(a) Notwithstanding any other law, any contract or grant necessary for the State Department of Social Services to implement or evaluate the Cal-OAR initiative pursuant to this article is exempt from all of the following:
(1) The personal services contracting requirements of Article 4 (commencing with Section 19130) of Chapter 5 of Part 2 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
(2) The Public Contract Code, the State Contracting Manual, and Section 11546 of the Government Code.
(3) Review and approval by the Department of General Services or the Department of Technology.
(b) Subdivision (a) applies to any contract or grant that does any of the following:
(1) Provides workforce training and certification to state or county staff on development and completion of a CalWORKs self-assessment.
(2) Develops or provides training and technical assistance to state and county staff related to either of the following:
(A) Continuous Quality Improvement.
(B) Evaluation of system-improvement strategies.
(c) The department shall provide a summary of the executed and pending contracts and grants made pursuant to this section, with detail on the amounts involved, to the Cal-OAR portion of the department’s internet website. Commencing January 10, 2021, this posting shall be refreshed at least annually, on January 10 of each year, for as long as this section is operative.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2023, and, as of January 1, 2024, is repealed.
(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 11, Sec. 68. (AB 79) Effective June 29, 2020. Inoperative July 1, 2023. Repealed as of January 1, 2024, by its own provisions.)