California Government Code CHAPTER 26.5 - Interagency Responsibilities for Providing Services to Children with Disabilities

• Section 7570.
  Ensuring maximum utilization of all state and federal resources available to provide a child with a disability, as defined in Section 1401(3) of Title 20...
• Section 7571.
  The Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency may designate a department of state government to assume the responsibilities described in Section 7570. The...
• Section 7572.
  (a) A child shall be assessed in all areas related to the suspected disability by those qualified to make a determination of the child’s need for...
• Section 7573.
  The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall ensure that local education agencies provide special education and those related services and designated instruction and services contained in...
• Section 7575.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Health Care Services, or any designated local agency administering the California Children’s Services, shall be...
• Section 7577.
  (a) The State Department of Rehabilitation and the State Department of Education shall jointly develop assessment procedures for determining client eligibility for State Department of Rehabilitation...
• Section 7578.
  The provision of special education programs and related services for disabled children and youth residing in state hospitals shall be ensured by the State Department...
• Section 7579.
  (a) Prior to placing a disabled child or a child suspected of being disabled in a residential facility, outside the child’s home, a court, regional center...
• Section 7579.1.
  (a) Prior to the discharge of any disabled child or youth who has an active individualized education program from a public hospital, proprietary hospital, or residential...
• Section 7579.2.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any disabled individual who has an active individualized education program and is being discharged from a state...
• Section 7579.5.
  (a) In accordance with Section 1415(b)(2)(B) of Title 20 of the United States Code, a local educational agency shall make reasonable efforts to ensure the appointment...
• Section 7579.6.
  (a) In accordance with Section 1415(b)(2)(A) of Title 20 of the United States Code, in the case of a child who is a ward of the...
• Section 7580.
  Prior to licensing a community care facility, as defined in Section 1502 of the Health and Safety Code, in which a disabled child or youth...
• Section 7581.
  The residential and noneducational costs of a child placed in a medical or residential facility by a public agency, other than a local education agency,...
• Section 7582.
  Assessments and therapy treatment services provided under programs of the State Department of Health Care Services, or its designated local agencies, rendered to a child...
• Section 7584.
  As used in this chapter, “disabled youth,” “child,” or “pupil” means individuals with exceptional needs as defined in Section 56026 of the Education Code.(Amended by...
• Section 7585.
  (a) Whenever a department or local agency designated by that department fails to provide a related service or designated instruction and service required pursuant to Section...
• Section 7586.
  (a) All state departments, and their designated local agencies, shall be governed by the procedural safeguards required in Section 1415 of Title 20 of the United...
• Section 7587.
  By January 1, 1986, each state department named in this chapter shall develop regulations, as necessary, for the department or designated local agency to implement...

Last modified: October 22, 2018