(a) This article shall be operative in those counties in which the county board of supervisors, by resolution or through the county budget process, authorizes its application and makes a finding that no voluntary mental health program serving adults, and no children’s mental health program, may be reduced as a result of the implementation of this article. To the extent otherwise permitted under state and federal law, counties that elect to implement this article may pay for the provision of services under Sections 5347 and 5348 using funds distributed to the counties from the Mental Health Subaccount, the Mental Health Equity Subaccount, and the Vehicle License Collection Account of the Local Revenue Fund, funds from the Mental Health Account and the Behavioral Health Subaccount within the Support Services Account of the Local Revenue Fund 2011, funds from the Mental Health Services Fund when included in county plans pursuant to Section 5847, and any other funds from which the Controller makes distributions to the counties for those purposes. Compliance with this section shall be monitored by the State Department of Health Care Services.
(b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2021, and, as of January 1, 2022, is repealed.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 140, Sec. 7. (AB 1976) Effective January 1, 2021. Inoperative July 1, 2021. Repealed as of January 1, 2022, by its own provision. See later operative version added by Sec. 8 of Stats. 2020, Ch. 140.)