The Assembly Ways and Means Committee met in work session May 16 and advanced four supplemental appropriation bills, approving amended language or amounts and assigning floor statements.

AB 559 (Attorney General — extradition coordinator): Chief fiscal analyst reported that the bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $1,200,000 for 2025 to the attorney general's extradition coordinator budget account; the agency had requested $1,518,027. The committee accepted a motion to amend and do pass (motion by Vice Chair Baucus; second by Assemblymember Hradecki) and the motion carried on a voice vote. The committee assigned the floor statement to Assemblymember Brown-May.

AB 561 (Division of Forestry): The bill as introduced proposed a $18,600,000 supplemental appropriation; the agency asked to amend the amount to $20,733,824. The committee accepted a motion to amend and do pass (motion by Vice Chair Baca; second by Assemblymember Hradek) and approved the amendment and do-pass recommendation. The floor statement was assigned to Assemblymember Anderson.

AB 581 (Department of Corrections): The original supplemental appropriation request was $6,600,000. A budget amendment was proposed totaling $44,741,565, of which $11,100,000 addressed shortfalls in non-personnel categories and $33,600,000 addressed personnel shortfalls. The committee accepted a motion to amend and do pass; the motion carried and the floor statement was assigned to Assemblymember O'Neil.

AB 586 (Aging and Disability Services Division, Department of Health and Human Services): The chief fiscal analyst summarized a supplemental appropriation of $16,200,000 to fund projected shortfalls for fiscal year 2025. Assemblymember Brown-May stated on the record that she had a potential conflict of interest under joint standing rule 23 because her employer could possibly receive funding and therefore would abstain from the vote. The committee took a voice vote on a motion to do pass (moved by Assemblymember Bacchus; second by Assemblymember Hategui); the motion passed with one recorded abstention by Assemblymember Brown-May.

Committee procedures were standard voice votes; the record shows motions carried on each item and floor statements assigned as noted. No roll-call tallies were recorded in the transcript excerpts provided, aside from the recorded abstention on AB 586.