INTRODUCTION REPORT
Introductions from 01/30/07

AB 231

(Eng) Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act. (I-01/30/2007   html   pdf)

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The Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act requires any person supplying intrastate telephone communication services, as specified, in the state to collect a surcharge imposed on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone communication service including "toll telephone service," as defined. It requires the Department of General Services to annually determine a surcharge rate that it estimates will produce sufficient revenue to fund the current fiscal year's costs, but prohibits the surcharge rate in any year to be greater than3/4 of 1% nor less than 1/2 of 1%. It establishes the State Emergency Telephone Number Account into which the payments made pursuant to the act are deposited. It requires, upon appropriation, funds in the account to pay, among other things, bills submitted to the department by service suppliers or communications equipment companies for the installation of, and ongoing expenses for, specified communications services. This bill would specify that a "toll telephone service" would include a telephonic quality communication for which there is a toll charge that varies in amount with the distance or elapsed transmission time of each individual communication, and the charge is paid within the United States. This bill also would provide that "toll telephone service" includes, but is not limited to, bundled service that does not separately state the periodic charges for local and long distance telephonic quality communication and prepaid calling cards. This bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

SB 161

(Margett) Public works contracts: Internet submissions. (I-01/30/2007   html   pdf)

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Existing public contract law authorizes public entities to adopt methods and procedures to receive bids on public works or other contracts over the Internet, as specified. This bill would authorize public entities to receive supporting materials submitted pursuant to a public works contract over the Internet, as specified. This bill would require public entities that receive bids and supporting materials over the Internet to provide an electronic receipt to the contractor, as specified.

SB 162

(Negrete McLeod) Local government: organization. (I-01/30/2007   html   pdf)

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Existing law, the Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Act, specifies the factors that a local agency formation commission is required to consider in the review of a proposal for a change of organization or reorganization including the comments of any affected local agency and information or comments from the landowner or owners, as specified. This bill would also require a local agency formation commission to consider information or comments from voters or residents of the affected territory and the extent that the proposal will promote environmental justice, as defined, thus creating a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SCA 5

(McClintock) State and local government finance: voter-approval. (I-01/30/2007   html   pdf)

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The California Constitution defines, for purposes of local taxation, a "general tax" as a tax imposed for general governmental purposes and a "special tax" as a tax imposed for specific purposes. This measure would establish, for purposes of both state and local taxation, a constitutional definition of a "tax" as any monetary exaction imposed by a governmental entity, as defined, but would exclude from this definition monetary exactions that meet certain criteria. This measure would also recast the definition of a "special tax" as a tax whose revenues are required by law to be expended for a specific purpose or purposes. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.