Bill Text: CA SB11 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 11 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Registered warrants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB11 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB11-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 11	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 3, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        DECEMBER 6, 2010

   An act to add Section 17281 to the Government Code, relating to
registered warrants.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 11, as amended, Anderson. Registered warrants.
   Existing law authorizes a taxpayer who is a payee named in  a
 registered warrant, under certain circumstances, to delay the
payment of specified tax liability until the registered warrant is
payable by the state.
   This bill would prohibit a state entity from assessing a fine,
interest, or penalty, based on a debt owed to the state by an
individual who or entity that is a payee named in a registered
warrant, from the date the state issued the registered warrant until
at least 30 days after the date the registered warrant is payable by
the state.  This bill would also, notwithstanding any other
provision, make a debt owed to the state by an individual who or
entity that is a payee named in a registered warrant not be due
before 30 days after the date the registered warrant is payable upon
presentation to the state. The bill would limit these provisions to
an individual or entity that is a payee in a registered warrant and
is subject to a state fine, interest, or penalty that was imposed
between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2009, inclusive. 

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17281 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   17281.   (a)    No state entity
shall assess a fine, interest, or penalty based on a debt owed to the
state by an individual or entity who is a payee named in a
registered warrant, as defined in Section 17221, that was received in
payment of an obligation the state owes to that individual or
entity, in an amount not to exceed the amount of the registered
warrant, including any interest thereon, from the date the state
issued the registered warrant to the individual or entity until 30
days after the date the registered warrant is payable upon
presentation to the state. 
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provision, a debt owed to the state
by an individual who or entity that is a payee named in a registered
warrant, as defined in Section 17221, shall not be due before at
least 30 days after the date the registered warrant is payable upon
presentation to the state.  
   (c) This section shall apply only to an individual who or entity
that is a payee named in a registered warrant, as defined in Section
17221, and is subject to a fine, interest, or penalty based on a debt
owed to the state that was imposed between January 1, 2006, and
December 31, 2009, inclusive.