(a) The department‘s cost of carrying out this chapter shall be funded from money that is received by the secretary pursuant to this chapter. The secretary shall also pay annually, in arrears, one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000) to counties as an annual subvention for costs incurred in the enforcement of this chapter. The department’s costs of administering this chapter shall be paid before allocating funds to the counties under this section.

(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2027, and, as of January 1, 2031, is repealed.

(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 128, Sec. 1. (AB 1583) Effective January 1, 2024. Inoperative July 1, 2027. Repealed as of January 1, 2031, by its own provisions.)