(a)  The fees or charges required to accompany an application for the issuance or renewal of any license pursuant to Section 1300 of the Business and Professions Code or pursuant to Section 1616 shall be adjusted annually by the percentage change printed in the Budget Act and determined by dividing the General Fund appropriation to Laboratory Field Services in the current state fiscal year by the General Fund appropriation to Laboratory Field Services in the preceding state fiscal year. The fees or charges subject to adjustment pursuant to this subdivision shall be the fees or charges that would have been payable in the prior calendar year without regard to the provisions of subdivision (c).

(b)  Commencing January 1, 1995, upon establishment of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund, the annual adjustment required under subdivision (a) and printed in the annual Budget Act shall be determined by dividing the current fiscal year appropriation to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund by the General Fund appropriation to Laboratory Field Services of the department in the preceding fiscal year. Thereafter, the annual adjustment required by subdivision (a) and printed in the annual Budget Act shall be determined by dividing the current fiscal year appropriation to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund appropriation in the preceding fiscal year.

(c)  The fees or charges shall also be adjusted annually by a percentage determined by dividing the total amount of federal funds available for all programs in Laboratory Field Services of the department during the federal fiscal year ending on September 30 of the year immediately preceding the effective date of the change in fees, less federal funds available for the federal fiscal year that began on October 1 of the year immediately preceding the effective date of the change in fees as indicated in any grant award letter received from the federal Department of Health and Human Services on or before November 1 of that federal fiscal year, by the total estimated revenue derived pursuant to Section 1300 of the Business and Professions Code and Section 1616 for the fiscal year beginning July 1 of the year immediately preceding the effective date of the change in fees.

(d)  The department shall by January 1 of each year publish a list of actual numerical fee charges as adjusted pursuant to this section. This adjustment of fees and the publication of the fee list shall not be subject to the requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.

(Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1023, Sec. 301.3. Effective September 29, 1996.)