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California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce
Summary: Would require the department , on or before July 1, 2010, to provide in-person unemployment benefit assistance in at least one comprehensive state one-stop career center in each workforce area , as prescribed. The bill would require that the unemployment benefit assistance services required to be provided at these one-stop career centers be funded with existing moneys available to the department for the administration of the unemployment compensation program. This bill contains other existing laws.
Summary: Would enact the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Act of 2010 and would create the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education , and Dropout Prevention Fund (fund) in the State Treasury. The bill would provide that the moneys in the fund would be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, in the form of competitive grants that would be administered by the State Allocation Board and awarded to qualifying entities for the purposes of the construction of new facilities or the reconfiguration of existing facilities to enhance the educational opportunities for program participants, as defined, to provide them with the skills and knowledge necessary for careers directly related to clean technology, renewable energy, or energy efficiency that may also contribute to California's goal in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The bill would create the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Technical Education, and Dropout Prevention Council comprised of 9 members. The council would be required to issue guidelines to implement the purposes of this act. The bill would authorize the council to issue and renew negotiable bonds, notes, debentures, or other sources of security of up to an unspecified amount that would be secured by moneys appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act from the Public Interest Research, Development, and Demonstration Fund. Proceeds from the sale of the bonds, notes, debentures, or other sources of security would be deposited into the fund. This bill contains other existing laws.
Summary: Would enact the CEQA Litigation Protection Pilot Program of 2010 and would require the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency to select projects that meet specified requirements from specified regions for each calendar year between 2010 and 2014. The bill would exempt from judicial review, pursuant to CEQA, a lead agency's decision to certify the EIR of, or to adopt a mitigated negative declaration based on an initial study for, the selected projects, a lead agency's and responsible agency's approval of the selected project, and the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency' s selection of the projects. The bill would require the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, by December 31 of each year, to submit an annual report to the Governor and to the Legislature summarizing the designation of projects, and the job creation and investment attributable to the designated projects. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would limit the aggregate amount of credits that may be allocated in any fiscal year, beginning in the 2010-11 fiscal year, to $250,000,000 per year. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would modify the definition of a targeted employment area.
Summary: Would additionally require that the above environmental analysis be performed for a rule or regulation that requires the installation of pollution control equipment or a performance standard or treatment requirement adopted pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 , including those for rules and regulations adopted by the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission . The bill would authorize the use of the focused environmental impact report for a project that reduces greenhouse gas emissions in compliance with a rule or regulation adopted pursuant to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. This bill contains other existing laws.
Summary: Would require the executive officer of the state board to conduct 3 reviews on the implementation of the low- carbon fuel standard regulations adopted by the state board to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from transportation fuels . The bill would also require the executive officer of the state board to establish a low-carbon fuel standard advisory panel for purposes of participating in the reviews, as specified.
Summary: The bill would authorize the face amount of a check for a deferred deposit transaction to be up to $500. The bill would prohibit a deferred deposit transaction customer from being threatened with criminal penalties for a failure to comply with the terms of an agreement and would prohibit a licensee from referring or delivering a check taken in a deferred deposit transaction to a prosecutor, district attorney's diversion program, or other law enforcement official for purposes of collection or criminal prosecution unless that information is requested as part of an investigation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would prohibit a state or local agency from imposing or implementing an action or decision pursuant to these provisions as a pretext for discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, or other unlawful discrimination in employment, including any requirement that an employee be bilingual, as specified. The bill would also require that all information and reports required by the provisions of existing law described above shall be public information unless otherwise restricted by law .
Summary: Would create the Joint Sunset Review Committee to identify and eliminate waste, duplication, and inefficiency in government agencies and to conduct a comprehensive analysis of every "eligible agency," as defined, to determine if the agency is still necessary and cost effective. The bill would define an "eligible agency" as an entity of state government, however denominated, for which a date for repeal has been established by statute on or after January 1, 2011. The bill would require each eligible agency scheduled for repeal to submit a report to the committee containing specified information. The bill would require the committee to take public testimony and evaluate the eligible agency prior to the date the agency is scheduled to be repealed, and would require that an eligible agency be eliminated unless the Legislature enacts a law to extend, consolidate, or reorganize the agency. The bill would specify the composition of the committee, which would be appointed by the President pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly, and certain aspects of its operating procedure.
Summary: Would establish the Office of the California Inspector General to investigate fraud, corruption, waste, mismanagement, misconduct, and abuse in the expenditure of public funds by a covered agency, as defined. This bill would further establish that the office is headed by the California Inspector General, who is appointed to a 4-year term by the Governor with the consent of the Senate. This bill would authorize the Legislature to remove the California Inspector General by a majority vote of the membership of the Senate and a majority of the membership of the Assembly. This bill would authorize the office to issue subpoenas, administer oaths, and conduct other forms of investigation into a covered agency, including requiring an officer or employee of a covered agency to answer questions concerning any matter related to the performance of his or her official duties. This bill would also impose a duty on every officer and employee of a covered agency to report to the California Inspector General specified information concerning the improper conduct of any other state officer or employee relating to his or her office or employment, or concerning a person having business dealings with a covered agency, and require disciplinary action for a failure to make a required report. This bill would further require the head of a covered agency to report to the Legislature and the Governor on remedial action that a covered agency has taken in response to any recommendation by the California Inspector General.
Summary: Would require a test sponsor to accept a Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridad issued within the last 5 years as a valid form of identification for purposes of admitting a test subject to take a standardized test administered by the sponsor and would prohibit a test sponsor from requiring any additional form of identification if the test subject presents a valid Matricula Consular de Alta Seguridad . A violation of this requirement would subject a test sponsor to the above civil penalty. This bill contains other existing laws.
Summary: Would declare the last week of March every year as a statewide week of advocacy for Latino education.
Summary: Would specify principles for repairing the nation's broken immigration system and would urge Congress and the President of the United States to take a comprehensive and workable approach to improving the nation's immigration system using those principles.
Summary: Would require the department, in the issuance of driver' s licenses and identification cards, to issue licenses and cards that are in compliance with specified requirements of the federal Real ID Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-13). This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would establish the California Healthcare System to be administered by the newly created California Healthcare Agency under the control of a Healthcare Commissioner appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate. The bill would make all California residents eligible for specified health care benefits under the California Healthcare System, which would, on a single-payer basis, negotiate for or set fees for health care services provided through the system and pay claims for those services. The bill would provide that a resident of the state with a household income, as specified, at or below 200% of the federal poverty level would be eligible for the type of benefits provided under the Medi-Cal program. The bill would require the commissioner to seek all necessary waivers, exemptions, agreements, or legislation to allow various existing federal, state, and local health care payments to be paid to the California Healthcare System, which would then assume responsibility for all benefits and services previously paid for with those funds. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would require that a gift certificate with a cash value of less than $20 be redeemable in cash for its cash value, and would require that a gift certificate contain a statement to that effect. This bill would also delete the exceptions to the prohibition on the sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee.
Summary: Would establish the California Health Benefits Exchange (the Exchange) within the California Health and Human Services Agency and would require the Exchange to, among other things, implement specified functions imposed by the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in a consumer-friendly manner, enter into contracts with health care service plans and health insurers seeking to offer coverage in the Exchange, and provide a choice in each region of the state between 5 levels of coverage, as specified. The bill would authorize the Exchange to take other various actions and would require the Exchange to be governed by a board composed of 8 members appointed by the Governor and the Legislature in a specified manner. The bill would create the California Health Benefits Exchange Fund in the State Treasury and would authorize the board to use moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of these provisions. The bill would also require the California Health and Human Services Agency to apply for and receive federal funds for purposes of establishing the Exchange and would make those funds available to the agency and the board for those purposes upon appropriation by the Legislature.
Summary: Would require the Bureau of State Audits to review , report, and make recommendations on each regulation, before May 1 of the 5th year after the regulation was amended or adopted , that the State Energy Resources and Development Commission, the Public Utilities Commission, the California Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority, or any other state agency that has duties relating to state energy regulations or the implementation of those regulations adopts or amends on or after January 1, 2011. The bill would require the review , report, and recommendations to include specified factors, including a summary of the written criticisms received by the agency that adopted or amended the regulation within the preceding 5 years and the estimated economic, small business, and consumer impact of the regulation, as specified. The bill would require the bureau to make the report available on its Internet Web site. The bill would authorize the adopting agency to take specified actions in response to the bureau's report, and would provide that a regulation ceases to be operative, as specified, if the agency takes no a ction. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would require licensees to file an application with, and pay a fee to, the commissioner to participate in the program. The bill would authorize a licensee approved by the commissioner to participate in the program to impose specified alternative interest rates and charges, including an administrative fee and delinquency fees, on loans of less than $2,500, subject to certain requirements . The bill would require the commissioner to examine the performance of each licensee in the program at least once every 24 months, and would require the costs of examination to be paid by the licensee to the commissioner, as specified . The bill would require the commissioner to report to specified legislative committees , by January 1, 2014, summarizing utilization of the Pilot Program for Affordable Credit-Building Opportunities, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would require an independent contractor to file an annual report with the department detailing any labor law violations for which that employer was cited during the previous year.
Summary: Existing law requires the State Department of Education to administer the School-to-Career Program, and to serve certain roles with respect to administering the program, including developing or participating in the development of specified accountability measurements, awarding grants to eligible qualified applicants, providing technical and professional assistance to all local partnerships, consulting and offering advice to partnerships, and providing an informational link where local partnerships can collaborate and exchange successful and innovative methods and ideas. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Summary: Would require the State Auditor, using information submitted by an agency proposing a regulation, to conduct a cost benefit analysis of the regulation that includes certain determinations, as specified. This bill would require the agency to include this cost benefit analysis in its notice of proposed action for the proposed regulation. To the extent that this bill imposes additional duties on the State Auditor that are funded through a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would require the board, until January 1, 2013, as a priority area of focus and deliberation, to review the state's licensing and permitting regulations as they impact small businesses, with special attention to the regulatory impact on small business startups, and would require each state agency to cooperate with the board in that review. The bill would require the board to report a summary of its findings and recommendations to the Governor, the Small Business Advocate, and the Legislature on July 1, 2011, July 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012, as specified.
Summary: Would establish an Economic Analysis Unit within the office. The bill would require agencies to make publicly available and submit to the unit specified cost estimates that pertain to a proposed regulation and specified information used to develop the cost estimates, as prescribed. The bill would require the unit to review final revised cost estimates for regulations that the agency determines to have a cost estimate of $50,000,000 or more. The bill also authorizes a stakeholder to petition the director of the office to direct the unit to review a regulation that the stakeholder believes has an actual cost of $50,000,000 or more . The bill requires the unit to develop an appropriate methodology for reviewing agency cost estimates for proposed regulations and to approve or reject the cost estimates , as specified.
Summary: Would restate provisions related to the 3% participation goal for disabled veteran business enterprises, and would require a small business or a disabled veteran business enterprise to submit to the department a written declaration, under penalty of perjury, that all information submitted, including the additional information for disabled veteran business enterprises, is true and correct, and would authorize the department to require, in certain cases, the enterprise to complete and submit to the department a specified federal tax form requesting a transcript of a tax return. By expanding the definition of the existing crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would create the Office of Economic Development in the Governor's office, to be directed by a secretary appointed by the Governor. The bill would create the California Business Investment Services Program, as specified, within the Office of Economic Development, under the authority of the secretary, for the purpose of serving employers, corporate executives, business owners, and site location consultants who are considering California for business investment and expansion. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would require one member of the state board to be an owner of a small business as defined . The bill would also make various technical, nonsubstantive changes .
Summary: Would require the commission to provide for the development and administration of the program application and evaluation process, and would require that applicants to the program demonstrate that they meet specified requirements. The bill would also require each applicant to pay a nonrefundable application fee of $5,000 and an administrative fee equal to 0.5% of the total requested guarantee amount. The bill would specify that only companies with at least 200 employees are eligible to receive assistance under the program. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would require the bank to establish a local assistance program to provide technical support to the state's small and rural communities in obtaining financing for local infrastructure projects, as defined. The bill would create the Technical Assistance Account in the California Infrastructure Bank Fund, require funds to support program activities related to assisting communities in obtaining the proceeds of specified bonds to be deposited in the account, and continuously appropriate the moneys in the account to the bank for purposes of the program, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would authorize the CWIB to accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods, or services from federal and state entities, philanthropic organizations, and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative. The bill would require that all moneys and revenues received pursuant to those provisions be deposited into the Green Collar Jobs Account, which the bill would create in the State Treasury. This bill would authorize the Employment Development Department, upon an appropriation by the Legislature, to expend those moneys and revenues for purposes related to the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative, and for the award of workforce training grants implementing the strategic initiative. The bill would require the GCJC to consult with appropriate state and local agencies to identify opportunities to coordinate the award of grant and green workforce training funds received by the state under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or any other funding sources. The bill would require the CWIB, on or before April 1, 2011, and annually each April 1 thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the status of GCJC activities, grants awarded, and the development and implementation of a green workforce strategic initiative.
Summary: Would move the Office of Small Business Advocate to the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. The bill would also provide that a representative of the Office of Small Business Advocate sit on the California Small Business Development Board.
Summary: Would create the Office of Economic Development, which would be directed by a secretary appointed by the Governor. The bill would require that the office serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic strategy and marketing of California on issues relating to business development, private sector investment, and economic growth, and make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature regarding policies, programs, and actions to advance statewide economic goals. The bill would also create the Economic Development Council within the office, and the council would, in conjunction with the office, prepare the Economic Development Strategic Plan, as specified, to guide the state's activities and investments related to economic and workforce development, among other things. The bill would establish certain requirements regarding the composition of the membership of the council. The bill would create the California Business Investment Services Program, as specified, within the office, under the authority of the secretary, for the purpose of serving employers, corporate executives, business owners, and site location consultants who are considering California for business investment and expansion. The bill would also repeal provisions regarding the biennial California Economic Development Strategic Plan and the California Economic Strategy Panel, described above, and move the Office of Small Business Advocate to the Office of Economic Development
Summary: Would specify that an interested person includes, but is not limited to, a small business or an organization or trade association whose members are affected by the regulation.
Summary: Would authorize the Department of General Services to direct all state agencies, departments, boards, and commissions to establish the goal to achieve 25% small business participation in state procurements and contracts, to ensure that the state's procurement and contract processes are administered in order to meet or exceed the goal, and to report to the Director of General Services statistics regarding small business participation in his or her agency's procurements and contracts. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would redefine a small business firm as a person that, together with its affiliates, has a net worth of not more than $18,000,000 and average net income after federal income taxes, as specified, no greater than $6,000,000. The bill would also define a "smaller business firm" as a person that, together with its affiliates, has a net worth of not more than $6,000,000 and average net income after federal income taxes, as specified, no greater than $2,000,000, and would require that at least 20% of all financing assistance provided by a licensee shall be through the purchase of securities of smaller business firms proposing to do business wholly or substantially in this state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2010, allow a credit under both laws in an amount equal to 50% of the amount of costs paid or incurred in connection with additional education and training for purposes of career advancement or retention, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, and before January 1, 2016, authorize a hiring credit under those respective laws for taxpayers who hire qualified employees, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010, allow a deduction in connection with health savings accounts in conformity with federal law. In general, the deduction would be an amount equal to the aggregate amount paid in cash during the taxable year by, or on behalf of, an eligible individual, as defined, to a health savings account of that individual, as provided. This bill would, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010, also provide related conformity to that federal law with respect to treatment of the account as a tax-exempt trust and the allowance of rollovers from Archer Medical Savings Accounts, health flexible spending arrangements, or health reimbursement accounts to a health savings account. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would impose a tax on every distributor, as defined, at the rate of one cent ($0.01) per teaspoon of added caloric sweetener in the bottled sweetened beverage or concentrate sold or offered for sale to a retailer in this state, and on a retailer who sells bottled sweetened beverages or concentrate in this state to consumers on which the tax has not been paid by a distributor . This bill would exempt from the tax the sale, use, or consumption in this state of bottled sweetened beverages or c oncentrate that the state is prohibited from taxing, as provided. The tax would be administered by the State Board of Equalization and would be collected pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would for the first 10 taxable years of a corporation , limited partnership, limited liability partnership, and limited liability company that is a small business, as defined, and that first commences business operations on or after January 1, 2011, a nd before January 1, 2016, reduce that minimum tax, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would exempt from those taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, equipment purchased by a manufacturer for use in its manufacturing business in this state. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would instead specify that when 100% of the ownership interests in a legal entity, as defined, are sold or transferred in a single transaction, as specified, the real property owned by that legal entity has changed ownership, whether or not any one legal entity or person that is a party to the transaction acquires more than 50% of the ownership interests. The bill would require the State Board of Equalization to notify assessors when a change in ownership as so described occurs. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would exempt from those taxes, on or after January 1, 2011, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for use in the manufacturing process of clean energy technology, as specified, and tangible personal property purchased by a contractor for specified purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, allow a credit against those taxes in an amount equal to 15% of the wages paid or incurred during the taxable year to a qualified taxpayer commencing to do business on or after 2010, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, expand the definition of "qualified employer" to mean a taxpayer that employed 50 or fewer employees as of the last day of the preceding taxable year . This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: in accordance with legislative findings contained in this bill and for calendar years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, would, for a business entity, as desc ribed , that provides career technical education, authorize a credit against those taxes, subject to specified limitations, in an amount equal to that allocated by the State Department of Education. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
Summary: Would under both laws, for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2010, provide that the credit for increasing research expenses shall be equal to 20% of the qualified research expenses with respect to green technology and renewable energy research and development costs, as provided. This bill would provide that new and additional credits allowable for specified taxable years would be allowed only against the taxes imposed for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, as prescribed. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2010, allow a credit against the taxes imposed by those laws in an amount equal to 6% of the amount paid or incurred by the qualified taxpayer, that is engaged in specified green technology and renewable energy resource lines of business, during the taxable year for qualified property, as defined, that is placed in service in this state. This bill would provide that credits allowable for specified taxable years would be allowed only against the taxes imposed for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, as prescribed. This bill contains other related provisions.
Summary: Would impose a tax on every distributor, as defined, at the rate of $0.01 per teaspoon of added caloric sweetener in bottled sweetened beverages or concentrate sold or offered for sale to a retailer in this state, or on a retailer who sells bottled sweetened beverages or concentrate in this state to consumers on which the tax has not been paid by a distributor . This bill would exempt from the tax the sale, use, or consumption in this state of bottled sweetened beverages or concentrate that the state is prohibited from taxing, as provided. The tax would be administered by the State Board of Equalization and would be collected pursuant to the procedures set forth in the Fee Collection Procedures Law. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
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