California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 3 - Financial Provisions

• 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 funding:...
• 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 cities,...
• Section 5701.1.
  Notwithstanding Section 5701, the State Department of Health Care Services, in consultation with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California and the California Behavioral...
• Section 5701.2.
  (a) The State Department of Mental Health, or its successor, the State Department of State Hospitals, shall maintain records of any transfer of funds or state...
• 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...
• Section 5701.5.
  City-operated Bronzan-McCorquodale programs paid by the state under Section 5615 shall be directly funded in accordance with this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 89, Sec....
• Section 5702.
  For the purposes of this part, the definition of maintenance of effort contained in Section 17608.05 shall apply.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 89,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 to...
• 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 funding...
• Section 5705.
  (a) Negotiated net amounts may be used as the cost of services in contracts between the county and a subprovider of services. A negotiated net amount...
• 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...
• Section 5707.
  Funds appropriated to the State Department of Health Care Services which are designated for local mental health services and funds which the State Department of...
• Section 5709.
  Regardless of the funding source involved, fees shall be charged in accordance with the ability to pay for specialty mental health services rendered but not...
• 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 as...
• 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...
• Section 5714.
  To continue county expenditures for legal proceedings involving persons with mental health disorders, the following costs incurred in carrying out Part 1 (commencing with Section...
• Section 5715.
  Subject to the approval of the State Department of Health Care Services, at the end of the fiscal year, a county may retain unexpended funds...
• Section 5717.
  (a) Expenditures that may be funded from amounts allocated to the county by the State Department of Health Care Services from funds appropriated to the department...

Last modified: October 22, 2018