California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 1 - Organization

• Section 10550.
  There is in the Health and Welfare Agency a State Department of Social Services.(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)
• Section 10551.
  The department consists of the director, the State Social Services Advisory Board, and such divisions or other administrative units as the director may find necessary.(Amended...
• 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....
• 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 health care services and...
• 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 States...
• Section 10553.11.
  (a) Effective July 1, 2011, notwithstanding any other law or regulation, a tribe, consortium of tribes, or a tribal organization that is operating a program pursuant...
• Section 10553.12.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a federally recognized tribe is authorized, but not required, to approve a home for the purpose of foster or adoptive placement...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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 with...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 10559.
  (a) 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...
• 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018