BILL NUMBER: SB 50	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Torlakson

                        JANUARY 3, 2007

   An act relating to the payment of claims against the state, making
an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 50, as introduced, Torlakson. Claim against the state:
appropriation.
   Existing law requires the Attorney General to pay certain
judgments against the state.
   This bill would appropriate $268,000 to the Attorney General to
pay a specific judgment.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The sum of two hundred sixty-eight thousand dollars
($268,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the
Attorney General to pay for the judgment in the case of California
Teachers Association v. Governor Schwarzenegger (Sacramento Superior
Court, Case No. 05 CS01165).
   Any funds appropriated in excess of the amounts actually required
for the payment of this judgment shall revert to the General Fund on
June 30 of the fiscal year in which the final payment is made.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to pay judgment and settlement claims against the state
and end hardship to claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary
for this act to take effect immediately.