BILL ANALYSIS
AB 1715
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Date of Hearing: May 19, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 1715 (Fuentes) - As Amended: May 5, 2010
Policy Committee:
AppropriationsVote:
Urgency: Yes State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable:
SUMMARY
This bill, one of two annual bills sponsored by the California
Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (board) and
carried by the Appropriations Committee chairs, appropriates
$998,377 to pay 257 claims against the state as approved by the
board.
FISCAL EFFECT
1)Appropriates $963,914 from the GF and $34,463 from special
funds.
2)Appropriates, pursuant to current law, an additional 15%
surcharge on the amount of each claim (excluding stale-dated
warrants) to pay for the board's administrative costs. This
surcharge amounts to $45,000.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale. The Government Code requires the board to take all
necessary steps to ensure that all approved claims, for which
there exists no legally available appropriation, are submitted
for legislative approval at least twice each calendar year.
2)Support . This bill, supported by the board, the Department of
Finance, and the administration, has no opposition.
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3)The 10 largest claims - from $15,000 to $227,000, account for
68% of the costs of this bill ; the remaining claims average
$1,312. Virtually all of the claims (99.7%) are in two
categories:
a) Stale-dated warrants (expired state checks) - 238 claims
for $701,124.
b) Unredeemed bonds - 15 claims for $294,003.
4)Related Legislation . SB 910 (Kehoe) will be heard in this
committee later this year and will include claims approved
through March 2010. AB 92 (De Leon, Statutes of 2009) and SB
327 (Kehoe, Statutes of 2009) were the two claims bills last
year. Both urgency bills passed without a dissenting vote.
Analysis Prepared by : Geoff Long / APPR. / (916) 319-2081