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8A Page 8 AS 1x 6 (Evans) - Transportation Fund Shifts. Redirects $100 million in tribal gaming revenues dedicated to the repayment of transportation loans to the General Fund. Transfers $85 million from the Motor Vehicle Account to the General Fund. SB 1x 7(Ducheny) - General Government (COPS and Booking Fee Program). This measure makes a variety of funding adjustments to state funded programs for cash flow and other purposes. Most significant to cities this measure would transfer the funding of various local public safety programs from the General Fund to vehicle license fees (VLF). In brief, $360 million dollars In current administrative costs charged by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the VLF, would be replaced by a new $12 dollar registration fee. The VLF previously dedicated to .OMV administration, would now fund local pUblic safety programs, including COPS and Booking Fees. AB 1x 8 (Assembly Committee on Budget) - Corrections. This bill makes changes to the way that Inmates in both state prison and county jails can receive credits towards sentence reduction; reduces parole for non-violentt non serious, non-sex offenders to no more than six months; and adjusts the minimum values for property crimes to reflect Inflation. Notably. this bill provides two- for-one day credit for inmates on fire crew walt lists, whereas current law provides two-for-one day credits for inmates actively serving on fire crew assignments. sa 1x 9 (Ducheny) - Undoing the Triple Flip. This measure would undo the "triple flip" mechanism that was put in place in 2004 to guarantee the repayment of $15 billion Economic Recovery Bond approved by the state's voters. The bill achieves this by defining the "revenue exchange period" as expiring on April 1 t 2009. The triple-flip mechanism works as follows: the state lowered local (Bradley-Burns) sales tax by 1/4 cent, then increased the state sales tax by the same amount. and dedicated the increased amount to repay the bonds. Local governments are backfilled for their losses from school ERAF property tax dollars. Schools are backfilled by the state's general fund. Once the bond is repaid, this mechanism is designed to unravel (the local sales tax automatically returns to Its previous level, and the property tax backfill goes away). SB 1 X 9 undoes these "flIps" of revenues. but leaves In place the % cent Increase In the state sales tax. Anti-tax advocates are expected to challenge the legality of this proposal as being a tax Increase requiring a 213rds vote of the Legislature. AS 1x 10 - AB 900 Cleanup language. This bill provides cleanup language to AS 900 (Solorio, 2007) so that construction may begin on facilities under the authority of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). AB 900 authorized COCR to develop approximately 12tOOO new facility beds in secure facilities. COCR Is also authorized to appropriate programming space and to acquire land, design. construct. and renovate reentry program facilities. and to construct and establish new buildings at facilities to provide medical, dental. and mental health treatment or housing for 6.000 Inmates. sa 1x 11 (Ducheny) - New Fee On Gas. This measure imposes a 39-cent fee on the sale of each gallon of gas, and a 31-cent fee on the sale of each gallon of diesel fuel, and distributes these fees in a manner similar to the existing distribution of state gas tax, and funds derived from the sales tax on gas (Prop 42). These new fees would be Indexed every three years according to the California CPt. AB 1x 12 (Evans) - Tax Withholding on Individual Contractors. This bill would require businesses and government entities to withhold three percent of payments for goods or services made to independent contractors. for payments over $600 per calendar year, beginning in 2010. Economic Stimulus Measures SB 1x 3 (Ducheny) - Hospital Construction. This bill would allow the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to exempt from the plan review process nonstructural construction or alteration projects with estimated construction costs less than $500,000; and projects with construction costs of at least $500,000, but less than $1 million If the designs are independently peer reviewed by independent plan reviewers. S8 1x 4 (Ducheny) - Surplus Property. This bill seeks to resolve a long-standing dispute over whether or not the sale or transfer surplus property is subject to CECA analysis. The bill provides a statutory exemption from CEQA for disposition of state surplus lands If the project consists 3