(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 18906.5 or any other law, in order to provide fiscal relief for the substantial fiscal pressures on counties created by the unprecedented and unanticipated CalFresh caseload growth and 1991 Realignment revenue declines resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 fiscal years, the amount of a county’s share of the nonfederal costs for administration of CalFresh is capped at the amount the county was required to contribute to receive its full allocation of state General Fund moneys under the Budget Act of 2019 (Chapter 23, Statutes of 2019).
(2) Once a county has reached the nonfederal share of costs specified in paragraph (1), the county shall receive the full General Fund allocation for administration of CalFresh for that fiscal year.
(b) The full General Fund allocation for administration of CalFresh for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 fiscal years, pursuant to subdivision (a), shall equal 35 percent of the total federal and nonfederal projected funding need for administration of CalFresh.
(c) Relief to the county share of administrative costs authorized by this section shall not result in any increased cost to the General Fund as determined in subdivision (b).
(d) Subdivision (a) does not prevent a county from expending funds in excess of the amount specified in subdivision (a).
(e) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2022, and, as of January 1, 2023, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2023, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 11, Sec. 88. (AB 79) Effective June 29, 2020. Inoperative July 1, 2022. Repealed as of January 1, 2023, by its own provisions.)