Section 11999.6 Of Division 10.8. Substance Abuse Treatment Funding From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 10.8.
11999.6
. Moneys deposited in the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust
Fund shall be distributed annually by the Secretary of California
Health and Human Services through the State Department of Health Care
Services to counties to cover the costs of placing persons in and
providing drug treatment programs under this act, and vocational
training, family counseling, and literacy training under this act.
Additional costs that may be reimbursed from the Substance Abuse
Treatment Trust Fund include probation department costs, court
monitoring costs, and any miscellaneous costs made necessary by the
provisions of this act other than drug testing services of any kind.
Incarceration costs cannot be reimbursed from the fund. Those moneys
shall be allocated to counties through a fair and equitable
distribution formula that includes, but is not limited to, per capita
arrests for controlled substance possession violations and substance
abuse treatment caseload, as determined by the department as
necessary to carry out the purposes of this act. The department may
reserve a portion of the fund to pay for direct contracts with drug
treatment service providers in counties or areas in which the
director of the department has determined that demand for drug
treatment services is not adequately met by existing programs.
However, nothing in this section shall be interpreted or construed to
allow any entity to use funds from the Substance Abuse Treatment
Trust Fund to supplant funds from any existing fund source or
mechanism currently used to provide substance abuse treatment. In
addition, funds from the Substance Abuse Treatment Trust Fund shall
not be used to fund in any way the drug treatment courts established
pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 11970) or Article 2
(commencing with Section 11975) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of Division
10.5, including drug treatment or probation supervision associated
with those drug treatment courts.