Assembly Bill No. 164

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

[Approved by Governor October 1, 2015. Filed with Secretary of State October 1, 2015.]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 164, 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 specific claims against the state and require any appropriated funds in excess of the amount required to pay those claims to revert to the fund or account from which the funds were appropriated, as specified.

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

Appropriation: yes.

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

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) The sum of five hundred seventeen thousand two hundred fifty-five dollars ($517,255) 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) The sum of five 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.



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