Amended in Senate April 22, 2013

Amended in Assembly March 14, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 113

Introduced by Committee on Budget (Blumenfield (Chair), Bloom, Bonilla, Campos, Chesbro, Daly, Dickinson, Gordon, Jones-Sawyer, Mitchell, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Rendon, Stone, and Ting)

January 10, 2013

An act to amend the Budget Act of 2012 by amending Items 0890-001-0001 and 0890-001-0228 of Section 2.00 of that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 113, as amended, Committee on Budget. Budget Act of 2012.

The Budget Act of 2012 appropriated $53,526,000 to the Secretary of State for purposes of filings and registrations during the 2012-13 fiscal year.

This bill would increase this appropriation by begin delete $2,000,000 end delete begin insert $1,600,000 end insert to begin delete $55,526,000 end delete begin insert $55,126,000 end insert . The bill would require that this increase be used for costs associated with reducing the processing time for business filings and require the Secretary of State to report on the 30th day of each month to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on the Secretary of State’s progress in achieving those reductions.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Item 0890-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget
Act of 2012 is amended to read:

 

0890-001-0001--For support of Secretary of State

31,764,000

Schedule:

(1)

10-Filings and Registrations    begin delete end delete

begin delete 55,526,000 end delete begin delete end delete begin insert 55,126,000 end insert

(2)

20-Elections

36,014,000

(3)

30-Archives

10,897,000

(4)

40-Department of Justice Legal Services

333,000

(5)

50.01-Administration and Technology

23,962,000

(6)

50.02-Distributed Administration and Technology

−23,962,000

(7)

Reimbursements

−10,575,000

(8)

Amount payable from the Secretary of State’s Business Fees Fund (Item 0890-001-0228)    begin delete end delete

begin delete -42,231,000 end delete begin delete end delete begin insert −41,831,000 end insert

(9)

Amount payable from the Federal Trust Fund (Item 0890-001-0890)

−16,602,000

(10)

Amount payable from the Victims of Corporate Fraud Compensation Fund (Corporations Code 1502.5)

−1,598,000

Provisions:

1.

The Secretary of State may not expend any special handling fees authorized by Chapter 999 of the Statutes of 1999 which are collected in excess of the cost of administering those special handling fees unless specifically authorized by the Legislature.

2.

Of the amounts appropriated in this item, $16,602,000 shall be used for operational costs associated with implementation of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 15301 et seq.).

3.

Of the funds appropriated in this item, $5,733,000 is available for preparing, printing, and mailing the state ballot pamphlet pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 9080) of Chapter 1 of Division 9 of the Elections Code. Any unexpended funds pursuant to this provision shall revert to the General Fund.

4.

The begin delete $2,000,000 end delete begin insert $1,600,000 end insert increase to Schedule (1) made by Assembly Bill 113 of the 2013-14 Regular Session shall be used for costs associated with reducing the processing time for business filings. The Secretary of State shall report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on the 30th day of each month regarding the Secretary of State’s progress on reducing the processing time for business filings.

 

SEC. 2.  

Item 0890-001-0228 of Section 2.00 of the Budget
Act of 2012 is amended to read:

 

0890-001-0228--For support of Secretary of State, for payment to Item 0890-001-0001, payable from the Secretary of State’s Business Fees Fund    begin delete end delete

begin delete 42,231,000 end delete begin delete end delete begin insert 41,831,000 end insert

 

SEC. 3.  

This act is a Budget Bill within the meaning of
subdivision (e) of Section 12 of Article IV of the California
Constitution and shall take effect immediately.