AB 107: State government.
- Session Year: 2019-2020
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2020-09-29
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2019.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2019.
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| Sep 29, 2020 | Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 264, Statutes of 2020. |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Approved by the Governor. |
| Sep 14, 2020 | Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. |
| Aug 31, 2020 | In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10.). |
| Aug 30, 2020 | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| Aug 29, 2020 | From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 29). |
| Aug 28, 2020 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. |
| Aug 27, 2020 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Joint Rules 61 and 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 4299.) |
| Jun 17, 2019 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| Jun 12, 2019 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| Jun 10, 2019 | In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. |
| Apr 24, 2019 | Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. |
| Apr 11, 2019 | In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. |
| Apr 11, 2019 | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. |
| Apr 8, 2019 | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| Apr 4, 2019 | Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15.) |
| Jan 24, 2019 | Referred to Com. on BUDGET. |
| Dec 4, 2018 | From printer. May be heard in committee January 3. |
| Dec 3, 2018 | Read first time. To print. |
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| Aug 31, 2020 | AB 107 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING | Assembly Floor |
Passed |
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| Aug 31, 2020 | Assembly 3rd Reading AB107 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell | Senate Floor |
Passed |
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| Aug 29, 2020 | Do pass | Senate Standing Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review |
Passed |
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| Apr 11, 2019 | AB 107 Ting Assembly Third Reading | Assembly Floor |
Passed |
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SENATE RULES COMMITTEE Office of Senate Floor Analyses (916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) 327-4478 | AB 107 |
THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 107
Author: Committee on Budget
Amended: 8/28/20 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET & FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE: 13-5, 8/29/20
AYES: Mitchell, Beall, Caballero, Durazo, Hertzberg, Hurtado, Leyva, McGuire, Monning, Pan, Roth, Skinner, Wieckowski
NOES: Nielsen, Dahle, Melendez, Moorlach, Morrell
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: Not relevant
SUBJECT: State government
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST:
This bill contains statutory provisions related to general government and state administration necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2020.
ANALYSIS: This bill makes the following statutory changes:
- Executive Director for the Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs. Provides that the Commission on the Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs may appoint an executive director.
- Property Tax Assessment Appeals Deadline and Remote Hearings. Allows county boards to extend the two-year deadline by which it is required to render a final determination in property tax assessment appeal applications to March 31, 2021. This would apply to applicants whose deadlines fell between March 4, 2020, and before March 31, 2021. This bill also clarifies that county boards and multijurisdictional assessment appeals boards may conduct hearings remotely.
- California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Act. Instructs the Franchise Tax Board, in consultation with the State Treasurer and the Department of Finance, to develop a plan for a California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Program to be considered by the Legislature for future enactment. The plan is to be budget committees of both houses of the Legislature no later than March 1, 2021. The plan must include tax vouchers periodically created as assets of the state created in small increments to ensure widespread access. The tax vouchers must be allowed to be carried over to future taxable years, be fully transferable, and be allowed for participants to use for tax liabilities under the Personal Income Tax Law or the Corporation Tax Law.
- Beverage Container Recycling Program reporting. Changes the frequency of the Beverage Container Recycling Program reporting requirement from quarterly to biannually.
- Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program. Makes clarifying changes to the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program to require that the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to award no less than $250,000 in the 2nd round of funding to a grant applicant that is a Continuum of Care, and to require that if more than one recipient within the Continuum of Care has a population of 300,000 or more, as of January 1, 2020, the proportionate share of funds be equally allocated to those jurisdictions.
- Housing First Technical Amendment. Clarifies that an agency or department that administers programs that fund recovery housing shall comply with certain core components of Housing First, in addition to other requirements put in place by AB 83 (Committee on Budget, Chapter 15, Statutes of 2020), until July 1, 2022. Requires those administrators to fully comply with Housing First by July 1, 2022.
- Technical Correction Relating to Program Suspension. Removes incorrect references to the “Housing Navigator” program in budget item 2240-102-0001 to ensure that the correct program is suspended.
- California Volunteers. Establishes the California Volunteers Commission in state statute, consistent with the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, and provides for the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly to recommend one individual each for consideration and appointment to the Commission.
- National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Extends the sunset date for the California Secretary of Transportation's authority to assume responsibilities under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2022.
- State Transit Assistance Program. Allows transit operators to use funds received in the 19-20 to 21-22 fiscal years from the State Transit Assistance State of Good Repair program, which under current law have limited eligible uses, for any operating or capital expenditure provided the operator declares that doing so is necessary to prevent a reduction or elimination of transit service.
- Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Renames the Department of Business Oversight to the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and:
- Establishes a newly created fund called the Financial Protection Fund.
- Transfers all duties, responsibilities and remaining balances of the State Corporations Fund and the Financial Institutions Fund to the Financial Protection Fund and abolishes the aforementioned funds. Henceforth, any references to these funds will be a reference to the Financial Protection Fund.
- Provides that all expenses of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, with the exception of the Credit Unions Program and upon appropriation by the Legislature, will be drawn from the Financial Protection Fund.
- Makes technical amendment that provides that, in the event SB 908 of the 2019-20 Regular Session establishes the Debt Collection Licensing Fund, this fund would be transferred into the Financial Protection Fund and abolished on the enactment date of that bill.
- CalHR Reporting. Provides CalHR authority to charge state agencies and departments of costs related controlled substance abuse testing, psychological screening, and medical evaluations. This bill requires the State Controller to transfer moneys from any state agent or department owed to CalHR for these purposes.
- Data Sharing. Requires the Franchise Tax Board to transfer specified information to the Employment Development Department (EDD), through an information sharing agreements or data interfaces, for the purpose of administrating unemployment programs, including the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. This information is limited to information necessary to verify income, as specified.
- EDD Reporting. Requires EDD, starting on September 4, 2020, to make publicly available information and updates regarding unemployment claims. This information includes the number of claims paid, found ineligible, have not been certified, among others. This information shall be posted on the EDD website and shall be updated every two weeks. This requirement shall sunset on July 1, 2021.
- Farmworker Housing. Makes clarifications to enforcement and implementation provisions included in AB 1783 (R. Rivas, Chapter 866, Statutes of 2019). Specifically, this bill:
- Clarifies that, beginning January 1, 2020, housing funded by the Community Services Block Grant, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund, the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program, and other programs for migrant farmworkers, is prohibited from being rented, sold, or subleased to an agricultural employer who employs H2A workers.
- For purposes of housing that is funded by Department loan and grant programs, clarifies that the Department of Housing and Community Development is not responsible for the inspection of housing units that are not subsidized by the department.
- Makes other conforming and technical changes to clarify the rights of agricultural employees living in employee housing and to clarify the conditions under which agricultural employee housing may qualify for a streamlined ministerial approval process.
- Franchise Tax Board Data Sharing. Allows the Department of Social Services (DSS) to exchange data of individuals who may qualify for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) with the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) and would require the data to remain confidential and be used only for purposes directly connected to the CalEITC. In addition, authorizes the FTB to disclose individual income tax return information for taxable years on or after January 1, 2018, through January 1, 2020, to DSS. This information would also be confidential and is to be used only for the purposes of informing state residents of the availability of federal stimulus payments.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes Local: Yes
According to the Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Committee, this bill makes an appropriation by expanding the use of a continuously appropriated program.
SUPPORT: (Verified 8/29/20)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified 8/29/20)
Prepared by: Yong Salas / B. & F.R. / 916-651-4103
8/31/20 0:32:04
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(Without Reference to File)
CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
CSA1 Bill Id:AB 107
Author:(Committee on Budget)
As Amended Ver:August 28, 2020
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect Immediately.
SUMMARY:
This is the state government trailer bill for the 2020-21 budget. It contains the necessary changes to implement the 2020 Budget Act.
The Senate Amendments:
Executive Director for the Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs
- Provides that the Commission on the Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs may appoint an executive director.
California Volunteers
- Establishes in statute the California Volunteers Commission, a 25 member commission pursuant to the requirements of the federal National and Community Service Trust Act.
California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Act
- Establishes the California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Act, which requires the Franchise Tax Board, in consultation with the Treasurer and the Department of Finance to develop a comprehensive plan for a California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Program to be considered by the Legislature
- Requires the Franchise Tax Board to provide the comprehensive plan to the Legislature by March 1, 2021.
- Repeals these provisions by January 1, 2022.
Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
- Abolishes the Division of Corporations within the Department of Business Oversight and replaces it with the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
- Abolishes the State Corporations Fund, the Debt Collection Licensing Fund, and the Financial Institutions Fund and replaces these funds with the Financial Protection Fund.
- Requires that all duties and responsibilities and remaining balances in the State Corporations Fund and the Financial Institutions Fund be transferred the Financial Institutions Fund, as the successor fund.
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
- Current law allows the state Transportation Secretary to assume responsibilities under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, or (NEPA), and other federal environmental laws for any railroad, public transportation, or multimodal project until January 1, 2021. This bill would extend that authority one additional year, until January 1, 2022.
Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program
- Makes clarifying changes to the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program including:
- Requiring that the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to award no less than $250,000 to a grant applicant in the 2nd round of funding that is a Continuum of Care.
- Requiring that if more than one recipient within the Continuum of Care has a population of 300,000 or more, as of January 1, 2020, the proportionate share of funds be equally allocated to those jurisdictions.
Beverage Container Recycling Program
- Revises the reporting requirement for the status of the Beverage Container Recycling Program from four times a year to twice a year instead.
Vehicle License Fee Law
- Allows State of Good Repair Program funds that are allocated to transit agencies by formula to be used for operating and maintenance expenditures under certain circumstances for the funds received for fiscal years 2019-20 through 2021-22.
County Assessment Appeals Boards
- Codifies the Governor's Executive Order, and extends to March 31, 2021, the two year deadline by which a county board is required to render a final determination on a qualified application.
- Provides that nothing in existing law shall be construed to prohibit a county board or a multijurisdictional assessment appeals board from conducting hearings remotely. Requires a county board or a multijurisdictional assessment appeals board that conducts a hearing remotely to ensure compliance with those requirements for equalization hearings and any rules or procedures adopted by the county board of supervisors.
Data Exchange
- Requires the State Department of Social Services to exchange data with the Franchise Tax Board, for individuals that may qualify for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC). Requires the data provided to remain confidential and be used only for purposes directly connected with CalEITC.
- Authorizes the Franchise Tax Board to disclose individual income tax return information for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, and before January 1, 2020, to the State Department of Social Services for informing state residents of the availability of federal stimulus payments. Requires the information to remain confidential.
- Requires the Franchise Tax Board to disclose return and return information necessary to verify income, as specified, through information sharing agreements or data interfaces, when necessary for EDD unemployment program administration.
Farmworker Housing
- Makes clarifications to enforcement and implementation provisions included in AB 1783 (R. Rivas), Chapter 866, Statutes of 2019. Specifically, this bill:
- Clarifies that, beginning January 1, 2020, housing funded by the Community Services Block Grant, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund, the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program, and other programs for migrant farmworkers, is prohibited from being rented, sold, or subleased to an agricultural employer who employs H2A workers.
- Clarifies that the Department of Housing and Community Development is not responsible for the inspection of housing units that are not subsidized by the department.
- Makes other conforming and technical changes to clarify the rights of agricultural employees living in employee housing and to clarify the conditions under which agricultural employee housing may qualify for a streamlined ministerial approval process.
Employment Development Department Reporting Language
- Requires the Director of the Employment Development Department to make publicly available, beginning September 4, 2020, until July 1, 2021, on the department's website specified information, including the number of unemployment compensation benefit claims paid and the number of claims found to ineligible since March 1, 2020.
Housing First Technical Amendment
- Requires an agency or department that administers programs that fund recovery housing or comply with the core components of Housing First, and imposes all those additional requirements only until July 1, 2021.
Technical Error relating to the 2240-102-0001
- Deletes the incorrect reference of "Housing Navigator" from Item No. 2240-102-000
COMMENTS:
This bill is a budget trailer bill within the overall 2020-21 budget package necessary to implement actions related to state government.
According to the Author:
Arguments in Support:
Arguments in Opposition:
FISCAL COMMENTS:
The Vehicle License Fee Law is a continuously appropriated fund and thereby an appropriation.
VOTES:
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 54-13-13
YES: Aguiar-Curry, Bauer-Kahan, Bloom, Boerner Horvath, Bonta, Burke, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chau, Chu, Cooper, Daly, Eggman, Frazier, Friedman, Gabriel, Cristina Garcia, Gipson, Gloria, Gonzalez, Gray, Grayson, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kamlager-Dove, Limón, Maienschein, McCarty, Medina, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, O'Donnell, Petrie-Norris, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Blanca Rubio, Salas, Santiago, Smith, Mark Stone, Ting, Weber, Wicks, Wood, Rendon
NO: Bigelow, Brough, Dahle, Flora, Fong, Gallagher, Kiley, Mathis, Melendez, Obernolte, Patterson, Voepel, Waldron
ABS, ABST OR NV: Arambula, Berman, Chen, Chiu, Choi, Cooley, Cunningham, Diep, Eduardo Garcia, Lackey, Levine, Low, Mayes
UPDATED:
VERSION: August 28, 2020
CONSULTANT: Genevieve Morelos / BUDGET / (916) 319-2099 FN: 0003634
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
Senator Holly Mitchell, Chair
2019 - 2020 Regular
Bill No: AB 107 Hearing Date: August 29, 2020
Author: | Committee on Budget | ||
Version: | August 28, 2020 As amended | ||
Urgency: | No | Fiscal: | No |
Consultant: | Yong Salas | ||
Subject: General Government
Summary:
This bill contains statutory provisions related to general government and state administration necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2020.
Proposed Law:
This bill makes the following statutory changes:
- Executive Director for the Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs. Provides that the Commission on the Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs may appoint an executive director.
- Property Tax Assessment Appeals Deadline and Remote Hearings. Allows county boards to extend the two-year deadline by which it is required to render a final determination in property tax assessment appeal applications to March 31, 2021. This would apply to applicants whose deadlines fell between March 4, 2020 and before March 31, 2021. The bill also clarifies that county boards and multijurisdictional assessment appeals boards may conduct hearings remotely.
- California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Act. Instructs the Franchise Tax Board, in consultation with the Treasurer and the Department of Finance, to develop a plan for a California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Program to be considered by the Legislature for future enactment. The plan is to be budget committees of both houses of the Legislature no later than March 1, 2021. The plan must include tax vouchers periodically created as assets of the state created in small increments to ensure widespread access. The tax vouchers must be allowed to be carried over to future taxable years, be fully transferable, and be allowed for participants to use for tax liabilities under the Personal Income Tax Law or the Corporation Tax Law.
- Beverage Container Recycling Program reporting. Changes the frequency of the Beverage Container Recycling Program reporting requirement from quarterly to biannually.
- Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program. Makes clarifying changes to the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program to require that the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to award no less than $250,000 in the 2nd round of funding to a grant applicant that is a Continuum of Care, and to require that if more than one recipient within the Continuum of Care has a population of 300,000 or more, as of January 1, 2020, the proportionate share of funds be equally allocated to those jurisdictions.
- Housing First Technical Amendment. Clarifies that an agency or department that administers programs that fund recovery housing shall comply with certain core components of Housing First, in addition to other requirements put in place by AB 83 (Committee on Budget), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2020, until July 1, 2022. Requires those administrators to fully comply with Housing First by July 1, 2022.
- Technical Correction Relating to Program Suspension. Removes incorrect references to the “Housing Navigator” program in budget item 2240-102-0001 to ensure that the correct program is suspended.
- California Volunteers. Establishes the California Volunteers Commission in state statute, consistent with the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, and provides for the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly to recommend one individual each for consideration and appointment to the Commission.
- National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Extends the sunset date for the California Secretary of Transportation's authority to assume responsibilities under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 from January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022.
- State Transit Assistance Program. Allows transit operators to use funds received in the 19-20 to 21-22 fiscal years from the State Transit Assistance State of Good Repair program, which under current law have limited eligible uses, for any operating or capital expenditure provided the operator declares that doing so is necessary to prevent a reduction or elimination of transit service.
- Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Renames the Department of Business Oversight to the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and:
- Establishes a newly created fund called the Financial Protection Fund.
- Transfers all duties, responsibilities and remaining balances of the State Corporations Fund and the Financial Institutions Fund to the Financial Protection Fund and abolishes the aforementioned funds. Henceforth, any references to these funds will be a reference to the Financial Protection Fund.
- Provides that all expenses of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, with the exception of the Credit Unions Program and upon appropriation by the Legislature, will be drawn from the Financial Protection Fund.
- Makes technical amendment that provides that, in the event Senate Bill 908 of the 2019-20 Regular Session establishes the Debt Collection Licensing Fund, this fund would be transferred into the Financial Protection Fund and abolished on the enactment date of that bill.
- CalHR Reporting. Provides CalHR authority to charge state agencies and departments of costs related controlled substance abuse testing, psychological screening, and medical evaluations. The bill requires the Controller to transfer moneys from any state agent or department owed to CalHR for these purposes.
- Data Sharing. Requires the Franchise Tax Board to transfer specified information to the Employment Development Department, through an information sharing agreements or data interfaces, for the purpose of administrating unemployment programs, including the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. This information is limited to information necessary to verify income, as specified.
- EDD Reporting. Requires EDD, starting on September 4, 2020, to make publicly available information and updates regarding unemployment claims. This information includes the number of claims paid, found ineligible, have not been certified, among others. This information s`hall be posted on the EDD website and shall be updated every two weeks. This requirement shall sunset on July 1, 2021.
- Farmworker Housing: Makes clarifications to enforcement and implementation provisions included in AB 1783 (R. Rivas), Chapter 866, Statutes of 2019. Specifically, this bill:
- Clarifies that, beginning January 1, 2020, housing funded by the Community Services Block Grant, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund, the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program, and other programs for migrant farmworkers, is prohibited from being rented, sold, or subleased to an agricultural employer who employs H2A workers.
- For purposes of housing that is funded by Department loan and grant programs, clarifies that the Department of Housing and Community Development is not responsible for the inspection of housing units that are not subsidized by the department.
- Makes other conforming and technical changes to clarify the rights of agricultural employees living in employee housing and to clarify the conditions under which agricultural employee housing may qualify for a streamlined ministerial approval process.
- Clarifies that, beginning January 1, 2020, housing funded by the Community Services Block Grant, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund, the Joe Serna, Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program, and other programs for migrant farmworkers, is prohibited from being rented, sold, or subleased to an agricultural employer who employs H2A workers.
- Franchise Tax Board Data Sharing. Allows the Department of Social Services (DSS) to exchange data of individuals who may qualify for the California Earned Income Tax Credit (CalEITC) with the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) and would require the data to remain confidential and be used only for purposes directly connected to the CalEITC. In addition, authorizes the FTB to disclose individual income tax return information for taxable years on or after January 1, 2018 through January 1, 2020, to DSS. This information would also be confidential and is to be used only for the purposes of informing state residents of the availability of federal stimulus payments.
Fiscal Effect. This bill makes an appropriation by expanding the use of a continuously appropriated program.
Support: None on file.
Opposed: None on file.
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SENATE COMMITTEE ON
Senator Holly Mitchell, Chair
2019 - 2020 Regular
Bill No: Hearing Date: August 27, 2020
Author: | Committee on Budget | ||
Version: | August 27, 2020 As amended | ||
Urgency: | Fiscal: | ||
Consultant: | |||
Subject: General Government
Summary:
This bill contains statutory provisions related to general government and state administration necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2020.
Proposed Law:
This bill makes the following statutory changes:
- Executive Director for the Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs. Provides that the Commission on the Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs may appoint an executive director.
- Property Tax Assessment Appeals Deadline and Remote Hearings. Allows county boards to extend the two-year deadline by which it is required to render a final determination in property tax assessment appeal applications to March 31, 2021. This would apply to applicants whose deadlines fell between March 4, 2020 and before March 31, 2021. The bill also clarifies that county boards and multijurisdictional assessment appeals boards may conduct hearings remotely.
- California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Act. Instructs the Franchise Tax Board, in consultation with the Treasurer and the Department of Finance, to develop a plan for a California Economic Improvement Tax Voucher Program to be considered by the Legislature for future enactment. The plan is to be budget committees of both houses of the Legislature no later than March 1, 2021. The plan must include tax vouchers periodically created as assets of the state created in small increments to ensure widespread access. The tax vouchers must be allowed to be carried over to future taxable years, be fully transferable, and be allowed for participants to use for tax liabilities under the Personal Income Tax Law or the Corporation Tax Law.
- Beverage Container Recycling Program reporting. Changes the frequency of the Beverage Container Recycling Program reporting requirement from quarterly to biannually.
- Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program. Makes clarifying changes to the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention Program to require that the Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council to award no less than $250,000 in the 2nd round of funding to a grant applicant that is a Continuum of Care, and to require that if more than one recipient within the Continuum of Care has a population of 300,000 or more, as of January 1, 2020, the proportionate share of funds be equally allocated to those jurisdictions.
- Housing First Technical Amendment. Clarifies that an agency or department that administers programs that fund recovery housing shall comply with certain core components of Housing First, in addition to other requirements put in place by AB 83 (Committee on Budget), Chapter 15, Statutes of 2020, until July 1, 2022. Requires those administrators to fully comply with Housing First by July 1, 2022.
- Technical Correction Relating to Program Suspension. Removes incorrect references to the “Housing Navigator” program in budget item 2240-102-0001 to ensure that the correct program is suspended.
- California Volunteers. Establishes the California Volunteers Commission in state statute, consistent with the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993, and provides for the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly to recommend one individual each for consideration and appointment to the Commission.
- National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Extends the sunset date for the California Secretary of Transportation's authority to assume responsibilities under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 from January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022.
- State Transit Assistance Program. Allows transit operators to use funds received in the 19-20 to 21-22 fiscal years from the State Transit Assistance State of Good Repair program, which under current law have limited eligible uses, for any operating or capital expenditure provided the operator declares that doing so is necessary to prevent a reduction or elimination of transit service.
- Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. Renames the Department of Business Oversight to the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, and:
- Establishes a newly created fund called the Financial Protection Fund.
- Transfers all duties, responsibilities and remaining balances of the State Corporations Fund and the Financial Institutions Fund to the Financial Protection Fund and abolishes the aforementioned funds. Henceforth, any references to these funds will be a reference to the Financial Protection Fund.
- Provides that all expenses of the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, with the exception of the Credit Unions Program and upon appropriation by the Legislature, will be drawn from the Financial Protection Fund.
- CalHR Reporting. Provides CalHR authority to charge state agencies and departments of costs related controlled substance abuse testing, psychological screening, and medical evaluations. The bill requires the Controller to transfer moneys from any state agent or department owed to CalHR for these purposes.
- Data Sharing. Requires the Franchise Tax Board to transfer specified information to the Employment Development Department, through an information sharing agreements or data interfaces, for the purpose of administrating unemployment programs, including the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program. This information is limited to information necessary to verify income, as specified.
- EDD Reporting. Requires EDD, starting on September 4, 2020, to make publicly available information and updates regarding unemployment claims. This information includes the number of claims paid, found ineligible, have not been certified, among others. This information shall be posted on the EDD website and shall be updated every two weeks. This requirement shall sunset on July 1, 2021.
Fiscal Effect. This bill makes an appropriation by expanding the use of a continuously appropriated program.
Support: None on file.
Opposed: None on file.
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
ATR Bill Id:AB 107
Author:(Ting)
As Introduced Ver:December 3, 2018
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect Immediately
SUMMARY:
This bill expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2019.
Major Provisions
COMMENTS:
According to the Author:
Arguments in Support:
Arguments in Opposition:
FISCAL COMMENTS:
VOTES:
UPDATED:
VERSION: December 3, 2018
CONSULTANT: Christian Griffith / BUDGET / (916) 319-2099 FN: 0000150
Bill Author
Bill Co-Author(s):