BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
Senator Mark Leno, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular
Bill No: AB 123 Hearing Date: June 18,
2015
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|Author: |Committee on Budget |
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|Version: |January 9, 2015 Introduced |
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|Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes |
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|Consultant|Senate Budget Staff |
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Subject: Budget Act of 2015.
Summary: This bill contains provisions of the 2015-16 Budget Act.
Background: The Legislature passed the 2015 Budget Act (AB 93) on June 15,
2015. This bill provides for certain adjustments to various
budget items, clarifications of budget bill language, and
additional appropriations.
Proposed
Law: AB 123 makes the following statutory changes to implement the
2015-16 budget.
Child Care, Early Learning, and K-12 Education
1. Provides funding for 5,830 full-day state preschool
slots, effective January 1, 2016; 1,200 non-local
educational agencies full-day preschool slots, effective
January 1, 2016; and 6,800 voucher slots, effective July 1,
2015.
2. Includes provisional language for Quality Rating and
Improvement System (QRIS) consortia to provide training,
technical assistance, and resources to help infant and
toddler child care providers meet a hither tier of quality.
Specifies that each county participating in a QRIS
consortia must receive a minimum grant of $25,000.
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3. Provides $18 million General Fund to increase the
license-exempt rate from 60 percent to 65 percent of the
family child care home rate, effective October 1, 2015.
4. Provides $44 million General Fund for a 4.5 percent
increase to the Regional Market Rate, effective October 1,
2015.
5. Provides $61 million ($38 million Proposition 98 and
$22.7 million General Fund) for a five percent increase to
the Standard Reimbursement Rate, effective October 1, 2015.
6. Authorizes the Resource and Referral network to receive
$300,000 in one-time federal Child Care and Development
Block Grant funds to support data collection efficiency.
7. Provides a $10 million augmentation of the Foster Youth
Services program and specifies that funds appropriated for
the foster youth services program are intended to expand
eligibility that aligns program requirements to reflect the
establishment of the Local Control Funding Formula.
8. Eliminates funding to begin equalizing the provision of
funds for education-related transportation services and the
After School Education and Safety Program.
Higher Education
1. Community Colleges (CCC)
a. Provides $62.32 million to increase the number
of full-time faculty at CCC.
b. Provides $3 million on a one-time basis to
support the administration of the Cal Grant B Access
Award.
c. Provides $155 million to implement the student
equity plans, pursuant to Article 1.5 of Chapter 2 of
Part 48 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education
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Code.
d. Declares legislative intent that the
Chancellor identifies one or more community college
districts willing to use at least $5 million to
provide a one-to-three match of state to private funds
for the purpose of developing and providing education
programs for incarcerated adults in prisons and jails,
and the formerly incarcerated.
2. California State University (CSU)
a. Removes $24 million for deferred maintenance.
b. States that the CSU Item includes funds for
the California DREAM Loan Program.
3. University of California (UC)
a. Declares legislative intent that funds
generated by an increase in the number of nonresident
students enrolled in the 2015-16 academic year, and
increases in nonresident tuition, as approved by the
Regents on May 21, 2015, be used to support an
increase in the number of resident students enrolled.
b. Declares that if the Regents provide
sufficient evidence that UC increased resident
enrollment by at least 5,000 in the 2016-17 academic
year, compared to the 2014-15 academic year, the
Department of Finance must appropriate an additional
$25 million to UC.
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c. Requires the Regents to report to the
Legislature and the Department of Finance on how it is
using funds to provide targeted student support
services to increase system wide and campus four-year
and six-year graduation rates, and two-year and
three-year graduation transfer graduation rates of
low-income and underrepresented students.
d. Clarifies that the UC Item includes funds for
the California DREAM Loan Program.
4. Provides $1,000,000 for the State Library, on a one-time
basis, for a pilot program of the Career Online High School
Program.
Natural Resources
1. Shifts $2.8 million from the California Ocean Protection
Trust Fund (Tidelands Oil Revenues) to the Environmental
License Plate fund for support of the Ocean Protection
Council and Fourth Climate Assessment.
2. Reduces funding to the Department of Parks and
Recreation by $3 million, sustaining the Governor's
reduction plan for the Environmental License Plate Fund.
3. Provides $678,000 for working drawings, and provides
intent language for Border Field State Park that will be
funded in phases in the future, and reduces budget year
funding by $5.2 million.
4. Shifts $2.5 million from the California Ocean Protection
Trust Fund (Tidelands Oil Revenues) to the General Fund for
support of Marine Protected Areas.
5. Shifts $325,000 from the General Fund to the Lake Tahoe
Conservancy Account, including language notwithstanding
current law, for support of the Tahoe Regional Planning
Agency Threshold Evaluation Report.
6. Removes budget bill language that requires the
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Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to return to the
Legislature with options for procurement of helicopter
replacements in the 2016-17 budget cycle.
7. Eliminates $8 million General Fund back-payments for the
Payment In-Lieu of Taxes.
8. Provides $6 million for riparian restoration projects
for Chollas Creek, and shifts funding from Proposition 1E
to the Habitat Conservation Fund and Wildlife Conservation
Board reappropriations.
9. Shift funding for the Los Angeles River opportunity
acquisition from Proposition 1E to Proposition 40 and 84.
10. Eliminates $1.3 million from the Coastal Trust Fund that
would have continued the Climate-Ready grant programs at
the Coastal Commission, State Coastal Conservancy and Bay
Conservation Development Commission.
11. Provides $1.6 million from State Parks and Recreation
Fund for renovations to the Historic Governor's Mansion in
Sacramento.
12. Makes various technical changes to reduce funding from
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and cap-and-trade auction
revenues to the Air Resources Board and CalRecycle, to
comport with actions in the budget.
Housing
1. Provides $3.5 million General Fund for the Department of
Housing and Community Development's Office of Migrant
Services.
Health and Human Services
1. Department of Health Care Services (DHCS)
a. Eliminates various Medi-Cal rate increases
that will be considered in a special session focused
on funding sources for the state's Medi-Cal programs,
providers of developmental disability services, and
In-Home Supportive Services program.
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b. Eliminates funding to forgive the retroactive
recoupment related to rate freezes pursuant to AB 97
for distinct-part nursing facilities, and funding to
research a capped enrollment program for undocumented
adults in the Medi-Cal program.
c. Eliminates $1 million (of the $3 million
included in the Conference Report) for the Caregiver
Resource Centers.
d. Includes provisional language specifying that
grants to the Robert F. Kennedy Health Plan and
LifeLong Medical Care will be funded by the Major Risk
Medical Insurance Fund.
e. Reduces funding for the implementation of the
new federal Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules
(related to the Nursing Facility/Acute Hospital
Waiver) to assume a start date of no sooner than
October 1, 2015.
2. Department of Public Health
a. Eliminates funding for the California Disease
Prevention Program; the Lab Aspire Program and
microbiologist, and Hepatitis C rapid testing kits.
3. Department of Aging
a. Provides $1 million General Fund for the
Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program.
4. Department of Developmental Services
a. Eliminates rate increases for community-based
services and regional centers operations that will be
considered in a special session focused on funding
sources for the state's Medi-Cal programs, providers
of developmental disability services, and In-Home
Supportive Services program.
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b. Includes provisional language to require the
department to report to the legislative budget
committees during the 2016-17 budget process, on its
evaluation of the existing rate-setting methodologies
for community-based services and supports for persons
with developmental disabilities and the regional
centers' operations budget core-staffing formula.
c. Reduces funding for the implementation of the
new federal Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules to
assume a start date of no sooner than October 1, 2015.
5. Department of Social Services
a. Eliminates $46 million General Fund for a
CalWORKs cost-of-living adjustment; $1 million General
Fund to delay the CalWORKs welfare-to-work 24-month
clock; and, $103 million General Fund for the repeal
of the Maximum Family Grant.
b. Provides a $15 million General Fund
augmentation to the CalWORKs Housing Support Program.
c. Provides an additional $15 million General
Fund for foster parent recruitment and retention; and,
includes provisional language that specifies that
funds can be used for staffing to provide and improve
direct services; for exceptional child needs; for
child care for licensed foster parents, approved
resource families, and relative caregivers; for
intensive relative finding, engagement, and navigation
efforts, among others.
d. Includes provisional language to provide
funding to fully offset the seven-percent reduction in
In-Home Supportive Services hours.
e. Eliminates $66 million General Fund for a
Supplemental Security income/State Supplemental
Payment (SSI/SSP) grant increase, and $3 million
General Fund for the State Emergency Food Assistance
Program.
f. Provides $10 million General Fund and
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associated trailer bill language to provide grants to
qualified nonprofit organizations to provide
application services to persons residing in California
who are eligible for, or to renew, Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) or Deferred Action for
Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents
(DAPA) status.
Public Safety
1. Provides $11 million General Fund for Trial Court
Funding for dependency counsel.
2. Reduces funding to the Department of State Hospitals for
an expanded Restoration of Competency program by $6.1
million General Fund, and eliminates $1.2 million General
Fund for positions necessary for the Inspector General to
provide independent oversight over the State Hospitals and
Developmental Centers.
3. Reduces funding for the Board of State and Community
Corrections (BSCC) by $4 million General Fund for providing
grants to local law enforcement agencies that are designed
to improve community/peace officer relationships.
4. Provides $20 million General Fund to BSCC for local law
enforcement activities and requires that law enforcement
agencies receiving funding provide the state with data on
the number of use-of-force incidents that result in
hospitalization or death.
5. Eliminates $5 million in funding for the California Gang
Reduction Intervention and Prevention Program.
Fiscal
Effect: Together with the Conference Report, adopted by the
Legislature on June 15, 2015, this bill results in budgeted
General Fund expenditures of $115.4 billion in 2015-16.
Support: Unknown.
Opposed: Unknown.
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Comments: This bill provides for various expenditure adjustments related
to the Conference Report, and together with that bill,
represents the Legislature's budget.
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