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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 101
Author: Assembly Budget Committee
Amended: 8/30/13 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET & FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE : 10-5, 8/29/13
AYES: Leno, Beall, Block, DeSaulnier, Hancock, Jackson,
Monning, Roth, Torres, Wright
NOES: Emmerson, Anderson, Berryhill, Nielsen, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not relevant
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2013
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill amends the Budget Act of 2013 by revising
various items of appropriation and making other necessary
changes to the legislation.
ANALYSIS : The Legislature passed the 2013 Budget Act (AB 110
(Assembly Budget Committee), Chapter 20, Statutes of 2013) on
June 14, 2013. The legislation was signed by Governor Brown on
June 28, 2013. This bill provides for certain technical
adjustments to various budget items, clarifications of budget
bill language, and additional appropriations.
This bill provides for the following:
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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 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.
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8. Active Transportation Program (ATP) . Shifts resources from
several existing separate state programs that support active
transportation, such as bicycling and walking, to the newly
established ATP, 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 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 (CDE). Prior to the 2013 Budget Act,
apprenticeship programs existed at both the community
colleges and the CDE.
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
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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.
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 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
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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 CDE to the California
School Finance Authority. This authority is needed to fully
implement the program transfer included in the final budget.
23.Community Colleges . Provides $136,000 from the 2006
California Community College Capital Outlay Bond Fund for
reimbursing the Office of State Audits and Evaluations for
the costs of auditing Proposition 1D General Obligation bond
funded projects.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee, this
bill 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.
JA:k 8/30/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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