ABX 12: Budget Act of 2024.
The bill aims to amend the budget act of 2024 to make changes to existing appropriations. It declares that the amendments will take effect immediately as a budget bill. The bill makes these changes to support the 2024-25 fiscal year, and its provisions will be implemented immediately.
| Feb. 05, 2025 | From committee without further action. |
| Feb. 03, 2025 | From committee without further action. |
| Jan. 13, 2025 | Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. |
| Jan. 10, 2025 | From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on BUDGET. Read second time and amended. |
| Jan. 09, 2025 | (Ayes 48. Noes 17. Page 20.) |
| Amended IN Assembly January 10 , 2025 |
| Assembly Bill | No. 2 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel and Senator Wiener |
December 02 , 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the Department of Justice, under the direction and control of the Attorney General, and makes the department responsible for investigation and enforcement of various laws.
This bill would appropriate $500,000 to the department to pay the department for federal litigation expenses. The bill would require the department to report certain information regarding funds used pursuant to this bill and other law and to maintain an internet website, as specified. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2029.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 5.26 is added to the Budget Act of 2024, to read:SEC. 5.26.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Department of Finance shall augment the following items of appropriation in Section 2.00 as specified: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 |
| 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 |
| 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.The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
(a)On November 6, 2024, it became clear that Donald J. Trump had won election as President of the United States, setting the stage for President-elect Trump to assume office for a second term on January 20, 2025.
(b)The track record of the first Trump Administration, combined with the statements made by President-elect Trump on the campaign trail, as well as statements and policy papers issued by individuals close to his campaign and by Republican congressional leadership, indicate the consequences of his presidency for California residents and taxpayers may be significant and immediate, including: continuing the assault on reproductive freedom by limiting access to medication abortion, expanding conscience objections for employers and providers, and pursuing a national abortion ban; undoing clean vehicle policies that are critical to combating climate change and dismantling other longstanding environmental protections for clean air and clean water; repealing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and reinstituting immigration policies that lead to family separations; withholding disaster response funding and individual assistance for victims of disasters as political retribution; and politicizing grant programs to commandeer state and local governmental resources for federal purposes.
(c)During President-elect Trump’s first term, California developed a successful roadmap for fighting back and standing up for our state’s values and our people’s constitutional rights, including filing more than 120 lawsuits challenging actions taken by the Trump Administration.
(d)Lawyers from the Attorney General’s office and the Governor’s office have been preparing for a potential second Trump term for more than a year, and they are ready to challenge in court any unconstitutional and unlawful federal policies and to mount robust and vigorous defenses of California’s laws, policies, and programs on issues critical to Californians.
(e)Preparing to litigate regressive potential actions on these major policy issues with the urgency and comprehensiveness called for in this moment necessitates ensuring the state’s legal apparatus is sufficiently resourced.
(f)The Governor, in accordance with Section 3(b) of Article IV of the California Constitution, convened the Legislature of the State of California to assemble in extraordinary session in Sacramento, California, on the second day of December 2024, to consider and act upon legislation necessary to provide additional funding to the Department of Justice and other agencies, departments, boards, and offices within the executive branch to support the ability to immediately file affirmative litigation challenging actions taken by the incoming Trump Administration, defend against litigation or enforcement actions brought by the incoming Trump Administration, and take administrative action authorized under state law to mitigate the impacts of actions by the incoming Trump Administration, and to make conforming changes to existing law consistent therewith.
(g)The Legislature therefore intends to adopt changes to the Budget Act of 2024 to provide the necessary resources to state departments and agencies to defend California’s programs, policies, institutions, and taxpayers from unlawful federal action.
(a)The sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) is hereby appropriated to the Department of Justice for the purpose of paying the Department of Justice for federal litigation expenses.
(b)(1) The Department of Justice shall report to the Department of Finance and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee the use of funds provided by either of the following:
(A)This section.
(B)Control Section 5.25 of the Budget Act of 2024.
(2)The Department of Justice shall update the report required by paragraph (1) each time a court filing is made using the resources described in paragraph (1).
(c)(1) The Department of Justice shall create and maintain an internet website that details all federal litigation expenses paid for pursuant to this section or the Budget Act of 2024.
(2)The internet website required by paragraph (1) shall include, but not be limited to, descriptive narratives and supporting documents as needed.
(d)This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2029, and as of that date is repealed.
This act is a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution, has been identified as related to the budget in the Budget Bill, and shall take effect immediately.