High Speed Rail Bill Gutted, Amended To A Pro Illegal Bill

[Ayatollahgondola]

Gut and amend it's called.

A bill that had previously worked its' way through the legislature as a high speed rail bill has been suddenly gutted, amended to a pro illegal alien bill. It's also been declared a fiscal emergency type bill to take effect immediately:

BILL NUMBER: AB 1092 AMENDED
BILL TEXT

AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 14, 2012

INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal
Fuentes

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

An act to add Section 185032.1 to the Public Utilities
Code, relating to high-speed rail and repeal Article
1.5 (commencing with Section 19535) of Chapter 7 of Part 10.2 of
Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation,
and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately .


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1092, as amended, Bonnie Lowenthal
Fuentes . High-speed rail. Taxation:
undocumented immigrants.
Existing law creates within state government the Department of
Justice. Existing law provides that the department is under the
direction and control of the Attorney General. Existing law requires
the Franchise Tax Board to, among other things, administer personal
and corporation income tax laws and certain other nontax programs,
including the collection of specified delinquent debt.
This bill would establish a program until January 1, 2020, that
would require the Department of Justice, until January 1, 2018, to
report to the Franchise Tax Board information on a qualified person,
defined as, among others, a person who is not eligible to receive a
social security number, but who has filed a state income tax return
with a valid individual taxpayer identification number. The bill
would require the Franchise Tax Board to submit an annual report to
the Legislature, until January 1, 2019, that details the tax receipts
collected from qualified persons who participate in the program. The
bill would provide that information collected under the program is
confidential and not subject to public disclosure under the
California Public Records Act, except for purposes authorized under
the act. The bill would require the destruction of all records
collected under the act, as specified.
The California Constitution provides that the powers of state
government are legislative, executive, and judicial. Existing law
requires that the Governor see that the law is faithfully executed.
Existing law provides that the Governor is the sole official organ of
communication between the state and the government of any other
state or of the United States. Existing federal law regulate
immigration.
This bill would require the Governor to request that the President
of the United States direct the Department of Homeland Security,
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and other
relevant federal agencies to not expend resources during the term of
the program to apprehend, detain, or remove any qualified person
participating in the program, or to prosecute any individual
employing a qualified person.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Existing law, the California High-Speed Rail Act, creates the
High-Speed Rail Authority to develop and implement a high-speed rail
system in the state, with specified powers and duties. Existing law,
pursuant to the Safe, Reliable High-Speed Passenger Train Bond Act
for the 21st Century, approved by the voters as Proposition 1A at the
November 4, 2008, general election, provides for the issuance of
$9.95 billion in general obligation bonds for high-speed rail and
related purposes.
This bill would require the authority to report bianually to the
Legislature beginning March 1, 2012, on the status of the project,
including overall progress, the project budget, expenditures to date,
a comparison of the current and project work schedule and the
baseline schedule contained in the 2009 business plan, project
milestones, and other related issues.
Vote: majority 2/3 . Appropriation:
no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no
yes .


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