(a) This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Discount Prescription Drug Program.

(b) This division shall become operative on and after July 1, 2010.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 130500

  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

(c) The California Discount Prescription Drug Program shall be implemented only if, and to the extent that, a Budget Act or other statute that is enacted on or before February 1, 2015, includes or makes an appropriation of moneys to the department to implement this program.

(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, if the California Discount Prescription Drug Program is not implemented pursuant to subdivision (c), this division shall become inoperative on February 1, 2015, and as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

(Amended by Stats. 2010, Ch. 717, Sec. 22. (SB 853) Effective October 19, 2010. Repealed conditionally on January 1, 2016, by its own provisions. Note: Control provisions in this section relate to operation, implementation, and termination of Division 112, comprising Sections 130500 to 130544.)

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