Bill Text: CA ABX19 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Budget Act of 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Failed) 2025-02-03 - Died at Desk. [ABX19 Detail]

Download: California-2025-ABX19-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025 – 2026 1st Ext.

Assembly Bill

No. 9

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Introduced by Assembly Member Essayli
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Castillo, Davies, DeMaio, Flora, Gallagher, Sanchez, and Wallis)

January 21 ,  2025

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An act to amend the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024), by amending Section 99.50 of, and by adding Section 11.50 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and to take effect immediately, budget bill.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB9, as introduced, Essayli . Budget Act of 2024.

The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2024–25 fiscal year.

This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 to specify that approval of a large electrical corporation’s distribution infrastructure undergrounding plan is not a project for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), provided that environmental review otherwise required by CEQA occurs before any project approval that would authorize physical changes to the environment.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 11.50 is added to the Budget Act of 2024, to read:

SEC. 11.50.

 Approval of a distribution infrastructure undergrounding plan pursuant to Section 8388.5 of the Public Utilities Code is not a project as defined in Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code, provided that environmental review otherwise required by Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code occurs before any project approval that would authorize physical changes being made to the environment.

SEC. 2.

 Section 99.50 of the Budget Act of 2024 is amended to read:

INDEX FOR CONTROL SECTIONS

SEC. 99.50.

 The following is an index to the general sections of this act. These sections serve to define terms and identify restrictions concerning the appropriations contained in this act.

1.00	Budget Act Citation
1.50	Intent and Format
1.51	Citations to Prior Budget Acts
1.80	Availability of Appropriations
2.00	Items of Appropriation
3.00	Defines Purposes of Appropriations
3.10	Subschedule Transfers for Capital Projects
3.50	Benefit Charges Against Salaries and Wages
3.60	Contribution to Public Employees’ Retirement Benefits
3.61	Contribution to Prefund Other Postemployment Benefits
4.05	Budget Adjustment Authority
4.11	Position Vacancy Report
4.12	Vacant Position Savings
4.13	AB 85 Repayments to Counties
4.20	Contribution to Public Employees’ Contingency Reserve  Fund
4.30	Lease-Revenue Payment Adjustments
4.72	Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
4.75	Statewide Surcharge
4.80	State Public Works Board Interim Financing
4.90	Architectural Revolving Fund Transfer
4.95	Inmate and Ward Construction Revolving Account Transfer
5.25	Attorney’s Fees
6.00	Project Alterations Limits
8.00	Antiterrorism Federal Reimbursements
8.50	Federal Funds Receipts
8.51	Federal Funds Accounts
8.52	Federal Reimbursements
8.53	Notice of Federal Audits
8.54	Enforce Recovery of Federal Funds for Statewide Indirect  Costs
8.75	Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
9.30	Federal Levy of State Funds
9.50	Minor Capital Outlay Projects
11.00	Information Technology Reporting Requirements
11.10	Reporting of Statewide Software License Agreements
11.11	Privacy of Information in Pay Stubs
11.50	Undergrounding of Electrical Infrastructure
11.93	Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account  Reconciliation Adjustments
11.95	Federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Home and  Community-Based Services Funding
11.96	Coronavirus Fiscal Relief
11.97	State Appropriation Limit Excludable Federal Fund  Appropriations for Capital Outlay
12.00	State Appropriations Limit (SAL)
12.30	Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties
12.32	Proposition 98-Funding Guarantee
12.35	Financial Aid Policy Change Requirements
12.45	June to July Payroll Deferral
13.00	Legislative Counsel Bureau
13.40	Budgetary Loan Borrowing from Special Funds
14.00	Special Fund Loans Between Boards of the Department of  Consumer Affairs
15.14	Allocation of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
15.25	Data Center Rate Adjustment
15.45	Trial Court Funding Offsets
15.80	Reparations Legislation Funding
20.00	Reappropriations and Reversions
24.00	State School Fund Allocations
24.03	Reading Control
24.30	Transfer School Building Rental Income to the General  Fund
24.60	Report of Lottery Funds Received
24.70	Local Educational Agency Fiscal Accountability
25.40	Contracted Fiscal Services Costs
25.50	SCO Apportionment Payment System Assessments
26.00	Intraschedule Transfers
28.00	Program Change Notification
28.50	Agency Reimbursement Payments
29.00	Position Estimates of Governor’s Budget, May Revision,  and Final Change Book
30.00	Continuous Appropriations
31.00	Budget Act Administrative Procedures for Salaries and  Wages
32.00	Prohibits Excess Expenditures
33.00	Item Veto Severability
34.00	Constitutional Severability
35.21	Application of Net Final Payment Accrual Methodology
35.35	FI$Cal—​Short-Term Cash Loans
35.50	Estimated General Fund Revenues and Various Estimates  Related to the Budget Stabilization Account
38.00	Provides That This Bill Is a Budget Bill
39.00	Identification of Bills Related to the Budget Bill
99.00	Alphabetical Organization Index
99.50	Numerical Control Section Index

SEC. 3.

 This act is a Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall take effect immediately.