Claims against the state: appropriation.

Assembly Member Wicks frames a targeted, immediate intervention: a one-time $672 appropriation to the Department of General Services to pay claims accepted by the Government Claims Program, funded from the General Fund ($600) and the Motor Vehicle Account ($72), with the amounts and timing set out in a payment schedule and an immediate effective date as an urgency statute. The objective, as stated in the measure, is to enable prompt payment to claimants and reduce hardship arising from prior lack of available funds.

Section 1 specifies the allocation of $672 to DGS for the payment of Government Claims Program claims, to be disbursed according to the accompanying schedule: $600 from the General Fund and $72 from the Motor Vehicle Account. The schedule also includes a line item (Item 0521-001-0044) that shows no separate amount. The appropriation is described as a one-time disbursement tied to claims accepted by the program, and the measure does not appear to introduce new regulatory requirements or code amendments beyond establishing this funding and payment mechanism.

The act is enacted as an urgency statute, taking effect immediately to facilitate payment of claims and address hardship to claimants. It does not modify existing statutory text but provides a discrete line-item appropriation for payments to claims already recognized by the Government Claims Program. The measure interacts with an existing framework that requires DGS to submit claims lacking an available appropriation for legislative approval; the current proposal supplies the needed funding to satisfy that framework for a limited period. Stakeholders include the Department of General Services, which administers the payments, and claimants relying on the Government Claims Program, with the appropriation limited to the specified amount and scope.