BILL NUMBER: AB 1863	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act relating to mutual aid, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1863, as introduced, Chesbro. Mutual aid: reimbursement.
   The California Emergency Services Act provides for the rendering
of mutual aid by the state government and by the political
subdivisions of this state to mitigate the effects of natural,
manmade, or war-caused emergencies. The act requires aid to be
rendered in accordance with approved emergency plans during any state
of war emergency or state of emergency when the need arises for
outside aid in any county, city and county, or city. The act
authorizes state agencies and political subdivisions to exercise
mutual aid powers in accordance with the Master Mutual Aid Agreement
and local ordinances, resolutions, agreements, or plans in periods
other than a state of war emergency, a state of emergency, or a local
emergency.
   This bill would make certain findings and declarations regarding a
36-day manhunt that occurred in Mendocino County in 2011. This bill
would appropriate $40,827.29 from the General Fund to Mendocino
County to reimburse the county for the costs it incurred during the
manhunt. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would establish reimbursement procedures for
statewide law enforcement mutual aid.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) A 36-day manhunt occurred in Mendocino County from late August
2011 to October 1, 2011, for a suspect in the murders of community
member Matthew Coleman and Fort Bragg City Council Member Jere Melo.
   (b) Law enforcement agencies throughout California, assisted by
fellow emergency responders, engaged in an unprecedented manhunt. The
search for the suspect centered four miles east of Fort Bragg in
remote and rugged terrain. The multiagency search operation, the
parameters of which were focused along the Highway 20 corridor,
between Willits and Fort Bragg into the Noyo Basin, depleted the
scarce financial resources of the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
   (c) The Mendocino County Sheriff's Office incurred special
expenses for outside agencies that came at Mendocino County's request
for mutual aid, including lodging, food, and logistical expenditures
in the amount of $40,827.29.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of forty thousand eight hundred twenty-seven
dollars and twenty-nine cents ($40,827.29) is hereby appropriated
from the General Fund to Mendocino County to reimburse the county for
the costs it incurred for the food and lodging of outside agencies
that offered mutual aid to the county in the 2011 manhunt for the
suspected killer of Matthew Coleman and Fort Bragg City Council
Member Jere Melo.
  SEC. 3.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would establish reimbursement procedures for statewide law
enforcement mutual aid.