Provides for emergency appropriation for the period April 1, 2010 through April 25, 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 $264.5 million for the personal service payments scheduled to be made to State officers and employees through April 28, 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-operated 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 $21.4 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 $25,000 to make payments to the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association/College Retirement Equities Fund.

Section 5 appropriates an additional $10 million for nonpersonal service payments by various State agencies including the Legislature.

Section 6 appropriates $10 million for nonpersonal service payments by the Judiciary. This includes $2 million previously provided to the Judiciary from the All State Departments and Agencies' lump sum appropriation for nonpersonal services.

Section 7 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 25, 2010.

* An additional $10 million for the approval of new transportation related capital construction contracts for projects from April 1, 2010 through April 25, 2010.

Section 8 continues $10 million for the approval of capital construction projects for emergency health and safety purposes from April 1, 2010 to April 25, 2010.

Section 9 appropriates an additional $1 million to the State Education Department to make mandated payments for the 2009-10 school year 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.

Section 11 provides an additional $202 million to the Department of Labor for Unemployment Insurance benefits to claimants.

Section 12 appropriates $17 million to the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance for Child Support expenditures funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Section 13 appropriates an additional $1.56 million to the Olympic Regional Development Authority for staff salaries and other related expenses of such authority.

Section 14 appropriates $500,000 for payment of annuities to blind veterans and eligible spouses.

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, 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 18 provides that the bill takes 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 transfer of expenditures by the Comptroller pursuant to section sixteen of the bill.

Statement in support

This bill will allow the State to make certain payments and incur certain liabilities during the period April 1 through April 25, 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 submitted 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 departments and agencies, the Legislature and the Judiciary. Accordingly, this bill will have no additional impact on the State's 2010-11 Financial Plan.