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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 548
Author: Hollingsworth (R)
Amended: 7/16/07
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE GOVERNMENTAL ORG. COMMITTEE : 7-0, 3/27/07
AYES: Florez, Denham, Battin, Maldonado, Wiggins, Wyland,
Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Negrete McLeod, Vincent
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 16-0, 5/31/07
AYES: Torlakson, Cox, Aanestad, Ashburn, Cedillo, Corbett,
Dutton, Florez, Kuehl, Oropeza, Ridley-Thomas, Runner,
Simitian, Steinberg, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Battin
SENATE FLOOR : 40-0, 6/7/07 (Consent)
AYES: Aanestad, Ackerman, Alquist, Ashburn, Battin,
Calderon, Cedillo, Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Denham,
Ducheny, Dutton, Florez, Harman, Hollingsworth, Kehoe,
Kuehl, Lowenthal, Machado, Maldonado, Margett,
McClintock, Migden, Negrete McLeod, Oropeza, Padilla,
Perata, Ridley-Thomas, Romero, Runner, Scott, Simitian,
Steinberg, Torlakson, Vincent, Wiggins, Wyland, Yee
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 79-0, 7/19/07 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : California Emergency Services Act
SOURCE : Governors Office of Emergency Services
CONTINUED
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DIGEST : This bill reestablishes, in statute until
January 1, 2009, the Disaster Response-Emergency Operations
Account in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties.
Assembly Amendments (1) deleted from the Senate version,
language relative to the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation and related conditions that would not be
included under what constitutes a "state of emergency"
within the current definition, and (2) reestablished the
provisions until January 1, 2009, instead of extending the
sunset date because the statute was repealed on July 1,
2007.
ANALYSIS : Existing law provides that the Director of the
Office of Emergency Services (OES) is responsible for
coordinating the emergency activities of all state agencies
in connection with a state emergency.
Existing law, within the Emergency Services Act (Act),
establishes the Disaster Response-Emergency Operations
Account (DREOA) in the Special Fund for Economic
Uncertainties. Moneys in the DREOA are continuously
appropriated subject to specified limitations for
allocation by the Director of the Department of Finance
(DOF) to state agencies for disaster response operation
costs incurred as a result of a proclamation by the
Governor of a state of emergency. Existing law repeals
these provisions on July 1, 2007.
Background
According to the OES, this bill is necessary because the
DREOA provides the Director of DOF authority to make
certain disaster response allocations. The DREOA, which is
established within the Special Fund for Economic
Uncertainties, has been utilized to provide an immediate
funding source for extraordinary emergency response costs
expended by state (and at one time local) agencies. This
funding source provides the state an opportunity for a more
expeditious response to and recovery from disasters. In
addition, the DREOA provides flexibility to the Governor as
the DREOA could be and has been used as an expedient
alternative to the cumbersome budget deficit process for
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necessary disaster related costs to state agencies.
The authority of the DREOA expired on July 1, 2007. This
bill reestablishes the DREOA and extends its authority
until January 1, 2009.
Prior Legislation
SB 1102 (Hollingsworth), Chapter 561, Statutes of 2005,
extended the sunset date applicable to the DREOA within the
Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties from January 1,
2006 to July 1, 2007. The Senate passed the bill, with a
vote of 33-0, on September 8, 2005.
SB 1102 (Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee),
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2004, among other things,
continued until January 1, 2006, the DREOA within the
Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties and allocated $1
million to the DREOA at the beginning of each fiscal year.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:
Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2007-08 2008-09
2009-10 Fund
Sunset extension $0 to $1,000 or more in
any year General
Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that
the DREOA have an unencumbered balance of $1 million at the
beginning of each fiscal year and if the DREOA requires
additional moneys to meet claims against the account, the
Director of DOF may transfer moneys from the Special Fund
for Economic Uncertainties to the account in an amount
sufficient to pay the amount of claims that exceed the
unencumbered balance in the account.
The fiscal impact of the bill would be the difference in
any year between what the Director of DOF allocates and
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what the Legislature appropriates in the annual budget act.
SUPPORT : (Verified 7/20/07)
Governor's Office of Emergency Services (source)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees
Department of Finance
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Aghazarian, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall,
Benoit, Berg, Berryhill, Blakeslee, Brownley, Caballero,
Charles Calderon, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La Torre, De
Leon, DeSaulnier, DeVore, Duvall, Dymally, Emmerson, Eng,
Evans, Feuer, Fuentes, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Garcia,
Garrick, Hancock, Hayashi, Hernandez, Horton, Houston,
Huff, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Karnette, Keene,
Krekorian, La Malfa, Laird, Leno, Levine, Lieber, Lieu,
Ma, Maze, Mendoza, Mullin, Nakanishi, Nava, Niello,
Parra, Plescia, Portantino, Price, Richardson, Sharon
Runner, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Smyth, Solorio,
Soto, Spitzer, Strickland, Swanson, Torrico, Tran,
Villines, Walters, Wolk, Nunez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Carter
TSM:mw 7/20/07 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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