SB 1187, as amended, Lara. Claims against the state: appropriation.
Existing law requires the Attorney General, who is the head of the Department of Justice, to report certain claims, settlements, and judgments against the state to the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Appropriations or the Assembly Committee on Appropriations. Existing law requires the chairperson to introduce legislation appropriating funds for the payment of the claims, settlements, and judgments.
This bill would appropriatebegin delete $36,470,547.01end deletebegin insert $36,555,686.61end insert from the General Fund to the Department of Justice to pay thebegin insert
judgment and any applicable interest orend insert settlement in specified cases.
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:
The sum of thirty-six millionbegin delete four hundred begin insert five hundred fifty-five thousand six hundred
2seventy thousand five hundred forty-seven dollars and one cent
3($36,470,547.01)end delete
4eighty-six dollars and sixty-one cents ($36,555,686.61)end insert is hereby
5appropriated from the General Fund to be allocated in accordance
6with the following schedule:
7(a) The sum of two hundred thirty-five thousand four hundred
8dollars ($235,400) is hereby appropriated to the Department of
9Justice to pay the settlement
in Ballona Wetlands Land Trust v.
10Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission (Los Angeles Superior
11Court, Case No. BS154128). Any funds appropriated in excess of
12the amounts required for the payment of this claim shall revert to
13the General Fund.
14(b) The sum of thirty-six millionbegin delete two hundred thirty-five begin insert three hundred twenty thousand two hundred
15thousand one hundred forty-seven dollars and one cent
16($36,235,147.01)end delete
17eighty-six dollars and sixty-one cents ($36,320,286.61)end insert is hereby
18appropriated to the Department of Justice to pay the judgmentbegin insert and
19any applicable interestend insert in Pauma Band of
Luiseño Mission Indians
20of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation v. State of California, et al.
21(United States District Court for the Southern District, Case No.
2209CV1955). Any funds appropriated in excess of the amounts
23required for the payment of this claim shall revert to the General
24Fund.
This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
26immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
27the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
28immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
29In order to pay judgment and settlement claims against the state
30and end hardship to claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary
31for this act to take effect immediately.
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