Gov. Code, § 16310 · Chapter 1. General
Gov. Code, § 16310
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) When the General Fund in the Treasury is or will be exhausted, the Controller shall notify the Governor and the Pooled Money Investment Board. The Governor, or their designee, may order the Controller to direct the transfer of all or any part of the moneys not needed in other funds or accounts to the General Fund from those funds or accounts, as determined by the Pooled Money Investment Board, including the Surplus Money Investment Fund or the Pooled Money Investment Account. All moneys so transferred shall be returned to the funds or accounts from which they were transferred as soon as there are sufficient moneys in the General Fund to return them. No interest shall be charged or paid on any transfer authorized by this section, exclusive of the Pooled Money Investment Account, except as provided in this section. This section does not authorize any transfer that will interfere with the object for which a special fund was created or any transfer from the Central Valley Water Project Construction Fund, the Central Valley Water Project Revenue Fund, or the California Water Resources Development Bond Fund.
(b) (1) Interest shall be paid on all moneys transferred to the General Fund from the following funds:
(A) The Department of Food and Agriculture Fund.
(B) The DNA Identification Fund.
(C) The Behavioral Health Services Fund.
(D) All funds created pursuant to the California Children and Families Act of 1998, enacted by Proposition 10 at the November 3, 1998, statewide general election.
(E) Any funds retained by or in the possession of the California Exposition and State Fair pursuant to this section.
(2) With respect to all other funds, and unless otherwise specified, if the total moneys transferred to the General Fund in any fiscal year from any special fund pursuant to this section exceed an amount equal to 10 percent of the total additions to surplus available for appropriation as shown in the statement of operations of a prior fiscal year as set forth in the most recent published annual report of the Controller, interest shall be paid on the excess. Interest payable under this section shall be computed at a rate determined by the Pooled Money Investment Board to be the current earning rate of the fund from which transferred.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as described in subdivision (d), all moneys in the State Treasury may be loaned for the purposes described in subdivision (a).
(d) Subdivision (c) shall not apply to any of the following:
(1) The Local Agency Investment Fund.
(2) Funds classified in the State of California Uniform Codes Manual as bond funds or retirement funds.
(3) All or part of the moneys not needed in other funds or accounts for purposes of subdivision (a) where the Controller is prohibited by the California Constitution, bond indenture, or case law from transferring all or any part of those moneys.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 40, Sec. 3. (SB 159) Effective June 29, 2024. Operative January 1, 2025, pursuant to Sec. 85 of Stats. 2024, Ch. 40.
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Cited by 82 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Gov. Code, § 16310; the first 50 in book order. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
California Constitution
Food and Agricultural Code
Government Code
- Gov. Code, § 8880.61Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381
- Gov. Code, § 11270.1Printed as Section 16310
- Gov. Code, § 11870Printed as Section 16310
- Gov. Code, § 12531Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381
- Gov. Code, § 12815Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381
- Gov. Code, § 13109Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381
- Gov. Code, § 13332Printed as Sections 16310 and 16314
Health and Safety Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1276.66Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1280.15Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1280.19Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Health & Saf. Code, § 1324.9Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
Military and Veterans Code
Public Resources Code
- Pub. Resources Code, § 4500Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Pub. Resources Code, § 4629.13Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code | Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Pub. Resources Code, § 8613Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Pub. Resources Code, § 25416Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
Public Utilities Code
Revenue and Taxation Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 7102Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 7104.2Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code | Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 8351Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code | Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 11005Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 11005.4Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 30125Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Rev. & Tax. Code, § 30131.4Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
Streets and Highways Code
- Sts. & Hy. Code, § 181Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code | Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Sts. & Hy. Code, § 182Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code | Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Sts. & Hy. Code, § 2100Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code | Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
Unemployment Insurance Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5402Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5890Printed as Section 16310 or 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5891Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 5961.4Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 11011Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14105.200Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14105.36Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14163Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14167.35Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14199.82Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14199.92Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14199.105Printed as Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
- Welf. & Inst. Code, § 14718.5Printed as Section 16310 of the Government Code | Sections 16310 and 16381 of the Government Code
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