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qA- ii during the period of suspension if the Interim Statute or separate act of the Legislature appropriates funds to affected local governments in an amount which is not less than the revenues affected by the Interim Statute. SECTION FOUR. Article XIIIB Section Six (6) is hereby amended as follows: SEC. 6. (a) Whenever the Legislature or any state agency mandates a new program or higher level of service on any local government, the State shall annually provide a subvention of funds to reimbursz such local govem- ment for the costs of such program or increased level of service, except that the Legislature may, but need not, provide such subvention of funds for the following mandates: (,o (i) Legislative mandates requested by the local agency affected; (b4 (ii) Legislation defining a new crime or changing an existing definition of a crime; or M (iii) Legislative mandates enacted prior to January 1, 1975, or executive orders or regulations initially implementing legislation enacted prior to January 1, 1975. (b) The annual subvention of funds required by this section shall be transmitted to the local government within 180 days of the effective date of the statute or regulation or order by a State officer or agency that mandates a new program or higher level of service, or within 180 days of a final adjudication that a subvention of funds is required pursuant to this section. For purposes of this section, the Legislature or any State agency or officer mandates a new program or higher level of service when it creates a new program, requires services not previously required to be provided, increases the frequency or duration of required services, increases the number of persons eligible for services, or transfers to local government complete or partial financial responsibility for a program for which the State previously had complete or partial financial responsibility. (c) If during the fiscal year in which a claim for reimbursement is filed for a subvention of funds, the Legislature does not appropriate a subvention of funds that provides full reimbursement as required by subdivision (a), or does not appropriate a subvention of funds that provides full reimbursement as part of the state budget act in the fiscal year immediately following the filing of that claim for reimbursement, then a local government may elect one of the following options: (i) Continue to perform the mandate.. The local government shall receive reimbursement for its costs to perform the mandate through a subsequent appropriation and subvention of funds; or (ii) Suspend performance of the mandate during all or a portion of the fiscal year in which the election permitted by this subdivision is made. The local government may continue to suspend performance of the mandate during all or a portion of subsequent fiscal years until the fiscal year in which the Legislature appropriates the subvention of Visit the League's Official Web Site -- www.cacities.org PRIORITY FOCUS /PAGE 11