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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 190
Author: Negrete McLeod (D), et al
Amended: 3/3/05 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE : 6-1, 6/23/05
AYES: Machado, Dutton, Alquist, Bowen, Cedillo,
Poochigian, Scott
NOES: Runner
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 73-2, 4/18/05 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Taxpayer contributions: California Sexual
Violence Victim Service Fund
SOURCE : California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
DIGEST : This bill establishes the California Sexual
Violence Victim Services Fund and allows taxpayers to
designate their own funds on their personal income tax
returns to that Fund. This check-off becomes operative
following the removal of another voluntary contribution
fund from the tax form.
ANALYSIS : Existing law allows taxpayers to contribute
money to one or more of 13 voluntary contribution funds by
checking a box on their state income tax return. This bill
requires contributions made through check-offs to be made
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from taxpayers' own resources (not from their tax
liability, as is possible on federal tax returns).
Check-off amounts may be claimed as charitable
contributions on taxpayers' tax returns during the
subsequent year.
This bill:
1. Allows the California Sexual Violence Victim Services
Fund check-off to remain on the tax form for up to five
years, provided it receives a minimum amount of
contributions beginning in its second year on the form.
The minimum contribution amount equals $250,000 in the
second year in which the check-off appears on the form.
This $250,000 minimum required contribution is indexed
for inflation in subsequent years.
2. Reimburses the State Controller and Franchise Tax Board
(FTB) for their costs to administer the check-off and
directs remaining check-off contributions to the
Epidemiology and Prevention for Injury Control Branch of
the State Department of Health Services for allocation to
the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
FTB estimates this bill will result in annual revenue
losses in the range of $15,000 in the second fiscal year
(FY) following the check-off's appearance on the form. For
example, if the check-off first appears on the 2005 tax
return due in April 2006, this bill results in General Fund
losses in the range of $15,000 beginning in FY 2006-07.
SUPPORT : (Verified 7/11/05)
California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (source)
AFSCME
Alliance Against Family Violence and Sexual Abuse
Antelope Valley Hospital
California Coalition Against Sexual Assault
California State Sheriffs' Association
Casa de Esperanza, Center for the Pacific Asian Family
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Center Against Sexual Assault of Southwest Riverside County
Center for Community Solutions
Central Coast VNA & Hospice
Children's Interview Center of Contra Costa County
Community Solutions
Community Violence Solutions/Rape Crisis Center of Contra
Costa and Marin Counties
Crime Victims United of California
East Los Angeles Women's Center
Family Services of Tulare County
Family Services of Tulare County
Haven Women's Center of Stanislaus
HRC Calaveras
Human Response Network
Junior Leagues of California
Lassen Family Services
Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women
Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women
Madera County Victim Services
Madera County Victim Services Center
Monterey Rape Crisis Center
North Coast Rape Crisis Team
North County Rape Crisis & Child Protection Center
North County Rape Crisis & Child Protection Center
Operation Care
Operation Care Amador County
Peace Officers Research Association of California
Project Sanctuary
Project SISTER
Rape Counseling Services of Fresno
Rape Crisis Center in San Jose
Rape Crisis Intervention
Rape Trauma Services of San Mateo County
San Francisco Women Against Rape
San Francisco Women Against Rape
Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center
Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Center
Sexual Assault Recovery & Prevention Center
Sexual Assault Recovery and Prevention Center of San Luis
Obispo County
Sexual Assault Victim Services-Orange County
South Lake Tahoe Women's Center
SURE helpline
Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital
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Sutter Lakeside Community Services
Tahoe Women's Services
The Women's Center-High Desert
Tri-Valley Haven
United Against Sexual Assault of Sonoma County
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Valley Trauma Center
Volunteer Center of Napa Valley
WEAVE
Women's Center of San Joaquin County
Women's Crisis Center
YWCA of Silicon Valley
YWCA Rape Crisis Center of San Jose
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : This bill is sponsored by the
CALCASA and is intended to augment the amount of money
available for both CALCASA and its 84 member rape crisis
centers. Together, CALCASA and California's 84 independent
rape crisis centers perform crisis intervention,
counseling, advocacy, and support for rape victims, and
offer community education and prevention programs believed
essential for the elimination of sexual assault. Funding
for CALCASA and California's rape crisis centers ahs
historically come form a combination of state and federal
grants administered by the Officer of Criminal Justice
Planning and from private support. In FY 2002-03, the most
recent year for which funding data are available, CALCASA
and California's rape crisis centers received approximately
$18.5 million in state and federal grant funding and in
private donations.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Aghazarian, Arambula, Baca, Bass, Benoit, Berg,
Bermudez, Blakeslee, Bogh, Calderon, Canciamilla, Chan,
Chu, Cogdill, Cohn, Coto, Daucher, De La Torre, DeVore,
Dymally, Emmerson, Frommer, Garcia, Goldberg, Hancock,
Harman, Jerome Horton, Shirley Horton, Houston, Huff,
Jones, Karnette, Keene, Klehs, Koretz, La Malfa, La Suer,
Laird, Leno, Leslie, Levine, Lieber, Liu, Matthews, Maze,
McCarthy, Montanez, Mountjoy, Mullin, Nakanishi, Nation,
Nava, Negrete McLeod, Parra, Pavley, Plescia, Richman,
Sharon Runner, Ruskin, Saldana, Salinas, Spitzer,
Strickland, Torrico, Tran, Umberg, Vargas, Villines,
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Walters, Wolk, Wyland, Yee, Nunez
NOES: Haynes, Niello
NO VOTE RECORDED: Chavez, Evans, Gordon, Oropeza,
Ridley-Thomas
DLW:do 7/13/05 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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