Bill Text: CA AB1492 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Assembly Bill 1492 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: State claims.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-07-18 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 70, Statutes of 2017. [AB1492 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB1492-Chaptered.html

Assembly Bill No. 1492

CHAPTER 70

An act relating to state claims, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

[ Approved by Governor July 17, 2017. Filed with Secretary of State July 17, 2017. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1492, Gonzalez Fletcher. State claims.

Existing law requires the Department of General Services to ensure that all claims that have been approved by the department, and for which there exists no legally available appropriation, are submitted for legislative approval at least twice each calendar year.

This bill would appropriate $78,932.96 to the Department of General Services, as specified, for the payment of claims against the state, approved by the department.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

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

SECTION 1.

(a) The sum of seventy-eight thousand nine hundred thirty-two dollars and ninety-six cents ($78,932.96) is hereby appropriated from the funds specified in subdivision (b) to the Department of General Services for the payment of claims accepted by the department’s Government Claims Program in accordance with the schedule set forth in subdivision (b).

(b) Pursuant to subdivision (a), claims accepted by the Department of General Services shall be paid in accordance with the following schedule:

Total for Fund: General Fund (0001)..........................$75,731.17

Total for Fund: Item 7100-001-0185

Budget Act of 2017, Program 21.................................$13.68

Total for Fund: Item 5180-111-0001

Budget Act of 2017, Program 4275010.......................$3,056.11

Total for Fund: Item 2740-001-0044

Budget Act of 2017, Program 92130...........................$132.00

SEC. 2.

Upon request of the Department of General Services, in a form prescribed by the Controller, the Controller shall transfer surcharges and fees from the Budget Act items of appropriation identified in subdivision (b) of Section 1 of this act to Item 7760-001-0666 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2017. For each Budget Act item of appropriation, this amount shall not exceed the cumulative total of the per-claim filing fees authorized by subdivision (c) of Section 905.2 of the Government Code and the surcharge authorized by subdivision (f) of Section 905.2 of the Government Code. For those items in subdivision (b) of Section 1 of this act that do not reflect a Budget Act appropriation, the Controller shall transfer an amount not to exceed the cumulative total of the per-claim filing fees authorized by subdivision (c) of Section 905.2 of the Government Code and the surcharge authorized by subdivision (f) of Section 905.2 of the Government Code. This amount shall be transferred for the support of the Department of General Services’ reimbursements to the Service Revolving Fund, Item 7760-001-0666 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2017. The Department of General Services shall provide a report of the amounts recovered pursuant to this authority to the Department of Finance within 90 days of the enactment of this act.

SEC. 3.

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to pay claims against the state and end hardship to claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary that this bill go into immediate effect.