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(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) The Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) provides for up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to be disbursed in the 2018–19 fiscal year, increasing by ten million dollars ($10,000,000) each fiscal year thereafter, until the 2022–23 fiscal year, at which time the disbursement will be fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) each year thereafter. AUMA requires these funds to be used to support a community reinvestment grants program and at least 50 percent of these funds to be granted to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations to support job placement, mental health treatment, substance use disorder treatment, system navigation services, legal services, and linkages to medical care, as specified.
(2) The system navigation services funded by AUMA will be the entry point for individuals needing treatment and provide care coordination services that can assist with connecting individuals to various support and treatment providers that can address their issues, based on their own needs.
(3) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that AUMA grant recipients for system navigation services meet minimum performance standards and AUMA grant dollars are expended most effectively to help the greatest number of individuals consistent with the intent of AUMA. It is also in the best interest of the state to ensure that successful grant applicants have demonstrated experience serving targeted populations and utilize trained professionals to administer system navigation services.
(4) It is in the best interest of the state to ensure that the input of community stakeholders is considered by state entities, including, but not limited to, the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, during the development and allocation of community reinvestment grants, especially grants to qualified community-based nonprofit organizations pursuant to AUMA.
(b) The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development shall give preference to applicants for grants to provide support system navigation services, as described in subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, that meet all of the following minimum performance standards:
(1) Capability of providing system navigation services in multiple languages and, at a minimum, of providing translation services in all languages spoken by non-English speakers that comprise at least 3 percent or more of the total population of the area proposed to be served, based on the most recent data from the United States Census Bureau. More preference shall be given to applicants that exceed this minimum standard.
(2) Capability of providing service 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year.
(c) (1) The Community Reinvestments Grants Program Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, all moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal year, to the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development for the purposes of implementing subdivision (d) of Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code.
(2) Funds disbursed to the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development pursuant to Section 34019 of the Revenue and Taxation Code shall be deposited into the Community Reinvestments Grants Program Fund established by paragraph (1).