California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 7 - Hearings

• Section 10950.
  (a) 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...
• Section 10951.
  (a) (1) A person is not entitled to a hearing pursuant to this chapter unless he or she files his or her request for the same within...
• Section 10951.5.
  (a) For a beneficiary of a Medi-Cal managed care plan who meets the criteria for an expedited resolution of an appeal as set forth in subdivision...
• Section 10952.
  (a) 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...
• Section 10952.5.
  (a) 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...
• 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...
• 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 admitted to practice...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• Section 10959.
  After an administrative law judge has held a hearing and issued a proposed decision, within 30 days after the department has received a copy of...
• 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 as...
• 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....
• Section 10962.
  The applicant, recipient, respondent, or the affected county, within one year after receiving notice of the department’s final decision, may file a petition with the...
• Section 10963.
  The county director shall comply with and execute every decision of the director rendered pursuant to this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1784.)
• 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...
• 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...
• 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 decisions...
• 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018