BILL ANALYSIS Ó SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW Senator Mark Leno, Chair 2015 - 2016 Regular Bill No: AB 127 Hearing Date: August 27, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Author: |Committee on Budget | |----------+------------------------------------------------------| |Version: |August 24, 2015 Amended | ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Urgency: |No |Fiscal: |Yes | ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Consultant|Committee Staff | |: | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: State government. Summary: This measure makes various statutory changes necessary to implement the state administration related provisions of the Budget Act of 2015. Proposed Law: This measure includes the following key changes: 1.Authorizes the Department of Personnel Administration to determine the salary levels for members of the Board of Parole Hearings. 2.Clarifies that the funding limits established for counties under the community services recidivism reduction grant program are per year, per budget allocation and are not the total allocation amounts for the duration of the program. 3.Makes a technical change regarding the Health Benefit Exchange Board's exemption from the State Contract Act, authorized by SB 75 (Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review), Chapter 18, Statutes of 2015. SB 75 exempted the board from the requirements regarding only public works procurements instead of all board contracts (including its goods and services contracts and its information technology contracts), as intended as part of the 2015-16 budget. 4.Clarifies that loans are not included in gross income for AB 127 (Committee on Budget) Page 2 of ? income tax purposes (with reference to programs administered by the California Residential Mitigation Program or the California Earthquake Authority), and corrects the existing definition of residential structures for purposes of excluding grant awards for structural seismic risk mitigation from gross income. Fiscal Effect: The funding related to the changes in this bill is contained in the 2015-16 budget. In addition, the bill would appropriate $400,000 General Fund from the State Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Program Fund for the Department of Aging's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. Support: None on file. Opposed: None on file. -- END --