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(continued) eing used for park, conservation,
recreational, agricultural, or other such purposes, may be accepted
and received on behalf of the state by the appropriate departmental
director, with the approval of the Director of Finance, and those
grants, gifts, devises, or bequests may be available, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditure for the purposes
specified in Section 5096.310.



5096.345. Except for funds continuously appropriated by this
chapter, all appropriations of funds pursuant to Section 5096.310 for
purposes of the program shall be included in the Budget Bill for the
2001-02 fiscal year, and each succeeding fiscal year, for
consideration by the Legislature, and shall bear the label "Safe
Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection
(Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Fund." The Budget Bill section shall
contain separate items for each project, each class of project, or
each element of the program for which an appropriation is made.




5096.346. (a) In allocating funds pursuant to subdivision (u) of
Section 5096.310, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
shall give preference to the planting of trees that provide greater
air quality benefits and to urban forestry projects that provide
greater energy conservation benefits.
(b) The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection shall consult
with the State Air Resources Board in developing guidelines for the
allocation of grant funds pursuant to subdivision (u) of Section
5096.310 that promote air quality benefits.
(c) State and local agencies shall consider potential air quality
benefits when allocating funds received pursuant to this chapter.



5096.347. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the
Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountain Region constitutes a unique and
important environmental, anthropological, cultural, scientific,
educational, recreational, scenic, water, watershed, and wildlife
resource that should be held in trust for the enjoyment of, and
appreciated by, present and future generations.
(b) The secretary shall administer grants to the Sierra
Nevada-Cascade Program to assist local governments, agencies,
districts, and nonprofit organizations working in collaboration with
those local governments, agencies, and districts to plan, create, and
conserve the Sierra-Cascade natural ecosystem. The secretary shall
make funds available on a competitive basis for all of the following
activities:
(1) The acquisition and restoration of riparian habitat in
accordance with Sections 7048 and 78682.2 of the Water Code to
improve water quality, and to protect, restore, or rehabilitate
watersheds, streams wetlands, or other aquatic habitat.
(2) Capital improvement projects that provide park and
recreational opportunities.
(3) Access to trails and public lands, in accordance with Article
6 (commencing with Section 5070) of Chapter 1 of Division 5.
(4) Acquisition of park lands or recreational facilities.
(c) The secretary shall give priority to fund up to two million
dollars ($2,000,000) for Commons Beach improvements on properties
owned or administered by local agencies in the Lake Tahoe area, that
will provide improved lake access, bicycle and pedestrian trail
linkages, and interpretative facilities.
(d) The secretary may provide the following capital outlay grants:

(1) Five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) for capital outlay to
an incorporated city all or part of the territory of which is
located within five miles of the boundary line between San Joaquin
County and Sacramento County.
(2) Two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) to the
department for the renovation of a state historical point of interest
near the intersection of Jack Tone Road and State Highway 88.
(e) For the purposes of this article, the Sierra Nevada-Cascade
Mountain Region includes those portions of Fresno County, Kern
County, Stanislaus County, and Tulare County, and counties with
populations of less than 250,000 as of the 1990 United States Census,
that are located in the mountains, the foothills, and the area
adjacent to the geologic formations of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade
mountain ranges.

5096.348. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter,
funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (j) of Section 5096.310 shall
be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for parks, park
facilities, or environmental youth service centers that are within
the immediate proximity of a neighborhood that has been identified by
the department as having a critical lack of park or open-space lands
or deteriorated park facilities, that are in an area of significant
poverty and unemployment, and that have a shortage of services for
youth. Priority shall be given to capital projects that employ
neighborhood residents and at-risk youth.
(b) (1) Fifty percent of the funds allocated pursuant to
subdivision (j) of Section 5096.310 shall be made available on a
competitive basis to heavily urbanized counties and cities or to
nonprofit organizations or park districts in those counties and
cities, in compliance with subdivision (a) and the matching
requirements of the Roberti-Z'berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and
Recreation Program Act (Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 5620).
(2) No more than 10 percent of the amounts made available pursuant
to paragraph (1) shall be allocated to fund grants pursuant to
Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 990) of Part 1 of Division 2 of
the Welfare and Institutions Code, at least 50 percent of which shall
be granted to youth service organizations eligible for tax-exempt
status pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code
that are chartered by a national youth service organization.




5096.350. (a) Funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (m) of
Section 5096.310 shall be available for expenditure by the Wildlife
Conservation Board for the acquisition, development, rehabilitation,
restoration, and protection of real property benefiting fish and
wildlife, for the acquisition, restoration, or protection of habitat
that promotes recovery of threatened, endangered, or fully protected
species, maintains the genetic integrity of wildlife populations, and
serves as corridors linking otherwise separate habitat to prevent
habitat fragmentation, and for grants and related state
administrative costs pursuant to the Wildlife Conservation Law of
1947 (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1300) of Division 2 of the
Fish and Game Code), for the following purposes:
(1) Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the acquisition or
restoration of wetland habitat, as follows:
(A) Five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the acquisition,
preservation, restoration, and establishment, or any combination
thereof, of habitat for waterfowl or other wetlands-associated
wildlife, as provided for in the Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture
Component of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan and the
Inland Wetlands Conservation Program, notwithstanding Section 711 of
the Fish and Game Code. Preference shall be given to projects
involving the acquisition of perpetual conservation easements;
habitat development projects on lands which will be managed primarily
as waterfowl habitat in perpetuity; waterfowl habitat development
projects on agricultural lands; the reduction of fishery impacts
resulting from supply diversions that have a direct benefit to
wetlands and waterfowl habitat; or programs to establish permanent
buffer areas, including, but not limited to, agricultural lands that
are necessary to preserve the acreage and habitat values of existing
wetlands.
(B) Five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the acquisition,
development, restoration, and protection of wetlands and adjacent
lands, or any combination thereof, located outside the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Valley.
(2) Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the development,
acquisition from a willing seller, or restoration of riparian habitat
and watershed conservation programs.
(3) Forty-five million dollars ($45,000,000), upon appropriation
by the Legislature, for the restoration, or acquisition from a
willing seller, of habitat for threatened and endangered species or
for the purpose of promoting the recovery of those species. Five
million dollars ($5,000,000) of that amount shall be for the
acquisition of property along the central coast containing coastal
terrace prairie, federally listed spineflower, state listed San
Francisco popcorn flower, and candidates for federal listing
including ohlone tiger beetle and opler's longhorned moth. No funds
may be expended pursuant to this paragraph for the acquisition of
real property or other actions taken pursuant to Chapter 10
(commencing with Section 2800) of the Fish and Game Code.
(4) Thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) for the acquisition
from a willing seller, or restoration of forest lands, including, but
not limited to, ancient redwoods and oak woodlands. Not more than
five million dollars ($5,000,000) of this amount shall be expended on
the federal Legacy Forest Program (16 U.S.C. Sec. 2103) to meet
federal matching requirements and not less than five million dollars
($5,000,000) of this amount shall be allocated for the preservation
of oak woodlands. Not more than five million dollars ($5,000,000) of
this amount shall be expended on the federal Legacy Forest Program
(16 U.S.C. Sec. 2103) to meet federal matching requirements and not
less than five million dollars ($5,000,000) of this amount shall be
allocated for the preservation of oak woodlands.
(5) Eighty-two million five hundred thousand dollars
($82,500,000), upon appropriation by the Legislature, to match funds
contributed by federal or local agencies or nonprofit organizations
for the acquisition, restoration, or protection of habitat or habitat
corridors that promote the recovery of threatened, endangered, or
fully protected species. Projects funded pursuant to this paragraph
may include restoration projects authorized pursuant to Public Law
105-372, the Salton Sea Reclamation Act of 1998. The board shall
require matching contributions of funds, real property, or other
resources from other public agencies, private parties, or nonprofit
organizations, at a level designed to obtain the maximum conservation
benefits to wildlife and wildlife habitat. No funds may be expended
pursuant to this paragraph for the acquisition of real property or
other actions taken pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section
2800) of the Fish and Game Code.
(6) One hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), upon appropriation
by the Legislature, for the purpose of funding the acquisition of
real property subject to a natural community conservation plan
adopted pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 2800) of the
Fish and Game Code, if the acquisition of the real property is
conducted in conjunction with a natural community conservation plan
approved by the Department of Fish and Game prior to January 1, 1999,
or if the acquisition is approved by statute.
(7) Five million dollars ($5,000,000) for environmental
restoration projects for the following purposes approved pursuant to
the Salton Sea Restoration Project authorized by Public Law 105-372,
the Salton Sea Reclamation Act of 1998, and identified in the Final
Environmental Impact Statement of the Salton Sea Restoration Project:

(A) Reduce and stabilize the overall salinity of the Salton Sea.
(B) Stabilize the surface elevation of the Salton Sea.
(C) Reclaim, in the long term, healthy fish and wildlife resources
and their habitats.
(D) Enhance the potential for recreational uses of the Salton Sea.

(b) Not more than 5 percent of the funds authorized for
expenditure by this section may be used for public access and
wildlife-oriented public use projects.




5096.351. (a) The Legislature has recognized the need to protect
and restore the fragile environment at Lake Tahoe; and the Tahoe
Regional Planning Agency has prepared an Environmental Improvement
Program that outlines a capital outlay approach to help achieve
environmental thresholds in the Lake Tahoe Basin, which allocates
funding responsibilities over the first 10 years of the program in
the amounts of approximately two hundred seventy-four million dollars
($274,000,000) to the State of California, two hundred ninety-seven
million dollars ($297,000,000) to the federal government, eighty-two
million dollars ($82,000,000) to the State of Nevada, one hundred one
million dollars ($101,000,000) to local governments, and one hundred
fifty-three million dollars ($153,000,000) to the private sector.
(b) Funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (n) of Section
5096.310 shall be available for expenditure for the development,
restoration, acquisition from a willing seller, and enhancement of
real property, by the California Tahoe Conservancy within the Lake
Tahoe region pursuant to Title 7.42 (commencing with Section 66905)
of the Government Code for the following purposes:
(1) Protecting the natural environment through preservation of
environmentally sensitive lands, soil erosion control, restoration or
enhancement of watershed lands, and restoration or enhancement of
streams and other natural areas.
(2) Providing public access and public recreation opportunities.
(3) Enhancing and restoring wildlife areas.
(c) The provision of these funds is to meet applicable state
responsibilities pursuant to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's
Environmental Improvement Program.
(d) The allocation of these funds has been made in the expectation
that the federal government, the State of Nevada, local
jurisdictions, and the private sector will fulfill their respective
obligations pursuant to the Environmental Improvement Program. The
secretary shall report annually to the Legislature on the progress of
the development and implementation of the Environmental Improvement
Program, and the provision of these funds may be restricted in the
event that the parties are found to be making inadequate progress or
are not making good faith efforts towards fulfilling their respective
obligations.


5096.352. Funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (o) of Section
5096.310 shall be available for expenditure by the State Coastal
Conservancy pursuant to Division 21 (commencing with Section 31000)
for the acquisition from a willing seller, preservation, restoration,
and enhancement of real property or an interest in real property in
coastal areas and watersheds within its jurisdiction and the
development of public use facilities in those areas in accordance
with the following schedule:
(a) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for projects funded
pursuant to the San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program
established pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 31160)
of Division 21.
(b) (1) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be made
available to the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Project to fund grants
to public entities and nonprofit organizations to implement storm
water and urban runoff pollution prevention programs, habitat
restoration, and other priority actions specified in the Santa Monica
Restoration Plan. The Santa Monica Bay Watershed Council shall
determine project eligibility and establish grant priority.
(2) The Santa Monica Bay Watershed Council or the State Coastal
Conservancy may require the grant recipient to provide a portion of
matching funds for any funding received. The council or the state
conservancy may use the funds as matching funds for federal or other
grant funding.
(c) Sixty-four million two hundred thousand dollars ($64,200,000)
of the funds available may be expended by the State Coastal
Conservancy directly or as grants to government entities and
nonprofit organizations for the purposes of Division 21 (commencing
with Section 31000), and for the following and related purposes,
including, but not limited to, the acquisition, enhancement,
restoration, protection, and development of coastal resources,
beaches, waterfronts, and public accessways in accordance with the
following schedule:
(1) An amount not to exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000) may
be expended on regional approaches to reduce beach erosion. Up to
thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) shall be made available for
the restoration and protection of the Upper Newport Bay Ecological
Reserve.
(2) At least fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall be
expended in coastal areas north of the Gualala River.
(3) At least twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be
expended within Santa Cruz, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, or Santa
Barbara Counties. One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be
allocated to the City of Monterey to fund public access and open
space along the waterfront for the Window on the Bay.
(4) At least five million dollars ($5,000,000) shall be expended
on completion of the Coastal Trail.
(5) Two million dollars ($2,000,000) shall be dedicated to
projects for the Guadalupe River Trail and the San Francisco Bay
Ridge Trail.
(d) Twenty-two million dollars ($22,000,000) may be expended by
the State Coastal Conservancy directly or as grants to government
entities and nonprofit organizations consistent with Division 21
(commencing with Section 31000), and for administrative costs in
connection therewith, for the acquisition, development,
rehabilitation, restoration, enhancement, and protection of real
property, or other actions that benefit fish and wildlife. At least
ten million dollars ($10,000,000) of those funds shall be expended in
coastal areas north of the Gualala River. Eight hundred thousand
dollars ($800,000) shall be spent to restore the arroyo chub,
partially armored stickleback, and southern steelhead fisheries to
their native creeks of San Mateo Creek, and its tributary Devil
Canyon Creek, and San Onofre Creek located in San Diego County.
(e) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) shall be available,
upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the State Coastal
Conservancy and the Department of Fish and Game for direct
expenditure and for grants to public agencies and nonprofit
organizations to protect, restore, acquire, and enhance habitat for
salmon. These funds may be used to match federal funding available
for those purposes.
(f) Twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) of the funds shall
be allocated to acquire, protect, and restore wetlands projects that
are a minimum of 400 acres in size in any county with a population
greater than 5,000,000.
(g) Twelve million five hundred thousand dollars ($12,500,000)
shall be allocated to acquire land needed to connect important
coastal watershed and scenic areas in the Laguna Coast Wilderness
Park.



5096.353. Funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (p) of Section
5096.310 shall be available to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
for capital outlay and grants for the acquisition from a willing
seller, enhancement, and restoration of natural lands, improvement of
public recreation facilities, and for grants to local agencies and
nonprofit organizations to increase access to parks and recreational
opportunities for underserved urban communities, in accordance with
the following schedule:
Thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) to acquire, improve, or
restore park, wildlife, or natural areas, including areas near or
adjacent to units of the state park system wherever such units may be
situated within a local jurisdiction within the Santa Monica
Mountains Zone or Rim of the Valley Trail Corridor.



5096.354. Funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (q) of Section
5096.310 shall be available to the Coachella Valley Mountains
Conservancy for expenditure for the acquisition, development,
enhancement, and protection of land, and for administrative costs
incurred in connection therewith, in accordance with Division 23.5
(commencing with Section 33500).

5096.355. Funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (r) of Section
5096.310 shall be available to the San Joaquin River Conservancy for
expenditure of the acquisition, development, enhancement, and
protection of land, and for administrative costs incurred in
connection therewith, in accordance with Division 22.5 (commencing
with Section 32500).

5096.356. (a) Funds allocated pursuant to subdivision (t) of
Section 5096.310 shall be available to the Department of Conservation
for grants, on a competitive basis, to state and local agencies and
nonprofit organizations for farmland protection and administration of
the Agricultural Land Stewardship Program Act of 1995 (Division 10.2
(commencing with Section 10200)), or its successor program. This
purpose shall include, but not be limited to, the placement of
improvements and acquisition of agricultural conservation easements
and other interests in land pursuant to the Agricultural Land
Stewardship Program.
(b) At least 20 percent of the funds allocated pursuant to
subdivision (t) of Section 5096.310 shall be available for projects
that preserve agricultural lands and protect water quality in the
counties that serve the San Pablo Bay.

5096.357. (a) Funds allocated pursuant to paragraph (1) of
subdivision (v) of Section 5096.310 shall be available to the
Department of Fish and Game for the development, enhancement,
restoration, and preservation of land pursuant to Sections 1580 and
10503 of, and subdivision (b) of Section 1525 of, the Fish and Game
Code. The provision of these funds shall be in accordance with an
expenditure plan developed by the Department of Fish and Game and
approved by the Department of Finance.
(b) Funds allocated pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (v)
of Section 5096.310 shall be made available to the Department of Fish
and Game for the exclusive purpose of acquiring habitat preservation
and enhancement agreements on private wetlands pursuant to the
California Waterfowl Habitat Program--Phase II and administrative
costs incurred in connection therewith. Expenditure of those funds
shall be consistent with the purposes identified in Section 3702 of
the Fish and Game Code.

5096.358. To the extent funds authorized pursuant to this chapter
are available for competitive grants to local government entities,
federally recognized California Indian tribes may apply for those
grants, the tribe's application shall be considered on its merits,
and the tribes shall expend any funds received for the purpose
authorized by this chapter for which the funds are made available.


5096.360. Bonds in the total amount of two billion one hundred
million dollars ($2,100,000,000), not including the amount of any
refunding bonds issued in accordance with Section 5096.370, or so
much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold to provide a
fund to be used for carrying out the purposes set forth in Section
5096.310 and to be used to reimburse the General Obligation Bond
Expense Revolving Fund pursuant to Section 16724.5 of the Government
Code. The bonds, when sold, shall be and constitute a valid and
binding obligation of the State of California, and the full faith and
credit of the State of California is hereby pledged for the punctual
payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds as the
principal and interest become due and payable. Pursuant to this
section, the Treasurer shall sell the bonds authorized by the Safe
Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection
(the Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Finance Committee created pursuant to
subdivision (a) of Section 5096.362 at any different times that are
necessary to service expenditures appropriated pursuant to this
chapter.



5096.361. The bonds authorized by this chapter shall be prepared,
executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State
General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section
16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code),
and all of the provisions of that law apply to the bonds and to this
chapter and are hereby incorporated in this chapter as though set
forth in full in this chapter.



5096.362. (a) Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance
and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the
bonds authorized by this chapter, the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean
Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection (Villaraigosa-Keeley Act)
Finance Committee is hereby created. For purposes of this chapter,
the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal
Protection (Villaraigosa-Keeley Act) Finance Committee is "the
committee" as that term is used in the State General Obligation Bond
Law. The committee consists of the Controller, the Director of
Finance, and the Treasurer, or their designated representatives. The
Treasurer shall serve as chairperson of the committee. A majority
of the committee may act for the committee.
(b) For purposes of the State General Obligation Bond Law, the
secretary is designated the "board."



5096.363. The committee shall determine whether or not it is
necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this
chapter to carry out Section 5096.310 and, if so, the amount of bonds
to be issued and sold. Successive issues of bonds may be authorized
and sold to carry out those actions progressively, and it is not
necessary that all of the bonds authorized to be issued be sold at
any one time.



5096.364. There shall be collected each year and in the same manner
and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in
addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount
required to pay the principal of, and interest on, the bonds maturing
each year. It is the duty of all officers charged by law with any
duty in regard to the collection of the revenue to do and perform
each and every act which is necessary to collect that additional sum.



5096.365. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State
Treasury, for the purposes of this chapter, an amount that will equal
the total of the following:
(a) The sum annually necessary to pay the principal of, and
interest on, bonds issued and sold pursuant to this chapter, as the
principal and interest become due and payable.
(b) The sum necessary to carry out Section 5096.366, appropriated
without regard to fiscal years.



5096.366. For purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director
of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an
amount or amounts not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds that
have been authorized to be sold for the purpose of carrying out this
chapter. Any amount withdrawn shall be deposited in the fund. Any
money made available under this section shall be returned to the
General Fund from proceeds received from the sale of bonds for the
purpose of carrying out this chapter.



5096.367. Pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of
Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the cost of
bond issuance shall be paid out of the bond proceeds. These costs
shall be shared proportionally by each program funded through this
bond act.



5096.367.5. Actual costs incurred in connection with administering
programs authorized under the categories specified in Section
5096.310 shall be paid from the funds authorized by this act.



5096.368. The secretary may request the Pooled Money Investment
Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account,
including other authorized forms of interim financing that include,
but are not limited to, commercial paper, in accordance with Section
16312 of the Government Code, for purposes of carrying out this
chapter. The amount of the request shall not exceed the amount of
the unsold bonds that the committee, by resolution, has authorized to
be sold for the purpose of carrying out this chapter. The secretary
shall execute any documents required by the Pooled Money Investment
Board to obtain and repay the loan. Any amounts loaned shall be
deposited in the fund to be allocated by the board in accordance with
this chapter.



5096.369. All money deposited in the fund that is derived from
premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the
fund and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a
credit to expenditures for bond interest.




5096.370. The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6
(commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 4
of Title 2 of the Government Code, which is a part of the State
General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the voters of the state of
the issuance of the bonds described in this chapter includes the
approval of the issuance of any bonds to refund any bonds originally
issued under this chapter or any previously issued refunding bonds.



5096.371. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or the
State General Obligation Bond Law, if the Treasurer sells bonds
pursuant to this chapter that include a bond counsel opinion to the
effect that the interest on the bonds is excluded from gross income
for federal tax purposes, subject to designated conditions, the
Treasurer may maintain separate accounts for the investment of bond
proceeds and the investment earnings on those proceeds. The
Treasurer may use or direct the use of those proceeds or earnings to
pay any rebate, penalty, or other payment required under federal law
or to take any other action with respect to the investment and use of
bond proceeds required or desirable under federal law to maintain
the tax-exempt status of those bonds and to obtain any other
advantage under federal law on behalf of the funds of this state.



5096.372. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that,
inasmuch as the proceeds from the sale of bonds authorized by this
chapter are not "proceeds of taxes" as that term is used in Article
XIIIB of the California Constitution, the disbursement of these
proceeds is not subject to the limitations imposed by that article.
(b) Funds provided pursuant to this chapter, and any appropriation
or transfer of those funds, shall not be deemed to be a transfer of
funds for the purposes of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 2780) of
Division 3 of the Fish and Game Code.