CA Welf & Inst Code Section 15850.5

(a)

Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in subdivision (b), each applicant who was participating in the County Health Initiative Matching Fund on March 23, 2010, pursuant to Part 6.4 (commencing with Section 12699.50) of Division 2 of the Insurance Code, shall participate in the program established by this chapter, maintaining eligibility standards, methodologies, and procedures at least as favorable to eligible individuals as those in effect on March 23, 2010, and in a manner that satisfies the maintenance of effort obligation established in Section 2105(d)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1397ee(d)(3)).

(b)

(1)If an applicant county participating in the County Health Initiative Matching Fund on March 23, 2010, elects to cease funding the nonfederal share of program expenditures made pursuant to Section 15852, the department shall administer the program within that applicant county consistent with subdivision (a).

(2)

Notwithstanding any other law, the state general fund shall provide funding amounts equal to the total nonfederal share of all expenditures incurred by the department pursuant to paragraph (1).

(3)

The nonfederal share amounts described in paragraph (2) shall be deposited in the County Health Initiative Matching Fund created pursuant to Section 15852, and those funds shall be used by the department for purposes otherwise consistent with that section.

(c)

Notwithstanding any other law, as of the enactment of this section, the department shall not approve any additional applicant for participation under this chapter other than those applicants participating as of March 23, 2010.

(d)

This section shall only be operative to extent that federal financial participation is not jeopardized and any necessary federal approvals are secured.

(e)

This section shall become inoperative on the date that the maintenance of effort obligation pursuant to Section 2105(d)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1397ee(d)(3)) is no longer applicable to the state for purposes of this chapter.