Amended in Senate August 22, 2014

Amended in Senate August 11, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1478

Introduced by Committee on Budget (Skinner (Chair), Bloom, Campos, Chesbro, Dababneh, Daly, Dickinson, Gordon, Jones-Sawyer, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Rodriguez, Stone, Ting, and Weber)

January 9, 2014

An act to amend, repeal, and add Section 5956.10 of the Government Code, to amend Section 50661 of the Health and Safety Code, to amend begin delete Section end delete begin insert Sections end insert 25416 begin insert and 31111.5 end insert of the Public Resources Code, and to amend Sections 62 and 193 of Chapter 35 of the Statutes of 2014, relating to public resources, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1478, as amended, Committee on Budget. Public resources.

(1) Existing law authorizes a governmental agency to solicit proposals and enter into agreements with private entities for the design, construction, or reconstruction of, and to lease to private entities, specified types of fee-producing infrastructure projects. Existing law prohibits a state agency or specified governmental agencies from using this authorization to design, construct, finance, or operate a state project, as specified.

This bill, until December 31, 2019, would specify that a state project, for these purposes, does not include a governmental agency project financed through the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund or the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund.

(2) Existing law creates the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund for, among other purposes, making specified deferred payment housing rehabilitation loans. Prior to June 20, 2014, existing law authorized, to the extent no other funding sources were available, $10,000,000 in the fund to be used by the department for the purpose of providing housing rental-related subsidies to persons rendered homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless, due to unemployment, underemployment, or other economic hardship resulting from the state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor based on drought conditions.

This bill would, to the extent no other funding sources are available, reauthorize that $10,000,000 in the fund to be used by the department for the above-stated purposes.

(3) The Energy Conservation Assistance Act of 1979 establishes the State Energy Conservation Assistance Account, a continuously appropriated account, that is administered by the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to provide grants and loans to various public entities to maximize energy use savings in existing and planned buildings and facilities. Existing law, the Budget Act of 2014, transfers, upon order of the Director of Finance, moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the account for those purposes.

This bill would create a continuously appropriated subaccount within the State Energy Conservation Assistance begin delete Count end delete begin insert Account end insert to track the award and repayment of loans made with moneys transferred from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, as specified. The bill would authorize moneys in the subaccount to be used for loans only for projects in buildings owned and operated by a state agency or entity, including, without limitation, the University of California and California State University.

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(4) Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy in the Natural Resources Agency with prescribed powers and responsibilities for implementing a program of agricultural land protection, area restoration, and resources enhancement within the coastal zone, as defined. Existing law authorizes the conservancy, for the purpose of implementing the provisions governing the conservancy, to award a grant to a for-profit entity to accomplish the removal or alteration of the San Clemente Dam under specified conditions. Existing law limits the total expenditures of state moneys for the removal or alteration of the San Clemente Dam and related activities to not more than $25,000,000.

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This bill would increase the limit on the total expenditure of state moneys for the removal or alteration of the San Clemente Dam and related activities to not more than $30,000,000.

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begin insert (5) end insert  Existing law, the Budget Act of 2014, appropriates the unencumbered balance of specified moneys appropriated in the Budget Act of 2003 for the State Department of Public Health to the State Water Resources Control Board for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2016, for the purposes of providing grants of up to $500,000 per project for public water systems to address drought-related drinking water emergencies or threatened emergencies.

This bill would make those moneys available for liquidation until June 30, 2018.

This bill also would make conforming changes.

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begin insert (6) end insert  The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 begin delete establishes end delete begin insert designates end insert the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit begin delete , as defined, end delete to be achieved by begin delete 2020, end delete begin insert 2020 end insert equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990. Existing law authorizes the state board to adopt a schedule of fees to be paid by the sources of greenhouse gas emissions regulated pursuant to the act and requires those fees to be deposited in the Cost of Implementation Account. The act requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The act requires the scoping plan to be updated at least once every 5 years.

This bill would appropriate $529,000 from the Cost of Implementation Account to the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency for the purpose of implementing elements of the scoping plan adopted by the State Air Resources Board.

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begin insert (7) end insert  This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the 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.  

Section 5956.10 of the Government Code is
amended to read:

5956.10.  

(a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, neither the state or any state agency shall directly or
indirectly use the authority in this chapter nor shall any
governmental agency, as defined in Section 5956.3, use the
authority in this chapter to design, construct, finance, or operate
a state project. For purposes of this section, a state project includes
any of the following:

(1) Tollroads on state highways.

(2) State water projects.

(3) State park and recreation projects.

(4) State financed projects.

(b)  These limitations shall not prohibit the state, any state
agency, or any governmental agency, as defined in Section 5956.3,
from utilizing authorizations contained in other provisions of law.

(c) For purposes of this section, a state project does not include
a governmental agency project financed through the State Water
Pollution Control Revolving Fund, established pursuant to Section
13477 of the Water Code, or the Safe Drinking Water State
Revolving Fund, established pursuant to Section 116760.30 of the
Health and Safety Code.

(d) This section shall become inoperative on December 31,
2019, and, as of January 1, 2020, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2020,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and
is repealed.

SEC. 2.  

Section 5956.10 is added to the Government Code, to
read:

5956.10.  

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
chapter, neither the state or any state agency shall directly or
indirectly use the authority in this chapter nor shall any
governmental agency, as defined in Section 5956.3, use the
authority in this chapter to design, construct, finance, or operate
a state project. For purposes of this section, a state project includes
any of the following:

(1) Tollroads on state highways.

(2) State water projects.

(3) State park and recreation projects.

(4) State financed projects.

(b) These limitations shall not prohibit the state, any state
agency, or any governmental agency, as defined in Section 5956.3,
from utilizing authorizations contained in other provisions of law.

(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2020.

SEC. 3.  

Section 50661 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:

50661.  

(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the
Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund. All interest or other increments
resulting from the investment of moneys in the Housing
Rehabilitation Loan Fund shall be deposited in the fund,
notwithstanding Section 16305.7 of the Government Code.
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all
money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department
for the following purposes:

(1) For making deferred-payment rehabilitation loans for
financing all or a portion of the cost of rehabilitating existing
housing to meet rehabilitation standards as provided in this chapter.

(2) For making deferred payment loans as provided in Sections
50668.5, 50669, and 50670.

(3) For making deferred payment loans pursuant to Sections
50662.5 and 50671.

(4) Subject to the restrictions of Section 53131, if applicable,
for administrative expenses of the department made pursuant to
this chapter, Article 3 (commencing with Section 50693) of Chapter
7.5, and Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 50775).

(5) For related administrative costs of nonprofit corporations
and local public entities contracting with the department pursuant
to Section 50663 in an amount, if any, as determined by the
department, to enable the entities and corporations to implement
a program pursuant to this chapter. The department shall ensure
that not less than 20 percent of the funds loaned pursuant to this
chapter shall be allocated to rural areas. For purposes of this
chapter, “rural area” shall have the same meaning as in Section
50199.21.

(6) To the extent no other funding sources are available, ten
million dollars ($10,000,000), as provided in Section 4 of Chapter
3 of the Statutes of 2014, may be used for the purposes of Section
34085.

(b) There shall be paid into the fund the following:

(1) Any moneys appropriated and made available by the
Legislature for purposes of the fund.

(2) Any moneys that the department receives in repayment of
loans made from the fund, including any interest thereon.

(3) Any other moneys that may be made available to the
department for the purposes of this chapter from any other source
or sources.

(4) Moneys transferred or deposited to the fund pursuant to
Sections 50661.5 and 50778.

(c) Notwithstanding any other law, any interest or other
increment earned by the investment or deposit of moneys
appropriated by subdivision (b) of Section 3 of Chapter 2 of the
Statutes of the 1987-88 First Extraordinary Session, or Section 7
of Chapter 4 of the Statutes of the 1987-88 First Extraordinary
Session, shall be deposited in a special account in the Housing
Rehabilitation Loan Fund and shall be used exclusively for
purposes of Sections 50662.5 and 50671.

(d) Notwithstanding any other law, effective with the date of
the act adding this subdivision, appropriations authorized by the
Budget Act of 1996 for support of the Department of Housing and
Community Development from the California Disaster Housing
Repair Fund and the California Homeownership Assistance Fund
shall instead be authorized for expenditure from the Housing
Rehabilitation Loan Fund.

(e) Effective July 1, 2014, the California Housing Trust Fund
in the State Treasury is abolished and any remaining balance,
assets, liabilities, and encumbrances shall be transferred to, and
become part of, the Housing Rehabilitation Loan Fund.
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all
transferred amounts are continuously appropriated to the
department for the purpose of satisfying any liabilities and
encumbrances and the purposes specified in this section.

SEC. 4.  

Section 25416 of the Public Resources Code is
amended to read:

25416.  

(a) The State Energy Conservation Assistance Account
is hereby created in the General Fund. Notwithstanding Section
13340 of the Government Code, the account is continuously
appropriated to the commission without regard to fiscal year.

(b) The money in the account shall consist of all moneys
authorized or required to be deposited in the account by the
Legislature and all moneys received by the commission pursuant
to Sections 25414 and 25415.

(c) The moneys in the account shall be disbursed by the
Controller for the purposes of this chapter as authorized by the
commission.

(d) The commission may contract and provide grants for services
to be performed for eligible institutions. Services may include, but
are not limited to, feasibility analysis, project design, field
assistance, and operation and training. The amount expended for
those services shall not exceed 10 percent of the unencumbered
balance of the account as determined by the commission on July
1 of each year.

(e) The commission may make grants to eligible institutions for
innovative projects and programs. Except as provided in
subdivision (d), the amount expended for grants shall not exceed
5 percent of the annual unencumbered balance in the account as
determined by the commission on July 1 of each fiscal year.

(f) The commission may charge a fee for the services provided
under subdivision (d).

(g) Notwithstanding any other law, the Controller may use the
State Energy Conservation Assistance Account for loans to the
General Fund as provided in Sections 16310 and 16381 of the
Government Code.

(h) (1) A subaccount is hereby created within the State Energy
Conservation Assistance Account to track the award and repayment
of loans, including principal, interest, and interest earnings on or
accruing to the subaccount, made with moneys transferred to the
account from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created
pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code.
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the
subaccount is hereby continuously appropriated to the commission
without regard to fiscal year.

(2) Moneys deposited in the subaccount may be used for loans
only for projects in buildings owned and operated by a state agency
or entity, including, without limitation, the University of California
and California State University.

(3) Notwithstanding Section 39718 of the Health and Safety
Code, a repayment of a loan made pursuant to this chapter with
moneys transferred from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
shall be deposited in the subaccount and shall be available for a
loan made to an entity eligible for these moneys pursuant to this
subdivision.

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begin insert Section 31111.5 of the end insert begin insert Public Resources Code end insert begin insert is
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31111.5.  

(a) In implementing this division, the conservancy
may award a grant to a for-profit entity to accomplish begin insert the end insert removal
or alteration of the San Clemente Dam if the conservancy finds
that the project is of regional or statewide significance and that a
grant to a public agency or nonprofit organization would not
achieve removal or alteration of the San Clemente Dam.

(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), total expenditures of state
begin delete funds end delete begin insert moneys end insert for the removal or alteration of the San Clemente
Dam and related activities shall not exceed begin delete twenty-five million
dollars ($25,000,000) end delete begin insert thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) end insert .

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Section 62 of Chapter 35 of the Statutes of 2014 is
amended to read:

Sec. 62.  

It is the intent of the Legislature that the reorganization
and transfer made by Sections 63 to 127, inclusive, Section 181,
Section 182, Sections 187 to 191, inclusive, and Section 193 of
this act be carried out in a manner to preserve state primacy under
the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and that the terms of this act
shall be liberally construed to achieve this purpose.

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Section 193 of Chapter 35 of the Statutes of 2014 is
amended to read:

Sec. 193.  

Notwithstanding any other law, the balance of the
appropriation provided for in Item 4265-111-0001 of Chapter 2
of the Statutes of 2014, for the purposes specified in Provision 3
of that item, is hereby appropriated to the State Water Resources
Control Board, as of June 30, 2014. These funds shall be available
for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2016, and available
for liquidation until June 30, 2018, for purposes consistent with
subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 75021 of the Public Resources
Code for grants pursuant to the Public Water System Drought
Emergency Funding Guidelines adopted by the State Department
of Public Health on March 28, 2014, for public water systems to
address drought-related drinking water emergencies. The State
Water Resources Control Board shall make every effort to use
other funds available to address drinking water emergencies,
including federal funds made available for the drought, prior to
using the funds specified in this section.

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The sum of five hundred twenty-nine thousand dollars
($529,000) is hereby appropriated from the Cost of Implementation
Account, established pursuant to Section 16428.95 of the
Government Code, to the Secretary of the Natural Resources
Agency for the purpose of implementing elements of the scoping
plan adopted by the State Air Resources Board pursuant to Section
38561 of the Health and Safety Code.

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This act is a bill providing for appropriations related
to the Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section
12 of Article IV of the California Constitution, has been identified
as related to the budget in the Budget Bill, and shall take effect
immediately.