SB 1031 Summary

• Amends the Budget Act of 2012 by revising appropriations across 21 budget items and adding 5 new items totaling various amounts for state agencies including judicial, transportation, education, health care, and utilities programs

• Reduces Judicial Branch funding from $1,826,195,000 to $1,797,061,000 by redirecting $46,000,000 in Court Case Management System expenditures to offset trial court funding reductions

• Adjusts health care appropriations including increasing Healthy Families Program funding from $793,905,000 to $968,712,000 and reallocating Children's Health and Human Services Special Fund amounts between General Fund and special fund sources

• Reduces Public Utilities Commission funding through lower appropriations for Universal Lifeline Telephone Service ($354,985,000 to $280,000,000), Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications ($76,012,000 to $54,000,000), and California Teleconnect Fund ($92,234,000 to $77,234,000) programs

• Ratifies state employee compensation agreements with 20 bargaining units negotiated between June 7-30, 2012, achieving $839,129,000 in total employee compensation reductions through memoranda of understanding, furloughs, or other methods