BILL ANALYSIS �
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 1031 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
As Amended August 23, 2012
Majority vote. Budget Bill Appropriation Takes Effect
Immediately
SENATE VOTE :Vote not relevant
SUMMARY : Amends the 2012-13 Budget Act, which was adopted on
June 15, 2012, in AB 1464 (Blumenfield), Chapter 21, Statutes of
2012. Specifically, this bill :
1)Includes a $29 million fund shift in the local assistance
budget item under the Judicial Branch. One item was correctly
increased; however, the other budget item was mistakenly not
reduced.
2)Extends the encumbrance period by two years to allow the
Department of Parks and Recreation to expend $6 million for
water, wastewater, and sewer system capital outlay projects in
state parks.
3)Authorizes up to $2 million from the State Parks and
Recreation Fund (SPRF) for park operations at Del Norte Coast
Redwoods State Parks, Samuel P. Taylor State Park, and Tomales
Bay State Park. Fees for these parks are collected by the
National Parks Services per federal agreements and deposited
in SPRF.
4)Provides that the Department of Finance shall conduct an audit
of the Renewable Resource Trust Fund and its related accounts
and provide a final audit report to the Legislature no later
than June 30, 2013. This audit was inadvertently deleted in
the Resources Trailer Bill, SB 1018 (Budget and Fiscal Review
Committee), Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012.
5)Reduces the Budget appropriation for three Public Utilities
Commission programs:
a) Universal Lifeline Telephone Service Trust
Administrative Committee Fund - $75 million reduction;
b) Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program
Administrative Committee Fund - $22 million reduction; and,
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c) California Teleconnect Fund Administration Committee
Fund - $15 million reduction.
d) These reductions are necessary to correct reporting
errors, which overstated use of these programs.
6)Corrects a technical error in the 2012 Budget Act (that
resulted from the transfer of the Office of Family Planning
from the Department of Public Health to the Department of
Health Care Services), within which the General Fund
appropriations for the Office of Family Planning are
overstated by $2.035 million.
7)Addresses an error in the 2012 Budget Act (that resulted from
the elimination of the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and
related transfer of programs and appropriations from DMH to
other departments), which transferred the balances of the DMH
appropriations to the Department of Health Care Services to
liquidate the appropriations and inadvertently excluded this
one appropriation.
8)Corrects a technical error in the 2012 Budget Act that
resulted from the transfer of the Every Woman Counts (EWC)
program from the Department of Public Health to the Department
of Health Care Services, which inadvertently excluded
amendments to budget bill language needed to transfer the EWC
General Fund reappropriation language from one department to
the other.
9)Reflects increased revenue from an extension to the gross
premiums tax on managed care organizations, which will not
take effect if such an extension does not occur, and this
revenue is not realized.
10)Makes technical, no-cost corrections to the California Work
Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Single
Allocation. The Single Allocation provides funding for
counties' welfare-to-work services. The corrections shift
unexpended funding from 2011-12 to the 2012-13 budget items,
allowing counties to fully serve and re-engage cases.
11)Removes the Student Records mandate from the list of
suspended mandates and adds a corresponding $1,000
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appropriation.
12)Adds four current and active mandates, which had been
unintentionally not included in the 2012 Budget Act, and
corresponding $1,000 appropriation for each mandate.
13)Includes budget bill provisional language, which has been
included in the past several budgets on General Obligation
bond funded University of California capital outlay projects,
to authorize expenditure of any savings as specified and
requires payment of prevailing wage rates.
14)Reinstates the expectation that the California State
University (CSU) will enroll a total of 331,716 state
supported full-time equivalent students during the 2012-13
academic year. This enrollment target does not include
nonresident students and students enrolled in non-state
supported summer programs. As a condition of receipt of state
General Fund in 2012-13, requires CSU to report to the
Legislature and to the Director of Finance by May 1, 2013, on
whether it has met the enrollment goal.
15)Provides the CSU a one-time authority, effective only for the
2012-13 fiscal year, to transfer funds from the State
University Continuing Education Revenue Fund or any other
revenues received from extension programs to mitigate impacts
to state-supported instructional programs that would result
from reductions in state General Fund appropriations or from
reductions in student fee revenues for support of the
university. As a condition of this one-time authority,
requires CSU to report to the Legislature and to the Director
of Finance by June 30, 2013, on the impact of any transfer on
self-supporting instructional programs and related fees and
the use of any transferred funds.
16)Corrects a drafting error that inadvertently referenced the
Department of Education instead of the Board of Governors of
the California Community Colleges in the mandated programs
block grant budget item.
17)Increases reimbursement authority to allow California
Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to charge local
transportation agencies for the development and oversight of
Project Initiation Documents (PIDs). Local agencies will be
charged only for direct costs.
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18)Provides appropriation authority to allow the Controller to
distribute California Police Activity League funds that are
collected through a tax check-off box.
19)Provides $5 million General Fund to the Department of Finance
to distribute to counties for allowable costs associated with
the November 6, 2012, statewide election.
20)Provides Control Section 3.90: Ratifies addenda to the
contracts of Bargaining Units 2, 7 and 10 to reflect
reductions to employee compensation pursuant to the 2012
Budget Act. In all, 19 bargaining units agreed to
compensation reductions.
21)Contains an appropriation allowing this bill to take effect
immediately upon enactment.
COMMENTS : This bill amends the original 2012-13 Budget Act, AB
1464 (Blumenfield), Chapter 21, Statutes of 2012, to reflect
technical corrections and other conforming changes.
Analysis Prepared by : Sara Bachez / BUDGET / (916) 319-2099
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