Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Approval by the Department of General Services of contracts, leases and other transactions or expenditures of state agencies, where such approval is required by law, shall be necessary regardless of the fact that the Department of Finance may have approved a budget, under this ar…

Every state agency, when making requests or preparing budgets to be submitted to the Federal Government for funds, equipment, material or services, other than for highway purposes, shall, upon completion of such request or budget, first submit it to the department. The department…

The Controller, at the request of a state institution, department, board, bureau, commission, officer, employee or other agency for which an appropriation is made, may transfer, under procedures established by the Department of Finance, up to 10 percent of any appropriation made …

Any state agency which collects funds from the federal government shall include in the collections, amounts to offset federally allowed statewide indirect costs, as determined by the Department of Finance, except where prohibited by federal statutes.

All funds recovered from the federal government to offset statewide indirect costs shall be transferred to the Central Service Cost Recovery Fund or to the General Fund in a manner prescribed by the Department of Finance, unless expenditure of the funds is authorized by the Depar…

Whenever an appropriation has not been made to provide for recovery of general administrative costs pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 11270) of Chapter 3 of Part 1, a sufficient sum for that purpose shall be transferred from each affected fund by the Controller to th…

No funds may be encumbered for paying a civil service employee a salary which is above the maximum of the salary range of the employee’s present classification for a period of more than 90 calendar days following termination of a career executive assignment appointment. The inten…

The California Coastal Commission, without regard to fiscal year, shall not be subject to the Statewide Cost Allocation Plan for statewide indirect costs established pursuant to Sections 13332.01 and 13332.02.

No funds shall be used to purchase furnishings for any house, mobilehome, or apartment of three or more rooms other than a dormitory that is rented to a state employee. This provision shall not apply to the purchase of refrigerators, heaters, air-conditioning equipment, stoves, l…

(a) A purchase order or other form of documentation for acquisition or replacement of motor vehicles shall not be issued against any appropriation until the Department of General Services has investigated and established the necessity therefor. (b) A state agency shall not acquir…

(a) (1) The Director of General Services may not enter into a lease agreement between the state and another entity, public or private, in which the state is lessee if the agreement is to be for the lease of a building or building space, or both, which will be for the occupancy of…

Notwithstanding Section 13332.11, the expenditure by the Department of Water Resources of funds appropriated pursuant to Section 5096.821 or 75032 of the Public Resources Code is not subject to the approval of the State Public Works Board if either of the following applies to the…

(a) Any acquisition of land or other real property authorized in any appropriation, except an appropriation from the California Water Fund or an appropriation to the Department of Transportation or the High-Speed Rail Authority for capital outlay purposes, shall be subject to the…

The Controller may not disburse funds from any appropriation for acquisition made to the Department of Parks and Recreation to pay for any property rights, however secured or received, until the State Public Works Board has approved the transaction. In addition, the Attorney Gene…

No expenditures for park furnishings shall be made unless the Department of Parks and Recreation has made reasonable efforts to acquire the furnishings on a consolidated procurement basis or through California Conservation Corps labor.

No appropriation may be combined or used in any manner to avoid budgeting the salary or operating expenses of any position or to achieve any purpose which has been denied by any formal action of the Legislature.

This article shall not apply to appropriations to the Legislature, the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the Bureau of State Audits, the California Commission on Uniform State Laws, or the California Law Revision Commission.

Purchase estimates for supplies or equipment submitted to the Department of General Services pursuant to Section 10311 of the Public Contract Code received during the last 90 days of a fiscal year and for which a purchase order award is pending at the end of that fiscal year, may…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as specified in subdivision (b), revenues derived from the assessment of fines and penalties by any state agency shall not be expended unless the Legislature specifically provides authority for the expenditure of these funds in the an…

(a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Design-build” means a construction procurement process in which both the design and construction of a project are procured from a single entity. (2) “Progressive design-build” means a project delive…

The department shall develop, issue, and implement consistent and adequate guidelines to be utilized by agencies required to submit budgets pursuant to the provisions of Article 2 (commencing with Section 13320). Such guidelines shall, among other things: (a) Ensure budgets that …

The department shall, in cooperation with the Legislature, develop a format for utilization by agencies required to submit a program budget.

(a) The budget required by the State Constitution to be submitted by the Governor at each regular session of the Legislature shall be submitted within the first 10 days of each regular session and shall contain a complete plan and itemized statement of all proposed expenditures o…

(a) (1) “Advisory body” means every board, bureau, commission, committee, panel, task force, or similar group created by statute or executive order whose principal function is to review, advise, plan, advocate, or promote. (2) “State funded” means receiving direct or indirect sup…

The annual Budget Act shall not provide for projected expenditures in excess of projected revenues. Further, it is the intention of the Legislature that in the event, after enactment of the Budget Act, revised estimates of expected revenues or expenditures, or both, show that exp…

(a) The Budget Bill shall utilize a coding scheme compatible with the Governor’s Budget and with the records of the Controller. (b) The Budget Bill shall provide for the appropriation of federal funds received by the state and deposited in the State Treasury.

(a) There is hereby created a California Fiscal Advisory Board consisting of the following members, or their representatives: (1) Chairman of the committee in each house which considers appropriations. (2) Chairman of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. (3) Chairman of the Jo…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), on and after July 1, 2026, no moneys in any fund that, by any statute other than a Budget Act, are continuously appropriated without regard to fiscal years may be encumbered unless the Legislature, by statute, specifies that the moneys i…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the existing budgeting, accounting, and reporting systems of the University of California shall not be substantially modified to comply with the requirements of this article.

Nothing in this article shall be construed to prohibit implementation of any provision of this article prior to a specified date.

(a) The Department of Finance shall revise the Governor’s Budget documents display for the State Department of Public Health to include a display of the supplemental local assistance appropriation summary, including actual past year, estimated current year, and proposed budget ye…

(a) State agencies shall prepare and maintain financial and accounting data for inclusion in the Governor’s Budget, Budget Act and related documents, and the budgetary-legal basis annual report described in Section 12460, according to the methods and bases provided in regulations…

Unless otherwise provided, every official bond shall be filed in the proper office within the time prescribed for filing the oath. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

The approval of every official bond shall be indorsed thereon and signed by the officer approving the bond. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

No officer with whom any official bond is required to be filed shall file such bond until approved. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Official bonds shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose entitled “Record of Official Bonds.” (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of state officers prescribed by law shall be approved by either the Governor or the Director of General Services and filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State.

Unless otherwise provided, all official bonds of state officers and employees not expressly prescribed by law shall be forwarded to the Department of General Services for recordation. Upon such recordation the Department of General Services shall forward the bonds to the Secretar…

Unless otherwise provided, the official bonds of officers of a county and judicial district shall be approved by the presiding judge of the superior court, recorded in the office of the county recorder, and then filed in the county clerk’s office.

The bonds of supervisors, treasurers, county clerks, auditors, sheriffs, tax collectors, district attorneys, recorders, assessors, surveyors, superintendents of schools, public administrators, and coroners shall be approved by the presiding judge of the superior court before the …

After being recorded, the official bond of the county clerk shall be filed in the office of the county treasurer. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

Every officer with whom official bonds are filed shall carefully keep and preserve the bonds. He shall give certified copies thereof to any person demanding copies, upon being paid the same fees as are allowed by law for certified copies of papers in other cases. (Enacted by Stat…

The county recorder shall record the bond and return it to the county officer with whom it is required to be filed. Such officer shall keep the bond on file for one year following the expiration of the term of the office for which the bond was issued at which time said bond may b…

Any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall give a bond, corresponding in substance and form with the bond required of the officer originally elected or appointed, before entering upon the duties of the office. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 134.)

No fee shall be charged by any officer to file or record any official bond of any official of this state or any political subdivision of this state.

For the purposes of this chapter, a government crime insurance policy or employee dishonesty insurance policy, including faithful performance, may be provided as an alternative to the official bond by any county or city, subject to approval by the presiding judge of the superior …

Every officer, agent or employee not required by statute to give an official bond may be required to give an individual official bond, or other form of individual bond, in the amount to be fixed by the appointing power and such bond shall inure to the benefit of the appointing po…

(a) When deemed expedient by the appointing power, a master official bond or other form of master bond may be used which shall provide coverage on more than one officer, employee, or agent who is required by the appointing power or the board of supervisors of a chartered or gener…

For the purposes of Section 1481 the board of supervisors of a county is deemed to be the appointing power of the adult probation officer, his assistants and deputies and the adult probation officer, his assistants and deputies are deemed to be employees of the county in which th…

Each such bond may contain a provision authorizing the appointing power to cancel it, if it is an individual bond, or the contract of coverage of any officer, agent or employee covered thereunder, or the entire bond, if it is a master bond.