(a) The department and the Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly formulate procedures for the selection and orderly referral of disabled state employees who can be benefited by rehabilitation services and might be retrained for other appropriate positions within the state service. The Department of Rehabilitation shall cooperate in devising training programs for the disabled employees.
(b) If the provisions of this section are in conflict with the provisions of a memorandum of understanding reached pursuant to Section 3517.5, the memorandum of understanding shall be controlling without further legislative action, except that if such provisions of a memorandum of understanding require the expenditure of funds, the provisions shall not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
(Added by Stats. 1981, Ch. 230, Sec. 55.)