(a)

(1) The Delancey Street Restaurant Management Program is hereby established for the purpose of teaching marketable skills useful to incarcerated persons for reemployment opportunities upon their release from state prison. The program shall focus on restaurant operation, service, and hospitality. (2) (

A) The program shall be operated by the department in consultation with the Delancey Street Foundation. (

B) The foundation shall be aware of, and comply with, all federal and state statutes, rules, regulations, and department policies and directives.

Notwithstanding subdivision (b), department policies and directives shall include, but are not limited to, the California Correctional Health Care Services Health Care Department Operations Manual, Title of the California Code of Regulations, policy memoranda issued by the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation or jointly with the receiver of the California Correctional Health Care Services, and any similar departmentwide guidance issued by proper authority, of which the foundation has been informed by the department or that has been published on the department’s public internet website. (

b) Operation of the program is exempt from all of the following:

(1) Article 5 (commencing with

Section 19625) of

Chapter of Part of Division of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(2) Section 2807.

(3) The Public Contract Code.

(4) The State Contracting Manual.

(5) Section 599.652 of Title of the California Code of Regulations.

(6) Sections 3054.6, 3054.7, and of Title of the California Code of Regulations. (

c) Beginning November 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the department shall make available, upon request, the total expenditures and revenue collected for the program during the previous fiscal year.