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          Date of Hearing:   August 28, 2014

                            ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON BUDGET
                                Nancy Skinner, Chair
              SB 874  (Budget & Fiscal Review Committee) - As Amended:   
                                   August 26, 2014

           SENATE VOTE  :   Vote Not Relevant
           
          SUBJECT  :   Resources Omnibus Trailer Bill Technical Adjustments

           SUMMARY  :   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 SB 104 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee),  
            Chapter 3, 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)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.

          6)Increases the state expenditure cap from $25 million to $30  
            million for the removal of San Clemente Dam in Monterey  
            County. 

          7)Authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation to enter  








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            into a restoration agreement with Stanford Mansion Foundation,  
            a nonprofit organization, for the purpose of repairing and  
            restoring the front stairs of Leland Stanford Mansion State  
            Historical Park.  


           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  
          trailer bill, SB 861 (Budget and Fiscal Review Committee),  
          Chapter 35, Statutes of 2014, to enact the 2014-15 budget  
          related to resources, environmental protection, energy, and  
          agriculture.


           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          Not Known
           
            Opposition 
           
          Not Known

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