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                                                                  SB 910
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          Date of Hearing:   August 4, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    SB 910 (Kehoe) - As Amended:  August 2, 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  
          $1,224,892 to pay 290 claims against the state as approved by  
          the board. 


          FISCAL EFFECT


           1)Appropriates $1,224,892 from the GF.    


          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 is $68,912. 


           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.  








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          2)Support  . This bill, supported by the board, the Department of  
            Finance, and the administration, has no opposition.  


          3)The 15 claims  over $10,000 - from $10,000 to $393,810, account  
            for 73% of the costs of this bill; the remaining claims  
            average $1,203. Virtually all of the claims (98%) are in two  
            categories: 


             a)   Stale-dated warrants (expired state checks) - 280 claims  
               for $765,478.


             b)   Unredeemed bonds - 5 claims for $15,328.  


          4)Related Legislation  . AB 1715 (Fuentes), which appropriates  
            $988,377 to cover 257 claims, passed this committee and the  
            Assembly floor without a dissenting vote and is pending on the  
            Senate floor.  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