(a)  Distribution of moneys from the fund shall be made by annual appropriation of the Legislature consistent with the requirements of this part.

(b)  Moneys appropriated from the fund shall be used for health purposes, including all of the following:

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 104898

  • 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
  • Fund: means the Tobacco Settlement Fund. See California Health and Safety Code 104896
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23

(1)  Health care expansions in the Medi-Cal program, Healthy Families Program, and other state programs.

(2)  Health care education and outreach, including, but not limited to, efforts to help reduce the use of tobacco products.

(3)  Smoking cessation services.

(4)  Enforcement of tobacco-related statutes.

(5)  Expansions to primary care and other state-funded clinics that serve low-income, uninsured, or underinsured Californians.

(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 171, Sec. 10. Effective August 10, 2001.)