Welfare and Institutions Code section 5701.2

(a)

The State Department of Mental Health, or its successor, the State Department of State Hospitals, shall maintain records of any transfer of funds or state hospital beds made pursuant to Chapter 1341 of the Statutes of 1991.

(b)

Commencing with the 1991–92 fiscal year, the State Department of Mental Health, or its successor, the State Department of State Hospitals, shall maintain records that set forth that portion of each county’s allocation of state mental health moneys that represent the dollar equivalent attributed to each county’s state hospital beds or bed days, or both, that were allocated as of May 1, 1991. The State Department of Mental Health, or its successor, the State Department of State Hospitals, shall provide a written summary of these records to the appropriate committees of the Legislature and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California within 30 days after the enactment of the annual Budget Act.

(c)

Nothing in this section is intended to change the counties’ base allocations as provided in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 17601.

Source: Section 5701.2, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=5701.­2.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2016; accessed Dec. 29, 2025).

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