Mandates
Funded Mandates

Proposition 1A, approved by the voters in November 2004, amended the California Constitution to require the Legislature to either (1) fund in the Budget Act the amounts determined to be payable in the previous year for each mandate (with certain exceptions) or (2) to suspend that mandate. This suspension requirement does not apply to education or employee rights mandates.

The 2007 Budget Act reappropriated $41 million for reimbursement claims. The 2008 Governor's Budget includes $139 million for reimbursement claims for costs incurred prior to July 1, 2007, for mandates listed in Figure MAN-02. Of this amount, $75 million is proposed for the third payment of reimbursement claims for costs incurred prior to July 1, 2004.


GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES
  • $361.4 million in the 2006-07 fiscal year.
  • $41 million in the 2007-08 fiscal year.
  • $139 million in the 2008-09 fiscal year.
The Governor's Budget proposes to continue the suspension of several mandates as scheduled in Items 8885-295-0001 and 8885-295-0042.
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CHAPTER HIGHLIGHTS for Mandates Back to Top

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