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 requires a business to obtain various licenses from regulatory agencies. Existing law requires state agencies to take specified actions, including, but not limited to, designating a small business liaison, to assist small businesses to achieve compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements. This bill would require the Director of the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to ensure that the office's Internet Web site contains information to assist an individual with the licensing, permitting, and registration requirements necessary to start a business. The bill would require a state agency that the Governor determines has licensing authority to provide accurate updated information about its licensing requirements, and would prohibit a state agency from using this Internet Web site as the exclusive source of licensing information for the public. The bill would also authorize the Governor to impose a reasonable fee, not to exceed the actual cost to provide the service, upon users of the Internet Web site.
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 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 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 hunting license grants the privilege to take birds and mammals. Existing law requires the Department of Fish and Game to issue a hunting license, upon payment of a fee, to eligible California residents and nonresidents, as specified. Existing law requires the department to issue a reduced fee hunting license, as specified, to a disabled veteran, as defined. This bill would also require the department to issue a reduced fee hunting license to military personnel who are recovering service members, as defined, and who provide documentation of eligibility, as prescribed.
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.
This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial on November 23, 2013, and encourage all Californians to take part in ceremonies, organized by the California State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America along with assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs and other veterans service organizations. This measure would call upon the state archives to display memorabilia in a special display on the Vietnam War, as provided, the California State Military Museum to prepare and display exhibits on the Vietnam War, as provided, and the Department of Veterans Affairs to add names to the memorial, as provided.
(1) Existing law provides that a person who provides feed or materials to aid the raising or maintaining of dairy cattle has a lien upon the proceeds of the milk or milk products produced from the dairy cattle, for the reasonable or agreed charges for the feed or materials provided and for the costs of enforcing the lien, not to exceed an amount equal to charges for feed or material provided within a 45-day period. This bill would, in addition, provide that a person who provides feed or materials to aid the offspring of the dairy cattle has a lien on the proceeds of milk or milk products produced from the dairy cattle, and would increase the limit of a lien to an amount equal to charges for feed or material provided within a 60-day period. The bill would establish a limit of one lien per dairy producer per affiliated business entity. (2) Existing law provides that the lien shall be perfected and shall be effective upon the filing of a notice of claim of lien with the Secretary of State, as specified. Existing law requires the notice of claim of lien, among other things, to state the name and address of the lien debtor. The notice of claim of lien is required to be signed by the lien claimant or by a person authorized to sign documents of a similar kind on behalf of the claimant. This bill would instead require the lien to be perfected by filing a notice of claim of lien with the Secretary of State and service of the notice of claim of lien, as specified. The bill would require the notice of claim of lien to state the last known name and address of the lien debtor. The bill would also delete the language providing that the notice of claim of lien shall be signed by the lien claimant or by a person authorized to sign documents of a similar kind on behalf of the claimant. (3) Existing law requires the lien claimant to provide written notice of the claim of the lien to the lien debtor within 10 days of the date of filing with the Secretary of State. This bill would require the notice to be provided to the lien debtor, to any person from which the lien claimant has received, before the lien claimant files the notice, notification of a claim of interest in the proceeds, and to any other secured party or lienholder that held a security interest in or other lien on the proceeds, as specified, 10 days before the filing of the notice. The bill would require notice to be served, as specified, depending on whether the lien debtor is an entity, individual, or general partnership. The bill would also require a lien claimant to send to a lien debtor a termination statement for the notice of claim of lien or to file the termination statement in the office of the Secretary of State within 20 days after receiving a demand from a lien debtor if the lien has terminated, as specified. (4) Existing law requires these liens to have a certain priority, as specified. This bill would delete the requirement that the lien have priority in accordance with the time the notice of claim of lien is filed. The bill would instead make applicable to dairy cattle supply liens specified statutes governing secured transactions generally, including a provision requiring that conflicting perfected security interests and agricultural liens rank according to priority in time of filing or perfection, as specified. (5) Existing law requires a lien claimant to provide written notice to secured creditors, as defined, at least 30 days prior to enforcing a claim of lien. This bill would delete those provisions. (6) Existing law requires the lien claimant to foreclose on a lien only in an action to recover the reasonable or agreed charges for feed and materials delivered and enforce a final judgment as provided. This bill would instead authorize the lien claimant to foreclose on a lien, after payment default by the lien debtor, in an action to recover the reasonable or agreed charges for feed and materials delivered and authorize the lien claimant to enforce a final judgment, as provided, and apply for a right to attach order and a writ of attachment, or temporary protective order, through the court in which the action is brought. The bill would authorize a lien claimant to take certain actions after payment default by the lien debtor, including notifying any person obligated on any proceeds subject to the lien to make payment to the lien claimant. The bill would define a "person obligated on any proceeds" for purposes of provisions governing dairy cattle supply liens. The bill would authorize a lien debtor to secure a release of a lien by paying the amount secured by the lien or by depositing with the Secretary of Food and Agriculture a bond, as specified. The bill would require a lien claimant that receives proceeds pursuant to a notice that is provided to a person who is obligated on the proceeds to account to, and pay the lien debtor for, any surplus, and would require the lien debtor to be liable for any deficiency. (7) The bill would provide that the provisions described above shall apply prospectively to all contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2013.
This measure would acknowledge the 75th anniversary of the federal Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program and recognize, among others, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service for its leading role in restoring healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and other natural resources throughout the nation.
