2023 California Code › Government Code - GOV › TITLE 2 - GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA › DIVISION 3 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › PART 2.5 - AGENCIES › CHAPTER 1 - Administration › Section 12803.35.

12803.35. (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury, the California Health and Human Services Automation Fund. The moneys in the fund shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature for expenditure by the Office of Technology and Solutions Integration, established pursuant to Section 12803.3, for support of that office.
(b) The fund shall consist of the following:
(1) All moneys appropriated to the fund in accordance with law.
(2) The balance of all moneys available for expenditure by the Systems Integration Division of the Office of Technology Services.
(3) An amount of funding transferred from the Department of Technology Services Revolving Fund to this fund determined by the Department of Finance.
(4) Funds appropriated to the State Department of Social Services in the annual Budget Act for the management, including, as needed, procurement, design, development, testing, implementation, oversight, and maintenance, of the following projects shall be transferred to this fund upon order of the Department of Finance:
(A) Statewide Automated Welfare System (SAWS), including Statewide Project Management, WCDS, C-IV, LEADER, LRS, and the migration of C-IV to LRS pursuant to Section 10823 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, as amended by Section 9 of Chapter 13 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2011.
(B) Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS).
(C) Child Welfare Services/Case Management System (CWS/CMS) new system project.
(D) Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT).
(E) Case Management Information Payrolling System (CMIPS) Reprocurement.
(F) Welfare Data Tracking Implementation Project (WDTIP).
(5) Funds appropriated to the Department of Health Care Services and the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board in the annual Budget Act for the management, including procurement, design, development, testing, implementation, oversight, and maintenance, of the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System shall be transferred to the fund from the Department of Finance.
(6) Funds from the California Health Benefit Exchange may be transferred upon order of the Department of Finance pursuant to an interagency agreement between the California Health Benefit Exchange and the Office of Technology and Solutions Integration to support the California Healthcare Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention System.
(c) Notwithstanding any other law, the Director of Finance may authorize a loan from the General Fund to the California Health and Human Services Automation Fund, in an amount not to exceed two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000), if all of the following requirements are met:
(1) The loan is to meet cash needs resulting from the delay in receipt of reimbursements for services provided.
(2) The loan is short term and is repaid by October 31 of the fiscal year following the year in which the loan was authorized.
(3) The Office of Technology and Solutions Integration frontloads payments from contracts to the extent possible to minimize need for General Fund loans.
(4) Interest charges may be waived pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 16314.
(5) The Director of Finance shall not approve the loan unless the approval is made in writing and filed with the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the chairpersons of the committees in each house of the Legislature that consider appropriations not later than 30 days prior to the effective date of the approval, or not later than whatever lesser time prior to that effective date that the chairperson of the joint committee, or the chairperson’s designee, may determine.
(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 43, Sec. 15. (AB 120) Effective July 10, 2023.)