Amended in Senate May 7, 2015

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, making an appropriation therefor, 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 appropriate $141,250 from the Athletic Commission Fund and begin delete $24,140,683.50 end delete begin insert $24,106,173.50 end insert from the General Fund to pay specified judgments.

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

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

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

SECTION 1.  

(a) 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:

(1) Seventy-one thousand two hundred begin delete and end delete 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.

(2) Seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) begin insert to the Department of
Consumer Affairs end insert 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.

(b)  begin delete Twenty-five million one hundred forty thousand six hundred
eighty-three dollars and fifty cents ($25,140,683.50) end delete begin insert Twenty-four
million one hundred six thousand one hundred seventy end insert begin insert -three
dollars and fifty cents ($24,106,173.50) end insert is hereby appropriated
from the General Fund to be allocated in accordance with the
following schedule:

(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.

(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.

begin delete

(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.

end delete

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.