California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 5891

WIC § 5891 Effective Jun 29, 2024Div. 5 · Part 4.5

Statute text

(a)(1) (A) The funding established pursuant to this act shall be utilized to expand mental health services.

(B)Except as provided in subdivision (j) of Section 5892 due to the state’s fiscal crisis, these funds shall not be used to supplant existing state or county funds utilized to provide mental health services.

(C)The state shall continue to provide financial support for mental health programs with not less than the same entitlements, amounts of allocations from the General Fund or from the Local Revenue Fund 2011 in the State Treasury, and formula distributions of dedicated funds as provided in the last fiscal year which ended prior to the effective date of this act.

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Legislative history

Amended (as amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 790, Sec. 89) by Stats. 2024, Ch. 40, Sec. 47. (SB 159) Effective June 29, 2024. Operative January 1, 2025, pursuant to Sec. 85 of Stats. 2024, Ch. 40. Inoperative July 1, 2026, by its own provisions. Repealed as of January 1, 2027, by its own provisions. See later operative version added by Sec. 90 of Stats. 2023, Ch. 790.