Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health care service plans by the Department of Managed Health Care. A willful violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law provides for the regulation of health insurers by the Department of Insurance. Existing law requires health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies to provide benefits for specified conditions, including certain mental health conditions. This bill, effective July 1, 2012, would require those health care service plan contracts and health insurance policies, except as specified, to provide coverage for behavioral health treatment, as defined, for pervasive developmental disorder or autism. The bill would provide, however, that no benefits are required to be provided that exceed the essential health benefits that will be required under specified federal law. Because a violation of these provisions with respect to health care service plans would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. These provisions would be inoperative July 1, 2014, and repealed on January 1, 2015. The bill would require the Department of Managed Health Care, in conjunction with the Department of Insurance, to convene an Autism Advisory Task Force by February 1, 2012, to provide assistance to the department on topics related to behavioral health treatment and to develop recommendations relating to the education, training, and experience requirements to secure licensure from the state. The bill would require the department to submit a report of the Task Force to the Governor and specified members of the Legislature by December 31, 2012. Existing law establishes various communicable disease prevention and control programs. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to establish a list of reportable diseases and conditions and requires health care providers and laboratories to report cases of HIV infection to the local health officer using patient names and sets guidelines regarding these reports. Existing law requires the local health officers to report unduplicated HIV cases by name to the department. This bill would authorize the department to revise the HIV reporting form without the adoption of a regulation, as specified. Under the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act, the State Department of Mental Health administers the provision of funds to counties for community mental health services programs. Existing law also permits counties to receive, under certain circumstances, Medi-Cal reimbursement for mental health services. Under existing law, negotiated net amounts or rates are used as the cost of services in contracts between the state and the county and between the county and a subprovider of services. Existing law establishes the method for computing negotiated rates. Existing law prohibits the charges for the care and treatment of each patient receiving service from a county mental health program from exceeding the actual or negotiated cost of the services. This bill would only allow the use of negotiated net amounts as the cost of services in a contract between the state and a county and the county and a subprovider of services, and would eliminate the use of negotiated rates. The bill would also specify that the charges for the care and treatment of each patient receiving a service from a county mental health program shall not exceed the actual cost of the service. Existing law establishes the Medi-Cal program, administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, under which basic health care services are provided to qualified low-income persons. The Medi-Cal program is, in part, governed and funded by federal Medicaid provisions. Under existing law, the State Department of Health Care Services promulgates regulations for determining reimbursement of Short-Doyle mental health services allowable under the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires the State Department of Mental Health and the State Department of Health Care Services to jointly develop a ratesetting methodology for use in the Short-Doyle Medi-Cal system that maximizes federal funding and utilizes, as much as practicable, federal Medicare reimbursement principles. Existing law requires that this ratesetting methodology contain incentives relating to economy and efficiency. The bill would delete the requirement that the ratesetting methodology in the Short-Doyle Medi-Cal system include incentives relating to economy and efficiency. 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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(1) The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things, the missions and functions of California's public and independent segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of higher education. Provisions of the act apply to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by appropriate resolution, act to make a provision applicable. Existing law requires that a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he or she is an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. This bill would amend the Donahoe Higher Education Act, as of January 1, 2013, to require the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and to request the regents, to establish procedures and forms that enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above-described provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, to apply for, and participate in, all student aid programs administered by these segments to the full extent permitted by federal law, except as provided. This provision would apply to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, act to make it applicable. This bill would provide that students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, are eligible to apply for, and participate in, any student financial aid program administered by the State of California to the full extent permitted by federal law. This bill would require the Student Aid Commission to establish procedures and forms that enable those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above provision to apply for, and participate in, all student financial aid programs administered by the State of California to the full extent permitted by federal law. This bill would prohibit students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the provision described above from being eligible for Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards unless specified conditions are met. The bill would make these provisions operative as of January 1, 2013. (2) Existing federal law requires that a state may provide that an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States is eligible for any state or local public benefit for which that alien would otherwise be ineligible under a specified federal law only through enactment of a state law that affirmatively provides for that eligibility. This bill would find and declare that the amendments to the Donahoe Higher Education Act described above are state laws within the meaning of this federal provision. (3) Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law authorizes the establishment of community college districts under the administration of community college governing boards, and authorizes these districts to provide instruction, for prescribed fees, at community college campuses throughout the state. Existing law authorizes the waiver of these fees for, among others, students who are eligible under income standards established by the board of governors. This bill, as of January 1, 2013, would require community college districts to waive the fees of students who are exempt from nonresident tuition under the provision described in (1) above, and who otherwise qualify for a waiver under this provision, under regulations and procedures adopted by the board of governors. Because the bill would impose new duties on community college districts with respect to determining eligibility for fee waivers, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program. (4) 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 these statutory provisions.
(1) Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to prohibit the use of risk factors and specified characteristics to deny an injured worker his or her rightful benefit when disabled in the workplace. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature to prohibit the apportionment of risk factors and characteristics without prohibiting the apportionment of documentable preexisting nonindustrial causes of disability or holding an employer liable for any percentage of permanent disability not directly caused by an injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment. (2) Existing law requires any physician who prepares a report addressing the issue of permanent disability due to a claimed industrial injury to address the issue of causation of the permanent disability, and requires that the report include an apportionment determination in order to be considered complete on the issue of permanent disability. Existing law requires a physician to make an apportionment determination by finding what approximate percentage of the permanent disability is caused by the direct result of injury arising out of and occurring in the course of employment and what approximate percentage is caused by other factors. This bill would prohibit the approximate percentage of the permanent disability caused by other factors from including consideration of race, religious creed, color, national origin, age, gender, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, or genetic characteristics.
Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services and the California Health and Human Services Agency Data Center to design, implement, and maintain a statewide fingerprint imaging system for use in connection with the determination of eligibility for benefits under the CalWORKs program, excluding the Aid to Families with Dependent Children‑Foster Care program, and CalFresh. Existing law, with specified exceptions, requires applicants for, and recipients of, CalWORKs and CalFresh benefits, as a condition of eligibility, to be fingerprint imaged, pursuant to the statewide fingerprint imaging system. This bill would remove the requirement that applicants for, and recipients of, CalFresh benefits, as a condition of eligibility, be fingerprint imaged and would make related conforming changes. Under existing law, the county is required to annually redetermine eligibility for CalWORKs benefits. Existing law additionally requires the county to redetermine recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a quarterly basis, using prospective budgeting, and to prospectively determine the grant amount that a recipient is entitled to receive for each month of the quarterly reporting period. Under existing law, a CalWORKs recipient is required to report to the county, orally or in writing, specified changes that could affect the amount of aid to which the recipient is entitled. Under existing law, the CalWORKs quarterly reporting system is also implemented by the State Department of Social Services in administering SNAP. This bill would make inoperative October 1, 2013, and repeal January 1, 2014, the requirements relating to quarterly reporting and prospective determination grant amounts, and would, instead, impose similar requirements for a semiannual reporting period, operative April 1, 2013, to be implemented no later than October 1, 2013. This bill would require each county to transition recipients to a semiannual reporting system simultaneously and require each county to provide a certificate to the Director of Social Services certifying that semiannual reporting has been implemented in the county. The bill would also require the department to establish an income reporting threshold for CalWORKs recipients, as specified. The bill would make various related conforming changes, including revising provisions relating to the collection of CalWORKs grant overpayments. The bill would authorize counties to adopt staggered semiannual reporting requirements, as specified. This bill would prohibit administrative savings associated with the implementation of semiannual reporting from exceeding the amount necessary to fund the net General Fund costs of the semiannual reporting, and would authorize the reflection of possible additional savings in excess of this amount only to the extent that they are based on actual savings, as prescribed. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions through all-county letters until the adoption of implementing regulations, as prescribed. Existing law requires the Department of Community Services and Development to receive and administer the federal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program block grant. This bill would, to the extent permitted by federal law, require the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the Department of Community Services and Development, to design, implement by January 1, 2013, and maintain a utility assistance initiative. Under the bill, the State Department of Social Services would be required to grant applicants and recipients of CalFresh benefits a nominal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) service benefit, as specified, out of the federal LIHEAP block grant and any funds allocated for this purpose not expended and reinvested into the program, as prescribed. Existing law continuously appropriates moneys from the General Fund to defray a portion of county costs under the CalWORKs program. This bill would, instead, provide that the continuous appropriation would not be made for purposes of implementing the bill. To the extent that the bill would expand eligibility for CalWORKs and CalFresh benefits, the bill would create 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 these statutory provisions.
Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, headed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state. This bill would, until July 1, 2017, create the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative. It would require, by July 1, 2012, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to prepare recommendations, to be presented upon request to the Legislature, regarding actions that need to be taken to promote food access in the state. The bill would establish the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative Council and would require the council to implement the initiative, as specified. The bill would require the department to establish an advisory group, as specified. The bill would create the California Healthy Food Financing Initiative Fund in the State Treasury, to be comprised of federal, state, philanthropic, and private funds, for the purpose of expanding access to healthy foods in underserved communities and, to the extent practicable, to leverage other funding, as specified. Moneys in the fund would be expended upon appropriation by the Legislature.
Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh (formerly the Food Stamp program) , under which nutrition assistance benefits formerly referred to as food stamps, allocated to the state by the federal government, are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Under existing law, the State Department of Social Services administers CalFresh at the state level, and has certain specified duties in that regard. This bill, commencing July 1, 2012, would require the State Department of Social Services, to the extent permitted by federal law or other specified federal authority, to allow counties that satisfy certain criteria to simplify enrollment into CalFresh for potentially eligible low-income social security benefit recipients, utilizing existing information maintained by the Social Security Administration regarding these recipients. The bill would specify the department's duties in support of the enrollment efforts described in the bill.
Existing law provides for the Medi-Cal program, which is administered by the State Department of Health Care Services, pursuant to which medical benefits are provided to public assistance recipients and other low-income persons. Existing law provides for the department to enter into contracts with managed care systems, hospitals, and prepaid health plans for the provision of various Medi-Cal benefits. Existing law prohibits services covered by the California Children's Services program (CCS) from being incorporated into a Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into after August 1, 1994, until January 1, 2012, except with respect to contracts entered into for county organized health systems in specified counties. This bill would extend to January 1, 2016, the termination of the prohibition against CCS covered services being incorporated into a Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into after August 1, 1994. Existing law requires the provider rates of payment for services rendered for the Healthy Families Program to be identical to the rates of payment for the same service performed by the same provider type pursuant to the Medi-Cal program if the services are provided by a Medi-Cal provider. This bill would require identical rates only if the service was provided by a Medi-Cal provider pursuant to specified contracts.
Existing law, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, revises and expands the scope of various programs relating to the provision of cash assistance and other services to and for the benefit of certain foster and adopted children, and other children who have been placed in out-of-home care, including children who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC) , Adoption Assistance Program, California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) , and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP) benefits. Among other provisions, the act extends specified foster care benefits to youth up to 19, 20, and 21 years of age, if specified conditions are met, commencing January 1, 2012. Existing law, through the Kin-GAP program, which is a part of the CalWORKs program, provides aid on behalf of eligible children who are placed in the home of a relative caretaker. Existing law provides state-funded Kin-GAP assistance for youth not eligible under the federally funded program and requires the state to exercise its option under specified federal law to establish a kinship guardianship assistance payment program, as specified, for youth eligible for federal financial participation for Kin-GAP. Existing law authorizes, under specified conditions, the Kin-GAP payment to be made directly to an eligible nonminor. Under existing law, CalWORKs benefits may not be granted to or on behalf of any child who has attained 18 years of age, unless the child is attending high school or the equivalent level of vocational or technical training on a full-time basis, and is expected to complete the educational or training program before his or her 19th birthday. This bill would establish similar provisions authorizing certain Kin-GAP recipients to continue to receive Kin-GAP aid after 18 years of age, if they are attending high school or vocational or technical training, as specified. The bill would require county child welfare services agencies to submit to the Department of Justice fingerprint images and related information of all THP-Plus Foster Care providers before issuing a certificate of approval to a THP-Plus Foster Care provider applicant. By increasing county responsibilities in administering the Kin-GAP program, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would also remove the authority for payment directly to a nonminor. The bill would make related conforming changes. This bill would, for guardianships established after January 1, 2012, require payment for certain reasonable and verified nonrecurring expenses associated with obtaining legal guardianship, not to exceed the amount specified in federal law. This bill would recast and revise definitions applicable to the extension of AFDC-FC payments to nonminor dependents who are under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, pursuant to a voluntary reentry agreement, and in accordance with a transitional independent living case plan. Under existing law, AFDC-FC payments for children placed voluntarily on and after January 1, 1981, are limited to 180 days, and may be extended an additional 6 months, as specified. This bill, on and after January 1, 2012, would limit AFDC-FC payments to 180 days to nonminor dependents who reentered foster care placement. The bill would impose a state-mandated local program by requiring county child welfare services departments to file a specified petition relating to the interests of the nonminor in reentry and remaining in foster care. This bill also would impose a state-mandated local program by requiring county child welfare services departments to complete the voluntary reentry agreement with a nonminor, and to establish a new child-only foster care eligibility determination, in accordance with a specified provision of federal law, based on the nonminor's completion of that agreement. Existing law imposes specified duties on the State Department of Social Services and local child support agencies regarding the collection and enforcement of child support in cases where a child has been removed from the parental home. This bill would modify these provisions to incorporate nonminor dependents within the existing authority, including specifying that a nonminor dependent over 19 years of age is not a child for purposes of referral to the local child support agency. Existing law requires a county welfare department to provide certain information, documents, and services to a court prior to a hearing to terminate dependency jurisdiction, as specified. This bill would expand the documents required to be provided under the above circumstances, to include, among other things, an advance health care directive form. By increasing the duties of county welfare departments, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Under existing law, when a minor who is a ward of the juvenile court is placed in out-of-home care and the court orders a hearing to consider permanently terminating parental rights to free the minor for adoption, the court is required to direct the agency supervising the minor and the licensed county adoption agency or the State Department of Social Services, as specified, to prepare an assessment that includes specified information. This bill would revise the contents of the required assessment including requiring consideration of the effect of a relative caregiver's preference for legal guardianship over adoption, as specified. To the extent that this requirement would increase the duties of county adoption agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law, on and after January 1, 2012, authorizes the juvenile court to assert dependency jurisdiction over a delinquent ward who had been previously removed from the custody of his or her parents and placed in foster care, as specified, and requires the county probation department and child welfare services department to develop a protocol for coordination of the assessment of these wards. This bill would delete the provisions authorizing the juvenile court to assert dependency jurisdiction over these wards and would require the county probation and child welfare services departments to include additional processes in the assessment protocols. The bill would require the juvenile court to include specified terms in its order modifying jurisdiction over a dependent or ward who was removed from his or her parents or guardian and placed in foster care. Existing law, on and after, January 1, 2012, allows a nonminor who left foster care at or after the age of majority to petition the court to have dependency or delinquency jurisdiction resumed, as provided. This bill would establish transition jurisdiction for the juvenile court and would specify the criteria required to come within this jurisdiction. The bill would authorize a nonminor to petition the juvenile court to resume dependency jurisdiction or to assume or resume transition jurisdiction. The bill would require the court to hold a hearing before terminating transition jurisdiction over a nonminor dependent, as defined, and would require the agency responsible for supervising the nonminor dependent to complete certain duties in connection with this hearing. Because the bill would increase the duties of a county department, it would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law specifies the grounds for finding a person under 18 years of age to be a ward of the juvenile court. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2012, require the court to hold a hearing before terminating its jurisdiction over a ward who meets specified criteria and would require the probation department to complete certain duties, including submitting a report to the court and other documents, when the transition hearing is for a nonminor ward and subject to a foster care placement order. Because the bill would thereby increase the duties of a county department, it would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires the juvenile court to review the status at least once every 6 months of every minor declared to be a ward and placed in foster care. Under existing law, on and after January 1, 2012, the juvenile court at the status review hearing held closest to the ward's 18th birthday, but no fewer than 60 days before that date, is required to consider modifying its jurisdiction to assume dependency jurisdiction over the ward. This bill would change the required date for this status review hearing to no fewer than 90 days before the ward's 18th birthday and would require the court to consider modifying its jurisdiction to transition rather than dependency jurisdiction or, if the ward does not meet the criteria for transition jurisdiction, to order that a petition be filed to declare the ward a dependent. Existing law authorizes the sealing of juvenile court records under specified procedures. This bill would authorize the juvenile court to access sealed records to determine whether a nonminor petitioning to resume dependency or delinquency jurisdiction meets the required criteria for that petition. Existing law requires the juvenile court to authorize a trial period of independence away from foster care when terminating its dependency jurisdiction over a nonminor dependent who has a permanent plan of long-term foster care and, on and after January 1, 2012, authorizes a nonminor in a period of trial independence to petition the court to resume dependency or delinquency jurisdiction. This bill would delete the provisions requiring the court to authorize this trial period and would instead allow the nonminor or other designated entities to petition the court to resume the dependency jurisdiction or to assume or resume transition jurisdiction over a former delinquent ward. Existing law, the California Community Care Facilities Act, generally regulates the licensure and operation of various community care facilities. The act requires a placement agency to notify the appropriate licensing agency of certain activities that would jeopardize the health or safety of a community care resident. Violation of the act is a misdemeanor. This bill would include incidents of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of a nonminor dependent, as defined, by a licensed caregiver while the nonminor is in a foster care placement to the list of incidents that are reportable by a placement agency. By changing the definition of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law requires a child reported to the county child welfare services department to be eligible for initial intake and evaluation of risk services, and sets forth the duties of the county in this regard. This bill would extend the above-described evaluation of risk services to nonminor dependents in foster care placement, and would require the county to cross-report the abuse, neglect, or exploitation of the nonminor dependent by his or her caregiver, thus imposing a state-mandated local program. This bill also would make various technical, nonsubstantive, and conforming changes to the California Fostering Connections to Success Act and related provisions. Existing law requires the department to administer the Family Preservation and Support Program, as specified in federal law. This bill would, instead, require the department to administer the federal Promoting Safe and Stable Families funds, as specified. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 11170 of the Penal Code made by AB 717, to become operative if AB 717 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2012, and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section 391 of the Welfare and Institutions Code made by AB 735, to become operative if AB 735 and this bill become effective on or before January 1, 2012, and this bill is enacted last. 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 with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Existing law requires the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority for registration for enrollment to any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined, for any academic term attended at one of these institutions within 2 years of leaving active duty. This bill, until January 1, 2017, would require the California State University and each community college district, and requests the University of California, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant priority for registration for enrollment to foster youth or former foster youth, as defined. By revising requirements relating to student eligibility for priority registration at community college districts, the 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 these statutory provisions.
Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. Existing law requires the commission to oversee administration of the state's universal service programs, including the deaf and disabled programs. The existing deaf and disabled universal service program, among other things, requires the commission to design and implement a program to provide a telecommunications device capable of serving the needs of individuals who are deaf or hearing impaired, together with a single party line, at no charge additional to the basic exchange rate, to any subscriber who is certified as an individual who is deaf or hearing impaired. This bill would require the commission to expand the program to include assistance to individuals with speech disabilities, including assistance to purchase speech-generating devices, accessories, and mounting systems, and specialized telecommunications equipment. The bill would require the commission to design and implement a program to provide access to a speech-generating device to any subscriber who is certified as having a speech disability at no charge additional to the basic exchange rate. The bill would require the commission to adopt rules to implement the program by January 1, 2014. The bill would require the commission to evaluate options for controlling the program costs of providing speech-generating devices, and include information on any barriers to participation in the program by eligible subscribers, as part of an existing report to the Legislature. Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because the bill would require the commission to adopt rules, the violation of which would be a crime, the 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 no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.