CaliforniaDiscretionary funds: County of Alameda.
What it does
Existing law authorizes a county board of supervisors to appropriate and expend county general fund money to establish county programs or fund other programs to meet various social needs of the county population and the needs of physically, mentally, and financially handicapped persons and aged persons. Existing law authorizes the board of supervisors to contract with other public agencies, private agencies, or individuals to operate programs that the board of supervisors determines will serve public purposes.
More detail
Existing law prohibits an Orange County Board of Supervisors member from awarding district discretionary funds to a community organization or a nonprofit organization unless the board of supervisors approves that award by a majority vote. Existing law requires the Orange County Board of Supervisors to post on its internet website a log of appropriated district discretionary funds at the end of each quarter, as specified. Existing law prohibits, within 90 days preceding an election, an Orange County Board of Supervisors member who is on the ballot as an Orange County Board of Supervisors member candidate and has an opponent on that ballot from taking any action related to spending district discretionary funds, as specified.
This bill would prohibit the Alameda County Board of Supervisors from awarding discretionary funds, as defined, to a community organization, nonprofit organization, or private entity, unless the board of supervisors approves that award by a majority vote and the award includes a description of how the award provides resources of communitywide significance for the district that the member of the board requesting the award represents and identifies the public purposes, as defined, that the award will serve. The bill would prohibit the Alameda County Board of Supervisors from appropriating discretionary funds for an award that is not for a public purpose and from appropriating any funds in a way that allows a member, or less than a majority, of the board to appropriate funds, as specified.
The bill would require the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to post on its internet website a log of appropriated discretionary funds at the end of each quarter, as specified. The bill would prohibit, within 90 days before an election, an Alameda County Board of Supervisors member who is on the ballot as an Alameda County Board of Supervisors member candidate from, among other things, placing an agenda item seeking approval to appropriate discretionary funds on the agenda for a meeting of the board. The bill would prohibit discretionary funds from being awarded at a special meeting or on the consent calendar. The bill would make its provisions severable.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for County of Alameda.
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- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Aug 27Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 155, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Aug 27Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Aug 18Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Vote recorded Unfinished Business SB1193 Wahab et al. Concurrence. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 18Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5517.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.Major
- Aug 18In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- Aug 17Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 6204.) Ordered to the Senate.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded SB 1193 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Quirk-Silva. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 12Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 12Read third time and amended.Major
- Aug 3Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Jul 2From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 1).Minor
- Jul 2Coauthors revised.
- Jul 1
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 26Referred to Com. on L. GOV.Minor
- May 20In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.Minor
- May 19Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4362.) Ordered to the Assembly.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 30Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.Major
- Apr 29From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4095.) (April 29).Major
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 16From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Major
- Apr 9Set for hearing April 29.
- Mar 4Referred to Com. on L. GOV.Minor
- Feb 20From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- Feb 19Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.Introduced