“Costs mandated by the state” means any increased costs which a local agency or school district is required to incur after July 1, 1980, as a result of any statute enacted on or after January 1, 1975, or any executive order implementing any statute enacted on or after January 1, 1975, which mandates a new program or higher level of service of an existing program within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution.
Cal. Gov. Code § 17514
General Provisions
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 50 Cal. 3d 51 - City of Sacramento v. State of California (1990)
Most recently applied in Dep't of Fin. v. Comm'n on State Mandates (December 2017)
Added by Stats. 1984, Ch. 1459, Sec. 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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