Section 270.  


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  • (a) The following funds are hereby created in the State Treasury:

    (1) The California High-Cost Fund-A Administrative Committee Fund.

    (2) The California High-Cost Fund-B Administrative Committee Fund.

    (3) The Universal Lifeline Telephone Service Trust Administrative Committee Fund.

    (4) The Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee Fund.

    (5) The Payphone Service Providers Committee Fund.

    (6) The California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund.

    (7) The California Advanced Services Fund.

    (b) Moneys in the funds are the proceeds of rates and are held in trust for the benefit of ratepayers and to compensate telephone corporations for their costs of providing universal service. Moneys in the funds may only be expended pursuant to this chapter and upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act or upon supplemental appropriation.

    (c) Moneys in each fund may not be appropriated, or in any other manner transferred or otherwise diverted, to any other fund or entity, except as provided in Sections 19325 and 19325.1 of the Education Code.

(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 393, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2009.)