5688.6. (Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 948, Sec. 29.)

All funds appropriated for persons who are homeless with a mental health disability that have been determined to be unexpended and unencumbered two years after the date the funds were appropriated shall be transferred to the Department of Housing and Community Development. The amount of transfer shall be determined after the State Department of Health Care Services settles county cost reports for the fiscal year the funds were appropriated. The funds transferred to the Department of Housing and Community Development shall be administered in accordance with that department’s Special Users Housing Rehabilitation or Emergency Shelter programs to provide low-income transitional and long-term housing for persons who are homeless with a mental health disability. Special priority shall be given to project proposals for persons who are homeless with a mental health disability in the same county from which the funds for the support of the community support system were originally allocated.