(1) Existing law provides for the Sixth District Agricultural Association (District 6), which is known and designated as the California Science Center, with specified powers and duties with respect to the management, functions, and operations of various property within Exposition Park.
This bill would rename District 6 as Exposition Park and provide, among other things, that Exposition Park has specified powers and duties to lease, exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of all property. The bill would designate the Board of Directors of District 6 as the Board of Directors for Exposition Park and the California Science Center and would provide that property or other interests presently held in title by District 6 vest in Exposition Park and that other specified properties remain with the center within the jurisdiction of
Exposition Park. The bill would vest in Exposition Park and the Exposition Park Manager duties and responsibilities formerly exercised by the California Science Center, including, among other things, the implementation of the Exposition Park Master Plan.
The bill would require the Exposition Park Manager, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency and the Department of General Services, to approve the leasing, construction, or alteration of existing facilities within Exposition Park. The bill would require the executive director of the California Science Center and executive director of the California African American Museum, in consultation with the agency and department, approve the leasing, construction, or alteration of their respective museum facilities.
Existing law authorizes the California Science Center to enter into one or more agreements or leases with the California Science Center Foundation, a California
nonprofit public benefit corporation, with the approval of the Natural Resources Agency, the Department of Finance, and the Department of General Services, for the purpose of developing, designing, constructing, equipping, furnishing, operating, and funding the project known as the Phase III Project of the California Science Center, which is located adjacent to or contiguous with the existing Phase I Project and Phase II Project of the California Science Center in Exposition Park.
This bill would require those agreements and leases to include a site lease of the land on which the Phase III Facilities are to be constructed with the California Science Center Foundation for a nominal payment, and a lease-purchase agreement pursuant to which the California Science Center leases and acquires the Phase III Facilities from the foundation, as specified. The bill would require the site lease and the lease-purchase agreement to be
for a term ending 30 years after the later of October 1, 2022, or the date on which the Phase III Facilities are certified available for use and occupancy, and would require that the lease payments on behalf of the state be $2,430,000 per year for the term of the lease-purchase agreement, as specified.
This bill would make other conforming and nonsubstantive changes to these and other related provisions.
(2) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act of 2016 (AUMA), an initiative measure approved as Proposition 64 at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election, authorizes a person who obtains a state license under AUMA to engage in commercial adult-use cannabis activity pursuant to that license and applicable local ordinances. The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), among other things,
consolidates the licensure and regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis activities. MAUCRSA requires an applicant to electronically submit fingerprint images to the Department of Justice for the purpose of obtaining information as to the existence and content of a record of state and federal convictions and arrests. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to provide a response to the licensing authority, as provided.
Existing law allows the Bureau of Cannabis Control, the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the State Department of Public Health to obtain and receive criminal history information from the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for an applicant for any state license under MAUCRSA. Existing law requires the Department of Justice to forward all requests for federal criminal history record information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for these purposes and to review the information and compile and
disseminate a response to the licensing authority.
This bill would revise these requirements to require the Department of Justice to transmit fingerprint images and related information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose of obtaining a federal criminal history records check.
(3) Existing law requires the Department of Finance to certify to the Controller the amount determined to be the fair share of administrative costs due and payable from each state agency and to transfer that amount from specified funds to the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund. Existing law defines “administrative costs” as the amounts expended by various specified state entities for supervision or administration of the state government or for services to the various state agencies.
This bill would modify the definition of administrative costs to
include amounts expended by the Department of General Services.
(4) Existing federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, provides for the negotiation and execution of tribal-state gaming compacts for the purpose of authorizing certain types of gaming on Indian lands within a state. The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to negotiate and conclude compacts, subject to ratification by the Legislature. Existing law ratifies a number of tribal-state gaming compacts between the State of California and specified Indian tribes.
Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of gaming compacts entered into with the state. Existing law authorizes moneys in that fund to be used upon appropriation by the Legislature for certain
purposes, such as grants, including any administrative costs, for programs designed to address gambling addiction and compensation for regulatory costs incurred by the California Gambling Control Commission and the Department of Justice in connection with the implementation and administration of tribal-state gaming compacts, and for any other purposes specified by law.
This bill would, on or before December 15, 2018, and on or before December 15 of each fiscal year thereafter, require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the California Gambling Control Commission, to determine if total revenues estimated for the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund in the current fiscal year are anticipated to exceed estimated expenditures, transfers, reasonable reserves, or other adjustments from the fund for the current fiscal year. As determined by, and within the discretion of, the Department of Finance, if the estimated revenues to the fund, along with any prior
year excess revenues, exceed the estimated expenditures, transfers, reasonable reserves, or other adjustments from the funds, the bill would require the California Gambling Control Commission, upon approval by the Department of Finance, to apply the amount of funds directed by the Department of Finance to reduce, eliminate, satisfy, or partially satisfy, on a proportionate basis, the pro rata share payments required to be made to the fund by limited gaming tribes, as defined. The bill would provide that these provisions apply to each limited gaming tribe for the period in which the limited gaming tribe has a compact obligation to contribute to the fund, as specified.
(5) Existing law, the Economic Revitalization Act, establishes the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, also known as GO-Biz, under the control of a director. Existing law requires GO-Biz to serve the Governor as the lead entity for economic
strategy and authorizes it to undertake specified activities, including supporting small businesses by providing information about accessing capital, complying with regulations, and supporting state initiatives that support small business. Existing law also creates the California Economic Development Fund for the purpose of receiving federal, state, local, and private economic development funds and, upon appropriation by the Legislature, authorizes moneys in the fund to be expended by GO-Biz to provide matching funds for loans or grants to public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private entities, and for other economic development purposes, consistent with the purposes for which the moneys were received.
This bill would, until January 1, 2024, create the California Small Business Development Technical Assistance Expansion Program within GO-Biz, under the director, for the purpose of assisting small businesses through free or low-cost one-on-one consulting and
low-cost training by entering into grant agreements with one or more federal small business technical assistance centers. This bill, upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature, would require the office to make grants to federal small business technical assistance centers that the office determines meet specified eligibility criteria. The bill would require a federal small business technical assistance center that receives funding under this program to provide periodic performance and financial reports and, no more than 60 days following the completion of an agreement term, a final written performance and financial report.
(6) Existing federal law, the Single Audit Act, requires each nonfederal entity that expends a total amount of federal awards equal to or in excess of a specified amount in any fiscal year to have either a single audit or a program-specific audit made for that fiscal year. Existing state law authorizes
the California State Auditor to make audit examinations of accounts and records, accounting procedures, and internal auditing performance of the executive branch that he or she determines to be necessary under the federal Single Audit Act. Existing state law also requires the Controller to receive every annual financial audit report prepared for any local public agency in compliance with the federal Single Audit Act.
This bill would require the Department of Finance to ensure the state carries out its responsibilities in accordance with the federal Single Audit Act, and would require the department to perform specified tasks in that regard, including collecting financial and nonfinancial information relating to federal awards received.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Finance to examine all records, files, documents, accounts, and all financial affairs of every agency of the state permitted or charged by law with
the handling of public money or its equivalent and to enter any public office or institution in this state and examine any records, files, books, papers, or documents contained therein or belonging thereto for the purpose of making such examination.
This bill would instead require the department to have access and authority to make these examinations that shall also include all reports and correspondence. The bill would specify that the department may access, examine, and reproduce any records, files, books, papers, accounts, reports, and correspondence. The bill would provide that any information or documents obtained in connection with an audit, evaluation, investigation, or review conducted by the department may be kept confidential, and that disclosure of the information or documents would not be required under the California Public Records Act if the department makes a specified determination. The bill would authorize the department, in connection with any
audit, evaluation, investigation, or review it conducts, to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the production of records, or for making of oral or written sworn statements, as specified. The bill would also make it a crime to engage in specified activity with regard to an audit, evaluation, investigation, or review conducted pursuant to these provisions, including manipulating, correcting, altering, or changing records, documents, accounts, reports, or correspondence prior to or during any audit, and distributing, reproducing, releasing, or failing to safeguard confidential draft documents exchanged between the department and the entity subject to the audit, prior to the release of the department’s final report, as specified. Because the bill would create a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law, the State Leadership Accountability Act, requires agency heads, as defined, to establish, maintain, and monitor
specified internal control systems within their state agencies. Under existing law, agency heads are required to biennially, but no later than December 31 of each odd-numbered year, conduct an internal review of the internal control systems and prepare a report on the systems’ adequacy, as provided, including the identification of any material inadequacies or material weaknesses. Existing law requires the agency head to concurrently provide the Department of Finance with a plan and schedule for correcting identified inadequacies and weaknesses.
This bill would require the report to identify all inadequacies and weaknesses in a state agency’s internal control systems, and would require the agency head to submit the plan and schedule for correcting those inadequacies and weaknesses to the Department of Finance by June 30 following the preparation of the report.
Existing law requires the Department of Finance to establish, in
consultation with the California State Auditor and the controller, a system of reporting and a general framework to guide conducting internal reviews of internal control systems.
This bill would specify that adoption, amendment, or repeal of that system of reporting and general framework are exempt from the Administrative Product Act.
(7) Existing law prohibits the Director of General Services from entering into a lease agreement between the state and another entity in which the state is the lessee if the agreement is to be for the lease of a building or building space that will be for the occupancy of an agency of the state with a firm lease period of 5 years or longer and an annual rental in excess of $10,000, unless the director notifies, in writing, the chairperson of the committee in each house of the Legislature that considers appropriations and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee, as specified.
This bill would instead impose this requirement if the proposed lease is for a firm lease period of longer than 8 years, the proposed lease would require an increase in a department’s or agency’s support budget, the proposed lease is a capitalized lease that has not been previously authorized, or entering into the proposed lease would result in any occupying department or agency vacating a material amount of state-owned space, as specified. The bill would require the notice to the Legislature to include, among other things, the terms of the lease and an analysis of the financial impact of the lease. The bill would additionally require the Director of General Services to provide the chairs and vice chairs of the budget committees of each house an annual report that, among other things, identifies all of the leases that the Director of General Services expects to expire during the subsequent fiscal year.
(8) Existing law establishes within the Government Operations Agency, the Department of General Services and the California Victim Compensation Board. Existing law vests in the Department of General Services certain duties, powers, responsibilities, and jurisdiction vested in the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board, or its executive office, under various provisions of law as they existed on January 1, 2016. Existing law authorizes the department to adopt regulations governing the presentation and audit of claims against the state for which an appropriation has been made or for which a state fund is available and governing any other matter over which it has jurisdiction.
Existing law generally provides for the compensation of victims and derivative victims of specified types of crimes by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated
fund, for specified losses suffered as a result of those crimes. Existing law sets forth eligibility requirements and limits on the amount of compensation the board may award, and requires the application for compensation to be verified under penalty of perjury.
This bill would authorize the board to adopt regulations governing any matter over which it has jurisdiction.
(9) Existing law vests in the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration the duty, power, and responsibility to administer various taxes and fees. Existing constitutional law vests in the State Board of Equalization the duty, power, and responsibility regarding the administration of certain taxes and fees, including the review, equalization, or adjustment of property tax assessments, the assessment of taxes on insurers, and the assessment and collection of excise taxes on the manufacture, importation, and sale of alcoholic
beverages in this state.
This bill would authorize the department and the board to delegate, share, and provide assistance for, or transfer between themselves administrative responsibilities for tax and fee programs within the department’s and the board’s respective duties, powers, and responsibilities pursuant to an agreement. The bill would prohibit the agreement between the department and the board from transferring jurisdiction over any tax and fee program that is the subject of the agreement.
(10) The California Constitution provides for the establishment of the State Board of Equalization (board), consisting of the Controller and 4 members elected for 4-year terms, and prescribes various duties, powers, and responsibilities of the board. Existing law establishes, in the Government Operations Agency, the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (department), under
the control of a director appointed by the Governor and subject to confirmation by the Senate, and transfers to the department various duties, powers, and responsibilities of the State Board of Equalization relating to the administration of various taxes and fees except for specified duties, powers, and responsibilities imposed or conferred upon the board by the California Constitution and the duty to adjust the motor vehicle fuel tax rate for the 2018–19 fiscal year.
Existing property tax law, in accordance with the California Constitution, provides for a welfare exemption for property that meets certain requirements, including that it is used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable purposes and is owned and operated by certain nonprofit entities. Existing property tax law also establishes a veterans’ organization exemption under which property is exempt from taxation if, among other things, that property is used exclusively for charitable
purposes and is owned by a veterans’ organization. Existing property tax law generally requires the department to prescribe all procedures and forms required to carry into effect any property tax exemption, as provided. Existing property tax law prescribes specific procedures for claims for the welfare exemption and the veterans’ organization exemption, including requiring an organization claiming those exemptions to file with the department a claim for an organizational clearance certificate, as provided.
Existing property tax law requires the filing of a signed change in ownership statement, as provided, with the department within 90 days of a change in control or a change in ownership of any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other legal entity.
Existing property tax law known as the “Tax-Rate Area System” provides, when a city, district, or any special zone is created or its boundaries changed, that
the levying authority of that entity file a specified statement and map or plat with the relevant county assessors and the State Board of Equalization by December 1 of the year immediately preceding the year in which the assessments or taxes are to be levied.
This bill would transfer authority to administer the above-described statutes relating to the welfare exemption, the veterans’ organization exemption, change in control and change in ownership of a legal entity, and the Tax-Rate Area System and related provisions from the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to the State Board of Equalization. The bill would transfer all employees serving in state civil service, as specified, who are engaged in the performance of functions related to these statutes, and would transfer all the rights and property related to these statutes, to the State Board of Equalization.
(11) Existing law requires the Controller, when the General Fund in the Treasury is or will be exhausted, to notify the Governor and the Pooled Money Investment Board. Existing law authorizes the Governor to order the Controller to direct the transfer of all or any part of the moneys not needed in other funds or accounts to the General Fund from those funds or accounts, as determined by the board, including the Surplus Money Investment Fund or the Pooled Money Investment Account. Existing law requires the return of transferred moneys to the funds or accounts from which they were transferred as soon as there are sufficient moneys in the General Fund.
This bill would additionally authorize a designee of the Governor to direct that transfer of moneys to the General Fund.
(12) Existing law, known as the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Trust Act, establishes the
California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program, administered by the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Investment Board. The program requires specified eligible employers, as defined, to offer a payroll deposit retirement savings arrangement and requires eligible employees, as defined, who do not opt out of the program, to contribute a portion of their salary or wages to a retirement savings account in the program, as specified.
This bill would change the name of the California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program to the CalSavers Retirement Savings Program and would make conforming changes.
(13) Existing law establishes the Department of Housing and Community Development in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency and vests that department with various powers and responsibilities with respect to administering various housing programs.
This bill would authorize the department to expend any funds it is authorized to set aside for curing or averting potential defaults for the purposes of curing or averting defaults on any deferred interest loan issued by the department for rental housing development.
Existing law creates the Multifamily Housing Program under the department to provide a standardized set of program rules and features applicable to all housing types, based on the existing California Housing Rehabilitation Program. Among other things, the program provides financial assistance to fund projects for the development and construction of new, and rehabilitation or acquisition and rehabilitation of existing, transitional or rental housing developments. Existing law authorizes the department to designate an amount not to exceed 4% of all funds appropriated pursuant to the provisions governing the Multifamily Housing Program to be used to establish a
default reserve.
This bill would, instead, authorize the department to designate an amount that does not exceed 1.5% to be used to establish a default reserve, as described above.
Existing law establishes the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program, to be administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development, to provide local assistance to specified local agencies and developers for the purpose of developing or facilitating the development of higher density uses within close proximity to transit stations. Existing law establishes the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund and requires that interest on loans made from the fund be deposited in the fund.
This bill would delete the requirement that the interest on loans made from the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Fund be deposited in that fund.
Existing law, to the extent that funds are available, provides for assistance via the Transit-Oriented Development Implementation Program in the form of grants to local agencies and loans for the development and construction of housing developments within close proximity to transit stations, subject to certain conditions and requirements.
The Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014, administered in collaboration between the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs pursuant to a memorandum of understanding addressing their respective and shared responsibilities, provides for the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable multifamily supportive housing, affordable transitional housing, affordable rental housing, or related facilities for veterans and their families.
Existing law requires the Strategic Growth Council to develop and administer the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through projects that implement land use, housing, transportation, and agricultural land preservation practices to support infill and compact development, and that support related and coordinated public policy objectives. Existing law requires that program to provide funding to projects that meet certain requirements and selected by the council according to specified procedures.
This bill, with respect to each of the programs described above, would require, among other things, that the principal and accumulated interest on loans issued pursuant to these programs is due and payable upon completion of the term of the loan and require that these loans have a simple interest rate of 3%. The bill would require that moneys received in repayment of these loans be
deposited in specified funds and would continuously appropriate those moneys to the Department of Housing and Community Development for purposes of the Multifamily Housing Program and for purposes of establishing default reserves, as authorized by this bill, for each of the above-described programs.
By authorizing the expenditure of funds for purposes of default reserves, this bill would make an appropriation.
(14) Existing law creates the Department of Insurance, headed by the Insurance Commissioner, and prescribes the powers and duties of the commissioner. Existing law requires the commissioner to keep an office in the Cities of San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Diego.
This bill would instead require the commissioner to maintain offices in Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay area.
(15) Existing law, the Buy Clean California Act, requires the Department of General Services, by January 1, 2019, to establish, and publish in the State Contracting Manual, a maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials.
This bill would instead require the department to establish and publish that information by January 1, 2021, and would authorize the department to publish the information in the State Contracting Manual or a department management memorandum, or make the information available on the department’s Internet Web site.
The act requires the department to set the maximum acceptable global warming potential at the industry average of facility-specific global warming potential emissions for that material, and requires the department to express the maximum acceptable global warming potential as a number that states the
maximum facility-specific global warming potential for each category of eligible materials.
This bill would specify that the department, when determining industry averages, should include all stages of manufacturing required by the relevant product category rule and would authorize the department, in setting initial industry averages, to exclude specified emissions and make reasonable judgements aligned with the product category rule. The bill would authorize the department, when establishing the number expressing the maximum acceptable global warming potential, to set different maximums for different products within a category and set different maximums for each set of product category rules.
The act requires the department, by January 1, 2019, to submit a report to the Legislature describing the method used to develop the maximum global warming potential for each category of eligible materials. The act also requires the
department, by January 1, 2022, and every 3 years thereafter, to review the maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials.
This bill would instead require the department to submit that report by January 1, 2021, and would require the department to begin the review of the maximum acceptable global warming potential for each category of eligible materials by January 1, 2024.
The act requires an awarding authority, on and after July 1, 2019, to require a successful bidder for a contract to submit an environmental product declaration for each eligible material and to include in a specification for bids that the facility-specific global warming potential for any eligible material does not exceed the maximum acceptable global warming potential for that material, and prohibits a bidder for a contract from installing any eligible materials on the project until a facility-specific environmental
product declaration is submitted.
This bill would instead make those provisions applicable to contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2021, and would make those provisions inapplicable to an eligible material for a particular contract if the awarding authority makes a specified determination or in cases of emergency or other specified circumstances. The bill would direct an awarding authority, from January 1, 2019, until January 1, 2020, to request, and, from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2021, to require, that a successful bidder for a contract submit a current facility-specific environmental product declaration.
(16) Existing law governing the acquisition of information technology goods and services requires all contracts for the acquisition of information technology goods and services, whether by lease or purchase, to be made under the supervision of the Department of
General Services. Existing law requires procedures developed by the Department of General Services to provide for, among other things, the expeditious and value-effective acquisition of information technology goods and services to satisfy state requirements, and the acquisition of information technology goods and services within a competitive framework. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to maintain, in the State Administrative Manual, policies and procedures governing the acquisition and disposal of information technology goods and services. Existing law requires the acquisition of information technology goods and services to be conducted through competitive means, except when the Director of General Services makes specified determinations.
Existing law authorizes the Director of General Services to delegate acquisition authority relating to information technology goods and services to any state agency that has been determined by the
Department of General Services to be capable of effective use of that authority.
Existing law requires contracts for the acquisition of information technology projects to be made by and under the supervision of the Department of Technology, as prescribed. Existing law gives the Department of Technology the final authority in the determination of information technology procurement policy and information technology procurement procedures applicable to acquisitions of information technology projects under the State Administrative Manual. Existing law gives the Department of General Services final authority in the determination of information technology procurement procedures over which the Department of Technology does not have authority. Under existing law, the Department of Technology has the authority to delegate its authority to another agency based on a specified assessment.
This bill, instead, would require all contracts
for the acquisition of information technology goods and services related to information technology projects to be made by, and under the supervision of, the Department of Technology, as prescribed. The bill would give the Department of Technology the final authority in the determination of information technology procurement procedures applicable to acquisitions of goods and services related to information technology projects. The bill would specify 3 types of delegated acquisitions over which the Department of General Services would have final authority in the determination of information technology procurement procedures.
The bill would require the Director of General Services to consult with the Department of Technology to delegate that acquisition authority. The bill would require the Department of Technology to have either delegated project authority to a state agency or authorized the state agency to conduct the acquisition in order for a state agency to
conduct an acquisition of information technology goods and services related to an information technology project under delegated acquisition authority.
(17) Existing property tax law, for the 2014–15 fiscal year to the 2016–17 fiscal year, inclusive, established the State-County Assessors’ Partnership Agreement Program, administered by the Department of Finance, under which counties selected by the department, as specified, received funding, subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act, for certain property tax administration purposes. Existing property tax law required the counties to match on a dollar-for-dollar basis program funds apportioned to the county assessor’s office under the program.
This bill, for the 2018–19 fiscal year to the 2020–21 fiscal year, inclusive, would establish the State Supplementation for County Assessors Program under terms
and conditions similar to the above-described State-County Assessors’ Partnership Agreement Program. The bill would require counties selected by the department for participation in the new Program to match the Program funds apportioned to that county assessor’s office, at the rate of $1 for every $2 in Program funds that the county assessor’s office receives in Program funds. The bill would require county assessors’ offices that elect to participate in the Program to transmit a resolution and an application, as specified, to the department. The bill would also require each participating county assessor’s office to report specified information to the department while the Program is operative. This bill would require the department to submit, by March 1, 2022, a report that includes specified information for each fiscal year that the Program was in operation to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
(18) Existing sales and
use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state.
The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes, including a partial exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before July 1, 2030, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person for purchases not exceeding $200,000,000, for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of tangible personal property, as specified; qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in research and development, as provided; qualified tangible personal
property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily to maintain, repair, measure, or test any qualified tangible personal property, as provided; and qualified tangible personal property purchased by a contractor purchasing that property for use in the performance of a construction contract for the qualified person, that will use that property as an integral part of specified processes. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2018, and before July 1, 2030, additionally exempts from those taxes the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person to be used primarily in the generation or production, as defined, or storage and distribution, as defined, of electric power.
Existing law requires the Department of Finance to estimate the total amount of exemptions that will be taken for each calendar year and requires the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration,
no later than each May 1, to provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and to the Department of Finance a report of the total dollar amount of exemptions taken for the immediately preceding calendar year. Existing law requires the report to compare the total dollar amount of exemptions taken with the estimated amount for that calendar year, and to identify options for increasing exemptions taken if that total dollar amount taken is less than the estimate for that calendar year.
This bill would eliminate that requirement for the report to identify options for increasing exemptions taken and make clarifying changes.
(19) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the
limitation and the need for protecting that interest.
This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.
(20) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
(21) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.