(a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2014–15 fiscal year, if the Budget Act of 2014 is not enacted on or before July 1, 2014, for the memoranda of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Units 7, 16, 18, and 19 (effective July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2016, inclusive), State Bargaining Unit 9 (effective July 2, 2013, to July 1, 2015, inclusive), and State Bargaining Units 6 and 12 (effective July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2015, inclusive), there is hereby continuously appropriated to the Controller from the General Fund, unallocated special funds, including, but not limited to, federal funds and unallocated nongovernmental cost funds, and any other fund from which state employees are compensated, the amount necessary for the payment of compensation and employee benefits to state employees covered by the above memoranda of understanding until the Budget Act of 2014 is enacted. The Controller may expend an amount no greater than necessary to enable the Controller to compensate state employees covered by the above memoranda of understanding for work performed between July 1, 2014, of the 2014–15 fiscal year, and the enactment of the Budget Act of 2014.

(b) If the memoranda of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Units 7, 16, 18, and 19 (effective July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2016, inclusive), State Bargaining Unit 9 (effective July 2, 2013, to July 1, 2015, inclusive), and State Bargaining Units 6 and 12 (effective July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2015, inclusive) are in effect and approved by the Legislature, the compensation and contribution for employee benefits for state employees represented by these bargaining units shall be at a rate consistent with the applicable memorandum of understanding referenced above.

(c) Expenditures related to any warrant drawn pursuant to subdivision (a) are not augmentations to the expenditure authority of a department. Upon the enactment of the Budget Act of 2014, these expenditures shall be subsumed by the expenditure authority approved in the Budget Act of 2014 for each affected department.

(d) This section shall only apply to an employee covered by the terms of State Bargaining Units 7, 16, 18, and 19 (effective July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2016, inclusive), State Bargaining Unit 9 (effective July 2, 2013, to July 1, 2015, inclusive), and State Bargaining Units 6 and 12 (effective July 1, 2013, to July 1, 2015, inclusive) memoranda of understanding. Notwithstanding Section 3517.8, this section shall not apply after the term of the memoranda of understanding have expired. For purposes of this section, the memoranda of understanding for State Bargaining Units 7, 16, 18, and 19 expire on July 1, 2016, and the memoranda of understanding for State Bargaining Units 6, 9, and 12 expire on July 1, 2015.

(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 391, Sec. 6. (AB 478) Effective September 27, 2013.)