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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 68
Author: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee
Amended: 5/7/13
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET & FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE : 10-2, 5/9/13
AYES: Leno, Beall, Block, DeSaulnier, Hancock, Jackson,
Monning, Roth, Wolk, Wright
NOES: Emmerson, Nielsen
NO VOTE RECORDED: Anderson, Berryhill, Price, Wyland
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2012
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill appropriates $32.4 million General Fund
(GF) to the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) and
$505,000 GF to the Department of Social Services (DSS), 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 (OSHPD) and by the Administrative Office of the
Courts (AOC).
ANALYSIS :
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
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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recently withdrawn from federal certification.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.
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 8%
across-the-board reduction in authorized hours of IHSS services.
The Administration indicates that notices to recipients
regarding this 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% across-the-board reduction (which
is scheduled to expire June 30, 2012).
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 OSHPD in the 2012 Budget.
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.
This bill:
1. Developmental services . Appropriates $25 million GF to the
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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 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 MHSA WET 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 the
Department 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 : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee,
appropriations of $32.4 million GF to the DDS and $505,000 GF to
the DSS, 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 OSHPD and by the AOC.
JA:k 5/9/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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