Sen. Bob Archuleta

Existing law authorizes an affordable housing entity to join with one or more affordable housing entities in an arrangement providing for the pooling of self-insured claims or losses. Existing law requires a pool to annually furnish a copy of the pool's audited financial statement and most recent actuarial review to specified legislative committees, including the Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing and the Senate Committee on Banking, Finance, and Insurance. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision, including updating the names of the committees to the Senate Committee on Housing and the Senate Committee on Insurance.

Existing law, the Milk and Milk Products Act of 1947, regulates milk and milk products and establishes standards for, among other things, the transportation of milk and milk products. Existing law establishes requirements for the safe operation of vehicles on the highways, including, among other things, maximum length and total gross weight limits. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to dairy vehicles.

Existing law provides for the establishment of the California Cancer Clinical Trials Program and requests that the University of California establish or designate an institute or office within the university to administer the program, which is governed by a board of at least 5 members appointed by the president of the university. Existing law also authorizes the program administrator to solicit funds from various specified sources for purposes of the program, and requires the program administrator, upon receipt of at least $500,000 in funding, to establish the Cancer Clinical Trials Grant Program to increase patient access to eligible cancer clinical trials in underserved or disadvantaged communities and populations, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

The Water Replenishment District Act provides for the formation of water replenishment districts with prescribed powers for the purposes of replenishing the groundwater supplies within the district. The act requires a district to advertise for bids before making any contract totaling $25,000 or more within any 12-month period and, when work is to be done, to give notice calling for bids by publication, as prescribed. This bill would revise and recast the provisions establishing the competitive bidding and related public notice procedures for water replenishment districts, including, among other revisions, deleting the requirement that a district advertise for bids before making any contract totaling $25,000 or more within any 12-month period, and instead requiring a district to advertise for bids before making any contract totaling $40,000 or more.

Existing property tax law requires the county auditor, in each fiscal year, to allocate property tax revenue to local jurisdictions in accordance with specified formulas and procedures, and generally requires that each jurisdiction be allocated an amount equal to the total of the amount of revenue allocated to that jurisdiction in the prior fiscal year, subject to certain modifications, and that jurisdiction's portion of the annual tax increment, as defined. Existing property tax law also reduces the amounts of ad valorem property tax revenue that would otherwise be annually allocated to the county, cities, and special districts pursuant to these general allocation requirements by requiring, for purposes of determining property tax revenue allocations in each county for the 1992–93 and 1993–94 fiscal years, that the amounts of property tax revenue deemed allocated in the prior fiscal year to the county, cities, and special districts be reduced in accordance with certain formulas. Existing property tax law requires that the revenues not allocated to the county, cities, and special districts as a result of these reductions be transferred to the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund in that county for allocation to school districts, community college districts, and the county office of education. This bill would establish a pilot program, pursuant to which, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the auditor-controller of the County of Los Angeles would increase the total amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to specified cities within the county by the residential infill development amount, as defined, and to commensurately decrease the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue that is otherwise required to be allocated to the county Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund and, if necessary, the amount of those revenue otherwise required to be allocated to school districts. The bill would require that the residential infill development amount be equal to the total amount of ad valorem property revenue attributable to the application of the property tax rate limited by the California Constitution to each qualified residential infill development project, as defined, within the city, subject to certain limitations. By imposing new duties on the auditor-controller of the County of Los Angeles with respect to the allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles. 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 the statutory provisions noted above.

This measure would declare August 7, 2020, as Purple Heart Day in California.

Existing law establishes the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training in the Department of Justice and requires the commission to adopt rules establishing minimum standards regarding the recruitment of peace officers. Existing law requires the commission to develop guidelines and implement courses of instruction regarding racial profiling, domestic violence, hate crimes, vehicle pursuits, and human trafficking, among others. Existing law requires the commission to implement a course or courses of instruction for the regular and periodic training of law enforcement officers in the use of force. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

The California Constitution and existing property tax law authorize a person who is either severely disabled or over 55 years of age to transfer the base year value, as defined, of property that is eligible for the homeowners' property tax exemption to a replacement dwelling that is of equal or lesser value located within the same county as the property from which the base year value is transferred, and if a county ordinance so providing has been adopted, to a replacement dwelling that is located in a different county. This bill, on or after January 1, 2023, would expand this authorization to transfer the base year value of an original property to a person who is the parent or legal guardian of a severely and permanently disabled child and resides with the child. By changing the manner in which local assessors assess property for property taxation purposes, 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, 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 the statutory provisions noted above. Existing law requires the state to reimburse local agencies annually for certain property tax revenues lost as a result of any exemption or classification of property for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding those provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse local agencies for property tax revenues lost by them pursuant to the bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy but would become operative only if Senate Constitutional Amendment __ of the 2019–20 Regular Session is approved by the voters.

This measure would proclaim January 26, 2020, as India Republic Day, and would urge all Californians to join in celebrating India Republic Day.