Funding Appropriation
Upon passage of this act, $60,000,000 shall be continuously appropriated from the General Fund to the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund for the 2000–01 fiscal year. There is hereby continuously appropriated from the General Fund to the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund an additional $120,000,000 for the 2001–02 fiscal year, and an additional sum of $120,000,000 for each such subsequent fiscal year concluding with the 2005–06 fiscal year. These funds shall be transferred to the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund on July 1 of each of these specified fiscal years. Funds transferred to the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund are not subject to annual appropriation by the Legislature and may be used without a time limit. Nothing in this section precludes additional appropriations by the Legislature to the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund.
(Added November 7, 2000, by initiative Proposition 36, Sec. 7. Operative July 1, 2001, pursuant to Sec. 8 of Prop. 36.)