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          SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW
                              Senator Mark Leno, Chair
                                2015 - 2016  Regular 

          Bill No:            AB 127          Hearing Date:    August 27,  
          2015
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          |Version:  |August 24, 2015    Amended                            |
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          |Urgency:  |No                     |Fiscal:    |Yes              |
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                             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  







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            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.
          
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