Provides for emergency appropriation for the period April 1, 2010 through April 18, 2010

Summary of provisions

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

Section 2 appropriates an additional $184 million for the personal service payments scheduled to be made to State officers and employees through April 22, 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 developmentally disabled persons who are employed in State-oper- ated special employment, work-for-pay or sheltered workshop programs; and, as appropriate, lump sum payments, advances, awards and longevity increases.

Section 3 appropriates an additional $16.1 million to pay to the social security contribution fund the payroll taxes relating to the personal service payments specified above.

Section 4 appropriates an additional $1,000 to make payments to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund.

Section 5 appropriates an additional $15 million for nonpersonal service payments by various State agencies including the Legislature and Judici- ary.

Section 6 appropriates an additional $20 million for capital projects funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as follows:

* An additional $10 million for the continuation of transportation related capital construction contracts approved prior to April 1, 2010 to allow payment of liabilities incurred through April 18, 2010.

* An additional $10 million for the approval of new transportation related capital construction contracts for projects from April 1, 2010 through April 18, 2010.

Section 7 continues $10 million for the approval of capital construction projects for emergency health and safety purposes from April 1, 2010 to April 18, 2010.

Section 8 appropriates $15.7 million for payments to not-for-profits for the administration of the Community Services Block Grant Program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Section 9 appropriates an additional $6 million to the State Education Department to make mandated payments for the 2009-10 school year for Excess Cost Aid.

Section 10 appropriates an additional $1.45 billion for payments to providers participating in the Medical Assistance Program, including payments to local providers of medical services and family care. In addition, Section 10 appropriates $170 million for payments to providers participating in the Child Health Insurance Program, and $35 million for payments to providers participating in the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insur- ance Coverage program.

Section 11 provides an additional $204 million to the Department of Labor for Unemployment Insurance benefits to claimants.

Section 12 prohibits expenditures from all appropriations until certif- icates of approval have been issued by the Director of the Budget and filed with certain State officers.

Section 13 requires the Comptroller to transfer any expenditures made against these appropriations to the 2010-11 Budget appropriations after they have become law.

Section 14, the severability clause, provides that if any part of this Act be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment would not invalidate the remainder of the Act.

Section 15 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 13 of the bill.

Existing law

None.

Statement in support

This bill will allow the State to make certain payments and incur certain liabilities during the period April 1 through April 18, 2010 on a 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.