Amended in Assembly August 17, 2015

Amended in Assembly July 15, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 164

Introduced by Assembly Member Gomez

January 21, 2015

An act relating to the payment of claims against the state, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 164, as amended, Gomez. Claims against the state: payment.

Existing law establishes a procedure for the state to pay claims against the state.

This bill would appropriate funds for the payment of begin insert specific end insert claims against the begin delete state, as presented by the Attorney General, end delete begin insert state end insert and require any appropriated funds in excess of the amount required to pay those claims to revert to the begin delete General Fund. end delete begin insert fund or account from which the funds were appropriated, as specified. end insert

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: ²⁄₃. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

(a) The sum of two million two hundred
seventeen thousand two hundred fifty-five dollars ($2,217,255) is
hereby appropriated from the General Fund to be allocated in
accordance with the following schedule:

(1) The sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars
($1,700,000) to the Department of Justice to pay the settlement in
Humphries v. County of Los Angeles, et al., (United States District
Court, Case No. SACV 03-0697 JVS MANx). Any funds
appropriated in excess of the amounts required for the payment of
this claim shall revert to the General Fund.

(2) 

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begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert The sum of five hundred seventeen thousand
two hundred fifty-five dollars ($517,255) begin insert is hereby appropriated
from the General Fund end insert to the Department of Justice to pay the
settlement in Marilley v. McCamman (United States District Court,
Northern District of California, Case No. 11-cv-2418-DMR). Any
funds appropriated in excess of the amounts required for the
payment of this claim shall revert to the General Fund.

(b)  begin delete Five end delete begin insert The sum of five end insert hundred seventeen thousand two
hundred fifty-five dollars ($517,255) is hereby appropriated from
the Dungeness Crab Account within the Fish and Game
Preservation Fund to the Department of Justice to pay the
settlement in Marilley v. McCamman (United States District Court,
Northern District of California, Case No. 11-cv-2418-DMR). Any
funds appropriated in excess of the amounts required for the
payment of this claim shall revert to the Dungeness Crab Account.

SEC. 2.  

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to pay claims against the state and end hardship to
claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary that this bill go
into immediate effect.