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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 207
Author: Kehoe (D)
Amended: 5/11/11
Vote: 27 - Urgency
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 9-0, 5/09/11
AYES: Kehoe, Walters, Alquist, Emmerson, Lieu, Pavley,
Price, Runner, Steinberg
SUBJECT : State claims
SOURCE : California Victim Compensation and Government
Claims
Board
DIGEST : This bill appropriates $557,729.29 from various
funds to the Victim Compensation and Government Claims
Board (Board) to pay 211 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 for legislative approval at least twice during
each calendar year.
General Funds
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This bill appropriates funding for 209 stale-dated warrants
and two reimbursement claims. The re-issuance of
stale-dated warrants is the most prevalent claim approved
by the Board. For stale-dated warrants, the State
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 10 years of their maturity date
(there are no such claims in this bill), but the majority
of warrants are checks.
Special Funds
This bill appropriates $7,697.81from the State Highway
Account in the State Transportation Fund; $2,576.72 from
the Motor Vehicle Account in the State Transportation Fund;
and $5,256.35 from the Health Care Deposit Fund.
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, there is
one action and two claims of note:
1.This bill specifies that no funds shall be expended for
payment of claim number G588066 ($73.36). This claim is
for a stale-dated warrant which was submitted to the
Board to be reissued had already been replaced by a
separate check issued by the Department of Fish & Game.
That payment was not noted until after the Board approved
the claim. While the Board is obligated to report the
claim to the Legislature, but the Legislature is not
obligated to appropriate funds for it. The Legislature
took a similar action in AB 1715 (Fuentes), Chapter 576,
Statutes of 2010.
2.This bill appropriates funds for two claims against the
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) for
county reimbursement of extradition expenses that were
not submitted within required timelines to CDCR. These
claims were approved by the Board in 2006, but failed to
be included in a claims bill. Since that time, the
Department of Finance secured adoption of budget trailer
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bill language so that if these expenses are not submitted
for direct reimbursement within six months, the same as
any other travel report, late expense reports can no
longer be submitted through the Board's claims process
for reimbursement. However, these two claims were
approved before the statute changed and the Department of
Finance approved the funding source for these.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: Yes Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
Appropriates $557,729.29 from various funds.
SUPPORT : (5/11/11)
California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board
(source)
Department of Finance (indicated support in Committee
5/10/11)
DLW:rm 5/11/11 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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