BILL NUMBER: AB 139	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 17, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fuentes

                        JANUARY 13, 2011

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



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 139, as amended, Fuentes. State claims.
   Existing law requires the California Victim Compensation and
Government Claims Board to ensure that all claims that have been
approved by the board and for which there exists no legally available
appropriation, are submitted for legislative approval at least twice
each calendar year. 
   This bill declares the intent of the Legislature to appropriate
funds for the payment of claims allowed by the board.  
   This bill would appropriate $83,996.50 from various funds to the
Executive Officer of the California Victim Compensation and
Government Claims Board to pay claims accepted by the board. The bill
would require the Controller, upon the request of the board, in a
form prescribed by the Controller, to transfer surcharges and fees
from specified Budget Act items of appropriation identified in the
bill to Item 1870-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2011.
 
   This bill also would appropriate to the board $162,700 to pay a
specified claim accepted by the board. 
    This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation:  no  yes  .
Fiscal committee:  no   yes  .
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    (a) The sum of eighty-three thousand
nine hundred ninety-six dollars and fifty cents ($83,996.50) is
hereby appropriated from the various funds, as specified in
subdivision (b), to the Executive Officer of the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board for the payment of claims
accepted by the board in accordance with the schedule set forth in
subdivision (b).  
   (b) Pursuant to subdivision (a), claims accepted by the California
Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board shall be paid in
accordance with the following schedule:  
   Total for Fund: General Fund (0001) ................ $83,996.50

   SEC. 2.    Upon the request of the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board in a form prescribed by the
Controller, the Controller shall transfer surcharges and fees from
the Budget Act items of appropriation identified in subdivision (b)
of Section 1 to Item 1870-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act
of 2011. For each Budget Act item of appropriation, this amount shall
not exceed the cumulative total of the per claim filing fees
authorized by subdivision (b) of Section 905.2 of the Government Code
and the surcharge authorized by subdivision (f) of Section 905.2 of
the Government Code. For those items in subdivision (b) of Section 1
that do not reflect a Budget Act appropriation, the Controller shall
transfer an amount not to exceed the cumulative total of the per
claim filing fees authorized by subdivision (b) of Section 905.2 of
the Government Code and the surcharge authorized by subdivision (f)
of Section 905.2 of the Government Code. This amount shall be
transferred for support of the board as reimbursements to Item
1870-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2011. The board
shall provide a report of the amounts recovered pursuant to this
authority to the Department of Finance within 90 days of the
enactment of this act. 
   SEC. 3.    The sum of one hundred sixty-two thousand
seven hundred dollars ($162,700) is hereby appropriated from the
General Fund to the Executive Officer of the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board for the payment of Claim No.
G581280 (In the Matter of the Claim of Robert Cuevas) accepted by
the board and reported to the Legislature pursuant to Section 4904 of
the Penal Code. 
   SEC. 4.    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 settle claims against the state and to end hardship to
claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary for this act to
take effect immediately.  
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the state
approved by the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims
Board.  
  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 claims against the state and end hardship to
claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary that this bill go
into immediate effect.