Bill Text: CA AR33 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Relative to the California Earned Income Tax Credit.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-15-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - Read. Amended. Adopted. (Page 3441.). [AR33 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AR33-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: HR 33	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 19, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Atkins and Mark Stone
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
Achadjian,   Alejo,   Baker,   Bloom,
  Bonilla,   Bonta,   Brough,  
Brown,  Burke,   Calderon,   Campos, 
 Chang,   Chau,   Chávez,   Chiu,
  Chu,   Cooley,  Cooper,  
Dahle,   Daly,   Dodd,   Eggman, 
 Frazier,   Gallagher,   Cristina Garcia, 
 Eduardo Garcia,   Gatto,   Gipson,  
Gomez,   Gonzalez,   Gordon,   Hadley,
  Roger Hernández,   Holden,   Irwin,
  Jones-Sawyer,   Kim,   Lackey, 
 Levine,   Linder,   Lopez,   Low,
  Maienschein,   Mathis,   Mayes, 
 McCarty,   Medina,   Mullin,  
Nazarian,   O'Donnell,   Quirk,   Rendon,
  Ridley-Thomas,   Rodriguez,   Salas,
  Santiago,   Thurmond,   Ting,  
Wagner,   Waldron,   Weber,   Wilk, 
 Williams,   and Wood   ) 

                        JANUARY 7, 2016

   Relative to the California Earned Income Tax Credit.


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   WHEREAS, California enacted its first ever state Earned Income Tax
Credit (EITC), based on the federal EITC, last summer as part of the
2015-16 budget package; and
   WHEREAS, The state EITC will allow California's lowest income
workers to better provide for their families by boosting their 2015
incomes by as much as $2,653; and
   WHEREAS, The state EITC provides a match of up to 85 percent of
the federal EITC for California's lowest income workers, a match that
far exceeds any other state in the nation; and
   WHEREAS, The state EITC, together with the federal EITC, could
raise the incomes of families living in deep poverty, defined as
below one-half of the federal poverty line, by as much as 83 percent
in 2015; and
   WHEREAS, The state EITC will build on the decades-long track
record of success of the federal EITC; and
   WHEREAS, Research shows that the federal EITC reduces poverty,
encourages employment, and boosts local economies; and
   WHEREAS, Research has linked the EITC to improved health for
mothers and infants as well as better educational outcomes for
children; and
   WHEREAS, The success of California's EITC depends on policymakers,
public agencies, and community leaders ensuring that all households
that are eligible for the new credit know about it, learn about it,
and claim it; and
   WHEREAS, Over $1.8 billion of federal EITC dollars have gone
unclaimed in California each year and promoting the new state EITC
will boost awareness and claims of the federal EITC, thereby
returning federal dollars to California families and local economies;
now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, That January
22, 2016, is California Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Awareness
Day; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.