California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 2 - Regional Center Responsibilities

• 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 serve...
• 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) Contracts between the...
• 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 which...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 regional...
• Section 4642.
  (a) (1) 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...
• 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 in...
• 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 spectrum disorders.(2) The...
• 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 eligible...
• 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 parent...
• 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 system...
• 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 and...
• 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 to determine the...
• 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, the...
• 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...
• 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 the...
• 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...
• 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. Not...
• Section 4648.11.
  (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a request for proposals that is prepared by a regional center for consumer services and supports shall include a...
• 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, partnership, group association,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 travel...
• 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 shall...
• Section 4648.55.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), a regional center shall not purchase day program, vocational education, work services, independent living program, or mobility training and...
• 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...
• Section 4649.
  Regional centers shall cooperate with the state council in joint efforts to inform the public of services available to persons with developmental disabilities and of...
• 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...
• 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 plans...
• 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...
• Section 4652.5.
  (a) (1) An entity that receives payments from one or more regional centers shall contract with an independent accounting firm to obtain an independent audit or independent...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 minor...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 regional...
• Section 4659.1.
  (a) If a service or support provided pursuant to a consumer’s individual program plan under this division or individualized family service plan pursuant to the California...
• Section 4659.2.
  (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:(1) “Physical restraint” means any behavioral or mechanical restraint, as defined in Section 1180.1 of the Health...

Last modified: October 22, 2018