Section 5965.04 - Use of funds; allocation of moneys(a) Moneys in the fund shall be used for any of the following purposes:(1) Making loans or grants administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to eligible entities specified under Section 50675.1.3 of the Health and Safety Code or loans to development sponsors as defined under Section 50675.2 of the Health and Safety Code to acquire capital assets for the conversion, rehabilitation, or new construction of permanent supportive housing, including scattered site projects, for veterans or their households, who are homeless, chronically homeless, or are at risk of homelessness, as defined by Part 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and meet the criteria of the target population.(2) Making loans or grants administered by the Department of Housing and Community Development to eligible entities specified under Section 50675.1.3 of the Health and Safety Code or loans to development sponsors as defined under Section 50675.2 of the Health and Safety Code to acquire capital assets for the conversion, rehabilitation, or new construction of permanent supportive housing, including scattered site projects for persons who are homeless, chronically homeless, or are at risk of homelessness, as defined by Part 578.3 of Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and are living with a behavioral health challenge.(3) Making grants administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, as specified under the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program to eligible entities specified pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 5960) to construct, acquire, and rehabilitate real estate assets or to invest in needed infrastructure to expand the continuum of behavioral health treatment resources to build new capacity or expand existing capacity for short-term crisis stabilization, acute and subacute care, crisis residential, community-based mental health residential, substance use disorder residential, peer respite, community and outpatient behavioral health services, and other clinically enriched longer term treatment and rehabilitation options for persons with behavioral health disorders in the least restrictive and least costly setting.(4)(A) Paying the costs of issuing bonds, paying the annual administration costs of the bonds, and paying interest on bonds.(B) In addition, moneys in the fund or other proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized by this chapter may be used to pay principal of, or redemption premium on, interim debt issued prior to the issuance of bonds authorized by this chapter.(b) Moneys in the fund shall be allocated as follows:(1) One billion sixty-five million dollars ($1,065,000,000) of the proceeds of the bonds, after allocation of bond proceeds to the purposes described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a), shall be used for the loans or grants, loan or grant implementation, and loan or grant oversight described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) and administrative costs. Administrative costs shall not exceed 3 percent of all bond proceeds allocated for purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a), as described in this paragraph.(2) Nine hundred twenty-two million dollars ($922,000,000) of the proceeds of the bonds, after allocation of bond proceeds to the purposes described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a), shall be used for the loans or grants, loan or grant implementation, and loan or grant oversight, as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), and administrative costs. Administrative costs shall not exceed 3 percent of all bond proceeds allocated for purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), as described in this paragraph.(3) One billion five hundred million dollars ($1,500,000,000) of the proceeds of the bonds shall be awarded to cities, counties, city and counties, and tribal entities, after allocation of bond proceeds to the purposes described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) for grants, grant implementation, and grant oversight, as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), and administrative costs. Of this amount, thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) shall be designated to tribal entities.(4) Up to two billion eight hundred ninety-three million dollars ($2,893,000,000) of the proceeds of the bonds, after allocation of bond proceeds to the purposes of paragraph (4) of subdivision (a), shall be used for grants, grant implementation, and grant oversight, as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), and administrative costs.Ca. Welf. and Inst. Code § 5965.04
Amended by Stats 2024 ch 48 (AB 166),s 20, eff. 7/2/2024.Added by Stats 2023 ch 789 (AB 531),s 4, eff. 3/6/2024.