Section 15848.

Notwithstanding Section 13340 or any other provision of law, the amount as may be necessary to pay the rent of any agency occupying space in a facility authorized to be acquired or constructed under the State Building Construction Act of 1955 or a facility leased by a state agency pursuant to a joint powers agreement in accordance with Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 is hereby appropriated each fiscal year payable from the fund in the State Treasury from which that agency derives its appropriation for support and shall become available only if the rental payments are due during a period that the state is operating without funds appropriated by the Budget Act for that fiscal year or if the amount required to pay the rental payments has not been included in the Budget Act for that fiscal year and the Department of Finance certifies to the Controller that sufficient funds are available for the support of the agency for that portion of the facility that has been provided for its use and the facility or portion thereof is available for the use and occupancy of the agency. This appropriation shall be inoperative as to any facility that is transferred to the jurisdiction of the Department of General Services pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 15816, to any facility transferred to a state agency pursuant to a joint powers agreement, or to any facility the title of which has vested in the Regents of the University of California, the Trustees of the California State University, the Board of Governors of the California Maritime Academy, or any community college district pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 15816.

(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 122, Sec. 1.5. Effective July 16, 1993.)