defined, if the project or activity is carried by a city or county to improve public safety meeting specified requirements. CEQA authorizes a local agency, whenever it determines that a project is not subject to CEQA pursuant to designated provisions and the local agency approves or determines to carry out the project, to file a specified notice of that approval or determination with the county clerk of each county in which the project will be located. This bill would require a local agency that makes such a determination and approves and determines to carry out that project, to file a specified notice with the Office of Planning and Research, and with the county clerk in the county in which the project will be located.
Existing law authorizes a court with jurisdiction over a criminal matter, upon a good cause belief that harm to, or intimidation or dissuasion of, a victim or witness has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur, to issue specified orders, including an order protecting victims of violent crime from all contact by the defendant, or contact, with the intent to annoy, harass, threaten, or commit acts of violence, by the defendant. Existing law also authorizes the issuance of a restraining order, valid for up to 10 years, in all cases in which a defendant has been convicted of a crime of domestic violence. This bill would authorize a court, when issuing a protective or restraining order pursuant to the above provisions, to require electronic monitoring of the defendant if the local government, as defined, adopts a policy, with the concurrence of the county sheriff or the chief probation officer with jurisdiction, to authorize electronic monitoring of defendants and to specify the agency with jurisdiction for this purpose. The bill would require the defendant to pay for the monitoring if the court finds that the defendant is able to pay the costs of that monitoring and, if the court finds the defendant is unable to pay the costs, would authorize the court to order the costs to be paid by the local government that adopted the policy to authorize electronic monitoring. The bill would limit the duration of the electronic monitoring to one year.
Existing law requires specified information to be provided to patients regarding their health care. Existing federal law requires a written report of the results of each mammography examination and requires a summary of that report to be sent to the patient within a specified time period. This bill, from April 1, 2013, until January 1, 2019, would require, under specified circumstances, a health facility at which a mammography examination is performed to include in the summary of the written report that is sent to the patient a prescribed notice on breast density.
Under existing law, a sport fishing license grants the privilege to take fish, reptiles, and amphibia. Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Game to issue a sport fishing license, upon payment of a fee, to eligible California residents and nonresidents, as specified. Existing law requires the department to issue a reduced fee sport fishing license, as specified, to a disabled veteran, as defined, that is valid for the calendar year of issue, or, if issued after the beginning of the year, for the remainder of the year. This bill would also require the department to issue a reduced fee sport fishing license to active military personnel who are recovering service members, as defined, and who demonstrate eligibility, as prescribed. Existing law establishes the lengths of time a sport fishing license is valid, including for a period of one calendar year, for anyone over 16 years of age, as provided. This bill would provide that a reduced fee sport fishing license is valid for one year as specified by existing law.
Existing law prohibits any person, except as specified, from driving any motor vehicle with any object or material placed, displayed, installed, affixed, or applied in or upon the vehicle that obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view through the windshield or side windows. Existing law exempts from this prohibition specified devices, including, among other things, a video event recorder, as defined, if the device conforms to certain mounting requirements, including that when a person is driving for hire as an employee in a vehicle with a video event recorder, the person's employer is required to provide unedited copies of the recordings upon the request of the employee or the employee's representative. Existing law requires the copies to be provided within 5 days of the request. A violation of the Vehicle Code is a crime. Existing federal regulations adopted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration prohibit, among other things, the mounting of devices on top of the windshield. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is authorized, pursuant to federal law, to provide exemptions from these regulations and to renew that exemption for a temporary 2-year period. This bill would exempt from the prohibition against placing an object that obstructs or reduces the driver's clear view, as specified above, a video event recorder, as described, mounted in a commercial motor vehicle that meets specified requirements. The bill would provide that this exemption would become inoperative on the date that the Department of the California Highway Patrol determines is the expiration date of the temporary exemption granted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from that federal regulation or the date of the expiration of any subsequent exemption, as specified. The bill would provide that, notwithstanding this nonoperation, on the date when the Department of the California Highway Patrol determines is the effective date of federal regulations that allow the placement of video event recorders at the top of the windshield on commercial motor vehicles, the exemption provided by the bill would remain operative, or, if the federal temporary exemption lapsed, would become operative.
