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• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1
  This act shall be known as the Welfare and Institutions Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2
  The provisions of this code, in so far as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3
  All persons who, at the time this code goes into effect, hold office under any of the acts repealed by this code, which offices are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4
  No action or proceeding commenced before this code takes effect, and no right accrued, is affected by the provisions of this code, but all procedure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6
  Division, part, chapter, article, and section headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify, or in any manner affect the scope, meaning,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7
  Whenever, by the provisions of this code, a power is granted to a public officer or a duty imposed upon such an officer, the power...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8
  Writing includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. Whenever any notice, report, statement, or record is required or authorized...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9
  Whenever any reference is made to any portion of this code or of any other law of this State, such reference shall apply to all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10
  "Section" means a section of this code unless some other statute is specifically mentioned, and "subdivision" means a subdivision of the section in which that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11
  The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future tense includes the present.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12
  The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13
  The singular number includes the plural, and the plural number includes the singular.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14
  "County" includes "city and county."
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15
  "Shall" is mandatory and "may" is permissive.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16
  "Oath" includes affirmation.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17
  "Signature" or "subscription" includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17.1
  Unless otherwise provided under the provisions of this code, to the extent not in conflict with federal law, the residence of a minor person shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18
  If any provision of this code, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the code, or the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19
  It is the purpose of this code, in establishing programs and services which are designed to provide protection, support or care of children, to provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19.1
  The purpose of the public social services for which state grants-in-aid are made to counties are: (a) To provide on behalf of the general public,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 21
  (a) Whenever any reference is made in any provision of this code to the "State Department of Benefit Payments" or the "Department of Benefit Payments"...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22
  Whenever in any provision of law there is a reference to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 7 of the Welfare and Institutions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 23
  Whenever in any provision of law there is a reference to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 7000) of Division 7 of the Welfare and Institutions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24
  The provisions of Chapter 1129 of the Statutes of 1975 amending Sections 17.1, 739, 883, 1050, 1711, 1760.4, 10000, 10617, 11250.5, 11307, 11310, 11325, 17102...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 26
  (a) For purposes of this code, "assessed value" means 25 percent of full value to, and including, the 1980-81 fiscal year, and 100 percent of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 27
  Each agency and department responsible for listing in regulations the rights of children under this division shall incorporate the rights of foster children, as listed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Solicit" or any of its derivatives means to request directly or indirectly the giving of any kind of salvageable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.1
  None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the activities of any organization or association of persons or any person engaged by or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.2
  Any organization qualified under Section 148.3 to solicit donations of salvageable personal property, or to sell salvageable personal property obtained by soliciting, shall: (a) maintain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.3
  It shall be unlawful for any association of persons to engage, directly or indirectly, in soliciting donations of salvageable personal property, or in selling salvageable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.4
  It shall be unlawful for any organization qualified under Section 148.3 to solicit donations of salvageable personal property, to contract with or otherwise engage any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.5
  It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in soliciting donations of salvageable personal property except as an officer or agent of an organization...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.6
  Every organization qualified under Section 148.3 to solicit donations of salvageable personal property, shall furnish each officer or agent engaged to work as a solicitor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.8
  The violation of any provision of this chapter by any person or organization is a misdemeanor. Any person who solicits a donation of salvageable personal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 148.9
  The enactment of this chapter shall in no way limit or infringe upon the powers of counties and cities to impose additional requirements for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 150
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Collection box" means an unattended cannister, box, receptacle, or similar device, used for soliciting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 151
  (a) The front of every collection box shall conspicuously display both of the following: (1) The name, address, telephone number, and, if available, the Internet...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 152
  A city, county, or city and county shall have the authority to declare a box that is in violation of this chapter to be a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 153
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to do either of the following: (a) Supersede or in any way limit existing authority of the Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 100
  The Judicial Council shall establish a planning and advisory group consisting of appropriate professional and program specialists to recommend on the development of program guidelines...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 101
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Adult" means a person 18 years of age or older. (b) "Child or minor"...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 102
  (a) Each CASA program shall, if feasible, be staffed by a minimum of one paid administrator. The staff shall be directly accountable to the presiding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 103
  (a) Persons acting as a CASA shall be individuals who have demonstrated an interest in children and their welfare. Each CASA shall participate in a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 104
  (a) The court shall determine the extent of the CASA's duties in each case. These duties may include an independent investigation of the circumstances surrounding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 105
  All otherwise confidential records and information acquired or reviewed by a CASA during the course of his or her duties shall remain confidential and shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 106
  The CASA shall be notified of hearings and other proceedings concerning the case to which he or she has been appointed.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 107
  Upon presentation of the order of his or her appointment by the CASA, and upon specific court order and consistent with the rules of evidence,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 108
  The Judicial Council shall report to the Legislature on the implementation of the program, and shall include recommendations on the continued funding and expansion of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 109
  Nothing in this chapter permits a person acting as a CASA to participate or appear in criminal proceedings or in proceedings to declare a person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 110
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the right of an Indian tribe or Indian organization to establish or operate CASA programs independent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 200
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Arnold-Kennick Juvenile Court Law."
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 201
  The provisions of this chapter, insofar as they are substantially the same as existing statutory provisions relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 202
  (a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the protection and safety of the public and each minor under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 202.5
  The duties of the probation officer, as described in this chapter with respect to minors alleged or adjudged to be described by Section 300, whether...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 203
  An order adjudging a minor to be a ward of the juvenile court shall not be deemed a conviction of a crime for any purpose,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 204
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except provisions of law governing the retention and storage of data, a family law court and a court hearing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 204.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of a minor may be disclosed to the public if the minor is 14 years of age...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 205
  All commitments to institutions or for placement in family homes under this chapter shall be, so far as practicable, either to institutions or for placement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 206
  Persons taken into custody and persons alleged to be within the description of Section 300, or persons adjudged to be such and made dependent children...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 207
  (a) No minor shall be detained in any jail, lockup, juvenile hall, or other secure facility who is taken into custody solely upon the ground...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 207.1
  (a) No court, judge, referee, peace officer, or employee of a detention facility shall knowingly detain any minor in a jail or lockup, except as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 207.2
  (a) A minor who is held in temporary custody in a law enforcement facility that contains a lockup for adults pursuant to subdivision (d) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 207.5
  Every person who misrepresents or falsely identifies himself or herself either verbally or by presenting any fraudulent written instrument to any probation officer, or to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 207.6
  A minor may be detained in a jail or other secure facility for the confinement of adults pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 207.1 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 208
  (a) When any person under 18 years of age is detained in or sentenced to any institution in which adults are confined, it shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 208.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, in any case in which a minor who is detained in or committed to a county institution established for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 209
  (a) The judge of the juvenile court of a county, or, if there is more than one judge, any of the judges of the juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 210
  The Board of Corrections shall adopt minimum standards for the operation and maintenance of juvenile halls for the confinement of minors.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 210.1
  The Board of Corrections shall develop guidelines for the operation and maintenance of nonsecure placement facilities for persons alleged or found to be persons coming...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 210.2
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall adopt regulations establishing standards for law enforcement facilities which contain lockups for adults and which are used for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 210.5
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best public interest to encourage innovations in staffing ratios, maximization of housing unit size, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 211
  (a) No person under the age of 14 years shall be committed to a state prison or be transferred thereto from any other institution. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 212
  There shall be no fee for filing a petition under this chapter nor shall any fees be charged by any public officer for his services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 213
  Any willful disobedience or interference with any lawful order of the juvenile court or of a judge or referee thereof constitutes a contempt of court.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 213.5
  (a) After a petition has been filed pursuant to Section 311 to declare a child a dependent child of the juvenile court, and until the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 213.6
  (a) If a person named in a temporary restraining order or emergency protective order issued under this part is personally served with the order and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 213.7
  (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined pursuant to Section 213.5, 304, 362.4, or 726.5 be prohibited from taking any action to obtain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 214
  In each instance in which a provision of this chapter authorizes the execution by any person of a written promise to appear or to have...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 215
  As used in this chapter, unless otherwise specifically provided, the term "probation officer" or "social worker" shall include the juvenile probation officer or the person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 216
  This chapter shall not apply: (a) To any person who violates any law of this state defining a crime, and is at the time of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 217
  (a) The board of supervisors of any county or the governing body of any city may by ordinance provide that any personal property with a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 218
  In any case in which, pursuant to this chapter, the court appoints counsel to represent any person who desires but is unable to employ counsel,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 218.5
  All counsel performing duties under this chapter, including, but not limited to, county counsel, court appointed counsel, or volunteer counsel, shall participate in mandatory training...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 219
  The board of supervisors of a county may provide a ward of the juvenile court engaged in rehabilitative work without pay, under an assignment by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 219.5
  (a) No ward of the juvenile court or Department of the Youth Authority shall perform any function that provides access to personal information of private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 220
  No condition or restriction upon the obtaining of an abortion by a female detained in any local juvenile facility, pursuant to the Therapeutic Abortion Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 221
  (a) Any female confined in a state or local juvenile facility shall upon her request be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 222
  (a) Any female in the custody of a local juvenile facility shall have the right to summon and receive the services of any physician and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 223
  (a) (1) The parents or guardians of any minor in the custody of the state or the county, if they can reasonably be located, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 223.1
  (a) (1) At least one individual who is a parent, guardian, or designated emergency contact of a person in the custody of the Division of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) There is no resource that is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of Indian...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.1
  (a) As used in this division, unless the context requires otherwise, the terms "Indian,""Indian child," "Indian child's tribe," "Indian custodian," "Indian tribe," "reservation," and "tribal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.2
  (a) If the court, a social worker, or probation officer knows or has reason to know that an Indian child is involved, any notice sent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.3
  (a) The court, county welfare department, and the probation department have an affirmative and continuing duty to inquire whether a child for whom a petition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.4
  The Indian child's tribe and Indian custodian have the right to intervene at any point in an Indian child custody proceeding.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.5
  In an Indian child custody proceeding, the court shall give full faith and credit to the public acts, records, judicial proceedings, and judgments of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.6
  (a) When testimony of a "qualified expert witness" is required in an Indian child custody proceeding, a "qualified expert witness" may include, but is not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.70
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Committed" means placed in a facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities pursuant to a court order, independent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.71
  It is the policy of the state that all youth confined in a facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall have the following rights:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.72
  (a) Every facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall provide each youth who is placed in the facility with an age and developmentally appropriate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.73
  All facilities of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall ensure the safety and dignity of all youth in their care and shall provide care, placement,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 224.74
  (a) The Office of the Ombudspersons of the Division of Juvenile Facilities shall do all of the following: (1) Disseminate information on the rights of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 225
  In each county there shall be a juvenile justice commission consisting of not less than 7 and no more than 15 citizens. Two or more...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 226
  In lieu of county juvenile justice commissions, the boards of supervisors of two or more adjacent counties may agree to establish a regional juvenile justice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 227
  The clerk of the court of the appointing judge shall immediately notify each person appointed a member of a county or regional juvenile justice commission...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 228
  A juvenile justice commission shall elect a chairman and vice chairman annually.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 229
  It shall be the duty of a juvenile justice commission to inquire into the administration of the juvenile court law in the county or region...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 229.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a juvenile justice commission may inquire into the operation of any group home that serves wards or dependent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 230
  A juvenile justice commission may recommend to any person charged with the administration of any of the provisions of this chapter such changes as it...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 231
  Members of a juvenile justice commission shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. Such reimbursement shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 232
  The board of supervisors may by ordinance provide for the establishment, support, and maintenance of one or more agencies or departments to cooperate with and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 233
  The board of supervisors may by ordinance provide for the establishment, support, and maintenance of a delinquency prevention commission, composed of not fewer than seven...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 233.5
  In a county having a population of over 6,000,000, the board of supervisors may assign the responsibility for assisting and advising the board and other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 234
  The board of supervisors may by ordinance provide for the establishment, support, and maintenance of a delinquency prevention agency or department, or may assign delinquency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 235
  The juvenile court and the probation department of any county may establish, or assist in the establishment of, any public council or committee having as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 236
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, probation departments may engage in activities designed to prevent juvenile delinquency. These activities include rendering direct and indirect services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 240
  In counties having a population in excess of 6,000,000 in lieu of a county juvenile justice commission, there shall be a probation commission consisting of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 241
  The members of a probation commission appointed and holding office under prior provisions of law on January 1, 1977, shall continue in office and shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 241.1
  (a) Whenever a minor appears to come within the description of both Section 300 and Section 601 or 602, the county probation department and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 241.2
  The Judicial Council shall collect and compile all of the data to be collected pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (e) of Section 241.1 and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 242
  The members of the probation commission shall hold office for four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. Of those first appointed, however,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 243
  The probation commission shall function in an advisory capacity to the probation officer.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 245
  Each superior court shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this chapter, and while sitting in the exercise of such jurisdiction, shall be known and referred...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 245.5
  In addition to all other powers granted by law, the juvenile court may direct all such orders to the parent, parents, or guardian of a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 246
  The presiding judge of the superior court shall annually, in the month of January, designate one or more judges of the court to hear all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 247.5
  The provisions of Sections 170 and 170.6 of the Code of Civil Procedure shall apply to a referee, provided, that the presiding judge of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 248
  (a) A referee shall hear those cases that are assigned to him or her by the presiding judge of the juvenile court, with the same...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 248.5
  All written findings and orders of the court shall be served by the clerk of the court personally or by first-class mail within three judicial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 249
  No order of a referee removing a minor from his home shall become effective until expressly approved by a judge of the juvenile court.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 250
  Except as provided in Section 251, all orders of a referee other than those specified in Section 249 shall become immediately effective, subject also to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 251
  The judge of the juvenile court, or in counties having more than one judge of the juvenile court, the presiding judge of the juvenile court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 252
  At any time prior to the expiration of 10 days after service of a written copy of the order and findings of a referee, a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 253
  A judge of the juvenile court may, on his own motion made within 20 judicial days of the hearing before a referee, order a rehearing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 254
  All rehearings of matters heard before a referee shall be before a judge of the juvenile court and shall be conducted de novo.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 255
  The court may appoint as subordinate judicial officers one or more persons of suitable experience, who may be a probation officer or assistant or deputy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 256
  Subject to the orders of the juvenile court, a juvenile hearing officer may hear and dispose of any case in which a minor under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 256.5
  A juvenile hearing officer may request the juvenile court judge or referee to issue a warrant of arrest against a minor who is issued and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 257
  (a) (1) Except in the case of infraction violations, with the consent of the minor, a hearing before a juvenile hearing officer, or a hearing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 258
  (a) Upon a hearing conducted in accordance with Section 257, and upon either an admission by the minor of the commission of a violation charged,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 260
  A juvenile hearing officer shall promptly furnish a written report of his or her findings and orders to the clerk of the juvenile court. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 261
  Subject to the provisions of Section 262, all orders of a juvenile hearing officer shall be immediately effective.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 262
  Upon motion of the minor or his or her parent or guardian for good cause, or upon his or her own motion, a judge of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 263
  At any time prior to the final disposition of a hearing pursuant to Section 257, the judge, referee, or juvenile hearing officer may, on motion...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 264
  At the direction and under the supervision of the Judicial Council, judges of the juvenile courts and juvenile court referees shall meet from time to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 265
  The Judicial Council shall establish rules governing practice and procedure in the juvenile court not inconsistent with law.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 270
  Except as provided in Section 69906.5 of the Government Code, there shall be in each county the offices of probation officer, assistant probation officer, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 271
  In counties having charters which provide a method of appointment and tenure of office for probation officers, assistant probation officers, deputy probation officers, and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 272
  (a) (1) The board of supervisors may delegate to the county welfare department all or part of the duties of the probation officer concerning dependent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 273
  The probation officer may, within budgetary limitations established by the board of supervisors, employ such psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinical experts as are required to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 274
  Each probation officer and each assistant and deputy probation officer receiving an official salary shall furnish a bond in the sum of not more than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 275
  (a) For the purpose of handling the reimbursement and other payments provided for in this chapter, the probation officer or other county officer designated by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 276
  In addition to the powers and duties of the probation officer elsewhere prescribed in this chapter, the probation officer is authorized to receive money, give...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 277
  The probation officer may authorize the sale of articles of handiwork made by wards under the jurisdiction of the probation officer to the public at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 278
  The board of supervisors may delegate to the auditor or other county officer any of the functions of the probation officer authorized by Section 276...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 279
  The board of supervisors may impose a service charge at a uniform rate sufficient to defray the cost of services of the probation officer or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 280
  Except where waived by the probation officer, judge, or referee and the minor, the probation officer shall be present in court to represent the interests...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 281
  The probation officer shall upon order of any court in any matter involving the custody, status, or welfare of a minor or minors, make an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 281.5
  If a probation officer determines to recommend to the court that a minor alleged to come within Section 300, 601, or 602, or adjudged to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 282
  At any time the judge of the juvenile court may, and upon the request of the county board of supervisors shall, require the probation officer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 283
  Every probation officer, assistant probation officer, and deputy probation officer shall have the powers and authority conferred by law upon peace officers listed in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 284
  All probation officers shall make such special and periodic reports to the Youth Authority as the authority may require and upon forms furnished by the
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 285
  All probation officers shall make periodic reports to the Attorney General at those times and in the manner prescribed by the Attorney General, provided that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 286
  Any person lawfully appointed to serve as a probation officer or assistant or deputy probation officer prior to the effective date of this section shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 290.1
  If the probation officer or social worker determines that the child shall be retained in custody, he or she shall immediately file a petition pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 290.2
  Upon the filing of a petition by a probation officer or social worker, the clerk of the juvenile court shall issue notice, to which shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 291
  After the initial petition hearing, the clerk of the court shall cause the notice to be served in the following manner: (a) Notice of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 292
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of the review hearing held pursuant to Section 364 in the following manner: (a) Notice of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 293
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of the review hearings held pursuant to Section 366.21, 366.22, or 366.25 in the following manner:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 294
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of a selection and implementation hearing held pursuant to Section 366.26 in the following manner: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 294
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of a selection and implementation hearing held pursuant to Section 366.26 in the following manner: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 295
  The social worker or probation officer shall give notice of review hearings held pursuant to Section 366.3 in the following manner: (a) Notice of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 296
  Upon any hearing or rehearing under this article, the court may order the child or any parent or guardian, or Indian custodian of the child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 297
  (a) Notice required for an initial petition filed pursuant to Section 300 is applicable to a subsequent petition filed pursuant to Section 342. (b) Upon...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 300
  Any child who comes within any of the following descriptions is within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court which may adjudge that person to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 300.1
  Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of Section 361 and Section 16507, family reunification services shall not be provided to a child adjudged a dependent pursuant to subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 300.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the purpose of the provisions of this chapter relating to dependent children is to provide maximum safety and protection...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 300.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 215 or 272, or any other provision of law, a child or nonminor whose jurisdiction is modified pursuant to subdivision (b) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 300.5
  In any case in which a child is alleged to come within the provisions of Section 300 on the basis that he or she is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 301
  (a) In any case in which a social worker, after investigation of an application for petition or other investigation he or she is authorized to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 302
  (a) A juvenile court may assume jurisdiction over a child described in Section 300 regardless of whether the child was in the physical custody of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 303
  (a) The court may retain jurisdiction over any person who is found to be a ward or a dependent child of the juvenile court until...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 304
  After a petition has been filed pursuant to Section 311, and until the time that the petition is dismissed or dependency is terminated, no other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 304.7
  (a) On or before July 31, 1997, the Judicial Council shall develop and implement standards for the education and training of all judges who conduct...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 305
  Any peace officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor: (a) When the officer has reasonable cause for believing that the minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 305.5
  (a) If an Indian child, who is a ward of a tribal court or resides or is domiciled within a reservation of an Indian tribe...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 305.6
  (a) Any peace officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor who is in a hospital if the release of the minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 305.6
  (a) Any peace officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor who is in a hospital if the release of the minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 306
  (a) Any social worker in a county welfare department, or an Indian tribe that has entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 10553.1 while acting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 306.5
  In any case in which a social worker takes a minor into custody pursuant to Section 306, the social worker shall, to the extent that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 306.6
  (a) In a dependency proceeding involving a child who would otherwise be an Indian child, based on the definition contained in paragraph (4) of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 307
  A peace officer or probation officer who takes a minor into temporary custody under the provisions of Section 305 shall thereafter proceed as follows: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 307.4
  (a) Any peace officer, probation officer, or social worker who takes into temporary custody pursuant to Sections 305 to 307, inclusive, a minor who comes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 307.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 307, an officer who takes a minor suspected of being a person described in Section 300 into temporary custody pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 308
  (a) When a peace officer or social worker takes a minor into custody pursuant to this article, he or she shall take immediate steps to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 309
  (a) Upon delivery to the social worker of a child who has been taken into temporary custody under this article, the social worker shall immediately...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 310
  As a condition for the release of such minor, the probation officer may require such minor or his parent, guardian, or relative, or both, to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 311
  (a) If the probation officer determines that the minor shall be retained in custody, he or she shall immediately file a petition pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 313
  (a) Whenever a minor is taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer, except when such minor willfully misrepresents himself as 18 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 314
  When a minor willfully misrepresents himself to be 18 or more years of age when taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 315
  If a minor has been taken into custody under this article and not released to a parent or guardian, the juvenile court shall hold a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 316
  Upon his or her appearance before the court at the detention hearing, each parent or guardian and the minor, if present, shall first be informed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 316.1
  (a) Upon his or her appearance before the court, each parent or guardian shall designate for the court his or her permanent mailing address. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 316.2
  (a) At the detention hearing, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the court shall inquire of the mother and any other appropriate person as to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 317
  (a) (1) When it appears to the court that a parent or guardian of the child desires counsel but is presently financially unable to afford...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 317.5
  (a) All parties who are represented by counsel at dependency proceedings shall be entitled to competent counsel. (b) Each minor who is the subject of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 317.6
  (a) On or before January 1, 1996, the Judicial Council shall, after consulting with representatives from the State Bar of California, county counsels, district attorneys,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 318
  If a district attorney has represented a minor in a dependency proceeding, that district attorney shall not appear, on behalf of the people of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 318.5
  In a juvenile court hearing, where the parent or guardian is represented by counsel, the county counsel or district attorney shall, at the request of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 319
  (a) At the initial petition hearing, the court shall examine the child's parents, guardians, or other persons having relevant knowledge and hear the relevant evidence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 319.1
  When the court finds a minor to be a person described by Section 300, and believes that the minor may need specialized mental health treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 319.2
  Notwithstanding Section 319, when a child under the age of six years is not released from the custody of the court, the child may be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 321
  When a hearing is held under the provisions of this article and no parent or guardian of the minor is present and no parent or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 322
  Upon motion of the minor or a parent or guardian of such minor, the court shall continue any hearing or rehearing held under the provisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 323
  Upon any hearing or rehearing under the provisions of this article, the court may order such minor or any parent or guardian of such minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 324
  Whenever any minor is taken into temporary custody under the provisions of this article in any county other than the county in which the minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 324.5
  (a) Whenever allegations of physical or sexual abuse of a child come to the attention of a local law enforcement agency or the local child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 325
  A proceeding in the juvenile court to declare a child to be a dependent child of the court is commenced by the filing with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 326.5
  The Judicial Council shall adopt a rule of court effective July 1, 2001, that complies with the requirement of the federal Child Abuse Prevention and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 326.7
  Appointment of a guardian ad litem shall not be required for a minor who is a parent of the child who is the subject of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 327
  Either the juvenile court in the county in which a minor resides or in the county where the minor is found or in the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 328
  Whenever the social worker has cause to believe that there was or is within the county, or residing therein, a person described in Section 300,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 328.3
  Whenever any officer refers or delivers a minor pursuant to Section 307.5, the agency to which the minor is referred shall immediately make such investigation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 329
  Whenever any person applies to the social worker to commence proceedings in the juvenile court, the application shall be in the form of an affidavit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 331
  When any person has applied to the social worker, pursuant to Section 329, to commence juvenile court proceedings and the social worker fails to file...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 331.5
  When any officer has referred or delivered a child to an agency pursuant to Section 307.5, and that agency does not initiate a service program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 332
  A petition to commence proceedings in the juvenile court to declare a child a ward or a dependent child of the court shall be verified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 333
  Any petition filed in juvenile court to commence proceedings pursuant to this chapter that is not verified may be dismissed without prejudice by such court.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 334
  Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the juvenile court shall set the same for hearing within 30 days, except that in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 338
  In addition to the notice provided in Sections 290.1 and 290.2 the juvenile court may issue its citation directing any parent or guardian of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 339
  In case such citation cannot be served, or the person served fails to obey it, or in any case in which it appears to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 340
  Whenever a petition has been filed in the juvenile court alleging that a minor comes within Section 300 and praying for a hearing thereon, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 340.5
  (a) Whenever pursuant to Article 10 (commencing with Section 360) a social worker is assigned to provide child welfare services, family reunification services, or other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 341
  Upon request of the social worker, district attorney, the child, or the child's parent, guardian, or custodian, or on the court' s own motion, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 342
  In any case in which a minor has been found to be a person described by Section 300 and the petitioner alleges new facts or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 345
  All cases under this chapter shall be heard at a special or separate session of the court, and no other matter shall be heard at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 346
  Unless requested by a parent or guardian and consented to or requested by the minor concerning whom the petition has been filed, the public shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 347
  At any juvenile court hearing conducted by a juvenile court judge, an official court reporter shall, and at any such hearing conducted by a juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 348
  The provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 469) of Title 6 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to variance and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 349
  (a) A minor who is the subject of a juvenile court hearing and any person entitled to notice of the hearing under the provisions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 350
  (a) (1) The judge of the juvenile court shall control all proceedings during the hearings with a view to the expeditious and effective ascertainment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 352
  (a) Upon request of counsel for the parent, guardian, minor, or petitioner, the court may continue any hearing under this chapter beyond the time limit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 353
  At the beginning of the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter, the judge or clerk...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 353.1
  (a) At the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter, any person adjudged a dependent child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 354
  Except where a minor is in custody, any hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 8 (commencing with Section 325) of this chapter may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 355
  (a) At the jurisdictional hearing, the court shall first consider only the question whether the minor is a person described by Section 300. Any legally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 355.1
  (a) Where the court finds, based upon competent professional evidence, that an injury, injuries, or detrimental condition sustained by a minor is of a nature...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 356
  After hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding, noted in the minutes of the court, whether or not the minor is a person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 356.5
  A child advocate appointed by the court to represent the interests of a dependent child in a proceeding under this chapter shall have the same...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 357
  Whenever the court, before or during the hearing on the petition, is of the opinion that the minor is mentally ill or if the court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 358
  (a) After finding that a child is a person described in Section 300, the court shall hear evidence on the question of the proper disposition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 358.1
  Each social study or evaluation made by a social worker or child advocate appointed by the court, required to be received in evidence pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 358.1
  Each social study or evaluation made by a social worker or child advocate appointed by the court, required to be received in evidence pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 359
  Whenever a minor who appears to be a danger to himself or others as a result of the use of narcotics (as defined in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 360
  After receiving and considering the evidence on the proper disposition of the case, the juvenile court may enter judgment as follows: (a) Notwithstanding any other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361
  (a) In all cases in which a minor is adjudged a dependent child of the court on the ground that the minor is a person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.1
  (a) If a child is removed from the physical custody of a parent or guardian on the ground that the child may come within the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.2
  (a) When a court orders removal of a child pursuant to Section 361, the court shall first determine whether there is a parent of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.21
  (a) The court shall not order the placement of a minor in an out-of-state group home, unless the court finds, in its order of placement,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.3
  (a) In any case in which a child is removed from the physical custody of his or her parents pursuant to Section 361, preferential consideration...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.31
  (a) In any case in which an Indian child is removed from the physical custody of his or her parents or Indian custodian pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.4
  (a) Prior to placing a child in the home of a relative, or the home of any prospective guardian or other person who is not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.45
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the sudden unavailability of a foster caregiver requires a change in placement on an emergency basis for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.49
  Regardless of his or her age, a child shall be deemed to have entered foster care on the earlier of the date of the jurisdictional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), or when the parent has voluntarily relinquished the child and the relinquishment has been filed with the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), or when the parent has voluntarily relinquished the child and the relinquishment has been filed with the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 361.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 361.5, a party seeking an involuntary foster care placement of, or termination of parental rights over, an Indian child shall provide evidence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362
  (a) When a child is adjudged a dependent child of the court on the ground that the child is a person described by Section 300,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.04
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Caregiver" means any licensed or certified foster parent, approved relative caregiver, or approved nonrelative extended family member. (2)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.05
  (a) Every child adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court shall be entitled to participate in age-appropriate extracurricular, enrichment, and social activities. No state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.1
  (a) In order to maintain ties between the parent or guardian and any siblings and the child, and to provide information relevant to deciding if,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that if a placement out-of-home is necessary pursuant to an individualized education program, that this placement be as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.3
  In addition to the notice provided in Sections 297 and 332, the juvenile court may issue its citation directing any parent, guardian, or foster parent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.4
  When the juvenile court terminates its jurisdiction over a minor who has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court prior to the minor's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.6
  (a) When a hearing is requested pursuant to Section 1202.05 of the Penal Code, the sentencing court shall forward a copy of the request to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 362.7
  When the home of a nonrelative extended family member is being considered for placement of a child, the home shall be evaluated, and approval of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 363
  If the parent or person legally responsible for the care of any minor who is found to be a person described in Section 300 receives...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 364
  (a) Every hearing in which an order is made placing a child under the supervision of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 300 and in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 364.05
  Notwithstanding Section 364, in a county of the first class, a copy of the report required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 364 shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 365
  The court may require the social worker or any other agency to render any periodic reports concerning children committed to its care, custody, and control...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366
  (a) (1) The status of every dependent child in foster care shall be reviewed periodically as determined by the court but no less frequently than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.05
  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 366.21, in a county of the first class, any supplemental report filed in connection with a status review hearing held...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.1
  Each supplemental report required to be filed pursuant to Section 366 shall include, but not be limited to, a factual discussion of each of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.21
  (a) Every hearing conducted by the juvenile court reviewing the status of a dependent child shall be placed on the appearance calendar. The court shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.21
  (a) Every hearing conducted by the juvenile court reviewing the status of a dependent child shall be placed on the appearance calendar. The court shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.215
  With respect to a hearing held pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 366.21, if the child in question was under three years of age on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.22
  (a) When a case has been continued pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (g) of Section 366.21, the permanency review hearing shall occur within 18...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.22
  (a) When a case has been continued pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (g) of Section 366.21, the permanency review hearing shall occur within 18...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.23
  If a noncustodial parent is seeking placement or custody of a child, the social worker shall inform the caretaker that he or she has the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.24
  (a) For purposes of this section, "tribal customary adoption" means adoption by and through the tribal custom, traditions, or law of an Indian child's tribe....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.25
  (a) (1) When a case has been continued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 366.22, the subsequent permanency review hearing shall occur within 24 months...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.25
  (a) (1) When a case has been continued pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 366.22, the subsequent permanency review hearing shall occur within 24 months...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26
  (a) This section applies to children who are adjudged dependent children of the juvenile court pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 360. The procedures specified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.26
  (a) This section applies to children who are adjudged dependent children of the juvenile court pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 360. The procedures specified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.27
  (a) If a court, pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (g) of Section 366.21, Section 366.22, Section 366.25, or Section 366.26, orders the placement of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.28
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that delays caused by appeals from court orders designating the specific placement of a dependent child after parental rights...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.29
  (a) When a court, pursuant to Section 366.26, orders that a dependent child be placed for adoption, nothing in the adoption laws of this state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.3
  (a) If a juvenile court orders a permanent plan of adoption, tribal customary adoption, or legal guardianship pursuant to Section 360 or 366.26, the court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.3
  (a) If a juvenile court orders a permanent plan of adoption or legal guardianship pursuant to Section 360 or 366.26, the court shall retain jurisdiction...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.31
  (a) On and after January 1, 2012, with respect to a nonminor dependent, as defined in subdivision (v) of Section 11400, who has a permanent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.35
  (a) The implementation and operation of the amendments to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 366, subdivision (g) of Section 366.1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.4
  (a) Any minor for whom a guardianship has been established resulting from the selection or implementation of a permanency plan pursuant to Section 366.26, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 366.5
  The dependency jurisdiction shall be suspended for a child whom the juvenile court declares to be a dual status child based on the joint assessment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 367
  (a) Whenever a person has been adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court and has been committed or otherwise disposed of as provided in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 368
  In a case where the residence of a dependent child of the juvenile court is out of the state and in another state or foreign...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 369
  (a) Whenever any person is taken into temporary custody under Article 7 (commencing with Section 305) and is in need of medical, surgical, dental, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 369.5
  (a) If a child is adjudged a dependent child of the court under Section 300 and the child has been removed from the physical custody...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 370
  The juvenile court may, in any case before it in which a petition has been filed as provided in Article 7 (commencing with Section 305),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 375
  Whenever a petition is filed in the juvenile court of a county other than the residence of the person named in the petition, or whenever,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 376
  The expense of the transfer and all expenses in connection with the transfer and for the support and maintenance of such person shall be paid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 377
  Whenever a case is transferred as provided in Section 375, the order of transfer shall recite each and all of the findings, orders, or modification...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 378
  Whenever an order of transfer from another county is filed with the clerk of any juvenile court, the clerk shall place the transfer order on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 379
  In any action under the provisions of this article in which the residence of a minor person is determined, both the county in which the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 380
  Any person adjudged to be a dependent child of the juvenile court may be permitted by order of the court to reside in a county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 385
  Any order made by the court in the case of any person subject to its jurisdiction may at any time be changed, modified, or set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 386
  No order changing, modifying, or setting aside a previous order of the juvenile court shall be made either in chambers, or otherwise, unless prior notice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 387
  (a) An order changing or modifying a previous order by removing a child from the physical custody of a parent, guardian, relative, or friend and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 388
  (a) Any parent or other person having an interest in a child who is a dependent child of the juvenile court or the child himself...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 389
  (a) In any case in which a petition has been filed with a juvenile court to commence proceedings to adjudge a person a dependent child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 390
  A judge of the juvenile court in which a petition was filed, at any time before the minor reaches the age of 21 years, may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 391
  (a) The dependency court shall not terminate jurisdiction over a nonminor unless a hearing is conducted pursuant to this section. (b) At any hearing for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 395
  (a) (1) A judgment in a proceeding under Section 300 may be appealed in the same manner as any final judgment, and any subsequent order...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 396
  It is the policy of the Legislature that foster care should be a temporary method of care for the children of this state, that children...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 397
  In order to carry out the policy stated in Section 396, each county welfare department or probation department shall report to the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 399
  Any minor being considered for placement in a foster home shall have the right to make a brief statement to the court making a decision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 400
  Any county may institute a program of advocates for pupils in foster care placement. A participating county shall be responsible for the nonfederal costs of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 401
  The program shall utilize educational advocates to assist children in foster care through the educational system. To the extent possible, an advocate shall reflect the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 402
  An advocate and a county participating in this program shall be held harmless by the state when acting in their official capacity except for acts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 403
  An advocate shall not be assigned to assist any minor in foster care placement who has been appointed a surrogate parent.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 404
  Any school district that has a foster youth services program shall not be eligible to participate in the program authorized by this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 450
  (a) A minor or nonminor who satisfies all of the following criteria is within the transition jurisdiction of the juvenile court: (1) The minor is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 451
  (a) At a hearing during which termination of jurisdiction over a ward is considered, the court may, as an alternative to termination of jurisdiction, modify...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 452
  (a) The court shall hold a hearing prior to terminating transition jurisdiction over a nonminor dependent. (b) At a hearing during which termination of transition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 500
  The Legislature hereby finds that a substantial and disproportionate amount of serious crime is committed by a relatively small number of chronic juvenile offenders commonly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 501
  (a) There is hereby established in the Office of Criminal Justice Planning a program of financial assistance for law enforcement, district attorneys, probation departments, juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 502
  (a) An individual shall be the subject of the efforts of programs established pursuant to this article who has been previously adjudged a ward pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 503
  Programs funded under this article shall adopt and pursue the following policies: (a) Each participating law enforcement agency shall do all of the following: (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 504
  The judge of the juvenile court shall authorize the inspection of juvenile court records, probation and protective services records, district attorney records, school records, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 505
  Within three months of implementation of the program, all participating agencies in a county shall execute a written interagency agreement outlining their role in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 506
  Law enforcement agencies and district attorneys participating in programs funded pursuant to this article shall adopt procedures to require a check of juvenile criminal history...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 601
  (a) Any person under the age of 18 years who persistently or habitually refuses to obey the reasonable and proper orders or directions of his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 601.2
  In the event that a parent or guardian or person in charge of a minor described in Section 48264.5 of the Education Code fails to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 601.3
  (a) If the district attorney or the probation officer receives notice from the school district pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 48260.6 of the Education...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 601.4
  (a) The juvenile court judge may be assigned to sit as a superior court judge to hear any complaint alleging that a parent, guardian, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 601.5
  (a) Any county may, upon adoption of a resolution by the board of supervisors, establish an At-Risk Youth Early Intervention Program designed to assess and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 602
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who is under the age of 18 years when he or she violates any law of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 602.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and pursuant to the provisions of this section, the juvenile court shall commit any minor adjudicated to be a ward...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 602.5
  The juvenile court shall report the complete criminal history of any minor found to be a person adjudged to be a ward of the court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 603
  (a) No court shall have jurisdiction to conduct a preliminary examination or to try the case of any person upon an accusatory pleading charging that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 603.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in a county that adopts the provisions of this section, jurisdiction over the case of a minor alleged...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 604
  (a) Whenever a case is before any court upon an accusatory pleading and it is suggested or appears to the judge before whom the person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 605
  Whenever a petition is filed in a juvenile court alleging that a minor is a person within the description of Section 602, and while the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 606
  When a petition has been filed in a juvenile court, the minor who is the subject of the petition shall not thereafter be subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 607
  (a) The court may retain jurisdiction over any person who is found to be a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court until the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 607.1
  (a) This section shall become operative on the 90th day after the enactment of the act adding this section. (b) (1) Notwithstanding Section 607, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 607.2
  (a) On and after January 1, 2012, the court shall hold a hearing prior to terminating jurisdiction over a ward who satisfies any of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 607.3
  On and after January 1, 2012, at the hearing required under Section 607.2 for a ward who is 18 years of age or older and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 607.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the juvenile court terminates jurisdiction over a ward who has also been designated a dependent of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 608
  In any case in which a person is alleged to be a person described in Section 601 or 602, or subdivision (a) of Section 604,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 625
  A peace officer may, without a warrant, take into temporary custody a minor: (a) Who is under the age of 18 years when such officer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 625.1
  Any minor who is taken into temporary custody pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 625, when the peace officer has reasonable cause for believing the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 625.2
  (a) Before administering the chemical test pursuant to Section 625.1, the peace officer shall give the following admonition: "I am asking you to take a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 625.3
  Notwithstanding Section 625, a minor who is 14 years of age or older and who is taken into custody by a peace officer for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 625.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to accomplish the following purposes: (1) To safeguard the fiscal integrity of cities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 626
  An officer who takes a minor into temporary custody under the provisions of Section 625 may do any of the following: (a) Release the minor....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 626.5
  If an officer who takes a minor into temporary custody under the provisions of Section 625 determines that the minor should be brought to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 626.6
  Notwithstanding Section 626.5, any peace officer who takes a minor who is 14 years of age or older into temporary custody under Section 625.3 shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 627
  (a) When an officer takes a minor before a probation officer at a juvenile hall or to any other place of confinement pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 627.5
  In any case where a minor is taken before a probation officer pursuant to the provisions of Section 626 and it is alleged that such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 628
  (a) Upon delivery to the probation officer of a minor who has been taken into temporary custody under the provisions of this article, the probation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 628.1
  If the minor meets one or more of the criteria for detention under Section 628, but the probation officer believes that 24-hour secure detention is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 629
  (a) As a condition for the release of a minor pursuant to Section 628.1 and subject to Sections 631 and 632, the probation officer shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 629.1
  Notwithstanding Section 628 or 628.1, whenever a minor who is 14 years of age or older is delivered to the custody of the probation officer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 630
  (a) If the probation officer determines that the minor shall be retained in custody, he shall immediately proceed in accordance with Article 16 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 630.1
  Upon reasonable notification by counsel representing the minor, his parents or guardian, the clerk of the court shall notify such counsel of the hearings in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 631
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), whenever a minor is taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer, except when the minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 631.1
  When a minor willfully misrepresents himself to be 18 or more years of age when taken into custody by a peace officer or probation officer,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 632
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), unless sooner released, a minor taken into custody under the provisions of this article shall, as soon as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 633
  Upon his appearance before the court at the detention hearing, such minor and his parent or guardian, if present, shall first be informed of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 634
  When it appears to the court that the minor or his parent or guardian desires counsel but is unable to afford and cannot for that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 634.6
  Any counsel upon entering an appearance on behalf of a minor shall continue to represent that minor unless relieved by the court upon the substitution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 635
  The court will examine the minor, his or her parent, legal guardian, or other person having relevant knowledge, hear relevant evidence the minor, his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 635.1
  When the court finds a minor to be a person described by Section 602 and believes the minor may need specialized mental health treatment while...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 636
  (a) If it appears upon the hearing that the minor has violated an order of the juvenile court or has escaped from a commitment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 636.1
  (a) When a minor is detained pursuant to Section 636 following a finding by the court that continuance in the home is contrary to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 636.2
  The probation officer may operate and maintain nonsecure detention facilities, or may contract with public or private agencies offering such services, for those minors who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 637
  When a hearing is held under the provisions of this article and no parent or guardian of such minor is present and no parent or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 638
  Upon motion of the minor or a parent or guardian of such minor, the court shall continue any hearing or rehearing held under the provisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 639
  Upon any hearing or rehearing under the provisions of this article, the court may order such minor or any parent or guardian of such minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 641
  Whenever any minor is taken into temporary custody under the provisions of this article in any county other than the county in which the minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 650
  (a) Juvenile court proceedings to declare a minor a ward of the court pursuant to Section 601 are commenced by the filing of a petition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 651
  Proceedings under this chapter may be commenced either in the juvenile court for the county in which a minor resides, or in which a minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 652
  Whenever the probation officer has cause to believe that there was or is within the county, or residing therein, a person within the provisions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 652.5
  Whenever an officer refers or delivers a minor pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 626, the agency to which the minor is referred or delivered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 653
  Whenever any person applies to the probation officer or the district attorney in accordance with subdivision (e) of Section 601.3, to commence proceedings in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 653.1
  Notwithstanding Section 653, in the case of an affidavit alleging that the minor committed an offense described in Section 602, the probation officer shall cause...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 653.5
  (a) Whenever any person applies to the probation officer to commence proceedings in the juvenile court, the application shall be in the form of an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 653.7
  If the probation officer does not take action under Section 654 and does not file a petition in juvenile court within 21 court days after...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 654
  In any case in which a probation officer, after investigation of an application for a petition or any other investigation he or she is authorized...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 654.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 654 or any other provision of law, in any case in which a minor has been charged with a violation of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 654.2
  (a) If a petition has been filed by the prosecuting attorney to declare a minor a ward of the court under Section 602, the court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 654.3
  No minor shall be eligible for the program of supervision set forth in Section 654 or 654.2 in the following cases, except in an unusual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 654.4
  Any minor who is placed in a program of supervision set forth in Section 654 or 654.2 for a violation of an offense involving the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 654.6
  A program of supervision pursuant to Section 654 or 654.2 for any minor described in Section 602 shall include constructive assignments that will help the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 655
  (a) When any person has applied to the probation officer, pursuant to Section 653, to request commencement of juvenile court proceedings to declare a minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 655.5
  When an officer has referred or delivered a minor pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 626, and the referral agency does not initiate a service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 656
  A petition to commence proceedings in the juvenile court to declare a minor a ward of the court shall be verified and shall contain all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 656.1
  Any petition alleging that the minor is a person described by Section 602 shall specify as to each count whether the crime charged is a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 656.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a victim shall have the right to present a victim impact statement in all juvenile court hearings concerning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 656.5
  Any petition filed in juvenile court to commence proceedings pursuant to this chapter that is not verified may be dismissed without prejudice by such court.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 657
  (a) Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the juvenile court shall set the same for hearing within 30 days, except as follows:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 658
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the juvenile court shall issue a notice, to which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 659
  The notice shall contain all of the following: (a) The name and address of the person to whom the notice is directed. (b) The date,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 660
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if the minor is detained, the clerk of the juvenile court shall cause the notice and copy of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 660.5
  (a) This section shall be known as the Expedited Youth Accountability Program. It shall be operative in the superior court in Los Angeles County. It...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 661
  In addition to the notice provided in Sections 658 and 659, the juvenile court may issue its citation directing any parent, guardian, or foster parent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 662
  In case such citation cannot be served, or the person served fails to obey it, or in any case in which it appears to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 663
  (a) Whenever a petition has been filed in the juvenile court alleging that a minor comes within the provisions of Section 601 or 602 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 664
  (a) The district attorney or the attorney of record for the minor may issue, and upon request of the probation officer, the minor, or the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 675
  (a) All cases under the provisions of this chapter shall be heard at a special or separate session of the court, and no other matter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 676
  (a) Unless requested by the minor concerning whom the petition has been filed and any parent or guardian present, the public shall not be admitted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 676.5
  The right of victims of juvenile offenses to be present during juvenile proceedings, as specified in subdivision (a), shall be secured as follows: (a) Notwithstanding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 677
  At any juvenile court hearing conducted by a juvenile court judge, an official court reporter shall, and at any such hearing conducted by a juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 678
  The provisions of Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 469) of Title 6 of Part 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to variance and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 679
  A minor who is the subject of a juvenile court hearing and any person entitled to notice of the hearing under the provisions of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 680
  The judge of the juvenile court shall control all proceedings during the hearings with a view to the expeditious and effective ascertainment of the jurisdictional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 681
  (a) In a juvenile court hearing which is based upon a petition that alleges that the minor upon whose behalf the petition is being brought...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 681.5
  If a prosecuting attorney has appeared on behalf of the people of the State of California in any juvenile court hearing which is based upon...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 682
  (a) To continue any hearing relating to proceedings pursuant to Section 601 or 602, regardless of the custody status of the minor, beyond the time...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 700
  At the beginning of the hearing on a petition filed pursuant to Article 16 (commencing with Section 650) of this chapter, the judge or clerk...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 700.1
  Any motion to suppress as evidence any tangible or intangible thing obtained as a result of an unlawful search or seizure shall be heard prior...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 700.2
  Upon his or her appearance before the juvenile court on a complaint charging violation of Section 48293 of the Education Code, the juvenile court shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 701
  At the hearing, the court shall first consider only the question whether the minor is a person described by Section 300, 601, or 602. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 701.1
  At the hearing, the court, on motion of the minor or on its own motion, shall order that the petition be dismissed and that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 702
  After hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding, noted in the minutes of the court, whether or not the minor is a person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 702.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) When a minor denies, by a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, the allegations of a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 702.5
  In any hearing conducted pursuant to Section 701 or 702 to determine whether a minor is a person described in Section 601 or 602, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 704
  (a) If the court has determined that a minor is a person described by Section 602, or if the court has determined that a minor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 705
  Whenever the court, before or during the hearing on the petition, is of the opinion that the minor is mentally disordered or if the court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 706
  After finding that a minor is a person described in Section 601 or 602, the court shall hear evidence on the question of the proper...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 706.5
  (a) If placement in foster care is recommended by the probation officer, or where the minor is already in foster care placement or pending placement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 706.6
  A case plan prepared as required by Section 706.5 shall be submitted to the court. It shall either be attached to the social study or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 707
  (a) (1) In any case in which a minor is alleged to be a person described in subdivision (a) of Section 602 by reason of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 707.01
  (a) If a minor is found an unfit subject to be dealt with under the juvenile court law pursuant to Section 707, then the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 707.1
  (a) If the minor is declared not a fit and proper subject to be dealt with under the juvenile court law, or as to a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 707.2
  (a) Prior to sentence and after considering a recommendation on the issue which shall be made by the probation department, the court of criminal jurisdiction...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 707.4
  In any case arising under this article in which there is no conviction in the criminal court, the clerk of the criminal court shall report...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 708
  Whenever a minor who appears to be a danger to himself or herself or others as a result of the use of controlled substances (as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 709
  (a) During the pendency of any juvenile proceeding, the minor' s counsel or the court may express a doubt as to the minor's competency. A...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 710
  (a) Sections 711, 712, and 713 shall not be applicable in a county unless the application of those sections in the county has been approved...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 711
  (a) When it appears to the court, or upon request of the prosecutor or counsel for the minor, at any time, that a minor who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 712
  (a) The evaluation ordered by the court under Section 711 shall be made, in accordance with the provisions of Section 741 and Division 4.5 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 713
  (a) For any minor described in Section 711 who is determined by the court under Section 712 to be seriously emotionally disturbed, have a serious...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 714
  A regional center, as described in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 4620) of Division 4.5, shall not be required to provide assessments or services to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 725
  After receiving and considering the evidence on the proper disposition of the case, the court may enter judgment as follows: (a) If the court has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 725.5
  In determining the judgment and order to be made in any case in which the minor is found to be a person described in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 726
  (a) In all cases in which a minor is adjudged a ward or dependent child of the court, the court may limit the control to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 726.4
  (a) At the disposition hearing, in any case where the court orders the care, custody, and control of the minor to be under the supervision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 726.5
  (a) At any time when (1) the minor is a ward of the juvenile court under Section 725, or the court terminates wardship while the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727
  (a) When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 601...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.1
  (a) When the court orders the care, custody, and control of the minor to be under the supervision of the probation officer for foster care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.2
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.3
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.31
  (a) This section applies to all minors placed in out-of-home care pursuant to Section 727.2 or 727.3 and for whom the juvenile court orders a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.32
  (a) In any case where a minor has been declared a ward of the juvenile court and has been in foster care for 15 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.4
  (a) (1) Notice of any hearing pursuant to Section 727, 727.2, or 727.3 shall be mailed by the probation officer to the minor, the minor's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.5
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601, the court may order the minor to perform community service, including, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.6
  Where any minor has been adjudged a ward of the court for the commission of a "sexually violent offense," as defined in Section 6600, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.7
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court finds that the minor is a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 728
  (a) The juvenile court may terminate or modify a guardianship of the person of a minor previously established under the Probate Code, or appoint a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a battery on school property as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.1
  (a) (1) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a crime which takes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.2
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.3
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.5
  (a) If a petition alleges that a minor is a person described by Section 602 and the petition is sustained, the court, in addition to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.6
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense described in Section 241.2...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.7
  At the request of the victim, the probation officer shall assist in mediating a service contract between the victim and the minor under which the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.8
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the unlawful possession, use, sale, or other furnishing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.9
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense involving the unlawful possession,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.10
  (a) Whenever, in any county specified in subdivision (b), a judge of a juvenile court or referee of a juvenile court finds a minor to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.12
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize an Assessment, Orientation, and Volunteer Mentor Pilot Program in San Diego County. The pilot project...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.13
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall recognize, on an annual basis, exemplary Californians who do any of the following: (1) Voluntarily participate in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730
  (a) When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.5
  When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described in Section 602, in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.6
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that a victim of conduct for which a minor is found to be a person described...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.7
  (a) In a case in which a minor is ordered to make restitution to the victim or victims, or the minor is ordered to pay...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.8
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the court shall require any minor who is ordered to pay restitution pursuant to Section 730.6, or to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731
  (a) If a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, upon the recommendation of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, upon the recommendation of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.2
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority and Fresno County may enter into a partnership for the establishment and maintenance of a pilot program juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.5
  In addition to the provisions of Section 731, if a minor's conduct constitutes a violation of Section 490.5 of the Penal Code, the court may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 732
  Before a minor is conveyed to any state or county institution pursuant to this article, it shall be ascertained from the superintendent thereof that such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 733
  A ward of the juvenile court who meets any condition described below shall not be committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 734
  No ward of the juvenile court shall be committed to the Youth Authority unless the judge of the court is fully satisfied that the mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 735
  Accompanying the commitment papers, the court shall send to the Director of the Youth Authority a summary of all the facts in the possession of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 736
  (a) Except as provided in Section 733, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall accept a ward committed to it pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 737
  (a) Whenever a person has been adjudged a ward of the juvenile court and has been committed or otherwise disposed of as provided in this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 738
  In a case where the residence of a minor placed on probation under the provisions of Section 725 or of a ward of the juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 739
  (a) Upon referral to the probation officer of a minor who has been taken into temporary custody under Section 625, the probation officer may authorize...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 739.5
  (a) If a minor who has been adjudged a ward of the court under Section 601 or 602 is removed from the physical custody of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 740
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 740.1
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 741
  The juvenile court may, in any case before it in which a petition has been filed as provided in Article 16 (commencing with Section 650),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742
  (a) Upon the request of an alleged victim of a crime, the probation officer shall, within 60 days of the final disposition of a case...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742.10
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to accomplish the following purposes: (a) To assist public and private owners and possessors...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742.12
  (a) As used in this article, the term "graffiti or other inscribed material" includes any unauthorized inscription, word, figure, mark, or design that is written,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742.14
  (a) A city, county, or city and county may elect, by ordinance, to have the probation officer of the county recoup for it, through juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742.16
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an act prohibited by Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742.18
  (a) If the petition alleges that the minor is the person described by Section 602 by reason of the commission of an act prohibited by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742.20
  Any moneys collected by the probation officer of the county pursuant to an order rendered pursuant to Section 742.16 shall be distributed by the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742.22
  If any provision or clause of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.2
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.3
  The purpose of this section is to provide a means to monitor the safety and well-being of every minor in foster care who has been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.31
  (a) This section applies to all minors placed in out-of-home care pursuant to Section 727.2 or 727.3 and for whom the juvenile court orders a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.32
  (a) In any case where a minor has been declared a ward of the juvenile court and has been in foster care for 15 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.4
  (a) (1) Notice of any hearing pursuant to Section 727, 727.2, or 727.3 shall be mailed by the probation officer to the minor, the minor's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.5
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601, the court may order the minor to perform community service, including, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.6
  Where any minor has been adjudged a ward of the court for the commission of a "sexually violent offense," as defined in Section 6600, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 727.7
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court finds that the minor is a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 728
  (a) The juvenile court may terminate or modify a guardianship of the person of a minor previously established under the Probate Code, or appoint a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a battery on school property as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.1
  (a) (1) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of a crime which takes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.2
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.3
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 601 or 602 and the court does not remove the minor from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.5
  (a) If a petition alleges that a minor is a person described by Section 602 and the petition is sustained, the court, in addition to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.6
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense described in Section 241.2...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.7
  At the request of the victim, the probation officer shall assist in mediating a service contract between the victim and the minor under which the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.8
  (a) If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the unlawful possession, use, sale, or other furnishing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.9
  If a minor is found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an offense involving the unlawful possession,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.10
  (a) Whenever, in any county specified in subdivision (b), a judge of a juvenile court or referee of a juvenile court finds a minor to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.12
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to authorize an Assessment, Orientation, and Volunteer Mentor Pilot Program in San Diego County. The pilot project...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 729.13
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall recognize, on an annual basis, exemplary Californians who do any of the following: (1) Voluntarily participate in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730
  (a) When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.5
  When a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described in Section 602, in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.6
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that a victim of conduct for which a minor is found to be a person described...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.7
  (a) In a case in which a minor is ordered to make restitution to the victim or victims, or the minor is ordered to pay...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 730.8
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the court shall require any minor who is ordered to pay restitution pursuant to Section 730.6, or to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731
  (a) If a minor is adjudged a ward of the court on the ground that he or she is a person described by Section 602,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, upon the recommendation of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the court committing a ward to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, upon the recommendation of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.2
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority and Fresno County may enter into a partnership for the establishment and maintenance of a pilot program juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 731.5
  In addition to the provisions of Section 731, if a minor's conduct constitutes a violation of Section 490.5 of the Penal Code, the court may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 732
  Before a minor is conveyed to any state or county institution pursuant to this article, it shall be ascertained from the superintendent thereof that such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 733
  A ward of the juvenile court who meets any condition described below shall not be committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 734
  No ward of the juvenile court shall be committed to the Youth Authority unless the judge of the court is fully satisfied that the mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 735
  Accompanying the commitment papers, the court shall send to the Director of the Youth Authority a summary of all the facts in the possession of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 736
  (a) Except as provided in Section 733, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall accept a ward committed to it pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 737
  (a) Whenever a person has been adjudged a ward of the juvenile court and has been committed or otherwise disposed of as provided in this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 738
  In a case where the residence of a minor placed on probation under the provisions of Section 725 or of a ward of the juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 739
  (a) Upon referral to the probation officer of a minor who has been taken into temporary custody under Section 625, the probation officer may authorize...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 739.5
  (a) If a minor who has been adjudged a ward of the court under Section 601 or 602 is removed from the physical custody of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 740
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 740.1
  (a) Any minor adjudged to be a ward of the court on the basis that he or she is a person described in Section 602...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 741
  The juvenile court may, in any case before it in which a petition has been filed as provided in Article 16 (commencing with Section 650),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 742
  (a) Upon the request of an alleged victim of a crime, the probation officer shall, within 60 days of the final disposition of a case...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 743
  Contingent upon the appropriation of funds therefor, there is hereby established a three-year pilot project which shall be known as the "Repeat Offender Prevention Project."...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 744
  (a) The Repeat Offender Prevention Project shall be administered by the Board of Corrections and each program shall be under the onsite administration of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 745
  The Board of Corrections shall establish goals and deadlines against which the success or failure of the program demonstration projects may be measured. The board...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 746
  A minor shall be selected for participation in a program established pursuant to this article based upon the following factors: (a) The minor is 15...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 747
  The Board of Corrections shall adopt written minimum standards for project implementation, operation, and evaluation which shall include a written commitment by a county or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 748
  Each county or region shall, in implementing their respective programs, provide the following key intervention strategies to ensure the following: (a) Adequate levels of supervision,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall be responsible for monitoring demonstration project and expansion program implementations in accordance with an annual program plan submitted by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.2
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.21
  The Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program shall be administered by the Board of Corrections for the purpose of reducing juvenile crime and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.22
  To be eligible for this grant, each county shall be required to establish a multiagency juvenile justice coordinating council that shall develop and implement a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.23
  The Board of Corrections shall award grants that provide funding for three years. Funding shall be used to supplement, rather than supplant, existing programs and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.24
  The Board of Corrections shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants, which shall take into consideration, but not be limited to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.25
  The Board of Corrections may award up to a total of two million dollars ($2,000,000) statewide, in individual grants not exceeding one hundred and fifty...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.26
  The Board of Corrections shall create an evaluation design for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program that will assess the effectiveness of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.27
  Funding for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program for grant awards made before July 1, 1998, shall be provided from the amount...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.3
  This title shall be known and may be cited as the County Juvenile Correctional Facilities Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.31
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) While the County Correctional Capital Expenditure Bond Act of 1986 and the County Correctional Facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.32
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "County juvenile facilities" means county juvenile halls or camps. (b) "Board" means...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.33
  (a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys may be available to the board for the purpose of awarding grants on a competitive basis to counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.24
  The Board of Corrections shall establish minimum standards, funding schedules, and procedures for awarding grants, which shall take into consideration, but not be limited to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.25
  The Board of Corrections may award up to a total of two million dollars ($2,000,000) statewide, in individual grants not exceeding one hundred and fifty...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.26
  The Board of Corrections shall create an evaluation design for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program that will assess the effectiveness of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.27
  Funding for the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant Program for grant awards made before July 1, 1998, shall be provided from the amount...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.5
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile Justice Community Reentry Challenge Grant Program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.6
  It is the intent of the Legislature to support the systematic and cultural transformation of the Division of Juvenile Justice into a rehabilitative model that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.7
  (a) The Juvenile Justice Community Reentry Challenge Grant Program shall be administered by the Division of Juvenile Justice, in consultation with the Corrections Standards Authority,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.8
  (a) The Division of Juvenile Justice, in consultation with the Corrections Standards Authority, shall award grants that provide funding for three years on a competitive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.9
  The Division of Juvenile Justice, in consultation with the Corrections Standards Authority, the Chief Probation Officers of California, and experts in the field of California...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.95
  (a) Each grant recipient shall be required to establish and track outcome measures, including, but not limited to: (1) Annual recidivism rates, including technical parole...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 750
  Whenever a petition is filed in the juvenile court of a county other than the residence of the person named in the petition, or whenever,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 751
  The expense of the transfer and all expenses in connection with the transfer and for the support and maintenance of such person shall be paid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 752
  Whenever a case is transferred as provided in Section 750, a certified copy of the file may be made and forwarded to the county where...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 753
  Whenever an order of transfer from another county is filed with the clerk of any juvenile court, the clerk shall place the transfer order on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 754
  In any action under the provisions of this article in which the residence of a minor person is determined, both the county in which the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 755
  Any person placed on probation by the juvenile court or adjudged to be a ward of the juvenile court may be permitted by order of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 775
  Any order made by the court in the case of any person subject to its jurisdiction may at any time be changed, modified, or set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 776
  No order changing, modifying, or setting aside a previous order of the juvenile court shall be made either in chambers, or otherwise, unless prior notice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 777
  An order changing or modifying a previous order by removing a minor from the physical custody of a parent, guardian, relative, or friend and directing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 778
  Any parent or other person having an interest in a child who is a ward of the juvenile court or the child himself through a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 779
  The court committing a ward to the Youth Authority may thereafter change, modify, or set aside the order of commitment. Ten days' notice of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 780
  If any person who has been committed to the Youth Authority appears to be an improper person to be received by or retained in any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 781
  (a) In any case in which a petition has been filed with a juvenile court to commence proceedings to adjudge a person a ward of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 781.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 781, in any case where a minor has been cited to appear before a probation officer, has been taken before a probation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 782
  A judge of the juvenile court in which a petition was filed, at any time before the minor reaches the age of 21 years, may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 783
  An adjudication that a minor violated any of the provisions enumerated in subdivision (d) of Section 13202.5 of the Vehicle Code shall be reported to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 784
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon any adjudication that a minor violated any provision of law for which a report would be required under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 785
  (a) Where a minor is a ward of the juvenile court, the wardship did not result in the minor's commitment to the Youth Authority, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 790
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 654 or 654.2, or any other provision of law, this article shall apply whenever a case is before the juvenile court for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 791
  (a) The prosecuting attorney's written notification to the minor shall also include all of the following: (1) A full description of the procedures for deferred...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 792
  The judge shall issue a citation directing any custodial parent, guardian, or foster parent of the minor to appear at the time and place set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 793
  (a) If it appears to the prosecuting attorney, the court, or the probation department that the minor is not performing satisfactorily in the assigned program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 794
  When a minor is permitted to participate in a deferred entry of judgment procedure, the judge shall impose, as a condition of probation, the requirement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 795
  The county probation officer or a person designated by the county probation officer shall serve in each county as the program administrator for juveniles granted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 800
  (a) A judgment in a proceeding under Section 601 or 602 may be appealed from, by the minor, in the same manner as any final...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 825
  The order and findings of the superior court in each case under the provisions of this chapter shall be entered in a suitable book or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 826
  (a) After five years from the date on which the jurisdiction of the juvenile court over a minor is terminated, the probation officer may destroy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 826.5
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 826, at any time before a person reaches the age when his or her records are required to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 826.6
  (a) Any minor who is the subject of a petition that has been filed in juvenile court to adjudge the minor a dependent child or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 826.7
  Juvenile case files that pertain to a child who died as the result of abuse or neglect shall be released by the custodian of records...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827
  (a) (1) Except as provided in Section 828, a case file may be inspected only by the following: (A) Court personnel. (B) The district attorney,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a city, county, or city and county may establish a computerized data base system within that city, county,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827.10
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 827, the child welfare agency is authorized to permit its files and records relating to a minor, who is the subject of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 827 or any other provision of law, written notice that a minor has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law except Sections 389 and 781 of this code and Section 1203.45 of the Penal Code, a law enforcement agency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827.6
  A law enforcement agency may release the name, description, and the alleged offense of any minor alleged to have committed a violent offense, as defined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 827 or any other provision of law, written notice that a minor has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 827.9
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to reaffirm its belief that records or information gathered by law enforcement agencies relating to the taking...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 828
  (a) Except as provided in Sections 389, 781, and 827.9 of this code or Section 1203.45 of the Penal Code, any information gathered by a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 828.1
  (a) While the Legislature reaffirms its belief that juvenile criminal records, in general, should be confidential, it is the intent of the Legislature in enacting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 828.3
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, information relating to the taking of a minor into custody on the basis that he or she has committed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 829
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Prison Terms, in order to evaluate the suitability for release of a person before the board,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 830
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, members of a multidisciplinary personnel team engaged in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of child abuse or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 830.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, members of a juvenile justice multidisciplinary team engaged in the prevention, identification, and control of crime, including, but not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 840
  There shall be in each county probation department a program of home supervision to which minors described by Section 628.1 shall be referred. Home supervision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 841
  The duties of a deputy probation officer, or a probation aide, a community worker or a volunteer under the supervision of a deputy probation officer,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 842
  A probation volunteer is a person who donates personal services to the probation department and probationers without compensation. A probation aide or a community worker...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 850
  The board of supervisors in every county shall provide and maintain, at the expense of the county, in a location approved by the judge of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 851
  Except as provided in Section 207.1, the juvenile hall shall not be in, or connected with, any jail or prison, and shall not be deemed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 852
  The juvenile hall shall be under the management and control of the probation officer.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 853
  The board of supervisors shall provide for a suitable superintendent to have charge of the juvenile hall, and for such other employees as may be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 854
  The superintendent and other employees of the juvenile hall shall be appointed by the probation officer, pursuant to a civil service or merit system, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 855
  The probation officer shall keep a classified list of expenses for the operation of the juvenile hall and shall file a duplicate copy with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 856
  The board of supervisors may provide for the establishment of a public elementary school and of a public secondary school in connection with any juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 857
  Whenever a minor is incarcerated in a juvenile hall or other county juvenile facility for a period of at least 30 consecutive days, the facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 862
  In addition to those juveniles specified in Section 850, the probation officer may receive and detain in the county juvenile hall any juvenile committed thereto...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 870
  Two or more counties may, pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 871
  (a) Any person under the custody of a probation officer or any peace officer in a county juvenile hall, or committed to a county juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 871.5
  (a) Except as authorized by law, or when authorized by the person in charge of any county juvenile hall, ranch, camp, or forestry camp, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 872
  Where there is no juvenile hall in the county of residence of minors, or when the juvenile hall becomes unfit or unsafe for detention of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 873
  (a) Upon approval of the board of supervisors of a county, the chief probation officer of the county may establish, maintain, and operate a store...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 880
  In order to provide appropriate facilities for the housing of wards of the juvenile court in the counties of their residence or in adjacent counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 881
  The board of supervisors of any county may, by ordinance, establish juvenile ranches, camps, or forestry camps, within or without the county, to which persons...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 881.5
  (a) (1) If a county receives funds pursuant to Section 17602, the county reduces the capacity of its juvenile ranches, camps, or forestry camps below...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 882
  Juvenile ranches, camps or forestry camps shall be in the charge of a superintendent or director and may be established in conjunction with the probation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 883
  The wards committed to ranches, camps, or forestry camps may be required to labor on the buildings and grounds thereof, on the making of forest...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 884
  The board of supervisors may provide for the payment of wages and pay such wages from the treasury of such county to the wards for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 885
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall adopt and prescribe the minimum standards of construction, operation, programs of education and training, and qualifications of personnel for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 886
  Except as provided in Section 886.5, no juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp established pursuant to the provisions of this article shall receive or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 886.5
  (a) A juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp may receive or contain a maximum of 125 children at any one time if the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 888
  Any county establishing a juvenile ranch or camp under the provisions of this article may, by mutual agreement, accept children committed to that ranch or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 889
  The board of education shall provide for the administration and operation of public schools in any juvenile hall, day center, ranch, camp, regional youth educational...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 891
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall share in the cost pursuant to this article of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 892
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall provide state assistance pursuant to this section to defray,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 893
  (a) The board of supervisors of any county with a population of five million or more may provide and maintain a school or schools at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 894
  In order to provide a sentencing alternative for the juvenile courts, one or more pilot regional youth educational facilities shall be established as short-term intensive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 895
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall assist counties in the establishment of pilot regional youth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 896
  (a) The Board of Corrections shall establish minimum performance standards for programs of education and training and for qualifications of personnel for all youth educational...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 897
  The capacity of each regional youth educational facility shall be established pursuant to Sections 886 and 886.5.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 898
  The participating counties shall appoint a citizens advisory committee with a membership drawn from law enforcement, judiciary, probation, education, corrections, business, and the general public,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 900
  (a) If it is necessary that provision be made for the expense of support and maintenance of a ward or dependent child of the juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 901
  No order for payment shall be made in a sum in excess of the actual cost of supporting and maintaining the ward, dependent child or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 902
  If it is found that the maximum amount established by the board of supervisors of the county is insufficient to pay the whole expense of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903
  (a) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that person, and the estate of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.1
  (a) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that person, and the estate of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.15
  (a) The parent of any minor, or other person who is liable for the support of the minor, on whose behalf a petition is filed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.2
  (a) The juvenile court may require that the father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor, the estate of that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.25
  (a) In addition to the liability established by any other provision of law, a parent or guardian of a minor who has been delivered to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.3
  (a) The father, mother, spouse, or other person liable for the support of a minor person, the person himself or herself if he or she...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.4
  (a) The Legislature finds that even though Section 903 establishes parental liability for the cost of the care, support, and maintenance of a child in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.41
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature that the family law departments and juvenile departments of each superior court coordinate determinations of parentage and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.45
  (a) The board of supervisors may designate a county financial evaluation officer pursuant to Section 27750 of the Government Code to make financial evaluations of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.47
  (a) The Judicial Council shall establish a program to collect reimbursements from the person liable for the costs of counsel appointed to represent parents or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.5
  In addition to the requirements of Section 903.4, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parent or other person legally liable for the support...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.6
  Funds collected pursuant to Sections 903, 903.4, and 903.5 shall be distributed in the following manner: (a) If the program through which the minor is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.7
  (a) There is in the State Treasury the Foster Children and Parent Training Fund. The moneys contained in the fund shall be used exclusively for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 903.8
  (a) Beginning January 1, 1994, the State Department of Social Services shall develop and implement an enhanced statewide basic foster parent training program. It is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 904
  The monthly or daily charge, not to exceed cost, for care, support, and maintenance of minor persons placed or detained in or committed to any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 911
  No order for payment from the county treasury of the expense of support and maintenance of a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 912
  Effective July 1, 2003, for each person committed to the Department of the Youth Authority, the county from which he or she is committed shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 912
  (a) Commencing on and after January 1, 2012, counties from which persons are committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 912.1
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall present to each county, not more frequently than monthly, a statement of per capita institutional cost. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 912.5
  (a) For each person committed to the Department of the Youth Authority by a juvenile court on or after January 1, 1997, the county from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 913
  When any person has been adjudged to be a ward or dependent child of the juvenile court, and the court has made an order committing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 914
  As used in this article, "expense for support and maintenance" includes the reasonable value of any medical services furnished to the ward or dependent child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 925
  The provisions of this article shall be operative in any county in which the board of supervisors by ordinance finds, on the basis of employment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 926
  When a minor is adjudged a ward of the juvenile court and committed to a county juvenile home, ranch, camp, or forestry camp, the juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 927
  (a) If the juvenile work furlough administrator so directs that the minor be permitted to continue in his or her regular employment, the administrator shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 928
  Whenever the minor is not employed and between the hours or periods of employment, he shall be confined in a juvenile detention facility unless the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 929
  The earnings of the minor shall be collected by the juvenile work furlough administrator, and it shall be the duty of the minor's employer to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 930
  In the event the minor violates the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody, or employment, the juvenile work furlough administrator may order termination of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 940
  The board of supervisors in every county may provide and maintain, at the expense of the county, in a location approved by the judge of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 941
  The 24-hour school or a nonresidential boot camp school program shall be under the management and control of the probation officer.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 942
  The board of supervisors shall provide for a suitable superintendent to have charge of the 24-hour school, and for such other employees as may be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 943
  The superintendent and other employees of the 24-hour school shall be appointed by the probation officer, pursuant to a civil service or merit system, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 944
  The probation officer shall keep a classified list of expenses for the operation of the 24-hour school and shall file a duplicate copy with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 945
  A 24-hour school shall be considered a children's institution for licensing purposes and shall be licensed by the department of social welfare of the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 960
  This article shall be construed in conformity with the intent as well as the expressed provisions thereof, and the governing board of any adjustment school...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 961
  The terms and provisions of Article 25 (commencing with Section 900) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 and Section 579 shall, so...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 962
  The boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of counties and cities and counties may organize, establish, equip, and maintain, including the purchase of suitable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 963
  The boards of supervisors of two or more counties may by regularly adopted resolutions or ordinances duly entered on the minutes or proceedings of their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 964
  If adjustment schools are organized by only one county or city and county, the government and management shall be vested in a governing board which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 965
  If the adjustment schools are organized by the joint action of two or more counties, the boards of supervisors of the counties may by concerted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 966
  If a board of trustees is chosen to govern and manage the adjustment school the term of office of the trustees shall be six years,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 967
  The governing board shall make all needful rules and regulations for the transaction of business and for the management and government of the adjustment school...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 968
  The governing board shall make all contracts for the organization, establishment, including the purchase of a suitable site and the construction of suitable buildings, equipment,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 969
  No member of the governing board, nor officer, nor employee of any adjustment school shall be interested, personally, directly, or indirectly, in any contract, purchase,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 970
  The governing board of the adjustment school shall appoint a superintendent, not of its own number, who shall be a person qualified by training and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 971
  The governing board shall determine the number, title, duties, and terms of office of all other officers and employees and shall fix their salaries, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 972
  The superintendent of the adjustment school shall, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, make and file with the governing board an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 973
  The superintendent, after making and filing the bond, shall, subject to the direction of the governing board, be invested with the custody of the lands,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 974
  The superintendent shall also, subject to the direction of the governing board, appoint all officers and employees of the adjustment school, who shall hold office...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 975
  The superintendent shall reside in the adjustment school or one of the adjustment schools under his or her jurisdiction and shall be furnished suitable quarters,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 976
  The adjustment school shall receive into its care, custody, and control all boys and girls under 18 years of age who are committed to it...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 977
  Any minor who has been committed to the care, custody, and control of any adjustment school shall remain in the school for the duration of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 978
  The juvenile court shall review the order of commitment at least once each year, and upon review the court may continue, terminate, or modify the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 979
  If at any time in the opinion of the superintendent of the adjustment school the further detention of the minor is detrimental to the interests...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 980
  The governing board of any adjustment school shall cause the school to be conducted as may seem best calculated to carry out the intentions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 981
  There shall be organized a course of study, corresponding as far as practicable with the course of study in the public schools of the state.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 982
  There shall be provided in the adjustment school the proper facilities and equipment for vocational and trade training, in addition to other public school education...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 983
  Any order of the juvenile court committing a minor to the care, custody, and control of an adjustment school may provide the expense of his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 984
  If the adjustment school is organized, established, equipped, and maintained by only one county or city and county, the entire expense of the school shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 985
  If an adjustment school is organized, established, equipped, and maintained by two or more counties, the initial expense of organizing, establishing, and equipping the school...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 986
  The annual expense of maintaining the school by two or more counties, shall be apportioned between the counties on a pro rata basis in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 987
  The governing board shall require any officer entrusted with money belonging to an adjustment school or to any of the minors entrusted to its care,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 990
  As used in this article: (a) "Acquiring" means obtaining ownership of an existing facility in fee simple for use as a youth center. (b) "Altering"...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 991
  Moneys in the fund, up to twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000), upon appropriation to the department, shall be available for allocation by the department in accordance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 992
  (a) The department shall, upon appropriation pursuant to Section 993.3, make grants to nonprofit organizations for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, or constructing youth centers....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 993
  (a) No grant made pursuant to this chapter shall exceed three million dollars ($3,000,000) and each grant shall reflect the reasonable costs for acquisition and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1000
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Department of the Youth Authority refers to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1000.1
  In order to provide counties with alternative placement options, the Department of the Youth Authority is authorized to establish, maintain, or facilitate the development of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1000.5
  Where in any law of this State the name "Whittier State School" appears it shall hereafter be understood to mean and shall be construed to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1000.7
  As used in this chapter, "Youth Authority," "authority," and "the authority" mean and refer to the Department of the Youth Authority, and "board" means and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1001
  The general government and supervision of each such institution is vested in the Youth Authority.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1001.5
  (a) Except when authorized by law, or when authorized by the person in charge of an institution or camp administered by the Youth Authority, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1001.7
  Every person who, having been previously convicted of a felony and confined in any state prison in this state, without the consent of the officer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1002
  The Youth Authority may do all lawful acts which it deems necessary to effectuate the purposes for which such schools are established, and to promote...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1003
  The authority shall have charge of the land, buildings, apparatus, tools, stock, provisions and other property belonging to each such institution.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1004
  The authority shall have charge of the persons committed to or confined in each such institution, and shall provide for their care, supervision, education, training,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1006
  The land purchased for the site of Preston School of Industry shall be used exclusively for the occupancy and purposes of the school.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1008
  The Youth Authority shall cooperate with the United States Bureau of Immigration in arranging for the deportation of all aliens who are committed to it.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1009
  The Department of the Youth Authority may order the return of nonresident persons committed to the department or confined in institutions or facilities subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1009.1
  When, pursuant to Section 1009, money is received by the Department of the Youth Authority from private sources to defray the cost of transportation for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1009.2
  The fiscal officer of the Department of the Youth Authority shall make payment of any refund pursuant to Section 1009.1 if the Director of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1009.3
  If any money which is to be refunded has been deposited in the State Treasury, the State Controller, upon receipt of a claim which is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1009.4
  If the Director of the Youth Authority finds that the amount of any refund is less than three dollars ($3), he may retain such amount,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1010
  In determining residence for purposes of transportation, a person who has lived continuously in this State for a period of one year and who has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1011
  All expenses incurred in returning these persons to other states shall be paid by this state, but the expense of returning residents of this state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1015
  Whenever any person confined in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority dies, and any personal funds or property of such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1016
  (a) Whenever a person confined in a state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, escapes,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1017
  Before any money or other personal property or documents are delivered to the State Treasurer, State Controller, or public administrator, or sold at auction or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1018
  At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the State Treasurer or State Controller under the provisions of Section 1015 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1019
  When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Section 1015 or 1016, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1020
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of Sections 1015 and 1016 shall apply (1) to all money and other personal property delivered to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1049
  Subject to the provisions of law relating to the State civil service, the Youth Authority may appoint, define the duties, and fix the salary of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1050
  The superintendent of the institutions under this chapter shall be persons of high moral character, specially qualified for the position.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1075
  The Youth Authority shall, in accordance with law, appoint all officers and employees required at the institutions under this chapter, and shall fix their remuneration.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1076
  The superintendent, assistant superintendent, supervisor, or any employee having custody of wards, of each institution of the Department of the Youth Authority, and any transportation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1077
  (a) Any psychologist employed by or who contracts with the Department of the Youth Authority to provide services to wards under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1078
  To the extent that funding is available, the department, in consultation with the State Department of Mental Health, shall develop training in the treatment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1120
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to insure an appropriate educational program for wards committed to the Department of the Youth Authority. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1120.1
  (a) In furtherance of the purpose of the Department of the Youth Authority to protect society from the consequences of criminal activity, the department's educational...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1120.2
  (a) There is in the Department of the Youth Authority a correctional education authority for the purpose of carrying out the education and training of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1120.5
  At each institution under this chapter the Youth Authority shall organize and maintain a division of instruction and such other divisions as it deems necessary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1121
  The chief of each such division of instruction shall be well trained in modern school administration.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1122
  Such divisions of instruction shall have jurisdiction over all courses of instruction. Such courses shall include academic and vocational training, and shall be subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1123
  Subject to the availability of adequate state funding for these purposes, the Director of the Youth Authority shall provide all wards at each penal institution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1124
  Each institution under this chapter may manufacture, repair, and assemble products or may raise produce, for use in the institution or in any other State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1125
  Each inmate of an institution under this chapter shall be permitted to keep for his own use all articles of handiwork and other finished products...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1125.5
  When any public road is a principal means of access to the Preston School of Industry the Department of the Youth Authority, with the consent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1152
  (a) Any person who without the use of force or violence willfully assists any parolee of the Department of the Youth Authority whose parole has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1154
  Whenever any person who has escaped from any institution or facility under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority is returned by a sheriff or probation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1155
  The person in charge of any secure detention facility, including, but not limited to, a prison, a juvenile hall, a county jail, or any institution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1176
  When, in the opinion of the Youth Authority Board, any person committed to or confined in any such school deserves parole according to regulations established...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1177
  When any person so paroled has proved his or her ability for honorable self-support, the Youth Authority Board shall give him or her honorable discharge....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1178
  The Youth Authority Board may grant honorable discharge to any person committed to or confined in any such school. The reason for that discharge shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1179
  (a) All persons honorably discharged from control of the Youth Authority Board shall thereafter be released from all penalties or disabilities resulting from the offenses...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1180
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall provide, within 10 days, upon request to the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1200
  The Controller of the State shall, on requisition of any of the institutions under this chapter, duly audited by him, draw his warrant on the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1201
  For each person committed to any state school the county from which he was committed shall make payments to the state as provided in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1250
  There is hereby established an institution for the confinement of males under the custody of the Director of Corrections and the Youth Authority to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1251
  The Heman G. Stark Youth Training School shall be an intermediate security type institution. Its primary purpose shall be to provide custody, care, industrial, vocational...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1252
  There may be transferred to and confined in the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School any male subject to the custody, control and discipline of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1253
  The Youth Authority shall make rules and regulations for the government of the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School and the management of its affairs.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1254
  The Youth Authority shall appoint, subject to civil service, a superintendent for the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School, and such officers and employees as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1255
  The Youth Authority shall construct and equip, in accordance with law, suitable buildings, structures, and facilities for the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1256
  The Youth Authority shall have the same powers, duties, and responsibilities in respect to the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School and the persons confined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1258
  The Director of the Youth Authority, in connection with industrial training at the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School, Chino, California, may provide suitable materials...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1400
  THE INTERSTATE COMPACT FOR JUVENILES ARTICLE I PURPOSE The compacting states to this Interstate Compact recognize that each state is responsible for the proper supervision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1401
  The compact administrator shall be the executive director of the Corrections Standards Authority.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1402
  The executive director of the Corrections Standards Authority shall convene an executive steering committee to review and make recommendations regarding the Interstate Compact for Juveniles...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1403
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1500
  A peace officer of any city or county shall prevent the entry from California into the Republic of Mexico at the border by any resident...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1700
  The purpose of this chapter is to protect society from the consequences of criminal activity and to that purpose community restoration, victim restoration, and offender...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1701
  This chapter may be cited as the Youth Authority Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1702
  This chapter shall apply only to public offenses committed subsequently to the date upon which it becomes effective.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1703
  Commencing July 1, 2005, as used in this chapter the following terms have the following meanings: (a) "Public offenses" means public offenses as that term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1704
  Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to interfere with or limit the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1705
  It is the intention of the Legislature that all persons in the custody of an institution under the supervision of the Department of the Youth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1710
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Department of the Youth Authority in this or any other code refers to the Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1711
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Director of the Youth Authority shall be to the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1712
  (a) All powers, duties, and functions pertaining to the care and treatment of wards provided by any provision of law and not specifically and expressly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1712.1
  (a) A ward confined in a facility of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities, shall be encouraged to communicate with family...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1712.5
  (a) The possession or use of tobacco products by wards and inmates in all institutions and camps under the jurisdiction of the Department of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1713
  (a) The Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall have wide and successful administrative experience in youth or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1714
  The Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation may transfer persons confined in one institution or facility of the Division of Juvenile Facilities to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1715
  From funds available for the support of the Youth Authority, the director may reimburse persons employed by the authority and certified as radiologic technologists pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1716
  Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Youth Authority Board refers to the Board of Parole Hearings. As of that date, the Youth Authority...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1719
  (a) This section applies only to a ward who is released to parole supervision prior to the 90th day after the enactment of the act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1719
  (a) The following powers and duties shall be exercised and performed by the Juvenile Parole Board: discharges of commitment, orders for discharge from the jurisdiction...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1719.5
  (a) This section shall become operative on the 90th day after the enactment of the act adding this section. (b) The following powers and duties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1720
  (a) The case of each ward shall be reviewed by the department within 45 days of arrival at the department, and at other times as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1723
  (a) Every order granting or revoking parole or issuing final discharges to any person under the jurisdiction of the division shall be made by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1725
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, the Board of Parole Hearings shall succeed, and shall exercise and perform all powers and duties previously granted to, exercised...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1726
  (a) Employees of the Department of the Youth Authority who are needed to support the functions of the Youth Authority Board shall be selected and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1730
  (a) No person may be committed to the Authority until the Authority has certified in writing to the Governor that it has approved or established...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1731
  (a) When in any criminal proceeding in a court of this State a person has been convicted of a public offense and the person was...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1731.5
  (a) After certification to the Governor as provided in this article, a court may commit to the Division of Juvenile Facilities any person who meets...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1731.6
  (a) In any county in which there is in effect a contract made pursuant to Section 1752.1, if a court has determined that a person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1731.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, within 60 days of the commitment of a ward to the Department of the Youth Authority, the department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1732
  No person convicted of violating Section 261, 262, or 264.1, subdivision (b) of Section 288, Section 289, or of sodomy or oral copulation by force,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1732.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person convicted of murder, rape or any other serious felony, as defined in Section 1192.7 of the Penal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1732.6
  (a) No minor shall be committed to the Youth Authority when he or she is convicted in a criminal action for an offense described in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1732.7
  A person who is convicted of a public offense for which the maximum penalty provided by law is imprisonment for not more than 90 days,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1732.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law and subject to the provisions of this section, the Director of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1733
  Nothing in this chapter prevents a court from revoking or suspending any license issued to the defendant under any law of this State where such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1735
  If the court sentences a person under 21 years of age at the time of his apprehension to the payment of a fine and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1736
  The juvenile court may in its discretion commit persons subject to its jurisdiction to the authority, and the authority may in its discretion accept such
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1737
  When a person has been committed to the custody of the authority, if it is deemed warranted by a diagnostic study and recommendation approved by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1737.1
  Whenever any person who has been convicted of a public offense in adult court and committed to and accepted by the Department of the Youth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1737.5
  A commitment to the Authority is a judgment within the meaning of Chapter 1 of Title 8 of Part 2 of the Penal Code, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1738
  When the court commits a person to the authority the court may order him conveyed to some place of detention approved or established by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1739
  (a) The right of a person who has been convicted of a public offense to a new trial or to an appeal from the judgment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1740
  When a court commits a person to the Authority such court shall at once forward to the Authority a certified copy of the order of
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1741
  The judge before whom the person was tried and committed, the district attorney or other official who conducted the prosecution, and the probation officer of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1742
  When the juvenile court commits to the Youth Authority a person identified as an individual with exceptional needs, as defined by Section 56026 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1750
  The Authority is limited in its expenditures to funds specifically made available for its use.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752
  To the extent that necessary funds are available for the purposes, the director may (a) Establish and operate a treatment and training service and such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752
  To the extent that necessary funds are available for the purposes the director may: (a) Establish and operate a treatment and training service and such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.05
  (a) The director shall provide for the development and implementation of a disciplinary matrix with offenses and associated punishments applicable to all department employees, in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.1
  The director may enter into contracts with the approval of the Director of Finance with any county of this state, upon request of the board...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.15
  The director may enter into contracts, with the approval of the Director of Finance, with any county of this state upon request of the board...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.3
  The director may, from any moneys made available for such purposes, allocate funds to local governmental and nongovernmental agencies to share in the cost of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.5
  The director may establish and maintain at any institution or camp under his jurisdiction a canteen for the sale to persons confined therein of candy,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.6
  The director may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into contracts with colleges, universities, and other organizations for the purposes of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.7
  The director may collect statistics and information regarding juvenile delinquency, crimes reported and discovered, arrests made, complaints, informations, and indictments filed and the disposition made...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.8
  The Director of the Youth Authority may deposit any funds of wards committed to the authority in the director's possession in trust with the Treasurer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.81
  (a) Whenever the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice has in his or her possession in trust funds of a ward committed to the division,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.82
  (a) Whenever an adult or minor is committed to or housed in a Youth Authority facility and he or she owes restitution to a victim...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.83
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that wards of the Youth Authority be held accountable for intentional damage and destruction of public property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.85
  The Director of the Youth Authority may authorize the sale of articles of handiwork made by wards under the jurisdiction of the authority to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.9
  The Department of the Youth Authority, with the approval of the Director of General Services, may lease land at any institution under its jurisdiction, at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1752.95
  The director may, from time to time, and as often as occasion may require, but not to exceed two meetings in any one calendar year...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1753
  For the purpose of carrying out its duties, the department is authorized to make use of law enforcement, detention, probation, parole, medical, educational, correctional, segregative...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1753.1
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into agreements with any federal agency authorizing the use of the Youth Authority's facilities and services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1753.3
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority may enter into an agreement with a city, county, or city and county, to permit transfer of wards...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1753.4
  (a) Pursuant to Section 1753.3 the Director of the Youth Authority may enter into a long-term agreement not to exceed 20 years with a city,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1753.6
  In any case in which a ward of the Youth Authority is temporarily released from actual confinement in an institution of the authority and placed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1753.7
  (a) Any female confined in a Department of the Youth Authority facility shall, upon her request, be allowed to continue to use materials necessary for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1754
  Nothing in this chapter shall be taken to give the Youth Authority Board or the director control over existing facilities, institutions or agencies; or to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1755
  Public institutions and agencies are hereby required to accept and care for persons sent to them by the authority in the same manner as they...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1755.3
  Whenever any person under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority, or any minor under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections, is in need of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1755.4
  The Department of the Youth Authority, in consultation with the State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulations adopted at the earliest possible date,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1755.5
  The Department of the Youth Authority may transfer to and cause to be confined in the medical facility, the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1756
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if, in the opinion of the Director of the Youth Authority, the rehabilitation of any mentally disordered, or developmentally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1757
  The director may inspect all public institutions and agencies whose facilities he or she is authorized to utilize and all private institutions and agencies whose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1758
  Placement of a person by the authority in any institution or agency not operated by the authority, or the discharge of such person by such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1759
  No person placed in such an institution or under such an agency may be released by the institution or agency until after approval of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1760
  The director is hereby authorized when necessary and when funds are available for these purposes to establish and operate any of the following: (a) Places...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1760.4
  (a) The wards housed in forestry camps established by the Department of the Youth Authority may be required to labor on the buildings and grounds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1760.5
  The director may require persons committed to the authority to perform work necessary and proper to be done by the Department of Forestry and Fire...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1760.6
  The department may provide for the payment of wages to wards for work performed pursuant to Section 2816 of the Penal Code, the sums earned...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1760.7
  The director shall investigate, examine, and make reports upon adult and juvenile probation. The director may establish standards for the performance of probation duties, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1760.8
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall annually develop a population management and facilities master plan presenting projected population and strategies for treatment and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1761
  The Youth Authority shall establish policies for a background assessment of all persons committed to the Youth Authority in order to supplement the case history...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1763
  The authority shall keep written records of all examinations and of the conclusions predicated thereon and of all orders concerning the disposition or treatment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1764
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any of the following information in the possession of the Youth Authority regarding persons 16 years of age or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1764.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director or his or her designee may release the information described in Section 1764 regarding a person committed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1764.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the chief deputy secretary or the chief deputy secretary's designee shall release the information described in Section 1764...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1764.3
  (a) Whenever a person is committed to the Youth Authority by a court of criminal jurisdiction, or is committed to the Department of Corrections and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1764.5
  Whenever a minor is incarcerated in a Youth Authority facility for a period of at least 30 consecutive days, the Youth Authority shall inform the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1765
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Department of the Youth Authority and the Youth Authority Board shall keep under continued study a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1766
  (a) This section applies only to a ward who is released to parole supervision prior to the operative date of the act adding this subdivision....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1766
  (a) Subject to Sections 733 and 1767.35, and subdivision (b) of this section, if a person has been committed to the Department of Corrections and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1766.01
  (a) This section shall become operative on the 90th day after the enactment of the act adding this section. (b) Subject to Sections 733 and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1766.1
  When permitting an adult or minor committed to the Department of the Youth Authority his or her liberty pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1766,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1766.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), all applicable wards shall be placed on supervised parole within the period of 120 to 90 days prior...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1766.5
  The director shall establish and maintain a fair, simple, and expeditious system for resolution of grievances of all persons committed to the Youth Authority regarding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767
  (a) Upon request, written notice of any hearing to consider the release on parole of any person under the control of the Youth Authority for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.1
  At least 30 days before the Youth Authority Board meets to review or consider the parole of any person who has been committed to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.2
  Every order granting probation or parole to any person under the control of the authority who has been convicted of any of the offenses enumerated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.3
  (a) The Juvenile Parole Board may suspend, cancel, or revoke any parole and may order returned to custody, as specified in Section 1767.35, any person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.35
  (a) This section applies to a ward who is paroled prior to the 90th day after the enactment of the act adding this section. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.35
  (a) For a ward discharged from the Division of Juvenile Facilities to the jurisdiction of the committing court, that person may be detained by probation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.36
  (a) This section applies to a ward who is discharged from state jurisdiction to the jurisdiction of the committing court on or after the 90th...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.4
  Whenever any person paroled by the Youth Authority Board is returned to the department upon the order of the director by a peace officer or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.5
  The authority may pay any private home for the care of any person committed to the authority and paroled by the Youth Authority Board to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.6
  In parole revocation proceedings, a parolee or his attorney shall receive a copy of any police, arrest, and crime reports pertaining to such proceedings. Portions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.7
  A sum may be withdrawn by the authority from the funds available for the support of the authority without at the time furnishing vouchers and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1767.9
  Any person authorized to appear at a parole hearing pursuant to Section 1767 shall have the right to speak last before the board in regard...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1768
  As a means of correcting the socially harmful tendencies of a person committed to the authority, the director may (a) Require participation by him in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1768.1
  No contract shall be executed with an employer that will initiate employment by persons committed to the authority in the same job classification as other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1768.7
  (a) Any person committed to the authority who escapes or attempts to escape from the institution or facility in which he or she is confined,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1768.8
  (a) An assault or battery by any person confined in an institution under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Youth Authority upon the person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1768.85
  (a) Every person confined under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Youth Authority who commits a battery by gassing upon the person of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1768.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person under the jurisdiction or control of the Department of the Youth Authority is obligated to submit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1768.10
  Notwithstanding any other law, the Youth Authority Board may require a person under its jurisdiction or control to submit to an examination or test for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1769
  (a) Every person committed to the Department of the Youth Authority by a juvenile court shall, except as provided in subdivision (b), be discharged upon...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1770
  Every person convicted of a misdemeanor and committed to the authority shall be discharged upon the expiration of a two-year period of control or when...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1771
  Every person convicted of a felony and committed to the authority shall be discharged when such person reaches his 25th birthday, unless an order for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1772
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), every person honorably discharged from control by the Youth Authority Board who has not, during the period of control by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1773
  (a) No condition or restriction upon the obtaining of an abortion by a female committed to the Division of Juvenile Facilities, pursuant to the Therapeutic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1774
  (a) Any female who has been committed to the authority shall have the right to summon and receive the services of any physician and surgeon...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1776
  Whenever an alleged parole violator is detained in a county detention facility pursuant to a valid exercise of the powers of the Department of Corrections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1777
  Any moneys received pursuant to the Federal Social Security Act by a ward who is incarcerated by the Youth Authority are liable for the reasonable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1778
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1780
  If the date of discharge occurs before the expiration of a period of control equal to the maximum term prescribed by law for the offense...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1781
  Upon the filing of a petition under this article, the court shall notify the person whose liberty is involved, and if he or she is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1782
  Such committing court may thereupon discharge the person, admit him or her to probation or may commit him or her to the state prison. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1783
  An appeal may be taken from the order of the court committing a person to the State prison under this chapter in the same manner...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1784
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) That the mobilization of community resources to assist in providing youthful offenders with necessary educational,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1784.1
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority shall, upon request, provide technical assistance to judges, probation officers, law enforcement officials, school administrators, welfare administrators, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1784.2
  (a) The Director of the Youth Authority shall provide grants from funds made available for this purpose, for the development, implementation, and support of juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1784.3
  The Director of the Youth Authority shall appoint an eight-member advisory committee on community resource referral programs to advise him or her on matters relating...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1784.4
  The director may accept funds and grants from any source, public or private, to assist in accomplishing the purposes of this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1785
  The state advisory group established pursuant to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.) shall perform the duties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1786
  The advisory group shall do all of the following: (a) Identify existing programs dealing with runaway and homeless youth. (b) Develop a directory of service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1787
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) A tremendous percentage of juveniles who commit status offenses including, but not limited to, running...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1788
  Each Runaway Youth and Families in Crisis Project established under this article shall provide services which shall include, but not be limited to, all of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1789
  (a) A Runaway Youth and Families in Crisis Project shall be established in one or more counties in the San Joaquin Central Valley, in one...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1790
  The purpose of this article is to reduce crime and delinquency by assisting the development, establishment and operation of comprehensive public and private community based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1791
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall exercise leadership on behalf of the state in order to accomplish the purpose of this article. All state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1792
  The Director of the Youth Authority may provide funds for financial support, in amounts determined by him, from funds available for such purposes, to public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1792.1
  The director shall make annual allocations from funds made available to him for such purposes for administrative expenses to county delinquency prevention commissions established pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1792.2
  The director may make additional matching allocations from funds available to him for such purposes, in amounts determined by him, to county delinquency prevention commissions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1793
  The Director of the Youth Authority shall develop standards for the operation of programs funded under Sections 1792, 1792.1 and 1792.2. He shall seek advice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1794
  Application for funds under Sections 1792, 1792.1, and 1792.2 shall be made to the Director of the Youth Authority in the manner and form prescribed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1795
  To help communities develop effective local programs, the Director of the Youth Authority may, upon request, provide technical assistance to judges, probation officers, law enforcement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1796
  The Director of the Youth Authority may from funds available to him for such purposes provide funds for demonstration or experimental projects designed to test...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1797
  The director may assist in the establishment of public committees having as their object the prevention or decrease of crime and delinquency among youth, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1798
  As of July 1, 2005, the State Commission on Juvenile Justice, Crime and Delinquency Prevention is abolished.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1799
  The director may, with the approval of the Director of General Services, enter into contracts with the federal government, other state governments, counties, cities, private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1800
  (a) Whenever the Division of Juvenile Facilities determines that the discharge of a person from the control of the division at the time required by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1800.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Board of Parole Hearings may request the Chief Deputy Secretary for Juvenile Justice to review any case in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1801
  (a) If a petition is filed with the court for an order as provided in Section 1800 and, upon review, the court determines that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1801.5
  If a trial is ordered pursuant to Section 1801, the trial shall be by jury unless the right to a jury trial is personally waived...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1801.6
  When the venue of a proceeding under this chapter is changed, costs of the proceeding are chargeable as provided in Section 1037 of the Penal
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1802
  When an order for continued detention is made as provided in Section 1801, the control of the authority over the person shall continue, subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1803
  An order of the committing court made pursuant to this article is appealable by the person whose liberty is involved in the same manner as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1805
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to protect society from crime and delinquency by helping counties maintain and improve local...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1806
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for the program, commencing with fiscal year 1983-84, the Department of the Youth Authority shall provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Juvenile Offender Local Prevention and Corrections Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.05
  For purposes of this article, "partnership funds" means the state's share of funding for county juvenile ranches, camps, and forestry camps.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.1
  Partnership funds shall be used only for the purpose of confinement, discipline, and treatment of juvenile offenders in county juvenile ranches, camps, or forestry camps.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.15
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall establish and implement the Juvenile Offender Local Prevention and Corrections Program. (b) The purpose of the program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.2
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall, in the implementation of this article, do all of the following: (a) Determine county eligibility for partnership funding....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.25
  A county may apply to receive partnership funds under this article by submitting an application to the department in a manner and at a time...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.3
  A county shall be eligible for the receipt of partnership funds under this article only if the county meets all of the following conditions: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.4
  It is the intent of the Legislature that counties that do not operate juvenile camps or ranches, but instead contract for beds with counties that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.45
  (a) (1) The Department of the Youth Authority shall work with counties to develop boot camp programs, either separately or as part of existing ranches,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.47
  In order to develop, establish, and operate residential and nonresidential boot camp and similar programs for young, first-time offenders and nonserious and nonviolent offenders, a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, commencing with the 1994-95 fiscal year, this article shall be funded by the federal government, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1820.55
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall adopt emergency regulations for implementation of this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1830
  The Director of the Youth Authority may participate in a local work furlough program established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1208 of the Penal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1831
  When a person is committed to a facility under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority, the Youth Authority work furlough administrator may, if he concludes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1832
  If the Youth Authority work furlough administrator so directs that the ward be permitted to continue in his regular employment, the administrator shall arrange for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1833
  Whenever the ward is not employed and between the hours or periods of employment, he shall be confined in a detention facility unless the court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1834
  The earnings of the ward shall be collected by the Youth Authority work furlough administrator, and it shall be the duty of the ward's employer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1835
  In the event the ward violates the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody, or employment, the Youth Authority work furlough administrator may order termination...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1850
  The purpose of this article is to protect society more effectively by providing a system of flexible constraints and controls that utilize short-term confinement for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1851
  In order to provide appropriate facilities for the rehabilitative treatment of young offenders who otherwise may be committed to the Department of the Youth Authority...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1852
  Complete operation and authority for administration of the youth correctional center shall be vested in the county. The board of supervisors shall place responsibility for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1853
  Juvenile court wards and criminal offenders eligible for probation may be committed to youth correctional centers as a condition of probation, provided they come within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1854
  While under commitment to the youth correctional center, the offender is subject to the control of the chief probation officer. The offender may be confined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1855
  Earnings of offenders who reside in the center and work in the community shall be collected by the chief probation officer. From such earnings the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1856
  When in the opinion of the chief probation officer an offender appears to be unamenable to the program of the youth correctional center, he shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1857
  The Board of Corrections shall adopt and prescribe the minimum standards of construction, operation, programs of education or rehabilitative training or treatment, and qualifications of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1858
  No youth correctional center established pursuant to this article shall be planned to accommodate more than 350 youths under supervision at any one time. Any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1859
  Where any such youth correctional center is established, and where the minimum standards and qualifications provided for in Section 1857 have been complied with by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1860
  (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall share in the cost pursuant to this article of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1861
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall report to the Legislature no later than the fifth legislative day of the 1974 Regular Session on the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1900
  The Legislature hereby finds that the most significant trend in the development of delinquency prevention programs has been in the direction of multipurpose youth service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1901
  Pursuant to the provisions of this article, any public or private organization may make application to the Department of the Youth Authority for the purpose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1902
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall develop, adopt, prescribe, monitor and enforce minimum standards for youth service bureaus funded under the provisions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1903
  Application for funding of youth service bureaus under the provisions of this article shall be made in the manner prescribed by the Department of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1904
  From any state moneys made available to it for such purpose, the Department of the Youth Authority shall, in accordance with this article, share in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1905
  Each youth service bureau funded under this article shall maintain accurate and complete case records, reports, statistics and other information necessary for the conduct of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1910
  The Legislature hereby finds that wards are committed to the Department of the Youth Authority at rates and for seriousness of risks and needs which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1911
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall, as resources are available, develop and implement a system to classify persons committed to the department. In developing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1912
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall, as resources are available, conduct an assessment of the feasibility and costs of developing and implementing a statewide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1913
  The Department of the Youth Authority shall seek federal funds and funds from other sources to develop the classification system and to assess the feasibility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1915
  (a) The Department of the Youth Authority shall purchase, after a competitive bidding process, two medical devices that utilize a laser to remove a tattoo...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1916
  (a) The California Voluntary Tattoo Removal Program is hereby established. (b) To the extent that funds are appropriated for this purpose, the California Emergency Management...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1950
  The purpose of this chapter is to enhance the capacity of local communities to implement an effective continuum of response to juvenile crime and delinquency.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1951
  (a) There is hereby established the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund. (b) Allocations from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund shall be used to enhance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1951
  (a) There is hereby established the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund. (b) Allocations from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund shall be used to enhance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1952
  For the 2007-08 fiscal year, all of the following shall apply: (a) An amount equal to the total of all of the following shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1953
  For the 2008-09 fiscal year, the total of the following amounts shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1953.5
  For the 2009-10 fiscal year, the total of the following amounts shall be transferred from the General Fund to the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1954
  (a) There is no appropriation from the General Fund for the purpose described in subdivision (b) for the 2011-12 fiscal year. (b) For the 2012-13...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1954.1
  For each fiscal year, the Director of Finance shall determine the total amount of the Youthful Offender Block Grant and the allocation for each county,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1955
  (a) The allocation amount for each county from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund for offenders subject to Sections 733, 1766, and 1767.35 shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1956
  The allocation for any eligible county from the Youthful Offender Block Grant Fund for offenders subject to Section 731.1 shall be determined by the Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1960
  The Legislature finds and declares that local youthful offender justice programs, including both custodial and noncustodial corrective services, are better suited to provide rehabilitative services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1960.5
  (a) The State Commission on Juvenile Justice, pursuant to Section 1798.5, shall develop a Juvenile Justice Operational Master Plan. On or before January 1, 2009,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1961
  (a) On or before May 1 of each year, each county shall prepare and submit to the Corrections Standards Authority for approval a Juvenile Justice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1962
  (a) The Corrections Standards Authority, in consultation with the Division of Juvenile Facilities, may provide technical assistance to counties, including, but not limited to, regional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1970
  (a) For the purposes of this article, "participating county" means any county, or regional consortium of counties, within the state that has been certified to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1971
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, a participating county, and the board are authorized to acquire, design, renovate, or construct a local youthful offender...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1972
  Upon the receipt by a participating county of responsive construction bids, the board and the department may borrow funds for project costs after the project...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1973
  (a) The board may issue up to three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000) in revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes, pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1974
  With the consent of the board, the department, and a participating county are authorized to enter into leases or subleases, as lessor or lessee, for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1975
  (a) The authority shall adhere to its duly adopted regulations for the approval or disapproval of local youthful offender rehabilitative facilities. The authority also shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1976
  Participating county matching funds for projects funded under this article shall be a minimum of 25 percent of the total project costs. The authority may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1977
  In support of state funding authorized by this article, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Population levels in local juvenile offender...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1980
  The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the local supervision of persons discharged from the custody of the Division of Juvenile Facilities.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1981
  (a) There is hereby established a Juvenile Reentry Fund. Moneys allocated for local supervision of persons discharged from the custody of the Division of Juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1982
  (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice shall provide an annual report, commencing July 10, 2011, and annually thereafter, for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1983
  For each fiscal year, beginning in the 2011-12 fiscal year, and each subsequent fiscal year thereafter, the Director of Finance shall calculate the Juvenile Reentry...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1984
  (a) The amount allocated to each county probation department from the Juvenile Reentry Grant shall be distributed in two equal payments to be paid on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1985
  This chapter shall become operative on the 90th day after the enactment of the act adding this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Youth Center and Youth Shelter Bond Act of 1988.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2001
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Acquiring" means obtaining ownership of an existing facility in fee simple for use as a youth center or youth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2010
  Money in the 1988 County Correctional Facility Capital Expenditure and Youth Facility Bond Fund created pursuant to Section 4496.10 of the Penal Code shall, upon...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2011
  (a) The department shall, upon appropriation pursuant to Section 2010, make awards to public or private nonprofit agencies or joint ventures, or both, for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2012
  (a) A recipient of a contract for the acquisition of a facility to be used as a youth center or youth shelter shall assure that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2013
  (a) The State of California shall be entitled to recapture a portion of state funds from the recipient of a contract if, within 10 years...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2014
  A facility altered, acquired, renovated, constructed, or equipped using funds allocated under this chapter may not be used and may not be intended to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2015
  In a youth center or youth shelter facility that is shared with other age groups, funds received under this chapter may support only the following:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2016
  The department prior to issuing a request for proposal shall create an advisory committee to secure from this committee advice on the request for proposal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2017
  Proposals for both youth centers and youth shelters shall do all of the following: (1) Document the need for the applicant's proposal. (2) Contain a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2018
  (a) (1) Funds shall be available in response to requests for proposals. The department shall rank the proposals for funding on a priority consideration based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2019
  The funds shall be given to applicants for youth shelters for abused and neglected children without regard to the priorities set forth in subdivision (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2020
  (a) For purposes of administering this chapter and the allocation of bond proceeds, the department shall treat funding for the youth centers and youth shelters...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2021
  No grant made pursuant to this chapter shall exceed one million dollars ($1,000,000).
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2022
  The committee, as defined in Section 4496.04 of the Penal Code, shall give priority to the issuance of bonds in order to carry out the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2023
  The department shall develop a statewide needs assessment which shall be completed and sent to the Legislature by May 3, 1991, with preliminary information provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2024
  The department shall administer funds appropriated for youth centers and youth shelters as specified in subdivision (b) of Section 4496.12 of the Penal Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2100
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that California's children are growing up under conditions of great stress that are resulting in devastating effects on their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2104
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "At-risk youth" means an individual under 21 years of age whose environment increases their chance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 2106
  It is the intent of the Legislature that all youth mentoring programs shall be afforded all of the following: (a) The adoption of quality assurance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3000
  It is the intent of the Legislature that persons addicted to narcotics, or who by reason of repeated use of narcotics are in imminent danger...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3001
  The narcotic detention, treatment and rehabilitation facility referred to herein shall be one within the Department of Corrections whose principal purpose shall be the receiving,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3002
  Every person committed pursuant to this chapter or former Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 6399) of Title 7 of the Penal Code who escapes or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3003
  The Director of Corrections may enter into agreements with the Director of Mental Health or the Director of Developmental Services pursuant to which persons committed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3005
  The Director of the Department of Corrections shall engage in a program of research in the detention, treatment and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3006
  No commitment under Article 2 or 3 of this chapter shall be ordered until such time as the Director of Corrections designates a place or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3008
  When a court commits a person to the custody of the Director of Corrections pursuant to this chapter, the court shall immediately after making the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3009
  A "narcotic addict," as used in this division refers to any person, adult or minor, who is addicted to the unlawful use of any narcotic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3050
  Upon conviction of a defendant of a misdemeanor or infraction or following revocation of probation previously granted for a misdemeanor or infraction, whether or not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3051
  Upon conviction of a defendant for a felony, or following revocation of probation previously granted for a felony, and upon imposition of sentence, if it...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3052
  (a) Sections 3050 and 3051 shall not apply to any of the following: (1) Persons convicted of any offense for which the provisions of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3053
  (a) If at any time following receipt at the facility of a person committed pursuant to this article, the Director of Corrections concludes that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3054
  A person committed to the custody of the Director of Corrections pursuant to this article is not required to register pursuant to Article 4 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3055
  The Director of Corrections is authorized to establish a limit on the number of persons that may be committed to the narcotic detention, treatment, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3100
  Anyone who believes that a person is addicted to the use of narcotics or by reason of the repeated use of narcotics is in imminent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3100.6
  Any peace officer or health officer who has reasonable cause to believe that a person is addicted to the use of narcotics or by reason...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3101
  Every person who knowingly contrives to have any person adjudged a narcotic addict under this article unlawfully or improperly, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3102
  Upon the filing of a proper petition pursuant to Section 3100, the court shall order the person sought to be committed to be examined by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3102.5
  The petition filed pursuant to Section 3100 of this code shall contain the following: (a) The name, title and address of the petitioner. (b) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3103
  At least one day before the time of the examination as fixed by the court order, a copy of the petition and order for examination...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3103.5
  Upon an order by the court that a person be examined, the court shall appoint two physicians to examine the person to determine whether the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3104
  If the report is to the effect that the person is addicted or is by reason of the repeated use of narcotics in imminent danger...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3105
  The court may issue subpoenas for attendance of witnesses at the hearing and the person sought to be committed shall have the right to have...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3106
  At the hearing, the court shall determine whether the person is addicted to the use of narcotics or is by reason of the repeated use...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3106.5
  If the court determines that the person is not addicted to the use of narcotics, or in imminent danger of addiction, the petition shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3107
  Hearing may be waived by consent of the person, expressed in open court or in writing by the person after the arraignment required by Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3108
  If the person so committed or any friend in his behalf is dissatisfied with the order of commitment, he may within 10 days after the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3109
  (a) If at any time following receipt at the facility of a person committed pursuant to this article, the Director of Corrections concludes that such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3110
  A person committed to the custody of the Director of Corrections pursuant to this article is not required to register pursuant to Article 4 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3111
  In the performance of acts and duties required by this article, any peace officer, health officer, physician, superintendent of an institution or district attorney shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3150
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, any reference to the Narcotic Addict Evaluation Authority refers to the Board of Parole Hearings, any reference to the chairperson...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3151
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2005, after an initial period of observation and treatment, and subject to the rules and policies established by the secretary, whenever...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3152
  The rules for persons in outpatient status shall include but not be limited to close supervision of the person after release from the facility, periodic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3152.5
  In outpatient revocation proceedings, an outpatient or his attorney shall receive a copy of any police, arrest, and crime reports pertaining to such proceedings. Portions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3153
  The Director of Corrections is authorized to establish one or more halfway houses in large metropolitan areas as pilot projects in order to determine the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3154
  A person released in an outpatient status from the California Rehabilitation Center may, with the approval of the Department of Corrections and the Narcotic Addict...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3155
  In addition to any other payment to which he or she is entitled by law, each person who has been committed to the custody of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3156
  (a) Any rules and regulations, including any resolutions and policy statements, promulgated by the authority, shall be promulgated and filed pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3158
  Notwithstanding Section 11425.10 of the Government Code, Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3200
  (a) If at any time the Director of Corrections is of the opinion that a person committed pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 3100)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3201
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) of this section, if a person committed pursuant to this chapter has not been discharged...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3300
  There is hereby established an institution and branches, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to be known as the California Rehabilitation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3301
  The principal purpose of the California Rehabilitation Center shall be the receiving, control, confinement, employment, education, treatment and rehabilitation of persons under the custody of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3302
  The Director of Corrections shall acquire, or construct, and equip, in accordance with law, suitable buildings, structures and facilities for the California Rehabilitation Center.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3303
  (a) The Director of Corrections may prescribe and amend rules and regulations for the administration of the California Rehabilitation Center. These rules and regulations shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3304
  A warden shall be appointed for the California Rehabilitation Center pursuant to Section 6050 of the Penal Code, and the Director of Corrections shall appoint,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3305
  The supervision, management and control of the California Rehabilitation Center and the responsibility for the care, custody, training, discipline, employment, and treatment of the persons...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3306
  The Director of Corrections may authorize the temporary removal from the California Rehabilitation Center or any of its branches under the jurisdiction of the Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3307
  The Director of Corrections may establish and operate facilities to be known as community correctional centers.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3308
  The primary purpose of such facilities is to provide housing, supervision, counseling, and other correctional programs for persons committed to the Director of Corrections.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3309
  Commencing July 1, 2005, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall make rules and regulations for the government of the community correctional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3310
  The Director of Corrections may transfer persons confined in the California Rehabilitation Center, or branches thereof, to community correctional centers and place persons on outpatient...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 3311
  The Director of Corrections may grant furloughs to residents of community correctional centers for the purpose of employment, education, including vocational training, or arranging a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4000
  There is in the Health and Welfare Agency a State Department of Mental Health.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4001
  As used in this division: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Mental Health. (b) "Director" means the Director of Mental Health. (c) "State hospital"...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4004
  The department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Mental Health.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4005
  With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint, to serve at his pleasure, the Director of Mental Health. He shall have the powers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4005.1
  The department may adopt and enforce rules and regulations necessary to carry out its duties under this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4005.4
  All regulations heretofore adopted by the State Department of Health pursuant to authority now vested in the State Department of Mental Health by Section 4005.1...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4006
  With the approval of the Department of Finance and for use in the furtherance of the work of the State Department of Mental Health, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4007
  The department may expend in accordance with law all money now or hereafter made available for its use, or for the administration of any statute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4008
  (a) The department may expend money in accordance with law for the actual and necessary travel expenses of officers and employees of the department who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4009
  The department may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as it deems necessary, subject to the laws governing civil service.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4010
  Except as in this chapter otherwise prescribed, the provisions of the Government Code relating to state officers and departments shall apply to the State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4011
  Unless otherwise indicated in this code, the State Department of Mental Health has jurisdiction over the execution of the laws relating to the care, custody,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4011.5
  In counties where State Department of Mental Health hospitals are located, the state hospitals shall ensure that appropriate special education and related services, pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4012
  The State Department of Mental Health may: (a) Disseminate educational information relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder. (b) Upon request, advise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4012.5
  The State Department of Mental Health may obtain psychiatric, medical and other necessary aftercare services for judicially committed patients on leave of absence from state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4015
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall, in coordination with the task force described in subdivision (c) and with other state entities, including, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4016
  In every place in which a mentally disordered person may be involuntarily held, the persons confined therein shall be permitted access to and examination or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4017
  (a) The department may provide information to the Controller to guide distribution of resources dedicated for mental health services under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4021
  When the department has reason to believe that any person held in custody as mentally disordered is wrongfully deprived of his liberty, or is cruelly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4022
  When complaint is made to the department regarding the officers or management of any hospital or institution for the mentally disordered, or regarding the management...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4024
  The State Department of Mental Health proposed allocations for level-of-care staffing in state hospitals that serve persons with mental disabilities shall be submitted to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4024.5
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health and the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, jointly, shall develop a plan, by July 1, 1994,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4025
  Charges made by the department for the care and treatment of each patient in a facility maintained by the department shall not exceed the actual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4027
  The State Department of Mental Health may adopt regulations concerning patients' rights and related procedures applicable to the inpatient treatment of mentally ill offenders receiving...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4030
  The Director of Mental Health shall organize appropriate staff of the department to ensure implementation of the planning, research, evaluation, technical assistance, and quality assurance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4031
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, do all of the following: (a) Conduct, sponsor, coordinate, and disseminate results...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4032
  The department shall, when appropriate, give and receive grants and contracts for research, evaluation, and quality assurance efforts.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4033
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, comply with federal planning requirements. The department shall update and issue...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4040
  The State Department of Mental Health may conduct, or contract for, research or evaluation studies which have application to policy and management issues. In selecting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4041
  The department shall serve as a clearinghouse for information on research and evaluation studies relevant to mental health. The department shall review and disseminate the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4042
  The department shall cooperate and coordinate with other state and local agencies engaged in research and evaluation studies. Effort shall be made to coordinate with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4043
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department provide leadership in the establishment and funding of mental health research projects. The projects...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4044
  Research performed pursuant to this chapter shall have as a priority serious mental disorders. Research shall be conducted in, or in collaboration with, state or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4045
  In order to improve the quality of mental health care in this state, a portion of the funding for research pursuant to this chapter shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4050
  The State Department of Mental Health shall provide, to the extent resources are available, technical assistance, through its own staff, or by contract, to county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4051
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, provide program development guidelines, evaluation models, and operational assistance on all aspects...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4052
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, provide training in performance standards, model programs, cultural competency, and program development.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4060
  The department shall, in order to implement Section 4050, utilize a joint state-county decisionmaking process that shall include local mental health directors and representatives of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4061
  (a) The department shall utilize a joint state-county decisionmaking process to determine the appropriate use of state and local training, technical assistance, and regulatory resources...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4070
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall develop a quality assurance program to govern the delivery of Short-Doyle Medi-Cal services, in order to assure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4071
  The department shall approve each local program's initial quality assurance plan, and shall thereafter review and approve each program's Short-Doyle Medi-Cal quality assurance plan whenever...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4074
  To the extent resources are available, the department shall utilize state and federal laws, research findings, and information collected for county programs to assess the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4075
  The department shall establish and maintain an equitable system of payment for the special needs of mentally disordered persons in private residential care facilities for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4076
  Counties which contract with private residential care facilities for additional services for mentally disabled persons involving payment of supplemental rates shall utilize the payment rate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4078
  Facilities funded by contract for supplemental rates in accordance with this chapter shall be licensed under existing licensing categories, including provisional licenses.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4080
  (a) Psychiatric health facilities, as defined in Section 1250.2 of the Health and Safety Code, shall only be licensed by the State Department of Mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4090
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulation, standards for the programs listed in Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 5670) of Part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4091
  Nothing in Section 4090 limits the authority of the State Department of Mental Health to delegate the evaluation and enforcement of the program standards to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4094
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall establish, by regulations adopted at the earliest possible date, but no later than December 31, 1994, program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4094.1
  (a) (1) The department and the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with community treatment providers, local mental health departments, and county welfare departments,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4094.2
  (a) For the purpose of establishing payment rates for community treatment facility programs, the private nonprofit agencies selected to operate these programs shall prepare a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4094.5
  Regulations for community treatment facilities adopted pursuant to Section 4094 shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Only seriously emotionally disturbed children,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4094.6
  The patients' rights provisions contained in Sections 5325, 5325.1, 5325.2, and 5326 shall be available to any child admitted to, or eligible for admission to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4094.7
  (a) A community treatment facility may have both secure and nonsecure beds. However, the State Department of Mental Health shall limit the total number of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4095
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that essential and culturally relevant mental health assessment, case management, and treatment services be available to wards...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4096
  (a) (1) Interagency collaboration and children's program services shall be structured in a manner that will facilitate future implementation of the goals of the Children's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4096.5
  (a) The department shall make a determination, within 45 days of receiving a request from a group home to be classified at RCL 13 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4097
  There is hereby established, under the administration of the State Department of Mental Health, an Early Intervention Mental Health Program. This program shall provide services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4097.1
  Up to three million dollars ($3,000,000) may be allocated on an annual basis for three years to the department for this program. No more than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4097.2
  Program services shall be designed to facilitate a relationship-based approach that promotes optimal social and emotional development of the child in interactions between parent, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4097.3
  The program shall be formally evaluated by the department and the results of the evaluation reported to the fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4098
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Surgeon General of the United States has described suicide prevention as a serious public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4098.1
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Suicide Prevention Act of 2000.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4098.2
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health, contingent upon appropriation in the annual Budget Act, may establish and implement a suicide prevention, education, and gatekeeper...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4098.3
  The department may contract with an outside agency to establish and implement a targeted public awareness and education campaign on suicide prevention and treatment. Target...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4098.4
  (a) The department may contract with local mental health organizations and professionals with expertise in the assessment and treatment of suicidal behaviors to develop an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4098.5
  The department may establish and implement, or contract with an outside agency for the development of a multicounty, 24-hour, centralized suicide crisis line integrated network....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4100
  The department has jurisdiction over the following institutions: (a) Atascadero State Hospital. (b) Coalinga State Hospital. (c) Metropolitan State Hospital. (d) Napa State Hospital. (e)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4100.2
  (a) Commencing January 10, 2009, and each year thereafter, the State Department of Mental Health shall provide the fiscal committees of the Legislature with a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4100.5
  The department may contract with the State Department of Developmental Services to provide services to persons with mental disorders in state hospitals under the jurisdiction...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4101
  Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this code, all of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4101.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Department of Mental Health may contract with providers of health care services and health care network providers, including,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4102
  Each state hospital is a corporation.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4103
  Each such corporation may acquire and hold in its corporate name by gift, grant, devise, or bequest property to be applied to the maintenance of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4104
  All lands necessary for the use of the state hospitals specified in Section 4100, except those acquired by gift, devise, or purchase, shall be acquired...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4105
  The Director of General Services shall grant to the County of San Bernardino under such terms, conditions, and restrictions as he or she deems to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4106
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4104, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may grant to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4107
  (a) The security of patients committed pursuant to Section 1026 of, and Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1367) of Title 10 of Part 2 of,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4107.1
  Consistent with the authority of the State Department of Mental Health to maintain and operate state hospitals under its jurisdiction, the State Department of Mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4109
  The State Department of Mental Health has general control and direction of the property and concerns of each state hospital specified in Section 4100. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4109.5
  (a) Whenever the department proposes the closure of a state hospital, it shall submit as part of the Governor's proposed budget to the Legislature a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4110
  The medical superintendent shall make triplicate estimates, in minute detail, as approved by the State Department of Mental Health, of such supplies, expenses, buildings, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4111
  The state hospitals may manufacture supplies and materials necessary or required to be used in any of the state hospitals which can be economically manufactured...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4112
  (a) All money belonging to the state and received by state hospitals from any source, except appropriations, shall, at the end of each month, be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4112.1
  Section 4112 does not apply to the funds known as the "sheltered workshop funds."
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4113
  The state hospitals and the officers thereof shall make such financial statements to the Controller as the Controller requires.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4114
  The authorities for the several hospitals shall furnish to the State Department of Mental Health the facts mentioned in Section 4019 of this code and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4115
  The department may permit, subject to such conditions and regulations as it may impose, any religious or missionary corporation or society to erect a building...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4116
  The department may establish and supervise under its rules and regulations training schools or courses for employees of the department or of state institutions under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4117
  (a) Whenever a trial is had of any person charged with escape or attempt to escape from a state hospital, whenever a hearing is had...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4118
  The State Department of Mental Health shall cooperate with the United States Bureau of Immigration in arranging for the deportation of all aliens who are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4119
  The State Department of Mental Health shall investigate and examine all nonresident persons residing in any state hospital for the mentally disordered and shall cause...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4120
  Except as otherwise provided in this section in determining residence for purposes of being entitled to hospitalization in this state and for purposes of returning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4121
  All expenses incurred in returning these persons to other states shall be paid by this state, the person or his or her relatives, but the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4122
  The State Department of Mental Health, when it deems it necessary, may, under conditions prescribed by the director, transfer any patients of a state institution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4123
  The Director of Mental Health may authorize the transfer of persons from any institution within the department to any institution authorized by the federal government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4124
  The State Department of Mental Health shall send to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever requested a list of all persons who have been patients...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4125
  (a) The director may deposit any funds of any patient in the possession of each hospital administrator of a state hospital in trust with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4126
  Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health dies, and any personal funds or property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4127
  (a) Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health escapes, is discharged, or is on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4128
  Before any money or other personal property or documents are delivered to the State Treasurer, State Controller, or public administrator, or sold at auction or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4129
  At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the State Treasurer or State Controller under the provisions of Section 4126 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4130
  When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Sections 4126 or 4127, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4131
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of Sections 4126 and 4127 shall apply (1) to all money and other personal property delivered to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4132
  It is hereby declared that the provisions of this code reflect the concern of the Legislature that mentally disordered persons are to be regarded as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4133
  All day hospitals and rehabilitation centers maintained by the State Department of Mental Health shall be subject to the provisions of this code pertaining to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4134
  The state mental hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health shall comply with the California Food Sanitation Act, Article 1 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4135
  Any person committed to the State Department of Mental Health as a mentally abnormal sex offender shall remain a patient committed to the department for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4136
  (a) Each patient in a state hospital for the mentally disordered who has resided in the state hospital for a period of at least 30...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4137
  Whenever a patient dies in a state mental hospital and the coroner finds that the death was by accident or at the hands of another...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4138
  (a) Upon receiving a request from the director of a state hospital listed in Section 4100, the Director of Mental Health may prohibit the possession...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4139
  (a) Except as otherwise authorized by law, or when authorized by the director of the state hospital, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4200
  (a) Each state hospital under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health shall have a hospital advisory board of eight members appointed by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4201
  No person shall be eligible for appointment to a hospital advisory board if he is a Member of the Legislature or an elective state officer,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4202
  The advisory boards of the several state hospitals are advisory to the State Department of Mental Health and the Legislature with power of visitation and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4202.5
  (a) The chairman of a hospital advisory board advising a hospital for the mentally disordered shall meet annually with the hospital director, the community mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4203
  The Atascadero State Hospital shall have an advisory board of seven persons appointed by the Governor, each of whom holds office for the term of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4240
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The symptoms and behaviors of persons with serious mental disorders may cause severe disruption of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4241
  It is the intent of the Legislature, by this chapter, to support an organized program of self-help in which families exchange information, advice, and emotional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4242
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Family" means persons whose children, spouses, siblings, parents, grandparents, or grandchildren have a serious mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4243
  (a) All funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be used to contract with an organization to establish a statewide network of families...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4244
  The Director of Mental Health shall enter into a contract with the successful bidder to provide services which shall include, but not be necessarily limited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4245
  Contracts entered in pursuant to this chapter shall: (a) Have an annual contract period from July 1 through June 30 of each fiscal year unless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4300
  As used in this article, "officers" of a state hospital means: (a) Clinical director. (b) Hospital administrator. (c) Hospital director.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4301
  The Director of Mental Health shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of the clinical director and the hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4302
  The Director of the State Department of Mental Health shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4303
  Salaries of resident and other officers and wages of employees shall be included in the budget estimates of, and paid in the same manner as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4304
  The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients who are mentally disordered. The efforts and direction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4305
  Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, and under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4306
  Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the clinical director,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4307
  The hospital director is the chief executive officer of the hospital and is responsible for all hospital operations. If the hospital director is the clinical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4308
  As often as a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of Mental Health, he shall appoint, as provided in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4309
  The hospital director is responsible for the overall management of the hospital. In his absence one of the other hospital officers or in the absence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4311
  The hospital administrator shall be responsible for preserving the peace in the hospital buildings and grounds and may arrest or cause the arrest and appearance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4312
  The hospital director may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law or departmental regulations, concerning the care and treatment of patients, research, clinical training,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4313
  The hospital administrator of each state hospital may designate, in writing, as a police officer, one or more of the bona fide employees of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4314
  The Director of Mental Health may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4315
  Wherever the term "superintendent", "medical superintendent", or "superintendent or medical director" appears, the term shall be deemed to mean clinical director, except in Sections 4110,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4316
  Subject to rules and regulations adopted by the department, the hospital director may establish a sheltered workshop at a state hospital to provide patients with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4317
  At each state hospital at which there is established a sheltered workshop, there shall be a sheltered workshop fund administered by the clinical director. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4318
  Each state hospital shall, prior to the discharge of any patient who was placed in the facility under a county Short-Doyle plan, prepare a written...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4319
  To assure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health, the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4320
  To assure an adequate supply of licensed psychiatric technicians for state hospitals for the mentally disordered, the State Department of Mental Health, to the extent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4330
  The State Department of Mental Health shall be reimbursed for use of state hospital beds by counties pursuant to Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4331
  (a) No later than July 1, 1992, and in each subsequent year, each county acting singly or in combination with other counties shall contract with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4332
  (a) Contracts entered into pursuant to Section 4331 shall do all of the following: (1) Specify the number of beds to be provided. (2) Specify...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4333
  (a) In the event a county or counties elect to reduce their state hospital resources, beginning July 1, 1992, systemwide state hospital net bed reduction...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4333.5
  (a) The department shall encourage the counties to use state hospital facilities, in addition to utilizing state hospital beds pursuant to contract, for additional treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4334
  By July 1, 1992, the State Department of Mental Health, in collaboration with counties, shall do all of the following: (a) Prepare and publish a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4335
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to prevent the department from entering into innovative arrangements with counties for delivery of state hospital services. The Director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4340
  The department shall maintain a statewide mental health prevention program directed toward a reduction in the need for utilization of the treatment system and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4341
  (a) In order to ensure the availability of an adequate number of persons from all disciplines necessary to implement appropriate and effective services to severely...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4341.5
  In order to ensure an adequate number of qualified psychiatrists and psychologists with forensic skills, the State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4343
  The Legislature recognizes that prevention and early intervention services have long been slighted in the community mental health programs and has identified, as a goal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4344
  Primary intervention programs shall be developed in accordance with the guidelines and principles set forth in this chapter. To this end, school districts, publicly funded...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4345
  The Director of Mental Health shall develop guidelines for primary intervention programs in accordance with the following: (a) School-based programs shall serve children in grades...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4346
  (a) Each primary intervention program shall have a core team consisting of school-based mental health professionals, including credentialed school psychologists, school counselors, school social workers,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4347
  School districts or publicly funded preschools receiving funds under this chapter shall demonstrate a capability for referral to appropriate public and private community services. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4348
  (a) (1) Subject to the availability of funding each year, the State Department of Mental Health shall award primary intervention program grants pursuant to a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4349
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, on the basis of applications submitted pursuant to a request for proposal, select recipients of primary intervention program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4349.5
  Grants that have been awarded prior to the effective date of this section shall continue to be subject to the provisions of this chapter, including...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4349.7
  Proposals submitted to the department between April 1, 1992, and May 1, 1992, pursuant to Sections 4343 to 4350, inclusive, that received a passing score...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4350
  (a) The role of the school district or preschool in each approved primary intervention program shall be to do all of the following: (1) Arrange...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4350.5
  (a) School districts or county superintendents of schools proposing to serve as grant recipients pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 4348 shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4351
  The department shall provide for training of program personnel. Funds for this purpose may be appropriated under Section 11489 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4352
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall conduct a review of each primary intervention program at least once during the first year of funding,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4352.5
  Up to 10 percent of the total state funds available annually for the primary intervention program from all sources may be utilized by the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4353
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There is a large population of persons who have suffered traumatic head injuries resulting in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4354
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Acquired traumatic brain injury" is an injury that is sustained after birth from an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4354.5
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Traumatic brain injuries have a long-term impact on the survivors, their families, caregivers, and support...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4355
  (a) On or before January 1, 2012, the department shall determine requirements related to service delivery, uniform data collection, and other aspects of program administration,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4356
  Using data collected consistent with requirements established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 4355, the department shall monitor and evaluate the performance of service providers.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4357
  (a) Service providers shall identify the needs of consumers and deliver services designed to meet those needs. (b) Service providers shall match not less than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4357.1
  (a) The department may make grants from the funds in the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund, established in Section 4358, to service providers for the purpose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4358
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund, the moneys in which may, upon appropriation by the Legislature, be expended...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4358.5
  Funds deposited into the Traumatic Brain Injury Fund pursuant to paragraph (8) of subdivision (f) of Section 1464 of the Penal Code may be matched...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4359
  This chapter shall remain in effect until July 1, 2019, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute enacted prior to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4360
  (a) The department shall provide mental health treatment and supervision in the community for judicially committed persons. The program established and administered by the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4362
  The Legislature finds all of the following: (a) That state public policy discriminates against adults with brain damage or degenerative brain disease, such as Alzheimer's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4362.5
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Brain damage," "degenerative brain diseases," and "brain impairment" mean significant destruction of brain tissue with resultant loss of brain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4363
  The director shall administer this chapter and establish standards and procedures, as the director deems necessary in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4363.5
  The director shall do both of the following: (a) Contract with a nonprofit community agency meeting the requirements of this chapter to act as the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4364
  The Statewide Resources Consultant shall do all of the following: (a) Serve as the centralized information and technical assistance clearinghouse for brain-impaired adults, their families,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4364.5
  The Statewide Resources Consultant, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 4362.5, shall do the following: (a) Develop respite care training materials, with consultation by other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4365
  In choosing an appropriate nonprofit community agency to act as the Statewide Resources Consultant, the director shall give priority to an agency which meets both...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4365.5
  (a) The Statewide Resources Consultant shall submit progress reports on its activities as required by the director. These reports shall include, but not be limited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4366
  Resource centers shall serve all of the following functions: (a) Provide directly or assist families in securing information, advice, and referral services, legal services and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4366.5
  (a) Agencies designated as resource centers by the director after consultation with the Statewide Resources Consultant shall include in their governing or advisory boards, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4367
  Resource centers shall carry out the functions specified in Section 4366 through the administration and provision of programs and services that reflect the most progressive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4367.5
  The director shall establish criteria for client eligibility, including financial liability, pursuant to Section 4368. However, persons eligible for services provided by regional centers or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4368
  Persons receiving services pursuant to this chapter may be required to contribute to the cost of services depending upon their ability to pay, but not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4368.5
  In considering total service funds available for the project, the director shall utilize funding available from appropriate state departments, including, but not limited to: the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4369
  There is within the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, the Office of Problem and Pathological Gambling.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4369.1
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. (b) "Office" means the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4369.2
  (a) The office shall develop a problem gambling prevention program, which shall be the first priority for funding appropriated to this office. The prevention program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4369.3
  In designing and developing the overall program, the office shall do all of the following: (a) Develop a statewide plan to address problem and pathological...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4369.4
  All state agencies, including, but not limited to, the California Horse Racing Board, the California Gambling Control Commission, the Department of Justice, and any other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4370
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the School-based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services for Children Act of 1991.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4371
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Each year in California over 65,000 teenagers become adolescent mothers and 230 teenagers commit suicide....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4372
  For the purposes of this part, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Cooperating entity" means any federal, state, or local, public or private nonprofit agency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4380
  Subject to the availability of funding each year, the Legislature authorizes the director, in consultation with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to award matching grants...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4381
  No funding shall be made available to any program or facility pursuant to this chapter unless all of the following conditions are met: (a) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4383
  (a) For the 1991-92 and 1992-93 fiscal years, a local schoolsite may be awarded funding from the director pursuant to this part and from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4390
  The Legislature finds that an evaluation of program effectiveness is both desirable and necessary and accordingly requires the following: No later than June 30, 1993,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4400
  There is in the Health and Welfare Agency a State Department of Developmental Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4401
  As used in this division: (a) "Department" means the State Department of Developmental Services. (b) "Director" means the Director of Developmental Services. (c) "State hospital"...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4404
  The department is under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Developmental Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4405
  With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint to serve at his pleasure, the Director of Developmental Services. He shall have the powers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4406
  The State Department of Developmental Services succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4407
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4408
  All officers and employees of the Director of Health who on the operative date of this section are serving in the state civil service, other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4409
  All regulations heretofore adopted by the State Department of Health pursuant to authority now vested in the State Department of Developmental Services by Section 4406...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4410
  With the approval of the Department of General Services and for use in the furtherance of the work of the State Department of Developmental Services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4411
  The department may expend in accordance with law all money now or hereafter made available for its use, or for the administration of any statute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4412
  The department may expend money in accordance with law for the actual and necessary travel expenses of officers and employees of the department who are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4413
  The department may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as it deems necessary, subject to the laws governing civil service.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4414
  When convening any task force or advisory group, the department shall make its best effort to ensure representation by consumers and family members representing California's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4415
  Except as in this chapter otherwise prescribed, the provisions of the Government Code relating to state officers and departments shall apply to the State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4416
  Unless otherwise indicated in this code, the State Department of Developmental Services has jurisdiction over the execution of the laws relating to the care, custody,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4416.5
  The State Department of Developmental Services may contract with one or more qualified organizations to provide the services required by Section 1919 of the Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4417
  The State Department of Developmental Services may: (a) Disseminate educational information relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental retardation. (b) Upon request, advise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4418
  The State Department of Developmental Services may obtain psychiatric, medical and other necessary aftercare services for judicially committed patients on leave of absence from state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4418.2
  The department shall support, utilizing regional resource development projects, the activities specified in Sections 4418.25, 4418.3, and 4418.7.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4418.25
  (a) The department shall establish policies and procedures for the development of an annual community placement plan by regional centers. The community placement plan shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4418.3
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the transition process from a developmental center to a community living arrangement is based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4418.5
  The department may provide protective social services for the care of developmentally disabled patients released from state hospitals of the department or to prevent the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4418.6
  The department may establish within its family care program respite care services for the developmentally disabled. Such respite care services may be available to both...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4418.7
  (a) If the regional center determines, or is informed by the consumer's parents, legal guardian, conservator, or authorized representative that the community placement of a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4419
  Within the limits of available funds it is the intent of the Legislature that the department shall require all personnel working directly with patients to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4420
  In order to assure an adequate number of qualified psychiatric technicians, psychiatrists, physicians and surgeons, psychologists, nurses, social workers, laboratory and other technicians, and ancillary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4421
  In order to assure an adequate number of qualified psychiatrists and psychologists with forensic skills, the State Department of Developmental Services shall plan with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4422
  The department may examine all public and private hospitals, boarding homes or other establishments whether or not licensed by the department, receiving or caring for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4423
  In every place in which a developmentally disabled person may be involuntarily held, the persons confined therein shall be permitted access to and examination or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4424
  The department shall adopt, for all hospitals, rules and regulations, books of record for all departments, blank forms for clinical records and other purposes, questions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4425
  The department shall keep in its office a record showing the following facts concerning each patient in custody in the several institutions: (a) Name, residence,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4426
  The department may inquire into the manner in which any mentally retarded person subject to commitment, not confined in a state hospital, is cared for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4427
  When the department has reason to believe that any person held in custody as developmentally disabled is wrongfully deprived of his liberty, or is cruelly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4427.5
  (a) (1) A developmental center shall immediately report all resident deaths and serious injuries of unknown origin to the appropriate local law enforcement agency, which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4428
  When complaint is made to the department regarding the officers or management of any hospital or institution for the developmentally disabled, or regarding the management...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4429
  The department shall biennially report to the Legislature its acts and proceedings for the two years ending the June 30th last preceding, with such facts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4430
  The department shall report to the Legislature the prospective needs for the care, custody, and treatment of developmentally disabled persons, together with its recommendations therefor....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4431
  Charges made by the department for the care and treatment of each patient in a facility maintained by the department shall not exceed the actual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4432
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services shall report proposed allocations for level-of-care staffing in state hospitals that serve persons with developmental disabilities that shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4433
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The State of California accepts its responsibility to ensure and uphold the rights of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4433.5
  Notwithstanding Section 4433, the department may contract with the State Council on Developmental Disabilities for the purpose of utilizing area boards to provide clients' rights...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4434
  (a) Notwithstanding preexisting rights to enforce the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act (Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 4500)), it is the intent of the Legislature...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4435
  (a) The department shall establish a prevention program for at-risk babies. For purposes of this section, "at-risk baby" means a child under 36 months of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4435.1
  (a) Effective July 1, 2011, the department shall establish a program for at-risk babies. For purposes of this section, "at-risk baby" means a child under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4440
  The department has jurisdiction over the following institutions: Agnews State Hospital. Camarillo State Hospital. Fairview State Hospital. Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital. Porterville State Hospital....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4440.1
  The department may contract with the State Department of Mental Health to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities in state hospitals under the jurisdiction...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4440.5
  A state hospital under the jurisdiction of the department may also be known as a developmental center.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4441
  Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this code, all of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4441.5
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall develop policies and procedures, by no later than 30 days following the effective date of the Budget Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4442
  Each state hospital is a corporation.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4443
  Each such corporation may acquire and hold in its corporate name by gift, grant, devise, or bequest property to be applied to the maintenance of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4444
  All lands necessary for the use of state hospitals except those acquired by gift, devise, or purchase, shall be acquired by condemnation as lands for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4445
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4444, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant rights-of-way for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4446
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4444, the Director of General Services may enter into an agreement with the City of Santa Clara for the dedication of a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4447
  Notwithstanding Section 4444, the Director of General Services with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant a right-of-way for road purposes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4448
  The department shall participate with the City of Porterville in the construction of an interceptor sewer between the Porterville State Hospital facilities and the sewer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4449
  The State Department of Developmental Services has general control and direction of the property and concerns of each state hospital specified in Section 4440. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4450
  The medical superintendent shall make triplicate estimates, in minute detail, as approved by the State Department of Developmental Services of such supplies, expenses, buildings, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4451
  The state hospitals may manufacture supplies, materials, and assisting devices which are for the benefit of individuals with disabilities who otherwise would not have access...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4452
  All money belonging to the state and received by state hospitals from any source, except appropriations, shall, at the end of each month, be deposited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4453
  The state hospitals and the officers thereof shall make such financial statements to the Controller as the Controller requires.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4454
  The authorities for the several hospitals shall furnish to the State Department of Developmental Services the facts mentioned in Section 4425 and such other obtainable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4455
  The department may permit, subject to such conditions and regulations as it may impose, any religious or missionary corporation or society to erect a building...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4456
  The department may establish and supervise under its rules and regulations training schools or courses for employees of the department or of state institutions under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4457
  Whenever a trial is had of any person charged with escape or attempt to escape from a state hospital, whenever a hearing is had on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4458
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall cooperate with the United States Bureau of Immigration in arranging for the deportation of all aliens who are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4459
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall investigate and examine all nonresident persons judicially committed to any state hospital and shall cause such persons, when...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4460
  In order to be entitled to hospitalization in this state, an adult developmentally disabled person or the parent or guardian or conservator of a developmentally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4461
  (a) All expenses incurred in returning such persons to other states shall be paid by this state, the person, or his or her relatives, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4462
  The State Department of Developmental Services, when it deems it necessary, may, under conditions prescribed by the director, transfer any patients of a state institution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4463
  The Director of Developmental Services may authorize the transfer of persons from any institution within the department to any institution authorized by the federal government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4464
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall send to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever requested a list of all persons who have been patients...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4465
  The Director of Developmental Services may deposit any funds of patients in the possession of each hospital administrator of a state hospital in trust with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4466
  Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services dies, and any personal funds or property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4467
  Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services escapes, or is discharged or is on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4468
  Before any money or other personal property or documents are delivered to the State Treasurer, State Controller, or public administrator, or sold at auction or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4469
  At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the State Treasurer or State Controller under the provisions of Section 4126 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4470
  When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Section 4466 or 4467, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4471
  All day hospitals and rehabilitation centers maintained by the State Department of Developmental Services shall be subject to the provisions of this code pertaining to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4472
  The state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall comply with the California Food Sanitation Act, Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4473
  Whenever a patient dies in a state hospital for the developmentally disabled and the coroner finds that the death was by accident or at the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4474
  Each patient in a state hospital for the developmentally disabled who has resided in the state hospital for a period of at least 30 days...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4474.1
  (a) Whenever the State Department of Developmental Services proposes the closure of a state developmental center, the department shall be required to submit a detailed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4474.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the department may operate any facility, provide its employees to assist in the operation of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4474.3
  The provisions of Section 10411 of the Public Contract Code shall not apply to any person who, in connection with the closures of Agnews Developmental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4474.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Secretary of California Health and Human Services shall verify that the State Department of Developmental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4474.5
  (a) In order to meet the unique medical health needs of consumers transitioning from Agnews Developmental Center into Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4474.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the State Department of Developmental Services shall continue the operation of the Agnews Outpatient Clinic and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4475
  (a) Each developmental center under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall have a developmental center advisory board of eight members appointed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4476
  No person shall be eligible for appointment to a developmental center advisory board if he or she is a Member of the Legislature or an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4477
  The advisory boards of the several state developmental centers are advisory to the State Department of Developmental Services and the Legislature with power of visitation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4478
  (a) The chairperson of an advisory board advising a developmental center shall meet annually with the developmental center director, the regional center directors, and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4480
  As used in this article, "officers" of a state hospital means: (a) Clinical director. (b) Hospital administrator. (c) Hospital director.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4481
  (a) The Director of Developmental Services shall appoint and define the duties, subject to the laws governing civil service, of the clinical director and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4482
  The Director of the State Department of Developmental Services shall have the final authority for determining all other employee needs after consideration of program requests...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4483
  Salaries of resident and other officers and wages of employees shall be included in the budget estimates of, and paid in the same manner as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4484
  The primary purpose of a state hospital is the medical and nursing care of patients who are developmentally disabled. The efforts and direction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4485
  Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, and under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4486
  Subject to the rules and regulations established by the department, under the supervision of the hospital director when the hospital director is the clinical director,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4487
  The hospital director is the chief executive officer of the hospital and is responsible for all hospital operations. If the hospital director is the clinical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4488
  As often as a vacancy occurs in a hospital under the jurisdiction of the Director of Developmental Services, he shall appoint, as provided in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4489
  The hospital director is responsible for the overall management of the hospital. In his absence one of the other hospital officers or in the absence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4491
  The hospital administrator shall be responsible for preserving the peace in the hospital buildings and grounds and may arrest or cause the arrest and appearance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4492
  The hospital director may establish rules and regulations not inconsistent with law or departmental regulations, concerning the care and treatment of patients, research, clinical training,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4493
  The hospital administrator of each state hospital may designate, in writing, as a police officer, one or more of the bona fide employees of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4494
  The Director of Developmental Services may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of any of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4495
  Wherever the term "superintendent" appears, the term shall be deemed to mean clinical director, except in Sections 4450, 4466, 4467, 4469, 7281, and 7289, where...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4496
  Subject to rules and regulations adopted by the department, the hospital director may establish a sheltered workshop at a state hospital to provide patients with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4497
  At each state hospital at which there is established a sheltered workshop, there shall be a sheltered workshop fund administered by the clinical director. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4498
  To assure a continuous level of competency for all state hospital treatment personnel under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services, the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4499
  To assure an adequate supply of licensed psychiatric technicians for state hospitals for the developmentally disabled, the State Department of Developmental Services, to the extent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4500
  This division shall be known and may be cited as the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4500.5
  The Legislature makes the following findings regarding the State of California's responsibility to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities, and the right of those...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4501
  The State of California accepts a responsibility for persons with developmental disabilities and an obligation to them which it must discharge. Affecting hundreds of thousands...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4501.5
  In counties where State Department of Developmental Services hospitals are located, the state hospitals shall ensure that appropriate special education and related services, pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4502
  Persons with developmental disabilities have the same legal rights and responsibilities guaranteed all other individuals by the United States Constitution and laws and the Constitution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4502.1
  The right of individuals with developmental disabilities to make choices in their own lives requires that all public or private agencies receiving state funds for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4503
  Each person with developmental disabilities who has been admitted or committed to a state hospital, community care facility as defined in Section 1502 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4504
  The professional person in charge of the facility or his designee may, for good cause, deny a person any of the rights specified under subdivisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4505
  For the purposes of subdivisions (f) and (g) of Section 4503, if the patient is a minor age 15 years or over, the right to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4507
  Developmental disabilities alone shall not constitute sufficient justification for judicial commitment. Instead, persons with developmental disabilities shall receive services pursuant to this division. Persons who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4508
  Persons with developmental disabilities may be released from developmental centers for provisional placement, with parental consent in the case of a minor or with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4509
  By January 1, 1977, the Director of Developmental Services shall compile a roster of all persons who are in the custody of a state hospital,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4510
  The State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Mental Health shall jointly develop and implement a statewide program for encouraging the establishment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4511
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that meeting the needs and honoring the choices of persons with developmental disabilities and their families requires information, skills...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4512
  As used in this division: (a) "Developmental disability" means a disability that originates before an individual attains age 18 years, continues, or can be expected...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4513
  (a) Whenever the department allocates funds to a regional center through a request for proposal process to implement special projects funded through the Budget Act,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4514
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing intake, assessment, and services under Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division 4.5 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4514.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 4514, information and records shall be disclosed to the protection and advocacy agency designated by the Governor in this state to fulfill...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4514.5
  Upon request of a family member of a resident of a state hospital, community care facility, or health facility, or other person designated by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4515
  Signed consent forms by a person with a developmental disability or, where appropriate, the parent, guardian, or conservator, for release of any information to which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4516
  When any disclosure of information or records is made as authorized by the provisions of subdivision (a), (d), or (q) of Section 4514 or Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4517
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the compilation and publication of statistical data for use by government or researchers and standards set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4518
  Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willfully and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning him or her in violation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4519
  (a) The department shall not expend funds, and a regional center shall not expend funds allocated to it by the department, for the purchase of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4519.7
  (a) Any regional center employee shall not be liable for civil damages on account of an injury or death resulting from an employee's act or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4520
  (a) The Legislature finds that services for persons with developmental disabilities constitute a major expenditure of public funds, that these programs are provided by hundreds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4521
  (a) All references to "state council" in this part shall be a reference to the State Council on Developmental Disabilities. (b) There shall be 31...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4521.5
  Notwithstanding Section 7.5 of the Government Code, each designee shall act as the member in his or her place and stead to all intents and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4521.6
  For purposes of this chapter, the Governor's appointment of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director of the California Department of Aging, Director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4522
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the reappointment or replacement of any individual presently serving on the existing state council if the reappointment or replacement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4523
  Persons appointed to membership on the state council shall have demonstrated interest and leadership in human service activities, including interest in Californians who have developmental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4525
  (a) In order to prevent any potential conflicts of interest, members of the state council may not be employees of a state, local, or private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4530
  For administrative purposes only, the state council shall be attached to the California Health and Human Services Agency. The agency secretary shall ensure the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4535
  (a) The state council shall meet at least six times each year, and, on call of its chairperson, as often as necessary to fulfill its...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4540
  In order to comply with the intent and requirements of this division and Public Law 106-402 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 15001 et seq.), the state council,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4543
  (a) Because of the vast size, complexity, and diversity of the State of California, the Legislature finds that the planning activities of the State Council...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4544
  The area boards in existence as of January 1, 2003, shall continue to exist, within the same geographic regions of the state after January 1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4545
  The State Council on Developmental Disabilities shall periodically conduct a thorough review of the geographic boundaries served by area boards to determine whether existing area...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4546
  After January 1, 2003, area boards shall be comprised as follows: (a) For areas consisting of one to four counties, the area board shall consist...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4547
  (a) Each area board shall meet at least quarterly, and on call of the board chairperson, as often as necessary to fulfill its duties. All...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4548
  (a) Area boards shall locally assist the state council with the implementation of subtitles A and B of Title I of Public Law 106-402 (42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4550
  The state council's operating costs shall include honoraria and actual and necessary expenses for council members, costs associated with the area boards, as described in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4551
  (a) (1) Within the limit of funds allotted for these purposes, the state council chairperson, with the concurrence of a majority of the state council,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4552
  The state council may contract for additional assistance with any public or private agency or individual to carry out planning, monitoring, evaluation, and other responsibilities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4552.5
  The state council may request information, records, and documents from any other agency of state government, except for confidential patient records. These agencies shall comply...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4553
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the advocacy, coordinating, appeals, and other related functions of area boards cannot be effectively provided unless area boards...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4555
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any contract entered into between the State of California and the state council may provide for periodic advanced payments...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4560
  The Legislature finds that whenever multiple, uncoordinated, and duplicative planning activities are conducted by different state agencies on behalf of persons with developmental disabilities, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4561
  In order to integrate all relevant state planning and budgeting, and in order to comply with federal requirements, a California Developmental Disabilities State Plan shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4562
  (a) The state council and the area boards on developmental disabilities shall conduct activities necessary to develop or implement the state plan in the various...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4563
  (a) Area boards shall assess the extent to which services, supports, and other forms of assistance are available to individuals with developmental disabilities and their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4564
  The state council, in conjunction with the area boards, shall conduct open hearings on the state plan and related budgetary issues prior to submission of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4565
  The state plan shall be given to the Governor, the Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, the protection and advocacy agency designated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4566
  The state plan shall, in addition to the requirements established herein, comply in substance and format with requests of the Secretary of Health and Human
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4567
  All state agencies shall cooperate with the reasonable requests of the state council by providing information to the state council in the preparation of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4568
  In no event shall the state council allot federal funds from Public Law 106-402, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 15001 et seq.), to state agencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4571
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure the well-being of consumers, taking into account their informed and expressed choices. It is further...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4620
  (a) In order for the state to carry out many of its responsibilities as established in this division, the state shall contract with appropriate agencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4620.1
  The Legislature recognizes the ongoing contributions many parents and family members make to the support and well-being of their children and relatives with developmental disabilities....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4620.2
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services, after consultation with stakeholder groups, shall develop a system of enrollment fees, copayments, or both, to be assessed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4620.3
  (a) To provide more uniformity and consistency in the administrative practices and services of regional centers throughout the state, promote appropriateness of services, maximize efficiency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4621
  The department, within the limitations of funds appropriated, shall contract with appropriate private nonprofit corporations for the establishment of regional centers. Notwithstanding any other provision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4621.5
  Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 1 of Chapter 501 of the Statutes of 1971, the department shall, within the limitations of funds appropriated, contract with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4622
  The state shall contract only with agencies, the governing boards of which conform to all of the following criteria: (a) The governing board shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4622.5
  By August 15 of each year, the governing board of each regional center shall submit to the department detailed documentation, as determined by the department,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4623
  In the event that the governing board of the regional center is not composed of individuals as specified in subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4624
  When the governing board of the regional center is not composed of individuals as specified in subdivisions (a) to (f), inclusive, of Section 4622, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4625
  The department shall not contract with any new regional center contracting agency unless the governing board of the agency is composed of individuals as specified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4625.5
  (a) The governing board of each regional center shall adopt and maintain a written policy requiring the board to review and approve any regional center...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4626
  (a) The department shall give a very high priority to ensuring that regional center board members and employees act in the course of their duties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4626.5
  Each regional center shall submit a conflict-of-interest policy to the department by July 1, 2011, and shall post the policy on its Internet Web site...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4627
  (a) The director of the department shall adopt and enforce conflict-of-interest regulations to ensure that members of the governing board, program policy committee, and employees...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4628
  If, for good reason, a contracting agency is unable to meet all the criteria for a governing board established in this chapter, the director may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4629
  (a) The state shall enter into five-year contracts with regional centers, subject to the annual appropriation of funds by the Legislature. (b) The contracts shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4629.5
  (a) In addition to the requirements set forth in Section 4629, the department's contract with a regional center shall require the regional center to adopt,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4629.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all regional center contracts or agreements with service providers in which rates are determined through negotiations between the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4630
  The contract between the state and the contracting agency shall not: (a) Require information that violates client confidentiality. (b) Prevent a regional center from employing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4631
  (a) In order to provide to the greatest extent practicable a larger degree of uniformity and consistency in the services, funding, and administrative practices of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4632
  If the department and a regional center are unable to resolve any contract dispute, including disputes between the regional center and the department over whether...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4633
  If the department or any regional center intends to adopt any material change in policy which will have a direct effect upon the contract between...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4634
  Contracts between the department and regional center shall be presented for final negotiation to regional center governing boards at least 90 days' prior to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4635
  (a) If any regional center finds that it is unable to comply with the requirements of this division or its contract with the state, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4636
  If necessary, to avoid disruption of the service program, the department may directly operate a regional center during the interim period between the termination of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4638
  Non-profit corporations operating regional centers shall not use state funds allocated to the corporation for operating the center for activities directly related to influencing employees...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4639
  (a) The governing board of a regional center shall annually contract with an independent accounting firm for an audited financial statement. The audit report and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4639.5
  (a) By December 1 of each year, each regional center shall provide a listing to the State Department of Developmental Services a complete current salary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4639.75
  (a) On an ongoing basis, and as necessary, the State Department of Developmental Services shall provide to regional centers, and make available on the Internet,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4640
  (a) Contracts between the department and regional centers shall specify the service area and the categories of persons that regional centers shall be expected to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4640.6
  (a) In approving regional center contracts, the department shall ensure that regional center staffing patterns demonstrate that direct service coordination are the highest priority. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4640.7
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that regional centers assist persons with developmental disabilities and their families in securing those services and supports...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4640.8
  When convening any task force or advisory group, a regional center shall make its best effort to ensure representation by consumers and family members representing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4641
  All regional centers shall conduct casefinding activities, including notification of availability of service in English and such other languages as may be appropriate to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4641.5
  (a) Effective July 1, 2011, regional centers shall begin transitioning all vendors of all regional center services to electronic billing for services purchased through a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4642
  Any person believed to have a developmental disability, and any person believed to have a high risk of parenting a developmentally disabled infant shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4643
  (a) If assessment is needed, the assessment shall be performed within 120 days following initial intake. Assessment shall be performed as soon as possible and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4643.3
  (a) (1) On or before April 1, 2002, the department shall develop evaluation and diagnostic procedures for the diagnosis of autism disorder and other autistic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4643.5
  (a) If a consumer is or has been determined to be eligible for services by a regional center, he or she shall also be considered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4644
  (a) In addition to any person eligible for initial intake or assessment services, regional centers may cause to be provided preventive services to any potential...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4646
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that the individual program plan and provision of services and supports by the regional center...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4646.4
  (a) Regional centers shall ensure, at the time of development, scheduled review, or modification of a consumer's individual program plan developed pursuant to Sections 4646...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4646.5
  (a) The planning process for the individual program plan described in Section 4646 shall include all of the following: (1) Gathering information and conducting assessments...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4646.55
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, and to the extent federal financial participation is available, effective July 1, 2007,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4646.6
  Notwithstanding Section 632 of the Penal Code, a consumer, or his or her parent, guardian, conservator, or authorized representative, shall have the right to record...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4647
  (a) Pursuant to Section 4640.7, service coordination shall include those activities necessary to implement an individual program plan, including, but not limited to, participation in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648
  In order to achieve the stated objectives of a consumer's individual program plan, the regional center shall conduct activities, including, but not limited to, all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.1
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services and regional centers may monitor services and supports purchased for regional center consumers with or without prior notice....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.12
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that under federal and state law, certain individuals and entities are ineligible to provide Medicaid services. (b) An individual,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.14
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Public Health shall notify the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.2
  By September 1, 1986, the State Department of Developmental Services shall promulgate regulations which establish a process for service providers to appeal actions the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.3
  A provider of transportation services to regional center clients for the regional center shall maintain protection against liability for damages for bodily injuries or death...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.35
  At the time of development, review, or modification of a consumer's individual program plan (IPP) or individualized family service plan (IFSP), all of the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, rates for services listed in paragraphs (1), (2), with the exception of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulations to the contrary, effective July 1, 2009, a regional centers' authority to purchase the following services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.55
  (a) A regional center shall not purchase day program, vocational education, work services, independent living program, or mobility training and related transportation services for a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4648.6
  The department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall develop an alternative service delivery model that provides an Individual Choice Budget for obtaining quality services and supports...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4649
  Regional centers shall cooperate with area boards in joint efforts to inform the public of services available to persons with developmental disabilities and of their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4650
  Regional centers shall be responsible for developing an annual plan and program budget to be submitted to the director no later than September 1 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4651
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that regional centers shall find innovative and economical methods of achieving the objectives contained in individual program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4652
  A regional center shall investigate every appropriate and economically feasible alternative for care of a developmentally disabled person available within the region. If suitable care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4652.5
  (a) (1) An entity receiving payments from one or more regional centers shall contract with an independent accounting firm for an audit or review of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4653
  Except for those developmentally disabled persons judicially committed to state hospitals, no developmentally disabled person shall be admitted to a state hospital except upon the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4654
  Before any person is examined by a regional center pursuant to Section 1370.1 of the Penal Code, the court ordering such medical examination shall transmit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4655
  The director of a regional center or his designee may give consent to medical, dental, and surgical treatment of a regional center client and provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4656
  (a) A qualified physician and surgeon who diagnoses a developmental disability, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 4512, of a patient who is a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4657
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall, through the regional center contract, insure that the following information is collected by each regional center for each...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4658
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall insure that all potentially eligible clients are referred to the Social Security Administration for eligibility determination for Old...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or (e), the regional center shall identify and pursue all possible sources of funding for consumers receiving...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.5
  (a) This article shall apply to any dispute over the provision of services where the regional center believes that a generic agency, as defined in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.7
  (a) Whenever a regional center believes that a generic agency is responsible for providing or paying for a service required pursuant to Sections 4646.5 to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.8
  The resolution under this article of whether a regional center or generic agency is the responsible party for providing the service in a particular matter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.10
  It is the intent of the Legislature that this article shall be implemented consistent with the responsibilities of the department and the regional centers to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.11
  (a) When services are provided or will be provided to a consumer under this division, or to a child under 36 months of age who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.12
  (a) Where an action is brought by the department or a regional center pursuant to Section 4659.11, it shall be commenced within the period prescribed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.13
  (a) If a consumer or child under 36 months of age who is eligible for the California Early Intervention Program, the department, or a regional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.14
  In the event of judgment or award in a suit or claim against a third party or carrier: (a) If the action or claim is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.15
  Upon further application at any time before the judgment or award is satisfied, the court shall allow as a further lien the reasonable value of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.16
  (a) No settlement, judgment, or award in any action or claim by a consumer or child to recover damages for injuries, where the department or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.17
  When the department or regional center has perfected a lien upon a judgment or award in favor of a child eligible for the California Early...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.18
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in no event shall the department or the regional center recover an amount greater than the child eligible for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.19
  The amount recovered by the department or regional center shall not exceed the amount derived from applying Section 4659.12, 4659.16, or 4659.18, whichever is less.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.20
  In the event that the child or consumer, his or her guardian, conservator, limited conservator, personal representative, estate, or survivors, or any of them brings...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.21
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all carriers described in Section 14124.70, including automobile, casualty, property, and malpractice insurers, shall enter into agreements with regional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.22
  (a) Every health insurer, self-insured plan, group health plan, as defined in Section 607(1) of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.23
  In order to assess overlapping or duplicate health coverage, every health insurer, self-insured plan, group health plan, as defined in Section 607(1) of the federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4659.24
  (a) When the rights of a consumer or a child receiving services under the California Early Intervention Program to recovery from an insurer have been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4660
  All meetings of the board of directors of each regional center shall be scheduled, open, and public, and all persons shall be permitted to attend...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4661
  (a) Regional centers shall mail notice of their meetings to any person who requests notice in writing. Notice shall be mailed at least seven days...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4662
  In the case of an emergency situation involving matters upon which prompt action is necessary due to the disruption or threatened disruption of regional center...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4663
  (a) The governing board of a regional center may hold a closed meeting to discuss or consider one or more of the following: (1) Real...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4664
  The governing board of a regional center may hold a closed session regarding pending litigation when discussion in open session concerning those matters would prejudice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4665
  Agendas and other writings or materials distributed prior to or during a regional center board meeting for discussion or action at the meeting shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4666
  No regional center shall conduct any meeting, conference, or other function in any facility that prohibits the admittance of any person, or persons, on the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4667
  All regional center board meetings shall be held in facilities accessible to persons with physical disabilities.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4668
  (a) Any action taken by a regional center governing board in violation of this article is null and void. Any interested person may commence an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4669
  The provisions of this article shall not apply to the corporate affairs of the governing board of a regional center which have no relationship to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4669.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and provided that there shall be no reduction in direct service to persons eligible for services under this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4669.75
  (a) Any proposal approved by the department pursuant to this article may be implemented immediately upon approval. Prior to submitting a proposal to the department,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4670
  The Legislature finds that there is a shortage of programs and facilities to provide a comprehensive network of habilitation services to persons with developmental disabilities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4675
  On and after January 1, 1978, the state plan established in this division shall be the primary method used for determining, in an orderly way,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4676
  Prior to making an appropriation or allocating any state or federal funds for new or major expansions of programs or facilities for persons with developmental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4677
  (a) (1) All parental fees collected by or for regional centers shall be remitted to the State Treasury to be deposited in the Developmental Disabilities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4678
  (a) The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, in implementing subdivision (b) of Section 4677, and with the support of the State Department of Developmental Services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4680
  In order to assure the availability of a continuum of community living facilities of good quality for persons with developmental disabilities, and to ensure that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681
  By July 1, 1977, and each year thereafter, the department shall establish rates, which shall be reviewed by the state council. Such rates shall annually...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.1
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations that specify rates for community care facilities serving persons with developmental disabilities. The implementation of the regulations shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, for the 1996-97 fiscal year, the rate schedule authorized by the department in operation June 30, 1996,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, for the 1998-99 fiscal year, the rate schedule increased pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 4681.3 shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, no regional center may approve any service level for a residential service provider, as defined in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008: (a) No regional center may pay an existing residential service provider, for services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.7
  (a) Effective July 1, 2011, in order to maintain a consumer' s preferred living arrangement and adjust the residential services and supports in accordance with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4682
  Under no circumstances shall the rate of state payment to any provider of out-of-home care exceed the average amount charged to private clients residing in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4683
  It is the intent of the Legislature that rates of payment for out-of-home care shall be established in such ways as to assure the maximum...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the cost of providing 24-hour out-of-home nonmedical care and supervision in community care facilities licensed or approved pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.50
  (a) (1) "Adult Residential Facility for Persons with Special Health Care Needs (ARFPSHN)" means any adult residential facility that provides 24-hour health care and intensive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.53
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Social Services shall jointly implement a licensing program to provide special health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.55
  (a) No regional center may pay a rate to any ARFPSHN for any consumer that exceeds the rate in the State Department of Developmental Services'...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.58
  (a) The regional center may recommend for participation, to the State Department of Developmental Services, an applicant to provide services as part of an approved...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.60
  The vendoring regional center shall, before placing any consumer into an ARFPSHN, ensure that the ARFPSHN has a license issued by the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.63
  (a) Each ARFPSHN shall do all of the following: (1) Meet the minimum requirements for a Residential Facility Service Level 4-i pursuant to Sections 56004...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.65
  (a) A regional center shall not place, or fund the placement for, any consumer in an ARFPSHN until the individual health care plan team has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.68
  (a) The individual health care plan shall include, at a minimum, all of the following: (1) An evaluation of the consumer's current health. (2) A...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.70
  (a) The State Department of Social Services, in administering the licensing program, shall not have any responsibility for evaluating consumers' level of care or health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.73
  (a) In addition to any other contract termination provisions, a regional center may terminate its contract with an ARFPSHN when the regional center determines that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.74
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall only approve the development of Adult Residential Facilities for Persons with Special Health Care Needs (ARFPSHNs) that are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4684.75
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services may adopt emergency regulations to implement this article. The adoption, amendment, repeal, or readoption of a regulation authorized...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4685
  (a) Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature finds and declares that children with developmental disabilities most often have greater opportunities for educational and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4685.1
  (a) When a minor child requires a living arrangement outside of the family home, as determined in the individual program plan developed pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4685.7
  (a) Contingent upon approval of a federal waiver, the Self-Directed Services Program (SDS Program) is hereby established and shall be available in every regional center...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4686
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, an in-home respite worker who is not a licensed health care professional but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4686.2
  (a) Effective July 1, 2009, notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, any vendor who provides applied behavioral analysis (ABA) services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4686.3
  The department shall adopt emergency regulations to address the use of paraprofessionals in group practice provider behavioral intervention services and establish a rate. The regulations...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4686.31
  (a) Effective July 1, 2011, notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, any vendor who provides services as specified in paragraph (4) shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4686.5
  (a) Effective July 1, 2009, notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, all of the following shall apply: (1) A regional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4687
  Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature recognizes the rights of persons with disabilities to have relationships, marry, be a part of a family,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4688
  (a) Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature places a high priority on providing opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities to be integrated into...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4688.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, vendors of behavior management, activity center, and adult development center day programs, social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4688.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, vendors of behavior management, activity center, and adult development center adult day programs,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4688.21
  (a) The Legislature places a high priority on opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to choose and customize day services to meet their individualized needs;...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4688.3
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services and the department shall jointly seek a federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) approved 1915(i)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4688.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department may approve a proposal or proposals by Golden Gate Regional Center, Regional Center...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4688.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the department may receive and approve a proposal or proposals by any regional center to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689
  Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature places a high priority on providing opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities, regardless of the degree of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.05
  (a) A regional center shall not purchase supportive services, as defined in Section 12300, for a consumer who meets the criteria to receive, but declines...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.1
  (a) The Legislature declares that it places a high priority on providing opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities to live with families approved by family...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to require the filing of fingerprints of those individuals whose contact with consumers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.3
  (a) A family home agency shall not place an adult with developmental disabilities in a family home until the family home agency has received a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.4
  The State Department of Developmental Services may deny an application for vendorization or terminate vendorization as a family home agency or family home upon the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.5
  (a) Proceeding for the termination, or denial of vendorization as a family home agency or family home pursuant to Section 4689.4 shall be conducted in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.6
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services may prohibit a vendor from employing, or continuing the employment of, or allowing in a family home, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.7
  (a) For the 1998-99 fiscal year, levels of payment for supported living service providers that are vendored pursuant to Section 4689 shall be increased based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4689.8
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008: (a) No regional center may pay an existing supported living service provider, for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4690
  The Director of Developmental Services shall establish, maintain, and revise, as necessary, an equitable process for setting rates of state payment for nonresidential services purchased...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4690.1
  (a) By March 1, 1986, the department, in consultation with representatives of regional centers and providers of transportation services to regional center clients, shall develop...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4690.2
  (a) The Director of Developmental Services shall develop program standards and establish, maintain, and revise, as necessary, an equitable process for setting rates of state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4690.3
  (a) For the 1998-99 fiscal year, rates for in-home respite services agencies that are vendored pursuant to Section 4690.2 and the department's regulations to provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4690.4
  (a) Sections 4690.2, 4691, and 4691.5, which relate to in-home respite service agencies and community-based day programs, shall apply in the 1998-99 fiscal year with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4690.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, the rate for family member-provided respite services authorized by the department and in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4690.6
  (a) Activity centers, adult development centers, behavior management programs, and other look-alike day programs with a daily rate shall bill regional centers for services provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4691
  (a) The Legislature reaffirms its intent that community-based day programs be planned and provided as part of a continuum of services to enable persons with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4691.5
  The ratesetting methodology, to be established pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 4691 shall include, but need not be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4691.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, the community-based day program, work activity program, and in-home respite service agency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4691.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, and to the extent funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4691.9
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008: (a) No regional center shall pay an existing service provider, for services where...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4692
  (a) Effective August 1, 2009, subject to subdivisions (c) and (e), regional centers shall not compensate a work activity program, activity center, adult development center,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4693
  For the purposes of this article, "infant day program" means a day training and activity program where infants and their families are provided training individually...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4694
  Commencing July 1, 2006, all regional center vendors who are qualified providers under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4695
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall offer, through the regional centers, in conjunction with community colleges which elect to participate, a uniform statewide training...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4695.2
  (a) Each direct care staff person employed in a licensed community care facility that receives regional center funding shall be required to satisfactorily complete two...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4696
  The Legislature places a high priority on ensuring that regional center clients and their families can avail themselves of mental health services which are appropriate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4696.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that improved cooperative efforts between regional centers and county mental health agencies are necessary in order to achieve each...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4697
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The methods of establishing rates of payment for providers of services and supports to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4700
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4701
  "Adequate notice" means a written notice informing the applicant, recipient, and authorized representative of at least all of the following: (a) The action that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4701.1
  Adequate notice, as defined by Section 4701, shall inform the recipient and authorized representative of both of the following: (a) Whether or not the individual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4701.5
  "Applicant" means a person who has applied for services from a service agency, or on whose behalf services have been applied for.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4701.6
  (a) "Authorized representative" means the conservator of an adult, the guardian, conservator, or parent or person having legal custody of a minor claimant, or a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4702
  "Claimant" means an applicant for or recipient of services who has filed for a fair hearing.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4702.5
  "Days" means calendar days unless otherwise noted.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4702.6
  "Hearing request form" means a document that shall include the name, address, and birth date of the claimant, date of request, reason for the request,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4702.7
  For purposes of this section, "medicaid home and community-based waiver participant" means an individual deemed eligible and receiving services through the Medicaid Home and Community-based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4703
  "Persons who have the right to request a fair hearing" means applicant, recipient, applicant or recipient's legal guardian or conservator, applicant or recipient's parent, if...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4703.5
  "Recipient" means a person with a developmental disability who is eligible for and receives services from a service agency.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4703.6
  "Responsible state agency" means the state agency with which a state appeal is required to be filed.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4703.7
  "Services" means the type and amount of services and service components set forth in the recipient's individual program plan pursuant to Section 4646.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4704
  "Service agency" means any developmental center or regional center that receives state funds to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4704.5
  For purposes of Sections 4710.9, 4711, 4711.5, 4711.7, 4712, and 4712.5, the director of the responsible state agency includes a designee thereof, which may, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4704.6
  Each regional center and each vendor that contracts with a regional center to provide services to consumers shall conspicuously post on its Internet Web site,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4705
  (a) Every service agency shall, as a condition of continued receipt of state funds, have an agency fair hearing procedure for resolving conflicts between the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4706
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) to the extent permitted by federal law, all issues concerning the rights of persons with developmental disabilities to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4707
  By July 1, 1999, the State Department of Developmental Services shall implement a mediation process for resolving conflicts between regional centers and recipients of services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4710
  (a) Adequate notice shall be sent to the applicant or recipient and the authorized representative, if any, by certified mail at least 30 days prior...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4710.5
  (a) Any applicant for or recipient of services, or authorized representative of the applicant or recipient, who is dissatisfied with any decision or action of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4710.6
  (a) Upon receipt by the service agency director of the hearing request form requesting a fair hearing, mediation, or a voluntary informal meeting, the service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4710.7
  (a) Upon requesting a fair hearing, the claimant has the right to request a voluntary informal meeting with the service agency director or his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4710.8
  (a) At an informal meeting, the claimant shall have the rights stated pursuant to Section 4701. (b) An informal meeting shall be held at a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4710.9
  (a) If the claimant or his or her authorized representative is satisfied with the decision of the service agency following an informal meeting, he or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4711
  Upon receipt of the hearing request form, where a fair hearing has been requested but mediation has not, the responsible state agency director shall immediately...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4711.5
  (a) Upon receipt of the written request for mediation, the service agency shall be given five working days to accept or decline mediation. (b) If...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4711.7
  (a) If the issue or issues involved in the mediation are resolved to the satisfaction of both parties, the mediator shall prepare a written resolution....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4712
  (a) The fair hearing shall be held within 50 days of the date the hearing request form is received by the service agency, unless a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4712.2
  (a) Two or more claimants with a common complaint, or their authorized representatives, or a service agency may request the consolidation of appeals involving a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4712.5
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), within 10 working days of the concluding day of the state hearing, but not later than 80 days...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4712.7
  In addition to any other delegation of authority granted to the Director of Health Services, the director may delegate his or her authority to adopt...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4713
  (a) If the hearing officer's decision is unfavorable to the claimant, and the claimant has been receiving the services which have been the subject of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4714
  (a) Commencing July 1, 1999, for each appeal request submitted pursuant to Section 4710.5, regional centers and developmental centers shall submit information to the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4715
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, if a request for a hearing is postmarked or received by the service agency no later than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4716
  Nothing in this chapter shall presume the incompetence of any person with a developmental disability to participate in any of the appeals procedures established herein.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4725
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Access" means the right to inspect, review, and obtain an accurate copy of any record obtained in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4726
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5328, access to records shall be provided to an applicant for, or recipient of, services or to his or her...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4727
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to compel a physician, psychologist, social worker, nurse, attorney, or other professional person to reveal information which has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4728
  Each service agency shall adopt procedures for granting of requests by persons authorized under Section 4726 for access to records during regular business hours, provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4729
  Whenever access to service agency records is requested, the service agency shall provide at least the following information: (a) The types of records maintained by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4730
  Any person who willfully and knowingly violates the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4731
  (a) Each consumer or any representative acting on behalf of any consumer or consumers, who believes that any right to which a consumer is entitled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4740
  The Legislature finds the following: (a) The quality of care provided to persons with developmental disabilities by residential facilities is contingent upon a closely coordinated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4741
  An adult person with a developmental disability has the legal right to determine where his or her residence will be. Except in a situation which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4742
  The regional center or its designated representative shall (a) guide and counsel facility staff regarding the care and services and supports required by each consumer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4742.1
  (a) A statement made by a regional center representative when discharging his or her obligation to monitor the provision of services and supports pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4743
  It is the intent of the Legislature that to the greatest extent possible, the staff of the regional center or its designee are assigned so...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4744
  The regional center or its designee shall provide to the residential facility administrator all information in its possession concerning any history of dangerous propensity of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4745
  During each visit to the facility, the designated staff person shall inform the administrator orally of any substantial inadequacies in the care and services provided,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4746
  The severity of the deficiencies and the quality of care provided shall determine how long the regional center or its designee will work with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4747
  If a consumer or, when appropriate, the parent, guardian, or conservator or authorized representative, including those appointed pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 4548 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4748
  Within nine months of the effective date of this section, the State Department of Developmental Services shall develop and implement regulations for use by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4750
  The Legislature intends that expenditures on state programs for persons with developmental disabilities shall have measurable and desirable results. The results shall reflect the degree...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4750.5
  In order to gather data that is relevant to ensuring the safety and well-being of persons with developmental disabilities, the department shall ensure that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4752
  The department shall prepare by July 1, 1978, a plan for using the method to obtain and report statewide information on program effectiveness. The plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4753
  By January 1, 1979, the department shall implement the evaluation system for all programs under its jurisdiction.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4754
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any agency providing services to persons with developmental disabilities from utilizing additional evaluation mechanisms for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4775
  The Legislature finds that the method of appropriating funds for numerous programs for the developmentally disabled affects the availability and distribution of services and must...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4776
  On or before August 1 of each year, each regional center shall submit to the department and the state council a program budget plan for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4776.5
  (a) Regional centers shall not be subject to any provision of law, regulation, or policy required of state agencies pertaining to the planning and acquisition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4777
  On or before September 1 of each year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall submit to the state council: (a) An estimate of all developmentally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4778
  To the extent feasible, all funds appropriated for developmental disabilities programs under this part shall be allocated to those programs by August 1 of each
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4780
  When appropriated by the Legislature, the department may receive and expend all funds made available by the federal government, the state, its political subdivisions, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4780.5
  The State Department of Developmental Services is responsible for the processing, audit, and payment of funds made available to regional centers under this division. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4781
  The department may accept and expend grants, gifts, and legacies of money and, with the consent of the Department of Finance, may accept, manage, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4781.5
  (a) For the 2006-07 fiscal year only, a regional center may not expend any purchase of service funds for the startup of any new program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4781.6
  (a) A regional center shall not expend any purchase of service funds for the startup of any new program unless the expenditure is necessary to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4782
  Parents of children under the age of 18 years who are receiving 24-hour out-of-home care services through a regional center or who are residents of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4783
  (a) (1) The Family Cost Participation Program is hereby created in the State Department of Developmental Services for the purpose of assessing a cost participation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4784
  (a) The Director of Developmental Services shall establish, annually review, and adjust as needed, a schedule of parental fees for services received through the regional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4785
  (a) (1) Effective July 1, 2011, a regional center shall assess an annual family program fee, as described in subdivision (b), from parents whose adjusted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4786
  The director shall develop, establish, and maintain an equitable system of rates of state payment for care and services purchased by the department from community...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4787
  (a) The department shall, in developing the annual budget for regional center-funded services and supports for residents of developmental centers who are projected to move...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4790
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide an incentive for regional centers to select out-of-home placements that are most appropriate for each...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4791
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, between July 1, 2010, and June 30, 2012, inclusive, regional centers may temporarily modify personnel requirements,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4792
  (a) This section of law shall only be operative if subdivision (b) of Section 3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 is operative. It is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4800
  (a) Every adult who is or has been admitted or committed to a state hospital, developmental center, community care facility, as defined in Section 1502...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4801
  (a) Judicial review shall be in the superior court for the county in which the state hospital, developmental center, community care facility, or health facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4802
  This chapter shall not be construed to impair the right of a conservator of an adult developmentally disabled patient to remove the patient from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4803
  If a regional center recommends that a person be admitted to a community care facility or health facility as a developmentally disabled resident, the employee...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4804
  Whenever a proceeding is held in a superior court under the provisions of this chapter, involving a person who has been placed in a state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4805
  Objections to proposed transfers between state hospitals shall be resolved pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 4700).
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4825
  The provisions of this division shall not be construed to terminate any appointment of the State Department of Mental Health as guardian of the estate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4830
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Continuum" means a coordinated multicomponent services system within the geographic borders of each of the 13 area boards on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4831
  The State Department of Developmental Services may develop the design and phase-in plan for continuums and may designate one or more designated agencies to implement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4832
  An area board may review and evaluate existing and proposed community living arrangement programs within their jurisdiction and may make a recommendation to the Director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4833
  Upon designation by the Department of Developmental Services pursuant to Section 4831, the designated agency established pursuant to Section 4832 shall: (a) Design, organize and/or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4834
  The Director of the Department of Developmental Services may contract with a designated agency, pursuant to this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4835
  The Director of Developmental Services may establish uniform operational procedures, performance and evaluation standards and utilization criteria for designated agencies pursuant to this chapter. These...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4836
  The director shall prepare a yearly report to the Legislature on the progress and effectiveness of the system using the state evaluation model in accordance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4837
  The Director of Developmental Services may provide 90-day advance funding to the designated agency or community-based programs for the development or provision of continuum services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4839
  The State Department of Developmental Services may study and prepare a plan in cooperation with the State Council on Developmental Disabilities. The plan should consider...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4841
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 4675, 4676 and 4677, the Director of Developmental Services, when reviewing, approving, and allocating money from the Program Development Fund...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4843
  To accomplish the goals enumerated in Section 4833, the director may: (a) Develop a continuum training model and provide technical assistance to providers of community...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4844
  The Director of Developmental Services shall initiate and monitor interagency performance agreements between the Department of Rehabilitation, the Department of Mental Health, the Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4845
  If authorized by regulations adopted by the department and if not available through other state or local programs, the continuum services may with respect to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4846
  Interagency agreements shall be established between the regional centers and the community living continuums to assure clear roles and responsibilities for delivery of services; and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4850
  (a) The Legislature reaffirms its intent that habilitation services for adults with developmental disabilities should be planned and provided as a part of a continuum...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4850.1
  Notwithstanding Section 19050.9 of the Government Code, beginning July 1, 2004, the State Department of Developmental Services shall succeed to all functions and responsibilities of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4850.2
  (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided, this chapter shall only apply to those habilitation services purchased by the regional centers. (b) Nothing in this section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4851
  The definitions contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this chapter, with respect to habilitation services provided through the regional center, and unless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4852
  A consumer shall be referred to a provider of habilitation services under this chapter when all of the following apply: (a) The individual is an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4853
  (a) When a referral for habilitation services pursuant to Section 4852 has been made and if the individual is placed in a work activity program,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4854
  In developing the individual habilitation service plan pursuant to Section 4853, the habilitation service provider shall develop specific and measurable objectives to determine whether the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4854.1
  The individual program plan planning team, shall, pursuant to Section 4646, meet, when it is necessary to review any of the following: (a) The appropriateness...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4855
  When an individual who is eligible for habilitation services under this chapter is referred to the Department of Rehabilitation for vocational rehabilitation services, including supported...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4856
  (a) The regional center shall monitor, evaluate, and audit habilitation services providers for program effectiveness, using performance criteria that include, but are not limited to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4857
  The regional center shall purchase habilitation services pursuant to the individual program plan. Habilitation services shall continue as long as satisfactory progress is being made...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4857.1
  Regional centers may purchase habilitation services only from providers who are accredited community nonprofit agencies that provide work activity services or supported employment services, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4858
  (a) Each work activity program vendor shall, at a minimum, annually review the status of consumers participating in their program to determine whether these individuals...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4859
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations to establish rates for work activity program services subject to the approval of the Department of Finance. The regulations...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4860
  (a) (1) The hourly rate for supported employment services provided to consumers receiving individualized services shall be thirty dollars and eighty-two cents ($30.82). (2) Job...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4861
  The regional center may vendor new work activity or supported employment programs, after determining the capacity of the program to deliver effective services, and assessing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4862
  (a) The length of a work activity program day shall not be less than five hours, excluding the lunch period. (b) (1) Except as provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4863
  (a) In accordance with regulations adopted by the department, and if agreed upon by the work activity program and the regional center, hourly billing shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4864
  The department shall authorize payment for absences in work activity programs and supported employment programs that are directly consequent to a declaration of a State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4865
  At the request of the Department of Rehabilitation, a work activity or supported employment program or both shall release accreditation and state licensing reports and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4865.1
  (a) A regional center shall continue to pay the rate in effect as of June 30, 2004, for a supported employment placement group composed of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4866
  The department may promulgate emergency regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter. If the Department of Developmental Services promulgates emergency regulations, the adoption...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4867
  Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to mean that work activity programs or supported employment programs cannot serve consumers who are funded by agencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4868
  (a) The State Council on Developmental Disabilities shall form a standing Employment First Committee consisting of the following members: (1) One designee of each of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4900
  (a) The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this division, unless the context requires otherwise. These definitions shall not be construed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4901
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency, for purposes of this division, shall be a private nonprofit corporation and shall meet all of the requirements of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4902
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency, in protecting and advocating for the rights of people with disabilities, pursuant to the federal mandate, may do all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4903
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency shall have access to the records of any of the following people with disabilities: (1) Any person who is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4904
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency, its employees, and designated agents, shall not be liable for an injury resulting from an employee's or agent's act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4905
  (a) No employee or agent of a facility, program, or service shall subject a person with a disability to reprisal or harassment or directly or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4906
  (a) The protection and advocacy agency may not obtain access through the use of physical force to facilities, programs, service recipients, residents, or records required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5000
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5001
  The provisions of this part shall be construed to promote the legislative intent as follows: (a) To end the inappropriate, indefinite, and involuntary commitment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5002
  Mentally disordered persons and persons impaired by chronic alcoholism may no longer be judicially committed. Mentally disordered persons shall receive services pursuant to this part....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5003
  Nothing in this part shall be construed in any way as limiting the right of any person to make voluntary application at any time to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5004
  Mentally disordered persons and developmentally disabled persons shall receive protection from criminal acts equal to that provided any other resident in this state.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5004.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a legal guardian, conservator, or any other person who reasonably believes a mentally disordered or developmentally disabled person is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5005
  Unless specifically stated, a person complained against in any petition or proceeding initiated by virtue of the provisions of this part shall not forfeit any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5006
  The provisions of this part shall not be construed to deny treatment by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5007
  Unless otherwise indicated, the provisions of this part shall not be construed to apply retroactively to terminate court commitments of mentally ill persons or inebriates...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5008
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall govern the construction of this part: (a) "Evaluation" consists of multidisciplinary professional analyses of a person's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5008.1
  As used in this division and in Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000), Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5008.2
  (a) When applying the definition of mental disorder for the purposes of Articles 2 (commencing with Section 5200), 4 (commencing with Section 5250), and 5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5009
  Persons receiving evaluation or treatment under this part shall be given a choice of physician or other professional person providing such services, in accordance with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5010
  The agency established in this state to fulfill the requirements and assurances of Section 142 of the federal Developmental Disabilities Act of 1984 for a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5012
  The fact that a person has been taken into custody under this part may not be used in the determination of that person's eligibility for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5020.1
  A mentally ill minor, between the ages of 3 and 18, upon being considered for release from a state hospital shall have an aftercare plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5110
  Whenever a proceeding is held in a superior court under Article 5 (commencing with Section 5275) or Article 6 (commencing with Section 5300) of this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5111
  Any county without a public defender is authorized to compensate the attorneys appointed for persons entitled to be represented by counsel in proceedings under this
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5113
  Except as provided in Sections 5154, 5173, 5259.3, 5267, and 5306, the facility providing treatment pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 5150), Article 1.5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5114
  At any judicial proceeding under the provisions of this division, allegations that the person is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5115
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) It is the policy of this state, as declared and established in this section and in the Lanterman...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5116
  Pursuant to the policy stated in Section 5115, a state-authorized, certified, or licensed family care home, foster home, or group home serving six or fewer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5117
  In order to further facilitate achieving the purposes of this act and the Lanterman Mental Retardation Act of 1969, it is desirable that there be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5118
  For the purpose of conducting hearings under this part, the court in and for the county where the petition is filed may be convened at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5119
  On and after July 1, 1972, when a person who is an employee of the State Department of Mental Health at the time of employment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5120
  It is the policy of this state as declared and established in this act and in the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act that the care and treatment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150
  When any person, as a result of mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, a peace officer,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150.05
  (a) When determining if probable cause exists to take a person into custody, or cause a person to be taken into custody, pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150.1
  No peace officer seeking to transport, or having transported, a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, shall be instructed by mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150.2
  In each county whenever a peace officer has transported a person to a designated facility for assessment under Section 5150, that officer shall be detained...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150.3
  Whenever any person presented for evaluation at a facility designated under Section 5150 is found to be in need of mental health services, but is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5150.4
  "Assessment" for the purposes of this article, means the determination of whether a person shall be evaluated and treated pursuant to Section 5150.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5151
  If the facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation admits the person, it may detain him or her for evaluation and treatment for a period not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5152
  (a) Each person admitted to a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation under the provisions of this article shall receive an evaluation as soon as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5152.1
  The professional person in charge of the facility providing 72-hour evaluation and treatment, or his or her designee, shall notify the county mental health director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5152.2
  Each law enforcement agency within a county shall arrange with the county mental health director a method for giving prompt notification to peace officers pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5153
  Whenever possible, officers charged with apprehension of persons pursuant to this article shall dress in plain clothes and travel in unmarked vehicles.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5154
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5152 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing 72-hour treatment and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5155
  Nothing in this part shall be construed as granting authority to local entities to issue licenses supplementary to existing state and local licensing laws.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5156
  At the time a person is taken into custody for evaluation, or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative or the guardian or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5157
  (a) Each person, at the time he or she is first taken into custody under provisions of Section 5150, shall be provided, by the person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5170
  When any person is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled as a result of inebriation, a peace officer, member of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5170.1
  A 72-hour treatment and evaluation facility shall include one or more of the following: (1) A screening, evaluation, and referral facility which may be accomplished...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5170.3
  Such evaluation facility shall require an application in writing stating the circumstances under which the person's condition was called to the attention of the officer,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5170.5
  Any person placed in an evaluation facility has, immediately after he is taken to an evaluation facility and except where physically impossible, no later than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5170.7
  A person who requests to be released from the facility before 72 hours have elapsed shall be released only if the psychiatrist directly responsible for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5171
  If the facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation of inebriates admits the person, it may detain him for evaluation and detoxification treatment, and such other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5172
  Each person admitted to a facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation under the provisions of this article shall receive an evaluation as soon after he...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5172.1
  Any person who is a danger to others, or to himself, or gravely disabled as a result of inebriation, may voluntarily apply for admission to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5173
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5170.7 or 5172 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing 72-hour...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5174
  It is the intent of the Legislature (a) that facilities for 72-hour treatment and evaluation of inebriates be subject to state funding under Part 2...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5175
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to prevent a facility designated as a facility for 72-hour evaluation and treatment of inebriates from also being...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5176
  This article shall apply only to those counties wherein the board of supervisors has adopted a resolution stating that suitable facilities exist within the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5200
  Any person alleged, as a result of mental disorder, to be a danger to others, or to himself, or to be gravely disabled, may be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5201
  Any individual may apply to the person or agency designated by the county for a petition alleging that there is in the county a person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5202
  The person or agency designated by the county shall prepare the petition and all other forms required in the proceeding, and shall be responsible for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5203
  Any individual who seeks a petition for court-ordered evaluation knowing that the person for whom the petition is sought is not, as a result of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5204
  The petition for a court-ordered evaluation shall contain the following: (a) The name and address of the petitioner and his interest in the case. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5205
  The petition shall be in substantially the following form: In the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of _____ ______________________________ The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5206
  Whenever it appears, by petition pursuant to this article, to the satisfaction of a judge of a superior court that a person is, as a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5207
  The order for evaluation shall be in substantially the following form: In the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of _____...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5208
  As promptly as possible, a copy of the petition and the order for evaluation shall be personally served on the person to be evaluated and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5210
  At the time a person is taken into custody for evaluation, or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative or the guardian or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5211
  The report of a patient's property required by Section 5210 to be made by the person taking him into custody for evaluation shall be in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5212
  Whenever possible, persons charged with service of orders and apprehension of persons pursuant to this article shall dress in plain clothes and travel in unmarked
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5213
  (a) If, upon evaluation, the person is found to be in need of treatment because he or she is, as a result of mental disorder,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5225
  Whenever a criminal defendant who appears, as a result of chronic alcoholism or the use of narcotics or restricted dangerous drugs, to be a danger...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5226
  Such a criminal defendant must be advised of his right to immediately continue with the criminal proceeding, and it is the duty of the judge...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5226.1
  If a judge issues an order for evaluation under conditions set forth in this article, proceedings on the criminal charge then pending in the court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5227
  The order for evaluation shall be in substantially the following form: In the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of _____...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5228
  As promptly as possible, a copy of the order for evaluation shall be personally served on the person to be evaluated and the professional person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5229
  At the time a person is ordered to undergo evaluation, or within a reasonable time thereafter, unless a responsible relative or the guardian or conservator...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5230
  If, upon evaluation, the person is found to be in need of treatment because he is, as a result of impairment by chronic alcoholism or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5250
  If a person is detained for 72 hours under the provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 5150), or under court order for evaluation pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5250.1
  The professional person in charge of a facility providing intensive treatment, pursuant to Section 5250 or 5270.15, or that person's designee, shall notify the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5251
  For a person to be certified under this article, a notice of certification shall be signed by two people. The first person shall be the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5252
  A notice of certification is required for all persons certified for intensive treatment pursuant to Section 5250 or 5270.15, and shall be in substantially the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5253
  A copy of the certification notice shall be personally delivered to the person certified, the person's attorney, or the attorney or advocate designated in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5254
  The person delivering the copy of the notice of certification to the person certified shall, at the time of delivery, inform the person certified that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5254.1
  The person delivering the copy of the notice of certification to the person certified shall, at the time of delivery, inform the person certified of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5255
  As soon after the certification as practicable, an attorney or patient advocate shall meet with the person certified to discuss the commitment process and to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256
  When a person is certified for intensive treatment pursuant to Sections 5250 and 5270.15, a certification review hearing shall be held unless judicial review has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.1
  The certification review hearing shall be conducted by either a court-appointed commissioner or a referee, or a certification review hearing officer. The certification review hearing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.2
  At the certification review hearing, the evidence in support of the certification decision shall be presented by a person designated by the director of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.3
  The person certified shall be present at the certification review hearing unless he or she, with the assistance of his or her attorney or advocate,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.4
  (a) At the certification review hearing, the person certified shall have the following rights: (1) Assistance by an attorney or advocate. (2) To present evidence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.5
  If at the conclusion of the certification review hearing the person conducting the hearing finds that there is not probable cause to believe that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.6
  If at the conclusion of the certification review hearing the person conducting the hearing finds that there is probable cause that the person certified is,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.7
  The person certified shall be given oral notification of the decision at the conclusion of the certification review hearing. As soon thereafter as is practicable,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5256.8
  The requirement that there is a certification review hearing in accordance with this article shall apply only to persons certified for intensive treatment on or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5257
  (a) During the period of intensive treatment pursuant to Section 5250 or 5270.15, the person's involuntary detention shall be terminated and the person shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5258
  After the involuntary detention has begun, the total period of detention, including intervening periods of voluntary treatment, shall not exceed the total maximum period during...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5259
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the professional person in charge of a treatment facility, or his or her designee, from permitting a person certified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5259.1
  Any individual who is knowingly and willfully responsible for detaining a person in violation of the provisions of this article is liable to that person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5259.2
  Whenever a county designates two or more facilities to provide treatment, and the person to be treated, his or her family, conservator, or guardian expresses...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5259.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5257 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing intensive treatment, his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5260
  At the expiration of the 14-day period of intensive treatment any person who, as a result of mental disorder or impairment by chronic alcoholism, during...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5261
  For a person to be certified under this article, a second notice of certification must be signed by the professional person in charge of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5262
  A second notice of certification for imminently suicidal persons is required for all involuntary 14-day intensive treatment, pursuant to this article, and shall be in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5263
  Copies of the second notice of certification for imminently suicidal persons, as set forth in Section 5262, shall be filed with the court and personally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5264
  (a) A certification for imminently suicidal persons shall be for no more than 14 days of intensive treatment, and shall terminate only as soon as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5265
  Any individual who is knowingly and willfully responsible for detaining a person for more than 14 days in violation of the provisions of Section 5264...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5266
  Whenever a county designates two or more facilities to provide intensive treatment and the person to be treated, his family, conservator or guardian expresses a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5267
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5264 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing intensive treatment, his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5268
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the professional person in charge of an intensive treatment facility, or his designee, from permitting a person certified for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.10
  It is the intent of the Legislature to reduce the number of gravely disabled persons for whom conservatorship petitions are filed and who are placed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.12
  This article shall be operative only in those counties in which the county board of supervisors, by resolution, authorizes its application and, by resolution, makes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.15
  Upon the completion of a 14-day period of intensive treatment pursuant to Section 5250, the person may be certified for an additional period of not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.20
  For a person to be certified under this article, a second notice of certification shall be signed by the professional person in charge of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.25
  A second notice of certification is required for all involuntary intensive treatment, pursuant to this article, and shall be in substantially the form indicated in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.30
  Copies of the second notice of certification as set forth in Section 5270.25, shall be filed with the court and personally delivered to the person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.35
  (a) A certification pursuant to this article shall be for no more than 30 days of intensive treatment, and shall terminate only as soon as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.40
  Any individual who is knowingly and willfully responsible for detaining a person for more than 30 days in violation of the provisions of Section 5270.35...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.45
  Whenever a county designates two or more facilities to provide intensive treatment and the person to be treated, his or her family, conservator, or guardian...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.50
  Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5270.35 have been met, the professional person in charge of the facility providing intensive treatment, his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.55
  (a) Whenever it is contemplated that a gravely disabled person may need to be detained beyond the end of the 14-day period of intensive treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5270.65
  Nothing in this article shall prohibit the professional person in charge of an intensive treatment facility, or a designee, from permitting a person certified for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5275
  Every person detained by certification for intensive treatment shall have a right to a hearing by writ of habeas corpus for his or her release...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5276
  Judicial review shall be in the superior court for the county in which the facility providing intensive treatment is located or in the county in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5276.1
  The person requesting release may, upon advice of counsel, waive the presence at the evidentiary hearing of the physician, licensed psychologist who meets the requirements...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5276.2
  In the event that the person, or anyone acting on his or her behalf, withdraws the request for judicial review, a certification review hearing shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5277
  A finding under Section 5276 shall not be admissible in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding without the consent of the person who was...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5278
  Individuals authorized under this part to detain a person for 72-hour treatment and evaluation pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 5150) or Article 2...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5300
  At the expiration of the 14-day period of intensive treatment, a person may be confined for further treatment pursuant to the provisions of this article...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5300.5
  For purposes of this article: (a) "Custody" shall be construed to mean involuntary detainment under the provisions of this part uninterrupted by any period of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5301
  At any time during the 14-day intensive treatment period the professional person in charge of the licensed health facility, or his or her designee, may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5302
  At the time of filing of a petition for postcertification treatment the court shall advise the person named in the petition of his right to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5303
  The court shall conduct the proceedings on the petition for postcertification treatment within four judicial days of the filing of the petition and in accordance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5303.1
  For the purposes of any hearing or jury trial held pursuant to this article, the judge of the court in which such hearing or trial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5304
  (a) The court shall remand a person named in the petition for postcertification treatment to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5305
  (a) Any person committed pursuant to Section 5300 may be placed on outpatient status if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) In the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5306
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5309 have been met, the superintendent, the professional person in charge of the hospital providing 90-day...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5306.5
  If at any time during the outpatient period, the outpatient treatment supervisor is of the opinion that the person receiving treatment requires extended inpatient treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5307
  If at any time during the outpatient period the public officer, pursuant to Section 5114, is of the opinion that the person is a danger...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5308
  Upon the filing of a request for revocation of outpatient status under Section 5306.5 or 5307 and pending the court's decision on revocation, the person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5309
  (a) Nothing in this article shall prohibit the superintendent or professional person in charge of the hospital in which the person is being involuntarily treated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5325
  Each person involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, each person admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5325.1
  Persons with mental illness have the same legal rights and responsibilities guaranteed all other persons by the Federal Constitution and laws and the Constitution and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5325.2
  Any person who is subject to detention pursuant to Section 5150, 5250, 5260, or 5270.15 shall have the right to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326
  The professional person in charge of the facility or his or her designee may, for good cause, deny a person any of the rights under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.1
  Quarterly, each local mental health director shall furnish to the Director of Mental Health, the facility reports of the number of persons whose rights were...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.15
  (a) Quarterly, any doctor or facility which administers convulsive treatments or psychosurgery, shall report to the local mental health director, who shall transmit a copy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.2
  To constitute voluntary informed consent, the following information shall be given to the patient in a clear and explicit manner: (a) The reason for treatment,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.3
  The State Department of Mental Health shall promulgate a standard written consent form, setting forth clearly and in detail the matters listed in Section 5326.2,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.4
  The treating physician shall then present to the patient the supplemented form specified under Section 5326.3 and orally, clearly, and in detail explain all of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "written informed consent" means that a person knowingly and intelligently, without duress or coercion, clearly and explicitly manifests consent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.55
  Persons who serve on review committees shall not otherwise be personally involved in the treatment of the patient whose case they are reviewing.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.6
  Psychosurgery, wherever administered, may be performed only if: (a) The patient gives written informed consent to the psychosurgery. (b) A responsible relative of the person's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.7
  Subject to the provisions of subdivision (f) of Section 5325, convulsive treatment may be administered to an involuntary patient, including anyone under guardianship or conservatorship,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.75
  Convulsive treatment for all other patients including but not limited to those voluntarily admitted to a facility, or receiving the treatment in a physician's office,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.8
  Under no circumstances shall convulsive treatment be performed on a minor under 12 years of age. Persons 16 and 17 years of age shall personally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.85
  No convulsive treatment shall be performed if the patient, whether admitted to the facility as a voluntary or involuntary patient, is deemed to be able...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.9
  (a) Any alleged or suspected violation of the rights described in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5150) shall be investigated by the local director of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.91
  In any facility in which convulsive treatment is performed on a person whether admitted to the facility as an involuntary or voluntary patient, the facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.95
  The Director of Mental Health shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including standards defining excessive use of convulsive treatment which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5327
  Every person involuntarily detained under provisions of this part or under certification for intensive treatment or postcertification treatment in any public or private mental institution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000), Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.01
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to governmental law enforcement agencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.02
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to the Youth Authority and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.04
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records made confidential under that section may be disclosed to a county social worker, a probation officer, or any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.05
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records may be disclosed when an older adult client, in the opinion of a designee of a human service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.06
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records shall be disclosed to the protection and advocacy agency established in this state to fulfill the requirements and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.1
  (a) Upon request of a member of the family of a patient, or other person designated by the patient, a public or private treatment facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.15
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000), Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000), or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.2
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, movement and identification information and records regarding a patient who is committed to the department, state hospital, or any other public or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.3
  (a) When a voluntary patient would otherwise be subject to the provisions of Section 5150 of this part and disclosure is necessary for the protection...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.35
  The State Department of Mental Health shall develop policies and procedures no later than 30 days after the effective date of the Budget Act of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.4
  The physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or her designee, when he or she...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.5
  Information and records described in Section 5328 may be disclosed in communications relating to the prevention, investigation, or treatment of elder abuse or dependent adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.6
  When any disclosure of information or records is made as authorized by the provisions of Section 11878 or 11879 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.7
  Signed consent forms by a patient for release of any information to which such patient is required to consent under the provisions of Sections 11878...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.8
  The State Department of Mental Health, the physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.9
  If at such time as a patient's hospital records are required by an employer to whom the patient has applied for employment, such records shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5329
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the compilation and publication of statistical data for use by government or researchers under standards set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5330
  (a) Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willfully and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning him or her in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5331
  No person may be presumed to be incompetent because he or she has been evaluated or treated for mental disorder or chronic alcoholism, regardless of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5332
  (a) Antipsychotic medication, as defined in subdivision (l) of Section 5008, may be administered to any person subject to detention pursuant to Section 5150, 5250,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5333
  (a) Persons subject to capacity hearings pursuant to Section 5332 shall have a right to representation by an advocate or legal counsel. "Advocate," as used...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5334
  (a) Capacity hearings required by Section 5332 shall be heard within 24 hours of the filing of the petition whenever possible. However, if any party...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5336
  Any determination of a person's incapacity to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication made pursuant to Section 5334 shall remain in effect only for the duration...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5337
  Notwithstanding Section 5257, nothing shall prohibit the filing of a petition for post certification pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 5300) for persons who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5340
  It is the intention of the Legislature by enacting this article to provide legal procedures for the custody, evaluation, and treatment of users of controlled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5341
  As used in this article, "controlled substances" means those substances referred to in Division 10 (commencing with Section 11000) of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5342
  Where other applicable sections of this part contain the phrase "a danger to himself or herself or others, or gravely disabled," such sections shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5343
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any person is a danger to others or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, as a result...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5344
  Any expenditure for the custody, evaluation, treatment, or other procedures for services rendered a person pursuant to this article shall be considered an expenditure made...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.15
  (a) Quarterly, any doctor or facility which administers convulsive treatments or psychosurgery, shall report to the local mental health director, who shall transmit a copy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.2
  To constitute voluntary informed consent, the following information shall be given to the patient in a clear and explicit manner: (a) The reason for treatment,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.3
  The State Department of Mental Health shall promulgate a standard written consent form, setting forth clearly and in detail the matters listed in Section 5326.2,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.4
  The treating physician shall then present to the patient the supplemented form specified under Section 5326.3 and orally, clearly, and in detail explain all of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.5
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "written informed consent" means that a person knowingly and intelligently, without duress or coercion, clearly and explicitly manifests consent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.55
  Persons who serve on review committees shall not otherwise be personally involved in the treatment of the patient whose case they are reviewing.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.6
  Psychosurgery, wherever administered, may be performed only if: (a) The patient gives written informed consent to the psychosurgery. (b) A responsible relative of the person's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.7
  Subject to the provisions of subdivision (f) of Section 5325, convulsive treatment may be administered to an involuntary patient, including anyone under guardianship or conservatorship,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.75
  Convulsive treatment for all other patients including but not limited to those voluntarily admitted to a facility, or receiving the treatment in a physician's office,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.8
  Under no circumstances shall convulsive treatment be performed on a minor under 12 years of age. Persons 16 and 17 years of age shall personally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.85
  No convulsive treatment shall be performed if the patient, whether admitted to the facility as a voluntary or involuntary patient, is deemed to be able...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.9
  (a) Any alleged or suspected violation of the rights described in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5150) shall be investigated by the local director of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.91
  In any facility in which convulsive treatment is performed on a person whether admitted to the facility as an involuntary or voluntary patient, the facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5326.95
  The Director of Mental Health shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including standards defining excessive use of convulsive treatment which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5327
  Every person involuntarily detained under provisions of this part or under certification for intensive treatment or postcertification treatment in any public or private mental institution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 4 (commencing with Section 4000), Division 4.1 (commencing with Section 4400), Division...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.01
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to governmental law enforcement agencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.02
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, all information and records made confidential under the first paragraph of Section 5328 shall also be disclosed to the Youth Authority and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.04
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records made confidential under that section may be disclosed to a county social worker, a probation officer, or any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.05
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records may be disclosed when an older adult client, in the opinion of a designee of a human service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.06
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5328, information and records shall be disclosed to the protection and advocacy agency established in this state to fulfill the requirements and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.1
  (a) Upon request of a member of the family of a patient, or other person designated by the patient, a public or private treatment facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.15
  All information and records obtained in the course of providing services under Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000), Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000), or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.2
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, movement and identification information and records regarding a patient who is committed to the department, state hospital, or any other public or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.3
  (a) When a voluntary patient would otherwise be subject to the provisions of Section 5150 of this part and disclosure is necessary for the protection...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.35
  The State Department of Mental Health shall develop policies and procedures no later than 30 days after the effective date of the Budget Act of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.4
  The physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or her designee, when he or she...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.5
  Information and records described in Section 5328 may be disclosed in communications relating to the prevention, investigation, or treatment of elder abuse or dependent adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.6
  When any disclosure of information or records is made as authorized by the provisions of Section 11878 or 11879 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.7
  Signed consent forms by a patient for release of any information to which such patient is required to consent under the provisions of Sections 11878...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.8
  The State Department of Mental Health, the physician in charge of the patient, or the professional person in charge of the facility or his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5328.9
  If at such time as a patient's hospital records are required by an employer to whom the patient has applied for employment, such records shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5329
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the compilation and publication of statistical data for use by government or researchers under standards set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5330
  (a) Any person may bring an action against an individual who has willfully and knowingly released confidential information or records concerning him or her in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5331
  No person may be presumed to be incompetent because he or she has been evaluated or treated for mental disorder or chronic alcoholism, regardless of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5332
  (a) Antipsychotic medication, as defined in subdivision (l) of Section 5008, may be administered to any person subject to detention pursuant to Section 5150, 5250,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5333
  (a) Persons subject to capacity hearings pursuant to Section 5332 shall have a right to representation by an advocate or legal counsel. "Advocate," as used...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5334
  (a) Capacity hearings required by Section 5332 shall be heard within 24 hours of the filing of the petition whenever possible. However, if any party...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5336
  Any determination of a person's incapacity to refuse treatment with antipsychotic medication made pursuant to Section 5334 shall remain in effect only for the duration...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5337
  Notwithstanding Section 5257, nothing shall prohibit the filing of a petition for post certification pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 5300) for persons who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5345
  (a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as Laura's Law. (b) "Assisted outpatient treatment" shall be defined as categories of outpatient services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5346
  (a) In any county in which services are available as provided in Section 5348, a court may order a person who is the subject of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5347
  (a) In any county in which services are available pursuant to Section 5348, any person who is determined by the court to be subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5348
  (a) For purposes of subdivision (e) of Section 5346, a county that chooses to provide assisted outpatient treatment services pursuant to this article shall offer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5349
  This article shall be operative in those counties in which the county board of supervisors, by resolution, authorizes its application and makes a finding that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5349.1
  (a) Counties that elect to implement this article, shall, in consultation with the department, client and family advocacy organizations, and other stakeholders, develop a training...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5349.5
  (a) This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5350
  A conservator of the person, of the estate, or of the person and the estate may be appointed for any person who is gravely disabled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5350.1
  The purpose of conservatorship, as provided for in this article, is to provide individualized treatment, supervision, and placement.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5350.2
  Reasonable attempts shall be made by the county mental health program to notify family members or any other person designated by the person for whom...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5351
  In each county or counties acting jointly under the provisions of Article 1 (commencing with Section 6500) of Chapter 5 of Division 7 of Title...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5352
  When the professional person in charge of an agency providing comprehensive evaluation or a facility providing intensive treatment determines that a person in his care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5352.1
  (a) The court may establish a temporary conservatorship for a period not to exceed 30 days and appoint a temporary conservator on the basis of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5352.2
  Where the duly designated officer providing conservatorship investigation is a public guardian, his official oath and bond as public guardian are in lieu of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5352.3
  If the professional person in charge of the facility providing intensive treatment recommends conservatorship pursuant to Section 5352, the proposed conservatee may be held in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5352.4
  If a conservatee appeals the court's decision to establish conservatorship, the conservatorship shall continue unless execution of judgment is stayed by the appellate court.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5352.5
  Conservatorship proceedings may be initiated for any person committed to a state hospital or local mental health facility or placed on outpatient treatment pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5352.6
  Within 10 days after conservatorship of the person has been established under the provisions of this article, there shall be an individualized treatment plan unless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5353
  A temporary conservator under this chapter shall determine what arrangements are necessary to provide the person with food, shelter, and care pending the determination of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5354
  The officer providing conservatorship investigation shall investigate all available alternatives to conservatorship and shall recommend conservatorship to the court only if no suitable alternatives are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5354.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the person recommended to serve as conservator shall promptly notify the officer providing conservatorship investigation whether he or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5355
  If the conservatorship investigation results in a recommendation for conservatorship, the recommendation shall designate the most suitable person, corporation, state or local agency or county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5356
  The report of the officer providing conservatorship investigation shall contain his or her recommendations concerning the powers to be granted to, and the duties to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5357
  All conservators of the estate shall have the general powers specified in Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2400) of Part 4 of Division 4 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5358
  (a) (1) When ordered by the court after the hearing required by this section, a conservator appointed pursuant to this chapter shall place his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5358.1
  Neither a conservator, temporary conservator, or public guardian appointed pursuant to this chapter, nor a peace officer acting pursuant to Section 5358.5, shall be held...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5358.2
  If a conservatee requires medical treatment and the conservator has not been specifically authorized by the court to require the conservatee to receive medical treatment,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5358.3
  At any time, a conservatee or any person on his behalf with the consent of the conservatee or his counsel, may petition the court for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5358.5
  When any conservatee placed into a facility pursuant to this chapter leaves the facility without the approval of the conservator or the person in charge...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5358.6
  Any conservator who places his or her conservatee in an inpatient facility pursuant to Section 5358, may also require the conservatee to undergo outpatient treatment....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5358.7
  When any conservatee challenges his or her placement or conditions of confinement pursuant to Section 1473 of the Penal Code or Section 7250 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5359
  A conservator appointed under this chapter shall find alternative placement for his conservatee within seven days after he is notified by the person in charge...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5360
  The officer providing conservatorship investigation shall recommend, in his report to the court, for or against imposition of a disability set forth in Section 5357...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5361
  Conservatorship initiated pursuant to this chapter shall automatically terminate one year after the appointment of the conservator by the superior court. The period of service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5362
  (a) The clerk of the superior court shall notify each conservator, his or her conservatee and the person in charge of the facility in which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5363
  In the event the conservator continues in good faith to act within the powers granted him in the original decree of conservatorship beyond the one-year...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5364
  At any time, the conservatee may petition the superior court for a rehearing as to his status as a conservatee. However, after the filing of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5365
  A hearing shall be held on all petitions under this chapter within 30 days of the date of the petition. The court shall appoint the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5365.1
  The conservatee or proposed conservatee may, upon advice of counsel, waive the presence at any hearing under this chapter of the physician or other professional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5366
  On or before June 30, 1970, the medical director of each state hospital for the mentally disordered shall compile a roster of those mentally disordered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5366.1
  Any person detained as of June 30, 1969, under court commitment, in a private institution, a county psychiatric hospital, facility of the Veterans Administration, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5367
  Conservatorship established under this chapter shall supersede any commitment under former provisions of this code relating to inebriates or the mentally ill.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5368
  A person who is no longer a conservatee shall not be presumed to be incompetent by virtue of his having been a conservatee under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5369
  When a conservatee who has criminal charges pending against him and has been found mentally incompetent under Section 1370 of the Penal Code recovers his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5370
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a conservatorship proceeding may be initiated pursuant to this chapter for any person who has been charged with an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5370.1
  The court in which a petition to establish a conservatorship is filed may appoint the county counsel or a private attorney to represent a private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5370.2
  (a) Beginning January 1, 1996, the State Department of Mental Health shall contract with a single nonprofit agency that meets the criteria specified in subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5371
  No person upon whom a duty is placed to evaluate, or who, in fact, does evaluate a conservatee for any purpose under this chapter shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5372
  (a) The provisions of Section 1051 of the Probate Code shall apply to conservatorships established pursuant to this chapter. (b) The Judicial Council shall, on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5400
  The Director of Mental Health shall administer this part and shall adopt rules, regulations and standards as necessary. In developing rules, regulations, and standards, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5402
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall collect and publish annually quantitative information concerning the operation of this division including the number of persons...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5402.2
  The Director of Mental Health shall develop a master plan for the utilization of state hospital facilities identifying levels of care. The level of care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5403
  (a) From July 1, 1991 to June 30, 1993, inclusive, regulations promulgated by the department shall not be subject to the approval of the California...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5404
  Each county may designate facilities, which are not hospitals or clinics, as 72-hour evaluation and treatment facilities and as 14-day intensive treatment facilities if such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5405
  (a) This section shall apply to each facility licensed by the State Department of Mental Health, or its delegated agent, on or after January 1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5500
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Advocacy" means those activities undertaken on behalf of persons who are receiving or have received mental health services to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5510
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) The State of California accepts its responsibility to ensure and uphold the right of persons with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5511
  The Director of Mental Health or the executive director of each state hospital serving mentally disordered persons may contract with independent persons or agencies to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5512
  Training of county patients' rights advocates shall be provided by the contractor specified in Section 5510 responsible for the provision of protection and advocacy services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5513
  The Patients' Rights Office shall serve as a liaison between county patients' rights advocates and the State Department of Mental Health.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5514
  There shall be a five-person Patients' Rights Subcommittee of the California Council on Mental Health. This subcommittee, supplemented by two ad hoc members appointed by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5520
  Each local mental health director shall appoint, or contract for the services of, one or more county patients' rights advocates. The duties of these advocates...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5521
  It is the intent of the Legislature that legal representation regarding changes in client legal status or conditions and other areas covered by statute providing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5522
  County patients' rights advocates may conduct investigations if there is probable cause to believe that the rights of a past or present recipient of mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5523
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and without regard to the existence of a guardianship or conservatorship, a recipient of mental health services is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5530
  (a) County patients' rights advocates shall have access to all clients and other recipients of mental health services in any mental health facility, program, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5540
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter or in other provisions of law, information about and records of recipients of mental health services shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5541
  (a) A specific authorization by the client or by the guardian ad litem is necessary for a county patients' rights advocate to have access to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5542
  County patients' rights advocates shall have the right to inspect or copy, or both, any records or other materials not subject to confidentiality under Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5543
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with the authorization of the client, a county patients' rights advocate may, to the extent necessary for effective...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5544
  Any written client information obtained by county patients' rights advocates may be used and disseminated in court or administrative proceedings, and to any public agencies,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5545
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit access to recipients of mental health services in any mental health facility, program, or service or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5546
  The actual cost of copying any records or other materials authorized under this chapter, plus any additional reasonable clerical costs, incurred in locating and making...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5550
  (a) Any person participating in filing a complaint or providing information pursuant to this chapter or participating in a judicial proceeding resulting therefrom shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585
  This part shall be known as the Children's Civil Commitment and Mental Health Treatment Act of 1988.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.10
  This part shall be construed to promote the legislative intent and purposes of this part as follows: (a) To provide prompt evaluation and treatment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.20
  This part shall apply only to the initial 72 hours of mental health evaluation and treatment provided to a minor. Notwithstanding the provisions of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.21
  The Director of Mental Health may promulgate regulations as necessary to implement and clarify the provisions of this part as they relate to minors.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.22
  The Director of Mental Health, in consultation with the California Conference of Local Mental Health Directors, may develop the appropriate educational materials and a training...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.25
  "Gravely disabled minor" means a minor who, as a result of a mental disorder, is unable to use the elements of life which are essential...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.50
  When any minor, as a result of mental disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled and authorization for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.52
  Any minor detained under the provisions of Section 5585.50 shall receive a clinical evaluation consisting of multidisciplinary professional analyses of the minor's medical, psychological, developmental,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.53
  If, in the opinion of the professional person conducting the evaluation as specified in Section 5585.52, the minor will require additional mental health treatment, a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.55
  The minor committed for involuntary treatment under this part shall be placed in a health facility designated by the county and approved by the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.57
  A mentally ill minor, upon being considered for release from involuntary treatment, shall have an aftercare plan developed. The plan shall include educational or training...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.58
  This part shall be funded under the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 5600), as part of the county performance contract.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5585.59
  For the purposes of this part, legally emancipated minors requiring involuntary treatment shall be considered adults and this part shall not apply.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5587
  The Metropolitan State Hospital Youth Program's admission policy shall require the referring agency to document all placement attempts prior to admission. The youth program's discharge...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600
  (a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act. This part is intended to organize and finance community mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.1
  The mission of California's mental health system shall be to enable persons experiencing severe and disabling mental illnesses and children with serious emotional disturbances to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.2
  To the extent resources are available, public mental health services in this state should be provided to priority target populations in systems of care that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.3
  To the extent resources are available, the primary goal of the use of funds deposited in the mental health account of the local health and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.35
  (a) Services should be encouraged in every geographic area to the extent resources are available for clients in the target population categories described in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.4
  Community mental health services should be organized to provide an array of treatment options in the following areas, to the extent resources are available: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.5
  The minimum array of services for children and youth meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (a) of Section 5600.3 should include the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.6
  The minimum array of services for adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 should include the following modes of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.7
  The minimum array of services for older adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 should include the following modes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.8
  (a) The department may allocate the funds appropriated in Schedule (2) of Item 4440-101-0001 of the annual Budget Act, to county mental health programs that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5600.9
  (a) Services to the target populations described in Section 5600.3 should be planned and delivered to the extent practicable so that persons in all ethnic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5601
  As used in this part: (a) "Governing body" means the county board of supervisors or boards of supervisors in the case of counties acting jointly;...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5602
  The board of supervisors of every county, or the boards of supervisors of counties acting under the joint powers provisions of Article 1 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5604
  (a) (1) Each community mental health service shall have a mental health board consisting of 10 to 15 members, depending on the preference of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5604.1
  Local mental health advisory boards shall be subject to the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5604.2
  (a) The local mental health board shall do all of the following: (1) Review and evaluate the community's mental health needs, services, facilities, and special...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5604.3
  The board of supervisors may pay from any available funds the actual and necessary expenses of the members of the mental health board of a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5604.5
  The local mental health board shall develop bylaws to be approved by the governing body which shall: (a) Establish the specific number of members on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5607
  The local mental health services shall be administered by a local director of mental health services to be appointed by the governing body. He shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5608
  The local director of mental health services shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Serve as chief executive officer of the community mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5610
  (a) Each county mental health system shall comply with reporting requirements developed by the State Department of Mental Health which shall be uniform and simplified....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5611
  (a) The Director of Mental Health shall establish a Performance Outcome Committee, to be comprised of representatives from the PL 99-660 Planning Council and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5612
  (a) (1) The Performance Outcome Committee shall develop measures of performance for evaluating client outcomes and cost effectiveness of mental health services provided pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5613
  (a) Counties shall annually report data on performance measures established pursuant to Section 5612 to the local mental health advisory board and to the Director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5614
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Compliance Advisory Committee that shall have representatives from relevant stakeholders, including, but not limited to, local mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5614.5
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Quality Improvement Committee which shall include representatives of the California Mental Health Planning Council, local mental health departments,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5615
  If they so elect, cities that were operating independent public mental health programs on January 1, 1990, shall continue to receive direct payments.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5616
  Nothing in this part shall prevent any city or combination of cities from owning, financing, and operating a mental health program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5618
  Mental health plans shall be responsible for providing information to potential clients, family members, and caregivers regarding specialty Medi-Cal mental health services offered by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5622
  (a) A licensed inpatient mental health facility, as described in subdivision (c) of Section 1262 of the Health and Safety Code, operated by a county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5623.5
  Commencing October 1, 1991, and to the extent resources are available, no county shall deny any person receiving services administered by the county mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5650
  (a) The board of supervisors of each county, or boards of supervisors of counties acting jointly, shall adopt, and submit to the Director of Mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5650.5
  Any other provision of law referring to the county Short-Doyle plan shall be construed as referring to the county mental health services performance contract described...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5651
  The proposed annual county mental health services performance contract shall include all of the following: (a) The following assurances: (1) That the county is in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5651.2
  For the 1991-92 fiscal year, each county shall, no later than October 1, 1991, submit to the department a simplified performance contract. The performance contract...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5652.5
  (a) Each county shall utilize available private and private nonprofit mental health resources and facilities in the county prior to developing new county-operated resources or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5652.7
  A county shall have only 60 days from the date of submission of an application to review and certify or deny an application to establish...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5653
  In developing the county Short-Doyle plan, optimum use shall be made of appropriate local public and private organizations, community professional personnel, and state agencies. Optimum...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5653.1
  In conducting evaluation, planning, and research activities to develop and implement the county Short-Doyle plan, counties may contract with public or private agencies.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5654
  In order to serve the increasing needs of children and adolescents with mental and emotional problems, county mental health programs may use funds allocated under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5655
  All departments of state government and all local public agencies shall cooperate with county officials to assist them in mental health planning. The State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5657
  (a) The private organization or private nonprofit organization awarded a contract with the county agency to supply mental health services under this part shall provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5664
  (a) County mental health systems shall provide reports and data to meet the information needs of the state. (b) The department shall not implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5664.5
  (a) County mental health systems shall continue to provide data required by the State Department of Mental Health to establish uniform definitions and time increments...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5665
  After the development of performance outcome measures pursuant to Section 5610, whenever a county makes a substantial change in its allocation of mental health funds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5666
  (a) The Director of Mental Health shall review each proposed county mental health services performance contract to determine that it complies with the requirements of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5667
  (a) A community mental health center shall be considered to be a licensed facility for all purposes, including all provisions of the Health and Safety...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5670
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the development of a system of residential treatment programs in every county which provides a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5670.5
  Criteria for community residential treatment system programs are as follows: (a) Facilities: (1) Settings, whether residential or day, should be as close to a normal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5671
  The following should be the programs in the community residential treatment system. These programs should be designed to provide, at every level, alternatives to institutional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5671.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature that programs serving children and adolescents should be established under this chapter. Such programs should follow the guidelines...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5672
  The types of programs serving children and adolescents referred to in Section 5671.5 are those described in this section. The programs should meet the criteria...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5673
  (a) A five-year pilot program is hereby authorized in Napa County and Riverside County to establish a 15-bed locked facility in each county, for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5675
  (a) Subject to Section 5768, Placer County and up to 15 other counties may establish a pilot project for up to six years, to develop...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5675.1
  (a) In accordance with subdivision (b), the department may establish a system for the imposition of prompt and effective civil sanctions for long-term care facilities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5675.2
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Licensing and Certification Fund, Mental Health, from which money, upon appropriation by the Legislature in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5676
  (a) The department, in conjunction with the State Department of Health Services, shall develop a state-level plan for a streamlined and consolidated evaluation and monitoring...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5676.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that funds allocated to establish or enhance mental health programs are used to integrate the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5680
  In order to assist homeless mentally disabled persons to secure, stabilize, and maintain safe and adequate living arrangements in the community, the Legislature hereby establishes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5681
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that when funds are made available, counties should assure the delivery of long-range services and community support...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5682
  The goal of the community support system is to assure that needed community services are provided to homeless mentally disabled persons and those at risk...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5683
  The function of the community support system is to conduct active outreach to homeless mentally disabled persons, to secure and maintain income, housing, food, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5683.5
  Community support systems may provide temporary funds to their homeless clients for their personal incidental living needs while the clients are in residential placement. Up...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5685
  Counties may provide specific services, contract with a public or private agency, or a combination of both. Nothing contained in this article shall prevent a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5685.5
  (a) A county may contract with the local office of the public guardian to receive and manage income and benefits for mentally ill persons, regardless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5686
  Whenever a county believes that a mentally disabled person may be unable to manage his or her SSI/SSP funds, the county mental health program shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5686.5
  In order to make the most efficient use of the public funds appropriated for this purpose, counties are encouraged to maximize the use of existing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5688.6
  Any and all funds appropriated for the homeless mentally disabled which have been determined to be unexpended and unencumbered two years after the date the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall establish and administer an Older Adults System of Care Demonstration Project, subject to funds appropriated for this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.1
  The department shall establish a steering committee for the purposes of this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.2
  (a) The target population to be served pursuant to this article shall be adults who are 60 years of age or older, diagnosed with a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.3
  The department shall seek proposals and competitively award grants to local mental health departments for a period of up to three years to implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.4
  Grantees shall establish or identify a Mental Health and Aging Advisory Coalition comprised of pilot project participants, public and private sector service providers, senior service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.5
  (a) Each grantee shall identify collaborative efforts it will undertake to link the Older Adult Mental Health System of Care with other related planning and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.6
  The department, in collaboration with the California Mental Health Planning Council and the grantees, shall identify a set of common data elements that will be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.7
  (a) To the extent funds are available, evaluation shall be conducted both by the participating county evaluation staff of each participating county and by an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.8
  The department shall provide periodic progress reports and recommendations on the status of the Demonstration Project provided for in this article to the Long Term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5689.9
  The department shall provide periodic progress reports on the status of the demonstration projects to all Demonstration Project participants and mental health directors to increase...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5690
  It is the intent of the Legislature to, encourage the establishment in each county of a system of community vocational rehabilitation and employment services, for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5691
  (a) Counties may implement the community vocational rehabilitation system described in this chapter with existing county allocations, funds available from the Department of Rehabilitation and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5692
  The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, have responsibility for the provision of technical assistance, maximizing federal revenue, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5692.5
  Programs that constitute the community vocational rehabilitation system are of the following types: (a) Prevocational programs should be, but are not limited to, components of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5693
  The following principles should guide development of community vocational rehabilitation systems: (a) Work: (1) Work should be meaningful, necessary, and have value to the individual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5693.2
  Counties undertaking development of a community vocational rehabilitation system are encouraged to establish an advisory group consisting of primary consumers, parents, representatives from the business...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5693.5
  The director shall provide technical assistance to those counties developing a community vocational rehabilitation system. In the event that the department lacks sufficient resources to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5694
  Each community support program for the homeless mentally disabled should also assist its clients to establish self-help groups and peer counseling. Each agency should offer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5694.5
  The counties may utilize designated mental health funding pursuant to this part for establishing and maintaining any client self-help mental health projects.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5694.7
  When the director of mental health in a county is notified pursuant to Section 319.1 or 635.1, or Section 7572.5 of the Government Code about...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5695
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The Legislature has declared its intent to provide, at the local level, a range of appropriate mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5695.2
  There may be established, on a regional basis, secure facilities which are physically and programmatically designed for the commitment and ongoing treatment of seriously emotionally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5695.5
  A board of directors for a facility shall be established to provide oversight and direction to the design, implementation, and operation of the facility in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5695.7
  (a) The board of directors shall be composed of the chief probation officer and the local mental health directors of each of the participating counties....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5696
  Prior to the opening of any regional facility, the board of directors shall develop written admission criteria, approved by the Department of the Youth Authority,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5696.2
  No ward shall be admitted to any regional facility described in this chapter who meets any of the following criteria: (a) The ward has a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5696.5
  Prior to the opening of a facility, the board of directors shall establish written program standards and policies and procedures, approved by the Division of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5696.7
  Wards shall be referred for admission to the director of a regional facility following screening and approval through a joint mental health and probation screening...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5697
  The regional board of directors shall contract with the county in which the regional facility is located for the provision of a public education program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5697.2
  The board of directors of a regional facility shall submit to the Director of the Youth Authority, a report which includes, at a minimum, a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5697.5
  The Director of the Youth Authority, in conjunction with the Director of Mental Health, shall adopt rules and regulations to establish, monitor, and enforce minimum...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5698
  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage in each county a system of care for seriously emotionally disturbed children and youth. This system...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5699
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) That mental health case management services required for children with serious emotional disturbance are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5699.1
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5699.2
  Children identified for case management services under this section shall be minors under 18 years of age described in Section 5600.3 as seriously emotionally disturbed,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5699.3
  "Individual treatment plan" means a plan that includes all of the following: (a) An assessment of the minor's specific capabilities and problems. (b) A statement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5699.4
  On and after January 1, 1987, any county may provide case management services for children with serious emotional disturbance pursuant to this chapter. The case...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5699.5
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the use of state funds to provide services under this chapter or to enforce the provisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5700
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that mental health services provided by county mental health programs are funded from the following general categories or sources of public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5701
  (a) To achieve equity of funding, available funding for local mental health programs beyond the funding provided pursuant to Section 17601 shall be distributed to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5701.1
  Notwithstanding Section 5701, the State Department of Mental Health, in consultation with the California Mental Health Directors Association, may utilize funding from the Substance Abuse...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5701.2
  (a) The department shall maintain records of any transfer of funds or state hospital beds made pursuant to Chapter 1341 of the Statutes of 1991....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5701.4
  Costs that were reimbursed, prior to July 1, 1991, from the local assistance appropriation contained in Item 4440-101-001 of the annual Budget Act, shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5701.5
  City-operated Bronzan-McCorquodale programs paid by the state under Section 5615 shall be directly funded in accordance with this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5702
  For the purposes of this part, the definition of maintenance of effort contained in Section 17608.05 shall apply.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5703
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a county, or counties acting jointly, from appropriating additional funds for mental health services. In no event shall counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5704
  Funds described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 5700 shall be deposited in the mental health account of the local health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5704.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that special consideration be given to children's services in funding county services to expand existing programs or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5704.6
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), each county shall allocate for services to persons under age 18, 50 percent of the amount of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5705
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the use of negotiated net amounts, as provided in this section, be given preference in contracts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5706
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the portions of the county mental health services performance contract which become a contractual arrangement between the county and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5707
  Funds appropriated to the department which are designated for local mental health services and funds which the department is responsible for allocating or administering, including,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5708
  To maintain stability during the transition, counties that contracted with the department during the 1990-91 fiscal year on a negotiated net amount basis may continue...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5709
  Regardless of the funding source involved, fees shall be charged in accordance with the ability to pay for mental health services rendered but not in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5710
  (a) Charges for the care and treatment of each patient receiving service from a county mental health program shall not exceed the actual cost thereof...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5711
  (a) In the case of federal audit exceptions, federal audit appeal processes shall be followed unless the State Department of Mental Health, in consultation with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5712
  The department shall contract with counties for the funds appropriated to, and allocated by, the department pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5713
  Advances for funding mental health services may be made by the Director of Mental Health from funds appropriated to the department for local mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5714
  To continue county expenditures for legal proceedings involving mentally disordered persons, the following costs incurred in carrying out Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5715
  Subject to the approval of the department, at the end of the fiscal year, a county may retain unexpended funds allocated to it by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5716
  Counties may contract with providers on a negotiated net amount basis in the same manner as set forth in Section 5705.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5717
  (a) Expenditures that may be funded from amounts allocated to the county by the department from funds appropriated to the department shall include negotiated rates...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5718
  (a) (1) This section and Sections 5719 to 5724, inclusive, shall apply to mental health services provided by counties to Medi-Cal eligible individuals. Counties shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5718
  (a) (1) This section and Sections 5719 to 5724, inclusive, shall apply to mental health services provided by counties to Medi-Cal eligible individuals. Counties shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5719
  Each public or private facility or agency providing local mental health services pursuant to a county performance contract plan shall make a written certification within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5719.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, the State Department of Mental Health may, in consultation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5720
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director, in the 1993-94 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter, subject to the approval of the Director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5720
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director, in the 1993-94 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter, subject to the approval of the Director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5721
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, in determining the amounts which may be paid, fees paid by persons receiving services or fees paid on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5722
  (a) The department shall have responsibility, as delegated by the State Department of Health Services, for conducting investigations and audits of claims and reimbursements for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5723
  The provisions of subdivision (a) of Section 14000 shall not be construed to prevent providers of mental health services pursuant to this part from also...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5723.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with federal regulations governing these claims, the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5724
  (a) The department and the State Department of Health Services shall jointly develop a new ratesetting methodology for use in the Short-Doyle Medi-Cal system that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5724
  (a) The department and the State Department of Health Care Services shall jointly develop, in consultation with the California Mental Health Directors Association, a reimbursement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5730
  This act is to be known as the Mental Health Master Plan Development Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5731
  The Legislature finds and declares that the mental health system is a large and important segment of California's system of health care. The Legislature further...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5732
  (a) Given the requirements of Public Law 99-660 and the significant policy issues currently facing the mental health system in California, a master plan for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5733
  The Mental Health Master Plan shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of all of the following: (a) The specific planning elements required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5750
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall administer this part and shall adopt standards for approval of mental health services, and rules and regulations...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5750.1
  Notwithstanding Section 5750, a standard, rule, or policy, not directly the result of a statutory or administrative law change, adopted by the department or county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5751
  (a) Regulations pertaining to the qualifications of directors of local mental health services shall be administered in accordance with Section 5607. These standards may include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5751.1
  Regulations pertaining to the position of director of local mental health services, where the local director is other than the local health officer or medical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5751.2
  (a) Except as provided in this section, persons employed or under contract to provide mental health services pursuant to this part shall be subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5751.7
  For the purposes of this part and the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Part 1 (commencing with Section 5000)), the department shall ensure that, whenever feasible, minors shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5755.1
  The state mental health plan shall be submitted to the California Council on Mental Health and the Advisory Health Council or its successor for review...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5767
  The department, in consultation with a statewide organization representing county mental health services, shall strengthen and ensure statewide application of managed care principles, building on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5768
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as to requirements relating to fire and life safety of persons with mental illness, the department, in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5768.5
  (a) When a mental health patient is being discharged from any facility authorized under Section 5675 or 5768, the patient and the patient's conservator, guardian,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5769
  Whenever the director determines that a county's personnel regulations and procedures are impediments to the timely implementation of programs developed and implemented pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5770
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may directly, or by contract, with any public or private agency, provide any of the services under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5770.5
  The department shall encourage county mental health programs to develop and support local programs designed to provide technical assistance to self-help groups for the purposes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5771
  (a) Pursuant to Public Law 102-321, there is the California Mental Health Planning Council. The purpose of the planning council shall be to fulfill those...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5771.1
  The members of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission established pursuant to Section 5845 are members of the California Mental Health Planning Council....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5771.3
  The California Mental Health Planning Council may utilize staff of the State Department of Mental Health, to the extent they are available, and the staff...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5771.5
  (a) (1) The Chairperson of the California Mental Health Planning Council, with the concurrence of a majority of the members of the California Mental Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5772
  The California Mental Health Planning Council shall have the powers and authority necessary to carry out the duties imposed upon it by this chapter, including,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5775
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, the State Department of Mental Health shall implement managed mental health care for Medi-Cal beneficiaries through fee-for-service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5776
  (a) The department and its mental health plan contractors shall comply with all applicable federal laws, regulations, and guidelines, and, except as provided in this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5777
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise specified in this part, a contract entered into pursuant to this part shall include a provision that the mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5777.5
  (a) (1) The department shall require any mental health plan that provides Medi-Cal services to enter into a memorandum of understanding with any Medi-Cal managed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5777.6
  (a) Each local mental health plan shall establish a procedure to ensure access to outpatient mental health services, as required by the Early Periodic Screening...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5777.7
  (a) In order to facilitate the receipt of medically necessary specialty mental health services by a foster child who is placed outside his or her...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5778
  (a) This section shall be limited to specialty mental health services reimbursed through a fee-for-service payment system. (b) The following provisions shall apply to matters...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5778
  (a) This section shall be limited to specialty mental health services reimbursed through a fee-for-service payment system. (b) The following provisions shall apply to matters...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5778.3
  Notwithstanding any other law, including subdivision (b) of Section 16310 of the Government Code, the Controller may use the moneys in the Mental Health Managed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5779
  (a) This section shall be limited to mental health services reimbursed through a capitated rate payment system. (b) Upon mutual agreement, the department and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5780
  (a) This part shall only be implemented to the extent that the necessary federal waivers are obtained. The director shall execute a declaration, to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5781
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a mental health plan may enter into a contract for the provision of mental health services for Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5782
  The provisions of this part are subject to and shall be read as incorporating the authority and oversight responsibilities of the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5783
  (a) Each eligible public agency, as described in subdivision (b), may, in addition to reimbursement or other payments that the agency would otherwise receive for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5800
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Adult and Older Adult Mental Health System of Care Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5801
  (a) A system of care for adults and older adults with severe mental illness results in the highest benefit to the client, family, and community...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5802
  (a) The Legislature finds that a mental health system of care for adults and older adults with severe and persistent mental illness is vital for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5803
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall issue a request for proposals to develop system of care programs no later than October 1 in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5804
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall include funding under this part in the county's performance contracts required under Section 5650 for existing and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5805
  The State Department of Mental Health shall require counties to use available state and matching funds for the client target population as defined in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5806
  The State Department of Mental Health shall establish service standards that ensure that members of the target population are identified, and services provided to assist...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5807
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall require counties which receive funding to develop interagency collaboration with shared responsibilities for services under this part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5808
  In order to reduce the state and county cost of a mental health system of care, participating counties shall collect reimbursement for services from clients...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5809
  The State Department of Mental Health shall continue to work with participating counties and other interested parties to refine and establish client and cost outcome...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5810
  The State Department of Mental Health may contract with counties whose programs have been approved by the department and selected in accordance with Article 2...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5811
  The State Department of Mental Health shall provide participating counties all of the following: (a) Request for proposals, application guidelines, and format, and coordination and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5811.2
  The department is encouraged to provide a mental health care provider with training and experience in geriatrics to oversee, monitor, and provide advice to participating...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5813
  County participation under this part shall be voluntary.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5813.5
  Subject to the availability of funds from the Mental Health Services Fund, the state shall distribute funds for the provision of services under Sections 5801,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5813.6
  (a) At the time of the release of the January 10 budget plan and the May Revision, the Director of Mental Health shall submit to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5814
  (a) (1) This part shall be implemented only to the extent that funds are appropriated for purposes of this part. To the extent that funds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5814.5
  (a) (1) In any year in which funds are appropriated for this purpose through the annual Budget Act, counties funded under this part in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5815
  The State Department of Health Care Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Mental Health, shall seek all available federal funding for mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5820
  (a) It is the intent of this part to establish a program with dedicated funding to remedy the shortage of qualified individuals to provide services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5821
  (a) The California Mental Health Planning Council shall advise the State Department of Mental Health on education and training policy development and provide oversight for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5822
  The State Department of Mental Health shall include in the five-year plan: (a) Expansion plans for the capacity of postsecondary education to meet the needs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5830
  County mental health programs shall develop plans for innovative programs to be funded pursuant to paragraph (6) of subdivision (a) of Section 5892. (a) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5840
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall establish a program designed to prevent mental illnesses from becoming severe and disabling. The program shall emphasize...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5840.2
  (a) The department shall contract for the provision of services pursuant to this part with each county mental health program in the manner set forth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5845
  (a) The Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission is hereby established to oversee Part 3 (commencing with Section 5800), the Adult and Older Adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5846
  (a) The commission shall issue guidelines for expenditures pursuant to Part 3.2 (commencing with Section 5830), for innovative programs, and Part 3.6 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5847
  Integrated Plans for Prevention, Innovation, and System of Care Services. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to streamline the approval processes of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5848
  (a) Each plan and update shall be developed with local stakeholders, including adults and seniors with severe mental illness, families of children, adults, and seniors...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5850
  This part shall be known and may be cited as the Children's Mental Health Services Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5851
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is no comprehensive county interagency system throughout California for the delivery of mental health services to seriously...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5851.5
  For the purposes of this part, a "system of care county" means a county which has been approved by the State Department of Mental Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5852
  There is hereby established an interagency system of care for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances that provides comprehensive, coordinated care based on the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5852.5
  The department shall review those counties that have been awarded funds to implement a comprehensive system for the delivery of mental health services to children...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5853
  County participation under this part shall be voluntary.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5854
  The State Department of Mental Health may contract with counties whose programs have been approved by the department and selected pursuant to Article 4 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5855
  The department shall adopt as part of its overall mission the development of community-based, comprehensive, interagency systems of care that target seriously emotionally and behaviorally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5855.5
  (a) Projects funded pursuant to Part 4 (commencing with Section 5850) of Division 5, as added by Chapter 89 of the Statutes of 1991, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5856
  For the purposes of this part, "seriously emotionally disturbed children" means those minors under 18 years of age described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5856.2
  (a) Eligible children shall include seriously disturbed children who meet the requirements of Section 5856 and who are referred by collaborating programs, including wrap-around programs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5857
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall issue a request for applications for funding for new children's system of care programs to nonparticipating counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5859
  If applications are deficient and not ready for approval, department program staff shall provide specific written descriptions of areas of deficiency to counties and provide,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5860
  (a) Final selection of county proposals shall be subject to the amount of funding approved for expansion of services under this part. (b) Counties shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5861
  Proposals for a system of care may be submitted for a region by several smaller counties acting jointly, as independent countywide proposals, or proposals to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5862
  (a) Each county wishing to participate under this part shall develop a three-year program proposal for phasing in the children's comprehensive mental health services system....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5863
  In addition to the requirements of Section 5862, each county program proposal shall contain all of the following: (a) Methods and protocols for the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5864
  Participating counties shall, prior to the submission of their program proposals, develop baseline data on children served by the county in the mental health services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5865
  Each county shall have in place, with qualified mental health personnel, all of the following within three years of funding by the state: (a) A...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5865.1
  When a county system of care serves children 15 to 21 years of age, the following structures and services shall, to the extent possible, be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5865.3
  When a county system of care services children, zero to five years of age, the following structures and services shall be available, and when not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5866
  (a) Counties shall develop a method to encourage interagency collaboration with shared responsibility for services and the client and cost outcome goals. (b) The local...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5867
  Counties shall demonstrate a maintenance of effort in children's mental health services. Any reduction of existing Bronzan-McCorquodale children's services provided under Part 2 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5867.5
  (a) Beginning in the 1998-99 fiscal year, county mental health departments that receive full system of care funding, as determined by the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5868
  (a) The department shall establish service standards that ensure that children in the target population are identified and receive needed and appropriate services from qualified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5869
  The department shall provide participating counties with all of the following: (a) Applications for funding guidelines and format, and coordination and oversight of the selection...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5872
  In order to offset the cost of services, participating counties shall collect reimbursement for services from the following sources: (a) Fees paid by families, which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5875
  The Secretary of Health and Welfare shall require the State Department of Mental Health to develop an administrative waiver process for counties that either propose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5877
  (a) For system of care counties, or as part of the county program proposal to apply for status as a system of care county, requests...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5878
  (a) (1) The Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, or the Secretary of the Youth and Corrections Agency may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5878.1
  (a) It is the intent of this article to establish programs that assure services will be provided to severely mentally ill children as defined in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5878.2
  For purposes of this article, severely mentally ill children means minors under the age of 18 who meet the criteria set forth in subdivision (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5878.3
  (a) Subject to the availability of funds as determined pursuant to Part 4.5 (commencing with Section 5890) of this division, county mental health programs shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5879
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to increase the accountability of mental health and other human services programs whenever feasible by developing and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5880
  For each selected county the department shall define and establish client and cost outcome and other system performance goals, and negotiate the expected levels of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5881
  (a) Evaluation shall be conducted by both participating county evaluation staff and, subject to the availability of funds, by the department. (b) Evaluation at both...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5882
  (a) Participating counties shall assign sufficient resources to performance evaluation to enable the county to fulfill all evaluation responsibilities specified in the contract with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5883
  (a) The department shall facilitate improved access to relevant client and financial data from all state agencies, including, but not limited to, the State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5890
  (a) The Mental Health Services Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. The fund shall be administered by the state. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5891
  (a) The funding established pursuant to this act shall be utilized to expand mental health services. Except as provided in subdivision (j) of Section 5892...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5892
  (a) In order to promote efficient implementation of this act allocate the following portions of funds available in the Mental Health Services Fund in 2005-06...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5893
  (a) In any year in which the funds available exceed the amount allocated to counties, such funds shall be carried forward to the next fiscal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5894
  In the event that Part 3 (commencing with Section 5800) or Part 4 (commencing with Section 5850) of this division, are restructured by legislation signed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5895
  In the event any provisions of Part 3 (commencing with Section 5800), or Part 4 (commencing with Section 5850) of this division, are repealed or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5897
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, the State Department of Mental Health shall implement the mental health services provided by Part 3 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5898
  The state shall develop regulations, as necessary, for the State Department of Mental Health, the Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission, or designated state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5900
  This part is intended to organize and finance mental health services in skilled nursing facilities designated as institutions for mental disease, in a way that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5901
  (a) The Legislature finds that the following issues relating to program operation must be resolved prior to the full assumption of responsibility for institutions for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5902
  (a) In the 1991-92 fiscal year, funding sufficient to cover the cost of the basic level of care in institutions for mental disease at the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5903
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Client" means an individual who is all of the following: (A) Mentally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5903.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may liquidate accounts receivable from individual clients or payees of clients from institution for mental disease funds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5907
  No later than January 1, 1992, the director, in consultation with the California Conference of Local Mental Health Directors and representatives of institutions for mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5908
  On or before October 1, 1992, and in each following year, the counties contracting directly with the facility shall inform the facility of any intent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5909
  The Director of Mental Health shall retain the authority and responsibility to monitor and approve special treatment programs in skilled nursing facilities in accordance with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5910
  Nothing in this article shall preclude two or more counties from establishing a single agreement with a facility, or group of facilities, for the purchase...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5911
  A county or group of counties, by agreement, may expand services into additional facilities utilizing any funds available to the county or counties for that
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5912
  (a) As long as contracts require institutions for mental disease to continue to be licensed and certified as skilled nursing facilities by the State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6000
  Pursuant to applicable rules and regulations established by the State Department of Mental Health or the State Department of Developmental Services, the medical director of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6000.5
  Pursuant to Section 6000, the medical director of a state hospital for the developmentally disabled may receive in such hospital, as a boarder and patient,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6001
  Admissions to the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute or to the Neuropsychiatric Institute, U.C.L.A. Medical Center, may be on a voluntary basis after approval by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002
  The person in charge of any private institution, hospital, clinic, or sanitarium which is conducted for, or includes a department or ward conducted for, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002.10
  Any facility licensed under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to provide inpatient psychiatric treatment, excluding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002.15
  (a) Prior to accepting the written authorization for treatment, the facility shall assure that a representative of the facility has given a full explanation of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002.20
  (a) If the minor requests an independent clinical review of his or her continued inpatient treatment, the patients' rights advocate shall be notified of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002.25
  The independent clinical review shall be conducted by a licensed psychiatrist with training and experience in treating psychiatric adolescent patients, who is a neutral party...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002.30
  (a) All reasonably available clinical information which is relevant to establishing whether the minor meets the admission criteria pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 6002.35...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002.35
  (a) It shall be the responsibility of the psychiatrist conducting the independent clinical review to keep a record of the proceeding. (b) After considering all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6002.40
  (a) For any insurance contracts entered into after January 1, 1990, where any private insurer, certified medical plan, or private health service plan is liable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6003
  As used in this article, "county psychiatric hospital" means the hospital, ward, or facility provided by the county pursuant to the provisions of Section 7100.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6003.1
  As used in this article, county psychiatric health facility means a 24-hour acute care facility provided by the county pursuant to the provisions in Sections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6003.2
  Wherever in this article the term "county psychiatric hospital" appears, such term shall be interchangeable with the term "psychiatric health facility."
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6004
  The superintendent or person in charge of the county psychiatric hospital may receive, care for, or treat in the hospital any person who voluntarily makes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6005
  A voluntary adult patient may leave the hospital or institution at any time by giving notice of his desire to leave to any member of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6006
  A person admitted as a voluntary patient to a state hospital, a private mental institution, or a county psychiatric hospital shall have the following rights...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6007
  Any person detained as of June 30, 1969, in a private institution, pursuant to former Sections 6030 to 6033, inclusive, as they read immediately preceding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6008
  For the purposes of this part, a person who is a conservatee with a conservator of the person or of the person and estate appointed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6250
  As used in this part, "persons subject to judicial commitment" means persons who may be judicially committed under this part as mentally disordered sex offenders...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6251
  Wherever, on the basis of a petition, provision is made in this code for issuing and delivering an order for examination and detention directing that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6252
  Wherever provision is made in this code for a judge of a superior court to issue and deliver an order for examination or detention directing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6253
  Wherever provision is made in this code for court-appointed medical examiners to make and sign a certificate showing the facts of an examination in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6254
  Wherever provision is made in this code for an order of commitment by a superior court, the order of commitment shall be in substantially the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6331
  This article shall become inoperative the day after the election at which the electors adopt this section, except that the article shall continue to apply...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6332
  For a person committed as a mentally disordered sex offender, whose term of commitment has been extended pursuant to former Section 6316.2, and who is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6500
  On and after July 1, 1971, no mentally retarded person may be committed to the State Department of Developmental Services pursuant to this article, unless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6501
  If a person is charged with a violent felony, as described in Section 667.5 of the Penal Code, and the individual has been committed to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6502
  A petition for the commitment of a mentally retarded person to the State Department of Developmental Services who has been found incompetent to stand trial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6503
  The court shall fix a time and place for the hearing of the petition. The time for the hearing shall be set no more than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6504
  In all cases the court shall require due notice of the hearing of the petition to be given to the alleged mentally retarded person. Whenever...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6504.5
  Wherever a petition is filed pursuant to this article, the court shall appoint the director of a regional center for the developmentally disabled established under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6505
  Whenever the court considers it necessary or advisable, it may cause an order to issue for the apprehension and delivery to the court of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6506
  Pending the hearing, the court may order that the alleged dangerous mentally retarded person may be left in the charge of his or her parent,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6507
  The court shall inquire into the condition or status of the alleged mentally retarded person. For this purpose it may by subpoena require the attendance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6508
  Each psychologist and physician shall receive for each attendance mentioned in Section 6507 the sum of five dollars ($5) for each person examined, together with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6509
  (a) If the court finds that the person is mentally retarded, and that he or she is a danger to himself, herself, or to others,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6510
  In case of the dismissal of the petition, the court may, if it considers the petition to have been filed with malicious intent, order the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6511
  Any person who knowingly contrives to have any person adjudged mentally retarded under the provisions of this article, unlawfully or improperly, is guilty of a
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6512
  If, when a boy or girl is brought before a juvenile court under the juvenile court law, it appears to the court, either before or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6513
  (a) The State Department of Developmental Services shall pay for the costs, as defined in this section, of judicial proceedings, including commitment, placement, or release,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6550
  If the juvenile court, after finding that the minor is a person described by Section 300, 601, or 602, is in doubt concerning the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6551
  If the court is in doubt as to whether the person is mentally disordered or mentally retarded, the court shall order the person to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6552
  A minor who has been declared to be within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court may, with the advice of counsel, make voluntary application for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6600
  As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) (1) "Sexually violent predator" means a person who has been convicted of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6600.05
  (a) Until a permanent housing and treatment facility is available, Atascadero State Hospital shall be used whenever a person is committed to a secure facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6600.1
  If the victim of an underlying offense that is specified in subdivision (b) of Section 6600 is a child under the age of 14, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6601
  (a) (1) Whenever the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation determines that an individual who is in custody under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6601
  (a) (1) Whenever the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation determines that an individual who is in custody under the jurisdiction of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6601.3
  (a) Upon a showing of good cause, the Board of Prison Terms may order that a person referred to the State Department of Mental Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6601.5
  Upon filing of the petition and a request for review under this section, a judge of the superior court shall review the petition and determine...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6602
  (a) A judge of the superior court shall review the petition and shall determine whether there is probable cause to believe that the individual named...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6602.5
  (a) No person may be placed in a state hospital pursuant to the provisions of this article until there has been a determination pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6603
  (a) A person subject to this article shall be entitled to a trial by jury, to the assistance of counsel, to the right to retain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6603.3
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no attorney may disclose or permit to be disclosed to a person subject to this article, family...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6603.5
  No employee or agent of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the Board of Parole Hearings, or the State Department of Mental Health shall disclose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6603.7
  (a) Except as provided in Section 6603.3, the court, at the request of the victim of a sex offense relevant in a proceeding under this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6604
  The court or jury shall determine whether, beyond a reasonable doubt, the person is a sexually violent predator. If the court or jury is not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6604.1
  (a) The indeterminate term of commitment provided for in Section 6604 shall commence on the date upon which the court issues the initial order of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6605
  (a) A person found to be a sexually violent predator and committed to the custody of the State Department of Mental Health shall have a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6606
  (a) A person who is committed under this article shall be provided with programming by the State Department of Mental Health which shall afford the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6607
  (a) If the Director of Mental Health determines that the person's diagnosed mental disorder has so changed that the person is not likely to commit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6608
  (a) Nothing in this article shall prohibit the person who has been committed as a sexually violent predator from petitioning the court for conditional release...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6608.5
  (a) A person who is conditionally released pursuant to this article shall be placed in the county of the domicile of the person prior to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6608.7
  The State Department of Mental Health may enter into an interagency agreement or contract with the Department of Corrections or with local law enforcement agencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6608.8
  (a) For any person who is proposed for community outpatient treatment under the forensic conditional release program, the department shall provide to the court a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6609
  Within 10 days of a request made by the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county, the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6609.1
  (a) (1) When the State Department of Mental Health makes a recommendation to the court for community outpatient treatment for any person committed as a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6609.2
  (a) When any sheriff or chief of police is notified by the State Department of Mental Health of its recommendation to the court concerning the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6609.3
  (a) At the time a notice is sent pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 6609.1, the sheriff, chief of police, or district attorney...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6715
  The court shall inquire into the financial condition of the parent, guardian, or other person charged with the support of any person committed as mentally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6716
  In any case in which the probation officer is charged with the duty of collecting amounts payable to the county under this article, upon the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6717
  The cost necessarily incurred in determining whether a person is a fit subject for admission to a home for the mentally retarded and securing his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6718
  The State Department of Mental Health shall present to the county, not more frequently than monthly, a claim for the amount due the state by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6740
  The court shall attach to the order of commitment of a mentally retarded person its findings and conclusions, together with all the social and other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6741
  The sheriff or probation officer, whichever may be designated by the court, may execute the order of commitment with respect to any mentally retarded person....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6750
  The superior court judge of each county may grant certificates in accordance with the form prescribed by the State Department of Mental Health, showing that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6751
  The department shall keep in its office a record showing the name, residence, and certificate of each duly qualified medical examiner. Immediately upon the receipt...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6775
  The office of counselor in mental health may be created in any county in this state by the board of supervisors thereof. The counselors in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6776
  In each county where the office of counselor in mental health has been created under the provisions of this chapter, the judge of the superior...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6777
  The term of office of the counselors in mental health shall be during the pleasure of the court, and they may at any time be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6778
  The counselor in mental health may perform such services as are designated by the county. Every counselor, assistant counselor, and deputy counselor in mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6779
  Wherever in this code or in any other statute reference is made to psychopathic probation officers, such reference shall be deemed to mean and refer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6800
  All peace officers and other persons having similar duties relating to judicially committed poor persons shall see that all poor and indigent committed persons within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 6825
  The procedures for handling mentally disordered persons charged with the commission of public offenses are provided for in Section 1026 of the Penal Code and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7100
  The board of supervisors of each county may maintain in the county hospital or in any other hospital situated within or without the county or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7101
  As used in this chapter "county psychiatric hospital" means the hospital, ward, or facility provided by the county pursuant to the provisions of Section 7100.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7102
  The superintendent or person in charge of the county psychiatric hospital, may receive, detain, supervise, care for or treat in the hospital any person who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7103
  The superintendent or person in charge of the county psychiatric hospital may admit and provide care and treatment in the hospital for any person who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7104
  Any adult person detained in such hospital, who is in such condition of mind as to render him competent to make such application shall at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7105
  A superintendent or person in charge of the county psychiatric hospital may discharge any patient who is not a proper case for treatment therein.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7106
  In case a county psychiatric hospital patient or the person legally liable for his maintenance is or becomes the owner of property, real, personal, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7107
  Any superintendent or person in charge of the county psychiatric hospital, and any public officer, public employee, or public physician who either admits, causes to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7200
  There are in the state the following state hospitals for the care, treatment, and education of the mentally disordered: (a) Metropolitan State Hospital near the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7200.05
  It is the intent of the Legislature that not more than 227 patients whose placement has been required pursuant to provisions of the Penal Code...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7200.06
  (a) Of the 1,362 licensed beds at Napa State Hospital, at least 20 percent of these beds shall be available in any given fiscal year...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7200.07
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not more than 824 patients whose placement has been required pursuant to the Penal Code shall be placed at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7200.5
  The children's treatment center at Camarillo State Hospital shall be known as the Norbert I. Rieger Children's Treatment Center.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7201
  All of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health shall be governed by the uniform rules and regulations of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7202
  The State Department of Mental Health shall regularly consult with the Napa State Hospital Task Force, which consists of local community representatives, on proposed policy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7203
  The Director of General Services may grant to the San Bernardino Unified School District or to the County of San Bernardino under such terms, conditions,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7204
  (a) Grounds privileges or passes may be earned by patients, whose placement has been required pursuant to the Penal Code, at all state hospitals. Grounds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7205
  The Director of General Services with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services is hereby authorized to transfer to the City of Costa...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7206
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4444, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the Director of Developmental Services, may grant a right-of-way for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7207
  The Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Mental Health, may grant to the Regents of the University of California,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7225
  Except as otherwise provided, all patients admitted to a state hospital shall be duly committed or transferred thereto, and shall be subject to the general...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7226
  The State Department of Mental Health may admit to any state hospital for the mentally disordered, if there is room therein, any mentally disordered soldier...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7227
  Mentally disordered prisoners in the state prisons shall be admitted to the state hospitals in accordance with the provisions of the Penal Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7228
  Prior to admission to the Napa State Hospital or the Metropolitan State Hospital, the State Department of Mental Health shall evaluate each patient committed pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7230
  Those patients determined to be high security risk patients, as described in Section 7228, shall be treated at Atascadero State Hospital or Patton State Hospital,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7231
  The State Department of Mental Health shall develop policies and procedures, by no later than 30 days following the effective date of the Budget Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7232
  The State Department of Mental Health shall issue a state hospital administrative directive by no later than 30 days following the effective date of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7250
  Any person who has been committed is entitled to a writ of habeas corpus, upon a proper application made by the State Department of Mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7251
  Every superintendent, or person in charge of a state hospital, shall, within three days after the reception of a patient, make or cause to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7252
  Any patient in a state hospital, upon the consent of the superintendent and medical director of such hospital, may voluntarily donate blood to any nonprofit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7253
  Every patient in a state hospital under this chapter may be permitted to keep for his own use articles of handiwork and other finished products...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7254
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Mental Health shall have the authority to require that patients committed to a state mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7275
  The husband, wife, father, mother, or children of a patient in a state hospital for the mentally disordered, the estates of such persons, and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7275.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of Mental Health may delegate to each county all or part of the responsibility for determining...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7276
  (a) The charge for the care and treatment of all mentally disordered persons and alcoholics at state hospitals for the mentally disordered for whom there...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7277
  The State Department of Mental Health shall collect all the costs and charges mentioned in Section 7275, and shall determine, pursuant to Section 7275, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7277.1
  In the case of liability for care arising under Section 7275 during the lifetime of a decedent, where the decedent, or his spouse, father, mother,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7278
  The department shall, following the admission of a patient into a state hospital for the mentally disordered cause an investigation to be made to determine...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7279
  (a) If any person committed to a state mental hospital has sufficient estate for the purpose, the guardian or conservator of the person's estate shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7280
  The guardian or conservator of the estate of any person who is confined in a state mental hospital may, from time to time, pay to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7281
  There is at each institution under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health and at each institution under the jurisdiction of the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7282
  The State Department of Mental Health with respect to a state hospital under its jurisdiction, or the State Department of Developmental Services with respect to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7282.1
  If a person who is or has been a recipient of services provided by the State Department of Developmental Services or the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7283
  All moneys collected by the State Department of Mental Health and the State Department of Developmental Services for the cost and charges of transportation of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7284
  If any incompetent person, who has no guardian or conservator of the estate and who has been admitted or committed to the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7285
  The State Department of Mental Health may invest funds held as executor, administrator, guardian or conservator of estates, or trustee, in bonds or obligations issued...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7286
  The State Department of Mental Health may establish one or more common trusts for investment of funds held as executor, administrator, guardian or conservator of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7287
  Upon the death of an incompetent person over whom the State Department of Mental Health has obtained jurisdiction pursuant to Section 7284, the department may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7288
  Whenever it appears that a person who has been admitted to a state institution and remains under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7289
  When a person who is a client of a state hospital or developmental center in the State Department of Mental Health or the State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7289.1
  (a) The amount of three thousand dollars ($3,000) as set forth in Section 7289, shall be adjusted annually, on January 1 by the State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7290
  The State Department of Mental Health or the State Department of Developmental Services may enter into a special agreement, secured by a properly executed bond,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7291
  The county from which each person has been committed to an institution for defective or psychopathic delinquents shall pay the state the cost of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7292
  The cost of such care shall be determined and fixed from time to time by the Director of Mental Health, but in no case shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7293
  The State Department of Mental Health shall present to the county, not more frequently than monthly, a claim for the amount due the state under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7294
  Any person who has been committed as a defective or psychopathic delinquent may be paroled or granted a leave of absence by the medical superintendent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7300
  It shall be the policy of the department to make available to all persons admitted to a state hospital prior to July 1, 1969, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7301
  Whenever, in the opinion of the Director of Mental Health and with the approval of the Director of Corrections, any person who has been committed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7302
  Patients admitted to a state hospital prior to July 1, 1969, and all patients judicially committed or remanded, may be transferred to a like institution...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7303
  Whenever a person, committed to the care of the State Department of Mental Health or the State Department of Developmental Services under one of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7304
  Whenever a person, committed to the State Department of Mental Health or the State Department of Developmental Services under one of the commitment laws providing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7325
  (a) When any patient committed by a court to a state hospital or other institution on or before June 30, 1969, or when any patient...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7325.5
  Notwithstanding Section 5328, information regarding a person's name, reason for commitment, age, physical description, and any other information which the medical director of the treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7326
  Any person who willfully assists any judicially committed or remanded patient of a state hospital or other public or private mental health facility to escape,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7327
  Every peace officer who is designated in and pursuant to Section 7325 delivers or assists in the delivery of a patient to a state hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7328
  Whenever a person who is committed to an institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Mental Health or the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7329
  When any patient, who is subject to judicial commitment, has escaped from any public mental hospital in a state of the United States other than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7350
  The provisions of this article except for Section 7355 shall not apply to any patient held upon an order of a court or judge in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7351
  Wherever in any provision of this code heretofore or hereafter enacted the term "parole" is used in relation to the release of a patient from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7352
  The medical director of a state hospital for the mentally disordered may grant a leave of absence to any judicially committed patient, except as provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7352.5
  The medical director of a state hospital for the developmentally disabled may grant a leave of absence to any developmentally disabled patient or judicially committed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7353
  The State Department of Mental Health shall pay the premium for third-party health coverage for Medicare beneficiaries who are patients at state hospitals under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7354
  Any mentally disordered person may be granted care in a licensed institution or other suitable licensed or certified facility. The State Department of Mental Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7354.5
  Any developmentally disabled person may be granted care in a licensed institution or other suitably licensed or certified facility. The State Department of Developmental Services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7355
  No patient shall be discharged or, granted a leave of absence, or placed on parole or outpatient care from a state hospital without suitable clothing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7356
  The charges for the care and keeping of persons on leave of absence from a state hospital where the State Department of Mental Health, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7357
  The superintendent of a state hospital, on filing his written certificate with the Director of Mental Health, may discharge any patient who, in his judgment,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7359
  The superintendent of a state hospital, on filing his written certificate with the Director of Mental Health, may discharge as improved, or may discharge as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7360
  The medical superintendent shall not refuse to discharge any judicially committed patient as improved, on the ground that the guardian, friends, or relatives of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7361
  When the superintendent is unwilling to certify to the discharge of an unrecovered judicially committed patient, upon request, and so certifies in writing, giving his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7362
  The medical superintendent of a state hospital, on filing his written certificate with the Director of Mental Health, may on his own motion, and shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7375
  Whenever a convict is received into a state hospital under the provisions of Section 2684 of the Penal Code, the medical director of the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7500
  There are established in the state the following state hospitals for the care and treatment of the developmentally disabled: (a) Sonoma State Hospital, in Sonoma...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7501
  (a) The Department of General Services, in cooperation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Mental Health, may sell or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7501.5
  (a) The Department of General Services, in cooperation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Mental Health, may lease property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7502
  The state institution, the site for which was provided for by an appropriation made by Chapter 28 of the 55th (Fourth Extraordinary Session) Session of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7502.5
  (a) The total number of developmental center residents in the secure treatment facility at Porterville Developmental Center, including those residents receiving services in the Porterville...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7503
  The object of each hospital is such care, treatment, habilitation, training, and education of the persons committed thereto as will render them more comfortable and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7504
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter the provisions on state institutions in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 4100) of Part 1 of Division 5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7506
  The primary purpose of each hospital for the developmentally disabled shall be the care, treatment and habilitation of those patients found suitable and duly admitted.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7507
  Subject to the provisions of Section 6509, each state hospital for the developmentally disabled shall admit persons duly committed or transferred thereto in accordance with
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7509
  The State Department of Mental Health and the State Department of Developmental Services shall prescribe and publish instructions and forms, in relation to the commitment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7513
  Each developmentally disabled person and his or her estate shall pay the State Department of Developmental Services for the cost of such person's care and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7513.1
  The charge for the care and treatment of all developmentally disabled persons at state hospitals for the developmentally disabled for whom there is liability to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7513.2
  The State Department of Developmental Services shall collect all the costs and charges mentioned in Section 7513 and may take such action as is necessary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7514
  The State Department of Developmental Services may transfer any patient of a state hospital for the developmentally disabled to another state hospital for the developmentally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7515
  The medical director may, with the approval of the department having jurisdiction, cause the peremptory discharge of any person who has been a patient for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7516
  Nothing in this division contained interferes with or affects the status of such patients as are now in the Sonoma State Hospital under terms of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7518
  In accordance with this section, the medical director of a state hospital with programs for developmentally disabled patients, as defined in Section 4512, may give...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7600
  The Department of General Services shall grant to the Regents of the University of California in fee simple all of its right, title and interest...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 7700
  A neuropsychiatric hospital for which an appropriation for planning was provided by Item 328.1 of the Budget Act of 1954, hereafter referred to as the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8050
  The State Department of Mental Health shall plan, conduct, and cause to be conducted scientific research into sex crimes against children and into methods of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8051
  Upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the Langley Porter Clinic, the State Department of Mental Health may enter into contracts with the Regents of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8052
  Each state agency shall cooperate with the superintendent of the Langley Porter Clinic, or with the University of California, as the case may be, to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8053
  The State Department of Mental Health with the approval of the Director of Finance may accept gifts or grants from any source for the accomplishment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8100
  (a) A person shall not have in his or her possession or under his or her custody or control, or purchase or receive, or attempt...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8101
  (a) Any person who shall knowingly supply, sell, give, or allow possession or control of a deadly weapon to any person described in Section 8100...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8102
  (a) Whenever a person, who has been detained or apprehended for examination of his or her mental condition or who is a person described in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8103
  (a) (1) No person who after October 1, 1955, has been adjudicated by a court of any state to be a danger to others as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8104
  The State Department of Mental Health shall maintain in a convenient central location and shall make available to the Department of Justice those records that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8105
  (a) The Department of Justice shall request each public and private mental hospital, sanitarium, and institution to submit to the department that information that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8108
  Mental hospitals, health facilities, or other institutions, or treating health professionals or psychotherapists who provide reports subject to this chapter shall be civilly immune for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8200
  If provision is made by law of the United States for the administration by public agencies of this state of federal appropriations for the welfare...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8201
  If the law of the United States requires the submission of budgets to the Secretary of the Interior or to any other federal agency before...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8225
  If the Attorney General of this state is authorized by any law of the United States to institute suits in the court of claims in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8250
  There is hereby created in the Health and Welfare Agency an Office of Special Services under the control of an executive officer appointed by and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8251
  The Office of Special Services may enter into agreements and contracts with any person, agency, corporation or other legal entity and take such other action...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 8252
  The Office of Special Services may accept and expend grants, gifts and legacies of money, and with the consent of the Department of Finance, may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9000
  This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act, that reflects the policy mandates and directives of the Older...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9001
  The Legislature hereby finds and recognizes all of the following: (a) Older individuals constitute a fundamental resource of the state that previously has been undervalued...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9002
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Programs shall be initiated, promoted, and developed through all of the following: (1) Volunteers and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9003
  (a) If any section of this code relating to aging cannot be given effect without causing this state's plan to be out of conformity with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9004
  Unless the context otherwise indicates, the definitions of the terms set forth in this chapter apply for purposes of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9004.5
  "Adult day health care" means an organized day program of therapeutic, social, and health activities and services provided pursuant to this division to elderly persons...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9005
  "Advisory council" means a specific representative body of laypersons and service providers that represent the interests of older individuals within the boundaries of a planning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9006
  "Area agency on aging" means a private nonprofit or public agency designated by the department that works for the interests of older Californians within a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9007
  "Care or case management services" means: (a) Client assessment, in conjunction with the development of a service plan with the participant and appropriate others, to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9008
  "Commission" means the California Commission on Aging.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9009
  (a) "Elder Economic Security Standard Index" means an index, available on the Internet, that quantifies the costs in the private market for meeting the basic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9010
  "Comprehensive and coordinated system" means a program of interrelated social and nutrition services designed to meet the needs of older individuals in a planning and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9011
  "Department" means the California Department of Aging.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9012
  "Director" means the Director of the California Department of Aging.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9013
  "Frail elderly" means a person having those chronic physical or mental limitations that restrict individual ability to carry out normal activities of daily living and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9014
  "Greatest economic need" means the need resulting from an income level at or below the poverty threshold established by the Bureau of the Census.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9015
  "Greatest social need" means the need caused by noneconomic factors, that include physical and mental disabilities, language barriers, cultural or social isolation, including that caused...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9016
  "Long-term care" means a coordinated continuum of preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, supportive, and maintenance services that address the health, social, and personal needs of individuals...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9017
  "Older Americans Act" means Chapter 35 (commencing with Section 3001) of Title 42 of the United States Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9018
  "Older individual" or "elderly" means a person 60 years of age or older, except where this provision is inconsistent with federal requirements.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9019
  "Personal and community support networks" means families, friends, neighbors, church groups and community organizations to which the elderly turn naturally to for assistance.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9020
  "Planning and service area" means an area specified by the department as directed by the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9021
  "Preventive services" means services that avoid dependency and assist older persons in maintaining their good health, well-being, and growth.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9022
  "Supportive services" means services that maintain individuals in home environments and avoid institutional care.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9023
  "Systems of home and community based services" means an integrated continuum of service options available locally to older individuals and functionally impaired adults, through programs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9100
  (a) There is in the California Health and Human Services Agency, the California Department of Aging. (b) The department's mission shall be to provide leadership...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9101
  (a) The department shall consist of a director, and any staff as may be necessary for proper administration. (b) The department shall maintain its main...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9101.5
  (a) (1) The University of California is requested to compile the following information: (A) A survey of existing resources throughout California's governmental and administrative structure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9102
  The duties and powers of the department shall be: (a) To administer all programs under the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, and this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9103
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Recent studies have shown that lifelong experiences of marginalization place lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9103.1
  (a) The department shall ensure all older adults have equal access to programs and services provided through the Older Americans Act and under this division...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9105
  The department may adopt and promulgate regulations for the purpose of carrying out this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9105.1
  The department, in partnership with the area agencies on aging, the Department of Rehabilitation, any independent living centers, any contractor selected to implement the federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9106
  (a) The department shall administer the administrative cost limitation, as defined in applicable federal law or regulation on a statewide basis. This allocation shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9107
  The department may accept gifts and grants from any source, public or private, to assist it in the performance of its functions, and these gifts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9108
  In addition to any nutrition programs conducted under the McCarthy-Kennick Nutrition Program for the Elderly Act of 1972 (Chapter 5.7 (commencing with Section 18325) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9109
  The department shall, in consultation with nutrition site directors and area agencies on aging, develop policies and guidelines for senior nutrition sites that ensure food...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9110
  (a) The department may make available state funds to fund senior nutrition programs that complement programs implemented pursuant to Title III of the federal Older...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9111
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a great disparity in the method by which the federal Older Americans Act (42 U.S.C. Sec....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9112
  (a) The department shall implement an intrastate funding formula in accordance with all federal regulations. This formula shall apply to all federal and state funds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9113
  Area agencies on aging shall maintain in effect contracts funded from appropriations made by the Budget Act of 2000 for community-based service program expansion until...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9114
  The department may, where necessary to ensure the continued provision of services or program operation, advance available state funds to an area agency on aging...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9115
  There is in the California Department of Aging the Senior Housing Information and Support Center, which shall have the following functions: (a) The center shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9116
  The Director of the California Department of Aging shall appoint all necessary staff to carry out the provisions of this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9117
  Implementation of this article shall be subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9118
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The talents of our elders will prove to be vital to the prosperity and well-being of California....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9118.5
  (a) The Legislature requests that the Governor's Office on Service and Volunteerism, in formulating its Unified State Plan for Service, and in coordination with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9200
  (a) (1) There is in the state government the California Commission on Aging. (2) The commission shall be composed of 25 persons, as follows: (A)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9201
  The term of office of members of the commission shall be three years. Members shall not serve more than two terms, and shall be appointed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9202
  The duties and functions of the commission shall be to do all of the following: (a) Serve as the principal advocate body in the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9203
  The commission may accept gifts and grants from any source, public or private, to assist it in the performance of its functions, and the gifts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9203.5
  The commission may also accept gifts on behalf of the Area Agency on Aging Advisory Council of California, subject to the provisions of Section 9203,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9204
  Wherever there is a reference in any statute of this state to the Citizens Advisory Committee on Aging of the California Commission on Aging, it...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9205
  Members of the commission shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary travel and other expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9250
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Our delivery of long-term care needs to be vastly improved in order to coordinate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9251
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) The term "long-term care" refers to a wide range of supportive and health and social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9252
  Implementation of this chapter shall be grounded on the following principles: (a) Services shall be provided in the least restrictive, most home-based environment compatible with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9253
  By June 1, 2003, pursuant to the California long-term care plan developed pursuant to Section 96 of Assembly Bill 442 of the 2001-02 Regular Session,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9253.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Providers of long-term care programs, including, but not limited to, programs of all-inclusive care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9254
  (a) By January 1, 2005, the agency, with recommendations from the Long-Term Care Council, shall set standards for CalCareNet, with the goal of creating an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9255
  (a) By January 1, 2004, the agency, based on recommendations from the Long-Term Care Council, shall recommend to the Legislature standards for care navigation, including...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9256
  The implementation of a care navigation program, as described in Section 9255, shall be subject to the enactment of legislation requiring implementation.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9300
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the needs of senior citizens for public programs in health, social services, recreation, transportation, education, housing, cultural services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9301
  (a) The California Senior Legislature shall be composed of two houses, the California Senior Senate, composed of 40 members, and the California Senior Assembly, composed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9302
  The members of the California Senior Legislature shall be elected or appointed, in all 33 planning and service areas in California, according to rules developed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9304
  The California Senior Legislature shall have the full authority to define its program and utilize its funds in any way necessary to carry out the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9304.5
  (a) The California Senior Legislature shall enter into a mutually agreed-upon interagency agreement with a state entity to carry out administrative duties related to its...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9305
  (a) The funds for the California Senior Legislature shall be allocated from the California Fund for Senior Citizens or private funds directed to the Legislature...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9450
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Thousands of California seniors are living with mobility and health problems and these numbers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9451
  The department, in consultation with the commission, shall enter into a contract for the development of information and materials which shall be used to educate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9452
  The department shall distribute the information developed pursuant to Section 9451 to each area agency on aging and to other appropriate entities throughout the state.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9453
  The department, in cooperation with the entity contracting with the department pursuant to Section 9451, shall sponsor regional training sessions, and seminars, using the materials...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9454
  Implementation of this chapter shall be subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9400
  (a) The Legislature hereby declares and recognizes the area agencies on aging to be the local units on aging in California that are supported from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9401
  Area agencies on aging and other county agencies that provide services to older adults through an established multidisciplinary team, including the county departments of public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9402
  The Legislature hereby declares and recognizes each area agency on aging advisory council as a principal advocate body on behalf of older individuals within a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9403
  To the extent provided for in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 18773 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the Legislature hereby recognizes the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9404
  An individual's receipt of services under the In-Home Supportive Services Program (Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300), Part 3, Division 9) shall not be the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9500
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Home-Delivered Meals Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9501
  (a) The department shall allocate any new funds to area agencies on aging based upon the existing intrastate funding formula, but without regard to subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9320
  (a) The department shall establish a task force to study and make recommendations, including action steps and timelines, on the improvement of legal services delivery...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9530
  (a) As part of its role in providing leadership to the area agencies on aging in the development of systems of home and community-based services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9530.5
  Consistent with Article 4.05 (commencing with Section 14139.05) of Chapter 7 of Part 3 of Division 9, the Legislature reaffirms the need to restructure the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9531
  (a) This chapter establishes the Community-Based Services Network. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that a Community-Based Services Network be initiated by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9532
  In addition to the definitions already contained in this division, the following definitions apply to this chapter. (a) "Community-based services programs" means the programs specified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9533
  The department shall be responsible for, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) Reviewing and approving the Community-Based Services Network component of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9534
  (a) Contracts between the department and participating area agencies on aging shall be exempt from Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 10290) of Part 2 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9535
  Area agencies on aging shall be responsible for, but not limited to, all of the following: (a) Contracting with the department to locally manage the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9536
  (a) The state funds available for the community-based services programs may not be expended for services other than those specified in Chapter 7.5 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9537
  The funding contracted by the department to the participating area agencies on aging under this chapter shall consist of both of the following: (a) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9538
  (a) Persons involved in the procurement or management of services shall not engage in a conflict of interest, real or apparent. (b) Staff and volunteers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9540
  It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure that older individuals and functionally impaired adults receive needed services that will enable them to maintain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9541
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program is to provide Medicare beneficiaries and those imminent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9542
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Alzheimer's Day Care-Resource Center Program is to provide access to specialized day care resource...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9543
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Brown Bag Program is to provide opportunities for sponsors and volunteers to glean through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9544
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Foster Grandparent Program shall be to provide personally meaningful volunteer community service opportunities to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9545
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of the Linkages Program shall be to provide care and case management services to frail elderly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9546
  (a) The purpose of the Respite Program shall be to provide temporary or periodic services for frail elderly or functionally impaired adults to relieve persons...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9547
  (a) The purpose of the Senior Companion Program shall be to provide personally meaningful volunteer community service opportunities to low-income older individuals for the benefit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9560
  (a) The purpose of this chapter shall be to establish a program to serve frail elderly individuals 65 years of age and older who are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9561
  Program services provided pursuant to this chapter may be purchased by program funds or received from other community sources that consist of, but are not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9562
  (a) This chapter shall be administered by the department, under the authority of an approved interagency agreement with the State Department of Health Services, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9563
  The department shall formulate criteria for approval and designation of local Multipurpose Senior Services Program sites. The criteria shall include, but need not be limited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9564
  Nothing in this chapter shall preclude expansion of Multipurpose Senior Services Program services if cost effectiveness is demonstrated. The expansion shall be accomplished by establishing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9565
  The department shall do all of the following: (a) Enter into agreements and negotiated contracts with any nonprofit organization or governmental entity to operate the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9566
  The department may, where necessary to ensure the effective operation of a multipurpose senior services program, advance to the program's local government and private nonprofit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9567
  This chapter shall remain in effect so long as a waiver pursuant to Section 1396n(c) of Title 42 of the United States Code has been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9568
  The department shall explore options for, and obtain necessary legislative and governmental agency approvals to expand, the Multipurpose Senior Services Program. The department shall attempt...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9590
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Senior Center Bond Act of 1984.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9591
  The following definitions shall govern the construction of this chapter: (a) "Acquiring" means obtaining ownership of an existing facility in fee simple or by lease...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9592
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Senior Center Bond Act Fund, which is comprised of moneys collected pursuant to the issuance and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9593
  The department shall make awards from funds derived from this bond act to public or private nonprofit agencies for the purpose of acquiring, renovating, constructing,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9594
  Eligible applicants for funding under this chapter include units of general purpose local government or other nonprofit private agencies or organizations, including the State of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9595
  (a) A recipient of a contract for the acquisition of a facility to be used as a senior center shall assure that the facility will...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9596
  (a) The State of California shall be entitled to recapture a portion of state funds from the owner of a facility, if within 10 years...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9597
  A facility altered, acquired, renovated, constructed, or equipped using funds allocated under this chapter to be used for a senior center facility may not be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9598
  In a senior center facility that is shared with other age groups, funds received under this chapter may support only the following: (a) That part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9599
  Proposals shall do all of the following: (a) Document the need for a senior center or renovation, program addition, or expansion or equipment purchase. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9600
  (a) Priority for funding shall be given to proposals for multipurpose senior centers that are open to all seniors. Each area agency shall rank the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9601
  Funds not utilized by each planning and service area shall be reallocated to other planning and service areas with the highest documented need for a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9602
  The State General Obligation Bond Law is adopted for the purpose of the issuance, sale, and repayment of, and otherwise providing with respect to, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9603
  For the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized in this chapter, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9604
  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of this chapter, an amount as will be equal to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9605
  (a) For purposes of carrying out this chapter, the Director of Finance may, by executive order, authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9625
  (a) No later than June 30, 2007, each multipurpose senior center and each senior center, as defined in subdivisions (j) and (n) of Section 9591,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9630
  As part of its role in providing leadership in advocating on behalf of older individuals, the department shall make efforts to increase public awareness about...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9631
  (a) The department shall establish an Aging Information and Education Fund, from funds made available pursuant to the annual Budget Act, to implement public awareness...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9650
  The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9651
  "Wellness" means optimizing opportunities for physical, social, and mental well-being throughout the course, in order to extend healthy life expectancy, productivity, and quality of life...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9652
  "Senior" means any person 60 years of age or older.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9653
  "Person with a disability" means the same as the term is defined by regulations established pursuant to Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9654
  "Senior wellness program" means the program established pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 9660).
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9660
  There is in the California Department of Aging a senior wellness program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9661
  (a) The senior wellness program shall have all of the following functions: (1) Focus on educating California's seniors, as well as caregivers, families, and health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9662
  The department shall deliver, or provide for the delivery of, senior wellness program information through a variety of means, including, but not limited to, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9663
  This article shall be implemented only to the extent funds are made available for the purposes of this article in the annual Budget Act or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9664
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Ageism is the systematic stereotyping of, and discrimination against, persons based on age. (2)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9665
  (a) The Legislature requests that the California Department of Aging partner with the Industry Coalition on Age Equity in Media, which is a joint coalition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9675
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Program for Injury Prevention in the Home Environment.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9676
  The Program for Injury Prevention in the Home Environment is hereby established. The department, through the Senior Housing and Information Support Center in the department,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9677
  The department may provide a program grant to an eligible local public agency or nonprofit organization for the services specified in Section 9678 and for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9678
  (a) The Program for Injury Prevention in the Home Environment shall include funding for injury prevention needs, including injury prevention equipment and activities as well...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9679
  (a) The department, in consultation with groups, including, but not limited to, the State and Local Injury Control section of the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9680
  (a) The director shall establish a methodology for awarding grants under this article, in consultation with groups described in subdivision (a) of Section 9679. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9681
  (a) Funding of projects pursuant to this article shall be subject to the appropriation of funds by the Legislature in the Budget Act or another...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9700
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that the department, pursuant to a grant from the federal government, has established a Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. (b) The Legislature...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9701
  Unless the contrary is stated or clearly appears from the context, the following definitions shall govern the interpretation of this chapter: (a) "Approved organization" means...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9710
  There is within the department an Office of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9710.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) The position of State Ombudsman is extremely important to the successful coordination of ombudsman services at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9711
  (a) The office shall be under the direction of a chief executive officer who shall be known as the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman. The State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9712
  (a) (1) The State Ombudsman shall possess at least a bachelor' s degree, and have a minimum of five years' professional experience that shall include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9713
  (a) Upon request of the office, the Attorney General shall represent the office or the department and the state in litigation concerning affairs of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9714
  The office may solicit and receive funds, gifts, and contributions to support the operations and programs of the office. The office may form a foundation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9714.5
  (a) The foundation formed pursuant to Section 9714 shall be under the direction and management of a five-member board of directors. One member shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9715
  (a) No representative of the office shall be held liable for good faith performance of responsibilities under this chapter. (b) No discriminatory, disciplinary, or retaliatory...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9716
  The department shall be responsible for activities that promote the development, coordination, and utilization of resources to meet the long-term care needs of older individuals,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9717
  (a) All advocacy programs and any programs similar in nature to the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program that receive funding or official designation from the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9718
  Every long-term care facility, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 9701, shall post in a conspicuous location a notice of the name, address, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9719
  (a) (1) The office shall sponsor a meeting of representatives of approved organizations at least twice each year. The office shall provide training to these...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9719.5
  (a) (1) The department shall allocate all federal and state funds for local ombudsman programs according to the following distribution, but shall not allocate less...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9720
  (a) The office shall investigate and seek to resolve complaints and concerns communicated by, or on behalf of, patients, residents, or clients of any long-term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9720.5
  The office shall give priority to investigations and complaint resolutions in 24-hour long-term care facilities.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9721
  (a) The office may refer any complaint to any appropriate state or local government agency. The following state licensing authorities shall give priority to any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9722
  (a) Representatives of the office shall have the right of entry to long-term care facilities for the purpose of hearing, investigating, and resolving complaints by,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9723
  The State Ombudsman shall have access to any record of a state or local government agency that is necessary to carry out his or her...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9724
  Notwithstanding Section 56 of the Civil Code, in order for the office to carry out its responsibilities under this chapter, the office shall have access...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9725
  All records and files of the office relating to any complaint or investigation made pursuant to this chapter and the identities of complainants, witnesses, patients,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9726
  (a) The office shall establish a toll-free telephone hotline, in Sacramento, to receive telephone calls concerning any crises discovered by any person in a long-term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9726.1
  The office may do any or all of the following: (a) Advise the public of any inspection report, statements of deficiency, and plans of correction,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9730
  Anyone who willfully interferes with any lawful action of the office shall be immediately referred to the appropriate licensing authority, which shall respond within the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9731
  Notwithstanding the availability of statutory damages, this chapter shall not be construed to limit the ability of a court to issue equitable relief where the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9732
  Any person who willfully interferes with any lawful action of the office shall be subject to a civil penalty of no more than one thousand...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9740
  (a) The department shall establish an 11-member advisory council for the office. Members of the council shall be appointed by the director, and shall consist...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9741
  At least 30 days prior to the designation of a new organization or agency as an approved organization, the department shall notify the advisory council...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9745
  The department shall adopt regulations to implement this chapter in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9750
  The department may adopt regulations to implement this division in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 9757.5
  (a) The California Department of Aging shall assess annually a fee of not less than one dollar and forty cents ($1.40), but not more than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10000
  The purpose of this division is to provide for protection, care, and assistance to the people of the state in need thereof, and to promote...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10001
  The purposes of the public social services for which state grants-in-aid are made to counties are: (a) To provide on behalf of the general public,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10001.5
  (a) In order to carry out the intention of the People of California that only citizens of the United States and aliens lawfully admitted to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10002
  When an applicant for or recipient of public social services is incapable of managing his own resources and planning or carrying out arrangements for his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10020
  (a) No person having private health care coverage shall be entitled to receive the same health care items or services furnished or paid for by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10022
  (a) Each publicly funded health care program, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 10020, that furnishes or pays for health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10024
  Every contract or agreement for private health care coverage entered into or renewed after January 1, 1972, is deemed to provide for payment to a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10025
  The state shall not reimburse any local government or any facility thereof, under Medi-Cal or under any other health program where the state pays part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10050
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter govern the construction of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10051
  "Public social services" means those activities and functions of state and local government administered or supervised by the department or the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10052
  "Aid" means financial assistance provided to or in behalf of needy persons under the terms of this division, including direct money payments and vendor payments.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10053
  (a) "Services" means those activities and functions performed by social work staff and related personnel of the department and county departments with or in behalf...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10053.25
  Funding of Sections 10053 and 14503 is subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 10100). The level of funding for Sections 14503...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10054
  "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10055
  "Director" means the Director of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10056
  "Board" means the State Social Services Advisory Board. Whenever any reference is made in any provision of law to the "State Benefits and Services Advisory...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10057
  "Board of supervisors" means the county board of supervisors.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10058
  "County department" means the county agency designated by the board of supervisors, or by such other authority as may be provided in the county charter,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10059
  "County director" means the director or other chief executive of the county department.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10060
  "Regulations" includes but is not limited to standards of eligibility for aid and services, procedures necessary for the proper and efficient administration of public social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10061
  "Public assistance" and "public assistance programs" refer to those public social services programs provided for in Part 3 of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10062
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Health Services and the Director of Health Services shall have those powers and duties conferred...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10063
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the name of the program provided for pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) is hereby changed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10065
  The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (a) The development of incompatible systems for electronic benefits transfer will create significant hardships on recipients...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10066
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Committee" means the committee created pursuant to this chapter. (b) "Benefits" means financial and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10067
  The Electronic Benefits Transfer Committee is hereby created. The committee shall remain in existence until January 1, 2003.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10068
  The committee shall consist of the Director of the Health and Welfare Agency Data Center, who shall be the chair of the committee, the Director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10069
  The committee shall advise the department on the development and implementation of a statewide electronic benefits transfer system, and shall provide advice concerning the request...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10069.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the project management for a statewide electronic benefits transfer system shall be transferred from the department to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10071
  Any benefits provided to recipients under the department's authority may be distributed through the electronic benefits transfer system as long as the recipient has reasonable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10072
  The electronic benefits transfer system required by this chapter shall be designed to do, but not be limited to, all of the following: (a) To...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10072.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that flea markets, farmers' markets, and certified farmers' markets are important sources of low-cost produce for Californians in need...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10073
  Notwithstanding Section 15204.2, the state shall pay 100 percent of the nonfederal share of costs of the electronic benefits transfer system planning, procurement, development, implementation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10075.5
  The state shall be responsible for procuring and contracting for a statewide electronic benefits transfer system.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10075.6
  The Office of Systems Integration shall be the project manager of the electronic benefits transfer system, and shall be responsible for system planning, procurement, development,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10076
  The director shall promptly seek any federal approvals necessary for implementation of this chapter. Any provision of this chapter whose implementation requires any federal waiver...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10077
  The State Department of Social Services may adopt regulations to implement this act in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10080
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) The failure of the Statewide Automated Child Support System (SACSS) has left California without a statewide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10080.5
  All duties and authority of the Franchise Tax Board under this chapter are hereby transferred to the department. The department shall succeed to and replace...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10081
  The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Annual automation cooperation agreement" or "AACA"...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10082
  (a) The department, through the Franchise Tax Board as its agent, shall be responsible for procuring, developing, implementing, and maintaining the operation of the California...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10084
  (a) The department shall be responsible for requiring each local child support agency to cooperate in establishing the California Child Support Automation System in every...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10085
  (a) (1) Automation costs for county interim systems shall be funded with General Fund incentive funds available pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10086
  If the state pays on behalf of a county child support automation costs that are otherwise the responsibility of the county, the state may recover...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10087
  To the extent that funds are provided in the annual Budget Act, the state shall pay all of the federal share of local child support...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10088
  (a) If the federal government imposes a penalty on California's child support program for failure to meet the federal automation requirements, the penalty, for purposes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10090
  The department and the Franchise Tax Board shall provide, at least twice annually, written or oral reports on the development and implementation of the California...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10091
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Franchise Tax Board, shall be responsible for establishing timelines for the development and implementation of the California Child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10092
  (a) The department, in consultation with the Franchise Tax Board, shall provide uniform statewide training at appropriate intervals to best train state and local child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10093
  The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10100
  It is the intent of the Legislature that counties shall continue to provide matching funds for county-administered social services programs as these programs are defined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10101
  (a) For the 1991-92 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the state's share of the costs of the child welfare program shall be 70...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10101.1
  (a) For the 1991-92 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the state's share of the costs of the county services block grant and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10101.2
  The state's share of the costs for the support and care of former dependent children who have been made wards of related guardians under Article...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10102
  The State Department of Social Services shall establish and maintain a plan whereby costs of county administered social services programs will be effectively controlled within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10103
  All federal funds under Title IV-B of the Social Security Act, which are appropriated to the state shall be passed on to the counties, except...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10200
  (a) (1) The State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of Social Services shall develop a statewide eligibility and enrollment determination process...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10202
  Notwithstanding any other law, this part is not to be construed to change, or in any manner modify, eligibility for the CalWORKs program, the Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10203
  Contingent on the Legislature's approval of the comprehensive plan required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10200 and an appropriation for this purpose, pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10205
  Contingent on the Legislature's approval of the comprehensive plan required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10200 and an appropriation for this purpose, pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10500
  Every person administering aid under any public assistance program shall conduct himself with courtesy, consideration, and respect toward applicants for the recipients of aid under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10501
  No person concerned with the administration of a public assistance program shall dictate how any recipient shall expend the aid granted to him.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10505
  Prior to granting any changes in benefits or levels of service for public social services programs, including the Medi-Cal program, funded by the federal government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10506
  (a) Except as otherwise required by Sections 10614 and 14100.5, the State Department of Health Services (Genetically Handicapped Persons, CCS, CHDP, and the caseload programs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10507
  (a) The department shall estimate the costs for county administration of human services programs using county-specific cost factors in the programs' budgeting methodology. (b) County-specific...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10530
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, in developing the plan required by this chapter, counties shall make an effort not to duplicate planning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10531
  Each county shall develop a plan consistent with state law that describes how the county intends to deliver the full range of activities and services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10532
  The department and the counties shall implement the provisions of the CalWORKs program in the following manner: (a) The department shall issue a planning allocation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10533
  Commencing July 1, 2013, the department shall establish a CalWORKs county peer review process, which shall be implemented on a statewide basis no later than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10534
  (a) Each county shall perform a comprehensive review of its existing CalWORKs plan developed pursuant to Section 10531, and shall prepare and submit to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10534.5
  (a) The department shall review the county plans developed pursuant to Section 10534 in order to identify promising practices in the areas of upfront engagement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10535
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the amount appropriated in Item 5180-101-0890 in the Budget Act of 2006, ninety million dollars ($90,000,000) in federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10540
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to implement Public Law 104-193 in such a manner as to do all of the following: (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10540.5
  The department shall ensure that performance outcomes are monitored at the state and county levels in order to do all of the following: (a) Identify...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10540.6
  Commencing no later than April 1, 2007, the department, on a periodic, but no less frequently than a quarterly basis, shall publish available data reported...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10541
  The department shall consult with experts in monitoring and research, and representatives of counties, the Legislature, and appropriate state agencies in the development and implementation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10541.5
  The department, in consultation with experts in research and program evaluation and representatives of counties, the Legislature, and appropriate state agencies, shall do both of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10541.7
  Each county shall participate in monitoring performance outcomes by collecting and reporting data in the manner established by Section 10541.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10542
  (a) Each county shall, as part of its CalWORKs plan, identify outcomes to be tracked on the local level that are in addition to any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10543
  (a) Within six months of CalWORKs implementation, each county, in conjunction with the department, shall determine a baseline for the data to be collected to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10544
  (a) If the department finds that a county is experiencing significantly worsened outcomes, it shall report this finding to the Chairs of the Senate Committee...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10544.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide counties with grant savings as defined in subdivisions (d) and (e) subject to the amounts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10544.2
  CalWORKs performance incentive funds allocated to counties under Items 5180-101-0001 and 5180-101-0890 of the Budget Act of 2002 shall be available for encumbrance and expenditure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10544.317
  (a) There is hereby created a welfare reform steering committee comprised of a representative of the California Health and Human Services Agency, who shall chair...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10545
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, the State Department of Social Services shall pay counties for base year costs of the county, in accordance with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10545.1
  (a) If the federal Government Accountability Office or any other appropriate agency finds that a county received reimbursement under this chapter for expenses that are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10545.2
  (a) This chapter shall become inoperative upon the expiration of federal authority for the Emergency Contingency Fund, as provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10550
  There is in the Health and Welfare Agency a State Department of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10551
  The department consists of the director, the State Social and Services Advisory Board, and such divisions or other administrative units as the director may find
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10552
  With the consent of the Senate, the Governor shall appoint, to serve at his pleasure, an executive officer who shall be director of the department....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10553
  The director shall: (a) Be responsible for the management of the department. (b) Administer the laws pertaining to the administration of public social services, except...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10553.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may enter into an agreement, in accordance with Section 1919 of Title 25 of the United...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10553.15
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director may provide funding to Indian health clinics to provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10553.2
  Child welfare services allocation methodologies for agreements entered into pursuant to Section 10553.1 shall be developed in consultation with the State Department of Social Services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10553.25
  (a) The department shall make an annual allocation of funds appropriated for the purpose of this subdivision to all eligible federally recognized American Indian tribes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10554
  The department shall adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced by the department, and those...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10555
  Subject to the State Civil Service Act, the director shall appoint such assistants and other employees as are necessary for the administration of the affairs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10556
  The chief administrative law judge of the department shall be an attorney, and shall otherwise meet such qualifications as may be prescribed by the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10557
  No person while holding the office of director shall be a trustee, manager, director, or other officer or employee of any agency performing any function...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10558
  Except as otherwise expressly provided, the provisions of Part 1 (commencing with Section 11000) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10559
  There are in the department a division or office devoted to carrying out the provisions of this division pertaining to the services to the blind...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10560
  The department and each county department shall, to the extent feasible, train recipients of public assistance and potential recipients for private employment or for government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10600
  It is hereby declared that provision for public social services in this code is a matter of statewide concern. The department is hereby designated as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10600.1
  The State Department of Social Services succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10600.2
  The State Department of Social Services shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10600.3
  All officers and employees of the Director of Health or the Director of Benefit Payments who, on the operative date of the statute amending this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10601
  The department may expend, in accordance with law, all moneys made available for its use or for the administration of any statute administered by it.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10601.2
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish, by April 1, 2003, the California Child and Family Service Review System, in order to review...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10602
  The department shall investigate, examine and make reports upon: (a) The charitable institutions of the state and of the counties and cities of the state,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10602.4
  The Employment Development Department shall investigate, examine, and make reports upon the public officers who are in any way responsible for the administration of public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10603
  The department shall advise public officers regarding the administration of public social services by public agencies throughout the state, and shall supervise the administration of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10604
  In administering any funds appropriated or made available for disbursement through the counties for welfare purposes, the department shall: (a) Require as a condition for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10604.5
  (a) (1) Commencing July 1, 1992, the department shall pay only those county welfare department claims for federal or state reimbursement of administration and services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10604.6
  (a) The department shall pay only those assistance claims for federal or state reimbursement under this division that are filed with the department within 18...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10605
  If the director believes that a county is substantially failing to comply with any provision of this code or any regulation pertaining to any program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10605.2
  If the director believes that a county probation department is substantially failing to comply with any provision of this code or any regulation pertaining to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10606
  The department shall cause to be published and made available, at no cost to the public, all of its rules and regulations relating to: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10606.1
  (a) The department and county welfare departments shall have access to computer information maintained in the files of the Employment Development Department pursuant to Sections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10607
  Where the department causes to be published for public distribution informational pamphlets and related materials relating to public assistance programs administered or supervised by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10607.5
  (a) In order to better inform the public as to the range of social services available to aid children and their families, and to provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10608
  Copies of all laws relating to any form of public social service for which state aid is granted to counties, and over the administration of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609
  The department may act as the agent or representative of or cooperate with the federal government in any matters within the scope of the functions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.3
  (a) By January 1, 1995, the State Department of Social Services shall complete, in consultation with county Independent Living Program administrators, placement agencies, providers, advocacy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.4
  (a) On or before July 1, 2000, the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county and state representatives, foster youth, and advocates, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.45
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), and notwithstanding any other provision of law, services available under the Independent Living Program, established pursuant to the federal Consolidated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.5
  (a) The department shall contract with an appropriate and qualified entity to conduct an evaluation of the adequacy of the current child welfare services budgeting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.6
  (a) The department, in consultation with the seven member task force specified in subdivision (b), shall develop a plan to implement the recommendations of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.7
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The department has convened the Child Welfare Services Stakeholders Group for the purpose of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.8
  On an annual basis, at the time of budget hearings, the State Department of Social Services shall provide information to the budget committees of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10609.9
  (a) (1) Commencing with the 2006 Budget Act, of the amounts appropriated in Program 25.30-Children and Adult Services and Licensing, in Items 5180-151-0001 and 5180-151-0890...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10610
  The department may join associations of social welfare agencies having as their purpose the interchanging or supplying of information relating to the technique of social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10611
  All plans for the use of existing buildings or for new buildings, parts of buildings, or additions to or alterations in buildings, for any public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10612
  Two months prior to each annual session of the Legislature, the department shall make a full and complete report to the Governor of all its...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10613
  The functions of the department may include the administration and the supervision of the administration of public social services, except health care services and medical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10614
  (a) The department shall annually submit by September 10 of each year and March 1 of the following year, to the Department of Finance for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10614.5
  Upon the request of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Department of Finance shall make immediately available data on monthly caseloads and expenditures for public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10615
  California's 58 counties vary greatly in their welfare problems, and therefore they should not be treated alike in the supervision of welfare programs. The Legislature...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10616
  The department shall formulate plans for the recruitment, utilization, and training of volunteers to assist in performing services and other duties for the county public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10617
  In fixing rates for out-of-home care in nonmedical facilities authorized to provide care for recipients of public assistance, the department shall establish a rate plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10618
  Funding of Section 10617 is subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 10100) of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10618.5
  (a) The county welfare department shall send any CalFresh applicant who is determined to be eligible for CalFresh benefits and who does not indicate on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10618.6
  (a) When a youth in a foster care placement reaches his or her 16th birthday, the county welfare department shall request a consumer disclosure, pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10619
  A public agency shall, in implementing programs affected by the act adding this section to the Welfare and Institutions Code, perform program functions exclusively through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10620
  The Legislature finds that over 1.5 million persons in California are deaf or suffer from significant hearing impairment. Basic governmental services are not routinely adapted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10621
  Public social services for the deaf and hearing impaired shall include, but not be limited to, the following services: (a) Complete communication services through interpreter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10622
  Public social services for the deaf and hearing impaired shall be available in at least three regions throughout the state so that deaf and hearing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10623
  Public agencies or private nonprofit corporations or a combination thereof in a region may provide the public social services listed in Section 10621 directly or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10624
  The department, with the advice of persons knowledgeable about the provision of public social services to deaf and hearing impaired persons, shall establish the criteria...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10625
  The department shall: (a) Determine the number and location of regions of the state providing public social services. (b) Coordinate the provision of services with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10626
  The department shall contract with public agencies or private nonprofit corporations for a period not to exceed one year. At the end of each contract...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10626.5
  (a) A public agency or nonprofit corporation, or a combination thereof, providing the public social services listed in Section 10621, may charge a fee to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10629
  The State Department of Social Services shall not expend over 5 percent of the sum appropriated for this chapter for the administrative costs of this
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10650
  It is hereby declared that the solution and prevention of individuals and families who could otherwise be productive and self-supporting members of society from becoming...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10651
  The purposes of this chapter are as follows: (a) To combat poverty and reduce dependency by placing special attention and emphasis on the training, rehabilitation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10652
  The department and the State Department of Rehabilitation, acting jointly, shall select public assistance recipients who qualify under either federal or state vocational rehabilitation laws,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10653
  The county department shall be responsible for the initial selection of public assistance recipients who are to participate in training, vocational educational programs, or other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10654
  The Division of Vocational Education of the State Department of Education shall have primary responsibility for the education and training of public assistance recipients. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10655
  The Employment Development Department shall have primary responsibility for placement and other employment services for public assistance recipients; provided, however, that a county department may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10656
  The provisions of this chapter shall be implemented to the full extent of funds available for such purposes.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10720
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the State Department of Health Services, and "director" means the State Director of Health Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10721
  The director shall administer Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) of Part 3 of this division and any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10722
  The State Department of Health Services succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10723
  The State Department of Health Services shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10724
  All officers and employees of the Director of Health and the Director of Benefit Payments who on the operative date of this section are serving...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10725
  The director may adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced by the department, and such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10726
  All regulations heretofore adopted by the Director of the State Department of Benefit Payments which relate to payment, accounting, auditing and collection functions vested in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10727
  Except as otherwise provided by law, for purposes of the Health and Safety Code and this code, and any regulations adopted thereunder, after June 1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10728
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, for purposes of this code and the Health and Safety Code, and any regulations adopted thereunder, "University of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10740
  It is hereby declared that provision for health care services and medical assistance in this code is a matter of statewide concern. The State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10741
  The department shall investigate, examine and make reports upon the public officers who are in any way responsible for the administration of public funds used...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10742
  The department shall advise public officers regarding the administration of health care services and medical assistance by public agencies throughout the state, and shall supervise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10743
  In administering any funds appropriated or made available to the department for disbursement through the counties for welfare purposes, the department shall establish regulations, not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10743.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, if the department seeks a waiver for any experimental, pilot, or demonstration project in the 1995-96 fiscal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10744
  If the director considers a county director to be failing, in a substantial manner, to comply with any provision of this code or any regulation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10745
  The department shall cause to be published and made available for sale to the public, at the cost of publishing, all of its rules and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10746
  When the department causes to be published for public distribution informational pamphlets and related materials relating to public assistance programs administered or supervised by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10747
  Copies of all laws relating to any form of public social service for which state aid is granted to counties, and over the administration of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10748
  The department may act as the agent or representative of or cooperate with the federal government in any matters within the scope of the functions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10749
  The department may join associations of social welfare agencies having as their purpose the interchanging or supplying of information relating to the technique of social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10750
  The functions of the department may include the administration and the supervision of the administration of health care services and medical assistance within this state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10751
  The department, with the cooperation of the State Department of Social Services and the Employment Development Department, shall develop a homemaker and home health aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10790
  (a) The director, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association and at least one advocate for welfare recipients, shall establish, within the Aid to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10791
  The demonstration program provided for in Section 10790 shall, at a minimum, include the following elements: (a) Uniform 30 percent disregard from gross earned income...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10800
  Subject to the provisions of Section 11050 and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of Part 3, the administration of public social services in each...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10801
  A county director shall be appointed in each county by the board of supervisors or other agency designated by county charter, subject to either local...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10802
  The county director shall, for and in behalf of the board of supervisors, have full charge of the county department and the responsibility for administering...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10803
  The county director shall: (a) Serve as the executive and administrative officer of the county department. The county director may delegate his powers and functions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10804
  The board of supervisors in any county may contract with any other county or counties or with the department for the operation and maintenance of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10804.1
  The board of supervisors in any county may contract with any other county or counties or with the State Department of Health Services for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10805
  Each worker employed by the department or the State Department of Health Services whose responsibilities require making home visits shall be provided with an identification...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10806
  If a dispute occurs between counties as to the responsibility for public social services for an applicant or recipient, either county may submit the dispute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10808
  Any report published by the county in written or graphic form of expenditures for public social services shall show clearly the amount and proportion of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10809
  The county department shall administer the public social services authorized or permitted under the applicable portions of this code in accordance with the regulations of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10810
  Subject to the approval of the department each county department is authorized to sponsor and conduct programs for the recruitment, training, and utilization of volunteers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10812
  In addition to services, as defined in Section 10053, that may be required under this division a county may provide any service permitted by federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10813.1
  Each county shall submit to the department by December 31 of each year a comprehensive plan for the financing and delivery of social services for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10816
  The system shall have the following goals: (a) Prompt and accurate verification of eligibility. (b) Accurate computation and timely disbursal of benefits for such public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10817
  The department shall seek advice and assistance from the State Department of Health Services and counties in the planning and implementation of the system so...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10818
  The department shall submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by August 1, 1984, a detailed work plan for the implementation of the statewide automated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10819
  The department may test the system in several counties prior to actual statewide implementation. Criteria in selecting county test sites may include high dollar error...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10820
  To ensure statewide uniformity in program administration, the department shall do the following: (a) Develop and publish an exclusive manual of standards procedures for use...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10822
  The department shall provide an annual report to the Legislature on March 1, 1985, and March 1 of each year thereafter, on the progress in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10823
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to reduce or otherwise impair the authority of the State Department of Health Services under Sections 10740 and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10823
  (a) (1) The Office of Systems Integration shall implement a statewide automated welfare system for the following public assistance programs: (A) The CalWORKs program. (B)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10823.5
  The State Department of Social Services shall pay the county share of Merced County's Merced Automated Global Information Control (MAGIC) application maintenance costs until September...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10824
  (a) The counties not participating in the Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System Consortium or the Los Angeles Eligibility, Automated Determination, Evaluation, and Reporting Consortium shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10830
  The director may conduct a demonstration project in Kern County, with the approval of the county, pertaining to restricted payments under Chapter 2 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10831
  The demonstration project provided for pursuant to this chapter shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) The demonstration project shall operate for not more...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10832
  The director shall conduct an evaluation of the demonstration project provided for in this chapter. The evaluation shall measure all of the following: (a) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10833
  The demonstration project provided for in this chapter shall comply with Article 1 (commencing with Section 18230) of Chapter 3.3 of Part 6.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10820
  To ensure statewide uniformity in program administration, the department shall do the following: (a) Develop and publish an exclusive manual of standards procedures for use...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10822
  The department shall provide an annual report to the Legislature on March 1, 1985, and March 1 of each year thereafter, on the progress in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10823
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to reduce or otherwise impair the authority of the State Department of Health Services under Sections 10740 and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10823
  (a) (1) The Office of Systems Integration shall implement a statewide automated welfare system for the following public assistance programs: (A) The CalWORKs program. (B)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10823.5
  The State Department of Social Services shall pay the county share of Merced County's Merced Automated Global Information Control (MAGIC) application maintenance costs until September...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10824
  (a) The counties not participating in the Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System Consortium or the Los Angeles Eligibility, Automated Determination, Evaluation, and Reporting Consortium shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10825
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to the method of payment of aid under this part, a county may develop a payment system which,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10826
  Upon election by a county to utilize the aid payment method provided by this chapter, the county shall submit a plan to the department for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10827
  To the extent permitted by federal law and notwithstanding Sections 11006.2, 11056, 11450 and 11455, a county electing to utilize the aid payment method provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10830
  (a) The department and the Health and Welfare Data Center shall design, implement, and maintain a statewide fingerprint imaging system for use in connection with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10840
  (a) The director and the Director of Health Care Services shall implement a comprehensive program for the simplification of administration of the Aid to Families...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10841
  (a) The department may establish a demonstration project that tests one or more modifications in verifications of eligibility information to reduce paperwork and achieve program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10842
  (a) The State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Care Services shall jointly, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all applications and records concerning any individual made or kept by any public officer or agency in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of Section 10850, the activities of a multidisciplinary personnel team engaged in the prevention, identification, management,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.2
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10850, factual information relating to eligibility provided solely by the public assistance recipient contained in applications and records made or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.3
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 10850, an authorized employee of a county welfare department may disclose confidential information concerning a public social services applicant or recipient to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.31
  (a) For the CalWORKs program and CalFresh only, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the address, social security number, and, if available, photograph of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.4
  (a) Within five business days of learning that a child fatality has occurred in the county and that there is a reasonable suspicion that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.5
  A county welfare department may, without the need to provide written documentation that consent has been obtained from a client, provide information to a housing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.7
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10850, an authorized employee of a county welfare department may disclose confidential information concerning a public social services applicant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10850.9
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 10850, an authorized employee of a county social services department may disclose the name and residential address of elderly or disabled clients...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10851
  (a) Each county shall establish and maintain a case record for each public social services case and shall retain the record for a period of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10851.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 10851, each county shall retain all records that are necessary to determine the number of months each adult recipient has received aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10852
  All persons who are subject to investigation or supervision by the department, or who are connected with any institution subject to such investigation or supervision,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10853
  In order to secure accuracy, uniformity, and completeness in such statistics and information, the department, by regulation, may prescribe forms of report and records to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10900
  The department shall, within the limits of funds made available, provide welfare personnel training courses and services, including in-service training, educational leaves or stipends, traineeships,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10905
  If, when, and during such times as the federal government allots money to this state for training grants for public social services personnel, pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10906
  Employees of the State Department of Social Services or the State Department of Health Services who are engaged in the administration of public social services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10907
  The board of supervisors of any county may grant to any permanent employee of the county department a leave of absence with pay to attend...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10908
  Any officers and employees of the Department of Social Welfare performing a function on January 1, 1970, that is transferred to the State Personnel Board,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10909
  All regulations prior to January 1, 1970, adopted by the State Department of Social Welfare under Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10901 shall remain in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10950
  If any applicant for or recipient of public social services is dissatisfied with any action of the county department relating to his or her application...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10951
  (a) No person shall be entitled to a hearing pursuant to this chapter unless he or she files his or her request for the same...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10952
  The department shall set the hearing to commence within 30 working days after the request is filed, and, at least 10 days prior to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10952.5
  If regulations require a public or private agency to write a position statement concerning the issues in question in a fair hearing, or if the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10953
  A hearing under this chapter shall be conducted by administrative law judges employed by the department, unless the director orders that it shall be conducted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10953.5
  (a) The director has authority to appoint the department's administrative law judges as provided in Section 10555. (b) Each administrative law judge shall have been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10954
  The director or administrative law judge conducting the hearing, shall have all of the powers and authority conferred upon the head of a department in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10955
  The hearing shall be conducted in an impartial and informal manner in order to encourage free and open discussion by participants. All testimony shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10956
  The proceedings at the hearing shall be reported by a phonographic reporter or otherwise perpetuated by mechanical, electronic, or other means capable of reproduction or
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10957
  The person conducting the hearing, upon good cause shown, may continue the hearing for a period of not to exceed 30 days. When the refusal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10958
  If the hearing is conducted by an administrative law judge, he or she shall prepare a fair, impartial, and independent proposed decision, in writing and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10958.1
  The issues at the hearing shall be limited to those issues which are reasonably related to the request for hearing or other issues identified by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10959
  Within 30 days after the department has received a copy of the administrative law judge's proposed decision, the director may adopt the decision in its...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10960
  (a) Within 30 days after receiving the decision of the director, which is the proposed decision of an administrative law judge adopted by the director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10961
  The decision of the director need not specify the amount of the award to be paid unless the amount of the award is an issue....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10962
  The applicant or recipient or the affected county, within one year after receiving notice of the director's final decision, may file a petition with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10963
  The county director shall comply with and execute every decision of the director rendered pursuant to this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10964
  The department shall compile and distribute to each county department a current digest of decisions, properly indexed, rendered under this chapter, and each such digest...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10965
  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the filing of the request for a hearing by the legal representative, or, if there is no authorized legal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10966
  (a) In addition to any other delegation powers granted to the director under law, the director may delegate his or her powers to adopt final...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10967
  At the time of the hearing the recipient has a right to raise the adequacy of the county's notice of action as an issue. If...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10980
  (a) Any person who, willfully and knowingly, with the intent to deceive, makes a false statement or representation or knowingly fails to disclose a material...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10985
  (a) Each city, county, or city and county, that operates a jail, shall report twice each month to the department the name, known aliases, birth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11000
  The provisions of law relating to a public assistance program shall be fairly and equitably construed to effect the stated objects and purposes of the
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11001
  No person receiving aid under a public assistance program shall be considered a pauper or an indigent by reason thereof, and no warrant drawn in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11002
  All aid given under a public assistance program shall be absolutely inalienable by any assignment, sale, or otherwise.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11003
  If the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issues a formal ruling that any section of this code relating to public assistance cannot...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11004
  The provisions of this code relative to public social services for which state grants-in-aid are made to the counties shall be administered fairly to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11004.1
  (a) In addition to Section 11004, this section shall apply to the CalWORKs program. (b) The amount of any CalWORKs grant overpayment shall be the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11004.1
  (a) In addition to Section 11004, this section shall apply to the CalWORKs program. (b) The amount of any CalWORKs grant overpayment shall be the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11005
  Any special need allowance for mileage and for the expenses of the operation and maintenance of an automobile shall be fixed to operate in a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11005.5
  All money paid to a recipient or recipient group as aid is intended to help the recipient meet his individual needs or, in the case...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11006
  Except as basic needs are provided pursuant to a life care agreement governed by Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 1770) of Division 2 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11006.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each grant of aid under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 13000) shall be increased in the amount of two...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11006.2
  (a) The department may provide for the delivery of public assistance payments at any time during the month. (b) The department shall cooperate with county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11006.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when payment of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of this part is made by mail, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11006.5
  This section shall be applicable only to those aid recipients under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) and Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11006.6
  (a) The department may establish and operate a central benefit issuance system in one or more counties whereby grants in aid paid pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11006.9
  It is a cause for revocation of a permit or license by the department or the State Department of Health Services for any person, association,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11007
  Aid granted to a recipient of public assistance shall not constitute a lien upon any property of the recipient. The cost of hospitalization furnished by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008
  (a) In order that recipients of public assistance may become self-supporting and productive members of their communities, it is essential that they be permitted to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.1
  To the extent permitted by federal law, income, including but not limited to seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) of any income, received by a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.2
  To the extent permitted by federal law, lump sum retroactive social security payments received under the provisions of Public Law 92-5 shall not be considered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.3
  The 1974 income tax refunds and the lump sum fifty dollars ($50) payment received under the provisions of Public Law 94-12 shall not be considered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.4
  Property taxes (1) as defined in Section 20584 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, which are postponed by a person pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.6
  In addition to the requirements contained in Section 11008, when determining the income of a recipient, to the extent permitted by federal law, relocation assistance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.7
  Neither funds distributed pursuant to U.S. Public Law 90-507 (82 Stat. 860) nor property derived therefrom shall be considered in determining the eligibility of or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.8
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any reduction in the state and county costs of public assistance payments to recipients of aid under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.9
  Loans or grants provided for in Section 69650 of the Education Code are deemed to be for educational purposes and to the extent permitted by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.10
  To the extent permitted by federal law the value of any loan or grant to any undergraduate student made or insured under any program administered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.11
  To the extent permitted by federal law, any stipends, meals, transportation, or other income received by a senior companion pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.12
  To the extent permitted by federal law, any stipend, meals, transportation, or other income received by a foster grandparent pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.13
  To the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with other provisions of this chapter, in determining the eligibility and amount of aid under this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.135
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in determining the eligibility and amount of aid for an alien under this division, the income and resources...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.14
  The income of the natural or adoptive parent, and the spouse of the natural or adoptive parent, and the sibling of an eligible child, living...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.15
  Notwithstanding Sections 11008.14 and 11267, the department shall exercise the options of disregarding earned income of a dependent child or ward of the juvenile court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.17
  (a) To the extent required by federal law, amounts paid pursuant to any federal law enacted in 1988 to provide reparation payments to redress the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.18
  The department shall implement the state option in Section 402(a)(36) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 602(a)(36)) and as that statute may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.19
  (a) (1) To the degree child care and development services administered by the State Department of Education pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 8200)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11008.20
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amount, including any interest or property, received by a holocaust victim, as defined in subparagraph (A) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11009.1
  The value of free board and lodging supplied to a recipient during a temporary absence from his home of not more than one month, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11010
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 12152 in determining the amount of aid grants payable under a public assistance program, no consideration shall be given...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11010.5
  General unrestricted or undesignated private charitable donations and contributions made to charitable or nonprofit organizations shall not be deducted from the cost of providing services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11013
  (a) The department may require issuance of an identification card to recipients of aid. The identification card shall contain the following information: (1) Name and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11014
  To the extent that any provision of this part prohibits the granting of aid to persons confined in a public institution for tuberculosis or mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11015
  Unless there are other grounds therefor, aid grants shall not be withheld pending ascertainment of increases in federal benefits or increases in benefits payable by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11016
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person for whom federal financial participation is available shall be denied benefits, for which federal financial participation is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11017
  In computing and paying assistance under this part, the need and income amounts used shall be rounded to the next lower whole dollar when the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11017.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11017, the State Department of Social Services, at the next computation of annual cost-of-living adjustments for public assistance payments on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11020
  (a) Where a recipient under a categorical aid program other than CalWORKs has received aid in good faith but in fact owned excess property, he...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11020
  (a) Where a recipient under a categorical aid program other than CalWORKs has received aid in good faith but in fact owned excess property, he...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11021
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no individual who is an applicant for, or recipient of, aid or assistance under a state plan approved under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11022
  The State Department of Health Services and the State Department of Social Services shall prepare information on the effect of funds received according to Sections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11023.5
  (a) Any applicant or recipient of benefits under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, CalFresh, and Medi-Cal programs, who delivers a document which has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11024
  (a) Commencing March 1, 2002, the State Department of Health Services shall, monthly, post on the Internet Web site maintained by the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11024.3
  Commencing March 1, 2002, the State Department of Health Services shall post all of the following data on its Internet Web site and in a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11025
  (a) The State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Services shall utilize the records of the Franchise Tax Board to match...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11026
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Services shall annually inform the Franchise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11050
  Except as provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of this part and Section 11403 of this code, applications for public social services or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11052
  Application for aid may be made within 60 days prior to the date on which the applicant meets the technical requirements for such aid which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11052.1
  The department shall undertake activities designed to facilitate the dissemination of information to applicants for, and recipients of, aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11052.5
  No applicant shall be granted public assistance under Chapters 2 (commencing with Section 11200) and 5 (commencing with Section 13000) of this part until he...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11052.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the requirements of Section 11052.5 shall not apply to any caretaker relative when all of the following apply:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11053
  It shall be the responsibility of a recipient changing residence from one county to another within the state to promptly notify the county paying aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11053.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall establish a process of intercounty transfer of eligibility for CalFresh benefits provided under Chapter 10 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11054
  Each applicant shall be required before approval of assistance or services to file an affirmation setting forth his belief that he meets the specific conditions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11055
  The county shall promptly investigate all applications for public assistance as prescribed by the regulations of the department.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11055.5
  (a) In the administration of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, counties may conduct an early fraud prevention and detection program pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11056
  (a) If the applicant is determined to be eligible, aid shall be granted from the date of application if the applicant meets all eligibility conditions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11057
  Any recipient who becomes ineligible for aid under the public assistance program under which he is receiving aid, but appears to be eligible for aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11057.5
  The State Department of Social Services, after consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association, shall determine the times and methods for providing information regarding the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11061
  The board of supervisors of each county shall file with the department a record of the action of such county in granting or refusing to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11062
  The sworn statements, affidavits or affirmations of each applicant or recipient of aid under Chapter 5 of this part, shall be presumed to be true,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11063
  The provisions of this article do not apply to recipients under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of this part, unless otherwise expressly indicated.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11100
  For the purposes of the provisions of this code relating to public assistance, the continued absence of a recipient of public assistance from this state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11100.1
  (a) For purposes of the In-Home Supportive Services program established pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300) of Chapter 3, "good cause," as defined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11100.5
  Notwithstanding Section 11100.1, or any other provision of law, in-home supportive services provided pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300) of Chapter 3 shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11101
  When a recipient of public assistance is absent from the United States for a period in excess of 30 days, his aid shall thereafter be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11102
  County residence is not a qualification for aid under any public assistance program. County responsibility for making aid payments is determined as follows: (a) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11104
  Aliens shall be eligible for aid only to the extent permitted by federal law. An alien shall only be eligible for aid if the alien...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11104.1
  The State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Care Services shall not take any compliance, disallowance, penalty, or other regulatory action...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11105
  (a) No person shall be granted aid under this part unless he is a resident of this state. (b) Where a recipient of aid under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11150
  It is the intent of this article to set forth the amount of personal or real property, or both, which an applicant for, or recipient...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11151
  An applicant or recipient shall be ineligible to receive public assistance unless the property he owns is held for the following purposes: 1. The property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11152
  An applicant or recipient may retain personal or real property owned by him, or in combination with any other person, without reference to its value,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11153.7
  (a) In addition to real property permitted by other provisions of this part, real property owned by the applicant or recipient, or in combination with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11154
  The applicant or recipient may retain as a reserve for future contingencies any combination of personal or real property not to exceed a total value...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11155
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11257, in addition to the personal property or resources permitted by other provisions of this part, and to the extent permitted by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11155.1
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 11155 and 11257, the department shall seek any federal approvals necessary to conduct a demonstration program increasing the value of personal property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11155.2
  (a) In addition to the personal property permitted by this part, recipients of aid under CalWORKs shall be permitted to retain savings and interest thereon...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11155.3
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to provide counties and recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11155.4
  The principal and interest in an individual development account established in accordance with the federal requirements of Section 604(h) of Title 42 of the United...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11155.5
  (a) In addition to the personal property permitted by other provisions of this part, a child declared a ward or dependent child of the juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11155.6
  (a) (1) The principal and interest in a 401(k) plan, 403 (b) plan, or 457 plan shall be excluded from consideration as property when determining...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11156
  If a recipient purchases with cash an essential item, and such purchase under the rules and regulations of the department would have entitled him to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11157
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11008, all lump-sum income received by an applicant or recipient shall be regarded as income in the month received except nonrecurring lump-sum...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11157.5
  The receipt of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) shall not impose any limitation or restriction upon a recipient's right to sell, exchange,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11158
  The Legislature recognizes that certain property and rights owned by a recipient, including a recipient of aid to families with dependent children, are of negligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11159
  No payment received by, or for the benefit of any members of, an eligible household occupying an assisted unit under Chapter 9 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11160
  To the extent federal financial participation is available, any state agency responsible for the administration of any program under this division may establish procedures for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11170
  Upon discovery that persons receiving public assistance were improperly granted homeowners' exemptions for fiscal year 1972-1973 and preceding fiscal years, a county may request from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11171
  Upon receipt of funds pursuant to its request, the county shall cancel the escape assessment and any penalty or interest thereon pursuant to Article 1...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11172
  The receipt of funds shall be deemed as payments by the public assistance recipients and shall be accounted for as tax receipts which may be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11173
  If an audit by the State Controller results in a reduction of state reimbursements for the homeowners' property tax exemption because of persons described in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11174
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest and necessary for the public welfare to provide assistance to certain needy persons...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11175
  Whenever a county requests additional unmet shelter needs funds so as to cancel escape assessments upon the homes of welfare recipients improperly granted the homeowners'...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11200
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act, and may also be cited as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11200.5
  Funding for social services under this chapter is subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 10100) of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11201
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following shall apply: (a) "Unemployed parent" means a natural or adoptive parent with whom the child is living....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11202
  As used in this chapter, the term "needy child" means a child living in a family as described in Section 11250, or a child as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11203
  (a) During those times as the federal government provides funds for the care of a needy relative with whom a needy child or needy children...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11204
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing any public official, agent, or representative, in carrying out any of the provisions of this chapter,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11205
  The Legislature finds and declares that the family unit is of fundamental importance to society in nurturing its members, passing on values, averting potential social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11206
  In case of dispute, the application and supporting documents pertaining to his case on file in the department or on file in any county office...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11207
  Every county shall grant aid to any child eligible therefor, in any amount needed, not to exceed the amount specified in Section 11450, and shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11208
  Caseworker services shall be made available immediately to an applicant for aid under this chapter upon the filing of his application.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11209
  The department shall make rules and regulations for the proper maintenance and care of needy children and for the administration of Aid to Families with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11210
  The department shall make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the United States Department of Health and Human Services from time...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11211
  Rehabilitation or employment training or job placement made pursuant to any program of rehabilitation or job development and placement operated by a county welfare department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11212
  (a) The state, through the county welfare department, shall reimburse the foster parent or foster parents for the cost of the burial plot and funeral...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11213
  For the purpose of developing a more efficient, effective, and equitable Aid to Families With Dependent Children-Foster Care program, the department shall develop: (a) A...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11214
  (a) The department, with the advice and assistance of the counties, shall develop performance standards for the AFDC-FC program for submission to the Joint Legislative...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11215
  (a) The department, with the advice and assistance of the County Welfare Directors' Association, the Chief Probation Officers' Association, the California Conference of Local Mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11216
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant funds or state maintenance of effort funds may only be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11217
  (a) The Director of Social Services shall execute a declaration stating that increased federal financial participation in the Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11225
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11226
  "Appeal proceeding" means an administrative hearing conducted by a hearing officer of the department.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11227
  "Audit" means a review of the claims, accounts, and documents of an auditee.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11228
  "Date of mailing" means the date postmarked on the envelope if postage was prepaid and the envelope was properly addressed.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11229
  "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11230
  "Director" means the Director of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11231
  "Duplicate" means a facsimile copy of the original produced by photocopying or other technique of accurate reproduction.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11232
  "Hearing officer" means an administrative law judge designated by the director.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11233
  "Informal conference" means a proceeding conducted in person or by telephone for the purpose of clarifying or resolving issues.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11234
  "Party" means the group home provider, foster family agency, or the department.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11235
  "Protest" means a written request for a review. The request shall contain the basis for the provider's objections to the audit findings or set rate.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11236
  (a) "Set rate" means the per child per month rate set by the department for an AFDC-FC group home program or foster family agency. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11250
  Aid, services, or both shall be granted under the provisions of this chapter, and subject to the regulations of the department, to families with related...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11250.4
  Aid under this chapter shall not be payable to an assistance unit if a caretaker relative is, on the last day of the month, participating...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11250.6
  Except where inconsistent with federal laws, the income of any person under a contract of employment on an annual basis but who works and receives...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11250.7
  Except where inconsistent with federal law, the salary of a full-time certificated employee of a school district shall be prorated over a 12-month period for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11250.8
  If an applicant for, or recipient of, benefits pursuant to this chapter receives one or more educational loans or grants, for purposes of determining availability...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11251.3
  (a) An individual shall be ineligible for aid under this chapter if the individual has been convicted in state or federal court after December 31,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11251.3
  (a) An individual shall be ineligible for aid under this chapter if the individual has been convicted in state or federal court after December 31,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11253
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), aid shall not be granted under this chapter to or on behalf of any child who has attained...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11253.3
  (a) On and after the effective dates of the age extensions provided in subdivision (k) of Section 11403, a nonminor dependent, as defined in subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11253.5
  (a) All children in an assistance unit for whom school attendance is compulsory, except individuals who are eligible for the Cal-Learn Program under Article 3.5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11254
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), in the case of any individual who is under the age of 18 years and has never married, and who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11256
  For the purposes of this chapter only, the ownership of stock in a water company not appurtenant to the land shall be considered real property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11257
  (a) To the extent not inconsistent with Sections 11265.1, 11265.2, 11265.3, and 11004.1, no aid under this chapter shall be granted or paid for any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11257.5
  Notwithstanding the property limitations in subdivision (a) of Section 11257, a family may retain, for nine months, real property if the family is making a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11259
  For the purposes of this chapter, "personal property" shall not include the value of property belonging to an absent parent and not available to the
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11260
  A child's share of any estate, which share has not been distributed and of which he has no present economic use, does not constitute property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11263
  Except as provided in Sections 11253 and 11455, no person over the age of 18 years is a needy child within the meaning of this
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11263.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a child living with his or her parent, where the parent is a minor and a recipient of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11264
  No child maintained in an institution, for whom a bona fide offer of a proper home has been made, is eligible for further aid; but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265
  (a) The county shall redetermine eligibility annually. The county shall at the time of the redetermination, and may at other intervals as may be deemed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.1
  (a) In addition to the requirement for an annual redetermination of eligibility, counties shall redetermine recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a quarterly basis using...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.1
  (a) In addition to the requirement for an annual redetermination of eligibility, counties shall redetermine recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a semiannual basis in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.2
  (a) The grant amount a recipient shall be entitled to receive for each month of the quarterly reporting period shall be prospectively determined as provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.2
  (a) The grant amount a recipient shall be entitled to receive for each month of the semiannual reporting period shall be prospectively determined as provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.3
  (a) In addition to submitting the quarterly report form as required in Section 11265.1, during the quarterly reporting period, a recipient shall report the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.3
  (a) In addition to submitting the semiannual report form as required in Section 11265.1, the department shall establish an income reporting threshold for recipients of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.4
  (a) If a recipient submits a complete report form within the month following the discontinuance for nonsubmission of a report form pursuant to Section 11265.1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.5
  (a) (1) The department may, subject to the requirements of federal regulations and Section 18204, conduct three pilot projects, to be located in the Counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.6
  (a) The department may conduct up to five demonstrations of alternatives to the current monthly reporting system, CalFresh recertification, and AFDC redeterminations. These demonstrations shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.7
  (a) The department may conduct a demonstration in up to three counties of alternatives to the current monthly reporting system, CalFresh recertification, and AFDC redeterminations...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.8
  (a) All applicants for aid under this chapter, within 30 days of the determination of eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11265.9
  Whenever aid to an individual or family is discontinued under this chapter for any reason other than fraud, the department shall include, in the notice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11266
  (a) At the time of application, the county shall determine whether the applicant needs immediate assistance because the applicant does not have sufficient resources to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11266.5
  (a) Every applicant for aid under this chapter shall be informed of the availability of lump-sum diversion services to resolve the circumstances that require the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11268
  (a) Each applicant for or recipient of aid shall be required as a condition of eligibility, to furnish the applicant's social security account number (or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11269
  No child shall receive aid under this chapter while he is a patient in a public hospital, except with respect to temporary medical or surgical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11270
  Applicants for and recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children who are not exempt from registration under Section 11310 and who are apparently eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11271
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Restricted payment" means payment of homeless assistance benefits in the form of either of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11271.5
  (a) Restricted payments for homeless assistance benefits shall be provided by a county welfare department to a recipient, if at least one of the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11272
  When restricted payments are provided to a recipient, the county welfare department shall do all of the following: (a) Issue the vendor or two-party payment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11273
  (a) Homeless assistance provided pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (f) of Section 11450 shall be subject to restricted payments consistent with federal regulations when...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11274
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11271, for purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "AFDC" benefits means benefits paid pursuant to subdivision (a) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275
  (a) Only verification of information necessary to determine past or present eligibility for or the computation of or delivery of aid shall be requested from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.05
  (a) Whenever a former recipient of aid applies for aid before the expiration of one year from the effective date of discontinuance, the county shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.10
  (a) When an applicant or recipient establishes that he or she has made a good faith effort to obtain information or verification from a third...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.15
  No application for aid may be denied for failure to provide verification if the applicant is cooperating in obtaining the information requested, except as required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.20
  (a) If an applicant is denied assistance solely due to failure to provide verification of eligibility, but subsequently submits all required verifications within 30 days...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.25
  If any provision of this article is in conflict with any federal statute or regulation, it shall be inapplicable to the extent of the conflict,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.30
  (a) In the event of an initial determination by the Secretary of Health and Human Services that any provision of this section is in conflict...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.35
  (a) If the determination that all or any provision of this article conflicts with federal law is reversed, the department shall reinstate the provision or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.40
  This article applies to all applicants for, and recipients of, aid under this chapter, regardless of whether federal financial participation is available for the family.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.45
  (a) This article shall be applied prospectively only, and shall apply only with respect to applications for aid made on or after July 1, 1991....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11275.50
  The State Department of Social Services shall consult with the County Welfare Directors Association when developing state budget estimates on the administrative funds necessary to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11320.33
  (a) The county shall provide training for those county employees who are responsible for the provision of, or arrangement of, child care services under this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11320
  Any reference to the Greater Avenues for Independence program or (GAIN) shall mean the welfare-to-work activities under the CalWORKs program provided for in this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11320.1
  Subsequent to the commencement of the receipt of aid under this chapter, the sequence of employment related activities required of participants under this article, unless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11320.15
  After a participant has been removed from the assistance unit under subdivision (a) of Section 11454, additional welfare-to-work services may be provided to the recipient,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11320.3
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or if otherwise exempt, every individual, as a condition of eligibility for aid under this chapter, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11320.31
  Sanctions shall not be applied for a failure or refusal to comply with program requirements for reasons related to employment, an offer of employment, an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11320.32
  (a) The department shall administer a voluntary Temporary Assistance Program (TAP) for current and future CalWORKs recipients who meet the exemption criteria for work participation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11321.6
  (a) A county plan may provide that the program provided for in this article shall apply to recipients of aid under Part 5 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.2
  Counties shall continually monitor their program expenditures throughout the fiscal year. If a county determines that its anticipated expenditures will exceed the amount of that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.4
  It is the intent of the Legislature to fund welfare-to-work activities under this article so that all recipients of aid under this chapter for whom...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to do each of the following: (1) Maximize the ability of CalWORKs recipients to benefit from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.6
  The welfare-to-work plan developed by the county welfare department and the participant pursuant to this article shall provide for welfare-to-work activities. Welfare-to-work activities may include,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.61
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d) of Section 11327.5, if there is any interruption in receipt of income for an employee in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.62
  Employers, sponsors of training activities, and contractors shall not discriminate against participants on any basis listed in subdivision (a) of Section 12940 of the Government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.63
  (a) For counties that implement a welfare-to-work plan that includes activities pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 11322.6, the State Department of Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.65
  (a) Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, assignment to any activity otherwise authorized under this article shall be limited in any county to the number...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.7
  (a) Every county shall provide an adequate range of those activities described in Section 11322.6 to ensure each participant's access to needed activities and services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.8
  (a) Unless otherwise exempt, an adult recipient in a one-parent assistance unit shall participate in welfare-to-work activities for 32 hours each week. (b) Unless otherwise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11322.9
  (a) Community service activities shall meet all of the following criteria: (1) Be performed in the public and private nonprofit sector. (2) Provide participants with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11323.2
  (a) Necessary supportive services shall be available to every participant in order to participate in the program activity to which he or she is assigned...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11323.25
  In addition to its authority under subdivision (b) of Section 11323.2, if provided in a county plan, the county may continue to provide welfare-to-work services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11323.3
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all CalWORKs applicants and recipients be aware of their potential liability for child care payment, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11323.4
  (a) Payments for supportive services, as described in Section 11323.2, shall be advanced to the participant, wherever necessary, and when desired by the participant, so...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11323.6
  The department shall be responsible for supervising the provision of child care by counties during stage one as described in Sections 8350, 8351, and 8352...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11323.8
  Counties shall manage the participant's transition from stage one to stage two child care pursuant to Article 15.5 (commencing with Section 8350) of Chapter 2...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11323.9
  Each county welfare department shall provide to the State Department of Social Services, on a monthly basis, data regarding child care usage and demand in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11324
  (a) If the county welfare department or a contractor pays for child care services which are exempt from licensure, all of the following information about...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11324.4
  (a) The employer or sponsor of an employment or training program position described in Section 11322.6 or 11322.9 or any positions created under any county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11324.5
  The county shall ensure that the labor union is notified of the use of participants assigned to an employment or training program position described in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11324.6
  Any employment or training program position described in subdivisions (a) to (l), inclusive, of Section 11322.6 or Section 11322.9 or under any county pilot project,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11324.7
  (a) The department shall provide a grievance process for regular employees and their representatives who wish to file a complaint that an assignment to community...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11324.8
  (a) At the time an individual applies for aid under this chapter, or at the time a recipient's eligibility for aid is determined, the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.1
  When child care services are provided by a program funded under Section 8481 of the Education Code to a recipient under this article or any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.2
  (a) At the time a recipient enters the welfare-to-work program, the county shall conduct an appraisal, pursuant to regulations adopted by the department, during which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.21
  (a) Any individual who is required to participate in welfare-to-work activities pursuant to this article shall enter into a written welfare-to-work plan with the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.22
  (a) (1) Following the appraisal required by Section 11325.2, all participants except those described in paragraph (4) of this subdivision, shall be assigned to participate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.23
  (a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any student who, at the time he or she is required to participate under this article pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.25
  (a) A participant with a suspected learning or medical problem, as indicated by information received during appraisal or assessment or by lack of satisfactory progress...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.4
  (a) Upon referral to assessment, a participant shall work with the county welfare department to develop and agree on a welfare-to-work plan on the basis...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.5
  (a) If, pursuant to the assessment conducted pursuant to Section 11325.4, there is a concern that a mental disability exists that will impair the ability...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.6
  Subject to the limitations of subdivision (f) of Section 11322.6 and subdivision (a) of Section 11325.22, if activities to be provided under the plan between...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.7
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to create a funding stream and program that assists certain recipients of aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.71
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 11325.7 and subdivision (e) of Section 11325.8, counties shall have the option to redirect funding, both from and to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.8
  (a) The county plan required by Section 10531 shall include a plan for the provision of substance abuse treatment services. The plan shall describe how...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.9
  (a) The department shall develop three-year pilot projects in Alameda County, San Bernardino County, and Ventura County, at the option of each county, to create...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.91
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of Section 10850, a team engaged in any activity permitted pursuant to Section 11325.93 shall be deemed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.93
  (a) Team members may disclose to one another information about, and view records on, members of an assistance unit to the extent permitted by this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11325.95
  The department shall prepare a report, for submission to the Legislature on or before April 1, 2002, on the outcomes of the pilot program established...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11326
  (a) The county shall conduct a reappraisal of any participant who does not obtain unsubsidized employment upon completion of all activities included in the welfare-to-work...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11327
  Any county which fails to provide services according to its plan approved pursuant to this article shall receive sanctions in accordance with Section 10605. A...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11327.4
  (a) (1) Whenever an individual has failed or refused to comply with program requirements without good cause in a program component to which he or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11327.5
  (a) Sanctions shall be imposed in accordance with subdivision (b) or (c), as appropriate, if an individual has failed or refused to comply with program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11327.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person who is not required, but who volunteers, to participate in the program established by this article and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11327.8
  (a) Except as specified in this section, whenever a participant believes that any program requirement or assignment in this program is in violation of his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11327.9
  In determining whether good cause exists for a refusal or failure to comply with program requirements, the county shall take into consideration whether the participant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11328.2
  A participant under this article shall have all due process rights granted pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 10950) of Part 2.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11328.8
  (a) The department, under the direction of the Health and Welfare Agency, the Chancellor's office of the California Community Colleges, and the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11329
  (a) The department shall evaluate the program and shall collect data on program cost, caseload movement, and program outcomes, including data on all of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11329.2
  (a) The department shall seek any federal funds available for implementation of this article, including, but not limited to, funds available under Title IV of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11329.4
  (a) No funds appropriated for purposes of this article shall be used to fund education or training services in any county plan if these services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11329.5
  With respect to paragraph (7) of subdivision (b) of Section 11320.3 and Section 11325.71, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following, but only...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11331
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the connection between teenage parenting and long-term welfare dependency has been well documented by recent social science research....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11331.5
  (a) Recipients of aid under this chapter who are under 19 years of age, who are pregnant or custodial parents, shall be required to participate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11331.7
  Counties shall arrange for the provision of education and supportive services that teenage parents need to successfully participate in the Cal-Learn Program. The county shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11332
  (a) Participation by a teenage parent shall be deferred if the county determines that any of the services an individual is assessed as needing pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11332.5
  (a) Counties shall arrange for the provision of case management services and counseling to teenage parents to assist their participation in the Cal-Learn Program. Case...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11332.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320), there shall be no limits on the amount of time that a teenage parent under the age...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11333
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), counties shall contract for the provision of case management services, as described in subdivision (b) of Section 11331.7...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11333.5
  (a) Counties shall develop linkages with local service providers that serve teenage parents. (b) The county plan shall specifically describe those required services that are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11333.7
  (a) Any participant required to participate pursuant to Section 11331.5 who maintains satisfactory progress in school shall, not more than four times in a calendar...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11334.2
  Sanctions and bonuses pursuant to Section 11333.7 shall be applied in the first quarter following participant notification of program requirements.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11334.5
  Notwithstanding Sections 11322 and 11322.2, the state shall fund 100 percent of the nonfederal share of case management and supportive services provided under the Cal-Learn...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11334.51
  (a) The department shall reduce the allocation of money from Items 5180-151-001 and 5180-151-890 of the Budget Act with respect to any county to which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11334.7
  The director may provide funds to support this article in an item separate from other welfare-to-work activities, and these funds shall not be subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11334.8
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), this article shall be inoperative from July 1, 2011, to June 30, 2012, inclusive. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11336
  County GAIN programs shall cooperate with the department and the State Department of Education in the provision and coordination of services under the New Chance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11349
  In complying with Section 10353 of the Public Contract Code, a contractor shall give priority consideration to qualified recipients of aid under this chapter. For...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11349.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, participation by a recipient of aid under this chapter, shall be voluntary only, and in no event shall any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11349.2
  Contractors shall immediately list with the appropriate local office of the Employment Development Department all suitable employment openings in positions funded by a contract subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11349.3
  This article and Section 10353 of the Public Contract Code may be waived by the Governor, if requested to do so by the state agency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11349.4
  In the event that the State Department of Social Services determines that a waiver of any federal regulations or policies, or both, are required to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11350.61
  The order to show cause or notice of motion described in subdivision (j) of Section 11350.6 shall be filed and heard in the superior court....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11351.5
  Whenever an unrelated adult male resides with a family applying for or receiving aid under this chapter, he shall be required to make a financial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11353
  Any parent whose absence is the basis upon which an application is filed for aid in behalf of a child shall complete and return to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11360
  Effective on the date that the director executes a declaration pursuant to Section 11217, the department shall establish a state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11361
  The Legislature finds and declares that the continuation of the state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program is intended to enhance family preservation and stability by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11362
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payments (Kin-GAP)" means the state-funded aid provided under the terms of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11363
  (a) Aid in the form of state-funded Kin-GAP shall be provided under this article on behalf of any child under 18 years of age and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11364
  (a) In order to receive payments under this article, the county child welfare agency, probation department, or Indian tribe that has entered into an agreement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11366
  A child who is eligible to receive Medi-Cal benefits with no share of cost shall maintain that eligibility notwithstanding the receipt of state-funded Kin-GAP by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11367
  The supplemental clothing allowance shall be paid pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (f) of Section 11461.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11369
  (a) Notwithstanding the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11370
  The county welfare department or probation department or Indian tribe, as appropriate, at the time of the Kin-GAP annual redetermination, shall meet with the relative...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11371
  Income to the child, including the state-funded Kin-GAP payment, shall not be considered income to the kinship guardian for purposes of determining the kinship guardian's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11372
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program implemented under this article is exempt from the provisions of Chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11374
  (a) Each county that formally had court ordered jurisdiction under Section 300, 601, or 602 over a child receiving benefits under the state-funded Kin-GAP program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11375
  The following shall apply to any child or nonminor in receipt of state-funded Kin-GAP benefits: (a) He or she is eligible to request and receive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11376
  A foster child who has become the subject of a legal guardianship, who is receiving assistance under the Kin-GAP Program under this article or under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11378
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide a seamless and minimally intrusive process to allow an otherwise federally eligible child who is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11379
  This article shall become operative on the date that the Director of Social Services executes the declaration required pursuant to Section 11217, stating that increased...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11385
  (a) On and after the date that the director executes a declaration pursuant to Section 11217, the State Department of Social Services shall exercise its...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11386
  Aid shall be provided under this article on behalf of a child under 18 years of age, and to any eligible youth under 19 years...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11387
  (a) In order to receive federal financial participation for payments under this article, the county child welfare agency or probation department or Indian tribe that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11388
  If a federally eligible child described in Section 11386 has one or more siblings who are not so described, the child and any sibling of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11389
  A child eligible for a Kin-GAP payment under this article is categorically eligible for Medi-Cal at no share of cost pursuant to Section 473(b)(3) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11390
  (a) A person who is a kinship guardian under this article, and who has met the requirements of Section 361.4, shall be exempt from Chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11391
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payments (Kin-GAP)" means the aid provided on behalf of children eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11392
  On and after the date that the director executes a declaration pursuant to Section 11217, for purposes of eligibility under this article, children who are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11393
  (a) Notwithstanding the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11400
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC)" means the aid provided on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11400.1
  (a) For purposes of this article, "crisis nursery" means a facility licensed to provide short-term, 24-hour nonmedical residential care and supervision for children under six...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11401
  Aid in the form of AFDC-FC shall be provided under this chapter on behalf of any child under 18 years of age, and, on and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11401.05
  The department shall amend the foster care state plan required under Subtitle IV-E (commencing with Section 470 of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11401.1
  (a) Otherwise eligible children placed voluntarily prior to January 1, 1981, may remain eligible for AFDC-FC payments. (b) Beginning on January 1, 1982, AFDC-FC payments...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11401.2
  AFDC-FC shall be paid to an otherwise eligible child in a voluntary placement in a demonstration county for a period not to exceed six months,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11401.4
  A child living with his or her parent who is a minor or, on and after January 1, 2012, a nonminor dependent and a recipient...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11401.5
  The county shall review the child's or nonminor dependent' s payment amount annually. The review shall include an examination of any circumstances of a foster...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11401.6
  At the time of determining eligibility for AFDC-FC payments, the county shall also determine whether the child is currently in receipt of benefits pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402
  In order to be eligible for AFDC-FC, a child or nonminor dependent shall be placed in one of the following: (a) The approved home of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402
  In order to be eligible for AFDC-FC, a child or nonminor dependent shall be placed in one of the following: (a) The approved home of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402.1
  For purposes of Section 11402, "eligible for federal financial participation" means that the payment is consistent with an approved state plan under Sections 671 and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402.2
  Recognizing that transitions to independence involve self-initiated changes in placements, it is the intent of the Legislature that regulations developed regarding the approval of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402.4
  (a) Subject to the conditions set forth in subdivisions (b) and (c), and notwithstanding any other provision of law, with respect to an approved home...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402.5
  (a) The federal government has provided the state the option of including in its state plan children placed in public child care institutions. Therefore, notwithstanding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402.6
  (a) The federal government has provided the state with the option of including in its state plan children placed in a private facility operated on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11402.9
  In order to receive funding on behalf of children receiving AFDC-FC, each group home shall provide a full disclosure of all financial information related to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11403
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to exercise the option afforded states under Section 475(8) (42 U.S.C. Sec. 675(8)), and Section 473(a)(4) (42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11403.1
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that former foster youth are a vulnerable population at risk of homelessness, unemployment, welfare dependency, incarceration, and other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11403.2
  (a) The following persons shall be eligible for transitional housing placement program services provided pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 16522) of Chapter 5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11403.25
  (a) Before issuing a certificate of approval to a THP-Plus Foster Care provider applicant pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 11403.2, county child welfare services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11403.3
  (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (b), a transitional housing placement program, as defined in Section 11400, that provides transitional housing services to an eligible youth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11403.4
  (a) The Transitional Housing for Foster Youth Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury for the purposes specified in this section. (b) Except as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11404
  (a) Except as provided in Section 11405, a child is not eligible for AFDC-FC unless responsibility for placement and care of the child is with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11404.1
  In order to be eligible for AFDC-FC, the child shall receive a periodic review no less frequently than once every six months and a permanency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11404.2
  When a child qualified for federal financial participation under the AFDC-FC program is residing with a relative caretaker and the relative caretaker makes application to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11405
  (a) AFDC-FC benefits shall be paid to an otherwise eligible child living with a nonrelated legal guardian, provided that the legal guardian cooperates with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11406.5
  A refugee who is eligible for, and is required to participate in, an alternative project implemented pursuant to Section 412(e)(7) of the federal Immigration and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11407
  If, when and during such times as the federal statutes provide federal funds for any child who is granted aid pursuant to subsection (b) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11408
  County claims for aid to needy children placed in foster care, as defined by the rules and regulations of the department, shall be filed separately...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11409
  To the extent required by federal law, the department shall establish specific numeric goals for the number of children receiving AFDC-FC payments who have been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11410
  (a) The department shall amend the foster care state plan required under Subtitle IV-E (commencing with Section 470) of the federal Social Security Act (42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450
  (a) (1) Aid shall be paid for each needy family, which shall include all eligible brothers and sisters of each eligible applicant or recipient child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450
  (a) (1) Aid shall be paid for each needy family, which shall include all eligible brothers and sisters of each eligible applicant or recipient child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.01
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, commencing October 1, 1992, the maximum aid payments specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11450...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.015
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on June 30, 1993, in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.017
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payment in effect on June 30, 1994, in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.018
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payment in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11450 as reduced by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.019
  Effective the first day of the month following 90 days after a change in federal law that allows states to reduce aid payments without any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.02
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, commencing July 1, 2009, the maximum aid payments in effect September 1, 2007, as specified in paragraph (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.03
  (a) Notwithstanding the maximum aid payments specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11450, families that have resided in this state for less...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.04
  (a) For purposes of determining the maximum aid payment specified in subdivision (a) of Section 11450 and for no other purpose, the number of needy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.3
  (a) The director may establish, within the department, the Emergency Housing Apartment Program Demonstration Project. (b) The director may, by formal order, waive the operation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.4
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an emergency assistance for needy families program to serve the shelter needs of homeless families...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.5
  For purposes of computing and paying aid grants under this chapter, the director shall adopt regulations establishing a budgeting system consistent with Sections 11265.1, 11265.2,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.8
  No payment of aid pursuant to Section 11450 shall be made to a family for a month in which the amount the family would receive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.9
  (a) (1) The department shall designate as energy assistance payments any increase in the maximum aid payments provided pursuant to Section 11450 made on or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.10
  Whenever the department is informed pursuant to either Section 857 or 1764.5 that a minor is being incarcerated for a period of at least 30...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.11
  Whenever a county welfare department is informed that a child who is incarcerated is also a member of a family receiving benefits pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.12
  (a) An applicant family shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter unless the family's income, exclusive of the first ninety dollars ($90) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.12
  (a) An applicant family shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter unless the family's income, exclusive of the first ninety dollars ($90) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.13
  (a) In calculating the amount of aid to which an assistance unit is entitled in accordance with Section 11320.15, the maximum aid payment, adjusted to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.13
  (a) In calculating the amount of aid to which an assistance unit is entitled in accordance with Section 11320.15, the maximum aid payment, adjusted to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11450.16
  (a) For purposes of determining eligibility under this chapter, and for computing the amount of aid payment under Section 11450, families shall be grouped into...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11451
  Any county may, in its discretion, pay from its own funds additional sums for the care of any needy child, and the state and county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11451.5
  (a) Except as provided by subdivision (f) of Section 11322.6, the following income, averaged over the quarter pursuant to Sections 11265.2 and 11265.3, shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11451.5
  (a) Except as provided by subdivision (f) of Section 11322.6, the following income, determined for the semiannual period pursuant to Sections 11265.2 and 11265.3, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11452
  (a) (1) Minimum basic standards of adequate care shall be distributed to the counties and shall be binding upon them. The standards are determined on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11452.018
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the minimum basic standards of adequate care, as set forth in Section 11452, and as adjusted pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11453
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the amounts set forth in Section 11452 and subdivision (a) of Section 11450 shall be adjusted annually by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11453.1
  (a) It is the intent of this section to assure that the food purchasing power provided by benefits available from CalFresh under the federal Supplemental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11453.2
  A county shall issue vouchers or vendor payments for at least rent and utilities payments, for any assistance unit in which any parent or caretaker...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11454
  (a) A parent or caretaker relative shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter when he or she has received aid under this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11454.2
  For purposes of making the transition to the requirements of the act that added this section, county welfare departments shall provide any assistance unit that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11454.5
  (a) Any month in which the following conditions exist shall not be counted as a month of receipt of aid for the purposes of subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11454.6
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 15200, to the extent that the exemptions from the time limits on aid specified in paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11455
  If on the first day of the month a child is eligible for aid, aid for the entire month shall be paid.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11457
  (a) Money from noncustodial parents for child or spousal support with respect to whom an assignment under Section 11477 has been made shall be paid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11458
  The county may cancel, suspend or revoke aid under this chapter for cause. Upon instructions from the department, the county shall cancel, suspend or revoke...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11460
  (a) Foster care providers shall be paid a per child per month rate in return for the care and supervision of the AFDC-FC child placed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11461
  (a) For children or, on and after January 1, 2012, nonminor dependents placed in a licensed or approved family home with a capacity of six...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11461.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure quality care for children who are placed in foster family homes. Therefore, the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11461.5
  (a) The department may establish a rate to supplement the basic rate specified in subdivision (a) of Section 11461 for the provision of additional shelter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462
  (a) (1) Effective July 1, 1990, foster care providers licensed as group homes, as defined in departmental regulations, including public child care institutions, as defined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.01
  (a) Commencing July 1, 1994, a group home program shall be classified at RCL 13 or RCL 14 if the program meets all of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.02
  Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 11462, a foster care provider licensed as a group home may also have a rate established if...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.03
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 11462, the data obtained by the department pursuant to that subdivision using 1985 calendar year costs shall be updated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.04
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, no new group home rate or change to an existing rate shall be established pursuant to Section 11462. An...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.045
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish a working group to develop recommended revisions to the current system of setting reimbursement rates for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.05
  By October 1, 1995, the department shall review and recommend to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, a new or revised ratesetting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.06
  (a) For purposes of the administration of this article, including the setting of group home rates, the department shall deem the reasonable costs of leases...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.07
  Notwithstanding subdivision (h) of Section 11462, for the 1999-2000 fiscal year, a group home program that received an AFDC-FC rate for the 1998-99 fiscal year...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.1
  (a) No later than February 1, 1997, the department shall establish a proposal for a basic rate for the care and supervision of children subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11462, when the director determines that a rate established pursuant to that section for a multistate group home facility which operates in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.4
  Notwithstanding Section 11342.610 of the Government Code, group homes and foster family agencies shall be deemed small businesses and the department shall project the impact...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.61
  (a) For audits performed prior to June 30, 1988, on group homes which received funds on behalf of children receiving assistance under the AFDC-FC program,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11462.7
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall set a foster care rate for crisis nurseries, as defined in Section 1516...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11463
  (a) (1) The department, with the advice, assistance, and cooperation of the counties and foster care providers, shall develop, implement, and maintain a ratesetting system...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11463.5
  (a) The department may perform or have performed audits on all foster family agencies which have received funds on behalf of children receiving assistance under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11464
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Children who are consumers of regional center services and also receiving Aid to Families...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11465
  (a) When a child is living with a parent who receives AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP benefits, the rate paid to the provider on behalf of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11465.5
  (a) The department shall conduct five-year pilot projects in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Sacramento County, Solano County, Tulare County, and Yuba County, at the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11465.6
  (a) Up to five counties selected by the department, and at the discretion of the counties, may implement a countywide program for licensed family homes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.1
  (a) (1) The department shall adopt regulations that shall specify the type of information requested from group homes, including reasonable timeframes. All group home providers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.2
  (a) (1) The department shall perform or have performed group home program and fiscal audits as needed. Group home programs shall maintain all child-specific, programmatic,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.21
  (a) In accordance with subdivision (b), as a condition to receive an AFDC-FC rate for a group home program or a foster family agency program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.22
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure overall program integrity in the AFDC-FC program through the establishment of an effective and efficient...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.23
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to comply with the federal requirements of the Improper Payments Act of 2002 with respect to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.235
  (a) The department, in consultation and coordination with the County Welfare Directors Association (CWDA), shall update existing regulations and establish new regulations where lacking for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.24
  (a) In accordance with this section, a county shall collect an overpayment, discovered on or after January 1, 1999, made to a foster family home,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.25
  Interest begins to accrue on a group home provider overpayment on the date of the issuance of the final audit report.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.3
  (a) The department shall offer a voluntary repayment agreement procedure to group home providers that owe a sustained overpayment. A group home provider may enter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.31
  When it has been determined that a group home provider participating in the AFDC-FC program owes an overpayment that is due and payable, the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.32
  (a) If a group home provider that owes a sustained overpayment pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 11466.2 does not enter into...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.33
  (a) If any amount is due and payable to the department as a result of sustained overpayment to a group home provider for care and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.34
  (a) (1) At any time within 10 years of the recording of a lien pursuant to Section 11466.33, the department may bring an action, in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.35
  (a) Any licensee who has been determined to owe a sustained overpayment under this chapter, and who, subsequent to notice of the sustained overpayment, has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.36
  (a) The department may terminate a group home rate if any of the following conditions are met: (1) The director determines that, based upon the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.5
  The department shall collect group home cost data and monitor the cost of providing care and supervision, and social work services, to AFDC-FC recipients. These...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11466.6
  A group home provider who disagrees with the rate determined by the department or adjusted by a program audit shall request an appeal by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11467.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that standards be developed to address the specific needs of very young children, from birth to six...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11467.2
  (a) The department shall contract with an independent evaluator to conduct a study of alternative funding mechanisms for group home care in California and to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11468
  The director shall establish administrative procedures to review the rate set by the department for a foster family agency and a group home program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11468.1
  The administrative review procedure established pursuant to Section 11468 shall include a protest within the department and a hearing conducted by a hearing officer appointed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11468.2
  (a) A group home provider or foster family agency who disagrees with a rate set by the department and who desires a different rate shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11468.3
  (a) The appeal filed with the department pursuant to Section 11468.2 shall specify whether the provider does or does not wish that an informal conference...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11468.4
  (a) The hearing held pursuant to Section 11468.1 shall be conducted no later than 180 days after the filing of a timely and specific statement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11468.5
  The provider or foster family agency may request review of the final decision of the department pursuant to Section 11468.4 in accordance with Section 1094.5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11468.6
  (a) The director shall establish administrative procedures to review group home audit findings. (b) A group home provider, including an RCL 13 or an RCL...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11469
  (a) By July 1, 1993, the department, in consultation with group home providers, the County Welfare Directors' Association, the Chief Probation Officers' Association, the California...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11469.1
  The performance standards and outcome measures required by Section 11469 shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) They shall include indicators of quality of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11475.2
  (a) If at any time the Director of Social Services considers any public agency, which is required by law, by delegation of the department, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11475.3
  The first fifty dollars ($50) of any amount of child support collected in a month in payment of the required support obligation for that month...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11476.2
  On a monthly basis, the local child support agency shall provide to any CalWORKs recipient or former recipient for whom an assignment pursuant to subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11476.6
  Each local child support agency shall submit to the department data revealing the range and median time periods by which notification of the receipt of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11477
  As a condition of eligibility for aid paid under this chapter, each applicant or recipient shall do all of the following: (a) (1) Do either...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11477.02
  Prior to referral of any individual or recipient, or that person's case, to the local child support agency for child support services under Section 17400...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11477.04
  (a) An applicant or a recipient shall be considered to be cooperating in good faith with the county welfare department or the local child support...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11477.1
  No polygraph tests shall be administered to any applicant or recipient of aid under this chapter for the purposes of enforcement of Title IV-D of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11478.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect individual rights of privacy, and to facilitate and enhance the effectiveness of the child and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11479
  In all cases in which the paternity of the child has not been established to the satisfaction of the county department, the county department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11480
  Any person other than a needy child, who willfully and knowingly receives or uses any part of an aid grant paid pursuant to this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11481
  If the district attorney, during the course of any investigation made by him pursuant to this article, determines that any person has committed any act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11481.5
  The department shall evaluate the effectiveness of a 24-hour welfare fraud hotline pilot project, to assess greater public involvement and assistance in welfare fraud detection.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11482
  Any person other than a needy child, who willfully and knowingly, with the intent to deceive, makes a false statement or representation or knowingly fails...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11482.5
  Any person who knowingly makes more than one application for aid with the intent of establishing multiple entitlements for any person for the same period,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11483
  Except as specified in Section 11483.5, whenever any person has, by means of false statement or representation or by impersonation or other fraudulent device, obtained...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11483.5
  Any person who obtains more than one aid payment for any person as a result of knowingly making more than one application for aid with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11484
  On request, all state, county, and local agencies shall cooperate with an investigator of an agency whose primary function is to detect, prevent, or prosecute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11485
  If, to the knowledge of the court, aid has been applied for or granted to a child of parents who are engaged in a divorce...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11486
  (a) The needs of any individual who is a member of a family applying for, or receiving, aid under this chapter shall not be taken...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11486.3
  (a) The department, in consultation with system stakeholders, including county welfare departments, shall examine the CalWORKs sanction policy, its implementation, and effect on work participation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11486.5
  (a) An individual shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter if he or she is either: (1) Fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11487
  (a) Whenever any aid under this chapter is repaid to the state by means of child support collections, the state shall be entitled to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11487.1
  Except as provided in Sections 11457 and 11487, whenever any aid under this chapter is repaid to a county or recovered by a county, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11487.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Sections 11487 and 15204.5, the department shall implement a program in any participating county whereby the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11495
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to adopt a family violence provision by enacting the federal option concerning victims of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11495.1
  (a) The department shall convene a task force including, but not limited to, district attorney domestic violence units, county departments of social services, the County...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11495.12
  For purposes of this article, until regulations are adopted pursuant to Section 11495.1, the term "abuse" means battering or subjecting a victim to extreme cruelty...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11495.15
  A county may waive a program requirement for a recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of abuse when it has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11495.25
  Sworn statements by a victim of past or present abuse shall be sufficient to establish abuse unless the agency documents in writing an independent, reasonable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11495.40
  The department shall adopt a model curriculum for domestic violence and sexual abuse prevention training, based on the statewide protocol, in consultation with the task...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11500
  The county may continue to provide case management and services to either a recipient of aid under this chapter not participating under Article 3.2 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11520
  The State Department of Social Services shall ensure that a comprehensive, independent statewide evaluation of the CalWORKs program is undertaken and that accurate evaluative information...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11520.3
  The department shall develop a research design to ensure a thorough evaluation of the direct and indirect effects of the CalWORKs program. Effects shall include,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11520.5
  The statewide evaluation shall be conducted by an independent evaluator or evaluators. It shall represent a clear delineation of the research questions and shall, through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11520.7
  The department shall ensure that county demonstration projects and other innovative county approaches to CalWORKs program implementation are independently and rigorously evaluated and that findings...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11521.3
  Evaluation of CalWORKs program implementation conducted or commissioned by the department shall, to the extent practical, use or build upon existing welfare data archives, including,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11521.5
  The department shall have access and authority to obtain for tracking, monitoring, research and evaluation purposes to data collected by counties on recipients receiving cash...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11522
  The department, in conjunction with participating representatives of counties and the Legislature, shall develop approaches to improving data collection and management information reporting in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11525
  (a) The department shall establish procedures to provide timely access to information on CalWORKs families to counties and researchers in a manner that maintains confidentiality...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11526
  (a) The Legislature hereby requests the Regents of the University of California to establish and administer a program or programs to support welfare research and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 11526.5
  The department shall enter into an interagency agreement with the University of California for the purpose of implementing Section 11526. The interagency agreement shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12000
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as The Burton-Moscone-Bagley Citizens' Income Security Act for Aged, Blind and Disabled Californians.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12001
  It is the intent of this chapter to implement a state supplementation program pursuant to Title XVI of the Social Security Act and a program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12002
  It is the object and purpose of this chapter to provide persons whose need results from age, blindness or disability with assistance and services which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12003
  For the purposes of this chapter, neither the residence nor domicile of the husband or wife shall be deemed the residence or domicile of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12004
  The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in favor of aged, blind and disabled recipients.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12050
  For the purposes of this chapter: (a) The term "aged, blind or disabled individual" means an individual who is 65 years or older, or is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12051
  "Income" means both earned and unearned income as defined on October 30, 1972 in Part A of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, except...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12052
  "Resources" means resources as defined on October 30, 1972 in Part A of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, except as otherwise specifically provided.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12053
  An applicant's share of his spouse's community property income is defined as the income which is community property subject to the direction and control of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12054
  "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12100
  The department shall enter into an agreement with the secretary providing for administration by the secretary of the provisions of this chapter. The agreement shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12100.5
  The department shall seek to enter into an agreement with the secretary for the purpose of administration by the secretary of the amount set forth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12101
  No applicant for or recipient of aid under this chapter shall be required to pay any part of the cost of a medical examination to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12102
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no agreement entered into for state administration of the state supplementary payment program on behalf of the secretary or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12103
  No authority is given under this chapter or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500) or Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 13900) for any agreement with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12104
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the order of the Director of Finance, the Director of Social Services shall defer all supplemental payments to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12104
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the order of the Director of Finance, the Director of Social Services shall defer all supplemental payments to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12150
  Persons who are receiving federal supplemental security income benefits, or who but for their income, are eligible to receive such benefits under Title XVI of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12152
  In determining eligibility of any individual for the state supplementary payment administered by the federal government, in addition to any other income or resources disregarded...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12153
  To the extent permitted by federal law, any recipient who meets the eligibility criteria of more than one classification of recipient described under this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12156
  In determining, for purposes of this chapter, whether an individual is blind, there shall be an examination of such individual by a physician skilled in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200
  An aged, blind or disabled applicant or recipient shall be paid an amount of aid which when added to his or her federal benefit received...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200.01
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, commencing November 1, 1992, the payments schedules set forth in Section 12200 in effect on June 30, 1992,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200.015
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on June 30, 1993, in accordance with Section 12200, as reduced by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200.017
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on June 30, 1994, in accordance with Section 12200, as reduced by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200.019
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on January 1, 2009, in accordance with Article 5 of Chapter 3...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200.02
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as provided in subdivision (b), on the first day of the month following 90 days after enactment of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200.03
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and subject to subdivision (b), on the first day of the first month following 90 days after the effective date...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12200.5
  (a) (1) If permitted by federal law, and upon approval of the Secretaries of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12201
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), the payment schedules set forth in Section 12200 shall be adjusted annually to reflect any increases or decreases...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12201.03
  (a) For the 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 calendar years, or for the period of January 1, 2003, to May 31, 2003,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12201.04
  On January 1, 1999, in addition to the changes in the payment schedules in Section 12200 required by Section 12201, the payment schedules in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12201.05
  (a) Commencing with the 2004 calendar year, and thereafter, in any calendar year in which no cost-of-living adjustment is made pursuant to Section 12201, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12201.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 12200, the amount applicable under that section to a disabled minor residing in a nonmedical out-of-home facility with a nonrelative...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12202
  The policy shall be followed of granting aid to the recipient in his own home or in some other suitable home of his own choosing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12203
  If, when, and during such times as the United States government authorizes after October 1972, an increase in the adjusted payment level, for whatever reason,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12204
  State supplementary payments under Section 1616 of the Social Security Act shall include payment to recipients as required by Section 212 of Public Law 93-66....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12205
  Increases in federal benefits under Part A of Title XVI of the Social Security Act for reasons other than cost of living which are not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12250
  The intent of this article and Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300) of this chapter is to maintain a state system of a broad range...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12251
  As used in this article, and Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300), the term "social services" includes in-home supportive services, protective services, and children's out-of-home...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12252
  The department shall prepare and submit to the secretary a state plan for social services to the aged, blind and disabled that meets the requirements...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12253
  The department and the State Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly develop plans for the orderly processing of cases referred to the State Department of Rehabilitation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12254
  Funding of this article is subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 10100) of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12300
  (a) The purpose of this article is to provide in every county in a manner consistent with this chapter and the annual Budget Act those...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12300.1
  As used in Section 12300 and in this article, "supportive services" include those necessary paramedical services that are ordered by a licensed health care professional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12300.2
  In any in-home supportive services action concerning the amount of in-home supportive services to be provided, the department shall send a notice of the action...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301
  (a) The intent of the Legislature in enacting this article is to provide supplemental or additional services to the social and rehabilitative services in Article...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.03
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (A) Authorized hours under the In-Home Supportive Services program were reduced in the 1992-93 fiscal year,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.05
  (a) Any aged, blind, or disabled individual who is eligible for services under this chapter who receives a notice of action indicating that his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.06
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided in subdivision (d), the department shall implement a 3.6-percent reduction in hours of service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.07
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if subdivision (b) of Section 3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 is operative, the department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.1
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations establishing a uniform range of services available to all eligible recipients based upon individual needs. The availability of services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.15
  Effective January 1, 2010, the application for in-home supportive services shall contain a notice to the recipient that his or her provider or providers will...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.2
  (a) (1) The department, in consultation and coordination with county welfare departments and in accordance with Section 12305.72, shall establish and implement statewide hourly task...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.21
  (a) The department shall, in consultation and coordination with the county welfare departments and in accordance with Section 12305.72, develop for statewide use a standard...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.22
  On or before December 31, 2011, the department, in consultation with county welfare departments and other stakeholders, shall develop a process to ensure that a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.24
  (a) Effective November 1, 2009, all prospective providers must complete a provider orientation at the time of enrollment, as developed by the department, in consultation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.25
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the standardized provider timesheet used to track the work performed by providers of services under this article shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.3
  (a) Each county may appoint an in-home supportive services advisory committee that shall be comprised of not more than 11 individuals. No less than 50...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.4
  Each advisory committee established pursuant to Section 12301.3 or 12301.6 shall provide ongoing advice and recommendations regarding in-home supportive services to the county board of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.5
  The department may secure to the extent feasible such in-home supportive and other health services for persons eligible under this article to which they are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.6
  (a) Notwithstanding Sections 12302 and 12302.1, a county board of supervisors may, at its option, elect to do either of the following: (1) Contract with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.7
  The annual administrative cost for any public authority or nonprofit consortium created pursuant to Section 12301.6, exclusive of any increase in provider wages or benefits...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12301.8
  (a) (1) A public authority or nonprofit consortium established pursuant to Section 12301.6, upon the request of an aged or disabled adult or that individual's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302
  Each county is obligated to ensure that services are provided to all eligible recipients during each month of the year in accordance with the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302.1
  (a) Contracts entered into by a county under Section 12302 shall be for terms not exceeding three years. In the event of a three-year contract,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302.2
  (a) (1) If the state or a county makes or provides for direct payment to a provider chosen by a recipient or to the recipient...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302.21
  (a) For purposes of providing cost-efficient workers' compensation coverage for in-home supportive services providers under this article, the department shall assume responsibility for providing workers'...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302.25
  (a) On or before January 1, 2003, each county shall act as, or establish, an employer for in-home supportive service providers under Section 12302.2 for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, and in a manner consistent with the powers available to public authorities created under this article, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302.4
  A county, in receiving bids for a contract pursuant to Sections 12302, 12302.1, and 12303, may evaluate all or any bidders to determine their responsibility,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12302.5
  (a) Counties may establish entities or agents to act on behalf of the employers for those recipients who are designated as the employer of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12303
  A contract pursuant to Section 12302 shall include the following provisions: (a) The cost of the service shall not exceed by more than 10 percent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12303.4
  (a) Any aged, blind, or disabled individual who is eligible for assistance under this chapter or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500), and who is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12303.6
  (a) No adjustment shall be made under this article for the 1990-91 fiscal year to reflect any change in the cost of living. (b) Any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12303.7
  Any aged, or disabled applicant or recipient who is eligible for assistance under this article, whose disabilities prevent the use of cooking facilities at home,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304
  (a) An individual who is eligible for services subject to the maximum amount specified in subdivision (b) of Section 12303.4 and who is capable of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304.1
  In the selection of providers to perform services pursuant to this article, preference shall be given to any qualified individual provider who is chosen by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304.2
  (a) A recipient who receives services under this article through either a contract or managed care provider may, subject to program requirements, select any qualified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304.3
  Any recipient of services under this article who has received benefits under this article for at least one year, and who hires and pays his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304.4
  (a) The department shall establish a program of direct deposit by electronic transfer for payments to in-home supportive services providers. A provider may choose to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304.5
  Any aged, blind, or disabled individual who would be eligible for assistance under this chapter or under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500), except for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304.6
  The county welfare department shall provide to each visually impaired applicant or recipient of benefits under this article, upon determination or redetermination of eligibility for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12304.7
  Between January 1 and April 15 of each year, the Controller shall include a notice on, and insert an informational flyer which shall be prepared...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305
  Any aged, blind, or disabled individual who would be eligible for assistance under this chapter or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500), except for his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.1
  (a) (1) Any aged, blind, or disabled individual who received Medi-Cal personal care services pursuant to subdivision (p) of Section 14132.95 before July 1, 2009,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any person who: (1) Was once determined to be disabled in accordance with Section 1614 of Part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person specified in subdivision (b) shall be eligible for in-home supportive services under this chapter. (b) Subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.7
  The department shall perform all of the following activities: (a) Beginning in the 2004-05 fiscal year, and in each subsequent fiscal year, the department in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.71
  Counties shall perform the following quality assurance activities: (a) Establish a dedicated, specialized unit or function to ensure quality assurance and program integrity, including fraud...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.72
  The department shall convene periodic meetings in which supportive services recipients, providers, advocates, IHSS provider representatives, organizations representing recipients, counties, public authorities, nonprofit consortia, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.8
  The following definitions apply for purposes of this article: (a) "Fraud" means the intentional deception or misrepresentation made by a person with the knowledge that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.81
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not be eligible to provide or receive payment for providing supportive services for 10 years following a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.82
  (a) In addition to its existing authority under the Medi-Cal program, the State Department of Health Care Services shall have the authority to investigate fraud...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.83
  (a) When it has been determined that a provider of supportive services participating under this chapter has received an overpayment that is a debt due...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.84
  (a) Upon enactment of this section, the department shall convene a stakeholder group and begin a process with this group to develop and issue a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.86
  (a) Effective October 1, 2009, a county shall investigate the background of a person who seeks to become a supportive services provider and who is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12305.87
  (a) (1) Commencing 90 days following the effective date of the act that adds this section, a person specified in paragraph (2) shall be subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12306
  (a) The state and counties shall share the annual cost of providing services under this article as specified in this section. (b) Except as provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12306.1
  (a) When any increase in provider wages or benefits is negotiated or agreed to by a public authority or nonprofit consortium under Section 12301.6, then...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12306.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2000-01 fiscal year, the state shall pay 65 percent and each county shall pay 35 percent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12306.21
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2001-02 fiscal year, the state shall pay 65 percent and each county shall pay 35 percent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12306.3
  In consultation with stakeholder organizations, including, but not limited to, the California State Association of Counties and employee organizations representing in-home supportive service workers, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12306.5
  (a) Any public or private agency, including a contractor under Section 12302.1, who maintains a list or registry of prospective in-home supportive services providers shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12306.6
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning on the date for which the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services authorizes commencement of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12307
  The amendments to Sections 12302, 12303 and 12304 of, and the addition of Sections 12303.5 and 12304.5 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code made by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12308
  Funding of this article is subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 10100) of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12309
  (a) In order to assure that in-home supportive services are delivered in all counties in a uniform manner, the department shall develop a uniform needs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12309.1
  (a) As a condition of receiving services under this article, or Section 14132.95 or 14132.952, an applicant for or recipient of services shall obtain a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12309.2
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, except as provided in subdivision (b), and pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 12309, and effective September 1, 2009, eligibility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12310
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the department conduct special pilot projects to test appropriate methods for assuring equity and efficiency in reducing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12311
  The director is authorized to grant such waivers from the provisions of this article as are necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12314
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the department conduct a pilot program, of not less than three years' duration, to comprehensively assess the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12315
  (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2009, a pilot project shall be established in five consenting counties that provides severely impaired recipients who receive in-home supportive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12316
  (a) The City and County of San Francisco may implement a pilot project of not less than three years' duration to implement the provision of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12317
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall be responsible for procuring and implementing a new Case Management Information and Payroll System (CMIPS) for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12317.1
  The department may enter into interagency agreements with the State Department of Health Services to administer approved federal waivers authorized pursuant to Section 14132.951 or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12317.2
  (a) Except as set forth in subdivision (b), in the event of a conflict between the terms of the waiver approved pursuant to Section 14132.951...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12350
  No relative shall be held legally liable to support or to contribute to the support of any applicant for or recipient of aid under this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12351
  In order to conserve state enforcement funds and because of hardships under past law on the operative date of this act there is hereby released,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12400
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person receiving benefits under Section 12200 on December 14, 1999, and who meets the requirements of subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12500
  (a) The purpose of this chapter is to provide payment to meet the needs of recipients under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000), under emergency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12501
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, payments made pursuant to this chapter for special circumstances shall be excluded in determining the income of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12502
  There shall not be additional income and resource limits for the program provided for under this chapter other than those applicable to the categorical program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12550
  (a) For the purposes of this article, "special circumstances" means those which are not common to all recipients and which arise out of need for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12550.1
  (a) Effective July 1, 2001, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the following benefits shall be provided under this article: (1) The maximum amount...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12551
  Special circumstances shall also include special needs as provided in Sections 11023 and 11023.1. This section shall become operative on July 1, 1998.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12552
  The county shall verify that a special circumstance does exist and shall issue a warrant for payment within the guidelines provided by the department. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12552.1
  (a) A county may transfer funds received for the implementation of this chapter from its administrative allocation to its benefit allocation for the purposes of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12553
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 12552, special circumstances shall also include the administration and payment by the department pursuant to this section of a recurring special need...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12554
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 12552, special circumstances shall also include the administration and payment by the department pursuant to this section of a recurring special need...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12600
  The department shall reimburse the counties for the cost of actual payments made pursuant to this chapter and for the administrative costs actually attributable to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12601
  Funds for the costs and administration of Articles 2 (commencing with Section 12525) and 3 (commencing with Section 12550) of this chapter shall be limited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 12700
  There is in the State Treasury a permanent revolving fund, in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000), to be known as the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13000
  The purpose of this chapter is to set forth those policies and procedures as are necessary to accommodate reductions in federal funds provided under Title...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13001
  Funding for social services programs administered by county welfare departments shall include but not be limited to federal funds received under Titles IV, XIX, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13002
  From the funds described in Section 13001 each county shall receive three allocations. The first allocation shall be for support of Child Welfare Services as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13003
  County allocations may be used to provide necessary training and shall be used to provide social services which meet the following five federal goals of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13004
  Counties, in expending the County Services Block Grant allocation shall provide protective services for adults pursuant to Section 12251.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13005
  Counties, after expending the County Services Block Grant allocation for the priorities specified in Section 13004 may expend any remaining funds for other services directed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13006
  Regulations promulgated by the department relating to protective services for adults shall provide counties with maximum flexibility in determining the type and level of services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13007
  Each county shall report to the State Department of Social Services all necessary information in order to comply with federal and state requirements for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13008
  Federal funds for Refugee Social Services that are allocated to county welfare departments for Title XX social services shall be allocated to each county in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13275
  The department shall require that a county's costs of administering any employment-related and English training program funded by the Refugee Social Services program funds derived...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13276
  (a) After setting aside the necessary state administrative funds, the department shall allocate all social services funds derived from the federal Refugee Act of 1980...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13277
  (a) The department shall notify each county board of supervisors of the availability of funds described in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 13276. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13278
  Commencing October 1, 1990, the county shall, to the extent permitted by federal law, utilize funds as described in Section 13276 to pay for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13279
  (a) Employment-related and English training shall be available to recipients of Refugee Cash Assistance and refugees receiving county general assistance in those counties which are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13280
  (a) (1) In counties receiving federal refugee social services or federal targeted assistance funding, or both, the county welfare department shall include in its GAIN...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13281
  Refugee social services funding which is identified as Refugee Mutual Assistance Incentive funds shall be allocated by the department to eligible counties in accordance with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13282
  The requirements established by this chapter shall be applicable only so long as federal funds are available from the federal Refugee Act of 1980 (Public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13283
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall ensure that noncitizen victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes, as defined in subdivision...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13600
  (a) The State Department of Social Services may provide state supplemental grants to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or serious needs of individuals and households adversely...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13601
  There is hereby created in the State Treasury the California Individual and Family Supplemental Grant Fund. Moneys in the fund shall be available to pay...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13700
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) There are homeless minors living on the streets of major urban centers in this state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13700.5
  For purposes of this chapter, "office" means the Office of Criminal Justice Planning.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13701
  Each homeless youth project established under this chapter shall provide services which shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) Food...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13703
  (a) One homeless youth emergency service project shall be established in the County of Los Angeles and one shall be established in the City and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13704
  (a) The office shall monitor the projects established under this chapter. In monitoring and evaluating the projects, the office shall coordinate its efforts with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13750
  This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Foster Care Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Assistance Program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13752
  The State Department of Social Services shall convene a workgroup comprised of the County Welfare Directors Association, county welfare directors, child advocacy organizations, current and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13753
  When a foster youth who is receiving SSI payments is approaching his or her 18th birthday, the county shall do all of the following: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13754
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that nothing in this section shall be interpreted to preclude a nonminor dependent from accessing the same...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13756
  The workgroup convened pursuant to Section 13752 shall also make recommendations, by December 31, 2006, regarding the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of reserving an amount, not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13757
  (a) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), every youth who is in foster care and nearing emancipation shall be screened by the county for potential eligibility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13900
  The object and purpose of this chapter is to provide a coordinated, comprehensive approach to providing assistance and out-of-home care in nonmedical care facilities for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13901
  It is further the purpose of this chapter to give recognition to the fact that persons who require provision of an out-of-home living arrangement present...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13902
  Insofar as practicable and consistent with the best interest of the recipients, the provisions of this chapter shall be administered as a separate program which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13910
  The purpose of this article is to provide out-of-home care to those recipients of public assistance for whom care in their own homes is impractical;...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13911
  The director shall, by regulation, establish standards for specialized out-of-home care. The department shall establish rate schedules which include separate rates for room and board,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13912
  In the establishment of the rate schedules for out-of-home care, the director shall consider and reflect in the rate schedule annually, in addition to any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13913
  The director shall submit an annual report to the Legislature by March 1 of each year setting forth pertinent facts on the operation of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13920
  For a person living in a nonmedical out-of-home care facility the department may establish varying allowances for room, board and care, provided that the minimum...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13921
  The department shall establish a range of amounts for the personal and incidental needs of recipients in out-of-home care under this chapter provided that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 13922
  The sum of the allowances established in Sections 13920 and 13921 shall not be less than five hundred ten dollars ($510) and shall be the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000
  The purpose of this chapter is to afford to qualifying individuals health care and related remedial or preventive services, including related social services which are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000.03
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that Section 1396a (a)(11)(A) of Title 42 of the United States Code provides that California's state plan for medical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000.05
  The State Department of Health Services shall consider the special needs and requirements of rural hospitals in California that are financially distressed and in danger...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that health care services available under this chapter shall be at least equivalent to the level provided in
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000.2
  During the time this chapter is effective and notwithstanding other provisions of the Welfare and Institutions Code and Health and Safety Code, the board of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000.3
  To the extent permitted by federal law, the director may enter into contracts with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to obtain or provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000.4
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Medi-Cal Act."
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14000.5
  On a regional pilot project basis, to the extent authorized by law, the director may enter into contracts with one or more nonprofit organizations to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14001
  Health care as administered under this chapter shall be considered a component of public social services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14001.1
  It is the intention of the Legislature, whenever feasible, that the needs of categorically needy persons for health care and related remedial or preventive services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14001.11
  (a) The department shall implement the federal requirements described in Section 1396u-5 of Title 42 of the United States Code. (b) In each of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14002
  Health care granted under the provisions of this chapter is held subject to the provisions of any law hereafter enacted amending, repealing, or supplementing in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14002.5
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Annuity" means a contract that names an annuitant and gives a person or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14003
  The Governor may enter into and execute in behalf of the state all necessary agreements in connection with this chapter as may be required by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14004
  If any individual in good faith adheres to the teachings of any bona fide church, sect, denomination, or organization, and in accordance with its principles...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005
  (a) The health care benefits and services specified in this chapter, to the extent that such services are neither provided under any other federal or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.1
  Except for adults receiving aid pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) and for whom federal financial participation would not be obtainable for their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.2
  Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, the eligibility of a person eligible under the Cuban-Haitian Entrant Program or the Refugee Resettlement Program for health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any person who: (1) Was once determined to be disabled in accordance with Section 1614 of Part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.4
  Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, the eligibility of a state-only Medi-Cal person for health care services under Section 14005 shall be determined by applying...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.5
  (a) In determining eligibility pursuant to Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, reparation or restitution payments received by victims of the Nazi persecution from the Federal Republic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.6
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Under federal law, minors living at home with their families may not be eligible for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.7
  (a) Medically needy persons and medically needy family persons are entitled to health care services under Section 14005 providing all eligibility criteria established pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.75
  A person who is otherwise eligible for Medi-Cal benefits under either Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, except for income and resource eligibility, and who is receiving...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.75
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) As a result of federal welfare reform, unprecedented numbers of welfare recipients will be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.76
  (a) The department shall provide a Medi-Cal beneficiary whose Medi-Cal eligibility is established pursuant to Section 1930 of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.8
  (a) (1) To the extent required by Subchapter XIX (commencing with Section 1396) of Chapter 7 of Title 42 of the United States Code and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.84
  (a) The department shall develop and conduct a community outreach and education campaign to assist persons whose Medi-Cal eligibility is established pursuant to Section 1931...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.85
  (a) Families who, because of marriage or because separated spouses reunite, lose AFDC eligibility under the chapter because the family no longer meets the need...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.88
  (a) The department shall contract for an independent evaluation, to be completed no later than January 1, 2001, in order to determine the effect of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.89
  (a) The department shall monitor participation rates for transitional Medi-Cal and seek input from beneficiaries, beneficiary representatives, and counties, on a regular basis throughout each...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.9
  (a) Share of cost shall be determined on a monthly basis. No person or family shall be required to incur more than one month's share...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.10
  For purposes of facilitating arrangements for health care through prepaid health plans, the department may set standards for determining monthly income, for purposes of eligibility,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.11
  (a) To the extent required by federal law for qualified Medicare beneficiaries, the department shall pay the premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance for elderly and disabled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.12
  (a) For the purposes of Sections 14005.4 and 14005.7, the department shall establish the income levels for maintenance need at the lowest levels that reasonably...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.13
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14005.12, when an individual residing in a long-term care facility would incur a share of cost for services under this chapter due...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.14
  (a) In addition to the income exemptions specified in subdivision (a) of Section 14005.7, an income exemption shall be allowed each month for the amount...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.15
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14005, Medi-Cal beneficiaries shall obtain family planning services through the Medi-Cal program to the extent they are available through such
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.16
  (a) In determining the eligibility of a married individual pursuant to Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, who resides in a nursing facility, and who is in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.17
  (a) In determining the eligibility of an institutionalized spouse pursuant to Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, who resides in a medical institution or nursing facility, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.18
  A woman is eligible, to the extent required by federal law, as though she were pregnant, for all pregnancy-related and postpartum services for a 60-day...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.19
  The receipt of respite care, as defined in Section 1418.1 of the Health and Safety Code, shall not affect the eligibility of any individual with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.20
  (a) The State Department of Health Services shall adopt the option made available under Section 13603 of the federal Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.21
  (a) Any medically needy aged, blind, or disabled person who was categorically needy under this chapter on the basis of eligibility under Chapter 3 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.23
  To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall, when determining eligibility for children under Section 1396a(l)(1)(D) of Title 42 of the United...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.24
  The department shall instruct counties, by means of an all county letter or similar instruction, as to the process that is to be used to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.25
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall exercise the option under Section 1902(e)(12) of the federal Social Security Act (42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.28
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available pursuant to an approved state plan amendment, the department shall exercise its option under Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(XV)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.29
  To the extent that federal matching funds are available, disabled persons who are otherwise eligible for benefits under this chapter, except for income due to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.30
  (a) (1) To the extent that federal financial participation is available, Medi-Cal benefits under this chapter shall be provided to individuals eligible for services under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.31
  (a) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), for any person whose eligibility for benefits under Section 14005.30 has been determined with a concurrent determination of eligibility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.32
  (a) (1) If the county has evidence clearly demonstrating that a beneficiary is not eligible for benefits under this chapter pursuant to Section 14005.30, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.33
  (a) If a Medi-Cal beneficiary's Medi-Cal eligibility worker is changed, notice shall be sent to the beneficiary within 10 days of the change. This notice...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.34
  (a) For an individual whose cash aid was terminated pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200), but whose Medi-Cal eligibility was continued either pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.35
  The department, in consultation with the counties and representatives of consumers, managed care plans, and Medi-Cal providers, shall study the feasibility of adopting a mechanism...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.36
  (a) The county shall undertake outreach efforts to beneficiaries receiving benefits under this chapter, in order to maintain the most up-to-date home addresses, telephone numbers,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.37
  (a) Except as provided in Section 14005.39, whenever a county receives information about changes in a beneficiary's circumstances that may affect eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.38
  To the extent feasible, the department shall use the redetermination form required by subdivision (g) of Section 14005.37 as the annual reaffirmation form.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.39
  (a) If a county has facts clearly demonstrating that a Medi-Cal beneficiary cannot be eligible for Medi-Cal due to an event, such as death or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.40
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall exercise its option under Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(X) of the federal Social Security Act (42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.41
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall deem to have met the income documentation requirements for participation in the Medi-Cal program, without...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.42
  (a) The department shall provide full-scope benefits under this chapter, without share of cost, to all individuals on behalf of whom kinship guardians are receiving...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14005.50
  (a) To the extent that federal financial participation is available, the department shall exercise the option made available under Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(I) of the federal Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006
  (a) This section applies to medically needy persons, medically needy family persons, and state-only Medi-Cal persons. (b) For the purposes of this section, the term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.01
  (a) This section applies to any individual who is residing in a continuing care retirement community, as defined in paragraph (11) of subdivision (c) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.1
  (a) The State Director of Health Services shall adopt emergency regulations pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.15
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "equity interest" means the lesser of the following: (1) The assessed value of the principal residence determined under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.2
  (a) In determining the eligibility of a married individual, pursuant to Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, who, in accordance with Title XIX of the federal Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.3
  The department, at the time of application or the assessment pursuant to Section 14006.6, and any nursing facility enrolled as a provider in the Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.4
  (a) The statement required by Sections 14006.2 and 14006.3 shall be in the following form: "NOTICE REGARDING STANDARDS FOR MEDI-CAL ELIGIBILITY If you or your...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.41
  (a) To be eligible for medical assistance for home and facility care, an individual shall disclose at the time of the individual's application or redetermination...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.5
  The department shall include training regarding the treatment of separate and community income and resources in determining eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits, as part of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.6
  (a) To the extent required by Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396 et seq.) and regulations adopted pursuant thereto,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14006.7
  (a) At the time of application for Medi-Cal benefits, the department shall provide to any applicant who is aged, blind, or disabled, other than an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007
  No period of residence in this state shall be required as a condition of eligibility under this chapter, but an individual who does not reside...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.1
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations for use by the county welfare department in determining whether an applicant is a resident of this state and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.2
  (a) Any individual who is otherwise eligible for Medi-Cal services, but who does not meet the documentation requirements described in subdivision (e) of Section 14011.2,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.4
  Any children under the jurisdiction of the county welfare department, who are dependent children in relative placement, foster home placement, or group home placement, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.45
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall exercise the option provided in Section 1920A of the federal Social Security Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.5
  (a) Aliens shall be eligible for Medi-Cal, whether federally funded or state-funded, only to the same extent as permitted under federal law and regulations for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.6
  (a) A recipient who maintains a residence outside of this state for a period of at least two months shall not be eligible for services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.65
  (a) Aliens who were receiving long-term care services under the authority of subdivision (f) of Section 1 of Chapter 1441 of the Statutes of 1988...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.7
  Any alien who is otherwise eligible for Medi-Cal services, but who does not meet the requirements under subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 14007.5, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.705
  (a) Through its courts and statutes, and under its Constitution, California protects a woman's right to reproductive privacy. California reaffirms these protections and specifically its...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.71
  (a) The department shall adopt the option made available under Section 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XVIII) of Title 42 of the United States Code, to provide medical assistance during...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.9
  (a) The department shall adopt the option made available under Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XIII) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XIII)). In order to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.9
  (a) (1) The department shall adopt the option made available under Section 1902(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XIII) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396a(a)(10)(A)(ii)(XIII)). In order...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14007.95
  The department shall report to the Governor and the Legislature any information the department gathers from the California Health Improvement Project, or from any other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14008
  (a) No relative, other than the spouse, shall be held to be financially responsible for the cost of health care received by an adult eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14008.6
  (a) As a condition of eligibility for medical services provided under this chapter or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), each applicant or beneficiary shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14008.7
  If the applicant or beneficiary does not cooperate in the manner described in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 14008.6 to establish paternity and medical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14008.85
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available, a parent who is the principal wage earner shall be considered an unemployed parent for purposes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14009
  (a) Any applicant for, or beneficiary of Medi-Cal, or person acting on behalf of an applicant or beneficiary shall be informed as to the provisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14009.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department shall claim against the estate of the decedent, or against any recipient of the property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14009.6
  (a) As a result of providing medical assistance for home and facility care to an individual, the state shall, by operation of law, become a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14009.7
  (a) If an annuity is considered part or all of the community spouse resource allowance allowed under subdivision (c) of Section 14006, the state shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14010
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the parent or parents of a person under 21 years of age shall not be held financially responsible,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011
  (a) Each applicant who is not a recipient of aid under the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) or Chapter 3 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.1
  (a) The department shall, not later than July 1, 1998, create and implement a simplified application package for the following Medi-Cal applicants, as described under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.10
  (a) Except as provided in Section 14011.11, benefits provided under this chapter to an individual under 21 years of age who is an inmate of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.11
  (a) To the extent that federal financial participation is available, Medi-Cal benefits may be provided to an individual awaiting adjudication in a county juvenile detention...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.15
  (a) The department shall, not later than July 1, 2000, create and implement a simplified application package for children, families, and adults applying for Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.16
  (a) Commencing August 1, 2003, the department shall implement a requirement for beneficiaries to file semiannual status reports as part of the department's procedures to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.17
  The following persons shall be exempt from the semiannual reporting requirements described in Section 14011.16: (a) Pregnant women whose eligibility is based on pregnancy. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.2
  (a) The department shall require that each applicant for or beneficiary of Medi-Cal, including a child, who is not a recipient of aid under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.2
  To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall take all steps necessary to comply with the terms and conditions of the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.3
  (a) To the same extent as required by federal law, an alien whose entry into the United States has been sponsored by an individual who,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.4
  The department shall, subject to the requirements of federal law, and not later than six months after the effective date of this section, develop a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.5
  The department shall be responsible for establishing the necessary systems for the identification, review and approval, disbursement, and reimbursement systems for those health services provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.6
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall exercise the option provided in Section 1920a of the federal Social Security Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.65
  (a) To the extent allowed under federal law and only if federal financial participation is available under Title XXI of the Social Security Act (42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.65a
  (a) To the extent allowed under federal law under Title XIX (42) U.S.C. 1396 et seq.) and Title XXI (42 U.S.C. 1397aa et seq.) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.65b
  (a) To the extent federal financial participation is available, the department shall exercise the option provided in Section 1920a of the federal Social Security Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.7
  (a) To the extent allowed under federal law and only if federal financial participation is available, the department shall exercise the option provided in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.75
  (a) The department shall conduct, or contract for the conducting of, a feasibility study report of technological requirements for modifying the electronic application authorized pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.78
  (a) The department may contract with public or private entities, or utilize existing health care service provider payment mechanisms, including the Medi-Cal program's fiscal intermediary,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.8
  (a) Benefits provided to an individual pursuant to a preliminary determination as described in Section 1396r-1, 1396r-1a, or 1396r-1b of Title 42 of the United...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14011.9
  (a) On or before October 1, 2002, the department shall issue instructions to counties via an all-county letter or similar instructions to establish an automated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14012
  Reaffirmation shall be filed annually and may be required at other times in accordance with general standards established by the department.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14012.5
  (a) By July 1, 2007, the department shall implement a process that allows applicants and beneficiaries to self-certify the amount and nature of assets and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14013
  The department shall establish a system for investigation of a sufficient sample of applications and affirmations as shall be deemed necessary to assure the validity...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14013.5
  (a) Pursuant to, and only to the extent required by, Section 1940 of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396w) and subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14014
  (a) Any person receiving health care for which he or she was not eligible on the basis of false declarations as to his or her...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14015
  (a) (1) The providing of health care under this chapter shall not impose any limitation or restriction upon the person's right to sell, exchange or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14015.1
  (a) The department shall consider, at initial application or redetermination, whether an undue hardship, as described in subdivision (b), exists prior to finding that an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14015.12
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Opposite-sex spouse" means a person of the opposite sex who is legally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14015.2
  (a) In accordance with Section 1917(c)(2)(D) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396p(c)(2)(D)), any of the following may request a fair hearing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016
  (a) The county in which the person resides, except as specified in subdivision (d), shall determine the eligibility of each person pursuant to Sections 14005.1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.1
  If a patient at a health facility operated by the county either directly or through contract is received in a comatose condition or suffering from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.2
  If a person who is incapable of acting on his own behalf and who would otherwise be eligible is discontinued from Medi-Cal eligibility because the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.3
  The department shall provide technical assistance to counties in order to maximize the identification of private health care coverage as defined by Section 10020. A...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.4
  The department may enter into an agreement with a county to have the county detect and recover the value of any Medi-Cal benefits which have...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.5
  (a) At the time of determining or redetermining the eligibility of a Medi-Cal program or Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program applicant or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.51
  Upon the availability of federal funding, the department shall modify the Medi-Cal program mail-in application form, and other appropriate materials, and the single point-of-entry application...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.55
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are required to enroll in a Medi-Cal managed care health plan make an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.6
  The State Department of Health Services shall develop a program to implement Section 14016.5 and to provide information and assistance to enable Medi-Cal beneficiaries to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.7
  (a) Managed care contracts entered into by the department under the act adding this section shall include all of the following: (1) Contractor requirements concerning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.8
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the right of every patient to receive basic information necessary to give full and informed consent is a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.9
  Where determined to be cost effective, the department shall utilize the earnings clearance system to verify the eligibility of persons who have applied for or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14016.10
  The department shall implement the federal requirement under Section 4603 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-508) which provides for the continuity...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14017
  On a regional pilot project basis, the department may issue an identification card to a person eligible for Medi-Cal program benefits under Section 14005.1, 14005.4,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14017.1
  The Joint Legislative Audit Committee shall conduct an audit of one or more county eligibility departments.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14017.5
  The department shall not issue identification cards to Medi-Cal recipients on a statewide basis until (1) a pilot project has been completed which indicates that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14017.6
  For the purposes of this chapter, all references to "the Medi-Cal card," identified in Section 14017.8, shall be deemed to also be a reference to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14017.7
  (a) In addition to the issuance of Medi-Cal cards, pursuant to Section 14017.8, the department may issue a benefits identification card for the purpose of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14017.8
  Each person eligible under Section 14005.1 and each person eligible under Section 14005.4 or 14005.7 who is certified eligible shall be provided, by the department,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14018
  (a) (1) The Medi-Cal card shall be authorization for payment for health care services rendered, during and subsequent to the month of application of a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14018.1
  The department shall prospectively notify a Medi-Cal managed care plan of the date of the regularly scheduled annual redetermination of a Medi-Cal beneficiary in a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14018.2
  (a) Reimbursement shall not be denied to any qualified health care provider for care rendered to an eligible Medi-Cal beneficiary for the sole reason that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14018.4
  (a) Reimbursement shall not be denied to any hospital, licensed primary care clinic, or long-term health care facility as defined in Section 1326 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14018.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Section 3275 of the Civil Code does not apply to Medi-Cal reimbursement or prior authorization.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14018.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither a member of the governing body of the commission nor a member of any advisory panel to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14019
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14018, except as provided in Sections 14019.1 and 14019.6, a Medi-Cal card shall be authorization for payment for health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14019.3
  (a) A beneficiary or any person on behalf of a beneficiary who has paid for medically necessary health care services, otherwise covered by the Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14019.4
  (a) A provider of health care services who obtains a label or copy from the Medi-Cal card or other proof of eligibility pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14019.5
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as imposing any control over the management of any medical or health care facility, except that each such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14019.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, whose property reserve exceeds the property limit, may establish eligibility for any of the three months immediately...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14019.7
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14019.4 and if permitted by federal law, a relative of a skilled nursing facility resident who is a beneficiary under this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14020
  All sections of this chapter shall remain in operation during such times as grants-in-aid are provided or made available to the state on the basis...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, health care shall include the following mental health services: (a) Mental health services provided by a county or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.3
  The department shall amend the state plan for medical assistance under Medicaid pursuant to Section 1915(g) of Title 19 of the Social Security Act, as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.3
  The department shall amend the state plan for medical assistance under Medicaid pursuant to Section 1915(g) of Title 19 of the Social Security Act, as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.30
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to transfer to the State Department of Health Care Services, no later than July 1, 2012, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.31
  (a) The department, in collaboration with the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, shall develop an administrative and programmatic transition plan to guide the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.35
  (a) The State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs shall prepare amendments to the medicaid state plan in order to obtain federal financial participation for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.4
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall prepare by January 15, 1991, amendments to California's plan for federal Medi-Cal grants for medical assistance programs,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates for reimbursing Short-Doyle mental health and drug services allowable under the Medi-Cal program and rendered to Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.6
  (a) For the fiscal years prior to fiscal year 2004-05, and subject to the requirements of federal law, the maximum allowable rates for the Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.7
  (a) The department shall amend the state plan for medical assistance under the Medicaid program pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 1396n of Title 42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.8
  The department may not utilize any information regarding whether a beneficiary's psychiatric inpatient admission was made on a voluntary or involuntary basis for the purpose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14021.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2009-10 fiscal year, a 10-percent reduction shall be applied to rates for Drug Medi-Cal services developed by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14022
  (a) This section shall be known as the "Medi-Cal Conflict of Interest Law." It is the intent of the Legislature that provisions be made for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14022.1
  Any nursing facility or any category of intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled participating in the Medi-Cal program shall supply to the department full...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14022.3
  Long-term health care facilities shall reveal to applicants for admission, or their designated representatives, orally and in writing and prior to admission, whether the facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14022.4
  (a) Any nursing facility or any category of intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled currently certified to participate in the Medi-Cal program may not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14022.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to recognize the challenges and unique dental treatment needs of the developmentally disabled population that cannot be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14023
  (a) Any applicant for coverage under this chapter who at the time of application has any other contractual or legal entitlement to any health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14023.7
  Any provider of service seeking payment for health care services for a person eligible for these services under this chapter shall first seek to obtain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14024
  When health care services are provided to a person under this chapter who at the time the service is provided has any other contractual or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14025
  (a) Any person who buys or sells a Medi-Cal card, Medi-Cal label, or Medi-Cal beneficiary identification number is guilty of a public offense punishable by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14026
  (a) It is a misdemeanor for a Medi-Cal beneficiary to furnish, give, or lend his Medi-Cal card or labels to any person other than a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14026.5
  (a) The State Director of Health Services may issue Medi-Cal cards to Medi-Cal fraud investigators for the purpose of conducting investigations of Medi-Cal fraud, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14027
  (a) The department may designate participating county health service agencies as health care service providers of home nursing services, subject to appropriate statutory licensing and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14029
  Whenever a request for services authorized pursuant to subdivision (s), (t), or (v) of Section 14132 is made to the department for a child who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14029.5
  (a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2008, immediately following the issuance of an order of the juvenile court, pertaining to the disposition of a ward of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14029.8
  Section 124260 of the Health and Safety Code shall not apply to the receipt of benefits under the Medi-Cal program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14030
  (a) This article shall be known as the "Medi-Cal Conflict of Interest Law". It is the intent of the Legislature that provisions be made for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14031
  No payment under this chapter shall be made to a provider of services or to any facility or organization in which a provider of service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14032
  (a) No state or local officer or employee who is responsible for the expenditure of substantial amounts of funds under Medi-Cal, no individual who formerly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14033
  This article shall remain in effect only until Section 1902 (a)(4)(C) of the federal Social Security Act, as added by Public Law 95-559 is repealed,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14040
  (a) Each contract for fiscal intermediary services shall allow, to the extent practicable, providers to utilize electronic means for transmitting claims to the fiscal intermediary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14040.1
  (a) "Billing agent" or "billing agent of the provider" means any individual, partnership, group, association, corporation, institution, or entity, and the officers, directors, owners, managing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14040.5
  (a) A provider may, by written contract, do either of the following: (1) Authorize a billing agent to submit claims, including electronic claims, on behalf...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14041
  (a) The director shall develop and implement standards for the timely processing and payment of each claim type. The standards shall be sufficient to meet...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14041.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and to the extent not otherwise conflicting with federal law, the department may hold for a period of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14041.5
  (a) The department shall develop, disseminate, and update, on a periodic basis, claims preparation and processing software programs that may be used on computers at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14042
  Each contract for fiscal intermediary services shall provide for an automated system for verifying the eligibility of Medi-Cal recipients. The automated eligibility verification system shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043
  In order to ensure the proper and efficient administration of the Medi-Cal program, every applicant, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 14043.1, and every...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.1
  As used in this article: (a) "Abuse" means either of the following: (1) Practices that are inconsistent with sound fiscal or business practices and result...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.15
  (a) The department may adopt regulations for certification of each applicant and each provider in the Medi-Cal program. No certification shall be required for natural...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.2
  (a) Whether or not regulations for certification are adopted under Section 14043.15, in order to be enrolled as a provider, or for enrollment as a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.25
  (a) The application form for enrollment, the provider agreement, and all attachments or changes to either, shall be signed under penalty of perjury. (b) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.26
  (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2004, an applicant that currently is not enrolled in the Medi-Cal program, or a provider applying for continued...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.27
  (a) If an applicant or provider is granted provisional provider status or preferred provisional provider status pursuant to Section 14043.26 and, if at any time...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.28
  (a) (1) If an application package is denied under Section 14043.26 or provisional provider status or preferred provisional provider status is terminated under Section 14043.27,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.29
  (a) If, at the end of the period for which provisional provider status or preferred provisional provider status was granted under Section 14043.26, all of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.3
  A provider shall be required to reimburse those Medi-Cal funds received during any period for which material information was not reported, or reported falsely, to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.34
  (a) As a condition of a pharmacy's participation in the Medi-Cal program, the pharmacy shall have in stock and regularly dispense prescription drugs. (b) For...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.341
  (a) Each provider that dispenses, as defined in Section 4024 of the Business and Professions Code, or that furnishes, as defined in Section 4026 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.35
  Sections 14043.2, 14043.25, and 14043.3 shall not limit the authority granted the director and the rights granted providers in Section 14123. Action taken under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.36
  (a) The department shall not enroll any applicant that has been convicted of any felony or misdemeanor involving fraud or abuse in any government program,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.37
  The department may complete a background check on applicants for the purpose of verifying the accuracy of the information provided to the department for purposes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.4
  If discrepancies are found to exist during the preenrollment period, the department may conduct additional inspections prior to enrollment. Failure to remediate discrepancies as prescribed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.45
  (a) Notwithstanding whether a National Provider Identification (NPI) number is required by the rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implementing the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.46
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on the effective date of the act adding this section, the department may implement a one-year moratorium on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.47
  (a) A provider doing business as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or professional corporation under Part 4 (commencing with Section 13400) of Division 3 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.5
  Subject to Article 4 (commencing with Section 19130) of Chapter 5 of Division 5 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department may enter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.55
  The department may implement a 180-day moratorium on the enrollment of providers in a specific provider of service category, on a statewide basis or within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.6
  The department shall automatically suspend, as a provider in the Medi-Cal program, any individual who, or any entity that, has a license, certificate, or other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.61
  (a) A provider shall be subject to suspension if claims for payment are submitted for the services, goods, supplies, or merchandise provided, directly or indirectly,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.62
  (a) The department shall deactivate, immediately and without prior notice, the provider's number, including all business addresses used by a provider to obtain reimbursement from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.65
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any applicant whose application for enrollment as a provider or whose certification is denied; or any provider who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.7
  (a) The department may make unannounced visits to any applicant or to any provider for the purpose of determining whether enrollment, continued enrollment, or certification...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14043.75
  (a) The director may, in consultation with interested parties, by regulation, adopt, readopt, repeal, or amend additional measures to prevent or curtail fraud and abuse....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14044
  (a) The department may limit, for 18 months or less, the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology Fourth Edition (CPT-4) codes, the National Drug Codes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14045
  (a) A provider shall not submit a reimbursement request to the Medi-Cal program containing a beneficiary's social security number if the department has issued that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046
  The department shall establish and administer the Medi-Cal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program for the purposes of providing federal incentive payments to Medi-Cal providers for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.1
  (a) The program shall be administered in accordance with the State Medicaid Health Information Technology Plan, as developed by the department and approved by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.2
  (a) Upon receipt of all necessary federal approvals, and in accordance with the State Medicaid Health Information Technology Plan, the department shall accept applications from,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.3
  (a) To implement this article, the department may contract with public or private entities and may utilize existing health care service provider enrollment and payment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.4
  Notwithstanding the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.5
  The department shall provide the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature and the Legislative Analyst's Office with annual reports on the implementation of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.6
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the activities associated with health information exchange be funded solely through federal funds and private contributions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.7
  General Fund moneys shall not be used for the purposes of this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14046.8
  This article shall become inoperative on July 1, 2021, and, as of January 1, 2022, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14050
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14050.1
  For purposes of this chapter, "categorically needy person" means a person whose coverage is mandatory under Title XIX of the Social Security Act including, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14050.2
  For the purposes of this chapter "aid" means financial assistance provided to or in behalf of needy persons under the provisions of Chapters 2 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14050.3
  "A person in long-term care" means a person who is an inpatient in a medical facility for more than the month of admission who is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14051
  (a) "Medically needy person" means any of the following: (1) An aged, blind, or disabled person who meets the definition of aged, blind, or disabled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14051.5
  (a) "Medically needy person" also means any person who receives in-home supportive services pursuant to Section 12305.5 and whose income and resources are insufficient to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14052
  "State-only Medi-Cal person" means a person who resides in a nursing facility or any category of intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled, and who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14052.1
  "Cuban-Haitian entrant or refugee" means a person eligible under the Cuban-Haitian Entrant Program or Refugee Resettlement Program, as defined in federal regulations.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053
  (a) The term "health care services" means the benefits set forth in Article 4 (commencing with Section 14131) of this chapter and in Section 14021....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053.1
  Notwithstanding Section 14053, ancillary outpatient services, pursuant to Section 14132, for any eligible individual who is 21 years of age or over, and has not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053.3
  As federal financial participation reimbursement is not allowed for ancillary services provided to persons residing in facilities that have been found to be institutions for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053.5
  For the purposes of the Medi-Cal Act, the terms "prescribed drug" and "prescription drug" shall not include any drug which, because of differing prices charged...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053.6
  Prior to including or excluding any drug from the program, the director shall give adequate notice to those California associations of health professionals and those...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and only to the extent that federal financial participation is available, the department may provide Medi-Cal eligibility and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall develop a process to allow counties to receive any available federal financial participation for acute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14053.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall develop a process to allow the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14054
  "Share of cost" means the amount of the costs of health care which a person or family eligible under Section 14005.4 or 14005.7 must incur...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14054.5
  "Elective services" means any treatment service which generally can be postponed without seriously affecting the health of the person requiring the service.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14056
  "Minimum coverage" means prescribed drugs for public assistance recipients as established by the director, and care or coverage specified in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14057.5
  "Contract hospital" means a nonprofit medical facility licensed pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14059
  Health care provided under this chapter may include diagnostic, preventive, corrective, and curative services and supplies essential thereto, provided by qualified medical and related personnel...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14059.5
  A service is "medically necessary" or a "medical necessity" when it is reasonable and necessary to protect life, to prevent significant illness or significant disability,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14060
  Every recipient who is entitled to visual care under this chapter, which may be rendered either by an optometrist or a physician, may select a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14061
  As used in this chapter, "director" means the State Director of Health Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14062
  As used in this chapter, "department" means the State Department of Health Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14063
  As used in this chapter, "Medi-Cal" means the California Medical Assistance Program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14064
  A. Inpatient intensive rehabilitation hospital services shall consist of programs for: 1. Strengthening and training of selected muscle groups. 2. Preservation and restoration of joint...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14065
  As used in this chapter, Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 14500), and Chapter 8.7 (commencing with Section 14520) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14066
  As used in this chapter, Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), Chapter 8.5 (commencing with Section 14500), and Chapter 8.7 (commencing with Section 14520) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14067
  (a) The department, in conjunction with the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, may develop and conduct a community outreach and education campaign to help families...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14067.3
  (a) (1) The department may maintain an allocation program for the management and funding of county outreach and enrollment plans to enroll and retain eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14067.5
  The department shall encourage counties to outstation additional Medi-Cal eligibility workers in nontraditional sites, such as schools, private hospitals, clinics, mental health centers, sites providing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14068
  In conducting outreach activities for the enrollment of special needs populations into a Medi-Cal managed care program, the department and its contractors, as deemed applicable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14075
  The Legislature intends that Medi-Cal recipients have reasonable access to medical care services and especially to primary and maternity care services. In order to obtain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14076
  As used in this article: (a) "Medically underserved area" means a county, standard metropolitan statistical area, or other area within the state in which the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14077
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter the director shall establish, within 15 days of the effective date of this act a statewide, uniform schedule...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14078
  The director shall establish, at the time he or she establishes the statewide rate for physician services required by Section 14077, a level of reimbursement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14079
  The director annually shall review the reimbursement levels for physician and dental services under Medi-Cal, and shall revise periodically the rates of reimbursement to physicians...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14079.5
  Rates of reimbursement established pursuant to this chapter shall make no distinction based on whether a particular service is provided by a physician or a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14080
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, reimbursement to providers for dental services provided to individuals 21 years of age or older at the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14080.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, no increase in the reimbursement levels for physician and dental services under Medi-Cal shall be made for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14081
  It is the purpose of this article to ensure that the Medi-Cal program shall be operated in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14081.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the need to improve the reporting relationship between the state and hospitals eligible to contract with the state for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14081.5
  Hospitals that are not selected for contracting under this article and that have negotiated in good faith to obtain a contract need not fulfill preexisting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14082
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Governor shall designate a person in his office to act as a special negotiator to negotiate rates, terms,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14082.5
  The negotiator provided for in Section 14082 shall serve in such capacity for the 1982-83 fiscal year, after which his or her functions shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14083
  The factors to be considered by the negotiator in negotiating contracts under this article, or in drawing specifications for competitive bidding, include, but are not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14083.5
  In addition to considering factors specified in Section 14083, the negotiator, in negotiating contracts under this article, or in drawing specifications for competitive bidding, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14084
  (a) Payments to the contractor may be either on a capitation or prepayment basis, or on a combination of both methods of payment, or such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085
  All utilization controls applied to inpatient hospital services by the director in accordance with Section 14133.1 shall continue to be applied to inpatient hospital services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.5
  (a) Each disproportionate share hospital contracting to provide services under this article or contracting with a county organized health system, and which has or would...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.51
  (a) A disproportionate share hospital that qualifies under Section 14085.5 that has submitted final plans for an eligible capital project in accordance with subparagraph (C)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.52
  (a) A disproportionate share hospital that qualifies under Section 14085.5 that has submitted final plans for an eligible capital project in accordance with subparagraph (C)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.53
  (a) The Alameda County Medical Center may revise plans submitted in accordance with subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 14085.5 for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.54
  (a) The Los Angeles County University of Southern California (LAC-USC) Medical Center may submit revised final plans to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.55
  Notwithstanding subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 14085.5, eligible projects shall include those new capital projects funded by new debt for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.56
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "Los Medanos site," means the site of the former Los Medanos Medical Center. (b) Contra Costa County Regional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.57
  (a) A designated public hospital, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 14166.1, that is contracting to provide services under this article, and that has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.6
  (a) Except as stated in subdivision (g), each hospital contracting to provide services under this article that meets the criteria contained in the state medicaid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.7
  (a) The Medi-Cal Medical Education Supplemental Payment Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the fund shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.8
  (a) The Large Teaching Emphasis Hospital and Children's Hospital Medi-Cal Medical Education Supplemental Payment Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) Notwithstanding Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.81
  Notwithstanding the requirement in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (3) of Section 14085.8 that a hospital must be listed on page 57 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14085.9
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (g), each hospital contracting to provide services under this article that meets the criteria contained in the state medicaid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14086
  (a) The provisions of this article relating to contracts with hospitals, to be negotiated or let out to bid by the negotiator, shall apply only...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087
  The provisions of this article shall not, however, be construed to preclude an otherwise qualified hospital from obtaining reimbursement as determined by the department based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.1
  The department or its authorized agents shall conduct periodic audits or reviews, including onsite audits or reviews, of performance under any contract made pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.10
  Any contract hospital that provides the services required by a Medi-Cal beneficiary and has a physician with staff privileges who is willing to accept the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.101
  For administrative costs incurred after January 1, 2004, the director may recover any administrative costs incurred by a health plan authorized by this article deemed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.103
  The department shall notify the health plan of the director's decision to seek recovery of excess administrative costs pursuant to Section 14087.101 at least 30...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.105
  When it has been determined that the director may recover any administrative costs deemed excessive pursuant to Section 14087.103, the director may recover any excess...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.11
  (a) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to any county that seeks to provide or arrange for the provision of health care services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature that children's hospitals need not contract under the provisions of this article until October 31, 1984. Services provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.21
  Commencing November 1, 1984, reimbursement to children's hospitals shall be on a basis that reflects the relative severity of pediatric diagnostic case types. For the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.23
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a county-operated community clinic, exempt from licensure under Section 1206 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.25
  In order to achieve maximum cost savings the Legislature hereby determines that an expedited contract process for contracts under this article is necessary. Therefore, contracts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.26
  In negotiating contracts pursuant to this article, the negotiator may designate a specific group of hospitals as the negotiating unit. The Legislature finds and declares...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.27
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, judicial review pursuant to Section 1085 of the Code of Civil Procedure, shall be available to resolve disputes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.28
  (a) A hospital contracting with the Medi-Cal program pursuant to this chapter shall not deny medical staff membership or clinical privileges for reasons other than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.29
  Hospitals or groups of hospitals with which a contract has been entered into pursuant to this article shall be exempt from the provisions of Chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.3
  (a) The director may contract, on a bid or nonbid basis, with any qualified individual, organization, or entity to provide services to, arrange for or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.301
  When entering into contracts with health care service plans that provide comprehensive dental benefits to Medi-Cal beneficiaries on an at-risk basis, the department may require...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.305
  (a) In areas specified by the director for expansion of the Medi-Cal managed care program under Section 14087.3 and where the department is contracting with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.31
  (a) It is necessary that a special commission be established in the Counties of Tulare and San Joaquin in order to meet the problems of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.316
  (a) In lieu of establishing the special commission authorized by Section 14087.31, the county may, itself, negotiate with the department the contract specified in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.32
  Commencing on the date the authority first receives Medi-Cal capitated payments for the provision of health care services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries and until a commission...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.325
  (a) The department shall require, as a condition of obtaining a contract with the department, that any local initiative, as defined in subdivision (v) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.329
  (a) The department may establish, for local initiative and for commercial plans, that are providing services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries under a two-plan model contract with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.35
  (a) Because of the unique circumstances that exist in the County of Alameda, it is necessary that the Board of Supervisors of the County of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.36
  (a) The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this section: (1) "County" means the City and County of San Francisco. (2) "Board" means the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.37
  Commencing on the date that a health authority established pursuant to Section 14087.35 or 14087.36 first receives Medi-Cal capitated payments for the provision of health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.38
  (a) (1) In counties selected by the director with the concurrence of the county, a special county health authority may be established in order to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.39
  (a) In any transfer of functions from county employees to a health authority established pursuant to Section 14087.35, 14087.36, or 14087.38, the health authority shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.4
  (a) Any contract made pursuant to this article may be renewed if the provider continues to meet the requirements of this chapter, regulations promulgated pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.41
  The department shall develop a simple form, consistent with the notice requirements of Sections 51014.1 and 51014.2 of Title 22 of the California Code of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.45
  The provisions of this article shall not become operative until July 1, 1983, the date upon which the California Medical Assistance Commission, created pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.46
  (a) The department shall implement a dental managed care program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries to achieve major cost savings, while ensuring access and quality of care,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.47
  (a) The department may contract under this article with the Counties of Sonoma, Placer, and San Luis Obispo, which have been selected by the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.48
  (a) For purposes of this section "Medi-Cal managed care plan" means any individual, organization, or entity that enters into a contract with the department pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.5
  (a) The California Medical Assistance Commission may negotiate exclusive contracts with any county which seeks to provide, or arrange for the provision of the health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.51
  (a) It is necessary that a special commission be established in San Mateo County and in any other county designated by the California Medical Assistance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.52
  (a) It is necessary that a special commission be established in San Bernardino County in order to meet the problems of the delivery of publicly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.53
  (a) It is necessary that a special commission be established in Ventura County in order to meet the problems of the delivery of publicly assisted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.54
  (a) Any county or counties may establish a special commission in order to meet the problems of the delivery of publicly assisted medical care in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.55
  (a) The department shall enter into contracts with counties under this article, and shall be bound by the rates, terms, and conditions negotiated by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.56
  (a) The Health Facilities Financing Authority may, pursuant to Chapter 7.2 (commencing with Section 15430) of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.57
  Notwithstanding any provision of law, a member of a commission authorized by Section 14087.51 or 14087.54, or a member of any advisory committee to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.58
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, those records of a special commission formed pursuant to this article that reveal the commission's rates of payment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.6
  A county that has contracted for the provision of services pursuant to this article may provide the services directly to recipients, or arrange for any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.61
  (a) The counties contracting pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 14087.5 may arrange for the delivery of Medi-Cal services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries, except that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.7
  To the extent that a county chooses to contract with primary care providers pursuant to this article, the county shall ensure that designation forms and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.8
  When the department has entered into a contract with a county pursuant to this article, the department shall, at a minimum, through a method independent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9
  A combination of counties may contract with the department pursuant to this article for the provision of services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.95
  Counties contracting with the department pursuant to this article shall be exempt from the provisions of Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340) of Division 2...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.96
  The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this article: (a) "County" means the County of Los Angeles. (b) "Board of supervisors" means the Board...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9605
  (a) The board of supervisors may, by ordinance, resolution, or other action, establish a commission in order to meet the problems of delivery of publicly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.961
  Governance of the commission shall be vested in a governing body consisting of 13 members, each of whom shall have a fiduciary duty to act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9615
  (a) The composition of the 13-member governing body of the commission, as prescribed in Section 14087.961, shall be subject to alteration upon a two-thirds vote...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.962
  Members of the governing body shall either reside, be employed, or provide services in the geographic area served by the local initiative. Nominees shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9625
  (a) Members of the governing body of the commission shall serve four-year terms. (b) Individuals shall be limited to serving on the governing body for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.963
  (a) The governing body of the commission shall establish rules for its proceedings. There shall be at least six meetings per year. (b) (1) Each...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9635
  (a) A majority of the members of the governing body shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and all official acts of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.964
  A member of the governing body shall be removed from office if a majority of the members present and voting find that one or more...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9645
  A member of the governing body may be removed at the request of the entity that nominated the member. The entity that nominated a member...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.965
  (a) A request for removal under Section 14087.9645 shall be adopted by the nominating entity in the same manner as the nomination was adopted and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9655
  (a) The governing body shall establish a technical advisory committee to provide technical expertise to the governing body. (b) Members of the committee shall include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9657
  (a) The governing body shall establish a children's health consultant advisory committee to provide to the governing body expertise on child, adolescent, and maternal health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.966
  (a) The governing body for each geographic region served by the local initiative shall establish a regional community advisory committee to ensure community involvement. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9665
  (a) The commission may borrow or receive funds from any person or entity as necessary to cover development costs and other actual or projected obligations...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.967
  To the full extent permitted by federal law, the department and the commission may enter into contracts to provide or arrange for health care services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9675
  (a) The auditor-controller of the county, at those intervals the auditor-controller deems appropriate, but no less frequently than annually, shall conduct a review of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.968
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the county shall not be liable for any damages or losses, whether financial or in any other form, that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9685
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any obligation of the commission and its local initiative, statutory, contractual, or otherwise, shall be an obligation solely...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.969
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither a member of the governing body of the commission nor a member of any advisory panel to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9695
  The department, if at no state General Fund expense, may take all appropriate steps, in cooperation with the county and the commission, to obtain approval...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9697
  In any transfer of functions from county employees to the commission, the commission shall continue to recognize the employee organization that represented the employees performing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.97
  The commission shall be deemed to be a public agency that is a local unit of government for purposes of all grant programs and other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9705
  (a) The commission shall obtain licensure as a health care service plan under Chapter 2.2 (commencing with Section 1340) of Division 3 of the Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.971
  (a) Contracts under this article between the department and the commission shall be on a nonbid basis and shall be exempt from Chapter 2 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9715
  The Legislature intends that implementation of this article shall involve consultation and cooperative activities among various agencies of the state and county, and the commission....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.972
  Neither the commission nor its local initiative shall be considered to be an agency, division, department, or instrumentality of the county, and neither the commission...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9722
  (a) If the commission established pursuant to this article no longer functions for the purposes for which it was established, when the commission's existing obligations...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14087.9725
  (a) Nothing in this article shall be construed as amending the requirements of Section 17000. (b) Nothing in this article shall be construed to preclude...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088
  (a) It is the purpose of this article to ensure that the Medi-Cal program shall be operated in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.05
  For purposes of this article, "primary care case management plan" means a primary care provider or other entity who has contracted with the department pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.2
  The primary care provider or other entity eligible pursuant to this article with whom a contract has been entered into pursuant to this article shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.4
  (a) No reimbursement shall be provided, for any beneficiary receiving case management services, for any services covered by the contract entered into pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.5
  The beneficiary shall be permitted to disenroll from any contract entered into pursuant to this article upon request, except where prohibited under the provisions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.6
  In order to achieve maximum cost savings, the Legislature hereby determines that an expedited contract process for contracts under this article is necessary. Therefore, contracts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.7
  Primary care providers and other entities with whom a contract has been entered into pursuant to this article shall be exempt from Chapter 2.2 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.8
  (a) The department may establish modified primary care case management contracts pursuant to this article. This authority shall be subject to the department seeking and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.85
  (a) The department may enter into primary care case management contracts with primary care providers that serve persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Except...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.12
  Primary care case management contractors shall establish, maintain, and conduct an active, ongoing outreach and recruitment effort to add primary care and specialty providers to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.13
  The department shall approve those Medi-Cal services for which the contractor is at risk that shall be provided in any contract or contracts for services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.14
  The department may enter into contracts pursuant to this article with nurse practitioners, acting within the scope of practice of a nurse practitioner, certified nurse...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.15
  A plan shall not use false advertising or false statements to induce enrollment. No solicitation of enrollees shall include the granting or offering of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.16
  The department or a county which has contracted for the provision of services pursuant to this article may, within service areas designated by the department,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.17
  (a) The department may contract under this article, on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis, with an established professional organization with a membership which consists of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.18
  (a) In order to increase the number of nonprofit providers under this article, the department may enter into contracts each fiscal year under this section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.19
  (a) The department may enter into primary care case management contracts pursuant to this article with any health care service plan that is licensed by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.22
  Sections 14408, 14409, 14410, and 14411 shall apply to primary care case management plans.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.23
  (a) The department may apply one or more of the following sanctions against any contractor for failure to comply with the requirements of this article,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14088.25
  (a) The department may conduct onsite reviews of a provider or facility that has agreed with the primary care case management contractor or a potential...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089
  (a) The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive program of managed health care plan services to Medi-Cal recipients residing in clearly defined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.05
  (a) (1) The department may implement a multiplan project in the County of San Diego, upon approval of the Board of Supervisors of the County...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.07
  (a) The Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services may establish a stakeholder advisory committee to provide input on the delivery of health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.1
  In accordance with procedures required by Section 14408, all marketing activities shall require prior approval of the department.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.2
  In accordance with procedures required by Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), each contract with a capitated health system shall provide for a grievance procedure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.3
  The department shall not contract with insurance carriers, organized health systems, or provider organizations, that employ or subcontract with plans that employ providers under suspension...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.4
  The department may consult with the Department of Insurance or the Department of Managed Health Care and shall consult with the Department of Justice Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.5
  (a) The department or its authorized agents shall conduct periodic audits or review, including onsite audits or review, to monitor compliance with Article 4 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.6
  Current prepaid health plan and primary care case management contracts entered into by the department pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14088) and Chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.7
  (a) The department may adopt emergency regulations to implement this article in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14089.8
  (a) In order to achieve maximum cost savings, the Legislature finds and declares that an expedited contract process for contracts under this article is necessary....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14091.21
  (a) Nursing facility services necessary for the treatment of illness or injury are covered subject to the provisions of this section: (b) Nursing facility services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14091.3
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Medi-Cal managed care plan contracts" means those contracts entered into with the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092
  It is the purpose of this article to ensure that the Medi-Cal program is operated in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible by assuring...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092.05
  For purposes of this article "primary care provider" is defined as set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 14088.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092.1
  The department shall seek all federal waivers necessary to allow federal financial participation in expenditures under this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092.15
  The director shall investigate and may to the extent feasible require that: (a) Primary care providers specify their capacity to accept Medi-Cal Patients and obtain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092.2
  The director may establish policy and procedures that assure that outpatient physician's services, and any other Medi-Cal services the director may designate, provided by a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092.25
  In areas where a Medi-Cal beneficiary has the opportunity to enroll in a Medi-Cal managed care plan or to enroll with a primary care provider...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092.3
  In implementing this article, the director has discretion to extend administrative or reimbursement flexibilities to participating primary care providers.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14092.35
  To the extent that this article proves to be effective in reducing the cost of uncoordinated primary care delivered in the hospital emergency room or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14093
  The purpose of this article is to ensure quality of care and to provide increased access to health care services in the most cost-effective and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14093.05
  (a) The director shall enter into contracts with managed care plans under this chapter and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), including, but not limited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14093.06
  (a) When a managed care contractor authorized to provide California Children's Services (CCS) covered services pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 14094.3 expands to other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14093.07
  For purposes of this article the following definitions apply: (a) "Foster child" means any child who has been taken into custody or placed by a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14093.09
  (a) No child in foster care shall be required to enroll in a Medi-Cal managed care plan. A foster child may be voluntarily enrolled in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14093.10
  (a) Whenever a foster child enrolled in a county organized health system, established pursuant to Article 2.8 (commencing with Section 14087.5), is placed in an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14094
  For purposes of this article "CCS" means California Children' s Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14094.1
  (a) The director shall investigate and to the extent feasible require any managed care contractor serving children with conditions eligible under the CCS program, to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14094.2
  (a) This article is not intended, and shall not be interpreted, to permit any reduction in benefits or eligibility levels under the CCS program. Any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14094.3
  (a) Notwithstanding this article or Section 14093.05 or 14094.1, CCS covered services shall not be incorporated into any Medi-Cal managed care contract entered into after...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14095
  (a) For any entity or program that seeks to contract with the department to provide, or arrange for the provision of, managed health care services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100
  The administration of this chapter shall be carried out by the same agents as are authorized by the several boards of supervisors to administer the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.1
  For purposes of administering this chapter and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) of this part, the director shall have those powers and duties necessary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.2
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (i), all types of information, whether written or oral, concerning a person, made or kept by any public officer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.5
  The department shall prepare and submit Medi-Cal program assumptions and estimates to the Department of Finance. The purpose of the assumptions and estimates shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.6
  The department, in cooperation with the Controller, shall establish a method of providing to the Controller, periodically, updated information regarding changes in the roster of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.7
  (a) Any Medi-Cal provider of incontinence supplies or medical supplies, or both, shall provide, to the department, a bond, or other security satisfactory to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.75
  (a) (1) Each provider and each applicant, as defined in Section 14043.1, when applying for enrollment and continued enrollment, shall provide, to the department, a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.8
  (a) For purposes of this section, "provider of home health agency services" means a home health agency that is licensed by the department under Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.9
  (a) For purposes of this section, "provider of durable medical equipment" means any person or entity that furnishes medical equipment and medical supplies, meets state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14100.95
  (a) The department shall enter into demonstration contracts with manufacturers of medical supplies for four items of its own selection of medical supplies existing on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14101
  The director may contract with other state agencies for services in connection with the administration of this chapter, Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), Chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14101.1
  The department shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under which such secretary will determine eligibility for Medi-Cal in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14101.5
  The department and the State Department of Social Services shall provide to the other any information necessary for the performance of such department's duties under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14101.7
  The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and the department shall exchange information and cooperate to assure that health services provided by Medi-Cal which are reimbursable by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.2
  Whenever the director determines that the services or products of a provider cost the program in excess of reasonable value received, the provider shall thereafter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.4
  The director, with the advice of the Medicaid Advisory Committee required by federal law or regulation, shall determine which of the health care and related...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.5
  (a) A noncontract hospital that is in a closed health facility planning area is not eligible to receive reimbursement for services provided to a Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.6
  The director, or a carrier acting under regulations adopted by the director, may require that any individual provider shall receive prior authorization before providing services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.6
  The director, or a carrier acting under regulations adopted by the director, may require that any individual provider shall receive prior authorization before providing services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.7
  The department shall develop procedure codes for durable medical equipment and orthotic and prosthetic equipment and services, to enable the fiscal intermediary to efficiently and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.75
  Prior authorization may be required by the director for services or items prescribed or ordered by a practitioner who has been determined by the director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14103.8
  (a) Medi-Cal services for beneficiaries who are eligible for services under the California Children's Services Act (Article 5 (commencing with Section 123800) of Chapter 3...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104
  (a) The department may, to the extent feasible, and to the extent permitted or required by applicable provisions of federal law, enter into agreements with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104.3
  (a) The department may, to the extent feasible, enter into nonexclusive contracts providing arrangements under which funds available for health care under this chapter shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director shall by regulation adopt such procedures as are necessary for the review of a grievance or complaint...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104.6
  No Medi-Cal fiscal intermediary contract shall be approved, renewed or continued if a state employee is employed in a management, consultant or technical position by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104.7
  The Director of the Department of Health Services shall negotiate a modification of the contract with Computer Sciences Corporation for the provision of fiscal intermediary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104.8
  (a) The Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency shall be responsible for oversight of the contract for fiscal intermediary services awarded by the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104.9
  Any Medi-Cal contract for fiscal intermediary services entered into on or after January 1, 1992, shall permit the submission of all paper claims for hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14104.93
  (a) The department may distribute provider bulletins and other provider communications for the Medi-Cal program by either print or electronic medium, including posting on the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105
  (a) The director shall prescribe the policies to be followed in the administration of this chapter, may limit the rates of payment for health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.05
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14105, and any other provision of law, the director may, without taking regulatory action pursuant to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.06
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14105 and any other provision of law, the Medi-Cal reimbursement rates in effect on August 1, 2003, shall remain in effect through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.07
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Costs within the Medi-Cal program continue to grow due to the rising cost of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.08
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to implement changes in the level of funding for radiology services, as defined in Section 51139...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.09
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if subdivision (b) of Section 3.94 of the Budget Act of 2011 is operative, effective on or after January...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.1
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent permitted by federal law, reimbursement to hospitals for inpatient services rendered to Medi-Cal program beneficiaries...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.11
  (a) The department may negotiate settlements with acute care hospitals with psychiatric units that unintentionally violate Medi-Cal cost reimbursement policies or procedures governing the operation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.115
  (a) The department may negotiate or renegotiate settlements with any acute care hospital in San Diego County that has a distinct part pediatric convalescent facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.12
  (a) The department shall specify circumstances under which requests shall be granted for authorization for services provided by a health facility licensed under subdivisions (c)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.13
  (a) Private duty nursing agencies shall be a provider of skilled nursing services provided on a shift basis covered under the early and periodic screening,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.15
  (a) (1) In determining rates of reimbursement for inpatient hospital services the department shall use the reimbursement policy existing on June 29, 1982. The director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.16
  (a) The department may establish per diem or bundled reimbursement rates for pharmacies that provide home infusion supplies and services. The per diem or bundled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.17
  (a) Each hospital designated by the department as a critical access hospital, and certified as such by the Secretary of the United States Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.18
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, provider rates of payment for services rendered in all of the following programs shall be identical to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.181
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "The Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment (Family PACT) waiver" or "Family PACT...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.19
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to implement changes in the level of funding for health care services, the director shall reduce...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.191
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to implement changes in the level of funding for health care services, the director shall reduce...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.192
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Costs within the Medi-Cal program continue to grow due to the rising cost of providing health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.193
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding paragraph (7) of subdivision (j) of Section 14105.192 and any other law, beginning June 1, 2011, reimbursement rates for freestanding pediatric subacute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.2
  (a) The allowable markup payable for the dispensing of medical supplies by assistive device and sickroom supply dealers and pharmacies shall not exceed 23 percent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.21
  (a) An assistive device and sickroom supply dealer may not bill the Medi-Cal program for prosthetic and orthotic appliances. (b) A pharmacy may not bill...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.22
  Reimbursement for clinical laboratory or laboratory services, as defined in Section 51137.2 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, may not exceed 80...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.23
  (a) Reimbursement for portable X-ray transportation services, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 51531 of Title 22 of the California Code...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.24
  (a) Clinics and hospital outpatient departments, except for emergency rooms, owned or operated by Los Angeles County that participated in the California Section 1115 Medicaid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.25
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent permitted by federal law and regulations, the maximum rate of reimbursement under the Medi-Cal program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.26
  (a) Each eligible facility, as described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b), may, in addition to the rate of payment that the facility would otherwise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.27
  (a) Each eligible facility, as described in subdivision (b) may, in addition to the rate of payment that the facility would otherwise receive for skilled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.28
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to design a new Medi-Cal inpatient hospital reimbursement methodology based on diagnosis-related groups that more effectively ensures...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.281
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) That because the implementation of Section 14105.28 is expected to require several years and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.3
  (a) The department is considered to be the purchaser, but not the dispenser or distributor, of prescribed drugs under the Medi-Cal program for the purpose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.31
  For purposes of the Medi-Cal contract drug list, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Single-source drug" means a drug that is produced and distributed under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.33
  (a) The department may enter into contracts with manufacturers of single-source and multiple-source drugs, on a bid or nonbid basis, for drugs from each major...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.332
  State and federal rebates that are owed to the state for drugs dispensed to Medi-Cal beneficiaries shall not be reduced to the state if a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.336
  (a) The department shall reduce reimbursements to pharmacists by fifty cents ($0.50) per prescription, effective January 1, 1995, for all drug prescription claims reimbursed through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.337
  (a) Effective January 1, 2000, the department shall increase reimbursement to pharmacists by twenty-five cents ($0.25) per prescription for all drug prescription claims reimbursed through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.34
  (a) The department shall provide for an annual written report of Medi-Cal pharmacy costs or Medi-Cal drug costs, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.35
  (a) (1) On and after July 1, 1990, drugs included on the Medi-Cal drug formulary shall be included on the list of contract drugs until...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.37
  (a) The department shall notify each manufacturer of drugs in therapeutic categories selected pursuant to Section 14105.33 of the provisions of Sections 14105.31 to 14105.42,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.38
  (a) (1) In the event the department determines a drug should be deleted from the list of contract drugs, the department shall conduct a public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.39
  (a) (1) A manufacturer of a new single-source drug may request inclusion of its drug on the list of contract drugs pursuant to Section 14105.33...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.395
  (a) The department may implement utilization controls through the establishment of guidelines, protocols, algorithms, or criteria for drugs, medical supplies, durable medical equipment, and enteral...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.4
  (a) The director shall appoint a Medi-Cal Contract Drug Advisory Committee for the purpose of providing scientific and medical analysis on drugs contained on the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.405
  (a) A Medi-Cal beneficiary, within 90 days of receipt of the director's notice to beneficiaries pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 14105.33, informing them of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.406
  The director shall, in considering suspension or deletion of drugs from the list of contract drugs, ensure that the department has the ability to process...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.41
  Moneys accruing to the department from contracts executed pursuant to Section 14105.33 shall be deposited in the Health Care Deposit Fund, and shall be subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.42
  (a) The department shall report to the Legislature after the first three major therapeutic categories have been reviewed and contracts executed. The report shall include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.425
  The provisions of Sections 14105.4 to 14105.41, inclusive, and Section 14105.65 shall not preclude the department from taking emergency regulatory action as it deems appropriate....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.43
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, any drug which is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.435
  (a) Within 60 days of the approval of a drug in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 14105.43, the department shall assign to that drug...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.436
  (a) Effective July 1, 2002, all pharmaceutical manufacturers shall provide to the department a state rebate, in addition to rebates pursuant to other provisions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.44
  (a) The department shall establish an expedited review process to examine the effectiveness of investigational drugs and investigational services, and their eligibility for Medi-Cal reimbursement....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.45
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Average acquisition cost" means the average weighted cost determined by the department to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.451
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (A) The United States Department of Health and Human Services has identified the critical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.455
  (a) Pharmacy providers shall submit their usual and customary charge when billing the Medi-Cal program for prescribed drugs. (b) "Usual and customary charge" means the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.456
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Generically equivalent drugs" means drug products with the same active chemical ingredients of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.46
  (a) For purposes of this section: (1) "Covered entity" means a provider defined as a covered entity in Section 256b of Title 42 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.47
  (a) (1) The department shall establish a list of medical supplies. The list shall specify utilization controls to be applied to each medical supply product....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.475
  (a) In maintaining the lists of medical supplies, incontinence medical supplies, and enteral nutrition products, the department may perform a review of, and contract for,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.48
  (a) The department shall establish a list of covered services and maximum allowable reimbursement rates for durable medical equipment as defined in Section 51160 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.485
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2006, any provider of custom rehabilitation equipment and custom rehabilitation technology services to a Medi-Cal beneficiary shall have on staff, either...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.49
  (a) (1) The department shall establish a list of Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes billable to the Medi-Cal program and reimbursement rates, subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.5
  The director or prepaid health plans shall make no payment for services rendered prior to January 1, 1977, to any health facility that secures a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.51
  (a) The department shall establish "capped rental" reimbursement for specific items of durable medical equipment. Items in this category shall be reimbursed on a monthly...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.6
  No health facility licensed under the provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.7
  (a) In order to fairly reimburse pharmacies for the furnishing of prescription drugs to Medi-Cal beneficiaries, the director shall update allowable drug product prices within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.75
  (a) In order to ensure that drug products in an injectable form that are not administered by the patient are available to Medi-Cal beneficiaries pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.8
  (a) The department may enter into contracts with manufacturers of enteral nutrition products that can be used as a therapeutic regimen to prevent serious disability...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.85
  (a) Effective July 1, 2002, payment for enteral nutrition products dispensed by a pharmacy provider shall be based on the estimated acquisition cost for that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.86
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) (A) "Average sales price" means the price reported to the federal Centers for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.94
  (a) An eligible provider, as described in subdivision (b), may, in addition to the rate of payment that the provider would otherwise receive for Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.95
  (a) Each eligible facility, as described in subdivision (b), may, in addition to the rate of payment that the facility would otherwise receive for adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.96
  (a) Each eligible facility, as described in subdivision (b), may, in addition to the rate of payment that the facility would otherwise receive for Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.965
  (a) Each eligible facility, as described in subdivision (b), may, in addition to the rate of payment that the facility would otherwise receive for Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.97
  (a) The department shall annually develop an outpatient disproportionate share factor for each hospital in California that receives Medi-Cal payments for outpatient services. That factor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.98
  (a) The following definitions shall apply for purposes of this section: (1) "Disproportionate share list" means an annual list of disproportionate share hospitals that provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.982
  (a) (1) The department may adopt emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 1 of Title...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.985
  (a) (1) Disproportionate share payment augmentation programs shall be maintained for eligible providers pursuant to Section 14087.5, 14088, 14089, 14093, or 14200. (2) The department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.986
  (a) Any children's hospital as defined in Section 10727 that holds a consolidated license issued pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14105.99
  (a) For purposes of this section, "Attachment 4.19-A" means the Medi-Cal payment adjustment system for acute inpatient hospital services set forth in Attachment 4.19-A of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14106
  If a Medi-Cal provider negotiates a rate of payment for inpatient, outpatient, or ancillary services with a prepaid health plan under contract with the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14106.2
  Insofar as permitted by federal law, for purposes of determining the reasonable costs of any service reimbursable under the provisions of this chapter, or determining...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14106.6
  The director shall establish and update annually a rate schedule of reimbursement for paramedic services which provides reimbursement based upon reasonable cost standards of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107
  (a) Any person, including any applicant or provider as defined in Section 14043.1, or billing agent, as defined in Section 14040.1, who engages in any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.1
  Any provider on whose behalf improper claims are submitted for authorization or payment under this chapter may be required to submit all such claims over...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.11
  (a) Upon receipt of reliable evidence that would be admissible under the administrative adjudication provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.12
  (a) The Department of Justice may pay, pursuant to subdivision (d), from funds recovered by the Department of Justice, and only to the extent that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.13
  (a) (1) The department, in conjunction with the Department of Justice, shall identify those areas of the fee-for-service Medi-Cal program that are at greatest risk...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.2
  (a) Any person who solicits or receives any remuneration, including, but not restricted to, any kickback, bribe, or rebate, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.3
  Any person who knowingly and willfully charges, solicits, accepts, or receives, in addition to any amount payable under this chapter, any gift, money, contribution, donation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.4
  (a) Any person who, with the intent to defraud, certifies as true and correct any cost report, submitted by a hospital to a state agency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14107.5
  (a) The department may, pursuant to regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (b), rescind the privileges of a provider of durable medical equipment or incontinence supplies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14108
  Any developmentally disabled recipient under this chapter receiving care in a nursing facility or any category of intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14108.1
  Any recipient receiving care in a nursing facility under this chapter, as part of a certified special treatment program for mentally disordered persons, or as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14108.2
  Except as provided by Section 14108 and Section 14108.1, any recipient of services under this chapter who is residing in a long-term care facility shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14109
  In determining the medical needs of any person eligible under this chapter, and the amount of health care such person is entitled to receive, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14109.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 14109, effective January 1, 1982, the reimbursement rate for costs specified in Section 14109 for all services, including, but not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14109.6
  Notwithstanding Section 14109, effective September 1, 1997, and pursuant to Section 1396a(n) of Title 42 of the United States Code, as amended by Section 4714...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110
  No payment for care or services shall be made under Medi-Cal to a medical or health care facility unless it has been certified by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.05
  (a) The department shall ensure that nursing facility applicants have access to assistance in identifying and securing the information necessary to complete the Medi-Cal application...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.1
  Medi-Cal reimbursements for long-term care in any hospital shall be at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate paid for long-term care in nursing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.15
  (a) The department shall develop, collect, and maintain, in an electronic format, all data elements in the minimum data set specified by the federal government....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.2
  The director shall, unless precluded by federal law or regulation, amend the state plan under Title XIX of the Social Security Act to conform to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.3
  Until the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare establishes, by regulation, standards in accordance with Title XIX of the Federal Social Security Act for intermediate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.4
  (a) All laundry services for all apparel, linen, garments, towels, and hospital gowns shall be provided by a nursing facility or any category of intermediate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.5
  Effective January 1, 1977, no payment for any prescription ophthalmic device shall be made under Medi-Cal if that device does not meet the standards adopted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.55
  For the purposes of the pilot program established under Section 14495.10, or, if Section 14495.10 is repealed and replaced by Section 14132.20, then under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.6
  (a) The director shall adopt regulations, establishing payment rates for nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled, and intermediate care facilities/developmentally disabled-habilitative as defined in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.7
  (a) The director shall adopt regulations increasing the minimum number of equivalent nursing hours per patient required in skilled nursing facilities to 3.2, in skilled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.8
  (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) "Facility" means any long-term health care facility as defined in subdivisions (c), (d), (e), (g), and (h)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14110.9
  No nursing facility or any category of intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled may require a security deposit from a Medi-Cal beneficiary who applies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14111
  (a) As permitted by federal law or regulations, for health care services provided in a long-term health care facility that are reimbursed by Medicare, a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14111.5
  (a) As permitted by federal law or regulations, for health care services provided in a long-term health care facility that are reimbursed under this chapter,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14112
  Health care provided pursuant to this chapter shall not constitute a lien against the property of any recipient or medically indigent or other person eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14113
  The department shall enter into cooperative arrangements with the Department of Rehabilitation and any other state agency or department responsible for health or vocational rehabilitation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115
  (a) Bills for service under this chapter shall be submitted not more than six months after the month in which the service is rendered, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.1
  The department may not require that any hospital based physician submit a combined charge, which includes the physician and hospital charge, if it is not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.2
  (a) The department shall not require nursing facilities or any category of intermediate care facility for the developmentally disabled, as defined in Section 1250 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.3
  The department shall permit a nurse anesthetist to bill independently for services rendered by such nurse anesthetist. If a nurse anesthetist chooses to bill independently...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.4
  If the Budget Act should in any budget year restrict payment for pathology services under the Medi-Cal program to only the provider who actually performs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.41
  (a) For services that are performed at a central laboratory as authorized pursuant to Section 1241.1 of the Business and Professions Code, the department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.5
  Moneys payable or rights existing under this chapter shall be subject to any claim, lien or offset of the State of California, and any claim...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.7
  (a) The department, with the assistance of the Controller, shall develop a procedure by which approved claims for services rendered may be reimbursed through a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.75
  (a) As a condition of payment for goods, supplies, and merchandise provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries by a provider that receives or makes annual payments of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14115.8
  (a) (1) The department shall amend the Medicaid state plan with respect to the billing option for services by local educational agencies, to ensure that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14116
  The director of a county agency which administers the provisions of this chapter and also administers medical facilities may not delegate to an employee the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14117
  Information relating to the medication provided to Medi-Cal recipients, shall be disclosed by the department or its agents, to physicians who are treating those same...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14119
  The director shall employ sufficient consultants to assure compliance with the provisions of this code and the regulations, and the protection of the best interests...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14120
  (a) At the beginning of each fiscal year, for the current fiscal year, the director shall establish a monthly schedule of anticipated total payments and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14122
  The department may provide, by regulation and consistent with the requirements of the Federal Social Security Act, for the care and treatment, or both, of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14123
  Participation in the Medi-Cal program by a provider of service is subject to suspension in order to protect the health of the recipients and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14123.05
  The department shall develop, in consultation with provider representatives, including, but not limited to, physician, pharmacy, and medical supplies providers, a process that enables a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14123.1
  Subdivision (a) of Section 14123 as added by Section 2 of Chapter 994 of the Statutes of 1969 does not constitute a change in, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14123.2
  Any provider or person that presents or causes to be presented a claim for services to an officer, employee, or agent of the state, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14123.25
  (a) In lieu of, or in addition to, the imposition of any other sanction available to it, including the sanctions and penalties authorized under Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124
  Notice of any suspension under Section 14123, along with any information obtained as a result of the director's investigation shall be sent by the director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.1
  Each provider, as defined in Section 14043.1, of health care services rendered under the Medi-Cal program or any other health care program administered by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.2
  (a) (1) During normal working hours, the department may make any examination of the books and records of, and may visit and inspect the premises...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.3
  Notice of any act of the department required by law or department regulation to be given may be signed and given by the director or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.4
  The director may on his own motion at any time before a suspension is placed into effect and without further proceedings, review the penalty against...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.5
  (a) The director may, in accordance with the provisions of Section 10725, adopt, amend or repeal, in accordance with Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11371)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.6
  In the event the director orders that oral argument or a hearing be held upon a petition for reinstatement or reduction of penalty filed pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.7
  (a) No long-term health care facility participating as a provider under the Medi-Cal program shall seek to evict out of the facility or, effective January...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.10
  No licensed long-term health care facility participating as a provider under the Medi-Cal program shall discriminate against a Medi-Cal patient on the basis of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.11
  (a) The department shall establish a two-year pilot program to utilize the federal Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS) to identify veterans and their dependents...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.70
  As used in this article: (a) "Carrier" includes any insurer as defined in Section 23 of the Insurance Code, including any private company, corporation, mutual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.71
  (a) When benefits are provided or will be provided to a beneficiary under this chapter because of an injury for which another person is liable,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.72
  (a) Where an action is brought by the director pursuant to Section 14124.71, it shall be commenced within the period prescribed in Section 338 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.73
  (a) If either the beneficiary or the director brings an action or claim against such third person or carrier the beneficiary or the director shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.74
  In the event of judgment or award in a suit or claim against a third party or carrier: (a) If the action or claim is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.75
  The court or agency shall, upon further application at any time before the judgment or award is satisfied, allow as a further lien the reasonable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.76
  (a) No settlement, judgment, or award in any action or claim by a beneficiary to recover damages for injuries, where the director has an interest,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.77
  When the director has perfected a lien upon a judgment or award in favor of a beneficiary against any third party for an injury for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.78
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in no event shall the director recover more than the beneficiary recovers after deducting, from the settlement judgment, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.785
  The director's recovery is limited to the amount derived from applying Section 14124.72, 14124.76, or 14124.78, whichever is less.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.79
  In the event that the beneficiary, his guardian, conservator, personal representative, estate or survivors or any of them brings an action against the third person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.791
  (a) Subject to the director's prior right of recovery, a provider who has rendered services to a beneficiary because of an injury for which a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.792
  If any provision of this article, or the application of any provision of this article to any person, firm, corporation, or other entity or to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.795
  It is the intent of the Legislature to comply with federal law requiring that when a beneficiary has other available health coverage or insurance, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.80
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Many instances of potential third-party liability, particularly workers' compensation claims, are not discovered by the department. Similarly, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.81
  The State Department of Health Services shall administer the provisions of Sections 14124.82 to 14124.88, inclusive. The department shall establish a pilot project for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.82
  (a) The department shall enter, by October 1, 1981, into at least two at-risk performance type contracts with private organizations that have access to information...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.83
  The agreement shall include, but is not limited to, the following provisions: (a) The contractor shall discover and recover amounts owing by third parties which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.84
  The department shall provide the contractor with such information as is reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its obligations under the contract, including accounting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.85
  The contractor, for the duration of the contract period, shall have the powers of the Director of the State Department of Health Services as set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.86
  The pilot project contract entered into by the department pursuant to Section 14124.82 shall not exceed a term of three years from the date of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.88
  (a) Subsequent to the expiration of the pilot project contract, the department, in its reasonable discretion, may execute a separate, additional agreement for the discovery...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.89
  (a) Every health insurer, self-insured plan, group health plan, as defined in Section 607(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, service benefit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.90
  It is the intent of the Legislature to comply with federal law requiring that when a beneficiary has third-party health coverage or insurance, the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.91
  The State Department of Health Services shall, whenever it is cost-effective, pay the premium for third-party health coverage for beneficiaries under this chapter. The State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.92
  (a) The department may pay administrative expenses and make incentive payments to any county, state, or federal agency, or a contracting agent of the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.93
  (a) The Department of Child Support Services shall provide payments to the local child support agency of fifty dollars ($50) per case for obtaining third-party...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14124.94
  (a) When the rights of a Medi-Cal beneficiary to health care benefits from an insurer have been assigned to the department, an insurer shall not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14125
  (a) The purpose of this article is to establish provider reimbursement rates for incontinence medical supplies covered by the Medi-Cal program. Reimbursement for incontinence medical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14125.1
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction and meaning of the terms and phrases used in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14125.2
  (a) (1) To qualify for Medi-Cal coverage a product shall be in general retail distribution, sold to the general public, and comply with any standards...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14125.3
  The department shall reduce the weighted average of the negotiated contract prices within each product category in effect on June 30, 1992, as follows: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14125.4
  (a) No later than January 1, 1994, the department shall establish utilization controls that limit expenditures for incontinence medical supplies per beneficiary to no more...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14125.8
  (a) In order to more fully identify the owner or owners of companies or corporations that apply to be or currently are providers of incontinence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14125.9
  Nothing in this article shall be interpreted as limiting or interfering in any way with the department's authority to contract for the provision of incontinence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126
  This article shall be known as the Medi-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.02
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to devise a Medi-Cal long-term care reimbursement methodology that more effectively ensures individual access to appropriate long-term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.021
  The department shall develop and implement a cost-based reimbursement rate methodology using the cost categories as described in Section 14126.023, for freestanding nursing facilities pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.022
  (a) (1) By August 1, 2011, the department shall develop the Skilled Nursing Facility Quality and Accountability Supplemental Payment System, subject to approval by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.023
  (a) The methodology developed pursuant to this article shall be facility specific and reflect the sum of the projected cost of each cost category and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.025
  (a) The department shall seek approval of an amendment to the Medicaid state plan specifically outlining the reimbursement methodology developed pursuant to this article not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.027
  (a) (1) The Director of Health Care Services, or his or her designee, shall administer this article. (2) The regulations and other similar instructions adopted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.031
  (a) In implementing this article, the department may use the process outlined in subdivision (c) of Section 14126.02 to obtain professional consulting services for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.033
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Costs within the Medi-Cal program continue to grow due to the rising cost of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.034
  (a) (1) The department shall convene a workgroup of interested stakeholders to make recommendations to the department to ensure compliance with the intent of this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.035
  (a) This article shall remain operative only as long as Article 7.6 (commencing with Section 1324.20) of Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14126.036
  This article shall become inoperative on August 1, 2013, and as of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14131
  The Medi-Cal Benefits Program comprises a department-administered uniform schedule of health care benefits. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, "health care services" shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14131.05
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), optional hearing aid benefits are subject to per beneficiary benefit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14131.07
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), the total number of physician office and clinic visits for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14131.10
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), or Chapter 8.75 (commencing with Section 14591), in order to implement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14131.15
  (a) In geographic areas in which Medi-Cal managed care plans contracting under this chapter or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) are operating with capacity...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132
  The following is the schedule of benefits under this chapter: (a) Outpatient services are covered as follows: Physician, hospital or clinic outpatient, surgical center, respiratory...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.01
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a community clinic or free clinic licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1204 of the Health and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.05
  The department shall provide the fiscal and appropriate policy committees of the Legislature with a copy of their submittal to the federal Health Care Financing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.06
  (a) Services specified in this section that are provided by a local educational agency are covered Medi-Cal benefits, to the extent federal financial participation is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.1
  As used in this chapter "surgical center" means a surgical clinic that is licensed under Section 1203 of the Health and Safety Code. Pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.10
  (a) Pediatric day health care provided by a health facility licensed under paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 1250.1 of the Health and Safety...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.100
  (a) The federally qualified health center services described in Section 1396d(a)(2)(C) of Title 42 of the United States Code are covered benefits. (b) The rural...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.101
  (a) Notwithstanding paragraphs (4) and (5) of subdivision (e) of Section 14132.100, a scope-of-service change request, whether mandatory or permissive, shall be timely when filed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.102
  (a) With the exception of clinics and hospital outpatient departments that are subject to Section 14105.24, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) that are receiving cost-based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.107
  Claims for reimbursement under subdivision (e) of Section 14132.100 shall be finalized by the department within 150 days of receipt of the claims for reimbursement....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.108
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, requests for rate adjustments for scope-of-service rate changes under paragraph (4) of subdivision (e) of Section 14132.100 for an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.15
  For purposes of subdivision (p) of Section 14132, "rehabilitation services" means services intended to assist physically or cognitively impaired persons to achieve or regain their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.16
  Mammography for screening or diagnostic purposes upon the referral of a patient's physician shall be covered under this chapter on or after January 1, 1988,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.17
  Annual cervical cancer tests for screening or diagnostic purposes, upon the referral of a patient's physician, is a covered benefit under this chapter, on or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.18
  (a) Community supported living arrangement services approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in accordance with Section 1396v of Title 42...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.20
  (a) The department shall establish a program to provide continuous skilled nursing care to persons with developmental disabilities as a benefit of the Medi-Cal program,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.21
  The department, in consultation with the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, shall assess the feasibility of applying to the federal Health Care Financing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.22
  (a) For purposes of this section, dental restorative materials are limited to composite resin, glass ionomer cement, resin ionomer cement, and amalgam, as described on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.23
  (a) (1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), and notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, the active and retentive phases of orthodontic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.24
  (a) The department shall develop and implement a program to provide a community-living support benefit to eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries. The department shall submit any waiver...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.25
  (a) On or before July 1, 1983, the State Department of Health Care Services shall establish a subacute care program in health facilities in order...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.26
  (a) The department shall develop a program that requires a waiver of federal law to test the efficacy of providing an assisted living benefit to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.27
  (a) (1) The department shall apply for a waiver of federal law pursuant to Section 1396n of Title 42 of the United States Code to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.275
  (a) The department shall seek federal approval to establish pilot projects described in this section pursuant to a Medicare or a Medicaid demonstration project or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.28
  (a) If the department decides to terminate or not renew a health facility's subacute care services provider contract, the department shall notify the health facility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.29
  (a) A health facility that has a subacute services provider contract with the department under this chapter shall comply with the patient transfer and discharge...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.3
  In addition to any other criteria as provided in subdivision (p) of Section 14132, no reimbursement shall be made pursuant to this chapter for any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.34
  (a) Human milk and human milk derivatives supplied by a mothers' milk bank for human consumption are a covered service under this chapter. (b) For...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.35
  (a) Outpatient rehabilitation services are covered under this chapter, subject to utilization controls. (b) The department and the Medi-Cal field offices shall not discriminate against...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.36
  (a) To the extent that federal financial participation becomes available, residential care for alcohol and drug exposed pregnant women and women in the postpartum perinatal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.39
  Midwifery services provided by a licensed midwife shall be covered under this chapter, to the extent that federal financial participation is available, and, subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.4
  Nurse-midwifery services provided by a certified nurse-midwife shall be covered under the provisions of this chapter, to the extent required by federal law, subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.41
  (a) Services provided by a certified nurse practitioner shall be covered under this chapter to the extent authorized by federal law, and subject to utilization...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.42
  Benefits under this chapter shall not be restricted for inpatient hospital care to a time period less than 48 hours following a normal vaginal delivery...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.44
  (a) Targeted case management (TCM), pursuant to Section 1915(g) of the Social Security Act as amended by Public Law 99-272 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1396n(g)), shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.45
  Regulations implementing, interpreting, or making specific the provisions of subdivision (z) of Section 14132 shall not be subject to Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.46
  Pursuant to Sections 14024 and 14124.90, the Director of Health Services may recover for the cost of targeted case management services rendered under Section 14132.44...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.47
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide local governmental agencies the choice of participating in either or both of the Targeted Case...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.48
  Targeted case management services to which Sections 14132.44 and 14132.47 does not apply, and as specified in Section 1915(g) of the federal Social Security Act,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.49
  (a) Upon federal approval of the state plan amendments made pursuant to Section 14021.7 for federal financial assistance, targeted case management, pursuant to subdivision (g)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.55
  For the purposes of reimbursement under the Medi-Cal program, a speech pathologist or audiologist shall be licensed by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Examining Committee...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.6
  External prostheses constructed of silicon or other comparable materials, prosthetic implants, and reconstructive surgery incident to mastectomy shall be deemed medically necessary and shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.62
  (a) Reconstructive surgery shall be covered under this chapter, as defined in subdivision (c), when necessary to achieve the purposes specified in paragraphs (1) or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.63
  (a) An orthotist or prosthetist providing services under this chapter shall be required to be certified in orthotics or prosthetics by either the Board for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.69
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, donor and recipient organ transplant surgeries are covered under the Medi-Cal program when an organ transplant is provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.70
  (a) A Medi-Cal beneficiary shall remain eligible to receive Medi-Cal coverage for antirejection medication for up to two years following an organ transplant, unless during...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.71
  (a) For purposes of donor and recipient organ transplant surgeries, the department shall establish standards as to both the circumstances and the criteria that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.72
  (a) For purposes of this section, the definitions in subdivision (a) of Section 2290.5 of the Business and Professions Code shall apply. (b) It is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.725
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2006, to the extent that federal financial participation is available, face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.73
  The State Department of Health Services shall allow psychiatrists to receive fee-for-service Medi-Cal reimbursement for services provided through telemedicine until June 30, 2004, or until...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.74
  (a) The department, in consultation with interested stakeholders, shall develop, as a pilot project, a pediatric palliative care benefit to evaluate whether, and to what...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.765
  (a) No treatment authorization request shall be required for the provision of prosthetic devices or for the replacement or repair of prosthetic devices, if the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.77
  (a) (1) Any rural hospital may request to participate in a two-year pilot project to perform delegated acute inpatient hospital treatment authorization review under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.8
  Services covered under this chapter shall include rehabilitative services for the physically or cognitively impaired stroke patient, or a patient who has brain injury for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.81
  (a) The purchase of identification bracelets for eligible recipients under the Medi-Cal program who have Alzheimer's Disease or some other cognitive defect, or medication allergies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.88
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (h) of Section 14132 and to the extent funds are made available in the annual Budget Act for this purpose, the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.9
  Notwithstanding subdivision (h) of Section 14132, any utilization controls imposed under such subdivision shall not include mandatory examination by any person not licensed as a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.90
  (a) As of September 15, 1995, day care habilitative services, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14021 shall be provided only to alcohol and drug...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.91
  (a) Subject to the availability of funding, the department shall conduct a dental outreach and education program for Medi-Cal beneficiaries. The program shall inform Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.92
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 4512, or any other provision of this chapter or Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), services provided on or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.925
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, to the extent federal financial participation is available, in furtherance of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.93
  It is the intent of the Legislature that if services meeting the conditions of subdivision (a) of Section 14132.92 have been provided to a Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.94
  (a) Subject to approval by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of a medicaid state plan amendment electing the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.95
  (a) Personal care services, when provided to a categorically needy person as defined in Section 14050.1 is a covered benefit to the extent federal financial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.951
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Health Services seek approval of a Medicaid waiver under the federal Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.952
  (a) The department shall seek approval of an amendment to the Medicaid state plan pursuant to Section 1396n(j) of Title 42 of the United States...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.955
  Personal care services that are provided pursuant to Section 14132.95 shall include services in the recipient's place of employment if both of the following conditions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.956
  (a) The department shall assess and determine whether it would be cost efficient for the state to exercise the option made available under Section 1915(k)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.957
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to adopt measures that will assist individuals who are living in the community to remain within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.96
  Medi-Cal personal care services provider rates established as provided in the state plan under Subchapter 19 (commencing with Section 1396) of Chapter 7 of Title...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.966
  (a) Services provided by a physician assistant are a covered benefit under this chapter to the extent authorized by federal law and subject to utilization...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.97
  (a) (1) For purposes of this section, "waiver personal care services" means personal care services authorized by the department for persons who are eligible for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.98
  (a) For a beneficiary diagnosed with cancer and accepted into a phase I, phase II, phase III, or phase IV clinical trial for cancer, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.99
  For services provided pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Part 3 of Division 9, Section 14499.5, or Chapter 1 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.99
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "facility residents" means individuals who are currently residing in a nursing facility and whose care is paid for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.992
  (a) (1) By March 15, 2011, the department shall submit to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a home- and community-based services waiver...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14132.992
  14132aa. (a) Services provided by facilities licensed as congregate living health facilities to individuals diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), are a covered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133
  Utilization controls that may be applied to the services set forth in Section 14132 which are subject to utilization controls shall be limited to: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.01
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director or his or her designee may apply prior authorization by designing a sampling methodology that will...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.05
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a request for a treatment authorization received by the department shall be reviewed for medical necessity only. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.07
  (a) Prior authorization for podiatric services provided on an outpatient or inpatient basis shall not be required when all of the following conditions are met:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.1
  (a) The director shall determine which of the utilization controls in Section 14133 shall be applied to any specific service or group of services which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.10
  (a) Where it is expected to be cost-effective, the director may, in conducting Medi-Cal acute care inpatient hospital utilization control, establish a program of aggressive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.12
  (a) The director shall apply utilization controls to continuous skilled nursing care services provided pursuant to the pilot program established under Section 14495.10, including, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.14
  The criteria that the department shall use to identify providers to be placed on prior authorization for noninvasive testing procedures shall include, but not be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.15
  (a) The provision of services to beneficiaries eligible for medical assistance benefits may be subject to utilization controls, as provided for in Section 50793 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.16
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (l) of Section 14132, hearing aids are covered when supplied by a hearing aid dispenser on prescription of an otolaryngologist, or the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.2
  (a) The director shall include in the Medi-Cal list of contract drugs any drug approved for the treatment of cancer by the federal Food and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.22
  (a) Prescribed drugs shall be limited to no more than six per month, unless prior authorization is obtained. (b) The limit in subdivision (a) shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.225
  Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall not provide or pay for any prescription drug or other therapy to treat erectile dysfunction for any person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.23
  (a) To the extent that federal financial participation is not available, the provision of drug benefits under this chapter to full-benefit dual eligible beneficiaries who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.25
  (a) The director shall identify those surgical and medical procedures capable of outpatient performance and establish conditions for assuring performance in an outpatient rather than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.3
  (a) The director shall require fully documented medical justification from providers that the requested services are medically necessary to prevent significant illness, to alleviate severe...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.37
  For drugs covered under this chapter requiring prior authorization, the department shall ensure the timely and efficient processing of authorization requests by doing all of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.4
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, utilization controls adopted by the State Department of Health Services shall not include prior authorization for portable X-ray services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.45
  (a) Utilization controls adopted by the department shall not include prior authorization for renal dialysis treatment provided to eligible recipients for the treatment of end...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.5
  There shall be established a two-year pilot program, whereby in Alameda County, utilization controls shall not be required when, pursuant to Title XVIII of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.51
  Notwithstanding Section 14133.5, the Alameda County pilot program, as established in Section 14133.5, shall be a permanent program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.6
  In acting upon prior authorization requests for nonemergency medical transportation services, the department shall consider all relevant information in its possession regarding the beneficiary for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.65
  Prior authorization for the use of nonemergency medical transportation services by patients to and from dialysis treatment shall be approved for a period of up...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.7
  The department shall not require emergency certification statements for hospital inpatient claims which have been reviewed and approved by the department for appropriateness of emergency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.8
  (a) A bone marrow transplant for the treatment of cancer for beneficiaries who are eligible for full-scope benefits under this chapter, shall be reimbursable under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.85
  (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, prior authorization shall not be required for hospice services. (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14133.9
  The implementation of prior authorization permitted by subdivision (a) of Section 14133 shall be subject to all of the following provisions: (a) The department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14134
  (a) Except for any prescription, refill, visit, service, device, or item for which the program's payment is ten dollars ($10) or less, in which case...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14134
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Costs within the Medi-Cal program continue to grow due to the rising cost of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14134.1
  (a) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 14134, no provider under this chapter may deny care or services to an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14134.2
  The reimbursement rate for any three or more laboratory services for the same patient on the same day, which are commonly performed in an automated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14134.5
  All of the following provisions apply to the provision of services pursuant to subdivision (u) of Section 14132: (a) "Comprehensive perinatal provider" means any general...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14134.55
  The department shall streamline and simplify existing Medi-Cal program procedures in order to improve access to lactation supports and breast pumps among Medi-Cal recipients.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14134.6
  Long-term health care facilities may charge a resident only the actual price paid by the facility for goods and services actually supplied to the resident...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14135
  To assure maximum federal financial participation under this chapter, the director shall establish an enrollment fee, premium or similar charge to the extent required by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14136
  (a) No city or county shall establish equipment and personnel standards for the furnishing of nonemergency medical transportation services for eligible Medi-Cal beneficiaries which are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14136.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that, in order for payment to be made to a medical transportation service provider, a patient who requires...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14136.3
  No prior authorization shall be necessary for the provision of nonemergency medical transportation services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries when the beneficiary is being transported from an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14136.4
  A written treatment authorization request for nonemergency medical transportation services for which a department employed medical consultant had provided conditional prior authorization to the provider...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14136.5
  No entity which has received funds under paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of Section 1601 of the federal Urban Mass Transportation Act shall receive reimbursement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14136.8
  No reimbursement shall be made for medical transportation services provided pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 14132 when the services are prescribed or ordered by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14137
  The State Department of Health Services, following review and approval from the State Health and Welfare Agency, shall seek all necessary waivers from the United...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14137.6
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and subject to federal financial participation, covered services under this chapter shall include, subject to utilization controls, medically...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14137.8
  Approval of a request for acute inpatient care shall be solely dependent upon the medical necessity for this care, as documented in the proposed treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14138
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department shall purchase vaccines and biological products in bulk from the Centers for Disease Control or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14138.5
  The State Department of Health Services shall report to the Legislature on a biennial basis on all of the following data with respect to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139
  (a) The department shall expend, upon appropriation, any savings accrued from the establishment and implementation of a bulk purchase vaccine program to increase the participation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.05
  The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) Long-term care services in California include an uncoordinated array of categorical programs offering medical, social, and other support...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish the Long-Term Care Integration Pilot Program that will integrate the financing and administration of long-term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.11
  The goals of this pilot program shall be to: (a) Provide a continuum of social and health services that foster independence and self-reliance, maintain individual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.12
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the costs of this pilot program to the General Fund will not exceed the direct and indirect...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.13
  (a) Any contract entered into pursuant to this article may be renewed if the long-term care services agency continues to meet the requirements of this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.2
  The department shall serve as the lead agency for the administration of this chapter. The department's responsibilities shall include, but are not limited to: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.21
  The department may accept funding from federal agencies, foundations or other nongovernmental sources and may contract with qualified consultants to assist with the provision of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.22
  (a) The department shall convene a working group that shall include the Director of Health Services, the Director of Social Services, and the Director of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.23
  Upon the implementation of the pilot program, responsibility for administering the programs integrated within the pilot program shall be transferred to the department, and shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.24
  The department shall seek all federal waivers necessary to allow for federal financial participation in the pilot program implemented pursuant to this article. This article...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.25
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, costs to the General Fund shall not exceed the amount that would have been expended in the absence...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.3
  (a) Pilot project sites may be comprised of a single county, a multicounty unit, or a subcounty unit. (b) Each selected site shall do all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.31
  In order to be selected, a pilot project site shall demonstrate that it has an active advisory committee that includes consumers of long-term care services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.32
  (a) The administrative action plan shall identify the funds to be transferred into the consolidated long-term care services fund. (b) The funds shall include Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.33
  The administrative action plan shall delineate the services to be provided to all eligible beneficiaries. At a minimum, services to be provided shall include all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.34
  The administrative action plan may also include any of the following services: (a) Transportation. (b) Home modification. (c) Medical services, including, but not limited to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.35
  The department may exempt a pilot project site from the requirements of subdivisions (d) and (f) of Section 14139.33 if both the following conditions are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.36
  (a) If primary, ancillary, and acute care are not included among the services offered by a pilot project site, the administrative action plan shall include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.37
  The administrative action plan shall delineate specifically how the pooled funds will be used to deliver services to all eligible recipients in the geographic area...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.38
  Participating counties shall continue their financial maintenance of effort for each of the programs integrated within the pilot program under this article. The amount of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.4
  (a) The long-term care services agency shall be responsible and at risk for implementing the administrative action plan. The long-term care services agency shall do...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.41
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "eligible beneficiaries" shall be defined as persons meeting all the following criteria: (1) Are Medi-Cal eligible. (2) Are functionally...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.42
  (a) Each pilot project site shall serve all eligible beneficiaries who live in the geographic area served by the long-term care services agency. In order...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.43
  This article shall not preclude a long-term care services agency from entering into additional agreements, separate from the pilot project, to serve additional individuals or
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.44
  Pilot project sites shall ensure provider reimbursement rates that are adequate to maintain compliance with applicable federal and state requirements.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.5
  The department shall set a capitated rate of payment that is actuarially sound and that is based on the number of beneficiaries who are eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.51
  If the department determines that a program or programs cannot reasonably be capitated, funds may be transferred separately from the capitation payment. The amount of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.53
  (a) The department shall develop criteria to ensure that pilot project sites maintain fiscal solvency, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) The capability...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.6
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that local entities that are potential participants in this pilot program shall be assured of sufficient time...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.61
  The department may adopt emergency regulations as necessary to implement this article in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14139.62
  Contingent on the availability of funding, the department shall evaluate the effectiveness of each pilot project on a schedule that coincides with federal waiver reporting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14140
  The following definitions shall apply to the provisions of this article: (a) "Net worth" means: (1) Personal property, which consists of cash, savings accounts, securities,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14141
  Net worth liability shall be determined as of the time of the initial dialysis or parenteral hyperalimentation treatment and shall be reevaluated each year by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14142
  Notwithstanding Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, a person who is otherwise eligible for dialysis and related services under Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, except for his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14142.5
  Notwithstanding Section 14005.4 or 14005.7, a person requiring parenteral hyperalimentation and related services is eligible for these services under Medi-Cal pursuant to this section, as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14143
  The health care benefits and services specified in this article, to the extent that such benefits and services are neither provided under any other federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14144
  The provisions of this article do not apply to indigent dialysis or parenteral hyperalimentation patients who are otherwise eligible for Medi-Cal or to any person...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14144.5
  Notwithstanding any provision of this article or of any other statute to the contrary, any person who is eligible under Section 14005.4 or 14005.7 for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14145
  (a) Beginning with the 1998-99 fiscal year and contingent on appropriation of funds through the Budget Act, the department may contract with a nonprofit entity,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14145.1
  (a) The department may administer grants for purposes of this article, that shall be awarded through a request for application process. (1) Grants may be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14145.3
  (a) The department shall develop at least, but not limited to, one alternative model to the Long-Term Care Integration Pilot Program authorized under Article 4.3...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148
  (a) The department shall adopt the federal option provided under Section 4101 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 (Public Law 100-203) to extend...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.03
  (a) Pursuant to options provided in federal law and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the form used by a provider to collect information about...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.04
  (a) The department shall adopt, as specified in this section, an electronic process for families to enroll a deemed eligible newborn in the Medi-Cal program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.05
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Gateway Fund. (b) Moneys in the fund may be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.1
  To maximize federal financial participation, the department shall seek flexibility in implementing the requirements of Section 121 of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.2
  In order to assure access to obstetrical providers in the Medi-Cal program, the state department shall explore and adopt policies which improve provider relations with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.3
  The department shall seek federal approval to implement obstetrical case management for Medi-Cal eligible pregnant women when provided through the Child Health and Disability Prevention...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.4
  (a) The department shall eliminate the Medi-Cal reimbursement differential for obstetrical services by equalizing the rates of reimbursement for Caesarean section and non-Caesarean section care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.5
  (a) State funded perinatal services shall be provided under the Medi-Cal program to pregnant women and state funded medical services to infants up to one...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.6
  The department shall engage in outreach activities in order to enhance participation in and access to perinatal services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.7
  The department shall implement the federal options authorized by federal law to assist in the delivery of timely and continuing prenatal care by establishing the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.75
  At the earliest date that it is administratively feasible, the department shall adopt the federal medicaid option under Section 1902(l)(3) of the federal Social Security...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.8
  (a) The State Department of Health Services shall provide Medi-Cal reimbursements to alternative birth centers for facility-related delivery costs at a statewide all-inclusive rate per...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.9
  The department shall provide for the receipt and initial processing of Medi-Cal applications from (a) pregnant women; and (b) children born after September 30, 1983,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.9
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a strong statistical relationship between early entry into prenatal care and healthy birth outcomes. An investment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.91
  (a) No later than March 15 of each year, the department shall report to the appropriate committees of the Legislature and the Governor, on a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14148.98
  No funds from the Health Education Account in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund may be used in a manner that violates paragraph (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14149
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article, to expand eligibility for Medi-Cal benefits, with the exception of prescription drug benefits...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14149.3
  (a) Subject to subdivisions (b) and (c), paragraph (2) of subdivision (f), and subdivision (k), the department shall, commencing July 1, 2003, or the date...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14150
  Within 60 calendar days of the date that the annual Budget Act is chaptered, the department shall notify the chairpersons of the fiscal committees of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14151
  Bills for services rendered during the 1970-71 fiscal year to persons other than the beneficiaries under the California Medical Assistance Program submitted to the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14152
  Bills for services rendered during the 1970-71 fiscal year to beneficiaries under the California Medical Assistance Program are bills against the appropriation for the fiscal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14153
  Funds shall be advanced monthly to the respective counties for costs of administration of the Medi-Cal program in the manner prescribed in Chapter 9 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14154
  (a) (1) The department shall establish and maintain a plan whereby costs for county administration of the determination of eligibility for benefits under this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14154.1
  Reimbursement for any Medi-Cal county administrative costs shall be made subject to the requirements specified in the County Administrative Cost Control Plan, established pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14154.15
  (a) Any county may petition the department for an augmentation of its County Administrative Cost Control Plan in order to implement a plan, as provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14154.2
  (a) The Legislature finds that ambiguities have arisen regarding payment provisions relating to certain costs incurred in processing Medi-Cal eligibility applications for various fiscal years,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14154.3
  (a) A provision of a Budget Act or other statute shall not be interpreted or applied to limit the amount of federal financial participation, otherwise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14154.5
  (a) Each county shall work, on a routine basis, any error alert from the department's Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System (MEDS). Any alert that affects eligibility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14157
  There is hereby established a Health Care Deposit Fund from which expenditures of state, county and federal funds for health care and administration under this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14157.6
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any federal and county funds, excluding county funds used for the purposes of Section 4011.1 of the Penal Code,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14158
  Funds for the medical assistance program shall be provided annually by appropriation in the Budget Act. The amount of state funds appropriated shall be transferred...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14158.1
  Effective for expenditures incurred after enactment of any new demonstration project under Article 5.4 (commencing with Section 14180), any federal financial participation that is available...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14158.5
  Funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200), shall fully cover and shall not exceed the state's share of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14159
  Commencing with the 2004-05 fiscal year, expenditures for Medi-Cal services and fiscal intermediary and county administration costs included in the department's budget shall be charged...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14159.1
  The provisions of Chapter 577 of the Statutes of 1971 in no way eliminate fiscal obligation incurred prior to July 1, 1971, by any county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14160
  Whenever an amount is or was prior to the effective date of this section, erroneously deposited in the Health Care Deposit Fund, including, but not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14161
  Carriers and providers of Medi-Cal benefits shall be required to utilize uniform accounting and cost-reporting systems as shall be developed and adopted by the department....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14162
  (a) Beginning in 1991, the State Department of Health Services shall include in the November estimate of Medi-Cal expenditures and the Governor's Budget an estimate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14163
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) "Public entity" means a county, a city, a city and county, the State...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14164
  In addition to the required intergovernmental transfers set forth in Section 14163, any county, other political subdivision of the state, or governmental entity in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165
  (a) There is hereby created in the Governor's office the California Medical Assistance Commission, for the purpose of contracting with health care delivery systems for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.1
  The commission shall be composed of seven voting members and two ex officio members. The voting members shall be selected from persons with experience in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.2
  The Governor shall appoint three members of the commission, one of which shall be designated chairperson. The Speaker of the Assembly and the Senate Rules...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.3
  The commission shall hire an executive director, legal counsel and such other staff as necessary consistent with funds appropriated in the Budget Act. All professional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.4
  It is the intent of the Legislature that beginning July 1, 1983, the functions, powers, and duties contained in Article 2.6 (commencing with Section 14081)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.5
  The executive director shall act under the authority of the commission and shall negotiate the terms, services, and costs consistent with funds available. The commission...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.6
  The commission shall direct the planning, development and negotiation of contract services which provide for: (a) The provision of services through a capitation methodology, including,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.7
  All decisions of the commission shall be by a majority of four votes, including the hiring of the executive director. The commission shall retain an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.8
  The commission shall be reimbursed at the annual salary of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), beginning on January 1, 2006. The commission shall set the salary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.9
  The commission shall report to the Legislature on January 1 and May 1 of each year. The January report shall include all of the following:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.95
  On or before February 1, 1984, the commission shall submit to the Legislature an evaluation of its inpatient hospital service procedure, including, but not limited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.10
  The commission or department may direct independent studies, to include, but not be limited to, the following objectives: (a) The development of a method of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.11
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department of Corrections operate in the most effective and efficient manner possible when purchasing health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.50
  (a) To facilitate the financial viability of a new private nonprofit hospital that will serve the population of South Los Angeles that was formerly served...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.55
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Bad debt charges" means deductions from revenue for bad debt. (b) "Charity care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.56
  (a) The department shall establish, implement, and maintain the Nondesignated Public Hospital Intergovernmental Transfer Program to provide supplemental payments to nondesignated public hospitals in a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14165.57
  (a) The IGT allocation formula shall use data from each nondesignated public hospital's latest Hospital Annual Financial Disclosure Report on file with OSHPD as of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166
  (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Medi-Cal Hospital/Uninsured Care Demonstration Project Act." (b) The Legislature finds and declares all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.1
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Allowable costs" means those costs recognized as allowable under Medicare reasonable cost principles and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.2
  (a) The demonstration project, and the successor demonstration project, as applicable, shall be implemented and administered pursuant to this article. (b) (1) The director may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.3
  (a) During the demonstration project and successor demonstration project terms, payment adjustments to disproportionate share hospitals shall not be made pursuant to Section 14105.98. Payment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.35
  (a) For each project year through October 31, 2010, designated public hospitals shall be eligible to receive the following: (1) Payments for Medi-Cal inpatient hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.4
  (a) Notwithstanding Article 2.6 (commencing with Section 14081), and any other provision of law, fee-for-service payments to the designated public hospitals for inpatient services to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.5
  (a) With respect to each project year through October 31, 2010, the director shall determine a baseline funding amount for each designated public hospital. A...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.6
  (a) For the 2005-06 project year and subsequent project years through October 31, 2010, each designated public hospital described in subdivision (c) of Section 14166.3...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.61
  (a) For successor demonstration year 6 and subsequent successor demonstration years, each designated public hospital described in subdivision (c) of Section 14166.3 shall be eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.7
  (a) (1) With respect to each project year through October 31, 2010, designated public hospitals, or governmental entities with which they are affiliated, shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.71
  (a) (1) With respect to each successor demonstration year, designated public hospitals, or governmental entities with which they are affiliated, shall be eligible to receive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.75
  (a) For services provided during the 2005-06 and 2006-07 project years, the amount allocated to designated public hospitals pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.77
  (a) (1) The amount of delivery system reform incentive pool funding, consisting of both the federal and nonfederal share of payments, that is made available...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.8
  (a) Within five months after the end of each project year or successor demonstration year, each of the designated public hospitals shall submit to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.9
  (a) The department, in consultation with the designated public hospitals, shall determine the mix of sources of federal funds for payments to the designated public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.10
  (a) Payments to private hospitals under the demonstration project shall include, as applicable, all of the following: (1) Payments under selective provider contracts with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.11
  (a) The department shall pay to each project year private DSH hospital the amounts that would have been paid under the disproportionate share hospital program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.115
  (a) Due to the state budget deficit and in order to implement changes in the level of funding for health care services, the department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.12
  (a) The California Medical Assistance Commission shall negotiate payment amounts, in accordance with the selective provider contracting program established pursuant to Article 2.6 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.13
  (a) With respect to each project year, the director shall determine a baseline funding amount for each base year private DSH hospital that is also...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.14
  The amount of any stabilization funding payable to the project year private DSH hospitals under Section 14166.20 for a project year, which amount shall not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.15
  (a) Payments to nondesignated public hospitals under the demonstration project shall include, as applicable, the following: (1) Payments under selective provider contracts with the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.16
  (a) The department shall pay to each nondesignated public hospital that is an eligible hospital for the project year, as determined under Section 14105.98, disproportionate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.17
  (a) The California Medical Assistance Commission shall negotiate payment amounts in accordance with the selective provider contracting program established pursuant to Article 2.6 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.18
  (a) With respect to each project year, the director shall determine a baseline funding amount for each nondesignated public hospital that was an eligible hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.19
  The amount of any stabilization funding payable to the nondesignated public hospitals under paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 14166.20 for a project year,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.20
  (a) With respect to each project year through October 31, 2010, the total amount of stabilization funding shall be the sum of the following: (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.21
  (a) The Health Care Support Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the fund shall be continuously...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.22
  (a) To the extent required to maximize available federal funds under the demonstration project and to the extent authorized by the Special Terms and Conditions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.221
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature for the department to maximize the receipt of federal funds for California's Medi-Cal program, including this demonstration...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.225
  (a) In order to implement changes in the level of funding for health care services, the director shall reduce safety net care pool payments as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.23
  (a) For purposes of this section, "distressed hospitals" are hospitals that participate in selective providers contracting under Article 2.6 (commencing with Section 14081) and that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.24
  (a) Any determination of the amount due a designated public hospital that is based in whole or in part on costs reported to or audited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.245
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the state faces a fiscal crisis that requires unprecedented measures to be taken to reduce General Fund expenditures...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.25
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) In light of the closure of Los Angeles County Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.252
  (a) In the event of a partial year extension of a demonstration project pursuant to this article, the director shall have discretion to determine allocations...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14166.26
  (a) Unless this article is repealed pursuant to subdivision (b) or (g) of Section 14166.2, this article shall become inoperative on the date that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.1
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Acute psychiatric days" means the total number of Short-Doyle administrative days, Short-Doyle acute care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.2
  (a) Private hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital outpatient services as set forth in this section. The supplemental amounts shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.3
  (a) Private hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital inpatient services and subacute services as set forth in this section. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.4
  (a) Nondesignated public hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital inpatient services as set forth in this section. The supplemental amounts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.5
  (a) Designated public hospitals shall be paid direct grants in support of health care expenditures, which shall not constitute Medi-Cal payments, and which shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.6
  (a) The department shall increase capitation payments to Medi-Cal managed health care plans for the subject fiscal years as set forth in this section. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.7
  (a) The amount of any payments made under this article to private hospitals, including the amount of payments made under Sections 14167.2 and 14167.3 and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.8
  The payments to a hospital under this article shall not be made for a subject fiscal year or any portion of a subject fiscal year...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.9
  Subject to the limitations in Section 14167.14, the following shall apply: (a) (1) The department shall make to hospitals the payments described in Sections 14167.2,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.10
  (a) Each managed health care plan receiving increased capitation payments under Section 14167.6 shall expend the capitation rate increases in a manner consistent with actuarial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.11
  (a) The department shall increase payments to mental health plans for the subject fiscal years as set forth in this section. The aggregate amount of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.12
  (a) At the same time that the state makes an increased payment to a mental health plan under Section 14167.11, the state shall notify the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.13
  (a) Payment rates for hospital outpatient services, furnished by private hospitals, nondesignated public hospitals, and designated public hospitals before January 1, 2011, exclusive of amounts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.14
  (a) The director shall do all of the following: (1) Submit any state plan amendment or waiver request that may be necessary to implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.15
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.22 (commencing with Section 14167.31), the director may proportionately reduce the amount of any supplemental payments,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.16
  The director may, pursuant to Section 14167.39, decide not to implement or to discontinue implementation of this article and Article 5.22 (commencing with Section 14167.31),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.17
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.18
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the letter that indicates likely federal approval in accordance with Section 14167.352 has not been received on or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.31
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) (1) "Aggregate annual quality assurance fee" means, with respect to a hospital that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.32
  (a) There shall be imposed on each general acute care hospital that is not an exempt facility a quality assurance fee, provided that a quality...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.35
  (a) The Hospital Quality Assurance Revenue Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) (1) All fees required to be paid to the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.351
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the funds in the Hospital Quality Assurance Revenue Fund identified pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.352
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.21 (commencing with Section 14167.1) requiring federal approvals, the department may impose and collect the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.353
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director shall have discretion to modify any timeline or timelines in this article or Article 5.21 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.354
  (a) (1) Upon receipt of a letter that indicates likely federal approval that the director determines is sufficient for implementation under Section 14167.352, or upon...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.355
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the letter that indicates likely federal approval in accordance with Section 14167.352 has not been received on or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.36
  (a) This article shall only be implemented so long as the following conditions are met: (1) Subject to Section 14167.35, the quality assurance fee is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.37
  Each report or informational submission required from providers pursuant to this article shall contain a legal verification to be signed by the provider verifying that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.38
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.21 (commencing with Section 14167.1), supplemental payments or other payments under Article 5.21 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.39
  (a) This article and Article 5.21(commencing with Section 14167.1) shall become inoperative and the requirements for supplemental payments or other payments under Article 5.21 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14167.40
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.1
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Acute psychiatric days" means the total number of Short-Doyle administrative days, Short-Doyle acute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.2
  (a) Private hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital outpatient services as set forth in this section. The supplemental amounts shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.3
  (a) Private hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital inpatient services as set forth in this section. The supplemental amounts shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.5
  (a) The department shall increase capitation payments to Medi-Cal managed health care plans for the program period as set forth in this section. (b) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.6
  (a) Each managed health care plan receiving increased capitation payments under Section 14168.5 shall expend the capitation rate increases in a manner consistent with actuarial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.7
  (a) The department shall design and implement, in consultation with designated and nondesignated public hospitals, an IGT program relating to Medi-Cal managed care services provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.8
  (a) The amount of any payments made under this article to private hospitals, including the amount of payments made under Sections 14168.2 and 14168.3 and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.9
  The payments to a hospital under this article shall not be made for any portion of the program period during which the hospital is closed....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.10
  (a) The amount of any supplemental payment under this article for a new noncontract hospital shall be reduced by the amount by which that hospital's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.11
  The department shall make disbursements from the Hospital Quality Assurance Revenue Fund consistent with the following: (a) Fund disbursements shall be made periodically within 15...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.12
  (a) Exclusive of payments made under Article 5.21, payment rates for hospital outpatient services, furnished by private hospitals, nondesignated public hospitals, and designated public hospitals...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.13
  (a) The director shall do all of the following: (1) Promptly submit any state plan amendment or waiver request that may be necessary to implement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.14
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.227 (commencing with Section 14168.31), the director may proportionately reduce the amount of any supplemental payments,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.15
  The director may, pursuant to Section 14168.40, decide not to implement or to discontinue implementation of this article and Article 5.227 (commencing with Section 14168.31),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.16
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.17
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if federal approval or a letter that indicates likely federal approval in accordance with Section 14168.34 has not been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.175
  Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department shall implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.31
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) (1) "Aggregate quality assurance fee" means, with respect to a hospital that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.32
  (a) There shall be imposed on each general acute care hospital that is not an exempt facility a quality assurance fee, provided that a quality...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.33
  (a) (1) All fees required to be paid to the state pursuant to this article shall be paid in the form of remittances payable to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.34
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.226 (commencing with Section 14168.1) requiring federal approvals, the department may impose and collect the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.35
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director shall have discretion to modify any timeline or timelines in this article or Article 5.226 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.36
  (a) Upon receipt of a letter that indicates likely federal approval that the director determines is sufficient for implementation under Section 14168.34, or upon the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.37
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if actual federal approval or a letter that indicates likely federal approval in accordance with Section 14168.34 has not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.38
  (a) This article shall be implemented only as long as all of the following conditions are met: (1) Subject to Section 14168.33, the quality assurance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.39
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.226 (commencing with Section 14168.1), supplemental payments or other payments under Article 5.226 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.40
  (a) This article and Article 5.226 (commencing with Section 14168.1) shall become inoperative and the requirements for supplemental payments or other payments under Article 5.226...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.40.5
  Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department shall implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14168.41
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2013, the date of the last payment of quality assurance fee payments pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.1
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Acute psychiatric days" means the total number of Short-Doyle administrative days, Short-Doyle acute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.2
  (a) Private hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital outpatient services as set forth in this section. The supplemental amounts shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.3
  (a) Except as provided in Section 14169.19, private hospitals shall be paid supplemental amounts for the provision of hospital inpatient services for the program period...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.5
  (a) The department shall increase capitation payments to Medi-Cal managed health care plans for each subject fiscal year as set forth in this section. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.6
  (a) Each managed health care plan receiving increased capitation payments under Section 14169.5 shall expend the capitation rate increases in a manner consistent with actuarial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.7
  (a) Designated public hospitals shall be paid direct grants in support of health care expenditures, which shall not constitute Medi-Cal payments, and which shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.7.5
  (a) The Low Income Health Program MCE Out-of-Network Emergency Care Services Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The moneys in the fund shall,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.8
  (a) The amount of any payments made under this article to private hospitals, including the amount of payments made under Sections 14169.2, 14169.3, and 14169.7.5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.9
  The payments to a hospital under this article shall not be made for any portion of a subject fiscal year during which the hospital is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.10
  (a) For only as long as the selective provider contracting program pursuant to Article 2.6 (commencing with Section 14081) is in effect, the amount of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.11
  The department shall make disbursements from the Hospital Quality Assurance Revenue Fund consistent with the following: (a) Fund disbursements shall be made periodically within 15...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.12
  (a) Exclusive of payments made under Article 5.21 (commencing with Section 14167.1) and Article 5.226 (commencing with Section 14168.1), payment rates for hospital outpatient services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.13
  (a) The director shall do all of the following: (1) Promptly submit any state plan amendment or waiver request that may be necessary to implement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.14
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.229 (commencing with Section 14169.31), the director may proportionately reduce the amount of any supplemental payments...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.15
  The director may, pursuant to Section 14169.40, decide not to implement or to discontinue implementation of this article and Article 5.229 (commencing with Section 14169.31),...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.16
  This article shall remain in effect only until July 1, 2014, the date the last payment of quality assurance fee payments pursuant to Article 5.229...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.17
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if federal approval or a letter that indicates likely federal approval in accordance with Section 14169.34 has not been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.17.5
  Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department shall implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.18
  (a) If the director determines that this article has become inoperative pursuant to Section 14169.13, 14169.17, or 14169.40, the director shall execute a declaration stating...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.19
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to consider legislation requiring the director to seek approval to increase payments to hospitals in accordance with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.31
  For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) (1) "Aggregate quality assurance fee" means, with respect to a hospital that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.32
  (a) There shall be imposed on each general acute care hospital that is not an exempt facility a quality assurance fee, provided that a quality...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.33
  (a) (1) All fees required to be paid to the state pursuant to this article shall be paid in the form of remittances payable to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.34
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.228 (commencing with Section 14169.1) requiring federal approvals, the department may impose and collect the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.35
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the director shall have discretion to modify any timeline or timelines in this article or Article 5.228 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.36
  (a) Upon receipt of a letter that indicates likely federal approval that the director determines is sufficient for implementation under Section 14169.34, or upon the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.37
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if actual federal approval or a letter that indicates likely federal approval in accordance with Section 14169.34 has not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.38
  (a) This article shall be implemented only as long as all of the following conditions are met: (1) Subject to Section 14169.33, the quality assurance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.39
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this article or Article 5.228 (commencing with Section 14169.1), supplemental payments or other payments under Article 5.228 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.40
  (a) This article and Article 5.228 (commencing with Section 14169.1) shall become inoperative and the requirements for supplemental payments or other payments under Article 5.228...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.40.5
  Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department shall implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.41
  This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2015, the date of the last payment of quality assurance fee payments pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14169.42
  (a) If the director determines that this article has become inoperative pursuant to Section 14169.37, 14169.38, or 14169.40, the director shall execute a declaration stating...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14170
  (a) (1) Amounts paid for services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries shall be audited by the department in the manner and form prescribed by the department....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14170.1
  (a) Prior to the issuance to a provider of pharmaceutical services of any demand for payment pursuant to an audit or examination conducted under Sections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14170.5
  (a) No provider's claims for reimbursement under this chapter shall be subject to any special claims review procedure for a period in excess of nine...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14170.8
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, every primary supplier of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, or supplies shall maintain accounting records to demonstrate the manufacture, assembly,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14170.10
  (a) No provider shall submit a claim to the department or its fiscal intermediaries for the dispensing or furnishing of a controlled drug, a dangerous...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14170.11
  (a) No person or entity shall submit a claim to the department or its fiscal intermediaries for reimbursement under the Medi-Cal program for a nerve...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14171
  (a) The director shall establish administrative appeal processes to review grievances or complaints arising from the findings of an audit or examination made pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14171.5
  Any institutional provider of health care services that obtained reimbursement under this chapter to which it is not entitled shall be subject to the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14171.6
  (a) (1) Any provider, as defined in paragraph (3), that obtains reimbursement under this chapter to which it is not entitled shall be subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14172
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), if any amount is due and payable and unpaid as the result of an overpayment to a provider...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14172.5
  (a) No later than 60 days after the completion of an audit or examination pursuant to Sections 10722 and 14170, the department shall issue the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14173
  An abstract of a judgment obtained pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 14172 or a copy thereof may be recorded with the county recorder of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14174
  The right of the director to use the summary judgment procedure contained in this article shall be in addition to any other collection procedure available...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14175
  The director may release any lien imposed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 14172 if he finds that the liability represented by the lien, including...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14176
  The director may recover a due and payable overpayment made to a provider which is or has been participating under the provisions of this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14176.5
  Whenever it has been determined, pursuant to an audit conducted by the department, that an overpayment for Medi-Cal services has been made to a hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14177
  When it has been determined that a provider of health care services participating under the provisions of this chapter has received an overpayment which is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14178
  (a) Counties shall be held harmless in accordance with the provisions of this section for state funds to be recouped pursuant to audit exceptions issued...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14180
  (a) The department shall submit an application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver or a demonstration project to implement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14181
  (a) The California Health and Human Services Agency or successor entity or designated department shall submit an implementation plan to the appropriate policy and fiscal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182
  (a) (1) In furtherance of the waiver or demonstration project developed pursuant to Section 14180, the department may require seniors and persons with disabilities who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182.1
  (a) Beginning March 2011, the department shall convene a stakeholder workgroup to review the existing encounter, claims, and financial data submission process required by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182.15
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, to the extent that it does not jeopardize other federal funding and is permitted by federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182.2
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14094.3, in furtherance of the waiver or demonstration project developed pursuant to Section 14180, the director shall establish, by January 1, 2012,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182.3
  (a) To the extent the provisions of Article 5.2 (commencing with Section 14166) do not conflict with the provisions of this article or the Special...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182.4
  (a) To the extent authorized under a federal waiver or demonstration project described in Section 14180 that is approved by the federal Centers for Medicare...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182.45
  In consultation with the designated public hospitals, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 14166.1, and to the extent it does not impede the ability...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14182.9
  Notwithstanding the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14183.6
  The department shall enter into an interagency agreement with the Department of Managed Health Care to have the Department of Managed Health Care, on behalf...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14185
  (a) A managed care plan, as defined in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 14093.05, that has prescription drugs as one of its benefits and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14191
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no payment for care or services shall be made under Medi-Cal to the attending physician under this chapter for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14192
  Willful failure on the part of a health facility to comply with the provisions of the regulations of the department under this article shall constitute...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14193
  The department shall transmit any data acquired by it regarding willful failure of a physician and surgeon to comply with the regulations of the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14194
  The department shall submit reports to the Legislature as to compliance by health facilities with the requirements of this article, 6, 12, and 24 months...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195
  It is the intent of the Legislature to provide medical assistance, including prescribed drugs, to the state's eligible poor in a manner consistent with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195.2
  The open drug formulary, as established pursuant to this article, shall be implemented in one pilot project site. The site shall be located in a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195.3
  (a) For purposes of the open drug formulary pilot project as established by this article, a provider may be reimbursed for any drug prescribed to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195.4
  A Medi-Cal Therapeutic Drug Utilization and Review Committee is hereby established. The committee shall be composed of 17 members who shall serve at the pleasure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195.5
  The Medi-Cal Therapeutic Drug Utilization and Review Committee shall set standards for evaluation of the therapeutic outcomes of prescribed drugs to be applied by an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195.6
  The department shall develop a request for a proposal, and may award a contract to an expert contractor to implement the standards and practices established...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195.7
  This article shall not apply to any service rendered by a provider in conjunction with any capitated rate or primary care case contract negotiated pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14195.9
  In no case shall the director's discretion under Section 14120 be exercised to reduce reimbursement to providers of pharmaceutical services because of increased costs in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14196
  (a) The department shall adopt any regulations necessary to implement this article. These regulations shall be adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with Chapter 3.5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14198.1
  (a) A hospital or its successor entity, that has received funds pursuant to Section 14198 shall maintain burn and trauma services and continue to provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14198.2
  (a) The Regional Burn and Trauma Center Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, under the administrative control of the State Department of Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14200
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Waxman-Duffy Prepaid Health Plan Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14200.1
  The purpose of this chapter is to afford persons eligible to receive benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part the opportunity...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14201
  The intent of the Legislature is to provide, to the extent feasible, through the provisions of this chapter and the necessarily related provisions of Chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14203
  (a) For purposes of administering this chapter and Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part, the department is hereby designated as the single...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14204
  (a) Pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the department may contract with one or more prepaid health plans in order to provide the benefits...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14205
  Except where the context otherwise requires, or where specific exceptions are authorized, all provisions of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14206
  (a) No prepaid health plan or pilot program shall be deemed to transact insurance or to be subject to any provision of the Insurance Code...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14250
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14251
  "Prepaid health plan" means any plan which meets all of the following criteria: (a) Licensed as a health care service plan by the Director of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14252
  "Medi-Cal beneficiary" means a person who is eligible to receive benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14253
  "Subcontract" means an agreement entered into by the prepaid health plan with any of the following: (a) A provider of health care services who agrees...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14254
  "Primary care physician" is a physician who has the responsibility for providing initial and primary care to patients, for maintaining the continuity of patient care,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14255
  "Specialist" means a physician who is board certified or board eligible in the specialty of medical care provided.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14256
  The "basic scope of health care benefits" means: (a) Physician's services; (b) Hospital outpatient services; (c) Laboratory and X-ray; (d) Prescription drugs; (e) Hospital inpatient...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14257
  Nothing in this act shall preclude the director from contracting with licensed specialized health care service plans which provide only dental, pharmaceutical, optometric, or psychological...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14258
  "Service area" means a geographical area designated by the department within which a prepaid health plan shall provide health care services and within which the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14259
  "Director" means the State Director of Health Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14260
  "Department" means the State Department of Health Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14261
  "Vendor" means any person who provides services or supplies to a prepaid health plan or a subcontractor of a prepaid health plan and who does...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14263
  "Marketing" means any activity conducted by or on behalf of a prepaid health plan where information regarding the services offered by a prepaid health plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14264
  "Marketing organization" means any subcontractor who agrees to provide marketing services for a prepaid health plan.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14265
  "Marketing representative" means any person who engages in marketing activities on behalf of a marketing organization or the prepaid health plan.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14300
  The department shall publish a notice of intent to contract at least 60 days prior to the effective date of any initial or renewed contract....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14301
  (a) The department shall determine, by actuarial methods, prospective per capita rates of payment for services provided under this chapter for Medi-Cal beneficiaries enrolled in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14301.1
  (a) For rates established on or after August 1, 2007, the department shall pay capitation rates to health plans participating in the Medi-Cal managed care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14301.11
  (a) The department shall use funds attributable to the tax on Medi-Cal managed care plans imposed by Section 12201 of the Revenue and Taxation Code...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14301.4
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature, to the extent federal financial participation is not jeopardized and consistent with federal law, that the intergovernmental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14302
  Except as provided in Section 14490, the duration of initial contracts entered into pursuant to this chapter shall be for a maximum of one year...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14302.1
  Once it is determined that a contract shall be renewed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter with a prepaid health plan, by the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14303
  No contract between the department and the prepaid health plan shall be amended without the public notice and if necessary the holding of a public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14303.1
  The department shall have authority to amend a prepaid health plan contract in accordance with the terms of a merger of a prepaid health plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14303.2
  The department shall have authority to amend a prepaid health plan contract in accordance with the terms of the reorganization of a prepaid health plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14303.3
  The department shall renew a contract unless good cause is shown for nonrenewal.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14304
  (a) The director shall terminate a contract with a prepaid health plan or a Medi-Cal managed health care plan if he or she finds that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14304.5
  Each prepaid health plan shall provide directly or through subcontractors, not less than the basic scope of health care benefits as defined in Section 14256....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14305
  The department may limit the scope of health care benefits provided by a prepaid health plan under this chapter to exclude the care of illness...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14308
  (a) Each prepaid health plan shall furnish to the director such information and reports as required by Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14309
  The department shall provide for a continuing study of the quality of care and services resulting from the operation of this chapter and for surveys...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14311
  Prepaid health plans, the services they provide, and the persons receiving these services shall not be subject to the limitations on services set forth in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14312
  The director shall adopt all necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter. In adopting such rules and regulations, the director...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14314
  The director may recover a due and payable overpayment made to a prepaid health plan by means of a repayment agreement executed between such prepaid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14315
  When it has been determined that a prepaid health plan has received an overpayment which is due and payable, the director may recover such overpayment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14316
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, contracts with plans which are entered into, renewed, or amended pursuant to this article may include one or more...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14400
  Every prepaid health plan shall have an open enrollment period at least once every year. During the open enrollment period the plan shall accept up...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14401
  No Medi-Cal beneficiary shall be enrolled in a prepaid health plan prior to the time a contract under this chapter is signed by the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14402
  The prepaid health plan shall enroll only those Medi-Cal beneficiaries who reside within the contract service area. Prepaid health plans shall use a standard application...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14403
  No Medi-Cal beneficiary shall be enrolled in more than one prepaid health plan at any time.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14406
  (a) Within seven days after the effective date of enrollment, the prepaid health plan shall provide in writing the following information to a new enrollee...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14407
  Enrollment in a prepaid health plan shall be voluntary and a prepaid health plan shall not use false advertising or false statements to induce enrollment....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14407.1
  (a) A contractor that has entered into a contract with the department under this chapter, or under another Medi-Cal managed care contracting authority, may offer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14407.6
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 14407.5, the department shall, to the extent permitted by federal law or under federal waivers which the department may obtain, establish a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14408
  (a) Except as otherwise prohibited by law, a contractor that has entered into a contract with the department pursuant to this chapter may make the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14408.5
  A prepaid health plan that contracts with Medi-Cal managed care or contracts with the Healthy Families Program may provide application assistance pursuant to Section 12693.325...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14409
  (a) No prepaid health plan, marketing representative, or marketing organization shall in any manner misrepresent itself, the plans it represents, or the Medi-Cal program or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14410
  No prepaid health plan or marketing representative shall adopt or utilize any procedure to identify prospective enrollees with medical or psychiatric problems in order to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14411
  (a) No prepaid health plan or marketing organization shall solicit prospective enrollees on county premises for benefits or services available pursuant to this chapter except...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14412
  (a) The enrollment of a Medi-Cal beneficiary in the prepaid health plan shall not be terminated except for loss of eligibility, for good cause as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14413
  (a) Requests for disenrollment shall be made to an authorized representative of the prepaid health plan or to the department. All requests for disenrollment, except...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14450
  (a) No contract between the department and a prepaid health plan shall be approved or renewed unless the providers and the facilities of the prepaid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14450.5
  (a) No contract between the department and a prepaid health plan that is contracting with, or that is governed, owned, or operated by, a county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14451
  Services under a prepaid health plan contract shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14451.5
  (a) A prepaid health plan contractor may not enter into subcontracts when such an action would remove from the contractor his obligation to bear a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14452
  (a) All subcontracts shall be entered into pursuant to the requirements of the Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975, or the requirements of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14452.3
  Each prepaid health plan shall provide the services of an optometrist and ophthalmologist when the prepaid health plan contract requires the provision of vision care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14452.4
  Where the prepaid health plan agrees to provide dental services such services shall be provided in a manner that does not require the enrollees to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14452.5
  Each prepaid health plan shall provide the services of a psychologist and psychiatrist when the prepaid health plan contract requires the provision of mental health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14452.6
  Prepaid health plans, or their subcontractors, shall not bill any enrollee for covered benefits provided under this chapter and for which capitation has been paid,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14453
  In compensating directors and officers, the prepaid health plan shall not compensate at a rate substantially greater than the prevailing charge for similar services in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14454
  (a) The prepaid health plan shall be liable for all in-area and out-of-area emergency services which are required by the contract and rendered by a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14455
  The prepaid health plan shall maintain a complete unit medical record for each enrollee. Enrollee medical records shall also include records of all treatment received...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14456
  The department shall conduct annual medical audits of each prepaid health plan unless the director determines there is good cause for additional reviews. The reviews...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14456.5
  (a) For purposes of this section, Medi-Cal managed care plan means any prepaid health plan or Medi-Cal managed care plan contracting with the department to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14457
  In addition to the reviews required or authorized by Section 14456, the department shall conduct periodic onsite visits or additional visits after a determination by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14458
  The prepaid health plan shall establish procedures for continuously reviewing the quality of care, performance of medical personnel, the utilization of services and facilities, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14459
  (a) The prepaid health plan shall maintain financial records and shall have an annual audit or additional audits after a determination by the director of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14459.5
  (a) As delegated by the federal government, the department has responsibility for monitoring the quality of all medicaid services provided in the state. A key...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14459.7
  (a) The department shall implement a Management Information System/Decision Support System (MIS/DSS) for the Medi-Cal Program, that shall integrate data from managed care plans to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14460
  A schedule of reviews, visits, and audits shall be jointly established by the Department of Managed Health Care or the Department of Insurance, as the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14461
  Upon request by the department, each prepaid health plan shall submit to the department a copy of any financial report submitted to any other public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14462
  In accordance with Section 14081.5, the provisions of Section 15459 of the Government Code shall not be applicable to a hospital, whether or not it...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14463
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, each prepaid health plan shall be responsible for all of the costs of services rendered under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14464
  (a) The department may negotiate and establish an individual administrative cost limit in its contracts with each prepaid health plan or Medi-Cal managed care plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14465
  For purposes of this article and Section 14454, "emergency services" shall have the same meaning as that established in Section 1317.1 of the Health and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14466
  The plan shall make a request to the department to temporarily disenroll any enrollee for the month or months in which the patient is hospitalized...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14475
  (a) No prepaid health plan or pilot program contract shall be approved or renewed by the department pursuant to this chapter if any state officer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14476
  The chief executive, sole proprietor, or managing partner of each prepaid health plan shall file with the department an annual statement disclosing any purchases or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14477
  (a) For purposes of this article, "state officer" means a United States Senator or Member of Congress representing California, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14478
  (a) As used in this chapter, "substantial financial interest" means the ownership of common stock, preferred stock, warrants, options, loans, partnership interests, debt instruments, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14479
  (a) No prepaid health plan or pilot program contract shall be approved, renewed or continued by the department if a state officer or state employee...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14480
  No prepaid health plan or pilot program contract with an existing or proposed contractor shall be approved or renewed if a state officer or state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14481
  No prepaid health plan or pilot program contract shall be approved or renewed if any state officer or state employee receives anything of value for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14482
  No prepaid health plan shall contract with any subcontractor other than the plan's subsidiary corporation, its parent corporation, or another subsidiary of its parent corporation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14490
  In providing benefits under this chapter and Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000), the director shall aggressively seek the development of alternative forms of financing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14491
  The director shall pursue the feasibility of establishing the following as pilot programs: (a) A capitated, risk-assuming contract with one or more regional fiscal intermediaries....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14493
  The director shall also consider programs which demonstrate an innovative and economical use of health personnel and are approved pursuant to Article 18 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14494
  The director may enter into other contracts under this article which do one or more of the following: (a) Demonstrate an innovative and economical use...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14495
  In establishing pilot programs, the director may do the following: (a) Provide benefits based on class of recipient, class of benefit, geographical area, or any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14495.10
  (a) The department shall establish a pilot program to provide continuous skilled nursing care as a benefit of the Medi-Cal program, when those services are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14496
  (a) Alternate methods of payment for a pilot program may include, but shall not be limited to, a prospectively negotiated reimbursement rate, fee-for-service, retainer, capitation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14497
  The director shall call a public hearing pursuant to Section 14300 prior to entering into or renewing a pilot program. The director shall make available...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.5
  (a) (1) In carrying out the intent of this article, the director shall contract for the operation of one local pilot program. Special consideration shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.6
  (a) The Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority may arrange with out-of-county Selective Provider Contracting Program hospitals that have negotiated hospital contracts and per diem rates...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.7
  The department may contract with one or more fiscal intermediaries in order to pay for benefits authorized under this chapter and Chapter 7 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.71
  For the purposes of this article, "fiscal intermediary" means an entity that agrees to pay for covered services provided to Medi-Cal eligibles in exchange for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.73
  A contract entered into under this article shall provide that a fiscal intermediary meets both of the following criteria: (a) The fiscal intermediary shall provide...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.74
  In determining the capitated rates to be paid to a fiscal intermediary during the first year of contracting under this article, the department shall utilize...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.75
  A fiscal intermediary may contract for the provision of services with any provider who would be eligible to provide services if services were to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14499.77
  All services, except those specified for exclusion by the department, received by Medi-Cal recipients residing in the geographical area served by the fiscal intermediary shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14500
  An Office of Family Planning shall be established within the State Department of Health Services. The Office of Family Planning shall be under the control...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14500.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that family planning includes, but is not limited to, an effective means to improve reproductive health by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14501
  The Office of Family Planning has all of the following functions, powers, and duties: (a) To make available to citizens of the state of childbearing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14501.5
  The Office of Family Planning shall develop and implement a sliding fee schedule for family planning services provided to individuals under this chapter. The fee...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14502
  The Office of Family Planning may, to the extent funds are available, and not more frequently than once each year, advance up to 25 percent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14503
  (a) Family planning services shall be offered to all former, current, or potential recipients of childbearing age (as provided by Public Law 92-603) and provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14503.5
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "AIDS" means acquired immune deficiency syndrome. (2) "Human immunodeficiency virus" or "HIV" means the etiologic virus of AIDS....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14504
  (a) The Male Involvement Program shall be a continuing program within the Office of Family Planning with the goal of reducing teenage pregnancy through promoting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14504.1
  (a) The Community Challenge Grants Program shall be a continuing program within the Office of Family Planning with the goal of reducing the number of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14504.2
  (a) The TeenSMART Program shall be a continuing program within the Office of Family Planning with the goal of reducing teenage pregnancies and reducing the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14504.3
  (a) The Information and Education Program shall be a continuing program within the Office of Family Planning with the goal of decreasing teenage pregnancies through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14505
  The State Department of Health Services succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction heretofore exercised by the Department of Benefit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14506
  The State Department of Health Services shall have the possession and control of all records, papers, equipment, and supplies held for the benefit or use...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14507
  All officers and employees of the Director of Benefit Payments who on the operative date of this section are serving in the state civil service,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14508
  It is the intent of the Legislature that all persons eligible for family planning services under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act and Title...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14509
  (a) The department shall award grants to persons to provide family planning services pursuant to this chapter. (b) No funds received pursuant to grants awarded...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14509.1
  (a) A grantee shall maintain records and accounts, including property, personnel, and financial records, in a form, format, and content that ensures a proper accounting...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14510
  (a) The department shall include provisions in grants with all grantees that explicitly describe the requirements and restrictions of this chapter. (b) The department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14511
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after the effective date of any repeal of Division 24 (commencing with Section 24000) of the Welfare...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14512
  It is the intent of the Legislature that all grants for the provision of direct services entered into by the Office of Family Planning under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14520
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Adult Day Health Medi-Cal Law.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14521
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to establish adult day health care as a Medi-Cal benefit and allow persons eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14521.1
  (a) Effective January 1, 2007, the department shall report annually to the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, as part of the budget...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14522
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in Part 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part and in Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14522.3
  The following definitions shall apply for the purposes of this chapter: (a) "Activities of daily living" (ADL) means activities performed by the participant for essential...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14522.4
  (a) The following definitions shall apply for the purposes of this chapter: (1) "Activities of daily living (ADL)" means activities performed by the participant for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14525
  Any adult eligible for benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) shall be eligible for adult day health care services if that person meets...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14525.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), any adult eligible for benefits under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) shall be eligible for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14526
  Participation in an adult day health care program shall require prior authorization by the department. The authorization request shall be initiated by the provider and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14526.1
  (a) Initial and subsequent treatment authorization requests may be granted for up to six calendar months. (b) Treatment authorization requests shall be initiated by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14526.2
  (a) Initial and subsequent treatment authorization requests may be granted for up to six calendar months, initial and subsequent treatment authorization requests may, at the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14527
  Participation in an adult day health care program shall be voluntary. The participant may end the participation at any time. However, an adult day health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14528
  Before acceptance into the program, all adult day health providers shall conduct a multidisciplinary assessment directed towards ascertaining the individual's pathological diagnosis, physical disability, functional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14528.1
  (a) The personal health care provider, as defined in Section 14552.3, shall have and retain responsibility for the participant's medical care. (b) If the participant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14529
  (a) The multidisciplinary health team conducting an assessment shall consist of at least the individual's personal physician or a staff physician, or both, a registered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14530
  (a) Individual plans of care shall be submitted to the department. Services for each participant shall be provided as specified in the individual plan of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14550
  Adult day health care centers shall offer, and shall provide directly on the premises, at least the following services: (a) Rehabilitation services, including the following:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14550.5
  Adult day health care centers shall offer, and provide directly on the premises, in accordance with the participant's individual plan of care, and subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14550.6
  Adult day health care centers shall offer, and provide directly on the premises, in accordance with the participant's individual plan of care, and subject to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14551
  The following additional services may also be provided: (a) Podiatric services provided or arranged for, or under direction of, the supervising physician. (b) Optometric screening...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14552
  In order to obtain certification as a provider of adult day health care under this chapter and Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000), the following...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14552.2
  (a) "Program plan" means a written description of the adult day health care center's philosophy, objectives, and processes for providing required services to the participant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14552.5
  Pursuant to Section 14043.46, the department may implement a one-year moratorium on the certification and enrollment into the Medi-Cal program of new adult day health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14553
  An adult day health care provider shall establish written policies and procedures, which shall have prior approval of the department, unless otherwise specified in an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14553.1
  The adult day health care center's policies and procedures shall include provisions for the following: (a) Designating the staff who will serve in the required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14554
  The adult day health care provider shall maintain a complete standard medical record for each participant, including records of treatment rendered by a subcontractor, according...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14555
  Each adult day health care provider shall establish a grievance procedure under which participants may submit their grievances. Such procedure shall be approved by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14570
  (a) The department shall adopt all necessary rules and regulations providing for quality of care and payment for services rendered under this chapter pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14571
  The department, in consultation with the California Association for Adult Day Services, shall develop a rate methodology. The methodology shall take into consideration all allowable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14571.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Adult day health care is a necessary component in achieving an integrated home- and community-based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14571.2
  (a) Subject to the provisions of this section, the department shall establish, effective August 1, 2012, a reimbursement methodology and a reimbursement limit for adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14571.5
  Federally qualified health centers shall be reimbursed on a prospective payment system rate basis pursuant to Section 14132.100 for the provision of adult day health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14572
  (a) No Medi-Cal reimbursement shall be made for a service rendered by an adult day health care provider that does not have a license as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14573
  (a) Initial Medi-Cal certification for adult day health care providers shall expire 12 months from the date of issuance. The director shall specify any date...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14574
  (a) The director shall terminate the Medi-Cal certification of any adult day health care provider at any time if he or she finds the provider...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14574.1
  (a) Every adult day health care center shall be periodically inspected and evaluated for quality of care by a representative or representatives designated by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14575
  Each adult day health care provider shall maintain a uniform accounting and reporting system as developed by the department, in consultation with the provider. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14576
  Each adult day health care provider shall furnish to the department, unless otherwise specified by the interagency agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1572 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14577
  All subcontracts for services reimbursable under this chapter shall be entered into pursuant to regulations of the department. All subcontracts shall be in writing, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14585
  For purposes of this article, "state officer or employee" means a Member of Congress representing the State of California; a Member of the Legislature; a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14586
  No Medi-Cal certification for an adult day health center shall be approved or renewed pursuant to this chapter if a state officer or employee, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14587
  No Medi-Cal certification for an adult day health center shall be approved or renewed if any state officer or employee has a direct financial interest...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14588
  No Medi-Cal certification for an adult day health center shall be approved or renewed if a state officer or employee, or the spouse or a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14589
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) During times of economic crisis, it is crucial to find areas within the program where efficiencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14589.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law related to the Medi-Cal program or to adult day health care, adult day health care is excluded from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14590
  (a) As a result of the enactment of this article to eliminate adult day health care as an optional benefit under the Medi-Cal program, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14591
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Community-based services to the frail elderly are often uncoordinated, fragmented, inappropriate, or insufficient to meet...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14592
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, "PACE organization" means an entity as defined in Section 460.6 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14593
  (a) (1) The department may enter into contracts with public or private nonprofit organizations for implementation of the PACE program, and also may enter into...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14600
  The Legislature finds and declares that expenditure demands on health service costs at the federal, state, and local level, now, and will in the foreseeable...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14601
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Department" means State Department of Health Services. (b) "Director" means State Director of Health Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14610
  As used in this article: (a) "Rate" means the rate of reimbursement per unit of service which is agreed to by the department and a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14611
  It is the intention of the Legislature to enact a method for reimbursing hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries on a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14612
  The Legislature further intends that the alternatives developed and tested pursuant to the provisions of this article shall be consistent with the following objectives: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14613
  (a) The department shall develop at least three alternative methods of reimbursing hospitals for providing inpatient and outpatient hospital services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries on a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14614
  Each alternative method for prospectively negotiated rate reimbursement developed pursuant to this article shall do the following: (a) Reduce administrative cost to the department and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14616
  Not sooner than 30 days after providing notification to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the department may implement on a test basis any of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14617
  Nothing in this article shall be construed to require that hospitals participate in a prospectively negotiated rate test, as provided by this article, as a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14619
  For the 1981-82 fiscal year, the Controller may transfer such funds among Items 426-001-001, 426-001-890, 426-101-001, and 426-101-890 of the Budget Act of 1981 as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14620
  Authority to implement negotiated hospital rates after the completion of the pilot study and after June 30, 1983, shall be contingent on both of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14640
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall allocate funds for the provision of mental health services to Medi-Cal eligible persons over 20 years of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14680
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a need to establish a standard set of guidelines that governs the provision of managed Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14680
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is a need to establish a standard set of guidelines that governs the provision of managed Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14681
  The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the State Department of Mental Health, shall ensure that all contracts for Medi-Cal managed care include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14682
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, the State Department of Mental Health shall be designated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14683
  The State Department of Mental Health shall ensure the following in the development of mental health plans: (a) That mental health plans include a process...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14684
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, mental health plans, whether administered by public or private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14684
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of state law, and to the extent permitted by federal law, mental health plans, whether administered by public or private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14684.1
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health shall establish a process for second level treatment authorization request appeals to review and resolve disputes between mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14685
  Counties shall have the right of first refusal to serve as a mental health plan. If a county elects not to serve as a mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14700
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to transfer to the State Department of Health Care Services, no later than July 1, 2012,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 14701
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Mental Health and the California Health and Human Services Agency,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15000
  Notwithstanding any provisions of Sections 29800 and 29805 of the Government Code, warrants payable to recipients of public assistance shall not include any word or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15001
  Any warrant issued in payment of aid under this division is subject to the provisions of Section 29802 of the Government Code. Each such warrant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15050.5
  All references in this division or in any other provision of law to the Social Welfare Federal Fund shall be deemed references to the Federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15100
  A revolving fund in the State Treasury is hereby created to be known as the Welfare Advance Fund. All moneys in the fund are appropriated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15125
  (a) The Central Benefit Issuance Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury. (b) The fund shall be administered by the State Department of Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15126
  Counties participating in the central benefit issuance system, pursuant to Section 11006.6, shall pay to the department, at regular intervals as determined by the department,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15150
  During such time as grants-in-aid are provided or made available by the United States government for public assistance in this state, the State Treasurer shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15150.5
  The director shall develop and implement an allocation formula for state funds and state administered federal funds that each county is to receive for social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15151
  During such times as grants-in-aid are provided or made available by the United States government for the purpose of defraying any portion of the costs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15151.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (2) of Section 15150 and Section 15151, the counties shall receive at least 66 percent of the amounts payable to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15152
  From the sums appropriated therefor by the State of California, the State Treasurer shall pay to each county an additional amount, which shall be used...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15153
  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section of this code, the method of computing and advancing funds to counties, both as to state funds and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15153.5
  Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, state and federal funds normally due counties for aid payments in behalf of appropriate participants under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15154
  Reports of amounts paid out for public assistance shall be presented by the respective counties at times and in the form prescribed by the department....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15200
  There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and after deducting federal funds available, the following sums: (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15200.05
  (a) Federal block grant funds received for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program pursuant to subtitle A (commencing with Section 401) of Title IV...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15200.15
  For purposes of Section 15200, any reference to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (e) of Section 11450 shall mean subdivisions (e) and (f) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15200.4
  (a) In administering the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program provided for under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200), excluding provisions relating to foster...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15200.5
  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (c) of Section 15200, the county shall be responsible for 100 percent of the nonfederal share of payments to needy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15201
  There is hereby continuously appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated to the department for allocation to the Secretary of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15203
  The state shall pay for an amount equal to the amount of any grant made by the county for blind persons who come within the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.1
  Commencing on June 1, 1973, the state shall pay, in addition to its share of costs of public assistance under Sections 15200 and 15203, an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.15
  To the extent permitted by federal law and upon authorization pursuant to statute, including the annual Budget Act, the Director of Finance may transfer moneys...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the annual Budget Act appropriate state and federal funds in a single allocation to counties for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.25
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount of federal funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act that equates to the amount claimed under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.3
  (a) Beginning in the 2000-01 fiscal year, allocation of funds provided under Section 15204.2 shall be made, in the case of funds for benefits administration...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.4
  In addition to the funds received under Section 15204.2, counties shall be required to expend money from their own funds, either from the county's general...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.5
  The department shall establish and maintain a plan whereby costs for county administration of the payment of aid grants under this part will be effectively...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.6
  (a) Contingent upon a Budget Act appropriation, a Pay for Performance Program shall provide additional funding for counties that meet the standards developed according to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.8
  (a) The Legislature may appropriate annually in the Budget Act funds to support services provided pursuant to Sections 11325.7 and 11325.8. (b) Funds appropriated pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15204.9
  The state shall pay 70 percent of the nonfederal administrative costs of administering the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Foster Care program under Article...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15205
  Notwithstanding the other provisions of this article, there shall be deducted from the moneys appropriated to each county under this article a sum equal to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15206
  The department is hereby authorized to establish those administrative support positions necessary to carry out the provisions of Chapter 924 of the Statutes of 1975....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15207
  The county shall estimate the social security increases for the month of October and such estimated increase shall be taken into consideration in determining eligibility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15300
  The Legislature finds that: (a) Elderly persons, like any other persons, prefer to remain in their own homes rather than in dependent living situations, including...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15301
  The purpose of this chapter is to use on an experimental pilot project basis, two model supportive care projects supervised by the State Department of
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15325
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter. (a) "Project" means a model supportive services project supervised...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15350
  The projects shall specifically delineate the scope and nature of services to be offered to participants. Services shall include: (a) Assistance with shopping. (b) Assistance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15351
  Projects may offer day care centers providing necessary meals, personal care and therapeutic activities.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15352
  Supportive care organization services shall be made available as needed. "Need" determinations shall be made jointly by the participants and project's staff. Any disagreements shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15375
  Projects shall establish eligibility criteria in order that a mix is obtained which will include both short-term and long-term participants who will make maximum use...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15376
  Participants shall be charged on a sliding-fee scale basis which is reasonably related to ability to pay. An effort shall be made by the projects...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15377
  No copayment charges shall be imposed upon Medi-Cal enrollees.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15400
  The supportive care organization shall make a concerted effort to employ persons over the age of 40 when such qualified personnel are available.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15401
  The project shall provide a single standard record for each participant, and shall cooperate with subcontractors and providers of noncovered services to maintain a complete...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15402
  The projects shall provide to the department and to the participants such statistical information regarding utilization of services, age and sex, specific mortality and morbidity...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15403
  The projects shall establish procedures for continuous review of utilization and cost of services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15404
  Participation in a supportive care project plan shall be voluntary and the project shall not use false advertising or any other form of coercion to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15405
  A participant grievance procedure must be established by the project through which an aggrieved participant may submit his complaint to the project which will hear...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15406
  If the participant is not satisfied with the project's disposition of his grievance, he may appeal the project's decision to the department. The department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15450
  The department shall request such waivers as are necessary for the use of health care moneys provided under Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15451
  Only federal funds may be used for the purposes of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15500
  Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15501
  "Supplemental food" means commodities specifically made available by the United States Department of Agriculture for persons in low-income groups vulnerable to malnutrition.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15502
  "Groups vulnerable to malnutrition" means women during and for 12 months after pregnancy, infants through 12 months, and preschool children 1 year through 5 years.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15503
  Persons from low-income groups include the following: (a) Persons receiving medical assistance under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part. (b) Persons qualified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15504
  Public social services as defined in Section 10051 also includes the supplemental food program provided in this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15510
  The director shall administer the provisions of this chapter and shall adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15511
  The county welfare department shall carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this chapter, subject to the supervision of the department and to rules and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15512
  Application for supplemental food shall be made to the county welfare agency who shall determine program eligibility.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15513
  The county welfare department shall contract with the local health department to determine the need of eligible persons for the nutrients in supplemental food and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15514
  The California State Education Agency for Surplus Property shall procure, store, handle, and dispose of supplemental food under rules and regulations of the department established...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15520
  The department shall pay the nonfederal share of the administration of program pursuant to this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15525
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish a Work Incentive Nutritional Supplement (WINS) program pursuant to this section. (b) Under the WINS program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15600
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that elders and dependent adults may be subjected to abuse, neglect, or abandonment and that this state has a responsibility to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15601
  The purposes of this act are to: (a) Require health practitioners, care custodians, clergy members, and employees of county adult protective services agencies and local...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610
  The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.05
  "Abandonment" means the desertion or willful forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult by anyone having care or custody of that person under circumstances...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.06
  "Abduction" means the removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state, or the restraint from returning to this state, of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.07
  "Abuse of an elder or a dependent adult" means either of the following: (a) Physical abuse, neglect, financial abuse, abandonment, isolation, abduction, or other treatment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.10
  "Adult protective services" means those preventive and remedial activities performed on behalf of elders and dependent adults who are unable to protect their own interests,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.13
  "Adult protective services agency" means a county welfare department, except persons who do not work directly with elders or dependent adults as part of their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.15
  "Bureau" means the Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud within the office of the Attorney General.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.17
  "Care custodian" means an administrator or an employee of any of the following public or private facilities or agencies, or persons providing care or services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.19
  "Clergy member" means a priest, minister, rabbi, religious practitioner, or similar functionary of a church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or recognized religious denomination or organization. "Clergy...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.20
  "Clients' rights advocate" means the individual or individuals assigned by a regional center or state hospital developmental center to be responsible for clients' rights assurance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.23
  (a) "Dependent adult" means any person between the ages of 18 and 64 years who resides in this state and who has physical or mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.25
  "Developmentally disabled person" means a person with a developmental disability specified by or as described in subdivision (a) of Section 4512.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.27
  "Elder" means any person residing in this state, 65 years of age or older.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.30
  (a) "Financial abuse" of an elder or dependent adult occurs when a person or entity does any of the following: (1) Takes, secretes, appropriates, obtains,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.35
  "Goods and services necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering" include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (a) The provision of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.37
  "Health practitioner" means a physician and surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, dentist, resident, intern, podiatrist, chiropractor, registered nurse, dental hygienist, licensed clinical social worker or associate clinical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.39
  "Imminent danger" means a substantial probability that an elder or dependent adult is in imminent or immediate risk of death or serious physical harm, through...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.40
  "Investigation" means that activity undertaken to determine the validity of a report of elder or dependent adult abuse.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.43
  (a) "Isolation" means any of the following: (1) Acts intentionally committed for the purpose of preventing, and that do serve to prevent, an elder or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.45
  "Local law enforcement agency" means a city police or county sheriff's department, or a county probation department, except persons who do not work directly with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.47
  "Long-term care facility" means any of the following: (a) Any long-term health care facility, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1418 of the Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.50
  "Long-term care ombudsman" means the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, local ombudsman coordinators, and other persons currently certified as ombudsmen by the Department of Aging as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.53
  "Mental suffering" means fear, agitation, confusion, severe depression, or other forms of serious emotional distress that is brought about by forms of intimidating behavior, threats,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.55
  (a) "Multidisciplinary personnel team" means any team of two or more persons who are trained in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment of abuse of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.57
  (a) "Neglect" means either of the following: (1) The negligent failure of any person having the care or custody of an elder or a dependent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.60
  "Patients' rights advocate" means a person who has no direct or indirect clinical or administrative responsibility for the patient, and who is responsible for ensuring...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.63
  "Physical abuse" means any of the following: (a) Assault, as defined in Section 240 of the Penal Code. (b) Battery, as defined in Section 242...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15610.65
  "Reasonable suspicion" means an objectively reasonable suspicion that a person would entertain, based upon facts that could cause a reasonable person in a like position,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15630
  (a) Any person who has assumed full or intermittent responsibility for the care or custody of an elder or dependent adult, whether or not he...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15630.1
  (a) As used in this section, "mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult" means all officers and employees of financial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15631
  (a) Any person who is not a mandated reporter under Section 15630, who knows, or reasonably suspects, that an elder or a dependent adult has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15632
  (a) In any court proceeding or administrative hearing, neither the physician-patient privilege nor the psychotherapist-patient privilege applies to the specific information reported pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15633
  (a) The reports made pursuant to Sections 15630, 15630.1, and 15631 shall be confidential and may be disclosed only as provided in subdivision (b). Any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15633.5
  (a) Information relevant to the incident of elder or dependent adult abuse may be given to an investigator from an adult protective services agency, a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15634
  (a) No care custodian, clergy member, health practitioner, mandated reporter of suspected financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult, or employee of an adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15636
  (a) Any victim of elder or dependent adult abuse may refuse or withdraw consent at any time to an investigation or the provision of protective...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15637
  In any court proceeding or administrative hearing, neither the physician-patient privilege nor the psychotherapist-patient privilege applies to the specific information required to be reported pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15640
  (a) (1) An adult protective services agency shall immediately, or as soon as practically possible, report by telephone to the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15650
  (a) Investigation of reports of known or suspected instances of abuse in long-term care facilities shall be the responsibility of the bureau, the local law...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15653
  (a) Minimum guidelines for use by county adult protective services agencies in determining when an investigation of abuse is warranted shall be maintained by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15653.5
  Training for determining when to refer for possible criminal prosecution a report of a known or suspected instance of abuse that occurred in a long-term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15654
  (a) As described in subdivision (h) of Section 12528 of the Government Code, the bureau shall offer training programs to local law enforcement and prosecutorial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15655
  (a) (1) Each long-term health care facility, as defined in Section 1418 of the Health and Safety Code, community care facility, as defined in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15655.5
  A county adult protective services agency shall provide the organizations listed in paragraphs (v), (w), and (x) of Section 15610.17, and mandated reporters of suspected...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15656
  (a) Any person who knows or reasonably should know that a person is an elder or dependent adult and who, under circumstances or conditions likely...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15653.5
  Training for determining when to refer for possible criminal prosecution a report of a known or suspected instance of abuse that occurred in a long-term...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15654
  (a) As described in subdivision (h) of Section 12528 of the Government Code, the bureau shall offer training programs to local law enforcement and prosecutorial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15655
  (a) (1) Each long-term health care facility, as defined in Section 1418 of the Health and Safety Code, community care facility, as defined in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15655.5
  A county adult protective services agency shall provide the organizations listed in paragraphs (v), (w), and (x) of Section 15610.17, and mandated reporters of suspected...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657
  Where it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that a defendant is liable for physical abuse as defined in Section 15610.63, or neglect as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.01
  Notwithstanding Section 483.010 of the Code of Civil Procedure, an attachment may be issued in any action for damages pursuant to Section 15657.5 for financial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.03
  (a) (1) An elder or dependent adult who has suffered abuse as defined in Section 15610.07 may seek protective orders as provided in this section....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.04
  (a) The court shall order that any party enjoined pursuant to Section 15657.03 be prohibited from taking any action to obtain the address or location...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.05
  Where it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that an individual is liable for abduction, as defined in Section 15610.06, in addition to all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.1
  The award of attorney's fees pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 15657 shall be based on all factors relevant to the value of the services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.2
  Notwithstanding this article, any cause of action for injury or damage against a health care provider, as defined in Section 340.5 of the Code of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.3
  (a) The department of the superior court having jurisdiction over probate conservatorships shall also have concurrent jurisdiction over civil actions and proceedings involving a claim...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.5
  (a) Where it is proven by a preponderance of the evidence that a defendant is liable for financial abuse, as defined in Section 15610.30, in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.6
  A person or entity that takes, secretes, appropriates, obtains, or retains, or assists in taking, secreting, appropriating, obtaining, or retaining the real or personal property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15657.7
  An action for damages pursuant to Sections 15657.5 and 15657.6 for financial abuse of an elder or dependent adult, as defined in Section 15610.30, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15658
  (1) On a form adopted by the State Department of Social Services after consultation with representatives of the various law enforcement agencies, the California Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15659
  (a) Any person who enters into employment on or after January 1, 1995, as a care custodian, clergy member, health practitioner, or with an adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15660
  (a) The Department of Justice shall secure any criminal record of a person to determine whether the person has ever been convicted of a violation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15670
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Instances of elder and dependent adult abuse are on the rise, with the majority of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15671
  (a) All initial certified nurse assistant and certified home health aide applicants, shall as a requirement for certification, undergo a criminal background check pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15673
  Home health aides certified prior to July 1, 1998, shall, as a condition of renewal of their certificates, undergo a criminal background check pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15675
  (a) Unless otherwise prohibited by law, the Department of Justice shall make available to the State Department of Health Services, at no cost, access to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15700
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Elder and dependent adults may be subjected to abuse, neglect, or abandonment, and that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15701
  The definitions contained in this article and Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 15600) shall govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15701.05
  "Appropriate temporary residence" means any of the following: (a) A home or dwelling belonging to a member of the endangered adult's family or next of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15701.25
  "Endangered adult" means a dependent or elder adult who is at immediate risk of serious injury or death, due to suspected abuse or neglect and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15701.4
  "Appropriate temporary protective services" means those services provided to ensure that the endangered adult is protected from the immediate risk of serious injury or death...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15703
  (a) When, from personal observation, an authorized state or local law enforcement officer or designated employee of a county department of social services or mental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15703.05
  Whether or not medical treatment is required, a physician treating an adult may, if he or she determines that the person is an endangered adult,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15703.1
  (a) Temporary emergency protective custody under this chapter shall not exceed a period commencing at the time the endangered adult has been taken into protective...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705
  (a) A designated county agency shall initiate an investigation and file a petition for issuance of an emergency protective services order within 24 hours after...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.05
  If, as a result of the preliminary hearing, the court determines that probable cause does not exist to continue temporary emergency protective custody, the adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.1
  If, as a result of the preliminary hearing, the court determines that probable cause continues to exist for temporary emergency protective custody, the court may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.15
  In issuing an emergency order under this article, the court shall adhere to all of the following limitations: (a) Only those protective services that are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.2
  A petition for an emergency order under this article shall set forth all of the following information: (a) The name, address, and interest of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.25
  (a) Notice of the filing of a petition for an emergency order shall be given, in language as understandable by the endangered adult as reasonably...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.30
  The hearing on a petition for an emergency order under this article shall be held under all of the following conditions: (a) The person with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.35
  Before any law enforcement agency may implement this article, including the taking of any person into protective custody pursuant to Section 15703, the law enforcement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.37
  This chapter shall be operative in a county only if the county board of supervisors has adopted a resolution to make this chapter operative in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15705.40
  This article shall not be used to circumvent the involuntary commitment process provided for pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5150) of Part 1...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15750
  The definitions contained in Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 15600) shall govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15751
  Each county welfare department shall establish and support a system of protective services to elderly and dependent adults who may be subjected to neglect, abuse,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15752
  Each county shall establish and maintain a specialized entity within the county welfare department which shall have lead responsibility for the operation of the adult...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15754
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law governing the disclosure of information and records, persons who are trained and qualified to serve on multidisciplinary personnel teams...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15755
  A law enforcement agency may seek a search warrant from a magistrate pursuant to the procedures set forth in Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1523)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15760
  Adult protective services shall include investigations, needs assessments, remedial and preventive social work activities; the necessary tangible resources such as food, transportation, emergency shelter, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15762
  When an allegation of abuse of an elder or dependent adult is reported to a county designated adult protective service agency and an agency social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15763
  (a) Each county shall establish an emergency response adult protective services program that shall provide in-person response, 24 hours per day, seven days per week,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15764
  Notwithstanding Section 10101.1, a county shall have no share of any nonfederal expenditures above the required expenditures for this program in the 1996-97 fiscal year,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15765
  This chapter shall become operative on May 1, 1999. Commencing with the 1999-2000 fiscal year, Sections 15760 to 15764, inclusive, shall be implemented only to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15766
  The investigation of allegations of elder and dependent adult abuse pursuant to this chapter, and the case management of elder and dependent adult abuse cases...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15900
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Approximately 21 percent of nonelderly Californians lack health insurance coverage. Many are low-income individuals who are not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15901
  (a) There is hereby established the Health Care Coverage Initiative to expand health care coverage to low-income uninsured individuals in California. (b) The Health Care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15902
  (a) Persons eligible to be served by the Health Care Coverage Initiative are low-income uninsured individuals who are not currently eligible for the Medi-Cal program,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15903
  The Health Care Coverage Initiative shall be designed and implemented to achieve all of the following outcomes: (a) Expand the number of Californians who have...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15904
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall issue a request for applications for funding the Health Care Coverage Initiative. (b) The department shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15905
  Applications submitted to the department shall include, but not be limited to, each of the following: (a) A description of the proposed Health Care Coverage...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15906
  (a) The department shall seek partnership with an independent, nonprofit group or foundation, an academic institution, or a governmental entity providing grants for health-related activities,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15907
  (a) The department shall monitor the programs funded under the initiative for compliance with applicable federal requirements and the requirements under this part, and pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15908
  (a) This part shall become inoperative on the date that the director executes a declaration, which shall be retained by the director and provided to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15909
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Pursuant to Section 14180, the Legislature directed the department to apply for a successor federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15909.1
  For purposes of this part, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Demonstration project" means a federal waiver or demonstration project described in Section 14180 approved...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15910
  (a) Subject to federal approval of a demonstration project effective on or after November 1, 2010, the department shall, by no later than July 1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15910.1
  (a) For LIHPs serving HCCI-eligible individuals , subject to federal funding limits or requirements that differ from the requirements for individuals described in subdivision (a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15910.2
  (a) The eligible entity shall meet both of the following requirements and any additional requirements imposed by the Special Terms and Conditions of the demonstration...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15910.3
  (a) In consultation with participating entities, the department shall determine actuarially sound per enrollee capitation rates for LIHPs that are adequate and sufficient to ensure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15910.4
  As a condition of participation in the voluntary program provided under this part, a LIHP shall comply with Section 14169.7.5.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15911
  (a) Funding for each LIHP shall be based on all of the following: (1) The amount of funding that the participating entity voluntarily provides for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15912
  (a) Subject to the Special Terms and Conditions of the demonstration project, the department shall ensure that the LIHPs established under this part are evaluated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15913
  Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department may implement, interpret,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15914
  The application process used by the department to authorize entities to operate LIHPs and any agreements entered into by, or modified by, the department for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15915
  In the event of a conflict between a provision of this part and a term or condition of the successor federal waiver or demonstration project...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15916
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Health Care Services and all other departments take all appropriate steps to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15925
  (a) This part shall be known, and may be cited, as the Health Care Reform Eligibility, Enrollment, and Retention Planning Act. (b) (1) The California...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 15926
  (a) The following definitions apply for purposes of this part: (1) "Accessible" means in compliance with Section 11135 of the Government Code, Section 1557 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16000
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to preserve and strengthen a child's family ties whenever possible, removing the child from the custody of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16000.1
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The state has a duty to care for and protect the children that the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16000.5
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-351) provides...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16000.6
  The State Department of Social Services shall negotiate in good faith with the Indian tribe, organization, or consortium in the state that requests development of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16001
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall provide technical assistance to encourage and facilitate the county placement agency's evaluation of placement needs and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16001.5
  The State Department of Social Services shall annually distribute information declaring the importance of promoting self-esteem with respect to foster children to all of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16001.7
  (a) The department shall promote the participation of current and former foster youth in the development of state foster care and child welfare policy. Subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16001.9
  (a) It is the policy of the state that all children in foster care shall have the following rights: (1) To live in a safe,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16002
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain the continuity of the family unit, and ensure the preservation and strengthening of the child's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16002.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to maintain the continuity of the family unit and to support and preserve families headed by minor parents...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16003
  (a) In order to promote the successful implementation of the statutory preference for foster care placement with a relative caretaker as set forth in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16004
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is an urgent need to develop placement resources to permit sibling groups to remain together in out-of-home...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16004.5
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is an urgent need to develop placement resources to permit minor parents and their children to remain...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16005
  Siblings shall be assigned to the same social worker when there is a prospective adoptive family that intends to adopt the children as a sibling...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16010
  (a) When a child is placed in foster care, the case plan for each child recommended pursuant to Section 358.1 shall include a summary of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16010.2
  The department, in consultation with pediatricians, other health care experts, including public health nurses, and experts in and recipients of child welfare services, including parents,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16010.4
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) The State of California is guardian to more than 90,000 children in foster care, more...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16010.5
  (a) When initially placing a child into foster care or kinship care, and within 48 hours of any subsequent placement of that child, the placing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16010.6
  (a) As soon as a placing agency makes a decision with respect to a placement or a change in placement of a dependent child, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16011
  (a) Subject to the conditions prescribed by this section, Los Angeles County may pursue the development and evaluation of a pilot Internet-based health and education...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16013
  (a) It is the policy of this state that all persons engaged in providing care and services to foster children, including, but not limited to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16014
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to maximize federal funding for foster youth services provided by local educational agencies. (b) The State Department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16100
  (a) Any county may apply for, and the department may issue pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500) of Division 2 of the Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16101
  The cost of administering the adoption programs undertaken by a county under license issued pursuant to Section 16100 of this code shall be borne by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16105
  County claims for reimbursement for expenses incurred for the operation of a county adoption agency shall be filed with the department at the time and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16106
  The state shall reimburse each county for the cost of care of any child placed under the custody of a county department pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16115
  Aid under this chapter shall be known as the Adoption Assistance Program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16115.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to benefit children residing in foster homes by providing the stability and security of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16118
  (a) The department shall establish and administer the program to be carried out by the department or the county pursuant to this chapter. The department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16119
  (a) At the time application for adoption of a child who is potentially eligible for Adoption Assistance Program benefits is made, and at the time...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16120
  A child shall be eligible for Adoption Assistance Program benefits if all of the conditions specified in subdivisions (a) to (l), inclusive, are met or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16120
  A child shall be eligible for Adoption Assistance Program benefits if all of the conditions specified in subdivisions (a) to (l), inclusive, are met or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16120.05
  The adoption assistance agreement shall, at a minimum, specify the amount and duration of assistance, and that the amount is subject to any applicable increases...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16120.1
  Upon the authorization of the department or, where appropriate, the county responsible for determining the child's Adoption Assistance Program eligibility status and for providing financial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16121
  (a) (1) For initial adoption assistance agreements executed on October 1, 1992, to December 31, 2007, inclusive, the adoptive family shall be paid an amount...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16121.05
  (a) The department may recover any overpayments of financial assistance under the Adoption Assistance Program, and shall develop regulations that establish the means to recoup...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16121.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11105, the residence of the adoptive parents at the time of or subsequent to adoptive placement shall not terminate the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16121.2
  The Director of Social Services and the Director of Health Services may enter into interstate agreements pursuant to Chapter 2.6 (commencing with Section 16170) that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16122
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to provide children who would otherwise remain in long-term foster care with permanent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16123
  The provisions of Section 16120, permitting the payment of adoption assistance until a child attains the age of 18 or 21 if the child has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16124
  (a) (1) Upon the appropriation of funds by the Legislature for the purposes set forth in this section, the State Department of Social Services shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16125
  A foster child whose adoption has become final, who is receiving or is eligible to receive Adoption Assistance Program assistance, including Medi-Cal, and whose foster...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16130
  In any county which does not have a county adoption agency established pursuant to Section 16100, the department may establish services incident to the relinquishment...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16131
  It is the intent of the Legislature to conform state statutes to recently enacted federal legislation, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16131.5
  (a) The state shall reinvest adoption incentive payments received through the implementation of the federal Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16132
  It is the intent of the Legislature to conform state statutes to recently enacted federal legislation, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135
  The purpose of this chapter is to establish a program for special training and services to facilitate the adoption of children who are HIV positive,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.1
  (a) "Eligible child" means any child who meets the requirements of paragraph (1) or (2), and paragraph (3). (1) Any child who has a condition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.10
  (a) In order to promote successful adoptions of substance and alcohol exposed court dependent children, the department shall establish a program of specialized training and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.13
  (a) A participating county shall provide special training to recruited adoptive parents to care for eligible children. The training curriculum shall include, but is not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.14
  (a) The county shall determine whether a child is eligible for services pursuant to this section. (b) A participating county shall select a specialized prospective...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.16
  (a) In order to receive funding, all participating counties shall submit and have an approved plan that is in compliance with the policies and procedures...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.17
  Participating counties shall prepare an adoption services case plan pursuant to regulations adopted by the department and arrange for nonmedical support services. At county option,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.25
  The department shall do all of the following: (a) Develop necessary procedures and standardized programs for a specialized adoptive home training project. (b) Assist counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.26
  If a participating county has an existing contract for the provision of services provided for under this chapter, that contract may be continued through the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.30
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subdivisions (b) and (c) shall control the placement of a child pursuant to this chapter. (b) A county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135
  The purpose of this chapter is to establish a program for special training and services to facilitate the adoption of children who are HIV positive,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.1
  (a) "Eligible child" means any child who meets the requirements of paragraph (1) or (2), and paragraph (3). (1) Any child who has a condition...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.10
  (a) In order to promote successful adoptions of substance and alcohol exposed court dependent children, the department shall establish a program of specialized training and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.13
  (a) A participating county shall provide special training to recruited adoptive parents to care for eligible children. The training curriculum shall include, but is not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.14
  (a) The county shall determine whether a child is eligible for services pursuant to this section. (b) A participating county shall select a specialized prospective...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.16
  (a) In order to receive funding, all participating counties shall submit and have an approved plan that is in compliance with the policies and procedures...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.17
  Participating counties shall prepare an adoption services case plan pursuant to regulations adopted by the department and arrange for nonmedical support services. Nonmedical support services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.25
  The department shall do all of the following: (a) Develop necessary procedures and standardized programs for a specialized adoptive home training project. (b) Assist counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.26
  If a participating county has an existing contract for the provision of services provided for under this chapter, that contract may be continued through the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16135.30
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subdivisions (b) and (c) shall control the placement of a child pursuant to this chapter. (b) A county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16160
  The Legislature finds and declares that the people of California have benefited from the establishment of a long-term care ombudsperson pursuant to Section 9710 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16161
  The Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson shall be established as an autonomous entity within the department for the purpose of providing children who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16162
  The director, in consultation with a committee of interested individuals, shall appoint an ombudsperson qualified by training and experience to perform the duties of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16163
  The department shall hire the necessary personnel to perform the functions of the office. Priority shall be given to former foster youth in hiring decisions.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16164
  (a) The Office of the State Foster Care Ombudsperson shall do all of the following: (1) Disseminate information on the rights of children and youth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16165
  In his or her efforts to resolve complaints related to foster care, the ombudsperson may do all of the following: (a) Conduct whatever investigation he...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16167
  (a) A toll-free number shall be established for the office. (b) Social workers shall provide foster children with the toll-free number for the office and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16170
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Finding adoptive families for children, for whom state assistance is desirable pursuant to Chapter 2.1...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16171
  The purposes of this chapter are to: (a) Authorize the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Services to enter into...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16172
  As used in this chapter, the following definitions apply, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) "Adoption assistance state" means the state that is signatory...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16173
  The State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Services are authorized to develop, participate in the development of, negotiate, or enter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16174
  A compact entered into pursuant to the authority conferred by this chapter shall contain all of the following: (a) A provision making it available for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16175
  A compact entered into pursuant to the authority conferred by this chapter may contain provisions in addition to those required pursuant to Section 16174, as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16176
  (a) (1) Any child who is a resident of California and who is the subject of a state-only adoption assistance agreement with another state, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16177
  Consistent with federal law, the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Services, in connection with the administration of this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16200
  Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter. (a) " Program" means the Child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16205
  The department shall select and award a grant to a private nonprofit or public entity for the purpose of establishing a statewide multipurpose child welfare...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16206
  (a) The purpose of the program is to develop and implement statewide coordinated training programs designed specifically to meet the needs of county child protective...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16207
  Nothing in this chapter is intended to replace training requirements established by the department in regulations contained in Sections 30-196 and 30-272 of the department's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16208
  (a) (1) The department, in consultation with the Child Welfare Training Advisory Board, shall contract with the University of California or the California State University...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16210
  (a) The department shall establish a Child Welfare Training Advisory Board to oversee training programs as specified by this chapter. (b) The advisory board shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16215
  The appropriation in support of the Child Welfare Training Program shall be provided annually through the Budget Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500
  The state, through the department and county welfare departments, shall establish and support a public system of statewide child welfare services to be developed as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to use the strengths of families and communities to serve the needs of children who are alleged...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.5
  (a) (1) The Legislature hereby declares its intent to encourage the continuity of the family unit by: (A) (i) Providing family preservation services. (ii) For...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.51
  (a) In addition to participation in the program provided for under Section 16500.5, Solano and Alameda Counties may, on a two-year project basis, and subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.51
  (a) Any county that elects to continue to conduct a family preservation program pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 16500.5 may request a permanent transfer...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.55
  (a) Subject to the approval of the State Department of Social Services and the Department of Finance, the family preservation program provided for under Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.65
  (a) In addition to the three programs authorized under Section 16500.5, Contra Costa County may implement a family preservation and reunification program. The program shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.8
  (a) The department shall, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association, seek additional federal revenues to finance the family preservation activities described in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16500.9
  The department shall establish one full-time position, within the office of the director, to assist counties in complying with the federal Indian Child Welfare Act...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501
  (a) As used in this chapter, "child welfare services" means public social services which are directed toward the accomplishment of any or all of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.1
  (a) (1) The Legislature finds and declares that the foundation and central unifying tool in child welfare services is the case plan. (2) The Legislature...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.15
  As used in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 16501.1, a home or setting that is "safe" means that the home or setting is free...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.2
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Safety, stability, and the permanence of families in the child welfare system are of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.25
  (a) For the purposes of this section, "teen parent" means a child who has been adjudged to be a dependent child or ward of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.3
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish a program of public health nursing in the child welfare services program. The purpose of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.5
  (a) In order to protect children and effectively administer and evaluate California's Child Welfare Services and Foster Care programs, the department shall implement a single...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.6
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature for the State Department of Social Services to enhance the Child Welfare Services Case Management System to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.7
  (a) On or before December 1, 2005, the State Department of Social Services shall develop, and provide to the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16501.8
  (a) Once a consistent data entry field or fields have been designated in the statewide child welfare database, social workers shall make reasonable efforts to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16502
  The child welfare services authorized by this chapter shall be established in any county or combination of counties when a plan which includes financing of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16502.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county board of supervisors may receive and review any records in the custody of the juvenile court...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16503
  (a) Subsequent to completion of the hearing conducted pursuant to Section 366.26, the agency responsible for placement and care of a minor, or, on or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16503.5
  (a) A placing agency shall provide a caregiver placement agreement to the child's caregiver at the time of the child's placement with that caregiver. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16504
  (a) Any child reported to the county child welfare services department to be endangered by abuse, neglect, or exploitation shall be eligible for initial intake...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16504.5
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 11105 of the Penal Code, a child welfare agency may secure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16506
  Family maintenance services shall be provided or arranged for by county welfare department staff in order to maintain the child in his or her own...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16507
  (a) Family reunification services shall be provided or arranged for by county welfare department staff in order to reunite the child separated from his or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16507.2
  Prior to entering into a voluntary placement agreement with a parent or guardian, the social worker shall make every attempt to keep the family together...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16507.3
  (a) Beginning on October 1, 1982, child welfare services for children placed voluntarily after January 1, 1982, shall be limited to a period not to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16507.4
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, voluntary family reunification services shall be provided without fee to families who qualify, or would qualify if...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16507.5
  (a) When a minor is separated or is in the process of being separated from the minor's family under the provisions of a voluntary placement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16507.6
  If a minor has been voluntarily placed with the county welfare department subsequent to January 1, 1982, for out-of-home placement by his or her parents...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16507.7
  Each agency or entity, except for a community college, which offers a parenting course as part of a family maintenance or family reunification effort for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16508
  Permanent placement services shall be provided or arranged for by county welfare department staff for children who cannot safely live with their parents and are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16508
  Permanent placement services shall be provided or arranged for by county welfare department staff for children who cannot safely live with their parents and are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16508.1
  (a) For every child who is in foster care, or who enters foster care, on or after January 1, 1999, and has been in foster...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16508.1
  (a) For every child who is in foster care, or who enters foster care, on or after January 1, 1999, and has been in foster...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16508.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature to establish additional alternatives to foster care placements. Therapeutic day services is an alternative which has been shown...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16508.3
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish an advisory committee consisting of representatives of the County Welfare Directors Association, the California Association of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16509
  Cultural and religious child-rearing practices and beliefs which differ from general community standards shall not in themselves create a need for child welfare services unless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16509.1
  No child who in good faith is under treatment solely by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16509.2
  The physical or mental incapacity, or both, in itself, of a parent or a child, shall not result in a presumption of need for child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16511
  This chapter shall not be construed to give the department or county welfare departments any law enforcement powers. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16512
  (a) The department shall report every third year, commencing in 1989, to the Legislature on the operation and progress of the child welfare services program....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16513
  Anyone participating in good faith in the making of a report pursuant to this chapter shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16513
  Funding of this chapter is subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 10100) of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16513.5
  Any party to a dependency proceeding may bring a motion before the juvenile court to have a social worker removed from the case. The juvenile...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16514
  (a) A minor who has been voluntarily placed, adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 300, or as to whom a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16516
  (a) No social worker or probation officer acting as an officer of the court for purposes of this chapter shall, directly or indirectly, lobby for,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16516.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, all foster children placed in group homes by county welfare departments or county probation departments shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16516.6
  When a county social worker or probation officer makes a regular visit with a child in any licensed, certified, or approved foster home, the visit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16517
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish both of the following: (A) To prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16517
  (a) No social worker or probation officer acting as an officer of the court shall make an out-of-home placement of a dependent or ward of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16518
  The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county placement agencies, foster care providers, and other interested community parties, shall establish criteria to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16519
  The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Safety, permanency, and well-being are crucial for the more than 82,000 California children in foster care, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16519.5
  (a) The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies, foster parent associations, and other interested community parties, shall implement a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16520
  The Legislature recognizes that wards and dependent children share many characteristics, often have similar family histories, and often require similar services such as out-of-home placement....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16521
  The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with representatives of local probation departments, foster care providers, and other interested parties, shall review federal and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16521.3
  (a) The Department of General Services and all other affected state agencies shall cooperate with the State Department of Social Services and the California Health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16521.5
  (a) A foster care provider, in consultation with the county case manager, shall be responsible for ensuring that adolescents who remain in long-term foster care,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16522
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall adopt regulations to govern county transitional housing placement programs that provide supervised housing services to persons at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16522.1
  In order to be licensed pursuant to Section 1559.110 of the Health and Safety Code, an applicant shall obtain certification from the county department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16522.2
  Persons may participate in the supervised transitional housing placement programs only with the permission of both the independent living program of the county in which...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16522.5
  Prior to approval of supervised transitional housing placement programs in a county, the department shall approve a plan submitted by the county's independent living program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16522.6
  The department shall make information available to the Legislature upon request regarding services rendered pursuant to this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16524
  (a) The Child Welfare Services Program Improvement Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury. The fund shall consist of donated grants, gifts, or bequests...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16524.5
  (a) The State Department of Social Services may fund the various activities authorized pursuant to Section 16524 by means of grants rather than contracts. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525
  The definitions in this article shall control the interpretation of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.1
  "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.2
  "Eligible child" means any child who meets the requirements of subdivision (a) or (b), and subdivision (c). (a) Any child who has a medically diagnosed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.3
  "HIV" means human immunodeficiency virus.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.4
  "HIV positive" means a condition of being medically diagnosed as infected with HIV.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.5
  "Specialized in-home health care" means, but is not limited to, those services identified by the child's primary physician as appropriately administered by a foster parent,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.10
  (a) In order to promote the development of placements that will allow children to move into more homelike environments, the department shall establish "Options for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.11
  Each participating county shall recruit foster families that shall be licensed as foster family homes and trained to care for children who are alcohol- or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.13
  (a) A participating county shall provide special training to recruited foster parents to care for eligible children and shall certify that the training has been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.14
  When a child is identified by a physician, medical team, county social worker, or placement source as a child who may be eligible for services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.15
  (a) A participating county shall select a specialized foster family home for the child within the county in which the child' s eligibility is established....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.17
  (a) Participating counties shall prepare a child welfare services case plan pursuant to regulations adopted by the department and arrange nonmedical support services, including respite...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.20
  (a) The Legislature encourages participating counties to design and implement a range of respite options for specially trained foster parents and relative caretakers, from foster...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.25
  The department shall do both of the following: (a) Develop necessary procedures and standardized programs for a specialized foster home recruitment and training project that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.26
  A participating county may contract for the provision of services under this chapter on a sole source basis.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.27
  (a) Each participating county shall submit written progress reports as required by the department. (b) The progress report required by subdivision (a) shall include, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.29
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent children who are alcohol- or drug-exposed or HIV positive who have adoption as a case plan...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16525.30
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Sections 1250, 1251, 1254, 1270, 1501, 1502, 1505, 1507, 1521, 1530.6, and 11002,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16540
  The California Child Welfare Council is hereby established, which shall serve as an advisory body responsible for improving the collaboration and processes of the multiple...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16541
  The council shall be comprised of the following members: (a) The Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who shall serve as cochair. (b) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16541.5
  The council shall meet no less frequently than each quarter of the state fiscal year and at the call of the cochairs, at a time...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16542
  The cochairs may appoint committees composed of council members, experts in specialized fields, foster youth, program stakeholders, state and county child welfare and foster care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16543
  Consistent with state and federal law, the council shall have access to aggregate data and information concerning the child welfare and foster care systems held...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16543.5
  It is the intent of the Legislature to inspect other state child welfare and foster care systems over the course of the 2007-08 Legislative Session,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16544
  The secretary shall ensure that all of the federal Child and Family Services Review outcome measures and all of the California Child and Family Service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16545
  By April 1, 2008, the Judicial Council shall adopt, through rules of court, performance measures designed to complement and promote those measures specified in Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16575
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there is no single statewide data base containing statistical data regarding child support orders. (b) The Statewide Automated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16576
  (a) The department shall develop an implementation plan for the Statewide Child Support Registry. The Statewide Child Support Registry shall be operated by the agency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16577
  (a) The Judicial Council shall develop any forms that may be necessary to implement the Statewide Child Support Registry. The forms may be in electronic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16578
  It is the intent of the Legislature that county clerks and district attorneys will meet with the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16583
  The Judicial Council shall develop the forms necessary to implement this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16600
  (a) The department shall administer the federal Promoting Safe and Stable Families funds. (b) Notwithstanding Section 10103, the department may retain and not pass on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16601
  For purposes of this part, the following terms shall have the following meaning: (a) "Adoption promotion and support services," as defined by Section 431 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16602
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 16500, each county that chooses to utilize federal Promoting Safe and Stable Families funds shall establish a local planning body and develop...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16604
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), counties shall spend a minimum of 20 percent of its allocated funds in each of the following categories,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16604.5
  When preparing their needs assessments and plans to implement the federal Family Preservation and Support Act (Sections 430 to 435, inclusive, of the Social Security...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16605
  (a) The department shall, subject to the availability of funds appropriated therefor, conduct a Kinship Support Services Program that is a grants-in-aid program providing startup...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16800.5
  The State Department of Health Services shall establish data collection and reporting requirements for counties to annually report health expenditures.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16800.7
  Agencies responsible for conducting fiscal or program audits or inspections of grants or subventions pursuant to any of the following provisions shall, to the extent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16801
  The following definitions shall govern the construction of this part, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "County health services" means public health services, outpatient health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16803
  (a) The County Health Services Fund is hereby created, and notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, is continuously appropriated to the department, without regard...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16804.1
  (a) No fee or charge shall be required of any person before a county renders medically necessary services to persons entitled to services pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16809
  (a) (1) The board of supervisors of a county that contracted with the department pursuant to former Section 16709 during the 1990-91 fiscal year and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16809.3
  (a) Beginning in the 1991-92 fiscal year, and in subsequent fiscal years, a county shall pay the amount listed below or as established by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16809.4
  (a) Counties voluntarily participating in the County Medical Services Program pursuant to Section 16809 may establish the County Medical Services Program Governing Board pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16809.5
  (a) Funds appropriated for the purposes of this section shall be allocated on a monthly basis. (b) Money allocated for the purposes of this section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16812
  The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the local jurisdictions, shall adopt any regulations necessary to implement this part. The department may adopt...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16817
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county may enter into contracts with selected providers to provide health care services in expending funds provided pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16818
  (a) Each facility treating persons pursuant to Section 17000 shall provide, at the time treatment is sought, individual notice of the availability of reduced cost...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16900
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16901
  "CMSP county" means a county that has elected to participate in the CMSP pursuant to Section 16809.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16902
  "Department" means the State Department of Health Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16903
  "Fund" means the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16904
  "Hospital services" means services provided by public and private hospitals licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16905
  "MISP county" means a county which administers, either directly or through contracts with selected providers, its own indigent health services program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16905.5
  "Obstetric services" means the diagnosis of pregnancy and all other medical services provided by a licensed physician to pregnant women during their pregnancies from the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16906
  "Office" means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16907.5
  "Pediatric services" means all medical services rendered by any licensed physician to persons from birth to 21 years of age, and shall include attendance at...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16908
  "Physician services" means services provided by a licensed physician.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16908.5
  For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 16946 and the funds determined by Section 16932, and distributed pursuant to paragraph (1) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16909
  (a) Any county which receives funds pursuant to this part shall deposit them in a special revenue fund or trust fund established solely for this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16909.1
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), county adminstrative costs associated with the administration of each special revenue fund, trust fund, account, or subaccount required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16910
  (a) (1) Funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be used for the development and implementation of county medically indigent care reporting systems...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16915
  (a) Any county receiving an allocation pursuant to this part shall, at a minimum, report to the department all indigent health care program demographic, expenditure,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16916
  The department shall withhold payments to a county pursuant to this part if the county fails to provide the reports and data required by this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16920
  (a) It is the intention of the Legislature to appropriate a portion of the 1988-89 fiscal year one-time revenues from the Hospital Services Account for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16921
  Funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be allocated and disbursed to county and noncounty hospitals which meet any of the following requirements:...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16922
  (a) In order to determine the allocation for each eligible hospital of the amount appropriated for the purposes of this chapter, the office shall do...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16923
  The office shall do all of the following: (a) Review and process the quarterly financial and utilization data report and calculate the distribution to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16924
  The Controller shall distribute to hospitals the funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter within 60 days from the effective date of this chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16930
  (a) (1) There is in the County Health Services Fund, created pursuant to Section 16803, the Rural Health Services Account. (2) For purposes of this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16931
  (a) Funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be used to enhance and maintain rural health services provided by counties, hospitals, physicians, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16931.5
  The county may reimburse for emergency services provided by a physician in a standby emergency room in a hospital specified in Section 124840 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16932
  The department shall allocate money derived from the Hospital Services Account in the fund to each county that is eligible to participate in the CMSP...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16933
  (a) The department shall distribute those moneys appropriated from the Physician Services Account and the Unallocated Account in the fund to counties that are eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16933.1
  Any physician who receives funds pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 16933 shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (d) of Section 16955.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16934
  (a) As a condition of receiving funds under this chapter, a county shall provide, or arrange and pay for, medically necessary followup treatment, including necessary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16934.2
  (a) For the 1989-90 fiscal year, a county shall not have the option to contract with the department for payment for treatment of children required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16934.5
  (a) For the 1990-91 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years, each county that is eligible to participate in the CMSP pursuant to Section 16809 may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16934.7
  (a) For the 1990-91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, each county entering into a contract with the department pursuant to Section 16934.5, in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16935
  (a) A county that is eligible to participate in the CMSP pursuant to Section 16809 may elect to have the state administer its physician services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16935.5
  The department may administer the distribution and monitoring of funds allocated from the Hospital Services Account pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 16946 and from...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16936
  (a) (1) Any county that requests funds under this chapter shall submit to the department, for approval by the department, an application for initial funding...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16937
  (a) Services, associated costs, and sociodemographic characteristics of persons served by each county under Section 17000 and supported in whole or in part by funds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16938
  (a) Each county shall submit a report of expenditures and other information to the department according to the procedures established by the department. (b) The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16939
  As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this chapter, each county shall meet the requirements of Articles 6 (commencing with Section 16980), 7 (commencing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16940
  (a) The department shall, each fiscal year, determine the percentage of moneys appropriated for the purposes of this chapter. For the 1989-90 fiscal year, these...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16941
  (a) The amount appropriated and available for the purposes of this chapter shall be allocated to each MISP county in accordance with the ratios established...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16941.1
  For the 1991-92 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, any county that elects to participate in the County Medical Services Program pursuant to paragraphs...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16942
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter be administered, to the extent possible, in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16943
  (a) Of those allocations made pursuant to Section 16941 for the 1989-90 fiscal year, 59.5 percent shall be used to support uncompensated services provided by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16945
  (a) The department shall annually verify and transmit to each MISP county and each CMSP county the figures specified in subdivision (c), using data supplied...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16946
  (a) The Hospital Services Account portion of each county's allocation pursuant to Sections 16932 and 16941 shall be divided into two amounts by: (1) Multiplying...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16947
  (a) Any hospital which receives funds pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16930) shall, within 90 days of the receipt of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16948
  (a) Commencing with the 1990-91 fiscal year, within 10 working days of receipt of funds allocated pursuant to Section 16941 and Section 16932, the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16949
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that in the context of hospital services rendered as a result of emergency medical conditions, the application of the supplemental services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16950
  (a) Twelve and two-tenths percent, or that portion of the CHIP Account derived from the Physician Services Account in a fiscal year, of each county's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16950.1
  The twenty-four million nine hundred fifteen thousand dollars ($24,915,000) appropriated by Chapter 1331 of the Statutes of 1989 and the act amending this section in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16951
  As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this chapter, each county shall establish an emergency medical services fund as authorized by subdivision (a) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16952
  (a) (1) Each county shall establish within its emergency medical services fund a Physician Services Account. Each county shall deposit in the Physician Services Account...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16952.1
  (a) Each county that elects to establish a Physicians Services Account in the county emergency medical services fund shall annually, on April 15, report to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16952.5
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 16952, expenses incurred by Solano County for the development of managed care systems to increase access for indigents to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16953
  (a) For purposes of this chapter "emergency services" means physician services in one of the following: (1) A general acute care hospital which provides basic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16953.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an emergency physician and surgeon, or an emergency physician group, with a gross billings arrangement with a hospital...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16953.2
  Nothing in this article shall prevent a physician from utilizing an agent who furnishes billing and collection services to the physician to submit claims or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16953.3
  (a) Notwithstanding any other restrictions on reimbursement, a county shall adopt a fee schedule to establish a uniform, reasonable level of reimbursement from the Physician...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16955
  Reimbursement for losses incurred by any physician shall be limited to services provided to a patient as established by subdivisions (f) and (g) of Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16955.1
  This article shall not be applied or interpreted so as to prevent a physician from seeking payment from a patient or responsible third-party payor, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16956
  (a) The administering agency shall establish procedures and time schedules for submission and processing of reimbursement claims submitted by physicians in accordance with this chapter....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16956.5
  (a) The administering agency may establish an EMS Fund advisory committee. The committee shall include emergency physicians and emergency department oncall backup panel physicians. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16957
  Any physician who submits any claim in accordance with this chapter shall keep and maintain records of the services rendered, the person to whom services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16958
  If, after receiving payment from the account, a physician is reimbursed by a patient or a responsible third-party, the physician shall do one of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16959
  The moneys contained in a Physician Services Account within an Emergency Medical Services Fund shall not be subject to Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797.98a)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16960
  (a) Twenty-eight and three-tenths percent, or that percentage of the program account deriving from the Unallocated Account of the fund in a fiscal year of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16961
  Services provided pursuant to this article include only those health care services specified in Sections 14021 and 14132, and former Division 1 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16970
  (a) As a condition of receiving funds under this chapter, a county shall provide, or arrange and pay for, medically necessary followup treatment, including necessary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16980
  (a) The department shall make initial monthly payments of county allocations made pursuant to Section 16941 upon application of the county assuring that it will...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16981
  (a) The department shall conduct fiscal and program reviews to ensure county compliance with the provisions of this part, and shall report annually the results...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16990
  (a) (1) Any county receiving an allocation pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16930) shall, at a minimum, maintain a level...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16990.1
  Notwithstanding the first sentence of paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 16990, for the purposes of determining the level of financial support in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16990.5
  (a) The following definitions shall govern the construction of this section, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Capital outlay" means net disproportionate share hospital revenues...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16990.9
  The level of financial maintenance of effort required of a county that contracts with the department pursuant to Section 101300 of the Health and Safety...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16991
  (a) The sum of twenty-six million five hundred ninety-seven thousand dollars ($26,597,000) is appropriated from the General Fund to the department, for the 1989-90 fiscal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16994
  (a) (1) Ninety percent of the amount appropriated for the purposes of this article shall be allocated to MISP counties according to the percentages specified...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16995
  Funds received by a county pursuant to this chapter shall not be used to support health services provided to persons detained in a county or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16995.1
  Receipt of funding pursuant to this chapter shall not relieve a county of its obligation to provide indigent health care as required by Section 17000.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16996
  For purposes of this chapter, "children's hospital" means the following facilities: (a) Valley Children's Hospital, Fresno. (b) Earl and Loraine Miller Children's Hospital and Medical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16996.1
  Funds appropriated to the department for the purposes of this chapter shall be distributed as follows: (a) The department shall compute the annual amount of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 16996.2
  (a) As a condition of receiving funds under Section 16996.1, a hospital shall provide medically necessary inpatient treatment, including prescription drugs, for any condition detected...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17000
  Every county and every city and county shall relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons, and those incapacitated by age, disease, or accident, lawfully...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17000.5
  (a) The board of supervisors in any county may adopt a general assistance standard of aid, including the value of in-kind aid which includes, but...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17000.51
  (a) Notwithstanding the decision in Caulk v. Superior Court, CO15355, June 27, 1997, a county's discretion granted pursuant to Section 17000.5 to include, as part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17000.6
  (a) The board of supervisors of any county may adopt a standard of aid below the level established in Section 17000.5 if the Commission on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17001
  The board of supervisors of each county, or the agency authorized by county charter, shall adopt standards of aid and care for the indigent and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17001.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Section 17000.5, the board of supervisors of each county, or the agency authorized...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17001.51
  (a) A county may require adult applicants and recipients of benefits under the general assistance program to undergo screening for substance abuse when it is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17001.6
  (a) To the extent not inconsistent with federal law, a county may require the legal sponsor of an alien general assistance recipient to sign a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17001.7
  (a) In adopting standards of aid and care for the indigent and dependent poor of the county or city and county, the board of supervisors...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17001.8
  (a) In adopting standards of aid for general assistance for the indigent and dependent poor of the county or city and county, the board of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17001.9
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part: (1) As a condition of providing nonemergency medical care to an indigent and dependent adult resident of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17002
  The boards of supervisors may establish almshouses and county farms, prescribe rules and regulations for their government and management, and appoint the necessary officers and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17003
  Every county may give such emergency relief to dependent nonresidents as the respective boards of supervisors deem necessary.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17004
  If no other funds are available for the purpose, a county may incur all necessary expenses in transporting a nonresident indigent to another state or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17005
  If a dispute occurs between counties as to the responsibility for an indigent, either county may submit the dispute to the department. The decision of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17006
  (a) The board of supervisors of every county as a board, or by committee or by any person or society as it may authorize, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17006.5
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 17006, the board, officer, committee, person, or society having custody of the records cited in Section 17006 may disclose to any law...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17007
  No fee shall be charged by any public officer for filing any petition for guardianship or conservatorship under the provisions of Section 17403, or for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17008
  In cases in which an indigent has an interest in the real property upon which he resides, a county may allow an amount that would...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17009
  The board of supervisors may provide for the burial or cremation of the indigent dead and may provide for the maintenance of the graves of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17012.5
  An individual ineligible for aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 pursuant to Section 11251.3, who is a member of an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17015
  (a) Subject to subdivision (b), the board of supervisors of each county or the agency authorized by county charter may deny eligibility for aid under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17016
  (a) An individual shall not be eligible for aid under this part if he or she is either: (1) Fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17020
  Any person who is eligible for aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 shall not be eligible for monthly payments provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17021
  (a) Any individual who is not eligible for aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 as a result of the 48-month...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17030
  Nothing in Section 10000, 17000, or 17001 or any other provision of law shall require any county or city and county to provide or pay...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17030.1
  Nothing in Section 10000, 17000, or 17001 or any other provision of law shall require any county or city and county to provide or pay...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17100
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a person, in order to be entitled to aid, shall be a resident of the state and of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17101
  The residence is the place where one remains when not called elsewhere for labor or other special or temporary purpose, and to which he returns...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17102
  The residence of an unmarried minor child is the residence of the parent or parents with whom a child maintains his or her place of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17103
  Neither the domicile nor residence of a spouse shall be deemed to be the domicile or residence of the other spouse, and each spouse shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17104
  A refugee who is eligible for, and is required to participate in, an alternative project implemented pursuant to Section 412(e)(7) of the federal Immigration and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17105
  A person who is a resident of California within the meaning of this chapter is a lawful resident of the county wherein he applies for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17106
  The eligibility of an indigent or needy person to receive surplus food under any program supported or sponsored by the federal government shall not be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17107
  The board of supervisors may establish its own policies with reference to the amount of property, if any, a person shall be permitted to have...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17108
  The policies established under Section 17107 shall not deny needed care in a county hospital or contract hospital, as defined in Section 14057.5 of this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17109
  As a condition to the grant or continuation of aid to an indigent, the board of supervisors may require, as security for the moneys so...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17110
  Whenever the respective boards of supervisors deem it best for the welfare of a family or in the public interest that an indigent remain in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17111
  An applicant or recipient shall be permitted to retain, without effect on his eligibility for aid or the amount of aid to which he is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17200
  Work may be required of an indigent, who is eligible to receive benefits under Section 17000, and who is not incapacitated by reason of age,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17201
  Work relief projects conducted pursuant to Section 17200, which consist of the work of repairing or maintaining any shipping facility or public building, shall not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17300
  All aid rendered by the county under this part shall be a charge against the responsible relative or relatives of the recipient thereof, and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17301
  In any case where a person so ordered to make such payments fails so to do, the court may by order require him to show...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17400
  In any case in which a county has taken a lien against real property owned by a recipient of public assistance for any purpose, including...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17401
  No lien taken by a county pursuant to Section 17109 for care provided to a person in a county hospital shall be enforced against the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17402
  If there is in the hands of any officer of the county, or there is surrendered to any officer of the county, upon the death...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17403
  If a person for the support of whom public moneys have been expended acquires property, the county shall have a claim against him to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17403.1
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 17403, the county claim for reimbursement of aid extended to the indigent shall be offset as provided herein in cases...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17404
  From the proceeds of a sale or encumbrance of the property of such ward, or from such funds as may be collected from the property...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17405
  Any estate, interest or lien in property transferred or granted to the board of supervisors under the provisions of Section 17109, or under the provisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17406
  Any estate, interest, or lien held by the board of supervisors under the provisions of Section 17109, or under the provisions of Section 9 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17407
  In any case in which the board of supervisors determines, after investigation, that the purposes of this part will be served by releasing or subordinating...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17408
  The releases, reconveyances and subordinations herein provided for shall be authorized by a resolution of the board of supervisors, and the instruments of release, reconveyance,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17409
  There shall be exempt from the transfers and grants authorized by Section 17109 and from execution on claims under Section 17403 against property acquired by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17410
  Any person who with the intent to defraud, buys or receives a voucher, invoice, or similar document issued for services or merchandise under this part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17500
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this chapter to encourage certain counties to provide preventative support services to unemployed and displaced workers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17501
  (a) A county may, upon the affirmative vote of the board of supervisors, elect to contract with a contracting agency for services which provide counseling...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17600
  (a) There is hereby created the Local Revenue Fund, which shall have all of the following accounts: (1) The Sales Tax Account. (2) The Vehicle...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17600.10
  (a) Each county and city and county receiving funds in accordance with this chapter shall establish and maintain a local health and welfare trust fund...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17600.15
  (a) Of the sales tax proceeds from revenues collected in the 1991-92 fiscal year which are deposited to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17600.20
  (a) Any county or city or city and county may reallocate money among accounts in the local health and welfare trust fund, not to exceed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17601
  On or before the 27th day of each month, the Controller shall allocate to the mental health account of each local health and welfare trust...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17601.05
  (a) There is hereby created the Mental Health Facilities Fund, which shall have the following accounts: (1) The State Hospital Account. (2) The Institutions for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17601.10
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health may request a loan from the General Fund in an amount that shall not exceed one hundred million...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17601.20
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, beginning in the 2011-12 fiscal year, except for the funds described in subdivision (c), any funds under this chapter or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17602
  (a) On or before the 27th day of the month, the Controller shall allocate to counties the amounts deposited and remaining unexpended and unreserved on...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17603
  On or before the 27th day of each month, the Controller shall allocate to the local health and welfare trust fund health accounts the amounts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17603.05
  (a) Upon request of a county, the Controller may deposit all or a portion of the county's allocation under this article into the County Medical...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17604
  (a) All motor vehicle license fee revenues collected in the 1991-92 fiscal year that are deposited to the credit of the Local Revenue Fund shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17604.05
  (a) With the exception of the deposits made into the Vehicle License Collection Account, upon request of a county, the Controller may deposit all or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17605
  (a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year, the Controller shall deposit into the Caseload Subaccount of the Sales Tax Growth Account of the Local Revenue Fund,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17605.05
  (a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter, after satisfying the obligations set forth in Section 17605, the Controller shall deposit into the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17605.051
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon request of the County Medical Services Program Governing Board, the Controller shall deposit amounts received pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17605.07
  (a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter, after satisfying the obligations set forth in Sections 17605 and 17605.05, the Controller shall deposit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17605.08
  (a) For the fiscal year following the first fiscal year in which funds are deposited into the Special Equity Subaccount, after satisfying the obligations set...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17605.10
  (a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year and fiscal years thereafter, after satisfying the obligations set forth in Sections 17605, 17605.05, 17605.07, and 17605.08, the Controller...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17606.05
  (a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year, the Controller shall allocate to those counties that have a poverty-population shortfall, as described in subdivision (c), those funds...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17606.10
  (a) For the 1992-93 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years, the Controller shall allocate funds, on a monthly basis from the General Growth Subaccount in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17606.15
  (a) For the first fiscal year in which funds are deposited into the Special Equity Subaccount in the Sales Tax Growth Account in the Local...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17606.20
  (a) On or before the 27th day of each month, the Controller shall allocate money to each county, city, and city and county, as general...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17608.05
  (a) As a condition of deposit of funds from the Sales Tax Account of the Local Revenue Fund into a county's local health and welfare...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17608.10
  (a) As a condition of deposit of funds from the Sales Tax Account of the Local Revenue Fund into a county's or city's local health...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17608.15
  As a condition of the deposit of Sales Tax Growth Account funds into the local health and welfare trust fund accounts, a county or city...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17609
  Funds deposited into a county's health and welfare trust fund accounts may be expended only for the purposes of providing those mental health, public health,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17609.01
  Except as provided in Section 17600.20, funds deposited in the health account may be expended only for public health and indigent health care services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17609.05
  (a) Each county, city, or city and county shall file with the Controller quarterly and annual reports of trust fund deposits and disbursements within 60...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17609.09
  Whenever a distribution is made to counties, cities, and cities and counties, the Controller shall provide a remittance advice, identifying the amounts that are provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17609.10
  The Controller shall charge actual administration costs for the implementation and maintenance of this part and subsequent related legislation to the Local Revenue Fund prior...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17700
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Many children adjudicated dependents of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 300 and following are,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17710
  Unless otherwise specified in this part: (a) "Child with special health care needs" means a child, or a person who is 22 years of age...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17720
  The California Health and Human Services Agency shall designate a department to coordinate sources of funding and services not under the jurisdiction of the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17730
  The department shall develop a program to establish specialized foster care homes for children with special health care needs with persons specified in subdivision (h)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17731
  (a) The county shall develop a plan to place children with special health care needs in foster care. This plan shall be submitted to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17732
  No more than two foster care children shall reside in a specialized foster care home with the following exceptions: (a) A specialized foster care home...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17732.1
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that minor children who are residing in specialized foster care home placements on or after January 1,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17733
  All documentation prepared by the county concerning the identification of a dependent child as a child with special health care needs, the placement of such...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17734
  Each county shall report to the department on a regular basis on the conduct and effectiveness of the program provided for in this chapter. These...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17735
  Commencing in 1991, a progress report on the program provided for in this chapter shall be included in the child welfare services report to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17736
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Sections 1250, 1251, 1254, 1270, 1501, 1502, 1505, 1507, 1521, 1530.6 (as added by Chapter 391 of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17737
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent children with special health care needs who have adoption as a case plan goal from receiving...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17738
  Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department shall adopt emergency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17800
  A not-for-profit hospital that elects to participate in the drug discount program established under Section 340B of the federal Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17801
  The State Department of Health Services shall develop a standard contract for use in an agreement entered into pursuant to Section 17800, which shall include,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17850
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this part to affirm the ability of counties, cities, and hospital districts to provide health care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 17851
  A city, county, city and county, or hospital district may, at its discretion, provide aid, including health care, to persons who, but for Section 411...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18000
  The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the continued operation of the state plans for aid to the aged, the blind, aid to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18001
  As used in this chapter "joint public assistance" means aid to families with dependent children, aid to the aged, aid to the blind, and aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18002
  The Governor may, within 15 days prior to the commencement of any fiscal quarter or during any fiscal quarter, proclaim the existence of a period...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18003
  Out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there is hereby appropriated each month to every county within this state for joint...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18004
  The sums appropriated by Section 18003 shall be considered for all purposes to be "federal assistance" and "grants-in-aid" from the United States government for aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18005
  Whenever federal assistance to this state for joint public assistance for any period of welfare emergency during which sums appropriated by Section 18002 have been...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18100
  In each county, except where county boards of public welfare or boards or officials with like powers are otherwise provided under a charter, the board...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18101
  The board of supervisors making the appointments shall designate one member to serve for one year, two for two years, two for three years, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18102
  The members of the county board of public welfare shall serve without compensation, and no person shall be appointed or shall serve on such board...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18103
  The clerk of the board of supervisors shall notify each person appointed to the county board of public welfare of his appointment. Within one week...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18104
  The board of supervisors shall appropriate and allow a sum, not exceeding fifty dollars ($50) each year, for the actual expenses of the county board...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18105
  The county board of public welfare shall meet quarterly and as much oftener as it deems necessary. It may make such rules for the regulation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18106
  Whenever the annual report of the board of public welfare to the board of supervisors shows that any member has been absent from two consecutive...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18107
  At least once each quarter and as much oftener as it deems necessary, the board of public welfare, as a body or by committee, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18108
  The board of public welfare may make suggestions for improving the administration to the persons in charge of such county institutions, and may report to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18109
  On or before the first Monday in March, June, September, and December of each year, the county board of public welfare shall make a report...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18110
  Whenever the county board of public welfare presents any report to the board of supervisors concerning an institution or function under the jurisdiction of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18200
  The Legislature recognizes the necessity to improve the administration of public assistance so as to minimize dependency and reduce the total costs of public welfare...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18201
  The department may authorize the payment of state funds to defray in whole or in part the cost of a project undertaken by the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18202
  The department shall develop and publish criteria for the submission and approval of county plans for projects proposed to be undertaken pursuant to this chapter....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18203
  Among the county projects approved by the department, priority shall be given to those which involve: (a) Efforts to minimize as much as possible, within...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18204
  To enable it to conduct and administer experimental projects to test methods and procedures of administering assistance and services to recipients of public social services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18205
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, at the request of a county, after public hearing by the county, the department may extend an experimental...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18205.5
  The Director of Child Support Services may, pursuant to this article, approve county demonstration projects to provide employment and training services to nonsupporting, noncustodial parents...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18206
  (a) The director shall specify performance and quality assurance standards to be included in any experimental project for in-home supportive services undertaken pursuant to Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18207
  Sections 18205 and 18206 shall apply only to experimental projects for in-home supportive services established pursuant to Section 18204 that were in existence on July...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18220
  (a) Of the amount deposited in the Local Safety and Protection Account in the Transportation Fund, authorized by Section 10752.2 of the Revenue and Taxation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18220.1
  (a) Of the amount deposited in the Local Safety and Protection Account in the Transportation Fund authorized by Section 10752.2 of the Revenue and Taxation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18221
  (a) Subject to the availability of funds for the purposes described in this section, funds provided pursuant to Section 18220 may be used to serve...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18230
  Pursuant to this chapter and Article 1 (commencing with Section 18200) of Chapter 3, the director may approve county demonstration projects for the CalWORKs program....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18231
  (a) A county, or two or more counties, may implement three-year performance-based CalWORKs demonstration projects under this chapter to test alternative methods of service delivery...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18232
  (a) A county board of supervisors that wishes to demonstrate an alternative method of CalWORKs service delivery shall apply to the director for approval of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18233
  Before authorizing a demonstration project, the director shall ensure that it is consistent with the intent of state CalWORKs law. At least 30 days prior...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18234
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a county's CalWORKs demonstration project shall not be exempt from state law that governs eligibility, unless a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18235
  A demonstration project under this article shall include a range of services designed to assist recipients to achieve employment, which may not include job search...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18236
  (a) The director may approve school attendance demonstration projects in San Diego and Merced Counties, at the option of each county, to demonstrate means of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18237
  (a) The department, in conjunction with the State Department of Education and the Attorney General, may evaluate the effectiveness of one program, as described in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18238
  For the purposes of this article: (a) "Microenterprise" means a small business in which a participant works as his or her own employer. (b) "Microenterprise...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18239
  (a) With the consent of participating counties, the department may implement demonstration projects to provide self-employment training and technical assistance to recipients of CalWORKs benefits...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18241
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in implementing federal welfare reform, to create a Child Support Assurance Demonstration Project that is consistent with the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18242
  (a) Upon application by a county board of supervisors, the department may approve up to three demonstration projects to test models of child support assurance....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18243
  The department shall develop research designs to ensure thorough evaluations of the child support assurance demonstration projects that shall include, but not be limited to,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18244
  (a) A family shall be eligible to participate in the project described in Section 18246 only if, at the time of application to participate in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18245
  (a) A family shall be eligible to receive a child support assurance payment on behalf of a child only if the child's custodial parent has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18247
  (a) The state share of child support assurance payments under this article shall be paid in accordance with Section 15200. (b) The department shall, to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18250
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that all counties be authorized to provide children with service alternatives to group home care through the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18251
  As used in this chapter: (a) "County" means each county participating in an individualized or wraparound services program. (b) "County placing agency" means a county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18252
  Each county shall, at the county's option, develop a county plan for intensive wrap-around services and monitor the provision of those services in accordance with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18253
  Each county shall ensure that an evaluation of the wraparound services program is conducted to determine the cost and treatment effectiveness of outcomes such as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18253.5
  Each county shall ensure that staff participating in the wraparound services program have completed training provided or approved by the department, on providing individualized wraparound
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18254
  (a) Reimbursement rates for wraparound services, under the wraparound services program, shall be based on the following factors: (1) The average cost of rate classification...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18255
  Any county that applies to, and is granted approval, by the department may implement a wraparound services program. The number of service allocation slots assigned...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18256
  The department shall work with the County Welfare Directors Association of California to identify periodic data elements to be collected in order to track the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18256.5
  In order to prevent disruption to a child participating in a wraparound services program, any county that terminates its wraparound services program shall ensure the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18257
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall seek applicable federal approval to make the maximum number of children being served through such programs eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18258
  (a) A child who is categorically eligible for Medi-Cal benefits pursuant to Section 1396a(a)(10)(A)(i)(I) of Title 42 of the United States Code shall remain eligible...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18259
  (a) The County of Alameda, contingent upon local funding, may establish a pilot project consistent with this chapter to develop a comprehensive, replicative, multidisciplinary model...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18259.1
  The District Attorney for the County of Alameda shall, on or before April 1, 2016, submit a report to the Legislature that summarizes the activities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18259.3
  For purposes of this chapter, "commercially sexually exploited minor" means a person under 18 years of age who has been abused in the manner described...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18259.5
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2017, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18259.7
  (a) The County of Los Angeles, contingent upon local funding, may establish a pilot project consistent with this chapter to develop a comprehensive, replicative, multidisciplinary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18259.9
  For purposes of this chapter, "commercially sexually exploited minor" means a person under 18 years of age who has been abused in the manner described...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18259.10
  This chapter shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18260
  (a) The department may conduct a demonstration project in up to 20 counties, to allow flexible use of federal and state foster care funds by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18275
  The Legislature finds that there is a need to develop programs to provide the kinds of innovative strategies and services which will ameliorate, reduce, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18275.5
  Unless the context requires otherwise, for purposes of this chapter: (a) "Agency" means the California Emergency Management Agency. (b) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Emergency
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18276
  The functions and goals of the program developed by the centers shall include all of the following: (a) Provision of counseling and practical assistance by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18276.5
  (a) The two centers selected pursuant to Section 18277 shall develop training programs pertaining to the prevention of and assistance to victims of child sexual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18277
  The secretary shall select two child sexual abuse prevention training centers, one in northern California and the other in southern California, which shall receive state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18278
  (a) The agency shall make grants to community nonprofit child sexual abuse treatment programs that are unable to meet the current demand for their services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18278.5
  The agency shall enter into contracts with the centers for the provision of services required by this chapter within four months of the effective date...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18279.5
  The centers may seek, receive, and make use of any funds which may be made available from federal, voluntary, philanthropic, or other sources in order...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18285
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Child Health and Safety Fund for the purposes specified in this section. (b) Moneys for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18285.5
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the priorities and programs set forth in subdivisions (d) and (e) of Section 18285 be funded...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18290
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that there is a present and growing need to develop innovative strategies and services to ameliorate and reduce the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18291
  For purposes of this chapter: (a) "Domestic violence" means abuse committed against an adult or a minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18293
  (a) In order to be eligible for funding pursuant to this chapter, a domestic violence shelter-based program shall demonstrate its ability to receive and make...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18294
  Domestic violence shelter-based programs shall provide all of the following basic services to victims of domestic violence and their children: (a) Shelter on a 24...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18295
  In addition to the services required in Section 18294, to the extent possible, and in conjunction with already existing community services, the domestic violence shelter-based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18296
  The staff of the domestic violence shelter-based program shall work with social service agencies, schools, and law enforcement agencies in an advocacy capacity for those...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18297
  The staff of each domestic violence shelter-based program shall attempt to achieve community support and acceptance of the program by advocating the program to community...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18298
  Inasmuch as domestic violence shelter-based programs are to serve a variety of cultural backgrounds, to the extent feasible, a portion of the domestic violence shelter-based...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18299
  A domestic violence shelter-based program shall maintain annual fiscal reports in a form to be prescribed by the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18300
  An annual report shall be prepared by each domestic violence shelter-based program for submission to the county board of supervisors. The report shall be made...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18301
  In addition to any other provisions of law concerning the confidentiality of personal information collected by domestic violence shelters, a county shall not require a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18304
  A county may establish a program for reducing the incidence of domestic violence in the county by establishing or funding domestic violence shelter-based programs that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18305
  (a) At the time of issuance of a marriage license pursuant to Section 26840 of the Government Code, twenty-three dollars ($23) of each fee paid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18305.5
  Notwithstanding the availability of funds in either the county domestic violence programs special fund, or the availability of community resources, the county may finance domestic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18306
  The county board of supervisors shall consult with the local regional domestic violence coalition, consisting of representatives from existing domestic violence shelter-based programs, in planning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18307
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 18305, a county may carry over funds deposited in a county domestic violence shelter-based programs special fund until the time that a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18308
  The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 103626...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18309
  (a) The Alameda County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 26840.10...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18309.5
  The Solano County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 26840.11 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18309.6
  (a) The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 26840.12...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18309.8
  (a) The Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 103628.6...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18310
  The purpose of this chapter is to establish the Green Light-Green Thumb programs for the benefit of senior citizens in California, as funded under the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18311
  Funds received pursuant to this chapter shall be administered by the California Commission on Aging, and such commission shall provide any planning necessary to implement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18312
  The state shall supply the necessary in-kind equipment and materials for projects under which the Green Light-Green Thumb programs contract with a department or agency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18325
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the McCarthy-Kennick Nutrition Program for the Elderly Act of 1972.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18325.5
  It is the intention of the Legislature that the State of California through state, local governmental, and private agencies shall make a maximum contribution of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18326
  The California Commission on Aging, with the approval of the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, shall develop and submit to the federal government...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18327
  The state plan referred to in Section 18326 shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) Establishment of projects which, five or more...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18327.1
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state plan referred to in Section 18326 and Section 18327 shall provide that not less than 10 percent...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18327.2
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not more than 20 percent of the funds administered by the state for nutrition services for the elderly pursuant...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18327.3
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no agency providing food services, pursuant to this chapter shall be prohibited from serving meals consistent with terms and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18329
  To the extent permitted by federal law, benefits received under this chapter shall not be treated as income or resources for the purpose of any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18330
  In each case where the Director of the State Department of Aging determines that the failure or inability of any contractor adequately to perform the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18331
  There is hereby established a Nutrition Reserve Fund under the control of the Director of the Department of Aging. From the fund the director may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18331.1
  Notwithstanding the limitations of Section 18331 of this code, the director is empowered to allocate money from the Nutrition Reserve Fund in order to implement...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18332
  (a) All allocations from the Nutrition Reserve Fund shall be approved by the Director of Finance prior to issuance. (b) The funds shall be used...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18333
  (a) The Nutrition Reserve Fund shall also be used for the purpose of making loans to maintain existing levels of supportive services provided pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18335
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) Retired firemen may be utilized to conduct fire inspections of the sites of nutrition projects for senior citizens...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358
  The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "Department" means the State Department of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.05
  (a) The department shall implement intensive treatment foster care programs for eligible children. (b) (1) The department shall implement the program in any participating county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.10
  Each foster family agency participating in this program shall enter into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the county and provide all of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.15
  (a) Each foster family agency participating in the program shall develop the child's needs and services plan, and have it agreed to by the county...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.20
  In addition to the requirements of Sections 18358.10 and 18358.15, any foster family agency that serves children under this program shall have a contract or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.23
  In addition to the requirements of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 18358.05, participating counties shall do all of the following: (a) Determine the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.25
  (a) Certified foster parents participating under this chapter shall ensure the well-being of emotionally disturbed children or children with a serious behavioral problem under their...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.30
  (a) Rates for foster family agency programs participating under this chapter shall be exempt from the current AFDC-FC foster family agency ratesetting system. (b) Rates...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.35
  Foster family agencies implementing intensive foster care programs shall under no circumstances have any interest in the properties occupied by the certified foster parents.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.36
  In order to provide for continuity of services to children receiving intensive foster care services, the two foster family agencies providing services pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18358.37
  The department shall develop, in consultation with the counties, providers, and other stakeholders, cost reporting, claiming, and other procedures necessary to maximize federal financial participation.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18375
  The intent of this chapter is to assist city and county health agencies to provide preventive health care through public health nursing services to the
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18376
  (a) The State Department of Health Services may authorize the payment of state funds to defray in part the cost of projects or the continuation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18378
  The California Commission on Aging shall render such technical assistance and advice as is required by the department in carrying out the provisions of this
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18400
  The department, subject to the approval of the Attorney General, may enter into reciprocal agreements with corresponding state agencies of other states regarding the interstate...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18401
  This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18402
  This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Transfer of Dependents Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18450
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Relief Law of 1945.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18451
  The provisions of this chapter (except the provisions of this section) are suspended and continue suspended from operation until the occurrence of an economic emergency...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18452
  After the provisions of this chapter become operative, the provisions of Part 5 of this division, relating to county aid and relief to indigents, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18453
  As used in this chapter, the terms defined in this article have the meanings set forth in this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18454
  "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18455
  "Aid" means state financial assistance to counties for the direct cost of relief and the cost of administration thereof.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18456
  "Relief" means assistance in cash or in kind provided to individuals or families to relieve hardship and destitution. Relief to a person includes relief to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18457
  In accordance with the provisions of this chapter, every county shall provide relief to needy persons who are residents of this state.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18458
  For the purposes of this chapter, a resident of the state is a person who comes within all of the following descriptions: (a) Who has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18459
  For the purposes of this chapter, a person who is a resident of the state is a resident of the county in which he has...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18460
  A county may incur all necessary expenses in transporting a nonresident applicant for or recipient of relief under this chapter to another state or county,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18470
  The direct administration of this chapter shall be carried out by the boards of supervisors of the several counties, directly or through their authorized agents....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18471
  The department shall: (a) Establish minimum and maximum standards for the amount and form of relief, on a budgetary basis, as provided in Sections 18472,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18472
  The department shall from time to time fix for each county maximum and minimum relief case budgets within the range of which the board of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18473
  In determining and redetermining budgets and standards, the department may give consideration to living costs and may establish budgets and standards varying in monetary worth...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18474
  Relief may be granted in cash or in kind, but relief may be granted in kind only after the method has been approved by the
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18475
  All income received by a person or family, regardless of source, shall be considered in determining the amount of relief to be provided.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18476
  In administering any funds appropriated or made available to the department for disbursement through the counties for relief purposes, the department shall: (a) Require as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18477
  If any county fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations or orders of the department for the administration...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18478
  The department may operate the relief administration in any county after the denial of financial assistance to the county in accordance with the provisions of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18490
  Application for relief may be made to the county of which the applicant is a resident, or, in the case of an applicant who is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18491
  The board of supervisors of every county as a board, or by committee or by such person as it may authorize, shall investigate every application...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18492
  Persons eligible for relief, who are residents of the state and residents of the county in which they apply for relief, shall be granted relief...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18493
  In case of dispute between two or more counties as to the responsibility for any person, or in case of dispute between a county and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18494
  If any applicant or recipient is dissatisfied with the action of the board of supervisors, he shall, upon filing a petition with the department, have...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18496
  Whenever an applicant or recipient loses an appeal made pursuant to Section 18494, the applicant or recipient shall be liable for any amount paid pending...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18500
  Relief shall be provided only to persons who are in need, as determined by an investigation as prescribed by the department. Subject to the rules...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18501
  As a condition to the grant or continuance of relief, the county may require the recipient to perform work provided by the county. Such work...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18502
  Persons who are eligible for aid to the aged under the Old Age Security Law, aid to the blind, aid to the disabled, or aid...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18503
  No person shall be considered a needy person who has made any voluntary assignment or transfer of property for the purpose of qualifying for relief,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18504
  No person is eligible for relief who, being physically capable thereof, refuses suitable employment. The department shall define "suitable employment," but no person shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18510
  Relief granted to any person who is not entitled thereto under the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a debt of the recipient, to the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18511
  If the spouse, parent, or adult child of any recipient of relief is financially able to contribute to the support of the recipient, such relative...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18520
  The provisions of this chapter providing for state payments to counties do not constitute appropriations of money from the State Treasury, and no provision of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18521
  (a) Until the rate of county expenditure for the direct and administrative costs of welfare activities under this chapter exceeds, on a fiscal year basis...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18522
  During such time as grants-in-aid are provided or made available by the United States government for either direct costs or administrative costs of welfare activities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18523
  The method of computing and paying the amounts provided for in Sections 18521 and 18522 for each quarter shall be as follows: (a) The department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18524
  Reports of payments of relief and of payments for the cost of administration thereof made under this chapter shall be presented by the respective counties...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18650
  Every blind person who was a resident of the Oakland Orientation Center for the Blind on March 1, 1951, who may be transferred to other...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18900
  Finding that hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition are present and continuing problems faced by low-income California households, and further finding that the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18900.1
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall propose a new name for the Food Stamp Program in California, by July 1, 2009. The department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18900.2
  (a) Pursuant to Section 18900.1, the name of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Chapter 51 (commencing with Section 2011) Title 7 of the United...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901
  The eligibility of households shall be determined to the extent permitted by federal law.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.2
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to create a program in California that provides a nominal Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) service...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.3
  (a) Subject to the limitations of subdivision (b), pursuant to Section 115(d)(1)(A) of Public Law 104-193 (21 U.S.C. Sec. 862a(d)(1)(A)), California opts out of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.4
  (a) Effective July 1, 2010, the department shall propose a Transitional Food Stamps for Foster Youth demonstration project under which independent foster care adolescents, as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.5
  (a) The department shall establish a program of categorical eligibility for CalFresh in accordance with Section 5(a) of the federal Food and Nutrition Act of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.55
  (a) If a county has entered into a memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 49557.3 of the Education Code, the county shall use the procedure...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.6
  To the maximum extent allowable by federal law, each county welfare department shall provide transitional CalFresh benefits to households terminating their participation in the CalWORKs
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.7
  (a) To the extent allowable by federal law, the income, resources, and deductible expenses of any household member who is rendered ineligible for CalFresh benefits...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.8
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, and with receipt of necessary federal approvals, the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with affected...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.9
  (a) For the purpose of eligibility under this chapter, the rules governing the resource value of motor vehicles shall be aligned with an alternative program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18901.10
  To the extent permitted by federal law, and subject to the limitation in subdivision (c), each county welfare department shall, if appropriate, exempt a household...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18902
  Each county welfare department shall carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this chapter, subject to the supervision of the department and to rules and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18902.5
  (a) In the administration of this chapter counties may conduct an early fraud prevention and detection program pursuant to this section. (b) Funding for an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18903
  The department shall enter into and execute on behalf of the state all necessary agreements in connection with this chapter as may be required by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18904
  Regulations, orders or standards of general application to implement, interpret or make specific the law relating to this chapter shall be adopted, amended, or repealed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18904.1
  (a) The director, to the extent permitted by federal law, shall establish methods for CalFresh benefit issuance in all counties which guarantee to low-income households...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18904.2
  The department may administer outreach programs and adopt rules and regulations requiring counties to conduct outreach programs to the extent permitted by federal law and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18904.25
  (a) Pursuant to the federal Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (Public Law 100-77), the department shall develop CalFresh information on expedited services targeted to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18904.3
  (a) Where private nonprofit organizations are successful in raising money for CalFresh outreach activities and have secured a local governmental agency to serve as the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18904.35
  Upon approval of a final plan for CalFresh outreach activities, in accordance with Section 18904.4, the department shall, in determining whether to request federal matching...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18905
  In the event that the United States Department of Agriculture makes a final determination to reduce federal funding of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18905.1
  The department shall not impose any additional requirements for verification of eligibility for expedited service other than those minimum requirements that exist under federal law.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18906
  The department shall establish and maintain a plan whereby costs for county administration of CalFresh under this chapter will be effectively controlled within the amounts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18906.5
  (a) The state shall pay 70 percent of the nonfederal costs of administering the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, administered in California as CalFresh, subject...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18906.55
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 18906.5 or any other law, as a result of the substantial fiscal pressures on counties created by the unprecedented and unanticipated CalFresh...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18906.6
  At the time the United States Department of Agriculture allows the state to retain a portion of the value of any claims collected, the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18906.7
  The state shall pay 100 percent of the nonfederal costs of administering an early fraud prevention and detection program in the administration of this chapter,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18906.8
  Subject to Section 18906, the state may pay 100 percent of the nonfederal administrative costs, when cost-effective, as determined by the state, of followup activities...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18907
  In the determination of eligibility for CalFresh, there shall be no discrimination against any household by reason of marital status, political belief, or any characteristic...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18908
  Except as provided in Section 18904.1, federal supplemental security income benefits, state supplemental security program benefits, public assistance, and county aid benefits shall not be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18909
  Section 10850, relating to disclosure of information regarding public assistance recipients, shall apply to information obtained under this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18910
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, regulations, waivers, and directives, the department shall implement the prospective budgeting, quarterly reporting system provided in Sections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18910
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, regulations, waivers, and directives, the department shall implement the prospective budgeting, semiannual reporting system provided in Sections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18911
  (a) An application and an authorization for participation in CalFresh shall be processed within a period of not more than 30 days from the date...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18912
  (a) Each county welfare department shall orally inform each applicant of the availability of expedited service and assistance in filling out the application. (b) Each...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18913
  The department shall collect, quarterly, expedited service data, on a county-by-county basis, of the number of applications and the disposition of the applications, and shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18914
  (a) To the extent provided by federal law, the county welfare department shall provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis to households determined to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18914
  To the extent provided by federal law, the county welfare department shall provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis to households determined to be in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18915
  All applications and public information materials shall be available to potential, present, and past CalFresh recipients in each county in Spanish as well as English...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18916
  The board of supervisors of each county shall have the authority to request from the United States Department of Agriculture the simultaneous operation of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18918
  Not later than January 15, 2001, the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18923
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall submit a request to the United States Department of Agriculture for a waiver to permit a CalFresh...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18924
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, waiver, demonstration project, or other federal authority, the department shall allow counties to utilize existing information maintained...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18925
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Social Services, shall implement a simplified eligibility process as part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18926
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department shall annually seek a federal waiver of the existing federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program limitation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18926.5
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, "CalFresh Employment and Training program" or "CalFresh E&T" means the program established under Section 6(d)(4)(B) of the federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18930
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish a Food Assistance Program to provide assistance for those persons described in subdivision (b). The department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18930.5
  (a) As a condition of eligibility for assistance under this chapter: (1) A recipient who is also receiving aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18931
  Any person who is eligible for federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, administered in California as CalFresh benefits, shall not be eligible for assistance...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18932
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the federal and state laws and regulations governing the federal Food Stamp Program shall also govern the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18933
  Benefits provided under this chapter shall be equivalent to the benefits provided under the federal Food Stamp Program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18934
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds in the Budget Act for the purpose of providing services under this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18935
  This chapter shall be implemented only during any period that federal benefits are provided under Section 1612(a) of Title 8 of the United States Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18937
  The State Department of Social Services shall establish and supervise a county- or county consortia-administered program to provide cash assistance to aged, blind, and disabled...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18938
  (a) (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), an individual, upon application, shall be eligible for the program established pursuant to Section 18937 if his...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18939
  (a) Any person who is found to be eligible for federally funded SSI by the department shall be required to apply for SSI benefits. An...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18939.5
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an individual who naturalizes while receiving benefits under this article, who remains otherwise eligible for benefits under this article,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18940
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the federal and state laws and regulations governing the SSI/SSP program shall also govern the program provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18941
  Benefits provided under this chapter shall be equivalent to the benefits provided under the SSI/SSP program, Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of Part 3,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18942
  The department shall reimburse the counties for the cost of actual payments made pursuant to this chapter and for the administrative costs actually attributable to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18943
  (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 1340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18944
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate funds in the Budget Act for the purpose of providing services under this chapter. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18945
  (a) Noncitizen victims of trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes, as defined in subdivision (b), shall be eligible for public social services under this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18950
  The Legislature finds and declares that child abuse is a growing concern in this state, and that current methods of coping with child abuse problems...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18950.5
  For the purposes of this chapter, a child receiving treatment by spiritual means as provided in Section 16508 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18951
  As used in this chapter: (a) "Child" means an individual under 18 years of age. (b) "Child services" means services for or on behalf of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18952
  There is hereby established in the State Department of Social Services an Office of Child Abuse Prevention which shall be administered by a chief who...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18953
  The office shall employ such personnel as is necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, subject to civil service rules and regulations.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18953.5
  The Office of Child Abuse Prevention may fund the various programs established pursuant to this chapter, Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 18975), and Chapter 12.5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18953.7
  The Office of Child Abuse Prevention may renew grants not to exceed three years in duration on condition that the grant is reviewed annually and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18955
  In the exercise of its authority under Section 18954 the office shall develop plans to fulfill the requirements of any federal act providing for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18955.1
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall make every attempt to qualify projects implemented pursuant to this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18958
  The Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall apply for federal funding for the administration of its functions under this chapter. The office shall use these...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18960
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs be encouraged by the funding of agencies...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18961
  (a) Projects funded pursuant to this article shall be selected through a competitive process, which shall include all of the following criteria: (1) Priority shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18961.5
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any county may establish a computerized database system within that county to allow provider agencies, as defined in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18961.6
  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 18961.5, if the County of Los Angeles establishes a database pursuant to Section 18961.5, the database may also include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18961.7
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county may establish a child abuse multidisciplinary personnel team within that county to allow provider agencies to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18962
  (a) (1) The State Department of Social Services shall notify counties of allocations of funds for services provided pursuant to Section 18961 no later than...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18963
  Unless otherwise specified in the annual Budget Act, the funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act to the State Department of Social Services for the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18964
  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law governing the disclosure of information and records, including, but not limited to, Section 5328 of the Welfare and Institutions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18965
  A county board of supervisors may designate an existing local voluntary commission, board or council in order to carry out the purposes of this article....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18966
  When a county board of supervisors designates a commission pursuant to Section 18965, the board of supervisors shall establish a county children's trust fund. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18966.1
  (a) Any federal funds provided for child abuse prevention challenge grants to provide matching funds to states that have established children's trust funds shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18967
  Money in the children's trust fund of each county shall be used to fund child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs operated by private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18968
  In any county where the board of supervisors does not designate a commission to carry out the purposes of this article, pursuant to Section 18965,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18968.5
  Amounts collected for the surcharge upon birth certificates pursuant to Section 103625 of the Health and Safety Code that would have been transferred by the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18969
  (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a fund which shall be known as the State Children's Trust Fund. The fund shall consist...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18970
  (a) The department shall expend funds appropriated to it pursuant to Section 18969 for innovative local child abuse and neglect prevention and intervention programs operated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18971
  Priority for funds transferred to the State Children's Trust Fund pursuant to Section 18968 shall be given to funding child abuse and neglect prevention and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18973
  (a) Each citizen review panel established pursuant to Section 5106a(c) of Title 42 of the United States Code shall examine the policies, procedures, and practices...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975
  This chapter is known and may be cited as the Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Child abuse and neglect is a severe and increasing problem in California. (b) School districts...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.2
  It is the intention of the Legislature that primary prevention training for all children in state-funded center based preschools and public schools, kindergarten through grade...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.3
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.4
  "Department" means the State Department of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.5
  "Office" means the Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.6
  "Child abuse" means those acts defined in Section 11165 of the Penal Code.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.7
  A "primary prevention program" means a training and educational program for children, which is directed toward all of the following: (a) Preventing the occurrence of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.8
  "Prevention training center" means a center defined in Article 3 (commencing with Section 18977).
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18975.9
  "Center based preschools" means state subsidized centers in which children of preschool age are provided services under the child development programs identified in paragraphs (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18976
  A primary prevention program shall include all of the following: (a) Parent, teacher, and children's workshops which provide all of the following: (1) Information, provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18976.1
  For the purposes of program effectiveness, it is the intent of the Legislature that children's workshops, in general, be delivered to classroom-size, or smaller, groups...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18976.5
  Parents shall be given notice of, and may refuse to have their children participate in, a primary prevention program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18977
  A prevention training center shall provide information and services to primary prevention programs, the office, and interested applicants for grants, as follows: (a) Act as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978
  The office shall select and award grants by January 1, 1985, to two private, nonprofit prevention training centers, one located in, and serving northern California,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.1
  The office shall select the two training centers which can fulfill the requirement of Section 18977, and which meet the following requirements: (a) For the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.2
  The office shall distribute a standard request for proposal and shall select the primary prevention program for each service area through a competitive bidding process....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.3
  In awarding grants for primary prevention programs, the office: (a) May, in order to achieve economies of scale, designate service areas for grants that include...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.4
  (a) Requests for proposals shall be sent out by March 1, 1985. (b) The office shall so conduct its primary prevention program selection process that...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.5
  The office shall do all of the following: (a) Prepare and execute grants with the successful applicants for the prevention training centers and primary prevention...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.6
  The office shall administer this chapter.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.7
  The director shall be authorized to the extent necessary to adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18978.8
  The director shall, within 60 days of the operative date of this chapter, adopt regulations implementing the provisions of this chapter as emergency regulations in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18979
  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, eleven million two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($11,250,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the office...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18980
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18981
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Child abuse is one of the most tragic social and criminal justice issues of our...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18981.1
  It is the intention of the Legislature to fund child abuse prevention coordinating councils in each county.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18982
  A child abuse prevention coordinating council is a community council whose primary purpose is to coordinate the community's efforts to prevent and respond to child
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18982.1
  Councils funded by this chapter shall encourage representatives from the following: (a) Public child welfare services, including the following: (1) The county welfare or children's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18982.2
  The functions of a council shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) To provide a forum for interagency cooperation and coordination in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18982.3
  Councils may form committees to carry out specific functions, such as the following: (a) Interagency coordination committees. (b) Multidisciplinary personnel teams. (c) Professional training committees....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18982.4
  The multidisciplinary personnel team provisions of subdivision (l) of Section 5328, subdivision (d) of Section 18951, and Section 18961 shall apply to child abuse prevention...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18983
  Each county shall fund child abuse prevention coordinating councils which meet the criteria in Section 18982 from the county's children's trust fund. In the event...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18983.3
  In the event that more than one council per county exists, the county board of supervisors shall develop a procedure for selecting a council for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18983.4
  For counties without existing councils the county board of supervisors shall make every effort to facilitate the formation and funding of a council in that
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18983.5
  Councils funded under this chapter shall be incorporated as nonprofit corporations, or established as independent organizations within county government, or comparably independent organizations as determined...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18983.6
  Councils receiving funding under this chapter shall develop a protocol for interagency coordination and provide yearly reports to the county board of supervisors.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18983.8
  Councils receiving funding under this chapter shall provide a local cash or in-kind match of 33 1/3 percent. For councils unable to raise the full...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Presley-Brown Interagency Children's Services Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) According to Policy Analysis of California Education (PACE): (1) In 1988, California had a population...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.2
  It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to encourage the development of a comprehensive and collaborative delivery system of services to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.3
  For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Children's services" means any services provided by any state or local agency or private...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.10
  The board of supervisors of any county or city and county may establish an interagency children's services coordination council.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.11
  A council shall be comprised of, but not be limited to, the following members: (a) Persons responsible for management of the following county functions: (1)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.12
  (a) The council shall convene monthly and shall, in addition, convene at least two public meetings annually inviting public testimony. (b) Meetings of the council...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.13
  The county board of supervisors may designate an existing, duly established interagency children's services coordinating body as the county's interagency children's services coordination council as...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.14
  The council's duties shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Ensuring collaboration and countywide planning for the provision of children's services. (b)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.15
  Each county wishing to participate under this chapter shall develop a three-year program for phasing in a coordinated children's services system. (a) A plan for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.20
  (a) Any county that wishes to participate under this chapter and that develops a three-year program of coordinated children's services pursuant to Section 18986.15, may,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.21
  (a) A waiver or waivers may be granted pursuant to this chapter when existing regulations hinder the coordination of children' s services and when waivers...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.22
  (a) A negotiated contract may be awarded pursuant to this chapter when existing regulations and categorical programs hinder the coordination of children's services and prohibit...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.23
  Waivers and negotiated contracts shall be granted pursuant to this chapter by the Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency, the Superintendent of Public Instruction,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.24
  The Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Attorney General, or the Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.30
  Two years after the approval of an initial waiver or negotiated contract request pursuant to Sections 18986.20 to 18986.24, inclusive, the department shall review and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.40
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, "program" or "integrated children's services programs" means a coordinated children's service system, operating as a program that is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.46
  (a) A program shall utilize children's multidisciplinary services teams, as defined in this chapter. (b) A team member shall provide program services only as employed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.50
  (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this chapter, to encourage the development of programs and services, in keeping with Chapter...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.53
  (a) Any county may implement an interagency day care program for multiple needs youths who are either being served by, or are at risk of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law related to the funding and delivery of state programs and services specified in this section, designated counties, if...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.05
  (a) Not later than September 30, 1995, the Governor, or the Governor's designee shall select up to six counties on the basis of highest scores...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.1
  Counties selected to participate may implement the program on January 1, 1995, July 1, 1995, or January 1, 1996.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.15
  The California Health and Human Services Agency shall be responsible for all of the following: (a) Facilitating any state interagency coordination necessary for the implementation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.16
  (a) The Legislature finds that an evaluation is both desirable and necessary to assess the effectiveness of the pilot program provided for in this chapter....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.17
  (a) Pursuant to this chapter, the California Health and Human Services Agency or the Secretary of the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, as appropriate, may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.2
  (a) (1) In order to participate in the pilot program authorized by this chapter, a county board of supervisors shall establish a child and family...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.25
  A council established pursuant to Section 18987.2 shall be comprised of, at a minimum, all of the following: (a) The county superintendent of schools, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.3
  Each child and family interagency coordinating council shall develop a strategic plan for implementation of the pilot program. The plan shall contain all of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.36
  The board of supervisors of each participating county shall submit to the California Health and Human Services Agency all of the following: (a) An annual...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.4
  (a) (1) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Youth Pilot Program Fund. State and federal moneys that, if distributed to a designated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.45
  The pilot program authorized by this chapter shall be deemed successful in a given county if, at a minimum, the outcomes from the services funded...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.5
  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this chapter shall become inoperative on January 1, 2013, and, as of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.6
  It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following: (a) Permit all counties to provide children with service alternatives to group...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.61
  (a) Each county may enter into performance agreements with private nonprofit agencies to encourage innovation in the delivery of children's services, to develop services not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.62
  (a) Upon request from a county, the director may waive regulations governing foster care payments or the operation of group homes to enable counties to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.7
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall convene a workgroup of public and private nonprofit stakeholders that shall develop a plan for transforming the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.71
  For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) (1) "Residentially based services" means behavioral or therapeutic interventions delivered in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18987.72
  (a) In order to obtain knowledge and experience with which to inform the process of developing and implementing the plan for residentially based services, required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18988
  (a) In order to ensure maximum flexibility in providing adult social services programs administered by the State Department of Social Services, including, but not limited...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18988.05
  Any request under this chapter shall contain, at a minimum, all of the following: (a) The regulation or regulations for which the county requests a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18988.10
  When approving a county request for a waiver pursuant to this chapter, the Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency shall ensure all of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18989
  (a) Any agency established by San Mateo County for purposes of providing any combination of human services may apply for a waiver of existing state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18989.1
  Any request under this chapter shall contain, at a minimum, all of the following: (a) The regulation or regulations for which the county requests a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18989.2
  The request for waiver shall be submitted to the Secretary of the Health and Welfare Agency. When approving a request for a waiver pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.60
  (a) Placer County, with the assistance of the appropriate state departments, within the existing resources of those departments, shall implement a pilot program upon approval...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.61
  (a) Placer County shall evaluate the pilot program and shall prepare a final evaluation and submit the final evaluation to the Governor or the Governor's...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.62
  This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2016, and, as of January 1, 2017, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.86
  (a) Humboldt County, Mendocino County, Alameda County, and any additional county or counties, as determined by the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18986.87
  (a) A participating county shall, in consultation with the appropriate state departments, as designated by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, develop outcomes and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993
  There is hereby created the Community Challenge Grant Program in the State Department of Health Services to provide community challenge grants to reduce the number...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.1
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) One in three children in California is born out of wedlock. (b) As many...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.2
  (a) The State Department of Health Services shall administer grants for purposes of this chapter that shall be awarded pursuant to a request for application...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.3
  (a) An advisory committee of 10 members shall be appointed to advise and consult with the department regarding the Community Challenge Grant Program in the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.4
  Grant applications shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Plans for community collaboration with parents, local agencies, businesses, school leaders, community groups,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.5
  (a) Criteria for grant selection shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (1) Degree of community input and collaboration in the project. (2)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.6
  (a) Grantees shall be required to match a portion of the grant awarded under the Community Challenge Grant Program with either dollar or measurable in-kind...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.7
  (a) The costs for state administration of the Community Challenge Grant Program may be up to 5 percent of the total appropriation for the program....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.8
  The department shall conduct a statewide independent evaluation of the program, assessing the program's effectiveness in achieving stated outcomes as established by the department. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18993.9
  The program provided for under this chapter shall be implemented only to the extent that funds are appropriated in the Budget Act.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994
  (a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Families and Children Home Visit Program. (b) The department shall implement this...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.1
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) About 26 percent of California's children under the age of 18 years live in families...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.2
  (a) "At risk" means families who experience multiple stress factors, and who are more likely than the general population to have adverse health, social, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.3
  (a) The Office of Child Abuse Prevention in the State Department of Social Services shall be responsible for award of implementation grants and continued operation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.4
  (a) Each county that chooses to participate in the California Families and Children Home Visit Program shall develop and submit to the Office of Child...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.5
  County programs are eligible for continued funding following an implementation assessment if both of the following are true: (a) The assessment results in a determination...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.55
  A grant for operation of a program under this chapter may be awarded to a county that has demonstrated readiness to begin operation of a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.6
  A planning grant may be awarded under this chapter to a county that has demonstrated a need to implement a program, but which is not...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.61
  Each grantee shall be required to provide matching funds with one dollar ($1) for every two dollars ($2) awarded. The match may be either in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.65
  (a) Research and program evaluation shall provide information for the development and implementation of this chapter. The Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall incorporate new...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.7
  The Office of Child Abuse Prevention shall provide administrative oversight for the California Families and Children Home Visit Program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.72
  (a) Of the funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 1998 for purposes of this chapter, not less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.74
  Of the funds appropriated for purposes of this chapter, not more than 7.5 percent shall be used for state support staff to facilitate the Office...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.8
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with other relevant state officials, seek and use any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18994.9
  (a) There is hereby established the California Families and Children Home Visit Program Task Force, which shall be convened by the Office of Child Abuse...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18995
  (a) On and after January 1, 2012, the State Department of Social Services shall establish and administer the State Emergency Food Assistance Program (SEFAP). The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 18996
  (a) The Emergency Food Assistance Program Advisory Board is hereby established. The board shall provide advice and assistance in the operation of the emergency food...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19000
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Work is a valuable and important activity, both for individuals and society, and fulfills the need...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19001
  There is in the California Health and Human Services Agency the Department of Rehabilitation.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19002
  The Department of Rehabilitation is under the control of an officer known as the Director of Rehabilitation. As used in this division "department" and "director"...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19003
  The director is appointed by the Governor, subject to confirmation by the Senate, and holds office at the pleasure of the Governor. The annual salary...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19004
  The provisions of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11150), Part 1, Division 3, Title 2 of the Government Code apply to the director and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19005
  The department is vested with all necessary powers and authority to cooperate with the government of the United States or any agency or agencies thereof...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19005.1
  The Department of Rehabilitation is hereby designated as the sole state agency with full power to supervise every phase of the administration of the state...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19005.5
  (a) The Department of Rehabilitation shall establish a program authorizing rehabilitation professionals serving industrially injured workers under the provisions of Labor Code Section 139.5 to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19006
  The department may adopt, amend, or repeal, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, such rules and regulations as may be reasonably...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19007
  The director may, with the approval of the Director of Finance, accept on behalf of, and in the name of, the state such gifts, donations,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19008
  To the extent resources are available, the department may utilize funds from appropriations by Congress, by gifts, grants, or reimbursements from private or public sources...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19008.5
  (a) The department is authorized to solicit and accept gifts, contributions, and grants from any source, public or private, to establish, implement, and maintain an...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19009
  No period of residence in this state is required for participation in any program administered by the department, except as required by federal law or
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19009.5
  No person shall have his or her rehabilitation services reduced due to the receipt of any private grants, scholarships, or awards, provided for the purpose...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19010
  Pursuant to agreements the department shall cooperate with the federal government in carrying out the purposes of any federal statutes pertaining to the purposes of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19011
  The people of the state accept the provisions and benefits of the act of Congress entitled "The Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 (Public Law 105-220)...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19012
  In accepting the provisions and benefits of the act of Congress referred to in Section 19011, the people of the state agree to observe and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19013
  (a) (1) The department may cooperate with other departments, agencies, and institutions, both public and private, in providing the services authorized by this division to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19013.5
  (a) In performing any rehabilitative services or in contracting with other public or private agencies for rehabilitative services, the department shall take into consideration the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19014
  The Department of Rehabilitation and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement shall formulate a plan of cooperation for the referral and rehabilitation of persons in
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19015
  The department may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states to provide for the services authorized by this division to residents of the state concerned.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19016
  The department may prepare and promulgate regulations and statements of policy governing the protection of records and confidential information, the manner and form of filing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19017
  The department may conduct research and compile statistics relating to the provision of services or the need of services by individuals with disabilities.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19018
  Financial need shall be considered in the furnishing or denial of services in accordance with the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act and regulations adopted thereunder.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19020
  (a) On and after July 1, 1993, the department shall recommend to each organization or agency, the purpose of which is to provide services to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19050
  There is in the department a program manager for the blind and visually impaired and a program manager for the deaf and hard of hearing....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19050.5
  The program manager for the blind and visually impaired programs and the program manager for the deaf and hard-of-hearing programs shall have demonstrated experience and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19053
  The provisions of this chapter shall be effective only to the extent permitted under federal law.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19054
  The director shall appoint a Deaf Advisory Committee to advise the director on means to increase employment, enlarge economic opportunities, enhance independence and self-sufficiency, and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19075
  The Vocational Rehabilitation Federal Fund in the State Treasury is hereby created. All grants of money received by this state from the United States, the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19076
  The State Treasurer, as required by the federal act relating to vocational rehabilitation referred to in Section 19012 shall receive and provide for the proper...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19077
  The State Treasurer shall also receive and provide for the proper custody of all money appropriated by this chapter (commencing with Section 19075), of all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19078
  Money in the Vocational Rehabilitation Federal Fund shall be expended as provided by this chapter, as requisitioned by the department in carrying out the provisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19079
  All money in the Vocational Rehabilitation Federal Fund is hereby appropriated to the department without regard to fiscal years, for expenditure for the purposes for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19080
  The State Controller may approve any general plan whereby: (a) Any expenditures which are a proper charge against money made available by the United States...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19090
  (a) Pursuant to federal law, there is a State Rehabilitation Council, that shall advise and assist the director in carrying out the vocational rehabilitation provisions...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19091
  (a) Pursuant to federal law, there is a State Independent Living Council, that shall advise and assist the director in carrying out the independent living...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19092
  (a) The functions of the State Rehabilitation Council and the State Independent Living Council and terms of appointment of the members thereof shall be governed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19095
  (a) (1) There is hereby established in the Department of Rehabilitation a Division of Specialized Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired and the Deaf...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19095.5
  (a) The division shall be under the direction of a deputy director, who shall be appointed by the Governor. (b) The deputy director shall have...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19096
  (a) Commencing July 1, 2003, the division shall be charged with the administration of the following programs and services: (1) All staff within the division,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19097
  (a) Subject to the control of the director, all employees of the department providing services to persons who are blind and visually impaired administered by...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19097.5
  The department shall report annually in the fourth quarter of each calendar year to the Blind Advisory Committee on the amount of state and federal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19098
  The Director of Rehabilitation shall, on or before July 1, 2005, and every other year thereafter, report to the Legislature and the Governor on the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19098.5
  The Director of Rehabilitation shall establish the Blind Advisory Committee to advise the Director of Rehabilitation on means to increase competitive employment, enlarge economic opportunities,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19100
  (a) The department shall provide the services defined and authorized by this part to individuals with physical or mental disabilities who are found to be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19101
  Pursuant to federal law, the department may conduct an evaluation, when necessary, including, but not limited to, diagnostic and related services, necessary to determine eligibility...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19102
  Pursuant to federal law, the department shall establish a priority order to be followed in selecting individuals to whom vocational rehabilitation services will be provided.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19103
  (a) Any individual with a disability, as defined in Section 19151, who requires vocational rehabilitation services to prepare for, enter, engage in, or retain gainful...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19104
  (a) Subject to the limitation of Section 19102 and to the extent federal funds are available, an individualized written rehabilitation program shall be developed for...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19104.5
  (a) For the purpose of ensuring, consistent with federal law, that eligible individuals are given meaningful, informed, and increased choices in the rehabilitation process, identification...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19106
  The department shall submit an annual report to the Legislature to include the following performance data for the prior year: (a) The number of persons...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19150
  (a) The term "vocational rehabilitation services" means the following services and goods: (1) An assessment for determining eligibility and vocational rehabilitation needs by qualified personnel,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19151
  (a) The term "individual with a disability" means any individual who: (1) Has a physical or mental impairment which constitutes or results in a substantial...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19152
  (a) "Community rehabilitation program" means a program which is operated for the primary purpose of providing directly or facilitating the provision of vocational rehabilitation services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19153
  The term, "blind person" means either a person who has not more than 20/200 central visual acuity in the better eye after correction, or a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19154
  Establishment of a community rehabilitation program means the acquisition, expansion, remodeling, or alteration of existing buildings necessary to adapt them to community rehabilitation program purposes...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19200
  The department is authorized to pay for training and support services for deaf students in a public or private college or university approved by the
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19400
  It is the purpose of this chapter to extend the opportunities for individuals with disabilities for employment through encouragement of local communities to develop rehabilitation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19401
  The department may provide consultive services to organizations in the establishment and operation of community rehabilitation programs for individuals with disabilities. These consultive service shall...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19402
  The department may contract with qualified persons or firms for consultation in such technical fields as accounting, engineering and sales so that the directors and...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19403
  It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage state organizations, cities, counties, districts, and other political subdivisions to purchase products manufactured by and services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19404
  Any state agency, city or county, political subdivision, or district of this state may, without advertising or calling for bids, purchase materials and supplies manufactured...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19460
  (a) There is in the State Treasury a permanent revolving fund to be known as the Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Guarantee Fund, and to be administered...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19461
  As used in this article, the following definitions apply: (a) "Department" means the Department of Rehabilitation. (b) "Eligible persons" means any of the following, provided...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19462
  The department shall serve as a state loan guarantee agency to guarantee loans and to administer a guaranteed loan program established pursuant to this article....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19463
  State guaranteed loans made pursuant to this article shall be made without regard to race, religion, creed, or sex.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19464
  The total amount of all outstanding debts, obligations, and liabilities which may be incurred or created under this article is limited to the amount contained...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19465
  In the event that the amount of loans applied for under this article exceeds the amount of the loans that may be guaranteed pursuant to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19466
  The State Treasurer shall invest, pursuant to statute, any surplus money in the Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Guarantee Fund. The interest or other accretions as a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19467
  The funds in the Rehabilitation Revolving Loan Guarantee Fund shall be paid out by the State Treasurer on warrants drawn by the Controller and requisitioned...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19468
  The department shall encourage private eligible lenders to participate in the guaranteed loan program established by this article, and shall develop and distribute in cooperation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19469
  No loan in excess of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall be made to any eligible person pursuant to this article.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19470
  The department shall adopt regulations not inconsistent with this article that, among other things, shall establish criteria for determining eligibility for loans in the guarantee...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19471
  (a) The department may apply for a federal grant award through the federal alternative financing program established pursuant to subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2) of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19500
  The department may establish orientation centers for the blind in such locations as may be deemed necessary to provide on a statewide basis the services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19501
  Each orientation center established under Sections 19500 to 19506, inclusive, shall be residential in character. Blind persons shall be admitted as residents and trainees in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19502
  Orientation centers shall provide for short periods of intensive personal and prevocational orientation for blind persons, and for specific vocational training. The program of orientation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19503
  The Director of Rehabilitation shall appoint an administrator for each orientation center for the blind who shall administer and supervise the program at the center...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19504
  The staff of an orientation center shall be composed of persons trained to assist blind persons in achieving social and economic independence, and whose qualifications...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19505
  Each orientation center shall be operated as a unit separate and apart from any state-operated rehabilitation facility. The program of each orientation center shall be...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19506
  The department may: (a) Make rules for the government and direction of orientation centers established under this article, and may prescribe conditions for the admission...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19507
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the department, in accordance with Section 19007, is the authorized recipient of gifts, bequests, and donations made to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19525
  The department may appoint counselor-teachers to provide individual guidance and training to the adult blind of the state. Such counselor-teachers shall give individual instruction in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19526
  Whenever any blind person with the proper educational qualifications regularly matriculates, enters, and works for a degree, or for a diploma of graduation, in any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19625
  For the purpose of providing blind persons with remunerative employment, enlarging the economic opportunities of the blind, and stimulating the blind to greater efforts in...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19625.5
  The department shall support and encourage all participants in the Business Enterprises Program to be as successful at becoming self-supporting as possible.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19626
  A "vending facility" is a location which may sell, at wholesale or retail, foods, beverages, confections, newspapers, periodicals, tobacco products, and other articles or services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19626.5
  (a) The department shall develop and promulgate regulations regarding life standards for vending facility equipment. These regulations shall include, but not be limited to, life...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19627
  (a) In order to implement the priority declared in subdivision (a) of Section 19625, the director shall, in consultation with the committee of licensed blind...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19628
  The governing board of any county, city, city and county, or other political subdivision or the persons or entities owning or controlling private property, may...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19629
  (a) The department shall provide that, if any funds are set aside, or caused to be set aside, from the net proceeds of the operation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19630
  (a) After July 1, 1978, all vending machine income from vending machines on state property shall accrue to (1) the blind vendor operating a vending...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19630.5
  (a) The Blind Vendor Revolving Loan Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury, and, notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, is continuously appropriated...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19631
  The department shall not cause or permit the establishment or placement of any blind vendor in a vending facility unless the director, in consultation with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19632
  (a) Licenses shall be issued only to applicants who are blind within the meaning of Section 19153 and who are qualified to operate vending facilities....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19633
  The vendor of each vending facility is subject to the provisions of any ordinance of the county or city in which the facility is located...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19634
  Blind persons who are authorized to operate vending facilities under this article may keep their guide dogs with them on the property while operating the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19635
  Any blind vendor who is dissatisfied with any action arising from the operation or administration of the vending facility program may submit to the department...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19636
  The director shall assign adequate personnel to carry out duties related to the administration of this article. In selecting personnel to fill any position under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19637
  The director shall provide to each blind vendor access to all relevant financial data, including quarterly and annual financial reports on the operation of the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19638
  (a) The director shall conduct a biennial election by secret ballot of a committee of licensed blind vendors who shall be fully representative of all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19639
  (a) The director shall adopt and promulgate necessary rules and regulations, in compliance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19640
  (a) The department shall prepare and submit a report to the committee of licensed blind vendors and to any appropriate governmental agencies pursuant to Sections...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19640.5
  (a) Commencing with the 1991-92 fiscal year, the State Auditor shall conduct a fiscal audit every third fiscal year, until January 1, 2002, and a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19641
  The surviving spouse of a blind vendor operating a facility pursuant to this article shall have the right after the death of the blind vendor...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19650
  It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to further carry out the purposes of this chapter by relieving blind vending stand...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19651
  From commissions collected in those facilities in which there are no blind vending stand operators licensed by the Department of Rehabilitation, the Department of Rehabilitation,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19652
  (a) The Department of Rehabilitation shall: (1) Cooperate with or arrange through private carriers for the administration of an annuity plan pursuant to Sections 19650...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19700
  (a) There is in the department a Rehabilitation Appeals Board consisting of seven members, one of whom shall be designated chairperson. The chairperson and the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19700.1
  For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) "Appellant" means an applicant or client who has filed an oral or written...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19701
  (a) The members of the board shall receive their actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in the course of official duties. (b) In addition to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19702
  (a) The members of the board shall meet whenever required to hear appeals that have been filed with the board. Special meetings shall be approved...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19703
  (a) The provisions of this chapter relative to vocational rehabilitation or independent living services, or both, shall be administered fairly to the end that all...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19704
  If any applicant for, or client of, the department is dissatisfied with any action of the department relating to his or her application or receipt...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19705
  (a) The department shall set the hearing specified in Section 19704 before the Rehabilitation Appeals Board and shall give all parties concerned written notice of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19706
  (a) In each appeal to the Rehabilitation Appeals Board, the written notification required by Section 19703, and, if applicable, the decision of the reviewer required...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19708
  (a) Information in the appellant's case record shall, upon request and proper identification, be disclosed to the person or his or her authorized representative. Medical,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19709
  (a) The appellant, within six months after receiving notice of the board's final decision, may file a petition with the superior court, under Section 1094.5...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19725
  (a) For the purpose of providing self-employment opportunities for those severely handicapped clients of the Department of Rehabilitation who are determined by the department to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19750
  The purpose of this chapter is to establish program standards and authorize procedures utilized for subgranting funds, auditing records, and monitoring the delivery of services...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19751
  The department shall administer the Independent Living Services Program. This program shall provide services to individuals with severe disabilities, in accordance with federal law. The...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19752
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, expenditures shall be limited to providing only those services specified in Section 706 of Title 29 of the United...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19753
  Financial need shall be considered in the furnishing or denial of independent living services in accordance with the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and any...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19754
  To ensure high quality services and proper and effective expenditure of funds, the department may monitor services provided by, or conduct a fiscal review or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19755
  (a) Pursuant to Sections 19006 and 19016, the department shall promulgate regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (b) Regulations adopted to...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19800
  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that individuals with disabilities comprise a large percentage of California's total population and that action is necessary to assist...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19801
  An independent living center shall: (a) Be a private, nonprofit organization controlled by a board of directors. A majority of the board shall be comprised...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19802
  For the purposes of this chapter, an "individual with a disability" is as defined pursuant to the Federal Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 706...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19803
  Services provided to individuals with disabilities shall be tailored to suit the individual needs and shall be available to individuals with all types of disabilities.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19804
  An independent living center shall not operate in conjunction with or be affiliated with a residential living center.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19805
  (a) The Department of Rehabilitation may advance to an independent living center an amount, each month, not in excess of one-twelfth of the annual allocation...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 19806
  (a) An independent living center shall not be required to provide any matching funds through private contributions as a condition of receiving state funds except...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22000
  The California Partnership for Long-Term Care Program is hereby established.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22001
  The purpose of the program is to link private long-term care insurance and health care service plan contracts that cover long-term care with the In-Home...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22002
  The State Department of Health Services shall seek any federal waivers and approvals necessary to accomplish the purposes of this division.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22003
  (a) Individuals who participate in the program and have resources above the eligibility levels for receipt of medical assistance under Title XIX of the Social...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22004
  Notwithstanding other provisions of law, the resources, to the extent described in subdivision (c), of an individual who purchases an approved and certified long-term care...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22005
  The State Department of Health Services shall only certify a long-term care insurance policy or a health care service plan contract that meets the Medi-Cal...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22005.1
  (a) The State Department of Health Services shall only certify a long-term care insurance policy that substantially meets the requirements of Chapter 2.6 (commencing with...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22005.2
  Each organization issuing policies certified by the State Department of Health Services under this division shall each year contribute to a fund to be used...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22006
  The State Department of Health Services, in determining eligibility for Medi-Cal, and the State Department of Social Services, in determining eligibility for in-home supportive services,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22007
  The program shall be designed so that the estimated aggregate state expenditures for long-term care services for individuals participating in the program do not exceed...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22008
  Advice and counseling may be provided by the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy program within the California Department of Aging to individuals interested in purchasing...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22008.5
  Individuals who participate in the program shall remain eligible for those in-home supportive services benefits and those Medi-Cal benefits for which they are eligible under...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22009
  (a) The State Department of Health Services shall adopt regulations to implement this division, including, but not limited to, regulations which establish: (1) The population...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 22010
  (a) In implementing this division, the State Department of Health Services may contract, on a bid or nonbid basis, with any qualified individual, organization, or...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24000
  There is established in the State Department of Health Services the State-Only Family Planning Program to provide comprehensive clinical family planning services to low-income men...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24001
  (a) (1) For purposes of this division, "family planning" means the process of establishing objectives for the number and spacing of children, and selecting the...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24003
  (a) A person shall be eligible to receive services pursuant to this chapter provided that the following conditions are met: (1) The person is a...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24003.2
  The basic preventive health services covered under this program shall include measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for women of reproductive age. Within 60 days of...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24003.5
  Any male or female of reproductive age who is not at risk for pregnancy and is eligible for the program shall have available the scope...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24005
  (a) This section shall apply to the Family Planning Access Care and Treatment Waiver program identified in subdivision (aa) of Section 14132 and this program....
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24007
  (a) The department shall determine the scope of benefits for the program, which shall include, but is not limited to, the following: (1) Family planning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24007.5
  The program formulary shall include all federal Food and Drug Administration approved contraceptive drugs, devices, and supplies that are authorized by the Medi-Cal program.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24009
  Family planning services are confidential. All information about personal facts and circumstances obtained by the provider shall be treated as privileged communications, shall be held...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24011
  (a) Providers shall submit claims for reimbursement for services provided on or after January 1, 1997, or receipt of notice from the department, whichever is...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24013
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may adopt any procedures as are necessary for the review of a grievance or complaint concerning...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24015
  The department may adopt emergency regulations as necessary to implement and administer this chapter in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24017
  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...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24021
  The department shall conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of the program, including expanded access and reduction of unintended pregnancies, and shall report...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24023
  It is the intent of the Legislature that the State Department of Health Services shall, effective March 1, 1997, conduct no other general statewide program...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 24027
  The State-Only Family Planning Program established under this division is hereby reenacted and continued in existence in order to continue to provide comprehensive, clinical family...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 25000
  It is the intent of the Legislature to create a process by which the options for achieving universal health care coverage can be thoroughly examined.
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 25001
  The Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency shall report back to the Legislature on the options for achieving universal health care coverage,...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 25002
  To develop the options for achieving universal health care coverage described in Section 25001, the secretary shall establish a process by which these options are...
• California Welfare and Institutions Code Section 25003
  The secretary shall report back to the Legislature on or before December 1, 2001, on the results of the process established to examine the options...