Amended in Assembly April 5, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1765

Introduced by Assembly Member Irwin

February 3, 2016

An act to add Chapter 5.6 (commencing with Section 8400) to Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to state government.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1765, as amended, 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 begin delete to end delete use the financial support it begin delete seeks end delete begin insert receives end insert solely for the governmental purposes approved by CaliforniaVolunteers for activities within the scope of authority of CaliforniaVolunteers. begin insert The bill would prohibit CaliforniaVolunteers from using more than 10% of the funding received from the nonprofit public benefit corporation or other entity to pay for its administrative costs. end insert 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:

SECTION 1.  

Chapter 5.6 (commencing with Section 8400) is
added to Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, to read:

 

Chapter  5.6. CaliforniaVolunteers

 

8400.  

(a) CaliforniaVolunteers, as established by Executive
Order S-24-06, is authorized to form a nonprofit public benefit
corporation or other entity exempt from income taxation as an
organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code or Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code 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. Grants or financial support begin delete sought end delete begin insert received end insert
by the nonprofit public benefit corporation or other entity shall be
used solely for the governmental purposes approved by
CaliforniaVolunteers for activities within the scope of authority
of CaliforniaVolunteers. begin insert CaliforniaVolunteers shall not use more
than 10 percent of the funding received from the nonprofit public
benefit corporation or other entity to pay for the administrative
costs of CaliforniaVolunteers. end insert The mission of the nonprofit public
benefit corporation or other entity is as follows:

(1) To support the funding of CaliforniaVolunteers programming
and administrative costs.

(2) To support any priorities set forth by the Governor or the
CaliforniaVolunteers board of commissioners.

(b) The authority granted in subdivision (a) shall expire if the
Governor rescinds Executive Order S-24-06 or otherwise rescinds
the establishment of CaliforniaVolunteers.