Bill Text: CA SB1355 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Claims against the state: appropriation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-06-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 74, Statutes of 2022. [SB1355 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB1355-Chaptered.html
Senate Bill
No. 1355
CHAPTER 74
An act relating to the payment of claims against the state, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
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Approved by
Governor
June 30, 2022.
Filed with
Secretary of State
June 30, 2022.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1355, Portantino.
Claims against the state: appropriation.
Under existing law, if sufficient appropriations are not available for the payment of claims, settlements, or judgments against the state arising from an action in which the state is represented by the Attorney General, the Attorney General is required to report the claims, settlements, and judgments to the chairperson of either the Senate Committee on Appropriations or the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, who is then required to cause introduction of legislation appropriating the funds necessary for payment of the claims, settlements, or judgments.
This bill would appropriate $8,800,000 from the General Fund to the Attorney General for the payment of claims, settlements, or judgements against the state arising from 2 specified actions in which the state was represented by the Attorney General.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
(a) The sum of eight million eight hundred thousand dollars ($8,800,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Attorney General to be allocated in accordance with the following schedule:(1) The sum of eight million dollars ($8,000,000) for the payment of claims, settlements, or judgements against the state arising from Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Kamala Harris (C.D. Cal. Dec. 9, 2021, No. 2:14-cv-09448).
(2) The sum of eight hundred thousand dollars ($800,000) for the payment of claims, settlements, or judgements against the state arising from Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, et al. (E.D. Cal. Sept. 1, 2021, No. 1:16-cv-00185).
(b) Any funds appropriated in excess of the amounts actually required for the payment of these claims shall revert to the General Fund within 45 days after final payment is made.
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 judgment and settlement claims against the state and end hardship to claimants as quickly as possible, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.
