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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 123
Author: Committee on Budget
Amended: 6/16/15 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE BUDGET & FISCAL REVIEW COMMITTEE: 11-4, 6/18/15
AYES: Leno, Allen, Beall, Block, Hancock, Mitchell, Monning,
Pan, Pavley, Roth, Wolk
NOES: Nielsen, Moorlach, Nguyen, Stone
NO VOTE RECORDED: Anderson
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: Not relevant
SUBJECT: Budget Act of 2015
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill contains provisions of the 2015-16 Budget
Act.
ANALYSIS: 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.
This bill makes the following statutory changes to implement the
2015-16 Budget:
Child Care, Early Learning, and K-12 Education
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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.
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
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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
9) 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 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.
10) California State University (CSU)
e) Removes $24 million for deferred maintenance.
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f) States that the CSU Item includes funds for the
California DREAM Loan Program.
11) University of California (UC)
g) 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.
h) 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.
i) 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.
j) Clarifies that the UC Item includes funds for the
California DREAM Loan Program.
12) 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
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13) 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.
14) Reduces funding to the Department of Parks and
Recreation by $3 million, sustaining the Governor's
reduction plan for the Environmental License Plate Fund.
15) 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.
16) Shifts $2.5 million from the California Ocean
Protection Trust Fund (Tidelands Oil Revenues) to the
General Fund for support of Marine Protected Areas.
17) 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.
18) Removes budget bill language that requires the
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to return to the
Legislature with options for procurement of helicopter
replacements in the 2016-17 budget cycle.
19) Eliminates $8 million General Fund back-payments
for the Payment In-Lieu of Taxes.
20) Provides $6 million for riparian restoration
projects for Chollas Creek, and shifts funding from
Proposition 1E to the Habitat Conservation Fund and Wildlife
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Conservation Board reappropriations.
21) Shift funding for the Los Angeles River
opportunity acquisition from Proposition 1E to Proposition
40 and 84.
22) 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.
23) Provides $1.6 million from State Parks and
Recreation Fund for renovations to the Historic Governor's
Mansion in Sacramento.
24) 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
25) Provides $3.5 million General Fund for the
Department of Housing and Community Development's Office of
Migrant Services.
Health and Human Services
26) 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
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developmental disability services, and In-Home Supportive
Services program.
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.
27) Department of Public Health
f) Eliminates funding for the California Disease
Prevention Program; the Lab Aspire Program and
microbiologist, and Hepatitis C rapid testing kits.
28) Department of Aging
a) Provides $1 million General Fund for the Long-Term
Care Ombudsman Program.
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29) 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.
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.
30) 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
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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 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
31) Provides $11 million General Fund for Trial Court
Funding for dependency counsel.
32) 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.
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33) 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.
34) 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.
35) Eliminates $5 million in funding for the
California Gang Reduction Intervention and Prevention
Program.
Comments
This bill provides for various expenditure adjustments related
to the Conference Report, and together with that bill,
represents the Legislature's budget.
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Yes Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: No
According to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee,
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: (Verified6/18/15)
None received
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OPPOSITION: (Verified6/18/15)
None received
Prepared by: Mark Ibele /B. & F.R. / (916) 651-4103
6/19/15 9:34:36
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