Amended in Assembly April 6, 2016

Amended in Assembly April 4, 2016

Amended in Assembly February 22, 2016

Senate Bill No. 93

Introduced by Senators De León and Lara

(Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Cristina Garcia, Gomez, Rendon, and Santiago)

January 9, 2015

An act to amend the Budget Act of 2015 (Chapters 10 and 11 of the Statutes of 2015), by adding Item 3960-011-0001 to Section 2.00 of, and amending Section 39.00 of, that act, relating to the state budget,to take effect immediately, budget bill.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 93, as amended, De León. Budget Act of 2015.

The Budget Act of 2015 appropriated specified amounts for support of the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

This bill would require the Director of Finance to transfer up to $176,600,000 as a loan from the General Fund to the Toxic Substances Control Account for the Department of Toxic Substances Control to use for activities related to the lead contamination in the communities surrounding the Exide Technologies facility in the City of Vernon. This bill would require the department to repay these funds, as specified, and would authorize the Director of Finance to forgive any unpaid balance of the loan under specified circumstances.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

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

SECTION 1.  

Item 3960-011-0001 is added to Section 2.00 of
the Budget Act of 2015, to read:

 

3960-011-0001--For transfer by the Controller, upon order of the Director of Finance, from the General Fund to the Toxic Substances Control Account

(176,600,000)

Provisions:

1.

The Director of Finance shall transfer up to $176,600,000 as a loan from the General Fund to the Toxic Substances Control Account for the Department of Toxic Substances Control to use for any of the following purposes:

(a)

Activities related to the cleanup and investigation of properties contaminated with lead in the communities surrounding the Exide Technologies facility in the City of Vernon, California.

(b)

Notwithstanding Section 25173.6 of the Health and Safety Code, job training activities related to the cleanup and investigation of the properties contaminated with lead in the communities surrounding the Exide Technologies facility in the City of Vernon, California.

(c)

Actions taken to pursue all available remedies against potentially responsible parties, including, but not limited to, cost recovery actions against entities that are potentially responsible, for the costs related to the cleanup and investigation of properties contaminated with lead in the communities surrounding the Exide Technologies facility in the City of Vernon, California.

2.

All funds recovered from the potentially responsible parties shall be used to repay the loan made pursuant to this item. If the amount of moneys received from the cost recovery efforts is insufficient to fully repay the loan made pursuant to this item, the Director of Finance may forgive any remaining balance if, at least 90 days before forgiving any balance, the Director of Finance submits a notification to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.

begin insert 3. end insert

begin insert The funds identified in this item shall be available for transfer until June 30, 2018. end insert

 

SEC. 2.  

Section 39.00 of the Budget Act of 2015 is amended
to read:

Sec. 39.00.  

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
following bills are other bills providing for appropriations related
to the Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section
12 of Article IV of the California Constitution: AB 94, AB 95, AB
104, AB 105, AB 106, AB 107, AB 108, AB 109, AB 110, AB
111, AB 112, AB 113, AB 114, AB 115, AB 116, AB 117, AB
118, AB 119, AB 120, AB 121, AB 122, AB 123, AB 124, AB
125, AB 127, AB 128, AB 129, AB 130, AB 131, AB 132, AB
134, AB 135, AB 136, AB 137, AB 138, SB 70, SB 71, SB 72,
SB 73, SB 74, SB 75, SB 76, SB 77, SB 78, SB 79, SB 80, SB 81,
SB 82, SB 83, SB 84, SB 85, SB 86, SB 87, SB 88, SB 89, SB 90,
SB 91, SB 92, SB 94, SB 95, SB 96, SB 98, SB 99, SB 100, SB
102, SB 103, SB 104, SB 105, SB 106, SB 107, SB 108, and SB
109, in the form that these bills existed at the time that the act
amending this section of the Budget Act of 2015 took effect.

SEC. 3.  

This act is a Budget Bill within the meaning of
subdivision (c) of Section 12 of Article IV of the California
Constitution and shall take effect immediately.