(a) The California Reproductive Health Equity Fund is hereby established.

(b) The primary purpose of the fund is to provide grant funding to safety net providers of abortion and contraception services through the California Reproductive Health Equity Program and to otherwise ensure affordability of and access to abortion and contraception to anyone who seeks care in California, regardless of their ability to pay for care.

(c) The fund shall also be used to pay for the cost of administering the program and for any other purpose authorized by this chapter. The level of expenditure by the department for the administrative support of the program created pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to review and approval annually through the annual budget process.

(d) The department may receive private donations to be deposited into the fund.

(e) The money in the fund is continuously appropriated to the department for the purposes of this chapter. The department shall manage this fund prudently in accordance with the law.

(Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 562, Sec. 2. (AB 2134) Effective January 1, 2023.)