(a)  The department may receive voluntary contributions to support the department’s activities in providing guidance, developing standards and guidelines and permissible exposure limits, and adopting regulations relating to indoor mold hazards, including, but not limited to, duties included under this chapter.

(b)  The contributions shall be deposited in the Public Health Protection from Indoor Mold Hazards Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding § 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the fund shall be continuously appropriated to the department without regard to fiscal years and shall be used to support the department’s activities in providing guidance, developing standards and guidelines and permissible exposure limits, and adopting regulations relating to indoor mold hazards, including, but not limited to, duties included under this chapter to the extent that funding is available.

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(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 1161, Sec. 5.5. Effective September 30, 2002.)