Bill Text: CA AB2582 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Substance abuse treatment funding.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-16 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 18. [AB2582 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2582-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2582 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Nazarian |
February 15, 2018 |
An act to amend Section 11999.6.1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to substance abuse.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2582, as introduced, Nazarian.
Substance abuse treatment funding.
Existing law, pursuant to Proposition 36, an initiative statute approved by the voters at the November 7, 2000, statewide general election, creates the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund and requires moneys in the fund to be distributed annually through the State Department of Health Care Services to counties to cover the costs of placing persons in and providing drug treatment programs, vocational training, family counseling, and literacy training, as specified. Existing law requires the department to withhold from a county’s allocation the amount of funds previously allocated to the county from the fund that are projected to remain unencumbered, as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11999.6.1 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:11999.6.1.
(a) Notwithstanding any other(b) The department shall allocate 75 percent of the amount withheld pursuant to subdivision (a) in accordance with Section 11999.6 and any regulations adopted pursuant to that section, but taking into account any amount withheld pursuant to subdivision (a).
(c) The department shall reserve 25 percent of the amount withheld pursuant to subdivision (a) until all counties have submitted final actual expenditures for the most recent fiscal year. The department shall then allocate the funds reserved to adjust for actual rather than projected unencumbered funds, to the extent that the amount reserved is adequate to do so. Any balance of funds not reallocated pursuant to this subdivision shall be allocated in accordance with subdivision (e).
(d) If the department determines from actual expenditures that more funds should have been withheld from any county than were withheld
pursuant to subdivision (a), it shall adjust any allocations pursuant to subdivision (e) accordingly, to the extent possible. If one or more counties fails to report actual expenditures in a timely manner, the department may, department, in its discretion, may proceed with the available information, and may exclude any nonreporting county from any allocations pursuant to this section.
(e) If revenues, funds, or other receipts to the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund are sufficient to create additional allocations to counties, through reconsideration of unencumbered funds, audit recoveries, or otherwise, the Director of Finance may authorize
expenditures for the department in excess of the amount appropriated no earlier than 30 days after notification in writing of the necessity therefor
for the additional expenditure is provided to the chairpersons of the fiscal committees in each house and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, or at an earlier time that the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, or his or her designee, may in each instance determine.
(f) The department may implement this section by All-County Lead Agency letters or other similar instructions, and need not comply with the rulemaking requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
