Due to the need to rapidly implement, and to provide local health jurisdictions, hospitals, long-term health care facilities, clinics, emergency medical systems, and poison control centers with timely funding for the purposes of, this article, funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act or some other act for purposes of this article for the 2002–03 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years shall be allocated through the use of agreements, which shall not be subject to Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code.
Source:
Section 101319, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=101319..