Amended in Senate August 28, 2014

Amended in Senate August 18, 2014

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2731

Introduced by Assembly Member Perea

February 25, 2014

An act to amend Section 8 of Chapter 27 of the Statutes of 2014, relating to begin delete transportation. end delete begin insert health care, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 2731, as amended, Perea. County of Fresno: maintenance of effort: streets and roads allocations.

Existing law gives the County of Fresno until June 30, 2020, to meet the maintenance of effort requirement associated with its receipt of streets and roads funds from gasoline sales tax revenues in the Transportation Investment Fund in the 2009-10 fiscal year, as long as it continues to provide medical services to indigent individuals and undocumented individuals consistent with the eligibility and benefit levels in effect in the 2013-14 fiscal year.

This bill would instead give the County of Fresno until June 30, 2020, to meet that maintenance of effort requirement if it begin delete uses end delete begin insert expends no less than end insert $5.5 million of funds begin delete that would otherwise be used to meet the requirement end delete to provide specialty medical services in conjunction with federally funded clinics to indigent individuals.

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This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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Vote:  begin delete majority end delete begin insert ²⁄₃ end insert . Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 8 of Chapter 27 of the Statutes of 2014
is amended to read:

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(a) Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 7104.2
of the Revenue and Taxation Code or any other provision of law,
the County of Fresno shall have until June 30, 2020, to meet the
maintenance of effort requirement applicable to counties in order
to receive a streets and roads allocation from the Transportation
Investment Fund for the 2009-10 fiscal year, as long as the County
of Fresno begin delete uses end delete begin insert expends no less than end insert five million five hundred
thousand dollars ($5,500,000) of funds begin delete that would otherwise be
used to meet that maintenance of effort requirement end delete to provide
specialty medical services in conjunction with federally qualified
health clinics, or other federally funded clinics, to indigent
individuals, including, but not limited to, those individuals who
are ineligible for full-scope Medi-Cal.

(b) Subdivision (a) shall not be construed to require the County
of Fresno to expend more than a total of five million five hundred
thousand dollars ($5,500,000) on the medical services described
in subdivision (a).

(c) The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within
the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California
Constitution because of the unique transportation funding needs
in the County of Fresno.

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This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

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In order to ensure the provision of specialty medical services in
conjunction with federally funded clinics to indigent individuals
at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.

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