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                  SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
                                Mark Leno, Chair
                                        
          Bill No:       AB 101
          Author:        Committee on Budget
          As Amended:    August 27, 2013
          Consultant:    Mark Ibele and Keely Bosler
          Fiscal:        Yes
          Hearing Date:  August 29, 2013
          
          Subject:  Budget Act of 2013.

          Summary: This bill amends the Budget Act of 2013 by  
          revising various items of appropriation and making other  
          necessary changes to the legislation. 

          Background:  The Legislature passed the 2013 Budget Act  
          (Chapter 20, Statutes of 2013, [AB 110] on June 14, 2013.   
          The legislation was signed by the Governor on June 28,  
          2013.  This bill provides for certain technical adjustments  
          to various budget items, clarifications of budget bill  
          language, and additional appropriations.

          Proposed Law:  The bill provides for the following

          1.Department of Parks and Recreation.  Corrects an  
            over-appropriation of funds to the Department of Parks  
            and Recreation.  A one-time increase of $10 million in  
            2012-13 was not continued and, therefore, should  
            appropriately be reduced by a like amount.

          2.Department of Pesticide Regulation.  Includes budget bill  
            language to require the Department of Pesticide  
            Regulation to conduct five risk assessments per year, at  
            a minimum.

          3.General Fund Loans.  Provides a repayment of General Fund  
            loans to the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle  
            Technology Fund and makes these funds available for the  
            Clean Vehicle Rebate Project.

          4.Secretary of State.  Includes budget bill language  
            clarifying reporting language related to the Secretary of  
            State's efforts to reduce business filings within the  
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            state.

          5.Private Postsecondary Education.  Includes a  
            reappropriation of $270,000 from the Private  
            Postsecondary Education Fund to the California State  
            Auditor's Office to conduct a performance review of the  
            Bureau of Private Postsecondary Education.

          6.County Veteran Services.  Includes budget bill language  
            providing for a greater level of detail on the one-time,  
            $3 million appropriation provided to County Veteran  
            Service Officers, as part of the 2013 Budget Act.  
            Specifically, $2.6 million will be distributed to  
            counties based on the workload units reported for Fiscal  
            Year 2012-13. The remaining $400,000 will be distributed  
            to a single county to act as the lead agency in  
            developing a state-wide veterans outreach effort.

          7.Department of Transportation.  Contains additional budget  
            bill language governing cost recovery from project  
            initiation documents from local governments, directs the  
            department to streamline cooperative work agreements  
            related to project initiation document development and  
            oversight, augments the additional reimbursements from  
            the High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) up to $1.8 million,  
            exempts the HSRA from full cost recovery and  
            reappropriates certain federal trust fund moneys.

          8.Active Transportation Program.  Shifts resources from  
            several existing separate state programs that support  
            active transportation, such as bicycling and walking, to  
            the newly established Active Transportation Program,  
            funded at $129.4 million.  Contains language that  
            provides a set-aside of $24.0 million in 2013-14, 2014-15  
            and 2015-16 for projects that fund safe routes to  
            schools, with $7.2 million earmarked for  
            non-infrastructure activities.  Provides funding for  
            activities that are not related to the ATP for the  
            Recreational Trails Program at $3.4 million and  
            Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program Fund at  
            $7 million. 
               
          9.Stage 3 Child Care Technical Adjustment.  Reduces the  
            allocation to Stage 3 child care programs by $14.5  
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            million to reflect actual caseload estimates for the  
            program.  This item was erroneously over budgeted when  
            the budget act was passed in June 2013.
               
          10.Community Colleges Administration.  Provides $422,000 to  
            support four additional positions and funding to upgrade  
            an existing position to support various new initiatives  
            at the Chancellor's Office, including information  
            technology activities, the apprenticeship program  
            consolidation and adult education.
               
          11.Apprenticeship Program.  Corrects code references and  
            clarifies oversight of community colleges over the  
            apprenticeship program, formerly under the Department of  
            Education.  Prior to the 2013 budget act, apprenticeship  
            programs existed at both the community colleges and the  
            California Department of Education.
               
          12.CalWORKs Workstudy Clarification.  Clarifies that  
            CalWORKs program categorical funds expended on workstudy  
            are available to support participants that are meeting  
            either state or federal minimum requirements.  This  
            change conforms to changes made in the overall CalWORKs  
            program in 2012.
               
          13.Physical Plant and Instructional Support.  Clarifies  
            that $30 million provided for physical plant and  
            instructional support is one-time and available for  
            expenditures until June 30, 2015.  Also clarifies that  
            this category of expenditures is no longer flexible and  
            must be expended on physical plant and/or instructional  
            support.
               
          14.Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS).   
            Updates budget bill language to reflect the correct  
            amount appropriated in the 2013 budget act to the EOPS  
            program, which is $15 million more than provided in the  
            prior year.
               
          15.Adult Education.  Updates budget bill language to  
            conform to trailer bill language passed as part of the  
            2013 budget act that created an Adult Education  
            Consortium Program.
               
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          16.Community Colleges - Proposition 39.  Updated budget  
            bill language to ensure Proposition 39 (Clean Energy Job  
            Creation Fund) funds are expended consistent with trailer  
            bill legislation passed as part of the 2013 budget act.   
            Also ensures that the community colleges allocate and  
            expend the money consistent with the guidance put forth  
            to the Chancellor of the Community Colleges on May 29,  
            2013, that was developed in conjunction with the  
            California Energy Commission.  
               
          17.Community Colleges - Federal Funds.  Reappropriates  
            unexpended federal funds for expenditure by the community  
            colleges.
               
          
          18.California Student Aid Commission.  Ensures that local  
            consortia do not have to meet matching requirements for  
            funds allocated to the California Student Opportunity and  
            Access Program (Cal-SOAP) program for the purpose of  
            Middle Class Scholarship Program outreach.

          19.K-12 and Community College Mandates.  Makes various  
            technical naming changes to the K-12 and community  
            colleges mandates listed in the budget bill.  
               
          20.Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF). Eliminates $2  
            million appropriated to the Governor's Office of Planning  
            and Research for support of State Board of Education  
            activities, related to implementation of the Local  
            Control Funding Formula for K-12 education. This amount  
            is duplicative of another appropriation for the same  
            purpose in the LCFF budget trailer bill. 

          21.Special Education Funding.  Reduces the federal special  
            education funding appropriation for K-12 education by  
            $230,000, to reflect final budget actions. 
               
          22.Charter School Facility Grant Program Transfer.  Adds a  
            new budget item to authorize the transfer of Charter  
            School Facility Grant Program funds from the Department  
            of Education to the California School Finance Authority.   
            This authority is needed to fully implement the program  
            transfer included in the final budget.   
               
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          Fiscal Effect:  Contains various minor appropriations,  
          corrects for a $10.0 million over-appropriation,  
          reappropriates certain federal funds, makes a caseload  
          downward adjustment of $14.5 million, transfers existing  
          funds to a consolidated transportation fund, and corrects  
          certain other appropriations.

          Support:  NA

          Opposed:  NA

          Comments:  NA
          






























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