Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby continuously appropriated to the department for expenditure all amounts paid to the department by the Bay Area Toll Authority for the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, rehabilitation, and seismic retrofit of the state-owned toll bridges specified in Section 30910 pursuant to the state toll bridge seismic retrofit program or any other program of the authority, including, without limitation, amounts paid to the department as advances or to reimburse the department for payments to contractors working on the program.