Amended in Assembly May 10, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1693

Introduced by begin delete Committee on Appropriations (Assembly Members Gomez (Chair), Bigelow (Vice Chair), Bloom, Bonta, Calderon, Daly, Eggman, Eduardo Garcia, Holden, Quirk, and Weber) end delete begin insert Assembly Member end insert begin insert Gonzalez end insert

January 21, 2016

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

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1693, as amended, begin delete Committee on Appropriations end delete   begin insert Gonzalez end insert . Claims against the state: payment.

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

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This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the state, as presented by the Attorney General, and to have any appropriated funds in excess of the amount required to pay those claims revert to the General Fund.

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This bill would appropriate funds from the General Fund 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 General Fund.

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

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

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

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SECTION 1.  

The Legislature intends to appropriate funds for
the payment of claims against the state presented by the Attorney
General. Any funds appropriated in excess of the amounts actually
required for the payment of a claim shall revert to the General
Fund on June 30 of the fiscal year in which the payment is made.

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The sum of ten million five hundred fifty-one
thousand eighty-eight dollars ($10,551,088) is hereby appropriated
from the General Fund to be allocated in accordance with the
following schedule:

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(a) The sum of three hundred eighty-seven thousand eighty-eight
dollars ($387,088) is hereby appropriated to the Department of
Justice to pay the judgment in Pacific Merchant Shipping
Association v. The Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of
San Francisco, et al. (Superior Court of California, County of San
Francisco, Case No. CPF-12 512320). Any funds appropriated in
excess of the amounts required for the payment of this claim shall
revert to the General Fund.

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(b) The sum of ten million one hundred sixty-four thousand
dollars ($10,164,000) is hereby appropriated to the Department
of Justice to pay the settlement in Ruelas, et al. v. State of
California, et al. (San Bernardino Superior Court, Case No.
RCVRS083017). Any funds appropriated in excess of the amounts
required for the payment of this claim shall revert to the General
Fund.

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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.