Amended in Assembly August 22, 2014

Senate Bill No. 881

Introduced by Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review

January 9, 2014

An act begin delete relating to the Budget Act of 2014. end delete begin insert to amend Section 8 of Chapter 27 of the Statutes of 2014, relating to transportation. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 881, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. begin delete Budget Act of 2014. end delete begin insert County of Fresno: maintenance of effort: streets and roads allocations. end insert

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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.

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This bill would instead give the County of Fresno until June 30, 2020, to meet that maintenance of effort requirement if it uses $5.5 million of funds that would otherwise be used to meet the requirement to provide specialty medical services in conjunction with federally funded clinics to indigent individuals.

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This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2014.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

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

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begin insert SECTION 1. end insert   

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begin insert Section 8 of Chapter 27 of the Statutes of 2014
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SEC. 8.  

(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 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. end delete begin insert uses five million five hundred thousand dollars ($5,500,000)
of funds that would otherwise be used to meet that maintenance
of effort 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. end insert

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(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).

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(b)

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begin insert (c) end insert  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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SECTION 1.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory
changes relating to the Budget Act of 2014.

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