(a) Subject to the availability of funds, and to the determination of priority pursuant to Section 17072.25, if applicable, the board shall apportion funds to an eligible school district only upon the approval of the project by the Department of General Services pursuant to the Field Act, as defined in Section 17281, and certification by the school district that the required 50 percent matching funds from local sources have been expended by the district for the project, or have been deposited in the county fund, or will be expended by the district by the time the project is completed, in an amount at least equal to the proposed apportionment pursuant to this chapter, prior to release of the state funds.
(b) This section is operative January 1, 2008.
(Repealed (in Sec. 6) and added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 894, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 2005. Section operative January 1, 2008, by its own provisions.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018