(a) The Office of Patient Advocate Trust Fund shall be renamed to the Health Plan Improvement Trust Fund.

(b) The moneys in the Health Plan Improvement Trust Fund shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be made available for the purposes in Section 130204.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 130208

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20

(c) All moneys in the Health Plan Improvement Trust Fund created pursuant to former Section 130208, as added by Section 11 of Chapter 696 of the Statutes of 2021, shall be transferred to the renamed Health Plan Improvement Trust Fund, identified as Fund 3209 in the Department of Finance’s Uniform Codes Manual.

(d) Notwithstanding § 16305.7 of the Government Code, all interest earned on moneys that have been deposited in the Health Plan Improvement Trust Fund shall be retained in the fund and used for purposes consistent with Section 130204.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 50, Sec. 9. (SB 187) Effective June 30, 2022.)