County costs: mutual aid: reimbursement.

The California Emergency Services Act provides for the rendering of mutual aid by the state government and by the political subdivisions of this state to mitigate the effects of natural, manmade, or war-caused emergencies. The act requires aid to be rendered in accordance with approved emergency plans during any state of war emergency or state of emergency when the need arises for outside aid in any county, city and county, or city. The act authorizes state agencies and political subdivisions to exercise mutual aid powers in accordance with the Master Mutual Aid Agreement and local ordinances, resolutions, agreements, or plans in periods other than a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local emergency. This bill would appropriate $90,000 from the General Fund to the County of San Joaquin and Calaveras County to reimburse those counties for the costs they incurred during 2012 for the excavation and recovery of victims of a serial killing and costs incurred for assistance provided by outside agencies that offered mutual aid. The bill would make specified legislative findings and declarations. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.