Emergency services: Alzheimer's disease: dementia.

Existing law establishes the Office of Emergency Services within the office of the Governor and under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services and makes the office responsible for the state's emergency and disaster response services for natural, technological, or human-made disasters and emergencies. Existing law requires a county, upon the next update to its emergency plan, to integrate access and functional needs into its emergency plan by, at a minimum, addressing how the access and functional needs population, as defined, is served with regard to emergency communication, emergency evacuations, and emergency sheltering. This bill would require a county, as part of its update of its emergency plan, to address the Alzheimer's disease and dementia population by addressing how the Alzheimer's disease and dementia population is served by the following: emergency communications, including direct communications to those who may, due to their condition, be unable to follow emergency guidelines, and emergency stay-at-home orders, including dissemination of specified information. By increasing the duties of local officials, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.