Cal. Welf. and Inst. Code § 17606.10

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session.

Section 17606.10 - Generally

(a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years, the Controller shall allocate funds, on an annual basis from the General Growth Subaccount in the Sales Tax Growth Account to the appropriate accounts in the local health and welfare trust fund of each county, city, and city and county in accordance with a schedule setting forth the percentage of total state resources received in the 1990-91 fiscal year, including State Legalization Impact Assistance Grants distributed by the state under former Part 4.5 (commencing with Section 16700), funding provided for purposes of implementation of Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000), for the organization and financing of community mental health services, including the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax proceeds that are allocated to county mental health programs pursuant to Chapter 1331 of the Statutes of 1989, Chapter 51 of the Statutes of 1990, and Chapter 1323 of the Statutes of 1990, and state hospital funding and funding distributed for programs administered under Sections 1794, 10101.1, and 11322.2, as annually adjusted by the Department of Finance, in conjunction with the appropriate state department to reflect changes in equity status from the base percentages. However, for the 1992-93 fiscal year, the allocation for community mental health services shall be based on the following schedule:

	Percentage
	of Statewide
Jurisdiction	Resource Base
Alameda ........................	4.3693
Alpine ........................	0.0128
Amador ........................	0.0941
Butte ........................	0.7797
Calaveras ........................	0.1157
Colusa ........................	0.0847
Contra Costa ........................	2.3115
Del Norte ........................	0.1237
El Dorado ........................	0.3966
Fresno ........................	3.1419
Glenn ........................	0.1304
Humboldt ........................	0.6175
Imperial ........................	0.5425
Inyo ........................	0.1217
Kern ........................	1.8574
Kings ........................	0.4229
Lake ........................	0.2362
Lassen ........................	0.1183
Los Angeles ........................	27.9666
Madera ........................	0.3552
Marin ........................	0.9180
Mariposa ........................	0.0792
Mendocino ........................	0.4099
Merced ........................	0.8831
Modoc ........................	0.0561
Mono ........................	0.0511
Monterey ........................	1.1663
Napa ........................	0.3856
Nevada ........................	0.2129
Orange ........................	5.3423
Placer ........................	0.5034
Plumas ........................	0.1134
Riverside ........................	3.6179
Sacramento ........................	4.1872
San Benito ........................	0.1010
San Bernardino ........................	4.5494
San Diego ........................	7.8773
San Francisco ........................	3.5335
San Joaquin ........................	2.4690
San Luis Obispo ........................	0.6652
San Mateo ........................	2.5169
Santa Barbara ........................	1.0745
Santa Clara ........................	5.0488
Santa Cruz ........................	0.7960
Shasta ........................	0.5493
Sierra ........................	0.0345
Siskiyou ........................	0.2051
Solano ........................	0.6694
Sonoma ........................	1.1486
Stanislaus ........................	1.4701
Sutter/Yuba ........................	0.6294
Tehama ........................	0.2384
Trinity ........................	0.0826
Tulare ........................	1.4704
Tuolumne ........................	0.1666
Ventura ........................	1.9311
Yolo ........................	0.5443
Berkeley ........................	0.2688
Tri-City ........................	0.2347

(b) The Department of Finance shall recalculate the resource base used in determining the General Growth Subaccount allocations to the Health Account, Mental Health Account, and Social Services Account of the local health and welfare trust fund of each city, county, and city and county for the 1994-95 fiscal year general growth allocations according to subdivisions (c) and (d). For the 1995-96 fiscal year and annually until the end of the 2012-13 fiscal year, the Department of Finance shall prepare the schedule of allocations of growth based upon the recalculation of the resource base as provided by subdivision (c).

(c) For the Mental Health Account, the Department of Finance shall do all of the following:

(1) Use the following sources as reported by the State Department of Health Care Services:

(A) The final December 1992 distribution of resources associated with Institutes for Mental Disease.

(B) The 1990-91 fiscal year state hospitals and community mental health allocations.

(C) Allocations for services provided for under Chapter 1294 of the Statutes of 1989.

(2) Expand the resource base with the following nonrealigned funding sources as allocated among the counties:

(A) Tobacco surtax allocations made under Chapter 1331 of the Statutes of 1989 and Chapter 51 of the Statutes of 1990.

(B) For the 1994-95 allocation year only, Chapter 1323 of the Statutes of 1990.

(C) 1993-94 fiscal year federal homeless block grant allocation.

(D) 1993-94 fiscal year Mental Health Special Education allocations.

(E) 1993-94 fiscal year allocations for the system of care for children, in accordance with Chapter 1229 of the Statutes of 1992.

(F) 1993-94 fiscal year federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration block grant allocations pursuant to Subchapter 1 (commencing with Section 10801) of Chapter 114 of Title 42 of the United States Code.

(d) For the Health Account, the Department of Finance shall use the historical resource base of state funds as allocated among the counties, cities, and city and county as reported by the former State Department of Health Services in a September 17, 1991, report of Indigent and Community Health Resources.

(e) The Department of Finance shall use these adjusted resource bases for the Health Account and Mental Health Account to calculate what the 1994-95 fiscal year General Growth Subaccount allocations would have been, and together with 1994-95 fiscal year Base Restoration Subaccount allocations, CMSP subaccount allocations, equity allocations to the Health Account and Mental Health Account as adjusted by subparagraph (E) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 17606.05, as that subparagraph read on January 1, 2015, and special equity allocations to the Health Account and Mental Health Account as adjusted by subdivision (e) of Section 17606.15 reconstruct the 1994-95 fiscal year General Growth Subaccount resource base for the 1995-96 allocation year for each county, city, and city and county. Notwithstanding any other law, the actual 1994-95 general growth allocations shall not become part of the realignment base allocations to each county, city, and city and county. The total amounts distributed by the Controller for general growth for the 1994-95 allocation year shall be reallocated among the counties, cities, and city and county in the 1995-96 allocation year according to this paragraph, and shall be included in the general growth resource base for the 1996-97 allocation year and each fiscal year thereafter. For the 1996-97 allocation year through the 2017-18 fiscal year, the Department of Finance shall update the base with actual growth allocations to the Health Account, Mental Health Account, and Social Services Account of each county, city, and city and county local health and welfare trust fund in the prior year, and adjust for actual changes in nonrealigned funds specified in subdivision (c) in the year prior to the allocation year.

(f) For the 2013-14 fiscal year through the 2017-18 fiscal year, the Controller shall do all of the following:

(1) Allocate to the Mental Health Account of each county, city, or city and county based on a schedule provided by the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance shall recalculate the resource base used in determining the General Growth Subaccount allocations to the Mental Health Account in accordance with subdivision (c) and allocate based on that recalculation.

(2) Allocate 18.4545 percent of the total General Growth Subaccount to the health account of each county, city, or city and county based on a schedule provided by the Department of Finance in accordance with subdivision (d).

(3) Allocate the remainder of the funds in the General Growth Subaccount to the family support account of each county or city and county based on a schedule provided by the Department of Finance. These funds shall be expended in accordance with Section 17601.50.

(g)

(1) Notwithstanding subdivision (f), for the 2016-17 fiscal year, the Controller shall allocate funds in the following amounts from the General Growth Subaccount of the Sales Tax Account to the social services account of each county and city and county based on a schedule provided by the Department of Finance developed in consultation with the California State Association of Counties:

(A) The funding that would have been allocated to the Mental Health Account of each county or city and county pursuant to the calculations specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f).

(B) The funding that would have been allocated to the health account of each county or city and county pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (f), except for the amount of funds to be redirected pursuant to Section 17600.50, Article 12 (commencing with Section 17612.1), and Article 13 (commencing with 17613.1).

(2) The allocation of funds from the General Growth Subaccount of the Sales Tax Account to the social services account as described in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the amount of funds available for allocation to the Mental Health Accounts and health accounts of the Cities of Berkeley, Pasadena, Tri-City, and Long Beach.

(h) For the 2018-19 fiscal year and every fiscal year thereafter, the Controller shall do all of the following:

(1) Allocate 37.433321 percent of the total General Growth Subaccount to the Mental Health Account of each county, city, or city and county using the 2017-18 fiscal year percentage distribution of general growth for mental health.

(2) Allocate 18.4545 percent of the total General Growth Subaccount to the health account of each county, city, or city and county using the 2017-18 fiscal year percentage distribution of general growth for health.

(i) The amounts deposited and remaining unexpended and unreserved in the General Growth Subaccount shall be allocated on an annual basis by the Controller, as described in subdivisions (f) and (g), within 45 days of receiving the General Growth Subaccount allocation schedule from the Department of Finance.

Ca. Welf. and Inst. Code § 17606.10

Amended by Stats 2019 ch 27 (SB 80),s 114, eff. 6/27/2019.

Amended by Stats 2017 ch 251 (AB 130),s 7, eff. 9/16/2017.

Amended by Stats 2015 ch 20 (SB 79),s 46, eff. 6/24/2015.

Amended by Stats 2014 ch 71 (SB 1304),s 203, eff. 1/1/2015.

Amended by Stats 2013 ch 358 (SB 98),s 13, eff. 9/26/2013.

Amended by Stats 2013 ch 24 (AB 85),s 17, eff. 6/27/2013.