Section 30029.8.

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a county or city and county may elect and, in consultation with the California State Association of Counties, be designated by the State Department of Social Services to contract directly with the State Department of Social Services for the following social services programs, functions, and services.

(1) The Private Agency Adoptions Reimbursement Program.

(2) The Chafee Post Secondary Education and Training Voucher Program.

(3) Health Care Oversight for Children in Foster Care.

(4) Training, technical assistance, and other contracts of statewide benefits.

(5) Other contracts that counties, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, determine are in the best interests of counties and the state.

(b) The designated county or city and county that receives an allocation funded pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 30029.5 and paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 30029.5 shall place the funds in a Contract Special Account, which shall be created by the county treasurer or other appropriate official, within the Protective Services Subaccount of the County Local Revenue Fund 2011. Notwithstanding any other law, this special account shall not be subject to the reallocation provisions of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (6) of subdivision (f) of Section 30025. The contracts described in subdivision (a) shall be funded only from the Contract Special Account.

(c) The contract or contracts entered into pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) shall contain a provision that if full funding is not provided pursuant to Section 30029.5 in any fiscal year, then the State Department of Social Services may, in its discretion, reduce the contracted activities to be performed.

(d) Once the necessary federal approval to allow for appropriate claiming of federal Title XIX funds by county child welfare agencies has been secured pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 16501.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, the funds provided in subdivision (a) of Section 30029.5 for the Health Care Oversight for Children in Foster Care shall be redistributed to all counties pursuant to an allocation schedule developed by the State Department of Finance in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services and the California State Association of Counties.

(e) Funds not expended from the Contract Special Account in any fiscal year shall be retained in the Contract Special Account for use in a subsequent fiscal year. Alternatively, after consultation with the California State Association of Counties and the State Department of Social Services, the designated county or city and county may redistribute those funds to all counties in the same proportion as funding is allocated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 30029.5, excluding the allocation to the Contract Special Account. Any redistributed funds shall be deposited in each county's Protective Services Subaccount in the County Revenue Fund 2011, but this funding shall not be used in determining the amount of funding allocated to any county in a subsequent fiscal year.

(f) If a county or city and county elects to cease to perform the duties described in subdivision (a), or if the Department of Finance removes the designation of the county, then the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the California State Association of Counties, shall designate another county or counties or city and county that elects to perform the duties described in subdivision (a).

(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 40, Sec. 26. Effective June 27, 2012.)