BILL ANALYSIS �
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 872 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee)
As Amended August 26, 2014
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :Vote not relevant
BUDGET 18-7
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|Ayes:|Skinner, Gorell, Bloom, |
| |Campos, Ch�vez, Chesbro, |
| |Daly, Dickinson, Gordon, |
| |Jones-Sawyer, Mullin, |
| |Muratsuchi, Nazarian, |
| |Nestande, Rodriguez, |
| |Stone, Ting, Dababneh |
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|Nays:|Grove, Harkey, Mansoor, |
| |Melendez, Allen, |
| |Patterson, Wagner |
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SUMMARY : Makes corrections to the Budget Act of 2014, in order
to fully implement the 2014-15 budget. Specifically, this bill :
1)Provides $50 million in additional General Fund support for
the University of California and $50 million in additional
General Fund support for the California State University to
address deferred maintenance or other one-time needs. Also
includes intent language stating that this additional funding
will become ongoing in the 2015-16 fiscal year if General Fund
revenues continue to exceed projections.
2)Clarifies that an increase to the Regional Market Rate for
child care providers is set at the 85th percentile of the 2009
Regional Market Rate Survey, as reduced by a deficit factor of
10.11%. This amendment aligns the deficit factor with the
amount of funding appropriated in the Budget Act of 2014-15.
3)Reappropriates $12.9 million for special education programs
and $26.7 million for the K-12 High Speed Network that were
inadvertently left out of the Budget Act.
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4)Makes other technical and clarifying changes to the Budget Act
related to K-12 and early childhood education.
5)Makes various technical changes to several resource provisions
related to CalEPA Environmental Justice Grants, SB 918
(Pavley), Chapter 700, Statutes of 2010, Recycled Water
reversions, use of penalty revenues for marijuana enforcement,
and CPUC's California Teleconnect and Intervenor's
Compensation Funds.
6)Allows up to $500,000 (Waste Discharge Permit Fund civil
penalties) to be used for developing an integrated plan
addressing the drinking water and wastewater needs of
disadvantaged communities in the Salinas Valley. While the
appropriation is contained in the Budget Act, the Budget Bill
language for this item was inadvertently left out.
7)Provides authority to begin the preliminary planning and
working drawings phases of the Sacramento Criminal Courthouse.
8)Specifies that funds ($11.3 million) allocated to counties are
to address the temporary increase in offenders serving a term
on Post Release Community Supervision as a result of a
February 10, 2014, federal court order to increase credit
earnings for certain offenders.
9)Removes responsibility for overseeing recidivism reducing
Social Innovation Financing programs from the Governor's
Office of Planning and Research. These duties are being
shifted to the Board of State and Community Corrections
pursuant to related legislation.
10)Updates vision costs related to employee compensation
pursuant to the Affordable Care Act. The costs were
mistakenly omitted when requesting increases for overall
statewide healthcare costs.
11)Appropriates $3 million General Fund ($2.9 million for
contracts and $100,000 to fund one position for the Refugee
Programs Bureau) to the Department of Social Services to
support contracting with qualified legal services
organizations to provide legal services to unaccompanied
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undocumented minors who are transferred to the care and
custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and who
are present in this state, pursuant to corresponding statutory
changes contained in the pending Human Services Clean-Up
Trailer Bill (SB 873 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee) of
the current legislative session, and AB 1477 (Budget
Committee) of the current legislative session).
12)Provides $10 million for the Employment Training Panel.
13)Makes various other technical and conforming changes to the
Budget Act.
COMMENTS : This bill amends the Budget Act of 2014, as adopted
in SB 852 (Leno), Chapter 25, Statutes of 2014, to make various
"clean-up" amendments. This clean-up bill, sometimes called a
"budget bill junior", is typically necessary each year due to
the size and complexity of the budget act.
Analysis Prepared by : Andrea Margolis / BUDGET / (916)
319-2099
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