Provides for emergency appropriation for the period April 1, 2010 through April 11, 2010

Summary of provisions

Section 1 of this bill authorizes the Comptroller to utilize the appro- priations contained in the bill, which relate to the 2010-11 State fiscal year, absent enactment of the 2010-11 Budget.

Section 2 appropriates $376.9 million for the personal service payments scheduled to be made to State officers and employees through April 14, 2010, including payments for officers and employees of the Legislature and Judiciary, statewide elected officials and elected members of the Legislature; payments for services performed by mentally ill or develop- mentally disabled persons who are employed in State-operated special employment, work-for-pay or sheltered workshop programs; and, as appro- priate, lump sum payments, advances, awards and longevity increases.

Section 3 appropriates $38.8 million to pay to the social contribution fund, the payroll taxes relating to the personal payments specified above.

Section 4 appropriates $26,000 to make payments to the Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund.

Section 5 provides $30 million in appropriation authority for nonper- sonal service payments by various State agencies including the Legisla- ture and Judiciary. It is the intent of this section to provide suffi- cient authorization for agencies to enter into contracts, the terms of which may continue beyond the life of this appropriation and for which payments for liabilities incurred beyond April 11, 2010 would be made subject to additional future appropriations.

Section 6 provides a total of $40 million for capital projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as follows;

* $20 million for the continuation of transportation-related capital construction contracts approved prior to April 1, 2010 to allow payment of liabilities incurred through April 11, 2010.

* $20 million for the approval of new transportation-related capital construction contracts for projects from April 1, 2010 through April 11, 2010.

Section 7 provides $10 million for the approval of capital construction projects for emergency health and safety purposes from April 1, 2010 to April 11, 2010.

Sections 8 provides $131 million to the Division of Housing and Communi- ty Renewal to meet essential program expenditures of the Low Income Weatherization Program, funded by the Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Section 9 appropriates $488 million to the State Education Department to make mandated payments for the 2009-10 school year in support of General support for public Schools.

Section 10 appropriates $2.95 billion for payments to providers partic- ipating in the Medical Assistance Program, including payments to local providers of medical services and family care.

Section 11 appropriates $711,000 to the office of Children and Family Services to support youth facility improvements.

Section 12 appropriates $60 million to the office of Temporary and Disa- bility Assistance for SSI payments.

Section 13 provides $420 million in appropriation authority to the Department of Labor for Unemployment Insurance benefits to claimants and $5 million in Federal funds for the local area Workforce Investment Act (WIA) youth training and employment programs.

Section 14 provides $1.25 million to the Olympic Regional Development Authority for staff salaries and other related expenses of such authori- ty.

Section 15 prohibits expenditures from all appropriations until. certificates of approval have been issued by the Director of the Budget and filed with certain State officers.

Section 16 requires the Comptroller to transfer any expenditures made against these appropriations to the 2010-11 Budget appropriations after they have become law.

Section 17 provides that the bill take effect immediately and is deemed to be in full force and effect on April 1, 2010, and, further, that the appropriations made in the bill will be deemed repealed upon the trans- fer of expenditures by the Comptroller pursuant to section 16 of the bill.

Existing law

None.

Statement in support

This bill will allow the State to make certain payments certain liabil- ities during the period April 1 through April 11, timely basis, in the absence of an enacted budget for State fiscal year 2010-11.

Budget implications

Expenditures and disbursements made against these appropriations shall, upon final action by the Legislature on the appropriation bills submit- ted by the Governor for the support of government for the State fiscal year beginning April 1, 2010, be transferred by the Comptroller as expenditures and disbursements to such appropriations for State depart- ments and agencies, the Legislature and the Judiciary. Accordingly, this bill will have no additional impact on the State's 2010-11 Financial Plan.