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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 2731
Author: Perea (D)
Amended: 8/18/14 in Senate
Vote: 21
PRIOR VOTES NOT RELEVANT
SUBJECT : County of Fresno: streets and roads allocations
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill obligates Fresno County to spend $5.5
million for indigent healthcare by deferring the countys
maintenance of effort requirement necessary to receive state
funding for local streets and roads.
Senate Floor Amendments of 8/18/14 delete the prior content of
the bill, which dealt with insurance reports, and add the
current language.
ANALYSIS : SB 524 (Cogdill, Chapter 716, Statutes of 2010)
deferred a $5.5 million payment until June 30, 2015, from Fresno
County to its Local Road Fund required to demonstrate the
county's Maintenance-of-Effort (MOE). State law requires local
governments to meet a MOE threshold to be eligible for state
transportation funding.
As approved by the Governor on June 20, 2014, Section 8 of SB
853 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, Chapter 27, Statutes
of 2014) delayed until January 30, 2020, Fresno County's
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required MOE payment as long as the county continues to provide
medical services to indigent individuals and undocumented
individuals consistent with the eligibility and benefit
provisions in effect in the 2013-14 fiscal year.
This bill clarifies language in Section 8 of SB 853. The new
language requires Fresno County to use $5.5 million that it
otherwise proposes to use to meet its transportation MOE
requirement 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. Fresno County would still have until 2020 to repay
the $5.5 million to its Local Road Fund to demonstrate the
county's MOE.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
JA:nl 8/19/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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