SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Speakers of the California Assembly have discretion over how to spend the legislative body’s roughly $150 million annual operating budget, including on services that have nothing to do with lawmaking. The spending is not subject to public hearings or vote.
Below is a list of recipients of Assembly speaker funding since 2008:
- Department of Forestry and Fire Protection: $29,860,000
- Department of Education: $27,570,000
- Employment Development Department: $13,160,000
- Department of Parks and Recreation: $11,741,909
- University of California Regents: $6,705,000
- Department of Aging: $5,400,000
- California State University: $4,730,000
- California Military Department: $3,595,435
- California Community Colleges: $2,000,000
- Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development: $2,000,000
- California Arts Council: $2,000,000
- California Department of Veterans Affairs: $1,500,000
- California Conservation Corps: $1,361,000
- Secretary of State: $1,200,000
- Department of Social Services: $1,000,000
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: $500,000
- State Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders Review Committee: $250,000
- Office of Emergency Services: $250,000
- Department of Veterans Affairs: $220,000
- California Commission on the Status of Women: $150,000
- California Health Benefit Exchange: $30,000
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Source: Associated Press analysis of Assembly annual expenditure reports
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