Amended  IN  Senate  April 09, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 873

Introduced by Assembly Member Lackey
(Coauthor: Senator Wilk)

February 16, 2017

An act to amend Section 98 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to local government finance. Section 830.11 of the Penal Code, relating to peace officers.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 873, as amended, Lackey. Property taxes: TEA formula allocation: City of Palmdale. Department of Food and Agriculture: commercial cannabis activity inspectors: peace officer duties.
Existing law defines who is a peace officer and specifies the powers of peace officers. Under existing law, specified categories of people are not peace officers but are authorized to exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer and the power to serve warrants, as specified, if they receive a course in the exercise of those powers. Included in this classification is a person employed by the Department of Food and Agriculture and designated by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture as an investigator, investigator supervisor, or investigator manager, provided that the person’s primary duty is enforcement of, and investigations relating to, specified provisions of law under the purview of the department.
This bill would add to the classification of persons who are not peace officers but who are authorized to exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer and the power to serve warrants, if trained as specified, a person employed by the Department of Food and Agriculture and designated by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture as an investigator, investigator supervisor, or investigator manager, provided that the person’s primary duty is enforcement of, and investigations relating to, commercial cannabis activity. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.

Existing property tax law requires the auditor of each county with qualifying cities, as defined, to make certain property tax revenue allocations to those cities in accordance with an established Tax Equity Allocation (TEA) formula and to make corresponding reductions in the amount of property tax revenue that is allocated to the county, as specified.

This bill, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, would prohibit the auditor of the County of Los Angeles from reducing the amount distributed to the City of Palmdale by reason of that city receiving property taxes previously allocated to a maintenance or improvement district pursuant to a specified provision.

This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Palmdale.

By imposing new duties upon local county officials with respect to the allocation of ad valorem property tax revenues, 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.

By increasing the amount of ad valorem property tax revenue allocated from the County of Los Angeles to the City of Palmdale, this bill would change the pro rata shares in which ad valorem property tax revenues are allocated among local agencies in a county, within the meaning of paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 25.5 of Article XIII of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature.

Vote: TWO_THIRDSMAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: YESNO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 830.11 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

830.11.
 (a) The following persons are not peace officers but may exercise the powers of arrest of a peace officer as specified in Section 836 and the power to serve warrants as specified in Sections 1523 and 1530 during the course and within the scope of their employment, if they receive a course in the exercise of those powers pursuant to Section 832. The authority and powers of the persons designated under this section shall extend extend to any place in the state:
(1) Persons A person employed by the Department of Business Oversight designated by the Commissioner of Business Oversight, provided that the person’s primary duty of these persons shall be is the enforcement of, and investigations relating to, the provisions of law administered by the Commissioner of Business Oversight.
(2) Persons A person employed by the Bureau of Real Estate designated by the Real Estate Commissioner, provided that the person’s primary duty of these persons shall be is the enforcement of the laws set forth in Part 1 (commencing with Section 10000) and Part 2 (commencing with Section 11000) of Division 4 of the Business and Professions Code. The Real Estate Commissioner may designate persons a person under this section, who section who, at the time of their his or her designation, are is assigned to the Special Investigations Unit, internally known as the Crisis Response Team.
(3) Persons A person employed by the State Lands Commission designated by the executive officer, provided that the person’s primary duty of these persons shall be is the enforcement of the law relating to the duties of the State Lands Commission.
(4) Persons A person employed as investigators an investigator of the Investigations Bureau of the Department of Insurance, who are is designated by the Chief of the Investigations Bureau, provided that the person’s primary duty of these persons shall be is the enforcement of the Insurance Code and other laws relating to persons and businesses, licensed and unlicensed by the Department of Insurance, who are engaged in the business of insurance.
(5) Persons A person employed as investigators and investigator supervisors an investigator or investigator supervisor by the Public Utilities Commission, who are is designated by the commission’s executive director and approved by the commission, provided that the person’s primary duty of these persons shall be is the enforcement of the law as that duty is set forth in Section 308.5 of the Public Utilities Code.
(6) (A) Persons A person employed by the State Board of Equalization, Investigations Division, who are is designated by the board’s executive director, provided that the person’s primary duty of these persons shall be is the enforcement of laws administered by the State Board of Equalization.
(B) Persons A person designated pursuant to this paragraph are is not entitled to peace officer retirement benefits.
(7) Persons A person employed by the Department of Food and Agriculture and designated by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture as investigators, an investigator, investigator supervisors, and investigator managers, supervisor, or investigator manager, provided that the person’s primary duty of these persons shall be is enforcement of, and investigations relating to, the Food and Agricultural Code or Division 5 (commencing with Section 12001) or Division 10 (commencing with Section 26000) of the Business and Professions Code.
(8) The Inspector General and those employees of the Office of the Inspector General as designated by the Inspector General, provided that the person’s primary duty of those persons shall be is the enforcement of the law relating to the duties of the Office of the Inspector General.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons law, a person designated pursuant to this section may not carry firearms. a firearm.
(c) Persons A person designated pursuant to this section shall be included as a “peace officers officer of the state” under paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 11105 for the purpose of receiving state summary criminal history information and shall be furnished that information on the same basis as other peace officers of the state designated in paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 11105.