Bill Text: CA SBX14 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 4

Introduced

Bill Title: Budget Act of 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-20 - Introduced. Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. [SBX14 Detail]

Download: California-2025-SBX14-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025 – 2026 1st Ext.

Senate Bill

No. 4

Introduced by Senator Wiener and Assembly Member Gabriel

January 20 , 2025

An act to amend the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024), by amending Sections 39.00 and 99.50 of, and by adding Section 90.00 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB4, as introduced, Wiener . 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 by adding appropriations and making other changes.

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

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 39.00 of the Budget Act of 2024 is amended to read:

SEC. 39.00.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the following bills are other bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution: AB 153, AB 155, AB 156, AB 159, AB 160, AB 161, AB 162, AB 163, AB 164, AB 165, AB 166, AB 167, AB 168, AB 169, AB 170, AB 171, AB 172, AB 173, AB 174, AB 175, AB 176, AB 177, AB 178, AB 179, AB 181, AB 182, AB 183, AB 184, AB 185, AB 218, SB 153, SB 155, SB 156, SB 159, SB 160, SB 161, SB 162, SB 163, SB 164, SB 165, SB 166, SB 167, SB 168, SB 169, SB 170, SB 171, SB 172, SB 173, SB 174, SB 175, SB 176, SB 177, SB 178, SB 179, SB 181, SB 182, SB 183, SB 184, SB 185, and SB ~~218.~~ 218 of the 2023–24 Regular Session, and AB 6, AB 7, SB 5, and SB 6 of the 2025–26 First Extraordinary Session.

SEC. 2.

Section 90.00 is added to the Budget Act of 2024, to read:

SEC. 90.00.

(a) For the purposes described in subdivision (b), the Director of Finance may augment the appropriation for any department or agency appropriation from any available source of funding, including, but not limited to, the General Fund. Augmentations pursuant to this subdivision shall not exceed a total of $1,500,000,000.

(b) Augmentations pursuant to subdivision (a) are hereby appropriated for use by state departments and entities for uses consistent with the purposes of the Disaster Response-Emergency Operations Account concerning areas of the state affected by wildfire states of emergency that were declared by the Governor in January 2025. Those uses include, but are not limited to, emergency protective measures, evacuations, sheltering for survivors, household hazardous waste removal, assessment and remediation of post-fire hazards such as flash flooding and debris flows, traffic control, air quality and water and other environmental testing, and other actions to protect health, protect the safety of persons or property, and expedite recovery.

(c) Increases in augmentation authority pursuant to subdivision (a) shall not be made sooner than three days following the transmittal of the approval to the chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee or an earlier date as determined by the chairperson of the joint committee, or the chairperson’s designee, except that, for the first $1,000,000,000 of augmentation authority pursuant to subdivision (a), the augmentations may be implemented in full immediately with no delay upon such a notification to the chairperson.

(d) This section does not change, alter, limit, or constrain the emergency powers of the Governor and the executive branch in state law, including, but not limited to, the Governor’s fiscal authority related to emergencies.

(e) Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall be available for encumbrance or expenditure until the applicable declarations of states of emergency in January 2025 are terminated or an alternate date as determined by the Director of Finance.

SEC. 3.

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
5.26	Legal Services Grant Funding
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
11.93	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
90.00	Funding for Fire Response and Recovery
90.01	Additional Funding for Fire Response and Recovery
99.00	Alphabetical Organization Index
99.50	Numerical Control Section Index

SEC. 4.

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.