(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury an In-Home Supportive Services Reinvestment Fund, which shall receive moneys to the extent that an assessment described in Section 12301.05 is implemented retroactively.
(b) The fund shall be used to provide goods or services for one-time direct reinvestments benefiting IHSS recipients.
(c) The fund shall be used in a manner that does not create ongoing General Fund obligations.
(d) Pursuant to Section 12301.03, the Director of Finance shall estimate the amount of retroactive assessment due to the fund. In each fiscal year for which there are estimated retroactive revenues, the Director of Finance shall provide the Controller a schedule of what portion of the assessment shall be deposited in the fund.
(e) The resources in the fund shall be reinvested for the benefit of IHSS recipients, in compliance with the requirements in this section and those in the settlement agreement pertaining to Oster v. Lightbourne, N.D. Cal., Case No. CV 09-04668 CW, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Case No. 12-15366, and Dominguez v. Brown, N.D. Cal., Case No. CV 09-02306 CW, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Case No. 09-16359.
(f) The Director of Finance shall consult with plaintiffs in the lawsuits identified in subdivision (e) in order to develop a plan to reinvest the funds for the benefit of IHSS recipients. After the plan is developed and prior to the allocation of any funds, it shall be submitted to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature.
(1) If notice of federal approval of retroactive implementation of the assessment is received by the Director of Finance between January 1 and May 10 of any year, and the plan anticipates any expenditure of the funds before June 30 of that year, the Director of Finance shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at least 30 days prior to allocating any of those funds, for a purpose authorized by this section, if the allocation is proposed to be used in the current fiscal year.
(2) (A) If notice of federal approval of retroactive implementation of the assessment is received by the Director of Finance between January 1 and May 10 of any year, and the plan anticipates any expenditure of the funds after June 30 of that year, for a purpose authorized by this section, the Director of Finance shall seek legislative approval of those budget year expenditures through the annual Budget Act or in other legislation.
(B) Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), if the Legislature does not allocate moneys from the fund pursuant to subparagraph (A) in the annual Budget Act or in other legislation, the Director of Finance shall, on or after September 15, notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at least 30 days prior to allocating any of those funds, for a purpose authorized by this section, if the allocation is proposed to be used in that current fiscal year.
(3) If notice of federal approval of retroactive implementation of the assessment is received by the Director of Finance after May 10 and before January 1 of any year, the Director of Finance shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee at least 30 days prior to allocating any of those funds, for a purpose authorized by this section, if the allocation is proposed to be used in the current fiscal year.
(g) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, when the requirements of subdivision (f) have been met, the moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the State Department of Social Services for the purposes of this section.
(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 4, Sec. 4. (SB 67) Effective May 30, 2013.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018