Any and all funds appropriated for the homeless mentally disabled which have been determined to be unexpended and unencumbered two years after the date the funds were appropriated shall be transferred to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The amount of transfer shall be determined after the State Department of Health Care Services settles county cost reports for the fiscal year the funds were appropriated. The funds transferred to the Department of Housing and Community Development shall be administered in accordance with that department’s Special Users Housing Rehabilitation or Emergency Shelter programs to provide low-income transitional and long-term housing for homeless mentally disabled persons. Special priority shall be given to project proposals for homeless mentally disabled persons in the same county from which the funds for the support of the community support system were originally allocated.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 34, Sec. 136. (SB 1009) Effective June 27, 2012.)