BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1715
Author: Fuentes (D)
Amended: 7/1/10 in Assembly
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 9-1, 6/28/10
AYES: Kehoe, Cox, Alquist, Corbett, Leno, Price, Walters,
Wolk, Yee
NOES: Denham
NO VOTE RECORDED: Wyland
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 70-0, 5/24/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : State claims
SOURCE : California Victim Compensation and Government
Claims
Board
DIGEST : This bill appropriates $998,029.73 from various
funds to the Victim Compensation and Government Claims
Board to pay claims accepted by the board.
ANALYSIS : The State Board of Control was established in
1945. It was revised and renamed the California Victim
Compensation and Government Claims Board by AB 2491
(Jackson), Chapter 1016, Statutes of 2000. Government Code
Section 13928, requires the board to ensure that all claims
which have been approved by the board, and for which there
exists no legally available appropriation, are submitted
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for legislative approval at least twice during each
calendar year.
The re-issuance of stale-dated warrants is one type of
claim to be paid pursuant to this bill. For stale-dated
warrants, the Controller must confirm that (1) the check
was not cashed and has not been issued and (2) more than
three years have elapsed since the check was issued and the
monies have reverted to the General Fund. For these
warrants an appropriation is needed to reissue the payment.
This category also may include state treasury bonds that
have not been redeemed within ten years of their maturity
date, but the majority of warrants are checks.
For this bill, there are 217 claims payable from the
General Fund totaling $963, 914. 25. There are 40 claims
payable from other funds totaling $34,462.98. Those
special funds include Health Care Deposit Fund, Public
Employees Health Care Fund, State Highway Account in the
State Transportation Fund, Motor Vehicle Account in the
State Transportation Fund and the Employment Development
Department Contingent Fund.
Stale dated warrants account for 238 claims totaling
$701,124. Unredeemed bonds account for 15 claims totaling
$294,003.
Claims over $10,000 are the following:
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| Claim | Amount | Summary |
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|G581819| $227,095.24|Stale Dated Warrant (2000 tax refund). |
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|-------+------------+---------------------------------------|
|G581713| $100,500.00|Two Unredeemed Veterans Home Purchase |
| | |Municipal Bonds: $75,000.00, with a |
| | |maturity date of August 1, 1993, and |
| | |$25,500.00, with a maturity date of |
| | |August 1, 1994, totaling $100, 500.00. |
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|G573484| $100,000.00|Unredeemed State of California |
| | |Municipal Bond issued February 1, |
| | |1986, with a maturity date of May 1, |
| | |1991. |
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|-------+------------+---------------------------------------|
|G581725| $81,083.02|Stale Dated Warrant (2006 tax refund). |
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|-------+------------+---------------------------------------|
|G582288| $52,100.00|Stale Dated Warrant (2004 tax refund). |
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|G579370| $30,357.04|Stale Dated Warrant (2003 tax refund). |
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|G580030| $25,587.17|State Dated Warrant (2002 tax refund). |
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|G582796| $22,548.55|Three California Housing Finance |
| | |Agency Municipal Bonds: $5,000.00, |
| | |$10,000.00, and $10,000.00, with a |
| | |maturity date of February 1, 2000. |
| | |The bonds were called for early |
| | |redemption on August 1, 1998, and |
| | |totaled $22,548.55. |
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|G576265| $20,000.00|Unredeemed Bond, with a maturity date |
| | |of September 1, 1992. |
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|G579610| $15,000.00|Unredeemed Bond, with a maturity date |
| | |of April 1, 1985. |
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|G575031| $13,058.27|Stale Dated Warrant: Various payroll |
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| | |warrants for the period from June, |
| | |2001 through July, 2005. |
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|G575230| $12,768.00|Stale Dated Warrant (2001 tax refund). |
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|G582532| $11,255.72|Stale Dated Warrants: 2001 tax refund |
| | |for $2,317.00; 2002 tax refund for |
| | |$5,226.72; and 2003 tax refund for |
| | |$3,712.00. |
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|-------+------------+---------------------------------------|
|G580387| $10,574.81|Stale Dated Warrant (1999 tax refund). |
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|G579960| $10,544.02|Stale Dated Warrant (2001 tax refund). |
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FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/30/10)
California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board
(source)
Department of Finance
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles
Calderon, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De
La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Feuer,
Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines,
Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Harkey, Hayashi,
Hill, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Lieu, Logue,
Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nestande,
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Niello, Nielsen, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino, Ruskin,
Salas, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland,
Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran, Yamada, John
A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Bass, Evans, Hall, Hernandez, Knight,
Nava, Norby, Saldana, Villines
DLW:nl 6/30/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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