(a) Notwithstanding Section 13340, for the 2016–17 fiscal year, if the Budget Act of 2016 is not enacted by July 1, 2016, for the memorandum of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 12 (effective July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2019, 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 memorandum of understanding until the Budget Act of 2016 is enacted. The Controller may expend an amount no greater than necessary to enable the Controller to compensate state employees covered by the above memorandum of understanding for work performed between July 1, 2016, of the 2016–17 fiscal year and the enactment of the Budget Act of 2016.

(b) If the memorandum of understanding entered into between the state employer and State Bargaining Unit 12 (effective July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2019, inclusive) is in effect and approved by the Legislature, the compensation and contribution for employee benefits for state employees represented by this bargaining unit 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 2016, these expenditures shall be subsumed by the expenditure authority approved in the Budget Act of 2016 for each affected department.

(d) This section shall only apply to an employee covered by the term of the State Bargaining Unit 12 (effective July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2019, inclusive) memorandum of understanding. Notwithstanding Section 3517.8, this section shall not apply after the term of the memorandum of understanding has expired. For purposes of this section, the memorandum of understanding for State Bargaining Unit 12 expires on July 1, 2019.

(Added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 35, Sec. 9. (SB 848) Effective June 27, 2016.)