Bill Text: CA AB2887 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Public resources: Sales and Use Tax Law: exclusions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 248, Statutes of 2022. [AB2887 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2887-Amended.html
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Bill Title: Public resources: Sales and Use Tax Law: exclusions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-06 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 248, Statutes of 2022. [AB2887 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2887-Amended.html
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Assembly
March 24, 2022 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2887
| Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia |
February 18, 2022 |
An act relating to employment. to amend Section 26011.8 of the Public Resources Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2887, as amended, Eduardo Garcia.
Lithium batteries: labor standards. Public resources: Sales and Use Tax Law: exclusions.
Existing law, the Sales and Use Tax Law, imposes 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 California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Act establishes the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority. The act authorizes, until January 1, 2026, the authority to provide financial assistance to a participating party in the form of specified sales and use tax exclusions for projects, including those that promote California-based manufacturing, California-based jobs, advanced manufacturing,
reduction of greenhouse gases, or reduction in air and water pollution or energy consumption. The act prohibits the sales and use tax exclusions from exceeding $100,000,000 for each calendar year.
This bill would increase the limit on sales and use tax exclusions to $150,000,000 for each calendar year.
Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements.
The bill would include additional information required for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure.
The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws.
Existing law requires the state to reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions.
This bill would provide
that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill.
This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.
Existing law finds and declares that there is a pressing need to accelerate research and development into alternative sources of energy and into improved technology of design and siting of power facilities.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish labor standards and opportunities that deliver benefits to local communities in the Lithium Valley battery supply chain. This bill would also include related legislative findings and declarations.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 26011.8 of the Public Resources Code, as amended by Section 241 of Chapter 370 of the Statutes of 2020, is amended to read:26011.8.
(a) The purpose of this section is to promote the creation of California-based manufacturing, California-based jobs, advanced manufacturing, the reduction of greenhouse gases, or reductions in air and water pollution or energy consumption. In furtherance of this purpose, the authority may approve a project for financial assistance in the form of the sales and use tax exclusion established in Section 6010.8 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.(b) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) “Project” means tangible personal property if at least 50 percent of its use is either to process recycled feedstock that is intended to be reused in the production of
another product or using recycled feedstock in the production of another product or soil amendment, or tangible personal property that is used in the state for the design, manufacture, production, or assembly of advanced manufacturing, advanced transportation technologies, or alternative source products, components, or systems, as defined in Section 26003. “Project” does not include tangible personal property that processes or uses recycled feedstock in a manner that would constitute disposal as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 40192.
(2) “Recycled feedstock” means materials that would otherwise be destined for disposal, having completed their intended end use and product lifecycle.
(3) “Soil amendments” may include “compost,” as defined in Section 14525 of the Food and Agricultural Code, “fertilizing material,” as defined in Section 14533 of the Food and Agricultural Code,
“gypsum” or “phosphatic sulfate gypsum,” as those terms are defined in Section 14537 of the Food and Agricultural Code, or a substance distributed for the purpose of promoting plant growth or improving the quality of crops by conditioning soils through physical means.
(c) The authority shall publish notice of the availability of project applications and deadlines for submission of project applications to the authority.
(d) The authority shall evaluate a project application based on all of the following criteria:
(1) The extent to which the project develops manufacturing facilities, or purchases equipment for manufacturing facilities, located in California.
(2) The extent to which the anticipated benefit to the state from the project equals or exceeds
the projected benefit to the participating party from the sales and use tax exclusion.
(3) The extent to which the project will create new, or result in the loss of, permanent, full-time jobs in California, including the average and minimum wage for each classification of full-time employees proposed to be hired or not retained.
(4) To the extent feasible, the extent to which the project, or the product produced by the project, results in a reduction of greenhouse gases, a reduction in air or water pollution, an increase in energy efficiency, or a reduction in energy consumption, beyond what is required by federal or state law or regulation.
(5) The extent of unemployment in the area in which the project is proposed to be located.
(6) Any other factors
the authority deems appropriate in accordance with this section.
(e) At a duly noticed public hearing, the authority shall approve, by resolution, project applications for financial assistance.
(f) Notwithstanding subdivision (j), and without regard to the actual date of any transaction between a participating party and the authority, any project approved by the authority by resolution for the sales and use tax exclusion pursuant to Section 6010.8 of the Revenue and Taxation Code before March 24, 2010, shall not be subject to this section.
(g) The Legislative Analyst’s Office shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on the effectiveness of this program, on or before January 1, 2019, by evaluating factors, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) The number of jobs created by the program in California.
(2) The number of businesses that have remained in California or relocated to California as a result of this program.
(3) The amount of state and local revenue and economic activity generated by the program.
(4) The types of advanced manufacturing, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 26003, utilized.
(5) The amount of reduction in greenhouse gases, air pollution, water pollution, or energy consumption.
(h) The exclusions granted pursuant to Section 6010.8 of the Revenue and Taxation Code for projects approved by the authority pursuant to this section shall not exceed one hundred
fifty million dollars ($100,000,000) ($150,000,000) for each calendar year.
(i) (1) The authority shall study the efficacy and cost benefit of the sales and use tax exemption as it relates to advanced manufacturing projects. The study shall include the number of jobs created, the costs of each job, and the annual salary of each job. The study shall also consider a dynamic analysis of the economic output to the state that would occur without the sales and use tax exemption. Before January 1, 2017, the authority shall submit to the Legislature, consistent with Section 9795 of the Government Code, the result of the study.
(2) Before January 1, 2015, the authority shall, consistent with Section 9795 of the Government Code, submit to the Legislature an interim report on the efficacy of the program conducted pursuant to this section. The study shall include recommendations on program changes that would increase the program’s efficacy in creating permanent and temporary jobs, and whether eligibility for the program should be narrowed or extended to other manufacturing types. The authority may work with the Legislative Analyst’s Office in preparing the report and its recommendations.
(j) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2026, deletes or extends that date. The sale or purchase of tangible personal property of a project approved before January 1, 2026, shall continue to be excluded from sales and use taxes pursuant
to Section 6010.8 of the Revenue and Taxation Code for the period of time set forth in the authority’s resolution approving the project pursuant to this section.
SEC. 2.
For purposes of complying with Section 41 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the Legislature finds and declares as follows:(a) The purpose of expanding the sales and use tax exclusion provided by Section 26011.8 of the Public Resources Code, as amended by Section 1 of this act, is to further incentivize California-based manufacturing, California-based jobs, advanced manufacturing, reduction of greenhouse gases, or reduction in air and water
pollution or energy consumption.
(b) The performance indicators for the Legislature to use in determining whether the exclusion is achieving its stated purpose shall be the number of businesses receiving exclusions pursuant to Section 26011.8 of the Public Resources Code, and total value of exclusions granted.
(c) (1) No later than January 10, 2023, and each January 10 thereafter, the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority shall submit a report to the Legislature in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code detailing the following:
(A) The number of businesses receiving exclusions from sales and use tax pursuant to Section 26011.8 of the Public Resources Code.
(B) The total dollar value of exclusions allocated pursuant to Section 26011.8 of the Public Resources Code.
(2) The disclosure provisions of this subdivision shall be treated as an exception to Section 19542 under Article 2 (commencing with Section 19542) of Chapter 7 of Part 10.2 of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
SEC. 3.
Notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made by this act and the state shall not reimburse any local agency for any sales and use tax revenues lost by it under this act.SEC. 4.
This act provides for a tax levy within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect.The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(a)Lithium is becoming an increasingly critical resource as the state, and the world, moves toward a clean energy future to tackle the climate crisis.
(b)This metal is a crucial component of batteries needed to power electric vehicles, enable a 100-percent clean electrical grid, and move the state’s homes and industries away from fossil fuels.
(c)California has abundant untapped lithium reserves, including in geothermal brine more than one mile underground near the Salton Sea.
(d)The
state is poised to become a global leader in the deployment of new, environmentally sound technologies that can coproduce lithium with renewable electricity from geothermal power plants in the Imperial Valley.
(e)Experts estimate the region could satisfy more than one-third of today’s global lithium demand.
(f)Building out a world-class battery manufacturing ecosystem in tandem with lithium production and processing would also increase economic opportunities in the Salton Sea region, delivering high-quality jobs and community benefits to the region.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would establish labor standards and opportunities that deliver benefits to local communities in the Lithium Valley battery supply chain.
