BILL NUMBER: SB 1335	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leno

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to  amend Section 1020 of the Financial Code,
relating to banking.   add Section 41 to the Revenue and
Taxation Code, relating to taxation. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1335, as amended, Leno.  Banking.   Income
and corporation taxes: credits: information.  
   Existing law imposes various taxes and allows specified credits,
deductions, exclusions, and exemptions in computing those taxes.
 
   This bill would require any bill, introduced on or after January
1, 2015, that would authorize a personal income or corporation tax
credit to contain, among other provisions, specified goals, purposes,
and objectives that the tax credit will achieve and detailed
performance indicators to measure whether the tax credit is meeting
those goals, purposes, and objectives.  
   Existing law provides for the regulation of state organized banks
by the Department of Business Oversight. Existing law establishes the
Commissioner of Business Oversight as the head of the department.
Existing law requires the request for authority to organize and
establish a corporation to engage in the banking or trust business to
be set forth in an application and to contain information as the
commissioner may require.  
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this law. 

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


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

   SECTION 1.    The Legislature finds and declares the
following:  
   (a) Government should demonstrate transparency and accountability
when investing public dollars in economic incentives.  
   (b) Government enacts tax preferences to promote social and
economic goals and provides direct benefits to taxpayers without
incurring direct expenditures. 
   (c) Tax preferences represent a major exercise of government
power, but face less oversight than many activities on the spending
side of the budget.  
   (d) National and state public finance experts recommend that tax
preferences be evaluated alongside direct spending programs, as both
are public initiatives meant to accomplish specified goals. 

   (e) Revenue losses attributable to federal tax preferences exceed
any other category of federal spending, including defense, Medicaid
and Medicare, Social Security, debt service, or discretionary
spending.  
   (f) California now forgoes more than $47 billion in revenue from
tax preferences, according to the Department of Finance.  
   (g) Many current tax preferences do not contain goals and
objectives to measure the performance of the tax preference. 

   (h) Many current tax preferences neither require taxpayers to
submit data demonstrating the tax preference's effectiveness, nor for
state agencies to collect and send data to the Legislature to
evaluate the tax preference.  
   (i) The Legislature should apply the same level of review and
performance measure that it applies to spending programs to tax
preference programs, including tax credits. 
   SEC. 2.    Section 41 is added to the  
Revenue and Taxation Code   , to read:  
   41.  Notwithstanding any other law, any bill, introduced on or
after January 1, 2015, that would authorize a new credit against the
"net tax," as defined in Section 17039, or against the "tax," as
defined in Section 23036, or both, shall contain all of the
following:
   (a) Specific goals, purposes, and objectives that the tax credit
will achieve.
   (b) Detailed performance indicators for the Legislature to use
when measuring whether the tax credit meets the goals, purposes, and
objectives stated in the bill.
   (c) Data collection requirements to enable the Legislature to
determine whether the tax credit is meeting, failing to meet, or
exceeding those specific goals, purposes, and objectives. The
requirements shall include the specific data and baseline
measurements to be collected and remitted in each year the credit is
in effect, in order for the Legislature to measure the change in
performance indicators, and the specific taxpayers, state agencies,
or other entities required to collect and remit data.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 1020 of the Financial Code
is amended to read:
   1020.  The request for authority to organize and establish a
corporation to engage in the banking or trust business shall be set
forth in an application in the form, and containing the information,
as the commissioner may require and shall be accompanied by a fee of
five thousand dollars ($5,000).