Budget Acts of 2007 and 2008: augmentation.

The Budget Acts of 2007 and 2008 appropriated specified amounts from the General Fund for specified programs. This bill would appropriate $135,064,000 from the General Fund in augmentation of appropriations in the Budget Act of 2007 and would authorize the Director of Finance to transfer specified amounts between items of appropriation in that Budget Act. The bill also would appropriate $510,125,000 from the General Fund in augmentation of appropriations in the Budget Act of 2008. The bill additionally would require California Prison Health Care Services to report to the Legislature in 2009 and 2010 on actions to reduce and better manage medical service contract costs. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.