Claims against the state: appropriation.

Under existing law, if sufficient appropriations are not available for the payment of claims, settlements, or judgments against the state arising from an action in which the state is represented by the Attorney General, the Attorney General is required to report the claims, settlements, and judgments to the chairperson of either the Senate Committee on Appropriations or the Assembly Committee on Appropriations, who is then required to cause introduction of legislation appropriating the funds necessary for payment of the claims, settlements, or judgments. This bill would appropriate $8,800,000 from the General Fund to the Attorney General for the payment of claims, settlements, or judgements against the state arising from 2 specified actions in which the state was represented by the Attorney General. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.