SB100 - Budget Acts of 2023 and 2024.

Amended IN Assembly April 07 , 2025 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025 – 2026 REGULAR SESSION Senate Bill No. 100 Introduced by Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review Senator Wiener January 23 , 2025 An act relating to the Budget Act of 2025. An act to amend the Budget Act of 2023 (Chapters 12, 38, and 189 of the Statutes of 2023) by amending Items 5227-122-0001 and 7502-495 of Section 2.00 of, and amending Section 39.10 of, that act, and to amend the Budget Act of 2024 (Chs. 22, 35, and 994, Stats. 2024) by amending Items 0690-001-0001, 0690-101-0001, 0690-103-0001, 0840-001-3268, 3900-101-0001, 3900-101-3119, 3900-101-3122, 3940-001-0001, 4260-101-0001, 4260-101-0890, 5180-001-0131, 5180-011-0001, 5227-122-0001, 6100-488, and 6360-001-0407 of, and adding Items 0555-492, 3940-492, 3960-012-0557, 4260-101-8140, and 4260-491 to, Section 2.00 of, by amending Sections 15.14, 39.10, 90.00, 90.01, and 99.50 of, and by adding Section 15.00 to, that act, relating to the state budget, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, budget bill. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB100, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review Wiener . Budget Act of 2025. Budget Acts of 2023 and 2024. The Budget Act of 2023 and the Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2023 and the Budget Act of 2024 by amending and adding items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact statutory changes relating to the Budget Act of 2025. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO YES Fiscal Committee: NO YES Local Program: NO Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Item 5227-122-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2023 is amended to read: 5227-122-0001—For local assistance, Board of State and Community Corrections ........................ 16,000,000 Schedule: (1) 4945-Corrections Planning and Grant Programs ........................ 16,000,000 Provisions: 1. These funds shall be awarded by the Board of State and Community Corrections as competitive grants to federally recognized Indian tribes in California to support efforts to identify, collect case-level data, publicize, and investigate and solve cases involving missing and murdered indigenous people. The board shall consult with and include stakeholders from the indigenous community to inform the grant outreach process and the process to select and administer grants. 2. Grants should focus on activities including, but not limited to, developing culturally based prevention strategies, strengthening responses to human trafficking, and improving cooperation and communication on jurisdictional issues between state, local, federal, and tribal law enforcement in order to investigate and solve cases involving missing and murdered indigenous people. Allowable expenditures may include reimbursement to eligible tribes for contracted services with local law enforcement agencies for staffing in support of eligible grant activities. 3. Of the amount identified in this item, up to 5 percent shall be available to the Board of State and Community Corrections for transfer to Schedule (1) of Item 5227-001-0001 for costs to administer the grant programs. Funds transferred pursuant to this provision are available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2026. 2028. 4. Funds appropriated in this item are available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2026. 2028. 5. The Board of State and Community Corrections shall provide an initial report to the Legislature by December 1, 2023, an interim report by December 31, 2028, and a final report by December 1, 2025, 31, 2029, that includes, but is not limited to, information about the grant recipients, the allocation of funds, and applicable metrics and outcomes of the program. SEC. 2. Item 7502-495 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2023 is amended to read: 7502-495—Reversion, Department of Technology. The balances specified below of the appropriation provided in the following citation shall revert to the balance of the fund from which the appropriation was made. 0001—General Fund (1) Item 7502-001-0001, 7502-002-0001, Budget Act of 2022 (Chs. 43, 45, and 249, Stats. 2022). Up to $38,500,000 appropriated in Program 6230—Department of Technology. SEC. 3. Section 39.10 of the Budget Act of 2023 is amended to read: SEC. 39.10. In addition to this act, the Budget Act of 2023 consists of the following statutes: (a) Chapter 12 of the Statutes of 2023 (Senate Bill No. 101). (b) Chapter 38 of the Statutes of 2023 (Assembly Bill No. 102). (c) Chapter 189 of the Statutes of 2023 (Senate Bill No. 104). (d) Chapter 862 of the Statutes of 2023 (Senate Bill No. 105). (e) Chapter 9 of the Statutes of 2024 (Assembly Bill No. 106). (f) Chapter 36 of the Statutes of 2024 (Senate Bill No. 109). (g) Chapter 996 of the Statutes of 2024 (Assembly Bill No. 158). SEC. 4. Item 0555-492 is added to Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2024, to read: 0555-492—Reappropriation, Secretary for Environmental Protection. Notwithstanding any other law, the period to liquidate encumbrances of the following citations is extended to June 30, 2026: 0001—General Fund (1) Item 0555-101-0001, Budget Act of 2021 (Chs. 21, 69, and 240, Stats. 2021) SEC. 5. Item 0690-001-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2024 is amended to read: 0690-001-0001—For support of Office of Emergency Services ........................ 278,119,000 Schedule: (1) 0380-Emergency Management Services ........................ 177,170,000 (2) 0385-Special Programs and Grant Management ........................ 106,003,000 113,653,000 (3) 0390-Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission ........................ 351,000 (4) 0395-Public Safety Communications ........................ 325,000 (5) 9900100-Administration ........................ 49,213,000 (6) 9900200-Administration—​Distributed ........................ −49,213,000 (7) Reimbursements to 0380-Emergency Management Services ........................ −5,510,000 (8) Reimbursements to 0385-Special Programs and Grant Management ........................ −220,000 −7,870,000 Provisions: 1. Funds appropriated in this item may be reduced by the Director of Finance, after giving notice to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, by the amount of federal funds made available for the purposes of this item in excess of the federal funds scheduled in Item 0690-001-0890. 2. Of the amount appropriated in Schedule (2), $6,700,000 shall be for the Office of Emergency Services to reimburse local law enforcement agencies to offset the cost to local law enforcement agencies of reimbursing qualified health care professionals, hospitals, or other emergency medical facilities for medical evidentiary examinations for all sexual assault victims in accordance with Section 13823.95 of the Penal Code. 3. Of the amount appropriated in Schedule (2), $7,650,000 shall be available to fund an operational observer from February 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. By no later than July 1, 2025, the Office of Emergency Services shall report to the Legislature on the operational observer’s work. This report shall include for all electrical corporations in the scope of this work: (1) activities undertaken, (2) specific issues identified in the wildfire risk reduction processes of covered utilities, (3) qualitative and quantitative information on improvements to the wildfire risk reduction processes of the covered utilities resulting from these actions, (4) handling and coordination of new business requests across its service territory, and (5) all work planning and execution process related to new business requests and wildfire risk. The office shall update the report no later than June 30, 2026. 4. Notwithstanding any other law, the Director of Emergency Services is authorized to contract with an operational observer to monitor covered utilities’ implementation of measures to mitigate the risk of wildfire ignitions from utility infrastructure and reduce the use, scope, and duration of public safety power shutoffs. The resulting contract or contracts for services shall not require the review, consent, or approval of the Department of General Services or any other state department or agency and need not comply with requirements under the State Contracting Manual, the Public Contract Code, and the personal services contracting requirements of Article 4 (commencing with Section 19130) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code. The contract or contracts for services may include those terms and conditions that the Director of Emergency Services finds to be in the state’s best interest. SEC. 6. Item 0690-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2024 is amended to read: 0690-101-0001—For local assistance, Office of Emergency Services ........................ 108,000,000 Schedule: (1) 0380-Emergency Management Services ........................ 61,204,000 (2) 0385-Special Programs and Grant Management ........................ 46,796,000 Provisions: 1. Notwithstanding any other law, the Office of Emergency Services may provide advance payment of up to 25 percent of grant funds awarded to community-based, nonprofit organizations, cities, school districts, counties, and other units of local government that have demonstrated cashflow problems according to the criteria set forth by the Office of Emergency Services. 2. Of the amount appropriated in Schedule (2), $17,000,000 shall be used for grants related to services for victims of human trafficking. 3. Of the amount appropriated in Schedule (1), $25,000,000 is available to support activities directly related to regional response and readiness. These activities include, but are not limited to, predeployment of the Office of Emergency Services’ fire and rescue and local government resources that are part of the California Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System or additional resources upon the authority and approval of the Office of Emergency Services to meet the requirements for state resources called up for predisaster and disaster response. Prepositioning shall be based upon predesignated criteria and a predicted scale of the emergency event and shall be consistent with this state’s current procedures under the mutual aid system. 4. No later than February 1 of each year, the Office of Emergency Services shall report to the appropriate budget subcommittees of the Legislature, the Assembly Committee on Governmental Organization, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office on the requests approved for prepositioning resources made by local agencies in the previous fiscal year. The information provided shall be organized by mutual aid region and shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following for each request for prepositioning resources: (a) The entity or operational area that requested resources; type of prepositioning event; risk factors (criteria) prompting the request, including a summary of red flag events; description of the resources requested; location where resources were placed; the start date and time and the end date and time of prepositioned resources; and the reimbursement amount associated with the response. (b) An assessment, with input from local fire departments, of the effectiveness of the criteria the Office of Emergency Services uses to approve requests for prepositioning of mutual aid resources. (c) A summary of the extent to which the Office of Emergency Services initiated the prepositioning of resources due to forecasts of inclement weather. (d) If an emergency event happened, data describing the outcomes of the event. This could include, but is not limited to, the total number of acres affected, the number of structures affected, and the total number of deaths and injuries. Because California is subject to a variety of potential events, including, but not limited to, fires, floods, earthquakes, and tsunamis, the nature of this information may vary based on the type of the event. The information provided shall identify whether the event resulted in a federal- or state-declared disaster. 5. (a) Of the funds appropriated in Schedule (1), $12,500,000 shall be used for the Listos California Grant program. The Listos California Grant program shall be managed by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the Executive Office of the Office of Emergency Services. The grants shall be used to provide accessible and culturally competent outreach and resources with assessment and criteria for allocation of funds prioritized for, but not limited to, geographic areas of greatest all hazard risk and vulnerability as highlighted in and demonstrated by the California State Hazard Mitigation Plan; underresourced communities as defined in Section 39711 of the Health and Safety Code, subdivision (d) of Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code, or subdivision (g) of Section 75005 of the Public Resources Code. The grants shall be administered consistent with the emergency management system described in Section 8607 of the Government Code, including, but not limited to, being informed by community-based and nongovernmental organizations and local emergency service networks, including county emergency officials. The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion shall provide eligible organizations within the identified geographic areas an opportunity to apply to the Listos California Grant program. The Office of Emergency Services shall report to the appropriate budget committees of the Legislature, the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization, the Assembly Committee on Emergency Management, and the Legislative Analyst’s Office on the expenditure of these funds on or before February 1, 2026, including the following: (1) How funds were allocated. (2) What methods of outreach the Office of Equity used to inform eligible entities of the funding. (3) The entity or community that received the funding. (4) A description of projects funded. (b) This provision does not diminish or otherwise impact any of the Office of Emergency Services’ responsibilities under the California Emergency Services Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8550) of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code), including, but not limited to, Sections 8550, 8569, 8570, 8570.3 of, and subdivision (e) of Section 8585 of, the Government Code. 6. Of the amount appropriated in Schedule (1), $23,704,000 will be available to support California’s Law Enforcement Mutual Aid System. Notwithstanding any other law, the Office of Emergency Services may provide advance payment to local law enforcement agencies to cover costs when formally deployed through the Law Enforcement Mutual Aid System in support of a response to conditions that threaten public [Text truncated for display. Full text available on Congress.gov.]