Chapter 5. Miscellaneous Provisions of California Government Code >> Title 17. >> Chapter 5.

This title, being necessary for the health, welfare, and safety of the people of the state, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes.

This title shall be deemed to provide a complete, additional, and alternative method for doing the things authorized in its provisions, and shall be regarded as supplemental and additional to the powers conferred by other laws. The sale and issuance of bonds, the application of proceeds to the funding of the accumulated budget deficit, and the refunding of prior bonds and the entering into of any ancillary obligation under this title, are not required to comply with the requirements of any other state or local law applicable to the issuance of bonds or ancillary obligations. The purposes authorized in subdivision (c) of Section 99002 may be effectuated and bonds are authorized to be issued for any of those purposes, notwithstanding that any other state or local law may provide for those purposes or for the issuance of bonds for the same or similar purposes, and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, limitations, or other provisions contained in any other state or local law.

Bonds issued pursuant to this title are a legal investment for any state special fund or trust fund, notwithstanding any provision of state or local law limiting the investments that may be made by the fund. The bonds shall be legal investments in which all public officers and public bodies of the state and its political subdivisions, all municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, banking institutions, including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, investment companies, and other persons carrying on banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees, and other fiduciaries, and all persons authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to them. The bonds may be used by any such private financial institution, person, or association as security for public officers and bodies of the state or any agency or political subdivision of the state and all municipalities and public corporations for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is authorized by law, including deposits to secure public funds.

(a) The authority may bring an action to determine the validity of any bonds to be issued, or ancillary obligations and other contracts to be entered into, under this title pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure. For the purposes of Section 860 of the Code of Civil Procedure, any action initiated pursuant to this section shall be brought in the Superior Court in the County of Sacramento.
  (b) Any action brought to enforce any provision of this title shall be brought in the Superior Court in the County of Sacramento and shall have priority over civil matters not themselves having priority.
  (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the exclusive means to obtain review of a superior court judgment entered in an action brought pursuant to Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 860) of Title 10 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure to determine the validity of any bonds to be issued, or ancillary obligations or other contracts to be entered into, under this title shall be by petition to the Supreme Court for writ of review. Any such petition shall be filed within 15 days following the notice of entry of the superior court judgment, and no extension of that period may be allowed. If no petition is filed within the time allowed therefor, or the petition is denied, with or without opinion, the decision of the superior court shall be final and enforceable as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 870 of the Code of Civil Procedure. In any case in which a petition has been filed within the time allowed therefor, the Supreme Court shall make any orders it deems proper in the circumstances. If no answering party appeared in the superior court action, the only issues that may be raised in the petition are those related to the jurisdiction of the superior court.

The Director of Finance shall immediately notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Executive Officer of the Franchise Tax Board, the Executive Director of the State Board of Equalization, and the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles when and if an amendment to the California Constitution is approved at a statewide election held during the 2009 calendar year, that limits the total amount that, under Section 20 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, may be transferred by statute from the Budget Stabilization Account, or any successor to that account, to the General Fund.

The Director of Finance shall immediately notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Executive Director of the State Board of Equalization, and the Controller upon the occurrence of a legislative or administrative action that does any of the following effective prior to July 1, 2012:
  (a) Transitions any enrollee in the Healthy Families Program pursuant to Part 6.2 (commencing with Section 12693) of Division 2 of the Insurance Code to the Medi-Cal program under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code or any other state program. For the purpose of this section, a "transition" shall not include the enrollment of a Healthy Families Program enrollee into Medi-Cal or any other state program based upon Medi-Cal or any other state program eligibility criterion as it exists at the time of enactment.
  (b) Transfers any administrative functions for the Healthy Families Program, including, but not limited to, eligibility processing and health care service delivery, away from the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board or vendors with whom the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board chooses to contract for performance of these functions.
  (c) Ceases operation of, or repeals, the Healthy Families Program pursuant to Part 6.2 (commencing with Section 12693) of Division 2 of the Insurance Code.
  (d) Ceases operation of, or repeals authorization for, the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board.