(a) The Fair Employment and Housing Enforcement and Litigation Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury, to be administered by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
(b) The fund shall consist of attorney’s fees and costs awarded by a court to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing when the department is the prevailing party in a civil action brought under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.
(c) Upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, moneys in the fund may be used to offset the costs of the department.
(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 46, Sec. 33. (SB 1038) Effective June 27, 2012. Operative January 1, 2013, by Sec. 140 of Ch. 46.)