(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and only for the purposes of this division, the authority may hire members of federally recognized Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations in accordance with the inter-jurisdictional employee exchange program described in Section 427 of Title 2 of the California Code of Regulations. (b) This section shall become operative only if this bill and Senate Bill 1653 of the 2001-02 Regular Session are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2003, and this bill is chaptered last, in which case this section shall prevail over Section 79455, as added by Senate Bill 1653.
