BILL NUMBER: ABX1 20	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beth Gaines

                        AUGUST 31, 2015

   An act relating to state government, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 20, as introduced, Beth Gaines. State government: elimination
of vacant positions: transportation: appropriation.
   Existing law establishes the Department of Human Resources in
state government to operate the state civil service system.
   This bill would require the department to eliminate 25% of the
vacant positions in state government that are funded by the General
Fund.
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to prepare
a state highway operation and protection program every other year for
the expenditure of transportation capital improvement funds for
projects that are necessary to preserve and protect the state highway
system, excluding projects that add new traffic lanes. Existing law
provides for apportionment of specified portions of revenues in the
Highway Users Tax Account derived from gasoline and diesel excise
taxes to cities and counties by formula, with the remaining revenues
to be deposited in the State Highway Account for expenditure on
various state transportation programs, including maintenance of state
highways and transportation capital improvement projects.
   This bill would continuously appropriate $685,000,000 from the
General Fund, with 50% to be made available to the Department of
Transportation for maintenance of the state highway system or for
purposes of the state highway operation and protection program, and
50% to be made available to the Controller for apportionment to
cities and counties by a specified formula for street and road
purposes.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Department of Human Resources shall eliminate 25
percent of the vacant positions in state government that are funded
by the General Fund.
  SEC. 2.  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the
sum of six hundred eight-five million dollars ($685,000,000) is
hereby continuously appropriated from the General Fund, without
regard to fiscal years, as follows:
   (a) Fifty percent to the Department of Transportation for
maintenance of the state highway system or for purposes of the state
highway operation and protection program.
   (b) Fifty percent to the Controller, for apportionment to cities
and counties pursuant to the formula in subparagraph (C) of paragraph
(3) of subdivision (a) of Section 2103 of the Streets and Highways
Code for street and road purposes.