BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
Mark Leno, Chair
Bill No: SB 68
Author: Budget and Fiscal Review
As Amended: May 7, 2013
Consultant: Jennifer Troia
Fiscal: Yes
Hearing Date: May 9, 2013
Subject: Budget Act of 2012
Summary: This supplemental appropriations (deficiency)
bill appropriates $32.4 million General Fund (GF) to the
Department of Developmental Services and $505,000 GF to the
Department of Social Services, and makes corresponding
adjustments to anticipated federal funding, as appropriate.
This bill also authorizes the reappropriation of funds for
use by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development and by the Administrative Office of the Courts
(AOC).
Background:
1)Developmental Services: The 2012 budget assumed that the
California Children and Families (First 5) Commission
would provide $40 million in funding for Early Start
services to young children. The First 5 Commission
recently voted to instead provide the lesser amount of
$15 million in funding for these services. In addition,
four out of 10 of the Intermediate Care Facility units at
the Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC) were recently
withdrawn from federal certification. As a result, the
state is losing approximately $1.4 million per month in
federal funding.
2)Social Services: In March 2013, the Administration and
plaintiffs in three In-Home Supportive Services
(IHSS)-related lawsuits [Oster (V.L.) v. Lightbourne, et
al. (Oster) I & II, and Dominguez v. Schwarzenegger, et
al.] entered into a comprehensive settlement agreement
that includes an eight percent across-the-board reduction
in authorized hours of IHSS services. The Administration
indicates that notices to recipients regarding this
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reduction need to be sent during the 2012-13 budget year
in order to reach recipients in advance of the expiration
of an existing 3.6 percent across-the-board reduction
(which is scheduled to expire June 30, 2012).
3)Mental Health Workforce, Education, and Training
Programs. The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA)
Workforce, Education, and Training (WET) program promotes
the distribution, diversity, competency, collaboration,
and capacity of California's mental health practitioners.
Prior to 2012-13, the MHSA WET program was administered
by the Department of Mental Health and was transferred to
the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
in the 2012 budget.
4)Proposed Courthouse in Alameda County: A proposed
facility is intended to replace two existing court
facilities: the Gale-Schenone Courthouse, which is
currently leased by the AOC for $1.6 million per year,
and the Broussard Justice Center, which flooded and is
currently a non-functioning site. The county has donated
the land on which the new courthouse and county
administrative office are to be constructed. The county
will sell bonds for the project, oversee construction,
and retain ownership of the land and buildings until debt
service is fully repaid. Upon full repayment of all
issued bonds, the courthouse and all associated land and
buildings will be transferred to the state for $1. A
construction contract must be negotiated and finalized
prior to the expiration of the construction permit with
the City of Dublin, on June 30, 3013.
Proposed Law:
1)Developmental Services: Appropriates $25 million GF to
the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) for
2012-13, to backfill for the loss of assumed funding of
the same amount from First 5. Additionally, appropriates
$7.4 million GF to DDS for 2012-13 to backfill for lost
federal funding attendant to the lack of federal
certification for four Intermediate Care Facility units
at SDC.
2)Social Services: Appropriates $505,000 GF for mailing
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and translation of notices regarding settlement of recent
litigation and resulting changes in services to IHSS
recipients.
3)MHSA WET Funding: Reappropriates unspent funds
originally appropriated in fiscal years 2009-10 through
2012-13, and authorizes those funds to be available
through June 30, 2018. Requires these funds to be used
for the Mental Health Loan Assumption Program and Mental
Health Services Act Workforce, Education, and Training
programs.
4)Court Funding: Reappropriates $50 million, from the
Immediate and Critical Needs Account, to support the
acquisition of the new East County Courthouse in the
County of Alameda and authorizes the Judicial Branch to
enter into a lease-purchase agreement with the County of
Alameda for a new Courthouse project upon: a) approval by
the Director of Finance; b) providing a 30-day
notification to the committees in each house that
consider appropriations; and, c) providing a 30-day
notification, without objection, to the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee.
Fiscal Effect: Appropriations of $32.4 million General
Fund (GF) to the Department of Developmental Services and
$505,000 GF to the Department of Social Services, and
corresponding adjustments to anticipated federal funding,
as appropriate. This bill also authorizes the
reappropriation of funds that were already authorized and
that remain available for use by the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development and by the AOC.
Support: Unknown
Opposed: Unknown
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