Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

The State Department of Health Care Services may maintain a statewide mental health prevention program directed toward a reduction in the need for utilization of the treatment system and the development and strengthening of community support and self-help networks. The State Depa…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the School-based Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention Services for Children Act of 1991. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 757, Sec. 1. Effective October 9, 1991.)

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Each year in California over 65,000 teenagers become adolescent mothers and 230 teenagers commit suicide. Each year more than 20 percent of California’s teenagers drop out of high school. (b) Thirty percent of Californi…

For the purposes of this part, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Cooperating entity” means any federal, state, or local, public or private nonprofit agency providing school-based early mental health intervention and prevention services that agrees to offer services at a…

The department has jurisdiction over the following institutions: Fairview State Hospital. Frank D. Lanterman State Hospital. Porterville State Hospital. Sonoma State Hospital. (Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 144, Sec. 82. (AB 1847) Effective January 1, 2015.)

The department may contract with the State Department of State Hospitals to provide services to persons with developmental disabilities in state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of State Hospitals. (Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 24, Sec. 122. (AB 1470) Effec…

A state hospital under the jurisdiction of the department may also be known as a developmental center. (Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 582, Sec. 2.)

Except as otherwise specifically provided elsewhere in this code, all of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall be governed by uniform rule and regulation of the State Department of Developmental Services and all of the pro…

The State Department of Developmental Services shall develop policies and procedures, by no later than 30 days following the effective date of the Budget Act of 1999, at each developmental center, to notify appropriate law enforcement agencies in the event of a forensic client wa…

Each state hospital is a corporation. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

Each such corporation may acquire and hold in its corporate name by gift, grant, devise, or bequest property to be applied to the maintenance of the patients of the hospital and for the general use of the corporation. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

All lands necessary for the use of state hospitals except those acquired by gift, devise, or purchase, shall be acquired by condemnation as lands for other public uses are acquired. The terms of every purchase shall be approved by the State Department of Developmental Services. N…

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4444, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant rights-of-way for road purposes over and across state property comprising the site of the Sonoma State Hospital, upon su…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 4444, the Director of General Services may enter into an agreement with the City of Santa Clara for the dedication of a public right-of-way and the granting of long-term easements, as specified in subdivision (d), by the department over and across stat…

Notwithstanding Section 4444, the Director of General Services with the consent of the State Department of Developmental Services, may grant a right-of-way for road purposes to the City of Stockton over and along a portion of the Stockton State Hospital property adjacent to Hardi…

The department shall participate with the City of Porterville in the construction of an interceptor sewer between the Porterville State Hospital facilities and the sewer facilities of the City of Porterville. For the purpose of this section the state may expend from any available…

The State Department of Developmental Services has general control and direction of the property and concerns of each state hospital specified in Section 4440. The department shall: (a) Take care of the interests of the hospital, and see that its purpose and its bylaws, rules, an…

The medical superintendent shall make triplicate estimates, in minute detail, as approved by the State Department of Developmental Services of such supplies, expenses, buildings, and improvements as are required for the best interests of the hospital, and for the improvement ther…

The state hospitals may manufacture supplies, materials, and assisting devices which are for the benefit of individuals with disabilities who otherwise would not have access to those articles, or which are necessary or required to be used in any of the state hospitals, and which …

All money belonging to the state and received by state hospitals from any source, except appropriations, shall, at the end of each month, be deposited in the State Treasury, to the credit of the General Fund. This section shall not apply to the funds known as the industrial or am…

The state hospitals and the officers thereof shall make such financial statements to the Controller as the Controller requires. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

The authorities for the several hospitals shall furnish to the State Department of Developmental Services the facts mentioned in Section 4425 and such other obtainable facts as the department from time to time requires of them, with the opinion of the superintendent thereon, if r…

The department may permit, subject to such conditions and regulations as it may impose, any religious or missionary corporation or society to erect a building on the grounds of any state hospital for the holding of religious services. Each such building when erected shall become …

The department may establish and supervise under its rules and regulations training schools or courses for employees of the department or of state institutions under its jurisdiction. (Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 429.)

Whenever a trial is had of any person charged with escape or attempt to escape from a state hospital, whenever a hearing is had on the return of a writ of habeas corpus prosecuted by or on behalf of any person confined in a state hospital except in a proceeding to which Section 5…

The State Department of Developmental Services shall investigate and examine all nonresident persons judicially committed to any state hospital and shall cause such persons, when found to be nonresidents as defined in this chapter, to be promptly and humanely returned under prope…

In order to be entitled to hospitalization in this state, an adult developmentally disabled person or the parent or guardian or conservator of a developmentally disabled minor shall be a state resident. Residence acquired in this or in another state shall not be lost by reason of…

(a) All expenses incurred in returning such persons to other states shall be paid by this state, the person, or his or her relatives, but the expense of returning residents of this state shall be borne by the state making the returns. (b) The cost and expense incurred in effectin…

The State Department of Developmental Services, when it deems it necessary, may, under conditions prescribed by the director, transfer any patients of a state institution under its jurisdiction to another such institution. Transfers of patients of state hospitals shall be made in…

The Director of Developmental Services may authorize the transfer of persons from any institution within the department to any institution authorized by the federal government to receive such person. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

The State Department of Developmental Services shall send to the Department of Veterans Affairs whenever requested a list of all persons who have been patients for six months or more in each state institution within the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Servic…

The Director of Developmental Services may deposit any funds of patients in the possession of each hospital administrator of a state hospital in trust with the treasurer pursuant to Section 16305.3, Government Code, or, subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, may de…

Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services dies, and any personal funds or property of such patient remains in the hands of the superintendent thereof, and no demand is made upon such superintendent …

Whenever any patient in any state institution subject to the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services escapes, or is discharged or is on leave of absence from such institution, and any personal funds or property of such patient remains in the hands of the su…

Before any money or other personal property or documents are delivered to the State Treasurer, State Controller, or public administrator, or sold at auction or upon a sealed-bid basis, or destroyed, under the provisions of Section 4466, and before any personal property or documen…

At the time of delivering any money or other personal property to the State Treasurer or State Controller under the provisions of Section 4126 or of Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 1500) of Title 10 of Part 3 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the superintendent shall deliver to …

When any personal property has been destroyed as provided in Section 4466 or 4467, no suit shall thereafter be maintained by any person against the state or any officer thereof for or on account of such property. (Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)

All day hospitals and rehabilitation centers maintained by the State Department of Developmental Services shall be subject to the provisions of this code pertaining to the admission, transfer, and discharge of patients at the state hospitals, except that all admissions to such fa…

The state hospitals under the jurisdiction of the State Department of Developmental Services shall comply with the California Food Sanitation Act, Article 1 (commencing with Section 111950) of Chapter 4 of Part 6 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code. The state hospitals …

Whenever a patient dies in a state hospital for the developmentally disabled and the coroner finds that the death was by accident or at the hands of another person other than by accident, the State Department of Developmental Services shall determine upon review of the coroner’s …

Each patient in a state hospital for the developmentally disabled who has resided in the state hospital for a period of at least 30 days shall be paid an amount of aid for his or her personal and incidental needs which when added to his or her income equals twelve dollars and fif…

(a) Whenever the State Department of Developmental Services proposes the closure of a state developmental center, the department shall be required to submit a detailed plan to the Legislature not later than April 1 immediately prior to the fiscal year in which the plan is to be i…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, on or before October 1, 2015, the Department of Developmental Services shall submit to the Legislature a plan or plans to close one or more developmental centers. The plan or plans shall meet the requirements of subdivisions (c) to (g), inclusiv…

(a) The department shall seek to modify the contract in existence on January 1, 2017, for the conduct of a movers longitudinal study to include all of the following: (1) A requirement that at least 250 individuals who meet the following criteria participate in the study: (A) Volu…

(a) The State Department of Developmental Services shall include an update to the Legislature in the 2017–18 May Revision regarding how the department will provide access to crisis services after the closure of a developmental center and how the state will maintain its role in pr…

(a) (1) On or before January 10, 2023, and in conjunction with the Governor’s proposed 2023–24 budget, the State Department of Developmental Services shall submit to the Legislature an updated version of the safety net plan that was originally submitted pursuant to subdivision (a…