(a) Subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, the Department of Housing and Community Development shall provide funding to counties for allocation to child welfare services agencies to help young adults who are 18 to 24 years of age secure and maintain housing, with priority given to young adults formerly in the state’s foster care or probation systems.

(b) The department shall consult with the Department of Social Services, the Department of Finance, and the County Welfare Directors Association to develop an allocation schedule for purposes of distributing funds pursuant to subdivision (a) to counties.

(c) (1) The implementation of this chapter shall be suspended on December 31, 2021, unless paragraph (2) applies.

(2) If, in the determination of the Department of Finance, the estimates of General Fund revenues and expenditures determined pursuant to Section 12.5 of Article IV of the California Constitution that accompany the May Revision required to be released by May 14, 2021, pursuant to Section 13308 of the Government Code, contain projected annual General Fund revenues that exceed projected annual General Fund expenditures in the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years by the sum total of General Fund moneys appropriated for all programs subject to suspension on December 31, 2021, pursuant to the Budget Act of 2019 and the bills providing for appropriations related to the Budget Act of 2019 within the meaning of subdivision (e) of Section 12 of Article IV of the California Constitution, then the implementation of this chapter shall not be suspended pursuant to paragraph (1).

(3) If paragraph (1) applies, it is the intent of the Legislature to consider alternative solutions to facilitate the continued implementation of the program created pursuant to this chapter.

(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 27, Sec. 15. (SB 80) Effective June 27, 2019.)