(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 18906.5 or any other law, as a result of the substantial fiscal pressures on counties created by the unprecedented and unanticipated CalFresh caseload growth associated with the economic downturn beginning in 2008, and in order to provide fiscal relief to counties as a result of this growth, a county that meets the maintenance of effort requirement pursuant to Section 15204.4 entirely through expenditures for the administration of CalFresh in the 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, and 2014–15 fiscal years shall receive the full General Fund allocation for administration of CalFresh without paying the county’s share of the nonfederal costs for the amount above the maintenance of effort required by Section 15204.4.
(2) For the 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18 fiscal years, the waived portion of each county’s share of the nonfederal costs for the amount above the maintenance of effort required by Section 15204.4 shall be reduced incrementally, so that there will be no waiver of the county’s share in the 2018–19 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter. The waived portion of the county’s share shall be 75 percent in the 2015–16 fiscal year, 50 percent in the 2016–17 fiscal year, and 25 percent in the 2017–18 fiscal year of the amount above the maintenance of effort required by Section 15204.4 that would be required to access the county’s full General Fund allocation for administration of CalFresh from the state. Once a county satisfies its maintenance of effort obligation under Section 15204.4, the department shall grant the county access to the state funds for which the match is waived. Any county that expends funds in excess of the amount required to meet the maintenance of effort required by Section 15204.4 in the 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2017–18 fiscal years shall receive the amount of General Fund moneys that the county would have otherwise received based on the nonfederal sharing ratios in Section 18906.5, up to the county’s full General Fund allocation for that fiscal year.
(b) The full General Fund allocation for administration of CalFresh pursuant to subdivision (a) shall equal 35 percent of the total federal and nonfederal projected funding need for administration of CalFresh. The methodology used for calculating those projections shall remain the same as it was for the 2009–10 fiscal year for as long as this section remains in effect.
(c) Relief to the county share of administrative costs authorized by this section shall not result in any increased cost to the General Fund as determined in subdivision (b).
(d) Subdivision (a) shall not be interpreted to prevent a county from expending funds in excess of the amount required to meet the maintenance of effort required by Section 15204.4.
(e) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2018, and, as of January 1, 2019, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2019, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 29, Sec. 84. (SB 855) Effective June 20, 2014. Inoperative July 1, 2018. Repealed as of January 1, 2019, by its own provisions.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018