§ 2796 Habitat Conservation Fund Transfers

(a) The Controller shall annually transfer the sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) from the General Fund to the Habitat Conservation Fund, less any amount transferred to the Habitat Conservation Fund from, but not limited to, the following accounts and funds: (1) The Public Resources Account in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund to the extent authorized by the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act of 1988. (2) The Unallocated Account in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 2795. (3) The California Environmental License Plate Fund. (4) The Endangered and Rare Fish, Wildlife, and Plant Species Conservation and Enhancement Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund. (5) Any other non-General Fund accounts and funds created by the Legislature or the people for purposes that are consistent with the purposes of this act. (6) Any bond funds that are authorized by the people after July 1, 1990, that may be used for purposes that are identical to the purposes specified in Section 2786. (7) The Wildlife Restoration Fund. (b) Except for transfers from the Endangered and Rare Fish, Wildlife, and Plant Species Conservation and Enhancement Account, transfers from the Fish and Game Preservation Fund are not transfers for purposes of subdivision (a) and shall not be made to the fund. Transfers of federal, local, or privately donated funds or transfers from the State Coastal Conservancy Fund pursuant to Section 31011 of the Public Resources Code to the fund are not transfers for purposes of subdivision (a). (c) This section does not limit the amount of funds that may be transferred to the fund or that may be expended for fish and wildlife habitat protection either from the fund or from any other sources. (d) This section shall become operative on July 1, 1990, shall become inoperative on June 30, 2030, and, as of January 1, 2031, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, which becomes effective before January 1, 2031, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed. (Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 31, Sec. 3. (SB 85) Effective June 27, 2019. Inoperative June 30, 2030. Repealed as of January 1, 2031, by its own provisions.)