(a) Notwithstanding any other law, beginning in the 2012-13 fiscal year, except for funds deposited in the Mental Health Subaccount from the Support Services Growth Subaccount pursuant to § 30027.9 of the Government Code and the funds described in subdivision (c), any funds under this chapter or any other provision of Chapter 89 of the Statutes of 1991 that would otherwise have been deposited into each county‘s or city and county’s mental health account subsequent to July 15 shall instead be deposited in the CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount. However, in each fiscal year, the amount deposited in the CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount shall not exceed one billion one hundred twenty million five hundred fifty-one thousand dollars ($1,120,551,000).

(b) All of the funds deposited in the CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be allocated by the Controller to counties or a city and county based on schedules developed by the Department of Finance in consultation with the California State Association of Counties. Each county or city and county that receives an allocation shall use those funds to pay an increased county contribution toward the costs of CalWORKs grants. Each county’s total annual contribution pursuant to this section shall equal the total amount of funds deposited in the county’s CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount during that fiscal year. The CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount shall not be subject to the transferability provisions of Section 17600.20 and shall not be factored into the calculation of growth allocations pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 17606.10). Each county’s contribution pursuant to this section and Section 17601.75 shall be in addition to the share of cost required pursuant to Section 15200.

Terms Used In California Welfare and Institutions Code 17601.25

  • County: includes "city and county. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.

(c) There shall be a monthly allocation of ninety-three million three hundred seventy-nine thousand two hundred fifty-two dollars ($93,379,252) from the Mental Health Account in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 to the Mental Health Subaccount pursuant to subdivision (a) of Sections 30027.5, 30027.6, 30027.7, and 30027.8 of the Government Code.

(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 20, Sec. 34. (SB 79) Effective June 24, 2015.)

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