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(1) Existing law provides for the regulation of various professions and vocations by regulatory boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing law creates in the department a Division of Investigation and authorizes the Director of Consumer Affairs to employ investigators, inspectors, and deputies as are necessary to investigate and prosecute all violations of any law, the enforcement of which is charged to the department or to any board in the department. Inspectors used by the boards are not required to be employees of the Division of Investigation, but may be employees of, or under contract to, the boards. Investigators of the Division of Investigation and of the Medical Board of California and the Dental Board of California have the authority of peace officers and are in the division and appointed by the director. This bill would authorize specified healing arts boards to employ individuals to serve as experts and would authorize those boards and the Division of Investigation to employ individuals who are not peace officers to provide investigative services. The bill would also provide that investigators of the Medical Board of California and the Dental Board of California who have the authority of peace officers are not required to be in the division. (2) According to the strategic plan of the Department of Consumer Affairs, the BreEZe system is an integrated, enterprisewide enforcement and licensing system. Under existing law, the office of the State Chief Information Officer is responsible for, among other things, the approval and oversight of specified information technology projects. This bill would authorize the department to enter into a contract with a vendor for the BreEZe system no sooner than 30 days after written notification to certain committees of the Legislature. The bill would require the amount of contract funds for the system to be consistent with costs approved by the office of the State Chief Information Officer, based on information provided by the department in a specified manner. The bill would provide that this cost provision is applicable to all Budget Act items for the department with an appropriation for the BreEZe system. If the department enters into a contract for the system, the bill would also require the department, by December 1, 2014, to submit to the Legislature and specified committees a report analyzing the workload of certain licensing personnel employed by boards participating in the BreEZe system. (3) The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act authorizes the issuance of an event permit that allows specified licenses to sell beer, wine, and distilled spirits and requires an annual fee of $100 for an event permit and a fee of not more than $10 for each event authorization. This bill would increase the fee for each event authorization to not more than $25. (4) Under existing law, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act establishes various types of licenses and various annual fees for different categories of licensees. Existing law establishing a fee for an original on-sale general license or an original off-sale general license as $12,000. This bill would increase that fee to $13,800 and would permit adjustment of the fee, as specified. (5) Existing law provides that the period for commencement of action upon any bonds or coupons issued by the State of California is 10 years. This bill would delete that provision and instead provide that the period for commencement of an action upon any bonds or coupons issued by the State of California shall have no limitation. (6) Existing law establishes the California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009, which, among other things, provides for student protections and regulatory oversight of private postsecondary schools in the state. Existing law establishes the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education to regulate private postsecondary institutions through the powers granted, and the duties imposed, by the act. This bill would prohibit the bureau, for the period July 1, 2010, to July 1, 2011, inclusive, from enforcing the act against institutions that offer flight instruction or institutions that offer Federal Aviation Administration certified educational programs in aircraft maintenance. The bill would also require those institutions to notify the bureau if they operate during that period. (7) Existing law also requires the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (bureau) to contract with the Bureau of State Audits to conduct a performance audit to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the bureau's operation, on or before August 1, 2013, consistent with the requirements of the act. The act requires the Bureau of State Audits to report the results of the performance audit to the Legislature and the Governor. This bill would additionally require the performance audit to include an evaluation of whether the bureau's staffing level and expertise are sufficient to fulfill their statutory responsibilities. (8) The California Prompt Payment Act provides that a state agency that fails to make a payment for goods and services to certain entities pursuant to a contract is subject to an interest penalty fee, according to specified criteria. Existing law provides that in order to avoid late payment penalties, state agencies shall pay promptly submitted, undisputed invoices within 45 days, and specifies procedures and exclusions relating to that requirement. Existing law provides that penalties for late payments to certain small and nonprofit businesses accrue at 0.25% of the amount due, per calendar day. Existing law provides that, subject to specified exceptions, a state agency that fails to pay a person an undisputed payment or refund due to that person within 31 days after the agency provides notice to that person that the payment is due is liable for interest on the undisputed amount. This bill would revise and recast these provisions by requiring state agencies to pay refunds or other undisputed payments due to individuals within 45 days after receipt of a notice of refund or undisputed payment due, and would specify procedures and exclusions related to that requirement. The bill would also provide that penalties for late payments to certain small and nonprofit businesses accrue at a rate of 10% above the United States Prime Rate on June 30 of the prior fiscal year. This bill would also delete obsolete provisions, cross-references, and references to the Year 2000 Problem. (9) Existing law prescribes the duties and responsibilities of the Department of Housing and Community Development in connection with the establishment of various economic development areas, including enterprise zones, manufacturing enhancement areas, targeted tax areas, and local agency military base recovery areas. Existing law authorizes the department to assess each of these economic development areas a fee of not more than $10 for each application it accepts for the issuance of a specified tax certificate issued by a local government. This bill would revise these provisions to require the department to collect a fee of $15 for each application it accepts for the issuance of the specified tax certificate. The bill would require the fees to be deposited in the Enterprise Zone Fund, which the bill would create. These funds would be available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the costs of administering the programs relating to each economic development area. (10) Existing law appropriated $15,000,000 to the Trade and Commerce Agency for a loan for allocation over 3 years in 3 equal amounts to that nonprofit organization currently named the San Diego National Sports Training Foundation for purposes of developing and constructing a California Olympic Training Center. Existing law provides that these loan allocations be repaid in full no later than 20 years from the date of receipt, as specified. Existing law creates the California Olympic Training Account in the General Fund for the receipt of moneys from fees paid for commemorative olympic license plates, which are to be used for repayment of the loan described above. This bill would cancel any of the outstanding balance and any accrued interest on the loan for the California Olympic Training Center described above. The bill would require the Controller to annually transfer the moneys from fees paid for commemorative olympic license plates to the General Fund. (11) Existing law creates the Technology Services Revolving Fund, administered by the State Chief Information Officer, for the purpose of receiving revenue from the sale of technology or technology services, and for payment, upon appropriation by the Legislature, of specified costs. The Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2009 renamed and transferred the Department of Technology Services in the State and Consumer Services Agency to the Office of the Department of Technology Services within the office of the State Chief Information Officer, and renamed the Department of Technology Services Revolving Fund the Technology Services Revolving Fund, and made conforming changes. The plan also transferred duties relating to the state's procurement of information technology from the Department of Finance, the Department of General Services, and the Department of Information Technology to the office of the State Chief Information Officer. This bill would make certain statutory codification changes made necessary by the Governor's Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 2009 in connection with the Technology Services Revolving Fund. This bill would also authorize the fund to receive revenues for other services rendered by the office of the State Chief Information Officer and to pay for other specified costs. The bill would authorize the office of the State Chief Information Officer to collect payments from public agencies for services requested from, rather than contracted for, the office of the State Chief Information Officer, as specified. The bill would also revise the conditions used to determine whether a balance remains in the Technology Services Revolving Fund at the end of a fiscal year to limit the amount that is used to determine a reduction in billing rates. The bill would provide that these provisions apply to all revenue earned on or after July 1, 2010. (12) Existing law imposes a duty on the office of the State Chief Information Officer to be responsible for the approval and oversight of information technology projects, including, but not limited to, consulting with agencies during initial project planning to ensure that identified needs and benefits are consistent with statewide strategies, policies, and procedures. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, require the office to review, approve, and oversee any service contract proposed to be entered into by an agency that contains an information technology component, as specified. (13) Existing law establishes the Manufacturing Technology Program within the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, requires the agency to adopt regulations to implement the program, and requires the program to award grants, as specified, and to provide technical assistance to California nonprofit organizations and public agencies for the performance of specified functions relating to the improvement of the competitiveness and viability of specified manufacturing industries. This bill would repeal these laws thereby eliminating the Manufacturing Technology Program. (14) Existing law establishes the Local Agency Investment Fund, in trust in the custody of the Treasurer, to which specified local governmental individuals and entities, with the required consent, may remit money in its treasury that is not required for immediate needs for the purpose of investment. Existing law requires, immediately at the conclusion of each calendar quarter, that all interest earned and other increment derived from investments be distributed by the Controller to the contributing governmental units or trustees or fiscal agents, nonprofit corporations, and quasi-governmental agencies in amounts directly proportionate to the respective amounts deposited in the fund and the length of time the amounts remained therein. Existing law requires, however, that an amount equal to the reasonable costs incurred in carrying out duties related to the administration of the fund, not to exceed 12 of 1% of the earnings of the fund, be deducted from the earnings prior to distribution, and that this amount be credited as reimbursements to the state agencies having incurred costs in carrying out duties related to the administration of the fund. This bill would increase the amount authorized to be deducted from earnings prior to distribution to be an amount equal to the reasonable costs incurred in carrying out these provisions, not to exceed a maximum of 5% of the earnings of the fund and not to exceed the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act for this function. (15) Under the California Constitution, whenever the Legislature or a state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, including school districts, the state is required to provide a subvention of funds to reimburse the local government, with specified exceptions. Existing law establishes a test claim procedure for local governmental agencies to file claims for reimbursement of these costs with the Commission on State Mandates. This bill would authorize specified entities to request that the commission adopt a new test claim decision to supersede a previously adopted test claim. This bill would authorize the commission to adopt a new test claim decision only upon a showing that the state's liability for the previously adopted test claim decision has been modified based upon a subsequent change in law, as defined. This bill would require that the commission adopt procedures for receiving these requests and for providing notice and a hearing on those requests, as prescribed, including a requirement that the submitted request be signed under penalty of perjury. Because this bill would expand the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (16) Existing law prohibits the commission from determining that certain costs in a test claim are mandated by the state if the costs meet specified conditions, including, among others, where the challenged costs result from a statute or executive order that imposes requirements mandated by federal law or regulation. Existing law provides that this prohibition applies regardless of whether the federal mandate was enacted before or after the statute or executive order. This bill would provide that the exceptions for the other specified conditions likewise remain applicable regardless of whether the conditions occurred before or after the enactment of the statute or the adoption of the executive order that is the subject of the test claim. (17) Existing law requires that the commission adopt parameters and guidelines for the reimbursement of approved test claims. Existing law authorizes a local agency, school district, or the state to file a written request with the commission to amend, modify, or supplement the parameters and guidelines, as specified. This bill would authorize these entities to file a written request with the commission to amend the parameters and guidelines, and prescribe the types of changes for which the request may be filed, including, among others, deleting a reimbursable activity that has been repealed by statute or executive order. (18) Existing law requires the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee to allocate specified tax credits for purposes of low-income housing projects. Existing law requires the committee to establish and charge fees it determines are reasonably sufficient to cover the costs in carrying out the responsibilities related to the low-income housing credit program and to deposit these fees in the Tax Credit Allocation Fee Account and the Occupancy Compliance Monitoring Account for specified purposes. Existing law also authorizes the Governor, in certain circumstances, to direct the Controller to make transfers of money from any special funds and other accounts to the General Cash Revolving Fund. This bill would authorize the Controller to use the fees deposited in the Tax Credit Allocation Fee Account and the Occupancy Compliance Monitoring Account for daily cash flow loans to the General Fund or the General Cash Revolving Fund in accordance with specified provisions of existing law. (19) Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an injured employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires that the Director of Industrial Relations levy and collect assessments from employers in an amount determined by the director to be sufficient to fund specified workers' compensation programs implemented in the state. In that connection, existing law requires the director to include in the total assessment amount the Department of Industrial Relations' costs for administering the assessment, including the collections process and the cost of reimbursing the Franchise Tax Board for its cost of collection activities. This bill would also require the director to include in the total assessment amount the department's costs for administering the assessment, including the collections process and the cost of reimbursing another agency or department other than the Franchise Tax Board. (20) Existing law authorizes the Director of Industrial Relations, with the approval of the Director of Finance, to determine and assess a fee on any awarding body using funds derived from any bond issued by the state to fund public works projects, and requires the fees collected to be deposited in the State Public Works Enforcement Fund, a continuously appropriated fund. This bill would require the fee to be payable by the board, commission, department, agency, or official responsible for the allocation of bond proceeds from the bond funds awarded to each project, at the time the funds are released to the project or any other time agreed upon by the department and the allocating entity. (21) Existing law requires an awarding body that chooses to use funds from the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2002 or the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2004 for a public works project to pay a fee to the Department of Industrial Relations sufficient to support the department's costs in ensuring compliance with and enforcing prevailing wage requirements on the project and labor compliance, and requires the fees collected to be deposited in the State Public Works Enforcement Fund. Existing law requires the department to notify the State Allocation Board of awarding bodies that have paid the fee. This bill would instead require the State Allocation Board to notify the department of awarding bodies that are awarded funds subject to the fee. This bill would also require the State Allocation Board to pay the fee to the department at the time bond funds are released to the awarding body. (22) Existing law authorizes the awarding body for a public works project to not require the payment of the general prevailing rate of per diem wages on public works projects of specified sizes and types of work if the awarding body elects to meet certain requirements with regard to any public works project under its authority, including payment of a fee to the Department of Industrial Relations for the enforcement of prevailing wage obligations, in lieu of authorizing the awarding body to initiate and enforce a labor compliance program, for contracts awarded after the effective date of regulations and fees adopted by the department, as specified. This bill would make technical, conforming changes to those provisions. (23) Existing law requires that every apprentice employed upon public works, as defined, be paid the prevailing rate of per diem wages for apprentices in the trade to which he or she is registered, and requires that the apprentice be employed only at the work of the craft or trade to which he or she is registered. Existing law requires a contractor to whom a contract is awarded, who, in performing any of the work under the contract, employs journeymen or apprentices in any apprenticeable craft or trade, to contribute to the California Apprenticeship Council the same amount that the Director of Industrial Relations determines is the prevailing amount of apprenticeship training contributions in the area of the public works site. Existing law requires that all training contributions received pursuant to those provisions be deposited in the Apprenticeship Training Contribution Fund, and continuously appropriates that fund for purposes related to apprenticeship training and to pay the expenses of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards. This bill would eliminate this continuous appropriation and instead specify that, upon appropriation by the Legislature, all moneys in the fund be used for apprenticeship training and to pay the expenses of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards. (24) Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain a master record of information pertaining to the identification and criminal history of persons, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to provide that information to various entities for law enforcement and other purposes, as specified, including providing that information through the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System. This bill would authorize nonprofit organizations that are funded by certain federal grants or contracts for identifying, targeting, or removing criminal and terrorist conspiracies and activities to access local, state, or federal criminal justice system information that is available to law enforcement agencies, including access to the California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, provided that the nonprofit organization meet state and federal requirements for access to that information or system. (25) Existing law prohibits a county, city, city and county, or special district from hiring a person for employment or a volunteer to perform services, at a county, city, city and county, or special district operated park, playground, recreational center, or beach used for recreational purposes, in a position having supervisory or disciplinary authority over a minor, if that person has been convicted of specified offenses. Existing law requires a county, city, city and county, or special district to require each of those prospective employees and volunteers to complete an application that inquires as to whether that person has been convicted of one of those offenses, and imposes a screening requirement on the county, city, city and county, or special district with respect to those prospective employees and volunteers. This bill would authorize a county, city, city and county, or special district to charge those prospective employees and volunteers a fee to cover all of the county, city, city and county, or special district's costs attributable to those requirements. (26) The Vehicle License Fee (VLF) Law establishes, in lieu of any ad valorem property tax upon vehicles, an annual license fee for any vehicle subject to registration in this state in the amount of 2% of the market value of that vehicle, as specified. Existing law requires the Controller, in consultation with the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Finance, to calculate certain allocation amounts with respect to the vehicle license fees paid by commercial vehicle operators, and to transfer moneys in those amounts from the General Fund. This bill would eliminate the requirement that the Controller transfer one of the allocation amounts from the General Fund, as provided. (27) Existing law prohibits the Franchise Tax Board and specified individuals who have access to certain documents filed with the board from disclosing information set forth in the documents, except as provided. Existing law authorizes the board to provide the Public Employees' Retirement System with identification and location information from income tax returns or other records solely for the purposes of disbursing unclaimed benefits and distributing member statements on an annual basis. Under existing law, unauthorized disclosure is a misdemeanor. Existing federal law establishes the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, which provides federal reimbursement to participating employment-based group health benefits plans, as provided. This bill would, until June 30, 2016, authorize the board to provide the Public Employees' Retirement System with identification and location information from income tax returns or other records for the purpose of filing required data pursuant to the federal Early Retiree Reinsurance Program and related regulations and departmental directives. By expanding the definition of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (28) Existing law requires each employer to file with the Director of the Employment Development Department, within a specified time period for the payment of employer contributions, a report of contributions and a report of wages paid to his or her workers in the form and containing any information as the director prescribes. Existing law also requires every employer who pays wages to an employee for services performed in this state to withhold from those wages, except as provided, specified income taxes, to file specified reports with the director, and to pay the withheld taxes. This bill would, instead, require each employer, beginning with the first calendar quarter of 2011, to file with the director a quarterly return, including certain information regarding the total amount of wages, employer contributions, worker contributions required to be withheld by the employer, taxes withheld, and any other information prescribed by the director, as specified. Existing law also requires each employer, in addition to the aforementioned reports, to file with the director an annual reconciliation return showing specified information pertaining to amounts required to be withheld for employer contributions, as determined by wages and other specified criteria, and taxes withheld as prescribed. This bill also would eliminate the requirement that an employer file an annual reconciliation form with the director beginning in the 2012 calendar year, and would make related changes. (29) Existing law provides for unemployment compensation benefits for eligible individuals in the state who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Existing law, for new claims filed on or after a specified date, but no later than April 3, 2011, for which a valid claim or benefit year cannot be established under the currently defined base periods, establish alternative base periods, as provided. Existing law also requires a claimant to submit specified information regarding wages to the Employment Development Department via an affidavit, under specified conditions, and requires the department to implement the technical changes necessary to establish claims under the alternative base period, as specified, as soon as possible, but no later than April 3, 2011. This bill would extend to September 3, 2011, the time period within which the department is required to implement those changes related to the establishment of unemployment compensation benefit claims under the alternative base period program. Existing law requires the department, until April 3, 2013, to report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, no less than quarterly, on the progress and effectiveness of implementation of the alternative base period program, as specified. This bill would extend to September 3, 2013, the period during which those reports are required to be provided to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee. This bill would authorize the Department of Industrial Relations to enter into an agreement that transfers all or part of the responsibility from the Department of Industrial Relations, or any office or division within the department, to the Employment Development Department for the collection of items including, but not limited to, delinquent fees, wages, penalties, judgments, assessments, costs, citations, debts, and any interest thereon, arising out of the enforcement of any law within the jurisdiction of the department, in accordance with specified requirements. (30) Existing law creates in the State Treasury the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys received by the state from certain Indian tribes pursuant to the terms of gaming compacts entered into with the state. Existing law authorizes moneys in that fund to be used for specified purposes, including for grants for the support of state and local government agencies impacted by tribal government gaming. Existing law, until January 1, 2021, creates a County Tribal Casino Account in the treasury of each county that contains a tribal casino. Existing law requires the Controller to divide the County Tribal Casino Account for each county that has gaming devices that are subject to an obligation to make contributions to the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund into a separate account, known as an Individual Tribal Casino Account, for each tribe that operates a casino within the county. Each Individual Tribal Casino Account is required to be funded in proportion to the amount that each individual tribe paid in the prior fiscal year to the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund, and used for grants to local agencies impacted by tribal casinos, as specified. This bill would appropriate $30,000,000 from the Indian Gaming Special Distribution Fund to restore funding deleted from the Budget Act of 2007 for the purpose of providing grants to local government agencies impacted by tribal government gaming under the provisions described above. (31) The Budget Act of 2009 (Chapter 1 of the 2009–10 3rd Extraordinary Session) and revisions to the Budget Act of 2009 (Chapter 1 of the 2009–10 4th Extraordinary Session) made appropriations for the support of state government during the 2009–10 fiscal year. This bill would make an additional appropriation of moneys from the DNA Identification Fund to the Department of Justice for its support. (32) Existing law gives the Citizens Redistricting Commission the responsibility for redrawing district boundaries for state Senate, Assembly, and Board of Equalization districts after each national decennial census. Existing law further directs the State Auditor to oversee the selection of members of the commission, and directs the Secretary of State to assist the commission in carrying out its redistricting responsibilities. Existing law requires the Legislature to include in the Budget Act, in each year ending in 9, an appropriation to meet the expenses of the commission, the State Auditor, and the Secretary of State in implementing the redistricting process. The appropriation is required to be a minimum of $3,000,000 and is required to be available for a 3-year period. The Legislature is permitted to make additional appropriations in any year in which it determines that the commission requires additional funding. The Budget Act of 2009 appropriated $3,000,000 for allocation by the Director of Finance among the Citizens Redistricting Commission, the Secretary of State, and the Bureau of State Audits to meet the expenses of those entities in implementing the redistricting process in connection with the 2010 national census. This bill would provide that funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2009 for expenses of the commission, the Secretary of State, and the Bureau of State Audits in connection with implementing the redistricting process shall be available until June 30, 2012, and would further provide that funds allocated pursuant to the Budget Act of 2010 for those purposes shall be available until June 30, 2013. The bill would prohibit those funds from being allocated by the Director of Finance until the State Auditor has selected the first 8 members of the commission and the Department of Finance has submitted to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee a 30-days' notice of intent to allocate those funds. The bill would require, in order for the Bureau of State Audits to receive an allocation of funds, that the bureau submit a request with a detailed cost estimate to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the Director of Finance, and that the chairperson of the joint committee provide a written notification to the director that the requested allocation, or a lesser amount, is needed to carry out expenses of the bureau as set forth in the detailed cost estimate. (33) Existing law creates the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank for the purpose of, among other things, providing financial assistance for public development facilities located in California. Existing law establishes the California Infrastructure Guarantee Trust Fund within which there is a guarantee reserve account to fund secure commitments under contracts to guarantee all or part of the bonds in the bank. Existing law permits the Legislature to establish for the guarantee reserve account a reserve account requirement. Existing law requires the bank to take all reasonable steps to maintain the reserve account requirement, and if the bank determines that the amount in the reserve account is below the reserve account requirement, the executive director of the bank is to certify to various parties in the Legislature the sum required to restore the reserve fund to the requirement, and upon making the certification, request an appropriation. Existing law provides that the obligation of the bank and the state to pay any guarantee is a limited obligation of the bank payable solely from amounts deposited in the guarantee trust fund that are made available under the respective contracts of guarantee, and prohibits the guarantee of loans or bonds from directly, indirectly, or contingently obligating the state to levy or to pledge any form of taxation or to make any appropriation for their payment. In 2003, the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank and the Imperial Irrigation District entered into a preliminary loan guarantee agreement. This bill would require that funds in the California Infrastructure Guarantee Trust Fund, as of January 1, 2010, held for the benefit of the Imperial Irrigation District, be deposited in a guarantee reserve account in the fund, which the bill would establish, and would provide that this amount is the reserve account requirement, as specified, for the purpose of meeting the obligations of the Imperial Irrigation District up to $150,000,000 in connection with certain water agreements. The bill would require that the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank guarantee certain bonds relating to the Imperial Irrigation District projects, and that the reserve account be paid for the benefit of bondholders in the event of a shortfall, as specified. The bill would specify the characteristics of these bonds, and would establish the limits of the liability of the Imperial Irrigation District, the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank, and the state in connection to them. (34) 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. (35) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.