AB 1693, Gonzalez. Claims against the state: payment.
Existing law establishes a procedure for the state to pay claims against the state.
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.
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:
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:
(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.
(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.
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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