15971. (a) The Director of Finance shall identify in the proposed budget all state funds that are available for the support of social service transportation services. The director shall also identify, to the maximum extent possible, all federal funds that are available for funding social service transportation services.
(b) The Director of Finance shall request the federal government and appropriate state agencies to ascertain which, if any, categorical funding constraints exist regarding the eventual use of federal or state funds for consolidated social service transportation services.
(c) The Director of Finance shall request all federal and state agencies providing funds for social service transportation services to notify the county transportation commissions and transportation planning agencies of the transportation services provided from funding by the agency.
(d) Funding for these responsibilities of the Director of Finance shall be included in the proposed budget.
(Added by Stats. 1979, Ch. 1120.)