Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 14199.118 — Protecting Access to Health Care

Affordable Prescription Drugs Account

(a) The Affordable Prescription Drugs Account is hereby created within the Improving Access to Health Care Subfund. Moneys in the Affordable Prescription Drugs Account shall be used as set forth in this section.

(b) The department shall, subject to the stakeholder input requirements of Section 14199.121, use the moneys in the Affordable Prescription Drugs Account for the purpose of providing increased funding for the California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020 to increase competition, lower prices, and address shortages in the market for generic prescription drugs, to reduce the cost of prescription drugs for public and private purchasers, taxpayers, and consumers, and to increase patient access to affordable drugs.

(c) (1) On and after January 1, 2030, the maximum allowable balance of unencumbered moneys in this account shall be twenty million dollars ($20,000,000). As long as this account is at or above twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), moneys otherwise required to be deposited in this account shall instead be deposited on a pro rata basis into the accounts described in paragraphs (1) to (8), inclusive, and (11) to (13), inclusive, of subdivision (d) that are not at or above their maximum allowable balance.

(2) This subdivision does not apply if this account is at or above twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) as a result of the department violating its nondiscretionary ministerial duty set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 14199.106, or if the accounts described in paragraphs (1) to (8), inclusive, and (11) to (13), inclusive, of subdivision (d) are all simultaneously at or above their maximum allowable balance.