CA Gov't Code Section 63089.5

(a)

There is hereby continued in existence in the State Treasury the California Small Business Expansion Fund. All or a portion of the funds in the expansion fund may be paid out, with the approval of the Department of Finance, to a financial institution or financial company that will establish a trust fund and act as trustee of the funds.

(b)

The expansion fund and the trust fund shall be used for the following purposes:

(1)

To pay defaulted loan guarantee or surety bond losses, or other financial product defaults or losses.

(2)

To fund direct loans and other debt instruments.

(3)

To pay administrative costs of corporations.

(4)

To pay state support and administrative costs.

(5)

To pay those costs necessary to protect a real property interest in a financial product default.

(c)

The expansion fund and trust fund are created solely for the purpose of receiving state, federal, or local government moneys, and other public or private moneys to make loans, guarantees, and other financial products that the California Small Business Finance Center and a small business financial development corporation are authorized to provide.

(d)

One or more accounts in the expansion fund and the trust fund may be created by the program manager for corporations participating in one or more programs authorized under this chapter and Section 8684.2. Each account is a legally separate account, and shall not be used to satisfy loan guarantees or other financial product obligations of another corporation except when the expansion fund or trust fund is shared by multiple corporations.

(e)

The amount of guarantee liability outstanding at any one time shall not exceed four times the amount of funds on deposit in the expansion fund plus any receivables due from funds loaned from the expansion fund to another fund in state government as directed by the Department of Finance pursuant to a statute enacted by the Legislature, including each of the trust fund accounts within the trust fund.

(f)

This section shall become operative on January 1, 2018.