This section shall apply to the allocations made from the Local Revenue Fund 2011 for the 2015–16 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, which shall include cash received beginning on August 16 of each fiscal year. Until the Department of Finance has prepared a schedule pursuant to subdivision (g), the Controller shall allocate funding as provided in subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive.
(a) On or before the 18th of every month, the Controller shall allocate to the Mental Health Account of the Local Revenue Fund 2011 ninety-three million three hundred seventy-nine thousand two hundred fifty-two dollars ($93,379,252) of the revenue received into the Local Revenue Fund 2011, pursuant to Sections 6051.15 and 6201.15 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(b) All funds obtained pursuant to Sections 11001.5 and 11005 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall be deposited in the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount of the Law Enforcement Services Account. Once these deposits total four hundred eighty-nine million nine hundred thousand dollars ($489,900,000) for the fiscal year, any additional funds obtained pursuant to those sections shall be deposited in the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Growth Special Account.
(c) The amounts received during any month into the Local Revenue Fund 2011 pursuant to Sections 6051.15 and 6201.15 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, after the allocation provided in subdivision (a), shall be allocated by the Controller no later than the 20th of every month as follows:
(1) To the Support Services Account, up to an amount equal to the amount that was allocated to this account in the immediately preceding fiscal year, plus the total amounts deposited in the Protective Services Growth Special Account and the Behavioral Health Services Growth Special Account of the Support Services Growth Subaccount in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(2) To the Law Enforcement Services Account, up to an amount equal to the amount that was allocated to this account in the immediately preceding fiscal year, plus the total amounts that were deposited in all the special accounts of the Law Enforcement Services Growth Subaccount in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(3) If there are insufficient funds in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 to fund paragraphs (1) and (2) at the maximum level described in those paragraphs, the Controller shall allocate the available funding based on a proportional share that the accounts received in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(4) After the allocations are made pursuant to subdivision (a) and paragraphs (1) and (2), any remaining funds shall be allocated to the Sales and Use Tax Growth Account.
(d) Notwithstanding subdivision (c), if the Department of Finance estimates that the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount will not receive four hundred eighty-nine million nine hundred thousand dollars ($489,900,000) pursuant to subdivision (b) within the current fiscal year, the department shall notify the Controller who shall, after the allocation is made pursuant to subdivision (a), allocate the remaining funds in the Local Revenue Fund 2011 as follows:
(1) The amount necessary to provide four hundred eighty-nine million nine hundred thousand dollars ($489,900,000) to the Enhancing Law Enforcement Activities Subaccount for the fiscal year, based on the estimate provided by the Department of Finance, shall be allocated to the subaccount. If it is subsequently determined that the actual funds received in the subaccount exceed that amount, the Controller shall refund the excess sales tax amount to the Local Revenue Fund 2011.
(2) The remaining funds shall be allocated in accordance with subdivision (c).
(e) Funds allocated to the Law Enforcement Services Account from the Local Revenue Fund 2011 shall be allocated by the Controller on a monthly basis as follows:
(1) To the Trial Court Security Subaccount in an amount up to the total funding provided to the Trial Court Security Subaccount and the Trial Court Security Growth Special Account in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(2) To the Community Corrections Subaccount in an amount up to the total funding provided to the Community Corrections Subaccount and the Community Corrections Growth Special Account in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(3) To the District Attorney and Public Defender Subaccount in an amount up to the total funding provided to the District Attorney and Public Defender Subaccount and the District Attorney and Public Defender Growth Special Account in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(4) To the Juvenile Justice Subaccount in an amount up to the total funding provided to the Juvenile Justice Subaccount and the Juvenile Justice Growth Special Account in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(5) If there are insufficient funds in the Law Enforcement Services Account to make the allocations described in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, at the immediately preceding fiscal year’s funding level, the Controller shall allocate the funding based on a proportional share that the subaccounts received in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(f) Funds allocated to the Support Services Account from the Local Revenue Fund 2011 shall be allocated on a monthly basis as follows:
(1) To the Behavioral Health Subaccount in an amount up to the total funding provided to the Behavioral Health Subaccount and the Behavioral Health Services Growth Special Account in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(2) To the Protective Services Subaccount in an amount up to the total funding provided to the Protective Services Subaccount and the Protective Services Growth Special Account in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(3) Notwithstanding subdivision (g), to the Women and Children’s Residential Treatment Services Special Account within the Behavioral Health Subaccount, five million one hundred four thousand dollars ($5,104,000) for the fiscal year, divided into 12 monthly allocations.
(4) If there are insufficient funds in the Support Services Account to make the allocations described in paragraphs (1) and (2) at the immediately preceding fiscal year’s funding level, the Controller shall allocate the funding based on a proportional share that the subaccounts received in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
(g) The Department of Finance shall annually prepare a schedule that includes the funding provided to the subaccounts pursuant to Section 30027.9 and provide the appropriate and proportional allocations in accordance with this section. Once prepared, the department shall provide the Controller with this updated schedule and the Controller shall substitute that schedule for the allocations provided in subdivisions (d) and (e) and paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (f). The Controller shall continue to provide the allocations pursuant to subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) and paragraph (3) of subdivision (f).
(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 40, Sec. 9. (SB 1020) Effective June 27, 2012.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018