BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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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