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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 1031
Author: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Amended: 8/23/12
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not available
SUBJECT : 2012 Budget Act Trailer Bill
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill amends the 2012-13 Budget Act, which
was adopted on June 15, 2012, in AB 1464 (Blumenfield,
Chapter 21, Statutes of 2012).
ANALYSIS :
This bill:
1. Includes a $29 million fund shift in the local
assistance budget item under the Judicial Branch. One
item was correctly increased; however, the other budget
item was mistakenly not reduced.
2. Extends the encumbrance period by two years to allow the
Department of Parks and Recreation to expend $6 million
for water, wastewater, and sewer system capital outlay
projects in state parks.
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3. Authorizes up to $2 million from the State Parks and
Recreation Fund (SPRF) for park operations at Del Norte
Coast Redwoods State Parks, Samuel P. Taylor State Park,
and Tomales Bay State Park. Fees for these parks are
collected by the National Parks Services per federal
agreements and deposited in SPRF.
4. Provides that the Department of Finance shall conduct an
audit of the Renewable Resource Trust Fund and its
related accounts and provide a final audit report to the
Legislature no later than June 30, 2013. This audit was
inadvertently deleted in the Resources Trailer Bill, SB
1018 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, Chapter 39,
Statutes of 2012).
5. Reduces the Budget appropriation for three Public
Utilities Commission programs:
A. Universal Lifeline Telephone Service Trust
Administrative Committee Fund - $75 million
reduction;
B. Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program
Administrative Committee Fund - $22 million
reduction; and,
C. California Teleconnect Fund Administration
Committee Fund - $15 million reduction.
D. These reductions are necessary to correct
reporting errors, which overstated use of these
programs.
6. Corrects a technical error in the 2012 Budget Act (that
resulted from the transfer of the Office of Family
Planning from the Department of Public Health to the
Department of Health Care Services), within which the
General Fund appropriations for the Office of Family
Planning are overstated by $2.035 million.
7. Addresses an error in the 2012 Budget Act (that resulted
from the elimination of the Department of Mental Health
(DMH) and related transfer of programs and
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appropriations from DMH to other departments), which
transferred the balances of the DMH appropriations to
the Department of Health Care Services to liquidate the
appropriations and inadvertently excluded this one
appropriation.
8. Corrects a technical error in the 2012 Budget Act that
resulted from the transfer of the Every Woman Counts
(EWC) program from the Department of Public Health to
the Department of Health Care Services, which
inadvertently excluded amendments to budget bill
language needed to transfer the EWC General Fund
reappropriation language from one department to the
other.
9. Reflects increased revenue from an extension to the
gross premiums tax on managed care organizations, which
will not take effect if such an extension does not
occur, and this revenue is not realized.
10.Makes technical, no-cost corrections to the California
Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs)
Single Allocation. The Single Allocation provides
funding for counties' welfare-to-work services. The
corrections shift unexpended funding from 2011-12 to the
2012-13 budget items, allowing counties to fully serve
and re-engage cases.
11.Removes the Student Records mandate from the list of
suspended mandates and adds a corresponding $1,000
appropriation.
12.Adds four current and active mandates, which had been
unintentionally not included in the 2012 Budget Act, and
corresponding $1,000 appropriation for each mandate.
13.Includes budget bill provisional language, which has
been included in the past several budgets on General
Obligation bond funded University of California capital
outlay projects, to authorize expenditure of any savings
as specified and requires payment of prevailing wage
rates.
14.Reinstates the expectation that the California State
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University (CSU) will enroll a total of 331,716 state
supported full-time equivalent students during the
2012-13 academic year. This enrollment target does not
include nonresident students and students enrolled in
non-state supported summer programs. As a condition of
receipt of state General Fund in 2012-13, requires CSU
to report to the Legislature and to the Director of
Finance by May 1, 2013, on whether it has met the
enrollment goal.
15.Provides the CSU a one-time authority, effective only
for the 2012-13 fiscal year, to transfer funds from the
State University Continuing Education Revenue Fund or
any other revenues received from extension programs to
mitigate impacts to state-supported instructional
programs that would result from reductions in state
General Fund appropriations or from reductions in
student fee revenues for support of the university. As
a condition of this one-time authority, requires CSU to
report to the Legislature and to the Director of Finance
by June 30, 2013, on the impact of any transfer on
self-supporting instructional programs and related fees
and the use of any transferred funds.
16.Corrects a drafting error that inadvertently referenced
the Department of Education instead of the Board of
Governors of the California Community Colleges in the
mandated programs block grant budget item.
17.Increases reimbursement authority to allow California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to charge local
transportation agencies for the development and
oversight of Project Initiation Documents (PIDs). Local
agencies will be charged only for direct costs.
18.Provides appropriation authority to allow the Controller
to distribute California Police Activity League funds
that are collected through a tax check-off box.
19.Provides $5 million General Fund to the Department of
Finance to distribute to counties for allowable costs
associated with the
November 6, 2012 statewide election.
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20.Provides Control Section 3.90: Ratifies addenda to the
contracts of Bargaining Units 2, 7 and 10 to reflect
reductions to employee compensation pursuant to the 2012
Budget Act. In all, 19 bargaining units agreed to
compensation reductions.
21.Contains an appropriation allowing this bill to take
effect immediately upon enactment.
Comments
This bill amends the original 2012-13 Budget Act, AB 1464
(Blumenfield, Chapter 21, Statutes of 2012), to reflect
technical corrections and other conforming changes.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
DLW:m 8/29/12 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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