California 2013-2014 Regular Session Status: To Executive

AB 300 — Telecommunications: prepaid mobile telephony services: state surcharge and fees: local charges collection.

Last action — Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5.

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Assembly
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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

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Summary

(1) The existing Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone service to provide revenues sufficient to fund "911" emergency telephone system costs. Amounts are determined annually by the Office of Emergency Services, and upon collection are paid to the State Board of Equalization on a monthly basis by the telephone service supplier and are deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund, to be expended for limited purposes, including to pay the Department of General Services for its costs in administration of the "911" emergency telephone number system. Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission, or PUC, has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, and is authorized to fix just and reasonable rates and charges for services provided by those public utilities. Existing law establishes the Public Utilities Commission Utilities Reimbursement Account and authorizes the PUC to annually determine a fee to be paid by every public utility providing service directly to customers or subscribers and subject to the jurisdiction of the PUC, except for a railroad corporation. The PUC is required to establish the fee, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to produce a total amount equal to that amount established in the authorized PUC budget for the same year, and an appropriate reserve to regulate public utilities, less specified sources of funding. Existing law establishes the state's telecommunications universal service programs and authorizes the PUC to impose charges for the purpose of funding those programs. Pursuant to this authority, the PUC has established 6 end-user surcharges to fund 6 universal service programs. This bill would enact the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Service Surcharge Collection Act (act) . The bill would establish a prepaid MTS surcharge, as defined, based upon a percentage of the sales price of each retail transaction that occurs in this state for prepaid mobile telephony services, as defined. The prepaid MTS surcharge would include the emergency telephone users surcharge, as defined, and PUC surcharges, as defined. The bill would require a seller, as defined, to collect the prepaid MTS surcharge, as provided, from a prepaid consumer, as defined, and remit the amounts collected to the State Board of Equalization pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law. The bill would require the board, after deducting its administrative expenses, to deposit the amounts collected for the emergency telephone users surcharge into the Prepaid MTS 911 Account and to deposit the amounts collected for PUC surcharges into the Prepaid MTS PUC Account in the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury. The bill would require the PUC to annually compute for prepaid mobile telephony services the PUC's reimbursement fee and 6 universal service program surcharges, to post notice of those fees and surcharges on its Internet Web site, and to notify the State Board of Equalization and the Office of Emergency Services of the amounts and the computation method used to determine the amounts, which would be adjusted, as specified, and together would be the PUC surcharges. The bill would require the PUC, 30 days prior to adopting any adjustment to a reimbursement fee or universal service surcharge on both postpaid and prepaid intrastate service to prepare a prescribed resolution or other public document proposing the fee or surcharge adjustment and explaining the calculation of the new fee or surcharge, as specified, and would require the PUC to make it available to the public and on the PUC's Internet Web site. The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program in order to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. Existing decisions of the PUC exempt lifeline services from the PUC's reimbursement fee and the 6 end-user surcharges that fund the state's 6 universal service programs. This bill would exempt the purchase in a retail transaction in this state of prepaid mobile telephony services, either alone or in combination with mobile data or other services, by a consumer from the prepaid MTS surcharge and specified local charges if certain conditions are met, including that the prepaid consumer is certified as eligible for the state lifeline program or federal lifeline program. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to annually compute, as specified, the intrastate portion of the 911 surcharge to be collected on prepaid mobile telephony services to post notice of those charges and to notify the State Board of Equalization of the amount, which would be the emergency telephone users surcharge. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to prepare a prescribed summary of the calculation of the proposed 911 surcharge and make the summary available to the public and on its Internet Web site, as specified. Local charges would be computed pursuant to the Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, discussed below. Existing law defines mobile telephony services for purposes of the Public Utilities Code. This bill would revise that definition and incorporate that definition for purposes of the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Service Surcharge Collection Act. (2) Existing law generally provides that the legislative body of any charter city may make and enforce all ordinances and regulations with respect to municipal affairs, as provided, including, but not limited to, a utility user tax in that municipality. Existing law generally provides that the legislative body of a city may levy any tax that may be levied by a charter city. Existing law further provides that the board of supervisors of any county may levy a utility user tax on the consumption of, among other things, telephone service, in the unincorporated area of the county. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, suspend the authority of a city, county, or city and county, including any charter city, county, or city and county, to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of prepaid communications service at the rate specified in an ordinance adopted pursuant to existing law, and would instead require the utility user tax rate to be applied during that period under any ordinance to be at specified tiered rates, to be collected and administered as prescribed in the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge Collection Act. In addition, the bill would, on or after January 1, 2015, suspend the authority of a city, county, or city and county, including any charter city, county, or city and county, to impose a charge, that applies to prepaid mobile telephony service, on access to communication services or access to local "911" emergency telephone systems, in the city, county, or city and county at the rate as specified in an ordinance adopted pursuant to existing law, and would instead require the charge rate to be applied during that period under any ordinance to be at specified rates, to be collected and administered as prescribed in the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge Collection Act. This bill would specify that a change in a utility user tax rate or access charge rate resulting from either the rate limitations or the end of the suspension period is not subject to voter approval under either statute or Article XIII C of the California Constitution. This bill would require these local charges imposed by a city, county, or a city and county be administered and collected by the State Board of Equalization, deposited in the Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, which this bill would create, and transmitted to the city, county, or a city and county, as provided. This bill would allow a consumer to rebut the presumed location of a retail transaction for purposes of the collection of the local charges by filing a claim and declaration under penalty of perjury. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2018. (4) The Fee Collection Procedures Law makes a violation of any provision of the law, or of certain requirements imposed by the board pursuant to the law, a crime. By expanding the application of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5.

  2. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.

  3. Vetoed by Governor.

  4. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

  5. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 3286.).

  6. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  7. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 4. Page 2347.).

  8. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  9. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  10. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  11. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30).

  12. In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  13. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  14. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 21).

  15. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.

  16. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  17. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F.

  18. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 2).

  19. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U., & C.

  20. Referred to Coms. on E., U., & C. and GOV. & F.

  21. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  22. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 1. Page 1921.).

  23. Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1896.)

  24. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  25. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 24).

  26. In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  27. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  28. Read second time and amended.

  29. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (May 13).

  30. In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file.

  31. Measure version as amended on April 16 corrected.

  32. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  33. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX.

  34. Read second time and amended.

  35. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 8).

  36. Referred to Coms. on U. & C. and REV. & TAX.

  37. From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.

  38. Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

  • Perea · Primary

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Votes

AB 300 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments

Passed 72 Yea · 2 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 65204
Democratic 4000
Republican 3000
Total 72204
% of votes cast 92%3%0%5%
How each member voted (78)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Ammiano — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Holden — Yea
Levine — Yea
Logue — Yea
Mansoor — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Pan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Skinner — Not Voting
Weber — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Gordon — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Hall — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Allen — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Garcia — Yea
Gray — Yea
Fong — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Linder — Yea
Medina — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Daly — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Fox — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Gatto — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Salas — Yea
Campos — Yea
Atkins — Not Voting
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chesbro — Not Voting
Chávez — Nay
Conway — Yea
Donnelly — Nay
Melendez — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Nestande — Yea
Perea — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ting — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Not Voting
Gorell — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Lorena Gonzalez — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea

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3rd Reading AB300 Perea By Hill

Passed 31 Yea · 4 Nay · 4 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 29403
Democratic 2001
Total 31404
% of votes cast 79%10%0%10%
How each member voted (39)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Beall — Nay
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
Leno — Nay
Liu — Yea
Pavley — Not Voting
Vidak — Yea
Walters — Yea
Corbett — Nay
Wyland — Yea
Correa — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Huff — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Evans — Yea
Lieu — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Torres — Yea
De León — Yea
Emmerson — Yea
Knight — Yea
Monning — Nay
Roth — Yea
Wolk — Yea
Wright — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Block — Yea
Hueso — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Yee — Yea
Hancock — Not Voting
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Not Voting
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 1000
Unaffiliated 6000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Walters — Yea
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
De León — Yea
Steinberg — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Governance and Finance.

Passed 6 Yea · 0 Nay · 5 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 5005
Democratic 1000
Total 6005
% of votes cast 55%0%0%45%
How each member voted (11)
Member Party Vote
Hill — Yea
Pavley — Not Voting
Wolk — Not Voting
Cannella — Yea
Knight — Yea
Wright — Yea
De León — Not Voting
Corbett — Not Voting
DeSaulnier — Not Voting
Fuller — Yea
Padilla, Stephen C. Democratic Yea

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AB 300 PEREA Third Reading Urgency

Passed 65 Yea · 1 Nay · 13 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 541013
Democratic 7000
Republican 4000
Total 651013
% of votes cast 82%1%0%16%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Achadjian — Yea
Alejo — Yea
Bloom — Not Voting
Blumenfield — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Brown — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Levine — Yea
Linder — Yea
Logue — Not Voting
Maienschein — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nazarian — Yea
Pan — Yea
Perea — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Stone — Yea
Gomez — Yea
Lowenthal — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Atkins — Yea
Hall — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Campos — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Mansoor — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Melendez — Yea
John A. Pérez — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Daly — Yea
Dickinson — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Olsen — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Weber — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Williams — Yea
Chau — Yea
Chesbro — Not Voting
Salas — Not Voting
Fox — Not Voting
Gray — Not Voting
Chávez — Not Voting
Gordon — Not Voting
Conway — Yea
Holden — Not Voting
Donnelly — Nay
Ammiano — Not Voting
Medina — Not Voting
Nestande — Yea
Skinner — Not Voting
Ting — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Yamada — Not Voting
Gonzalez — Yea
Hagman — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
V. Manuel Pérez — Yea
Allen, Benjamin Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Garcia, Robert Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Grove, Shannon Republican Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Patterson, Joe Republican Yea

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Do pass.

Passed 16 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 15001
Democratic 1000
Total 16001
% of votes cast 94%0%0%6%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Bigelow — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Linder — Yea
Pan — Yea
Wagner — Yea
Ammiano — Not Voting
Gomez — Yea
Campos — Yea
Hall — Yea
Harkey — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Donnelly — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Weber — Yea
Gatto — Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea

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Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Revenue and Taxation.

Passed 14 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 10001
Democratic 2000
Republican 2000
Total 14001
% of votes cast 93%0%0%7%
How each member voted (15)
Member Party Vote
Bradford — Yea
Buchanan — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Gorell — Yea
Bonilla — Yea
Chávez — Not Voting
Rendon — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Williams — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Roger Hernández — Yea
Fong, Mike Democratic Yea
Garcia, Robert Democratic Yea
Jones, Brian W. Republican Yea
Patterson, Joe Republican Yea

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What does AB 300 do?
(1) The existing Emergency Telephone Users Surcharge Act generally imposes a surcharge on amounts paid by every person in the state for intrastate telephone service to provide revenues sufficient to fund "911" emergency telephone system costs. Amounts are determined annually by the Office of Emergency Services, and upon collection are paid to the State Board of Equalization on a monthly basis by the telephone service supplier and are deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Emergency Telephone Number Account in the General Fund, to be expended for limited purposes, including to pay the Department of General Services for its costs in administration of the "911" emergency telephone number system. Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission, or PUC, has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations, and is authorized to fix just and reasonable rates and charges for services provided by those public utilities. Existing law establishes the Public Utilities Commission Utilities Reimbursement Account and authorizes the PUC to annually determine a fee to be paid by every public utility providing service directly to customers or subscribers and subject to the jurisdiction of the PUC, except for a railroad corporation. The PUC is required to establish the fee, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to produce a total amount equal to that amount established in the authorized PUC budget for the same year, and an appropriate reserve to regulate public utilities, less specified sources of funding. Existing law establishes the state's telecommunications universal service programs and authorizes the PUC to impose charges for the purpose of funding those programs. Pursuant to this authority, the PUC has established 6 end-user surcharges to fund 6 universal service programs. This bill would enact the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Service Surcharge Collection Act (act) . The bill would establish a prepaid MTS surcharge, as defined, based upon a percentage of the sales price of each retail transaction that occurs in this state for prepaid mobile telephony services, as defined. The prepaid MTS surcharge would include the emergency telephone users surcharge, as defined, and PUC surcharges, as defined. The bill would require a seller, as defined, to collect the prepaid MTS surcharge, as provided, from a prepaid consumer, as defined, and remit the amounts collected to the State Board of Equalization pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law. The bill would require the board, after deducting its administrative expenses, to deposit the amounts collected for the emergency telephone users surcharge into the Prepaid MTS 911 Account and to deposit the amounts collected for PUC surcharges into the Prepaid MTS PUC Account in the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge Fund, which the bill would establish in the State Treasury. The bill would require the PUC to annually compute for prepaid mobile telephony services the PUC's reimbursement fee and 6 universal service program surcharges, to post notice of those fees and surcharges on its Internet Web site, and to notify the State Board of Equalization and the Office of Emergency Services of the amounts and the computation method used to determine the amounts, which would be adjusted, as specified, and together would be the PUC surcharges. The bill would require the PUC, 30 days prior to adopting any adjustment to a reimbursement fee or universal service surcharge on both postpaid and prepaid intrastate service to prepare a prescribed resolution or other public document proposing the fee or surcharge adjustment and explaining the calculation of the new fee or surcharge, as specified, and would require the PUC to make it available to the public and on the PUC's Internet Web site. The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program in order to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. Existing decisions of the PUC exempt lifeline services from the PUC's reimbursement fee and the 6 end-user surcharges that fund the state's 6 universal service programs. This bill would exempt the purchase in a retail transaction in this state of prepaid mobile telephony services, either alone or in combination with mobile data or other services, by a consumer from the prepaid MTS surcharge and specified local charges if certain conditions are met, including that the prepaid consumer is certified as eligible for the state lifeline program or federal lifeline program. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to annually compute, as specified, the intrastate portion of the 911 surcharge to be collected on prepaid mobile telephony services to post notice of those charges and to notify the State Board of Equalization of the amount, which would be the emergency telephone users surcharge. The bill would require the Office of Emergency Services to prepare a prescribed summary of the calculation of the proposed 911 surcharge and make the summary available to the public and on its Internet Web site, as specified. Local charges would be computed pursuant to the Local Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Collection Act, discussed below. Existing law defines mobile telephony services for purposes of the Public Utilities Code. This bill would revise that definition and incorporate that definition for purposes of the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Service Surcharge Collection Act. (2) Existing law generally provides that the legislative body of any charter city may make and enforce all ordinances and regulations with respect to municipal affairs, as provided, including, but not limited to, a utility user tax in that municipality. Existing law generally provides that the legislative body of a city may levy any tax that may be levied by a charter city. Existing law further provides that the board of supervisors of any county may levy a utility user tax on the consumption of, among other things, telephone service, in the unincorporated area of the county. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2015, suspend the authority of a city, county, or city and county, including any charter city, county, or city and county, to impose a utility user tax on the consumption of prepaid communications service at the rate specified in an ordinance adopted pursuant to existing law, and would instead require the utility user tax rate to be applied during that period under any ordinance to be at specified tiered rates, to be collected and administered as prescribed in the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge Collection Act. In addition, the bill would, on or after January 1, 2015, suspend the authority of a city, county, or city and county, including any charter city, county, or city and county, to impose a charge, that applies to prepaid mobile telephony service, on access to communication services or access to local "911" emergency telephone systems, in the city, county, or city and county at the rate as specified in an ordinance adopted pursuant to existing law, and would instead require the charge rate to be applied during that period under any ordinance to be at specified rates, to be collected and administered as prescribed in the Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Surcharge Collection Act. This bill would specify that a change in a utility user tax rate or access charge rate resulting from either the rate limitations or the end of the suspension period is not subject to voter approval under either statute or Article XIII C of the California Constitution. This bill would require these local charges imposed by a city, county, or a city and county be administered and collected by the State Board of Equalization, deposited in the Local Charges for Prepaid Mobile Telephony Services Fund, which this bill would create, and transmitted to the city, county, or a city and county, as provided. This bill would allow a consumer to rebut the presumed location of a retail transaction for purposes of the collection of the local charges by filing a claim and declaration under penalty of perjury. By expanding the crime of perjury, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2018. (4) The Fee Collection Procedures Law makes a violation of any provision of the law, or of certain requirements imposed by the board pursuant to the law, a crime. By expanding the application of the Fee Collection Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. (5) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors AB 300?
AB 300 is sponsored by Perea.
What is the current status of AB 300?
This bill died with 2013-2014 Regular Session. It reached “To Executive” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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