24017. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 197, Sec. 52.)

The program shall be exempt from the requirements of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 11700) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12100) of Division 2 of Part 2 of the Public Contract Code as those requirements apply to the use of contractual claims processing services by the department.