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Votes at a glance: Committee approves four budget trailer bills including CEQA changes and three MOU ratifications
Summary
The Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee voted on four trailer bills. AB 1 30 (housing/CEQA/other budget measures) passed; AB 1 31 (CEQA trailer with HAP funding) passed; AB 1 39 and AB 1 40 (ratifications of memoranda of understanding for bargaining units) were approved by the committee.
The California State Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review voted on four items tied to the budget package. The committee recorded the following outcomes:
- AB 1 30: Approved by committee (roll-call vote recorded as 13 to 1). Committee discussion noted that AB 130 had been heard previously and that an amendment removed wage standards from that bill; remaining language was not changed beyond that amendment. The chair indicated AB 1 30 would be a vote-only measure.
- AB 1 31: Approved by committee (roll-call vote recorded as 13 to 2). AB 1 31 is a public-resources trailer bill that includes CEQA streamlining and a contingent $500,000,000 general-fund appropriation for HAP round 7; it attracted extensive debate and public comment on advanced-manufacturing exemptions, tribal consultation, administrative-record changes, and endangered-species protections.
- AB 1 39: Approved by committee. This trailer bill makes statutory changes to ratify and implement a memorandum of understanding between the state and Bargaining Unit 9 (professional engineers) and an addendum for Bargaining Unit 12 (operating engineers). The committee took a voice/roll call and moved the bill; the transcript records the bill cleared the committee but does not list a final tally in the hearing transcript.
- AB 1 40: Approved by committee. This trailer bill makes statutory changes to ratify and implement a memorandum of understanding with Bargaining Unit 6 (correctional officers). The committee approved the bill during the same session; the transcript records passage but does not specify a final roll-call tally in the spoken record.
Several senators and Department of Finance staff emphasized these trailer bills are part of a multi-party budget agreement; multiple speakers urged subsequent cleanup amendments or follow-up legislation, particularly for AB 1 31.
