Bill Text: CA AB1774 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: State claims.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-22 - Referred to Com. on APPR. [AB1774 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB1774-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill | No. 1774 |
Introduced by Committee on Appropriations (Assembly Members Gonzalez Fletcher (Chair), Bigelow (Vice Chair), Bloom, Bonta, Brough, Calderon, Chau, Fong, Friedman, Gallagher, Eduardo Garcia, Obernolte, and Reyes) |
January 04, 2018 |
An act relating to state claims, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1774, as introduced, Committee on Appropriations.
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 once each calendar year.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would appropriate funds 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.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would appropriate funds for the payment of claims against the state approved by the Department of General Services.SEC. 2.
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.