California Legislation

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  AB 1638 (Committee on Budget)  Local governments: revenue.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/11/2010
  Last Amend: 3/17/2010
  Status: 3/18/2010-Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 3/18/2010-A. BUDGET
  Summary: Would in conjunction with and only upon the approval by the voters of Senate Constitutional Amendment No. ____, authorize local governmental entities to develop and implement a Countywide Strategic Action Plan to jointly use existing and additional resources to ensure progress toward common community goals. This bill would also authorize, under specified conditions, including, but not limited to, the adoption of a Countywide Strategic Action Plan, a county governing board to place before the voters an increase of up to an additional $0.01 in the sales and use tax to be distributed pursuant to the adopted plan. This measure would prohibit the amount of a school district's revenue limit funding from taking into account any revenue received by the school district from property taxes, specified local sales and use taxes, or any taxes imposed pursuant to a Countywide Strategic Action Plan.
  AB 1813 (Lieu D)  Public officials: personal information.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/15/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/11/2010
  Last Amend: 4/15/2010
  Status: 6/22/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/22/2010-S. APPR.
  Summary: Would specify that the requirement to remove the information described above from public display on the Internet includes information provided to cellular telephone applications. The bill would also expand the definition of public safety officer for these purposes, and include within that definition retired members of specified employee classifications. By expanding the definition of a crime, this bill would create a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 2278 (Anderson R)  Income and corporation tax credits: research and development.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/11/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 5/11/2010
  Status: 5/12/2010-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/12/2010-A. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would increase the credit for increasing research expenses to 20% of the excess of the qualified research expenses. This bill would also provide complete conformity to the alternative simplified credit provided under those federal income tax laws , and eliminate the conformity to the alternative incremental credit . This bill contains other related provisions.
  ACA 6 (Calderon, Charles D)  Tax expenditures: operative period.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/20/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/16/2008
  Last Amend: 4/20/2009
  Status: 8/31/2009-From committee: Be adopted. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 27). Read second time. To third reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/31/2009-A. THIRD READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #107  ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE
  Summary: Would require that a new tax expenditure, as defined, or extension of the operation of an existing tax expenditure, as defined, that is enacted by a legislative measure be operative for a period of 7 years or for any shorter period specified in that measure.
  ACA 18 (Committee on Budget)  Local government finance reform.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/12/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 3/26/2009
  Last Amend: 5/12/2010
  Status: 5/13/2010-Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/13/2010-A. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would authorize local government agencies, in the manner provided for by statute, to adopt and implement a Countywide Strategic Action Plan, and, upon adoption of the plan in a county, would authorize the county board of supervisors to place on the ballot a measure to impose an additional countywide sales and use tax, the revenues of which would be distributed as provided pursuant to statute and the Countywide Strategic Action Plan. This measure would prohibit the state from reallocating the proceeds of a non-ad valorem tax that is imposed by a local government agency, would specify that general ad valorem property tax revenues are required to be allocated to jurisdictions in the county in which those revenues are collected, and would prohibit the direction by statute of the expenditure of those revenues for any specific purpose or purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 845 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review)  Local governments: revenue.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/18/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/11/2010
  Last Amend: 3/18/2010
  Status: 4/22/2010-Hearing postponed by committee.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 4/12/2010-S. B. & F.R.
  Summary: Would in conjunction with and only upon the approval by the voters of Senate Constitutional Amendment No. ____, authorize local governmental entities to develop and implement a Countywide Strategic Action Plan to jointly use existing and additional resources to ensure progress toward common community goals. This bill would also authorize, under specified conditions, including, but not limited to, the adoption of a Countywide Strategic Action Plan, a county board of supervisors to place before the voters an increase of up to an additional $0.01 in the sales and use tax to be distributed pursuant to the adopted plan. This measure would prohibit the amount of a school district's revenue limit funding from taking into account any revenue received by the school district from property taxes, specified local sales and use taxes, or any taxes imposed pursuant to a Countywide Strategic Action Plan.
  SB 1053 (Runner R)  Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/16/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2010
  Status: 4/29/2010-Placed on REV. & TAX. suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 4/29/2010-S. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would also partially exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1316 (Romero D)  Income taxes: property exchanges: investment credits.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/28/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/28/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-SEN. APPR. Vote - Placed on Appropriations Suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/28/2010-S. APPR.
  Summary: Would exclude from that nonrecognition any exchange of out-of-state real property that is purchased in exchange for real property located in California. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SBX6 9 (Dutton R)  Income and corporation tax credits: research and development.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/7/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/24/2010
  Last Amend: 6/7/2010
  Status: 6/7/2010-From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/7/2010-S. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would increase the credit for increasing research expenses to 20% of the excess of the qualified research expenses over the base amount. This bill would also provide complete conformity to the alternative simplified credit provided under those federal income tax laws. This bill contains other related provisions.
  SBX6 18 (Steinberg D)  Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment: corporate income tax: single sales factor.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/4/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 4/21/2010
  Last Amend: 5/4/2010
  Status: 5/10/2010-Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/4/2010-S. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would exempt from those taxes, on or after specified dates beginning March 15 , 2011, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person, as defined, for use in the manufacturing process, as specified, and tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor to perform a construction contract for a qualified person, for specified purposes. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to extend this exemption to all manufacturing activity on and after July 1, 2013. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  Business

  AB 2032 (Davis D)  Employment: entertainment work permits.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/28/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2010
  Last Amend: 5/28/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 15).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/24/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #54  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would require that a fee be submitted at the time the minor applies for the work permit. The bill would specify that the fee be deposited into the Entertainment Work Permit Fund, which would be created by the bill, and would make this fee revenue available to the Labor Commissioner, upon appropriation, for the costs of issuing the permit, enforcing the provisions regulating a minor's employment in fields requiring issuance of an entertainment work permit, and administering the entertainment work permit program. The bill would provide that the fee would be set by the Labor Commissioner in an amount, not to exceed $50, sufficient to pay for the costs set forth above.
  AB 2111 (Smyth R)  Service contracts.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 6/14/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 29).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  Anticipated Hearing  SENATE APPR., Not in daily file.
  Summary: Would change the definition of service contract by expanding the items a contract may cover to include accessories of electronic sets or appliances and optical products and by excluding a contract to maintain structural wiring associated with communications services . The bill would delete the $250 per year limit on incidental payments. The bill would also change the definition of service contract administrator to no longer exclude service contract sellers and insurers admitted to do business in the state and to no longer include an affiliate who performs or arranges specified activities. The bill would authorize a service contract administrator to be an obligor on a service contract where all service contracts under which the service contract administrator is obligated are insured under a service contract reimbursement insurance policy. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 356 (Wright D)  Regulations: small businesses.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/25/2009
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 6/28/2010-Re-referred to Com. on RULES.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/28/2010-A. RLS.
  Summary: Would require the agency, if it does not, or is unable to, consult with these parties to inform in writing the Office of Small Business Advocate and the Department of Finance of its decision and the reasons for not consulting the impacted businesses. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 885 (Corbett D)  Gift certificates: redemption.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/19/2010
  Last Amend: 7/1/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-Read second time. Amended. To second reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. SECOND READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #5  ASSEMBLY SENATE SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would require that a retailer of gift certificates disclose that any gift certificate with a cash value of less than $10 may be redeemed in cash for its cash value. This bill would also delete the exceptions to the prohibition on the sale of a gift certificate that contains a dormancy fee.

  CEQA

  AB 499 (Hill D)  Environment: California Environmental Quality Act: determination: dispute.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/18/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/24/2009
  Last Amend: 6/18/2009
  Status: 9/10/2009-To inactive file on motion of Senator Simitian.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 9/10/2009-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Would instead require that a petitioner or plaintiff name, as a real party in interest, a recipient of approval, as identified by the public agency in its notice of determination or notice of exemption, that is the subject of an action or proceeding challenging the determination, finding, or decision of a public agency pursuant to CEQA. The bill would authorize the court to dismiss a petition or complaint if a petitioner or plaintiff fails to serve the recipient of approval identified by the public agency within the above service period. The bill would require the court to issue an order providing additional time for, and specifying the manner of, service if the petitioner or plaintiff demonstrates to the court's satisfaction that he or she has made a good faith effort to service the identified recipient of approval within the above service period. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  Emergency Alert

  SB 839 (Runner R)  Emergency Alert System: law enforcement officers.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/14/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/6/2010
  Last Amend: 6/14/2010
  Status: 6/23/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 22.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/23/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would require the California Highway Patrol, at the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency, to activate the Emergency Alert System and issue a blue alert, as defined, if a law enforcement officer has been killed, suffers serious bodily injury, or is assaulted with a deadly weapon, the suspect has fled the scene of the offense, and other specified conditions are met. This bill would also require the California Highway Patrol to include information describing blue alerts on its Internet Web site.

  Governmental Org

  AB 1199 (Ammiano D)  Infrastructure financing districts: City and County of San Francisco.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/27/2009
  Last Amend: 1/4/2010
  Status: 6/28/2010-In committee: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 4/7/2010-S. APPR.
  Summary: Would recast these provisions authorizing the City and County of San Francisco to create infrastructure financing districts that include specified waterfront property. This bill would also modify the procedures for San Francisco to adopt an infrastructure financing plan, and allocate projected increases in ad valorem property taxes to specified annual apportionments. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 2537 (Silva R)  State agencies: adjudications: presiding officers.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/14/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 4/14/2010
  Status: 7/14/2010-In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. (Refers to 6/24/2010 hearing)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/10/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would require that certain agencies that conduct an adjudicative proceeding provide by regulation for peremptory challenge of the presiding officer in cases where the presiding officer is an administrative law judge, and authorize those agencies to provide by regulation for peremptory challenge of a presiding officer who is not an administrative law judge.
  SB 894 (Committee on Local Government)  Local Government Omnibus Act of 2010.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/7/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/25/2010
  Last Amend: 6/7/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 30.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would repeal this requirement. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  Green Technology

  SB 1198 (Huff R)  Energy: State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission: regulations.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 6/30/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would provide that the television product labeling regulations adopted by the commission would not be effective until July 1, 2011, and would be effective on that date only if a United States Federal Trade Commission labeling rule for those products is not effective on or before July 1, 2011. The bill also would provide that those regulations would remain in effect only until a Federal Trade Commission labeling rule for television products becomes effective . This bill contains other existing laws.

  High Tech Crime/Piracy

  AB 819 (Calderon, Charles D)  Intellectual property piracy.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/26/2009
  Last Amend: 7/15/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  Anticipated Hearing  SENATE APPR., Not in daily file.
  Summary: Would double the fines that may be imposed for a violation of any of the above provisions. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  Internet

  SB 203 (Harman R)  Child pornography: Internet distribution.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/23/2009
  Last Amend: 6/30/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would include within this definition of "distribute" making available for access or possession over the Internet. The bill would also provide that nothing in the provisions criminalizing conduct involving obscene matter and child pornography shall be construed to permit an action against an interactive computer service, electronic communication service, or remote computing service, as defined, that is inconsistent with specified provisions of federal law. By revising the definition of existing crimes to expand their application, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1204 (Runner R)  Sex offenders: social networking prohibition: online address notification requirement.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/6/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 5/6/2010
  Status: 6/23/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 22.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/23/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would permit information received pursuant to these provisions to be shared with the Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies, upon request. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1411 (Simitian D)  Impersonation: Internet.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/11/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 5/11/2010
  Status: 6/29/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 29.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/29/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would provide that any person who knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another actual person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means, as specified, for purposes of harming, intimidating, threatening, or defrauding another person is guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill would, in addition to the specified criminal penalties, authorize a person who suffers damage or loss to bring a civil action against any person who violates that provision, as specified. Because the bill would create a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  Labor / Employment

  AB 482 (Mendoza D)  Employment: credit reports.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/24/2009
  Last Amend: 7/15/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 29). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would prohibit an employer, with the exception of certain financial institutions, from obtaining a consumer credit report for employment purposes unless the information is (1) substantially job-related, meaning that the position of the person for whom the report is sought has access to money, other assets, or trade secrets or other confidential information, and (2) the position of the person for whom the report is sought is a position in the state Department of Justice, a managerial position, that of a sworn peace officer or other law enforcement position, or a position for which the information contained in the report is required to be disclosed by law or to be obtained by the employer. This bill contains other existing laws.
  SB 909 (Wright D)  Investigative consumer reporting agencies: disclosures.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/27/2010
  Last Amend: 6/30/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. THIRD READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #179  ASSEMBLY SENATE THIRD READING FILE
  Summary: Would additionally require a person who procures or causes to be prepared an investigative consumer report for employment purposes to provide a consumer with the Internet Web site address of the investigative consumer reporting agency where the consumer may find additional information about the agency's privacy practices. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 990 (Dutton R)  Employment: meal periods.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/8/2010
  Last Amend: 3/25/2010
  Status: 4/5/2010-Re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 4/5/2010-S. L. & I.R.
  Summary: Would revise the statutory requirements for the provision of meal periods to specify that the requirements apply only to employees subject to the meal period provisions of an order of the IWC. The statutory requirements for providing the meal periods would be revised to specify that a meal period based on working more than 5 hours in a workday is required to be provided before the employee completes 6 hours of work, unless the existing waiver provision is invoked. The waiver provision for the 2nd meal period would be changed to provide an exception for different provisions within IWC wage orders in effect as of January 1, 2009, and to permit the employer and employee to agree to waive either the first or the 2nd meal period if the employee otherwise is entitled to 2 meal periods. The bill also would specify conditions under which on-duty meal periods are permitted rather than meal periods in which the employee is relieved of all duty. The meal period provisions of a valid collective bargaining agreement would be required to be implemented for covered employees rather than the statutory requirements. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  Miscellaneous

  AJR 43 (Hill D)  Television: audio loudness.
  Current Text: Introduced: 6/7/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 6/7/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 7/1/2010-S. RLS.
  Summary: Would urge the Congress and President of the United States to enact legislation to establish a standard that broadcasters and others can use to minimize the "audio loudness differential" in television.
  SCA 20 (Maldonado R)  Legislature: public notice of bills.
  Current Text: Introduced: 4/16/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 4/16/2009
  Status: 5/14/2009-To Coms. on RLS. and E., R., & C.A.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/14/2009-S. RLS.
  Summary: Would require a Budget Bill or a bill implementing a Budget Bill, as defined, to be displayed on the Internet in the form it is to be voted on for at least 48 hours before it may be voted on by either house of the Legislature, except that this requirement could be waived by a 3/4 rollcall vote of the house.
  SCR 90 (Lowenthal D)  Affordable housing: in-home Internet service accessibility.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/24/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 3/18/2010
  Last Amend: 5/24/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-S. THIRD READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #80  SENATE SENATE BILLS-THIRD READING FILE
  Summary: Would encourage all state and local affordable housing lenders who administer competitive multifamily housing programs to provide competitive points for developments that will provide high-speed in-home Internet service free of charge for at least 10 years and recognize that in-home Internet service and network maintenance costs be eligible as operating costs and expenses in specified housing developments and programs.

  Political Reform

  AB 1274 (Huber D)  Political Reform Act of 1974: lobbyists.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/27/2009
  Last Amend: 6/30/2009
  Status: 8/27/2009-In committee: Held under submission.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/27/2009-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would require lobbyists who are required to file periodic reports with the Secretary of State to include the specific bill numbers lobbied on during the reporting period. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 1322 (Huffman D)  Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosures.
  Current Text: Amended: 8/17/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/27/2009
  Last Amend: 8/17/2009
  Status: 9/3/2009-Read third time. Urgency clause refused adoption. Passage refused in Senate. (Ayes 26. Noes 14. Page 2176.) Motion to reconsider made by Senator Calderon. Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2177.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 9/3/2009-S. THIRD READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #84  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE
  Summary: Would require that the advertisement identify the name of the independent expenditure committee that purchased it and would, for specified advertisements, additionally require that the disclosure statement identify an Internet Web site address where the committee's donors are listed . Committees that are required to file electronically with the Secretary of State would be required to list the Secretary of State's Internet Web site address on their disclosure statements , and a committee that is not required to register electronically would be required to include a Uniform Resource Locator for an Internet Web site address that identifies the committee' s principal officer and lists the information on donors who have contributed $100 or more to the committee, as specified. The bill would authorize the Secretary of State to include information on how voters can determine who is funding campaigns and campaign-related communications on the ballot pamphlet, as long as it can be included without increasing the number of pages and to include a statement describing the types of campaign contributions, applicable contribution limits, and the role of independent expenditures. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 2007 (Adams R)  Political Reform Act of 1974: gifts.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/21/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2010
  Last Amend: 6/21/2010
  Status: 6/28/2010-In committee: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/28/2010-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would require the Fair Political Practices Commission to post on its Internet Web site, on or before February 1 of each year, information describing all gifts donated to Members of the Legislature and designated employees of the Legislature in the previous calendar year and reported to the Secretary of State by the donors of those gifts. The bill would require the Commission to post that information in a manner that permits the public to access information regarding all reported gifts donated to a specific recipient by entering that recipient's name into an appropriate search feature. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 2357 (Saldana D)  Political Reform Act of 1974.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/8/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 4/8/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-S. THIRD READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #159  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE
  Summary: Would require that a campaign statement filed by a committee primarily formed for the qualification or support of, or opposition to, an initiative or ballot measure also disclose the amount of each expenditure made in connection with a poll or survey used in a communication to influence voters regarding the qualification or passage of an initiative or ballot measure, as well as the amount of each expenditure made in connection with a poll or survey used to gauge the public's opinion of the ballot title and summary of an initiative or ballot measure. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1118 (Ashburn R)  Political Reform Act of 1974: contributions: disclosure.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/16/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2010
  Last Amend: 6/16/2010
  Status: 6/28/2010-In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/28/2010-A. DESK
  Summary: Would require the Governor or a Member of the Legislature during a specified state budget time period or a specified period before or after the end of the first year or 2nd year of a legislative session to file online a report disclosing a separate contribution exceeding $1,000 within 24 hours of the time the contribution is received. The bill would require the Fair Political Practices Commission to issue a reporting calendar by January 15 of each year which delineates the new reporting periods. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  PRIVACY

  SB 837 (Florez D)  Utility service: disconnection: smart meters: privacy.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/4/2010
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (Heard in committee on June 28.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #22  ASSEMBLY SENATE SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would require the CPUC to ensure that each smart grid deployment plan authorized by the CPUC after January 1, 2012, include testing and technology standards, as specified. The bill would require each electrical corporation to ensure that each metering technology works properly in a field test in a real home setting. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1166 (Simitian D)  Personal information: privacy.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 6/22/2010-Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/22/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would require any agency, person, or business that is required to issue a security breach notification pursuant to existing law to fulfill certain additional requirements pertaining to the security breach notification, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
  SB 1204 (Runner R)  Sex offenders: social networking prohibition: online address notification requirement.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/6/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 5/6/2010
  Status: 6/23/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 22.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/23/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would permit information received pursuant to these provisions to be shared with the Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies, upon request. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1411 (Simitian D)  Impersonation: Internet.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/11/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 5/11/2010
  Status: 6/29/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 29.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/29/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would provide that any person who knowingly and without consent credibly impersonates another actual person through or on an Internet Web site or by other electronic means, as specified, for purposes of harming, intimidating, threatening, or defrauding another person is guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill would, in addition to the specified criminal penalties, authorize a person who suffers damage or loss to bring a civil action against any person who violates that provision, as specified. Because the bill would create a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  Public Utilities Comm.

  AB 1315 (Fuentes D)  Telecommunications: Public Utilities Commission: Federal Communications Commission: forebearance petitions.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/16/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/27/2009
  Last Amend: 6/16/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 29).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair8/2/2010  #35  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would provide that if an incumbent local exchange carrier files a forbearance petition with the FCC requesting that the FCC forbear from enforcing that carrier's duty to provide to any requesting telecommunications carrier nondiscriminatory access to network elements on an unbundled basis at any technically feasible point on rates, terms, and conditions that are just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, within any metropolitan statistical area located in the state, the PUC would be required to first determine if the petition meets certain legal requirements pursuant to a specified regulation adopted by the FCC, and if the PUC determines that the petition fails to meet those requirements, to timely submit a motion for summary denial of the petition with the FCC. If the PUC determines that the petition meets those requirements, the bill would require the PUC to review and analyze the petition and make determinations relative to matters that are pertinent to the petition. The bill would require the PUC to file substantive comments with the FCC relative to those determinations. The bill would require the PUC to require each telephone corporation providing service within a metropolitan statistical area to report comprehensive and detailed information sufficient to enable the PUC to file its substantive comments to the petition and to undertake certain analysis. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 1918 (Davis D)  Public utilities: procurement: minority-, women-, disabled veteran-owned business enterprises.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/29/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2010
  Last Amend: 6/29/2010
  Status: 6/29/2010-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/29/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  Anticipated Hearing  SENATE APPR., Not in daily file.
  Summary: Would extend the minority-, women-, and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises procurement requirements to wireless telecommunications service providers with gross annual revenues of more than $25,000,000 and would encourage each electrical, gas, water, wireless telecommunications service provider, and telephone corporation that is not required to submit a plan to voluntarily adopt a plan for increasing women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprise procurement in all categories. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 2545 (De La Torre D)  Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act: prepaid mobile telecommunications service.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 6/22/2010-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/22/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would require the PUC to open proceedings or expand the scope of existing proceedings to determine an equitable manner for collection of the surcharge from users of prepaid mobile telecommunications services, and would require the PUC to advise the board of its determination. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 2758 (Bradford D)  Public Utilities Commission: regulated corporations: procurement.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 7/15/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (June 29). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  Anticipated Hearing  SENATE APPR., Not in daily file.
  Summary: Would also require the corporations subject to these requirements to provide information to the commission about which procurements are made with women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises with at least a majority of the enterprise's workforce in California. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  Attachments:
CCTA Letter of Opposition AB 2758
Background Sheet/Author's Template Support Letter
CCTA Position Paper AB 2758
  SB 837 (Florez D)  Utility service: disconnection: smart meters: privacy.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/4/2010
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (Heard in committee on June 28.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #22  ASSEMBLY SENATE SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would require the CPUC to ensure that each smart grid deployment plan authorized by the CPUC after January 1, 2012, include testing and technology standards, as specified. The bill would require each electrical corporation to ensure that each metering technology works properly in a field test in a real home setting. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1040 (Padilla D)  Telecommunications universal service programs: California Advanced Services Fund.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/12/2010
  Last Amend: 6/23/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would extend the operation of these provisions indefinitely, and would prohibit the commission from collecting more than $225,000,000 through the CASF surcharge pursuant to a specified schedule. The bill would establish 3 accounts within the fund and allocate a portion of the additional $125,000,000 that the bill authorizes to be collected, to be deposited into each of the accounts, for specified uses. The bill would require the commission to conduct an interim and final financial audit and interim and final performance audit on the implementation and effectiveness of CASF and to report to the Legislature its interim findings by December 31, 2010, and its final findings by April 1, 2017. The bill would require the commission to annually provide a report to the Legislature, until January 1, 2016, relating to the CASF and containing specified information. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1414 (Kehoe D)  Public Utilities Commission: procedures: rehearings.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 6/29/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 28.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/29/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would additionally require the CPUC to include data on the disposition of applications for rehearing in that report. This bill contains other existing laws.
  SB 1462 (Padilla D)  Telecommunications: California Broadband Council.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/23/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would establish the California Broadband Council composed of specified members. The bill would impose specified duties on the council relating to the promotion of broadband deployment and adoption throughout the state.

  Smart Grid

  SB 1476 (Padilla D)  Public utilities: customer privacy: advanced metering infrastructure.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/23/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (Heard in committee on June 29.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #40  ASSEMBLY SENATE SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would repeal the provisions relating to the pilot study. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  Attachments:
CPUC Analysis of SB 1427

  TAX

  AB 697 (Calderon, Charles D)  Corporation taxes: underpayments: penalty.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/1/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/26/2009
  Last Amend: 6/1/2009
  Status: 7/8/2009-In committee: Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/8/2009-S. REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would limit the imposition of the penalty to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2008, and would repeal the penalty provisions on December 1, 2010.
  AB 847 (Salas D)  Sales tax: Adult Entertainment Venue Impact Fund.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/23/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/26/2009
  Last Amend: 6/23/2009
  Status: 1/15/2010-From committee without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/7/2009-A. REV. & TAX SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would in addition, impose a tax on retailers that operate adult entertainment venues, as defined, measured by the gross receipts from its sales of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, at a rate of 20%, as provided. The tax would generally be collected, administered, and enforced in the same manner as the taxes imposed under the Sales and Use Tax Law. This bill would create the Adult Entertainment Venue Impact Fund and require that all revenues, less refunds and the costs of the administration of the tax, derived from the tax be transferred to the fund. This bill would provide that moneys in the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be used to ameliorate the secondary effects of adult entertainment venues, as provided. This bill makes findings and declarations with regard to adult entertainment venues and the imposition of this tax . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 1511 (De Leon D)  Income taxes: net operating losses: credit sharing: single sales factor.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/27/2009
  Last Amend: 7/15/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-From inactive file. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. SECOND READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #64  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would disallow the use of net operating loss carrybacks by individual and corporate taxpayers. This bill would also extend the disallowance of the net operation loss deduction and carryovers, and the carryover extension, to the 2010 and 2011 taxable years. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 1812 (Silva R)  Sales and use taxes: exemption: manufacturing equipment.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/11/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/11/2010
  Status: 5/10/2010-In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/10/2010-A. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would declare the intent of the Legislature to exempt from those taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, manufacturing equipment used in the manufacturing process. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 1915 (Davis D)  Income taxes: credits: music production companies.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/5/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/16/2010
  Last Amend: 4/5/2010
  Status: 5/10/2010-In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 4/12/2010-A. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would for each taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2010, authorize a credit under both laws in an amount equal to ____% of the qualified expenditures paid or incurred by the taxpayer for the production of a qualified music recording, as defined, in California. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 1935 (De Leon D)  Corporate income tax: single sales factor.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2010
  Status: 5/28/2010-In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/28/2010-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would for a taxpayer that would otherwise be able to elect to have its income apportioned in accordance with a single sales factor formula, require the taxpayer to apportion its income in accordance with a single sales factor formula. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 1936 (De Leon D)  Income taxation: deductions: net operating loss carrybacks.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/17/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2010
  Status: 5/28/2010-In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/28/2010-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would disallow the use of net operating loss carrybacks by individual and corporate taxpayers. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 2060 (Calderon, Charles D)  Sales and use taxes: exemption: fixed price contract.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 7/15/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 1). Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would for any increase in the state sales and use tax rate that occurs on or after the effective date of this bill, exclude from that increased rate of tax, the sale of, and the storage, use or other consumption in this state of, tangible personal property that is subject to a fixed price contract under specified circumstances entered into prior to the operative date of the state sales and use tax rate increase, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 2078 (Calderon, Charles D)  Use tax: notification to purchasers: retailer engaged in business: controlled group.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/24/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 6/24/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 1).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would provide a rebuttable presumption that any retailer that is part of a controlled group of corporations, and that controlled group of corporations has a component member that is a retailer engaged in business in this state, as described, is presumed to be a retailer engaged in business in this state. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 2492 (Ammiano D)  Property taxation: change in ownership.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/18/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 5/18/2010
  Status: 6/21/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/21/2010-A. THIRD READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #110  ASSEMBLY ASSEMBLY THIRD READING FILE
  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.
  AB 2666 (Skinner D)  Corporation taxes: Franchise Tax Board: tax expenditures: Reporting Transparency in Government Internet Web site.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/30/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would for each taxable year on or after January 1, 2010, require the board to compile information on any tax expenditure claimed and reported by a taxpayer that is a publicly traded company, and would require, beginning on March 30, 2012, and by March 30 of each year thereafter, the board to submit the information to the State Chief Information Officer for publication on the Reporting Transparency in Government Internet Web site. This bill would require the State Chief Information Officer to develop on the Reporting Transparency in Government Internet Web site a searchable database of that information, as specified.
  AB 2676 (Ma D)  State Board of Equalization: administration.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/27/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 4/27/2010
  Status: 6/24/2010-From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 23).
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/24/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  Anticipated Hearing  SENATE APPR., Not in daily file.
  Summary: Would continue the authorization for an eligible person to make an irrevocable election to report qualified use tax, as defined, on that person's income tax return, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2010 , and would require the Franchise Tax Board to continue to allow a person to report and remit qualified use taxes to it and to remit the qualified use taxes collected to the board. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 884 (Ashburn R)  Sales and use taxes: use tax: administration.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/15/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/19/2010
  Last Amend: 7/15/2010
  Status: 7/16/2010-Set for hearing August 2.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would declare that its provisions and retroactive application serve a public purpose, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions.
  SB 1036 (Cedillo D)  Tax administration: disclosure information: Franchise Tax Board and cities.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/20/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/12/2010
  Last Amend: 4/20/2010
  Status: 6/28/2010-Set, first hearing. Failed passage in committee. Reconsideration granted.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 6/29/2010-A. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would expand that limitation by authorizing any agent designated by resolution of the city to examine all of the tax information, provided that the resolution certifies that the designated agent satisfies specified conditions.
  Attachments:
SB 1036 Fact Sheet
  SB 1073 (Ashburn R)  Income taxes: research and development credit: renewable energy.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/3/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2010
  Last Amend: 5/3/2010
  Status: 5/13/2010-Placed on REV. & TAX. suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 5/13/2010-S. REV. & TAX
  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.
  SB 1113 (Wolk D)  Franchise Tax Board: tax administration: determinations.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/28/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/17/2010
  Last Amend: 4/28/2010
  Status: 6/14/2010-Placed on inactive file on request of Senator Wolk.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/14/2010-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Would for determinations issued by the State Board of Equalization on or after January 1, 2011, authorize the Franchise Tax Board to bring an action for a trial de novo in superior court to determine the deficiency amount, the amount of refund or credit, or disallowance of interest that was the subject of the determination of the State Board of Equalization, where the amount of the deficiency, overpayment, or disallowance of interest exceeds $100,000 for taxpayers subject to tax imposed under the Personal Income Tax Law, or $1,000,000 for taxpayers subject to tax imposed under the Corporation Tax Law. This bill would also authorize a taxpayer to file a motion to change the venue to a venue closer to the taxpayer's principal residence or principal place of business.
  SB 1239 (Wyland R)  Income and corporation taxes: sales and use taxes.
  Current Text: Amended: 3/25/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 3/25/2010
  Status: 5/13/2010-Placed on REV. & TAX. suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 5/13/2010-S. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would also exempt the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1272 (Wolk D)  Income and corporation taxes: credits: information and operative limitations.
  Current Text: Amended: 4/21/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 4/21/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (Heard in committee on June 28.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #14  ASSEMBLY SENATE SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011, require any bill that would authorize a personal income or corporation tax credit to contain, among other provisions, (1) specified goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit will achieve, (2) detailed performance indicators to measure whether the tax credit is meeting those goals, purposes , and objectives, and (3) a requirement that the tax credit cease to be operative 7 years after its enactment date, as specified.
  SB 1391 (Yee D)  Tax credits: reporting information and recapture.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/19/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 5/19/2010
  Status: 7/6/2010-From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (Heard in committee on June 28.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/6/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #81  ASSEMBLY SENATE SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would require a taxpayer doing business in California that claims a tax credit to submit to the Franchise Tax Board on the original return specified information, including the number of employees employed by the taxpayer in the state and the number of jobs created by the tax credit. This bill contains other related provisions.
  SB 1398 (DeSaulnier D)  Property tax revenue allocations: public utilities: qualified property.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/1/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/1/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR. (Heard in committee on June 30.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would for the 2011-12 fiscal year and for each fiscal year thereafter, require that a specified amount of property tax revenues derived from applying a specified tax rate to qualified property, as defined, be allocated first to the county in which the qualified property is located and to all of the school entities located in that county and 2nd to the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District , with the balance allocated to the redevelopment agency governing the project area in which the qualified property is located. This bill would also require that a specified amount of property tax revenues derived from applying another specified tax rate to the qualified property be first allocated to taxing jurisdictions in those tax rate areas in the county in which the qualified property is located, with the balance allocated to taxing jurisdictions pursuant to a specified formula. The bill would require the Oakley Redevelopment Agency to reimburse the county auditor for the actual and reasonable costs incurred by the county auditor in administering these allocations. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SBX6 6 (Hollingsworth R)  Tax amnesty: penalty.
  Current Text: Introduced: 2/24/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/24/2010
  Status: 5/13/2010-Set, first hearing. Failed passage in committee. Reconsideration granted.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 4/19/2010-S. REV. & TAX
  Summary: Would delete the provisions imposing that penalty.

  Technology

  AB 413 (Fuentes D)  Unfair competition.
  Current Text: Amended: 7/1/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/23/2009
  Last Amend: 7/1/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-Read second time. To third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c).
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/15/2010-S. THIRD READING
  Summary: Would make it unlawful for any person to develop, produce, or manufacture any article or product, as defined, using stolen or misappropriated property, including, but not limited to, unlicensed computer software, when the article or product is in competition with an article or product that is lawfully developed, produced, and manufactured. The bill would make violations of its provisions subject to existing criminal penalties and civil remedies. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  AB 1420 (V. Manuel Perez D)  State government: research.
  Current Text: Amended: 1/4/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/27/2009
  Last Amend: 1/4/2010
  Status: 2/4/2010-Referred to Com. on RLS.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 2/4/2010-S. RLS.
  Summary: Would request the California Council on Science and Technology and the California Spaceport Authority to seek funding to complete their assessment of the state's innovation infrastructure capacity, and authorize these entities to seek the cooperation of colleges and universities within the state and other private entities to help advise regarding, and to help perform, the assessment .
  SCR 8 (Padilla D)  Information and communication technologies digital literacy.
  Current Text: Introduced: 1/13/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 1/13/2009
  Status: 1/13/2009-Introduced. To Com. on RLS.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 1/13/2009-S. RLS.
  Summary: Would request that the Governor create the California Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Digital Literacy Leadership Council to provide leadership regarding ICT digital literacy, defined as using digital technology, communications tools, or networks, or any combination thereof, to access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create, and communicate information in order to function in a knowledge-based economy and society.

  TELCO

  AB 424 (Torres D)  Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act: public education campaign.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/23/2009
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 7/15/2010-In committee: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/22/2010-S. APPR.
  Summary: Would require the office of the State Chief Information Officer to develop and implement a public education campaign to instruct the public on the appropriate and inappropriate uses of the 911 emergency telephone number system.
  AB 1012 (V. Manuel Perez D)  Broadband communications.
  Current Text: Amended: 9/4/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/27/2009
  Last Amend: 9/4/2009
  Status: 9/12/2009-To inactive file on motion of Senator Romero.
  Is Urgency: Y
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 9/12/2009-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Would require the State Chief Information Officer to establish a strategy to maximize federal funding opportunities pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) and the federal Broadband Data Improvement Act that are directed for broadband-related activities, programs, or projects. The bill would require the State Chief Information Officer, no later than 30 days after the effective date of this bill, to develop the strategy and require that the strategy include specific information for purposes of broadband development and deployment in the state and the obtaining of federal funding for those purposes. The State Chief Information Officer would be required to submit the strategy to the relevant policy and fiscal committees in each house of the Legislature within 30 days of the preparation of the strategy. The bill would require the State Chief Information Officer to administer, expend, and distribute broadband-related funding received under the Recovery Act in a manner consistent with federal law and specified policy goals. This bill contains other related provisions.
  AB 2213 (Fuentes D)  Moore Universal Telephone Service Act.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 6/22/2010-Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/22/2010-S. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  10 a.m. - John L. Burton Hearing Room (4203)  SENATE APPROPRIATIONS, KEHOE, Chair
  Summary: Would replace the definition of "residential" in the Moore Universal Telephone Service Act with a definition of "household" and would make conforming changes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  Attachments:
CPUC Analysis AB 2213
  AB 2664 (Chesbro D)  Public lands: State Lands Commission: violations.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/16/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/16/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Read second time. To third reading.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-S. THIRD READING
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #165  SENATE ASSEMBLY BILLS-THIRD READING FILE
  Summary: Would prohibit a person from constructing, placing, maintaining, owning, using, or possessing a structure or facility on land under the commission's jurisdiction, unless all necessary easements, leases, permits, and other instruments required by law that authorize the construction, design, placement, maintenance, ownership, use, or possession of the structure or facility have been obtained. This bill contains other related provisions.
  Attachments:
Fact Sheet AB 2664 (Chesbro)
  SB 38 (Alquist D)  Emergency services: seniors.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/28/2009   pdf   html
  Introduced: 12/22/2008
  Last Amend: 5/28/2009
  Status: 8/27/2009-Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 8/27/2009-A. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
  Summary: Would require , on or before January 1, 2011, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, in consultation with the Department of Justice , the California Emergency Management Agency, the California State Emergency Communications Committee, the California Broadcasters Association, the California Peace Officers' Association, the California Police Chiefs Association, and the California State Sheriffs' Association, to develop policies and procedures providing instruction to law enforcement agencies, other intermediate emergency agencies, participating radio and television broadcasters, and other media outlets on the implementation of a missing senior person alert. The bill would require the Department of the California Highway Patrol to incorporate appropriate alert measures in developing t hese policies and procedures . This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 920 (Yee D)  Alphabetical telephone directories: distribution.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/28/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/1/2010
  Last Amend: 5/28/2010
  Status: 6/14/2010-Placed on inactive file on request of Senator Yee.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 6/14/2010-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Would require a telephone corporation or one of its affiliates to allow any telephone service subscriber to opt out of receiving a telephone directory published by a telephone corporation . The bill would prohibit telephone corporations from delivering directories to subscribers who opt out of receiving a directory and require that a directory contain clear and conspicuous language regarding opting out of receiving future directories and recycling of the directory. The bill would require each 3rd-party vendor, as defined, as a contractual condition for receiving telephone subscriber information from the telephone corporation that is to be incorporated into a telephone directory, to allow any telephone service customer to opt out of receiving a telephone directory published by the 3rd-party vendor, to not deliver directories to subscribers who opt out of receiving a directory , and to include clear and conspicuous language on the front cover of the directory regarding opting out of receiving future directories and recycling of the directory.
  SB 1212 (Leno D)  Cellular telephone devices: specific absorption rate disclosure.
  Current Text: Amended: 5/28/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/18/2010
  Last Amend: 5/28/2010
  Status: 6/24/2010-Placed on inactive file on request of Senator Leno.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: N
  Location: 6/24/2010-S. INACTIVE FILE
  Summary: Would require specific language relating to the specific absorption rate, as defined, to be included at the point of sale on the Internet Web site of a phone service provider or manufacturer , on the exterior packaging, and in the instruction manuals of cellular telephone devices, as defined, that are sold in the State of California.
  SB 1375 (Price D)  Telephone corporations: residential telephone service:
  Current Text: Amended: 6/22/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/22/2010
  Status: 7/1/2010-From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (Heard in committee on June 28.)
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 7/1/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/2/2010  #24  ASSEMBLY SENATE SECOND READING FILE
  Summary: Would instead require local telephone corporations to provide every subscriber of tariffed residential basic exchange service, rather than every existing and newly installed residential telephone connection, with access to "911" emergency service. The bill would require a local telephone corporation to provide "911" emergency services for at least 90 days after disconnection of residential basic exchange service for nonpayment, as provided. The bill would authorize a local telephone corporation to disconnect any line in existence on January 1, 2011, providing access to "911" emergency services with no customer account attached for that line, if notice of not less than 90 days prior to disconnection is provided to the last known address of record associated with that line that is being disconnected. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
  SB 1428 (Pavley D)  Criminal investigation: interception of communications.
  Current Text: Amended: 6/30/2010   pdf   html
  Introduced: 2/19/2010
  Last Amend: 6/30/2010
  Status: 6/30/2010-Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  Is Urgency: N
  Is Fiscal: Y
  Location: 6/30/2010-A. APPR.
  Calendar: 8/4/2010  9 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 4202  ASSEMBLY APPROPRIATIONS, FUENTES, Chair
  Summary: Would delete the references to electronic pager communication and electronic cellular telephone communication and replace those references with references to electronic communication . The bill would define electronic communication as any transfer of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds, data, or intelligence by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectric, or photo-optical system, with specified exceptions . This bill would thereby authorize the above persons to make an application for an order permitting the interception of electronic communications, as defined. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

Total Measures: 81

Total Tracking Forms: 81

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