Section 2796 Of Article 2. California Wildlife Protection From California Fish And Game Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 9. >> Article 2.
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. (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 which are consistent with the
purposes of this act.
(6) Any bond funds which are authorized by the people after July
1, 1990, which may be used for purposes which 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 which may be
transferred to the fund or which 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, 2020, and, as of January 1, 2021, is
repealed, unless a later enacted statute, which becomes effective
before January 1, 2021, deletes or extends the dates on which it
becomes inoperative and is repealed.