Section 17600.50.

(a) A county that participated in the County Medical Services Program in the 2011–12 fiscal year, including the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Modoc, Mono, Napa, Nevada, Plumas, San Benito, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tuolumne, and Yuba and the Governing Board of the County Medical Services Program, shall adopt resolutions by January 22, 2014, that confirm acceptance for the following approach to determining payments to the Family Support Subaccount:

(1) The amount of payments to the Family Support Subaccount shall be equal to 60 percent of the sum of the following:

(A) The 1991 health realignment funds that would have otherwise been allocated to the counties listed above pursuant to Sections 17603, 17604, and 17606.20 and the maintenance of effort in subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10 for these counties, as those sections read on January 1, 2012, and Section 17606.10 as it read on July 1, 2013.

(B) The 1991 health realignment funds that would have otherwise been allocated to the County Medical Services Program pursuant to Sections 17603, 17604, 17605.07, and 17606.20, as those sections read on January 1, 2012.

(2) The payment computed in paragraph (1) shall be achieved through the following:

(A) Each county listed in subdivision (a) shall pay the amounts otherwise payable to the County Medical Services Program pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (j) of Section 16809 to the Family Support Subaccount.

(B) The County Medical Services Program shall pay the difference between the total computed in paragraph (1) and the amount calculated in subparagraph (A) from funds provided pursuant to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(b) The Counties of Fresno, Merced, Orange, Placer, Sacramento, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Yolo shall each tentatively inform the state by November 1, 2013, which of the following options it selects for determining its payments to the Family Support Subaccount. On or before January 22, 2014, the board of supervisors of each county and city and county may adopt a resolution informing the state of the county's or city and county's final selection of the option for determining its payments to the Family Support Subaccount:

(1) The formula detailed in Article 13 (commencing with Section 17613.1).

(2) (A) A calculation of 60 percent of the total of 1991 health realignment funds that would have otherwise been allocated to that county or city and county pursuant to Sections 17603, 17604, and 17606.20, as those sections read on January 1, 2012, and Section 17606.10, as it read on July 1, 2013, and 60 percent of the maintenance of effort in subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10, as it read on January 1, 2012.

(B) If a county's maintenance of effort in subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10 is greater than 14.6 percent of the total value of the county's 2010–11 allocation pursuant to Sections 17603, 17604, 17606.10, and 17606.20 and subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10, the value of the maintenance of effort used in the calculation in subparagraph (A) shall be limited to 14.6 percent.

(c) The Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Kern, Los Angeles, Monterey, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Ventura shall each tentatively inform the state by November 1, 2013, which of the following options it selects for determining its payments to the Family Support Subaccount. On or before January 22, 2014, the board of supervisors of each county and city and county may adopt a resolution informing the state of the county's or city and county's final selection of the option for determining its payments to the Family Support Subaccount:

(1) The formula detailed in Article 12 (commencing with Section 17612.1).

(2) (A) A calculation of 60 percent of the total of 1991 health realignment funds that would have otherwise been allocated to that county or city and county pursuant to Sections 17603, 17604, and 17606.20, as those sections read on January 1, 2012, and Section 17606.10, as it read on July 1, 2013, and 60 percent of the maintenance of effort in subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10, as it read on January 1, 2012.

(B) If a county's maintenance of effort in subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10 is greater than 25.9 percent of the total value of the county's 2010–11 fiscal year allocation pursuant to Sections 17603, 17604, 17606.10, and 17606.20, and subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10, the value of the maintenance of effort used in the calculation in subparagraph (A) shall be limited to 25.9 percent.

(d) (1) If the board of supervisors of a county or city and county fails to adopt a resolution pursuant to subdivision (b) or (c), as applicable, or fails to inform the Director of Health Care Services of the city and county or county's final selection, by January 22, 2014, the calculation shall be 62.5 percent of the total of 1991 health realignment funds that would have otherwise been allocated to that county or city and county pursuant to Sections 17603, 17604, and 17606.20, as those sections read on January 1, 2012, and Section 17606.10, as it read on July 1, 2013, and 62.5 percent of the maintenance of effort in subdivision (a) of Section 17608.10, as it read on January 1, 2012.

(2) If the County Medical Services Program governing board or the board of supervisors of a county that participates in the County Medical Services Program fails to adopt a resolution pursuant to subdivision (a), or fails to inform the Director of Health Care Services of the county's final selection, by January 22, 2014, then paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) apply to the applicable counties and to the County Medical Services Program.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 358, Sec. 8. Effective September 26, 2013.)