(a) As a condition of deposit of funds from the Sales Tax Account of the Local Revenue Fund into a county’s local health and welfare trust fund mental health account, the county or city shall deposit each month local matching funds in accordance with a schedule developed by the State Department of Mental Health based on county or city standard matching obligations for the 1990–91 fiscal year for mental health programs.
(b) A county, city, or city and county may limit its deposit of matching funds to the amount necessary to meet minimum federal maintenance of effort requirements, as calculated by the State Department of Health Care Services, subject to the approval of the Department of Finance. However, the amount of the reduction permitted by the limitation provided for by this subdivision shall not exceed twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) per fiscal year on a statewide basis.
(c) Any county, city, or city and county that elects not to apply maintenance of effort funds for community mental health programs shall not use the loss of these expenditures from local mental health programs for realignment purposes.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 20, Sec. 50. (SB 79) Effective June 24, 2015.)