Amended in Senate April 20, 2015

Senate Bill No. 302

Introduced by Senator Lara

February 23, 2015

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

SB 302, as amended, Lara. Claims against the state: appropriation.

Existing law requires the Attorney General to pay certain judgments against the state.

This bill would begin delete state that it appropriates an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the Attorney General to pay an undesignated judgment. end delete begin insert appropriate $141,250 from the Athletic Commission Fund and $24,140,683.50 from the General Fund to pay specified judgments. end insert

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 sum of ____ ($____) is hereby appropriated
from the General Fund to the Attorney General to pay for the
judgment in the case of ____.

Any funds appropriated in excess of the amounts actually
required for the payment of this judgment shall revert to the
General Fund on June 30 of the fiscal year in which the final
payment is made.

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert One hundred forty-one thousand two hundred
fifty dollars ($141,250) is hereby appropriated from the Athletic
Commission Fund to be allocated in accordance with the following
schedule: end insert

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(1) Seventy-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars
($71,250) to the Department of Consumer Affairs to pay the
settlement in Sarah Waklee v. California State Athletic
Commission, Department of Consumer Affairs (Sacramento County
Superior Court, Case No. 2012-00135227). Any funds appropriated
in excess of the amounts required for payment of this claim shall
revert to the Athletic Commission Fund.

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(2) Seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) to pay the settlement in
Dwayne Woodard v. California State Athletic Commission,
Department of Consumer Affairs (Los Angeles County Superior
Court, Case No. BC487180). Any funds appropriated in excess of
the amounts required for the payment of this claim shall revert to
the Athletic Commission Fund.

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(b) Twenty-five million one hundred forty thousand six hundred
eighty-three dollars and fifty cents ($25,140,683.50) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to be allocated in accordance
with the following schedule:

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(1) The sum of twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000) to the
Department of General Services to pay the settlement in California
First, LP v. California Department of General Services, et al. (San
Francisco County Superior Court, Case No. CGC10-505436). Any
funds appropriated in excess of the amount required for the
payment of this claim shall revert to the General Fund.

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(2) The sum of one hundred six thousand one hundred
seventy-three dollars and fifty cents ($106,173.50) to the Fair
Political Practices Commission to pay the settlement in Charles
R. “Chuck” Reed, et al. v. Fair Political Practices Commission
(Sacramento County Superior Court, Case No. 34-2013-80001709).
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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(3) The sum of one million thirty-four thousand five hundred
ten dollars ($1,034,510) to the Department of Justice to pay the
settlement in Kevin Marilley, et al. v. California Department of
Fish and Wildlife (United State District Court, Northern District
of California, Case No. 11-cv-2418). 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 judgment and settlement claims against the state
and end hardship to claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary
for this act to take effect immediately.