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Assembly committee backs narrow APA exemption to speed 2025 Prop 4 projects, moves $20 million transfer
Summary
The Assembly Budget Committee heard ABSB 107, which would exempt development of program guidelines for 2025 Proposition 4 climate bond appropriations from the Administrative Procedure Act and transfer $20 million from Visit California to Go-Biz; members pressed for vendor safeguards and protections for time‑sensitive rural projects.
The Assembly Budget Committee on Feb. 18 heard ABSB 107, a trailer bill that would make technical amendments to recent budget acts, exempt certain 2025 Proposition 4 climate bond allocations from the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) for purposes of developing program guidelines and selection criteria, and transfer $20,000,000 from Visit California to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz).
Erica Lee of the Department of Finance told the committee that ABSB 107 "includes a series of technical corrections" and "adds control section 15.01 to exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act the development and adoption of program guidelines and selection criteria necessary to effectuate or implement programs that are funded…
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