Section 18906.55.

(a) Notwithstanding Section 18906.5 or any other law, as a result of the substantial fiscal pressures on counties created by the unprecedented and unanticipated CalFresh caseload growth associated with the economic downturn beginning in 2008, and in order to provide fiscal relief to counties as a result of this growth, a county that meets the maintenance of effort requirement pursuant to Section 15204.4 entirely through expenditures for the administration of CalFresh in the 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, and 2013–14 fiscal years shall receive the full General Fund allocation for administration of CalFresh without paying the county's share of the nonfederal costs for the amount above the maintenance of effort required by Section 15204.4.

(b) The full General Fund allocation for administration of CalFresh pursuant to subdivision (a) shall equal 35 percent of the total federal and nonfederal projected funding need for administration of CalFresh. The methodology used for calculating those projections shall remain the same as it was for the 2009–10 fiscal year for as long as this section remains in effect.

(c) No relief to the county share of administrative costs authorized by this section shall result in any increased cost to the General Fund as determined in subdivision (b).

(d) Subdivision (a) shall not be interpreted to prevent a county from expending funds in excess of the amount required to meet the maintenance of effort required by Section 15204.4.

(e) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2014, and, as of January 1, 2015, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2015, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 21, Sec. 44. Effective June 27, 2013. Inoperative July 1, 2014. Repealed as of January 1, 2015, by its own provisions.)