14030-14044
CORPORATIONS CODE
SECTION 14030-14044
14030. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the California Small Business Expansion Fund. All or a portion of the funds in the expansion fund may be paid out, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to a lending institution or financial company that will act as trustee of the funds. The expansion fund and the trust fund shall be used to pay for defaulted loan guarantees issued pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 14070), administrative costs of corporations, and those costs necessary to protect a real property interest in a defaulted loan or guarantee. The amount of guarantee liability outstanding at any one time shall not exceed five times the amount of funds on deposit in the expansion fund plus any receivables due from funds loaned from the expansion fund to another fund in state government as directed by the Department of Finance pursuant to a statute enacted by the Legislature, including each of the trust fund accounts within the trust fund. (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends that date. 14030. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the California Small Business Expansion Fund. All or a portion of the funds in the expansion fund may be paid out, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to a lending institution or financial company that will act as trustee of the funds. The expansion fund and the trust fund shall be used to pay for defaulted loan guarantees issued pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 14070), administrative costs of corporations, and those costs necessary to protect a real property interest in a defaulted loan or guarantee. The amount of guarantee liability outstanding at any one time shall not exceed four times the amount of funds on deposit in the expansion fund plus any receivables due from funds loaned from the expansion fund to another fund in state government as directed by the Department of Finance pursuant to a statute enacted by the Legislature, including each of the trust fund accounts within the trust fund, unless the director has permitted a higher leverage ratio for an individual corporation pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 14037. (b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2013. 14030.1. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Small Business Disaster Recovery Loan Loss Reserve Account, as part of the expansion fund. This account shall be used to pay for unrecovered losses resulting from loan guarantees issued pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 14075 and subdivision (b) of this section and disaster loan guarantees issued prior to the effective date of this section that are in default. Any lending institution that issues a low-interest loan that is guaranteed by resources in this account shall be fully reimbursed for the guaranteed portion of principal and interest that result from a loan or loans that are in default. If there are insufficient funds in this account to fully satisfy all claimants, the full faith of the resources in the General Fund are pledged to satisfy the obligations of this account. This account may only guarantee as much loan dollar value as is specifically authorized by the Director of Finance with the concurrence of the Governor. This account shall receive all moneys transferred pursuant to Section 14037.5, and any unencumbered balances transferred to the California Small Business Expansion Fund pursuant to Chapters 11 and 12 of the Statutes of 1989, First Extraordinary Session, and Chapter 1525 of the Statutes of 1990, as of July 1, 1992. (b) The Governor should utilize this authority to prevent business insolvencies and loss of employment in an area affected by a state of emergency within the state and declared a disaster by the President of the United States, or by the Administrator of the United States Small Business Administration, or by the United States Secretary of Agriculture or declared to be in a state of emergency by the Governor of California. 14030.2. (a) The director may establish accounts within the expansion fund for loan guarantees and surety bond guarantees, including loan loss reserves. Each account is a legally separate account, and shall not be used to satisfy loan or surety bond guarantees or other obligations of another corporation. The director shall recommend whether the expansion fund and trust fund accounts are to be leveraged, and if so, by how much. Upon the request of the corporation, the director's decision may be repealed or modified by a board resolution. (b) Annually, not later than January 1 of each year commencing January 1, 1996, the director shall prepare a report regarding the loss experience for the expansion fund for loan guarantees and surety bond guarantees for the preceding fiscal year. At a minimum, the report shall also include data regarding numbers of surety bond and loan guarantees awarded through the expansion fund, including ethnicity and gender data of participating contractors and other entities, and experience of surety insurer participants in the bond guarantee program. The director shall submit that report to the Secretary of Business, Transportation and Housing for transmission to the Governor and the Legislature. 14032. All money deposited in the expansion fund is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, for the purposes of this article. 14033. The state shall not be liable or obligated in any way beyond the state money which is allocated in the expansion fund from moneys from the General Fund moneys appropriated for such purposes. 14034. (a) The director at his or her discretion, with the approval of the Director of Finance, may request the trustee to invest those funds in the trust fund in any of the securities described in Section 16430 of the Government Code. Returns from these investments shall be deposited in the expansion fund and shall be used to support the programs of this part. (b) Any investments made in securities described in Section 16430 of the Government Code shall be governed by the statement of investment policy prepared by the Treasurer pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 16481.2 of the Government Code. 14036. The expansion fund and trust fund are created solely for the purpose of receiving state, federal, or local government money, and other public or private money to make loans, guarantees, and restricted investments pursuant to this article. Funds in the expansion fund may be allocated by the director, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to the trust fund accounts. 14037. (a) The state shall not be liable or obligated in any way beyond the state money that is allocated and deposited in the trust fund account from state money and that is appropriated for these purposes. (b) The director may reallocate funds held within a corporation's trust fund account. The director shall reallocate funds based on which corporation is most effectively using its guarantee funds. If funds are withdrawn from a less effective corporation as part of a reallocation, the office shall make that withdrawal only after giving consideration to that corporation's fiscal solvency, its ability to honor loan guarantee defaults, and its ability to maintain a viable presence within the region it serves. Reallocation of funds shall occur no more frequently than once per fiscal year. Any decision made by the director pursuant to this subdivision may be appealed to the board. The board has authority to repeal or modify any decision to reallocate funds.(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2013, deletes or extends that date. 14037. (a) The state shall not be liable or obligated in any way beyond the state money that is allocated and deposited in the trust fund account from state money and that is appropriated for these purposes. (b) The director may reallocate funds held within a corporation's trust fund account. (1) The director shall reallocate funds based on which corporation is most effectively using its guarantee funds. If funds are withdrawn from a less effective corporation as part of a reallocation, the office shall make that withdrawal only after giving consideration to that corporation's fiscal solvency, its ability to honor loan guarantee defaults, and its ability to maintain a viable presence within the region it serves. Reallocation of funds shall occur no more frequently than once per fiscal year. Any decision made by the director pursuant to this subdivision may be appealed to the board. The board has authority to repeal or modify any decision to reallocate funds. (2) The director may authorize a corporation to exceed the leverage ratio specified in Section 14030, subdivision (b) of Section 14070, and subdivision (a) of Section 14076 pending the annual reallocation of funds pursuant to this section. However, no corporation shall be permitted to exceed an outstanding guarantee liability of more than five times its portion of funds on deposit in the expansion fund. (c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2013. 14037.5. The Director of Finance, with the approval of the Governor, may transfer moneys in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties to the Small Business Expansion Fund for use as authorized by the director, in an amount necessary to make loan guarantees pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 5 of Division 3 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code. 14037.7. Within 60 days of the conclusion of the period for guaranteeing loans under any small business disaster loan guarantee program conducted for a disaster as authorized by Section 8684.2 of the Government Code or Section 14075, the agency shall provide a report to the Legislature on loan guarantees approved and rejected by gender, ethnic group, type of business and location, and each participating loan institution. 14038. (a) The funds in the expansion fund shall be paid out to trust fund accounts by the Treasurer on warrants drawn by the Controller and requisitioned by the director, pursuant to the purposes of this chapter. The director may transfer funds allocated from the expansion fund to accounts, established solely to receive the funds, in lending institutions designated by the office to act as trustee. The lending institutions so designated shall be approved by the state for the receipt of state deposits. Interest earned on the trust fund accounts in lending institutions may be utilized by the corporations pursuant to the purposes of this chapter. (b) Except as specified in subdivision (c), the director shall allocate and transfer money to trust fund accounts based on performance-based criteria. The criteria shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) The default record of the corporation. (2) The number and amount of loans guaranteed by a corporation. (3) The number and amount of loans made by a corporation if state funds were used to make those loans. (4) The number and amount of surety bonds guaranteed by a corporation. Any decision made by the director pursuant to this subdivision may be appealed to the board within 15 days of notice of the proposed action. The board may repeal or modify any reallocation and transfer decisions made by the director. (c) The criteria specified in subdivision (b) shall not apply to a corporation that has been in existence for five years or less. The director shall develop regulations specifying the basis for transferring account funds to those corporations that have been in existence for five years or less. 14039. Pursuant to this section and the regulations, the state has residual interest in the funds deposited by the state to a trust fund account and to the return on these funds from investments. On dissolution or suspension of the corporation, these funds shall be withdrawn by the director from the trust fund account and returned to the expansion fund or temporarily transferred to another trust fund account. This provision shall be contained in the trust instructions to the trustee. 14040. Each trust fund account shall consist of a loan guarantee account, and, upon recommendation by the director, a bond guarantee account, each of which is a legally separate account, and the assets of one account shall not be used to satisfy loan guarantees or other obligations of another corporation. Not more than one-third of a trust fund account shall be allocated to a bond guarantee account. No corporation shall use trust fund accounts to secure a corporate indebtedness. State funds deposited in the trust fund accounts, with the exception of guarantees established pursuant to this chapter, shall not be subject to liens or encumbrances of the corporation or its creditors. 14041. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 14070, the trust fund account, shall be used solely to make loans, guarantee bonds, and guarantee loans, approved by the corporation, that meet the California Small Business Development Corporation Law loan criteria. The state shall not be liable or obligated in any way as a result of the allocation of state money to a trust fund account beyond the state money that is allocated and deposited in the fund pursuant to this chapter, and that is not otherwise withdrawn by the state pursuant to this chapter. (b) A summary of all loans and bonds to which a state guarantee is attached shall be submitted to the director upon execution of the loan agreement and periodically thereafter. (c) A summary of all loans made by a corporation shall be submitted to the director upon execution of the loan agreement and periodically thereafter. 14043. The financial institution that is to act as trustee of the trust fund shall be designated after review by the director. The corporation shall not receive money on deposit to support guarantees issued under the provisions of this chapter without the approval of the director. 14044. (a) As of July 28, 2009, notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a total of eight million three hundred thousand dollars ($8,300,000) of state money in the expansion fund, or the trust fund, or both, as determined by the Director of Finance, shall not be available to corporations or to the state for any purposes authorized by this chapter, and shall instead revert to the General Fund. (b) For purposes of this section, "state money" means money that can be reverted to the General Fund. (c) This section shall become inoperative as of the date upon which the reversion pursuant to subdivision (a) is completed, and shall be repealed on January 1 of the next succeeding calendar year.