California Government Code ARTICLE 1 - Commission Procedure

• Section 17550.
  Reimbursement of local agencies and school districts for costs mandated by the state shall be provided pursuant to this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1459,...
• Section 17551.
  (a) The commission, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall hear and decide upon a claim by a local agency or school district that the...
• Section 17552.
  This chapter shall provide the sole and exclusive procedure by which a local agency or school district may claim reimbursement for costs mandated by the...
• Section 17553.
  (a) The commission shall adopt procedures for receiving claims filed pursuant to this article and Section 17574 and for providing a hearing on those claims. The...
• Section 17554.
  With the agreement of all parties to the claim, the commission may waive the application of any procedural requirement imposed by this chapter or pursuant...
• Section 17555.
  (a) Not later than 30 days after hearing and deciding upon a test claim pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 17551, and determining the amount to...
• Section 17556.
  The commission shall not find costs mandated by the state, as defined in Section 17514, in any claim submitted by a local agency or school...
• Section 17557.
  (a) If the commission determines there are costs mandated by the state pursuant to Section 17551, it shall determine the amount to be subvened to local...
• Section 17557.1.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, within 30 days of the commission’s adoption of a statement of decision on a test claim, the test...
• Section 17557.2.
  (a) A reasonable reimbursement methodology developed pursuant to Section 17557.1 or a joint request for early termination of a reasonable reimbursement methodology shall have broad support...
• Section 17558.
  (a) The commission shall submit the adopted parameters and guidelines or a reasonable reimbursement methodology approved pursuant to Section 17557.2 to the Controller. As used in...
• Section 17558.5.
  (a) A reimbursement claim for actual costs filed by a local agency or school district pursuant to this chapter is subject to the initiation of an...
• Section 17558.6.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Commission on State Mandates review its process by which local agencies may appeal the reduction of...
• Section 17558.7.
  (a) If the Controller reduces a claim approved by the commission, the claimant may file with the commission an incorrect reduction claim pursuant to regulations adopted...
• Section 17558.8.
  (a) The commission may, on its own initiative, consolidate incorrect reduction claims filed with the commission by different claimants under the same mandate if all of...
• Section 17559.
  (a) The commission may order a reconsideration of all or part of a test claim or incorrect reduction claim on petition of any party. The power...
• Section 17560.
  Reimbursement for state-mandated costs may be claimed as follows:(a) A local agency or school district may, by February 15 following the fiscal year in which costs...
• Section 17561.
  (a) The state shall reimburse each local agency and school district for all “costs mandated by the state,” as defined in Section 17514 and for legislatively...
• Section 17561.5.
  The payment of an initial reimbursement claim by the Controller shall include accrued interest at the Pooled Money Investment Account rate, if the payment is...
• Section 17561.6.
  A budget act item or appropriation pursuant to this part for reimbursement of claims shall include an amount necessary to reimburse any interest due pursuant...
• Section 17562.
  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the increasing revenue constraints on state and local government and the increasing costs of financing state-mandated local programs...
• Section 17563.
  Any funds received by a local agency or school district pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may be used for any public purpose.(Added by...
• Section 17564.
  (a) No claim shall be made pursuant to Sections 17551, 17561, or 17573, nor shall any payment be made on claims submitted pursuant to Sections 17551...
• Section 17565.
  If a local agency or a school district, at its option, has been incurring costs which are subsequently mandated by the state, the state shall...
• Section 17567.
  In the event that the amount appropriated for reimbursement purposes pursuant to Section 17561 is not sufficient to pay all of the claims approved by...
• Section 17568.
  If a local agency or school district submits an otherwise valid reimbursement claim to the Controller after the deadline specified in Section 17560, the Controller...
• Section 17570.
  (a) For purposes of this section the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Mandates law” means published court decisions arising from state mandate determinations by the State Board of...
• Section 17570.1.
  As part of its review and consideration pursuant to Sections 17581 and 17581.5, the Legislature may, by statute, request that the Department of Finance consider...
• Section 17571.
  The commission, upon request of a local agency or school district, shall review the claiming instructions issued by the Controller or any other authorized state...

Last modified: October 22, 2018