AB 1765, as introduced, Irwin. CaliforniaVolunteers: nonprofit public benefit corporation.
Under existing law, by executive order, CaliforniaVolunteers is established in the office of the Governor and is charged with overseeing programs and initiatives for service and volunteerism.
This bill would authorize CaliforniaVolunteers, for so long as it is authorized to exist, to form a nonprofit public benefit corporation or other entity exempt from income taxation, as provided, to raise revenues and receive grants or other financial support from private or public sources, for the purposes of undertaking or funding any lawful activity authorized to be undertaken by CaliforniaVolunteers. The bill would require that corporation or other entity to use the financial support it seeks solely for the governmental purposes approved by CaliforniaVolunteers for activities within the scope of authority of CaliforniaVolunteers. The bill would specify the mission of that corporation or other entity.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Chapter 5.6 (commencing with Section 8400) is
2added to Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read:
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(a) CaliforniaVolunteers, as established by Executive
7Order S-24-06, is authorized to form a nonprofit public benefit
8corporation or other entity exempt from income taxation as an
9organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
10Code or Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code to
11raise revenues and receive grants or other financial support from
12private or public sources, for the purposes of undertaking or
13funding any lawful activity authorized to be undertaken by
14CaliforniaVolunteers. Grants or financial support sought by the
15nonprofit public benefit corporation or other entity shall be used
16solely for the governmental purposes approved by
17CaliforniaVolunteers for activities within the scope of authority
18of CaliforniaVolunteers. The mission of the nonprofit public benefit
19corporation
or other entity is as follows:
20(1) To support the funding of CaliforniaVolunteers programming
21and administrative costs.
22(2) To support any priorities set forth by the Governor or the
23CaliforniaVolunteers board of commissioners.
24(b) The authority granted in subdivision (a) shall expire if the
25Governor rescinds Executive Order S-24-06 or otherwise rescinds
26the establishment of CaliforniaVolunteers.
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