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                                                                  SB 874
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          Date of Hearing:   August 14, 2014

                            ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUDGET
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
            SB 874 (Budget & Fiscal Review) - As Amended:  August 13, 2014

           SENATE VOTE  :   Not relevant
           
          SUBJECT  :   Resources Omnibus Trailer Bill Technical Adjustments

           SUMMARY  :   This bill makes various technical adjustments to the  
          resources, environmental protection, energy, and agriculture  
          2014 budget actions.  Specifically,  this bill  :  

             1)   Corrects various technical statutory references related  
               to the drinking water program and provides appropriate  
               liquidation periods as intended by the budget actions.
             2)   Clarifies that specified water and wastewater projects  
               are eligible to receive funding from the State Water  
               Pollution Control Revolving Fund.
             3)   Clarifies that $10 million, previously appropriated to  
               the Department of Housing and Community Development for  
               housing-related drought relief, continues to be  
               appropriated as provided in Chapter 3 of the Statutes of  
               2014.
             4)   Provides a subaccount for greenhouse gas emission  
               funding through the State Energy Conservation Assistance  
               Account for purposes of tracking and provides that the  
               loans within this new subaccount may be used by state  
               agencies, including the University of California and  
               California State University.
             5)   Modifies eligibility requirements for incentives under  
               the self-generation incentive program (SGIP) to include  
               storage and make technical changes that clarify performance  
               measures under the program.
             6)   Includes an appropriation to the Natural Resources  
               Agency for the purpose of implementing elements of the  
               scoping plan adopted by the State Air Resources Board that  
               was inadvertently omitted from the budget act.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   This bill should not result in any substantive  
          changes to the budget act or related budget actions.

           COMMENTS :   This bill provides the necessary statutory  
          references and technical changes to the Omnibus resources  








                                                                  SB 874
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          trailer bill, SB 861, Chapter 861, Statutes of 2014, to enact  
          the 2014-15 budget related to resources, environmental  
          protection, energy, and agriculture.

           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          Unknown
           
            Opposition 
           
          Unknown

          Analysis Prepared by  :    Gabrielle Meindl / BUDGET / (916)  
          319-2099