Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

(a) In addition to its existing authority under the Medi-Cal program, the State Department of Health Care Services shall have the authority to investigate fraud in the provision or receipt of in-home supportive services. Counties shall also have the authority to investigate fraud…

(a) When it has been determined that a provider of supportive services participating under this chapter has received an overpayment that is a debt due and owing, as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 14043.1, the director or the county may, to the extent permissible under exis…

(a) Upon enactment of this section, the department shall convene a stakeholder group and begin a process with this group to develop and issue a report evaluating the implementation of the quality assurance and fraud prevention and detection activities enacted from 2004 to the pre…

(a) Effective October 1, 2009, a county shall investigate the background of a person who seeks to become a supportive services provider and who is not listed on the registry of a public authority or nonprofit consortium pursuant to Section 12301.6. This investigation shall includ…

(a) (1) Commencing 90 days following the effective date of the act that adds this section, a person specified in paragraph (2) shall be subject to the criminal conviction exclusions provided for in this section, in addition to the exclusions required under Section 12305.81. (2) T…

(a) When enacted, 1991 Realignment Legislation implemented changes to the state and county cost-sharing ratios for services provided under this article. These provisions established the counties’ share of costs for the nonfederal portion of these services at 35 percent, with the …

(a) When any increase in provider wages or benefits is locally negotiated, mediated, or imposed by a county, public authority, or nonprofit consortium, or any increase in provider wages or benefits is adopted by ordinance pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 9100) of Ch…

(a) Commencing July 1, 2019, all counties shall have a rebased County IHSS Maintenance of Effort (MOE). (b) (1) The statewide total rebased County IHSS MOE base for the 2019–20 fiscal year shall be established at one billion five hundred sixty-three million two hundred eighty-two…

(a) A portion of IHSS costs that are the counties’ responsibility shall be offset using a combination of General Fund moneys appropriated in the annual Budget Act and redirected 1991 Realignment Vehicle License Fee growth revenues pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 17606.20, …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the Director of Finance may authorize a loan from the General Fund to any county in an amount not to exceed the net cost to the county resulting from the County’s IHSS MOE pursuant to Sections 12306.16, 12306.17, and 17606.20. (b) To be consider…

(a) The department shall review the budgeting methodology used to determine the annual funding for county administration of the IHSS program and examine the ongoing workload and administrative costs to counties as part of the review for the 2025–26 fiscal year, the 2029–30 fiscal…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2000–01 fiscal year, the state shall pay 65 percent and each county shall pay 35 percent of the nonfederal share of any increase to individual provider wages a county chooses to grant, up to 3 percent above the statewide min…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the 2001–02 fiscal year, the state shall pay 65 percent and each county shall pay 35 percent of the nonfederal share of any increase to individual provider wages a county chooses to grant, up to 5.31 percent above the statewide …

In consultation with stakeholder organizations, including, but not limited to, the California State Association of Counties and employee organizations representing in-home supportive service workers, the department shall develop and evaluate various options for providing health c…

(a) Any public or private agency, including a contractor under Section 12302.1, who maintains a list or registry of prospective in-home supportive services providers shall require proof of identification from a prospective provider. This identification shall be provided prior to …

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning on the date for which the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services authorizes commencement of the implementation of this section, but no earlier than January 1, 2012, and concurrent with the collection of the…

The amendments to Sections 12302, 12303 and 12304 of, and the addition of Sections 12303.5 and 12304.5 to, the Welfare and Institutions Code made by Chapter 75 of the Statutes of 1974 do not constitute a change in, but are declaratory of, the preexisting law. (Added by Stats. 197…

Funding of this article is subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 10100) of this division. (Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1235. Note: Repeal conditions in Sec. 14 of Ch. 1235 failed.)

(a) In order to assure that in-home supportive services are delivered in all counties in a uniform manner, the department shall develop a uniform needs assessment tool. (b) (1) Each county shall, in administering this article, use the uniform needs assessment tool developed pursu…

(a) As a condition of receiving services under this article, or Section 14132.95 or 14132.952, an applicant for or recipient of services shall obtain a certification from a licensed health care professional, including, but not limited to, a physician, physician assistant, regiona…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the department conduct special pilot projects to test appropriate methods for assuring equity and efficiency in reducing program costs necessary to remain within budget appropriations pursuant to Sections 12301 and 12306, and which use the…

The director is authorized to grant such waivers from the provisions of this article as are necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of this section, however, the county must provide services within its allocation. The department shall evaluate the results of these pilot st…

A county, including a city and county, shall, upon the next update to its emergency plan, integrate and require the assessment and provision of supportive services to in-home supportive services (IHSS) recipients, including, but not limited to, the following requirements: (a) Pro…

It is the intent of the Legislature that the department conduct a pilot program, of not less than three years’ duration, to comprehensively assess the comparative cost effectiveness and quality of care of both contract and individual provider modes of service. The pilot project w…

(a) (1) Commencing January 1, 2009, a pilot project shall be established in five consenting counties that provides severely impaired recipients who receive in-home supportive services under this article through the public authority, as described in Section 12301.6, with a choice …

(a) The City and County of San Francisco may implement a pilot project of not less than three years’ duration to implement the provision of pooled services under this article through a modified delivery system in no more than five HUD-subsidized senior housing facilities owned by…

(a) (1) The department shall administer the Career Pathways Program for providers of in-home supportive services under this article, or Section 14132.95, 14132.952, or 14132.956, or waiver personal care services under Section 14132.97, to increase the quality of care, recruitment…

(a) The State Department of Social Services may contract for payrolling or related functions, as necessary, including, but not limited to, the deductions from the wages of providers that are authorized by paragraph (2) of subdivision (i) of Section 12301.6 and subdivision (b) of …

(a) The State Department of Social Services shall be responsible for procuring and implementing a new Case Management Information and Payroll System (CMIPS) for the In-Home Supportive Services Program and Personal Care Services Program (IHSS/PCSP). This section shall not be inter…

The department may enter into interagency agreements with the State Department of Health Services to administer approved federal waivers authorized pursuant to Section 14132.951 or services provided under Section 14132.95, and to deliver waiver services in the same manner as serv…

(a) Except as set forth in subdivision (b), in the event of a conflict between the terms of the waiver approved pursuant to Section 14132.951 and any provision of this part or any regulation adopted for the purpose of implementing this part, the terms of the waiver shall control …

(a) The State Department of Social Services shall, in consultation with interested stakeholders, develop, or otherwise identify, both of the following: (1) Standard educational material about sexual harassment and the prevention thereof to be made available to providers and recip…

When, in the opinion of the Youth Authority Board, any person committed to or confined in any such school deserves parole according to regulations established for the purpose, and it will be to his or her advantage to be paroled, the board may grant parole under conditions it dee…

(a) Pursuant to Section 1178, if a person discharged from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities by the Board of Juvenile Hearings has proven that person’s ability to desist from criminal behavior and to initiate a successful transition …

(a) A person previously committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities may petition the Board of Juvenile Hearings for an honorable discharge upon his or her completion of local probation supervision following discharge, but not soo…

(a) Each person honorably discharged by the Board of Juvenile Hearings shall thereafter be released from all penalties or disabilities resulting from the offenses for which the person was committed, including, but not limited to, penalties or disabilities that affect access to ed…

The Department of the Youth Authority shall provide, within 10 days, upon request to the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county information available to the department, including actual, glossy photographs, no smaller than 318 x 318 inches in size, and, in conjuncti…

No relative shall be held legally liable to support or to contribute to the support of any applicant for or recipient of aid under this chapter. No relative shall be held liable to defray in whole or in part the cost of any medical care or hospital care or other service rendered …

In order to conserve state enforcement funds and because of hardships under past law on the operative date of this act there is hereby released, rescinded, canceled, and otherwise nullified in whole, any sums due or owing and which yet remain unpaid from a responsible relative un…

The Controller of the State shall, on requisition of any of the institutions under this chapter, duly audited by him, draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for any moneys duly appropriated to pay for the necessary expenditures in the establishment and maintenance of such school…

For each person committed to any state school the county from which he was committed shall make payments to the state as provided in Section 911 of this code. (Amended by Stats. 1965, Ch. 605.)

There is hereby established an institution for the confinement of males under the custody of the Director of Corrections and the Youth Authority to be known as the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 555, Sec. 1.)

The Heman G. Stark Youth Training School shall be an intermediate security type institution. Its primary purpose shall be to provide custody, care, industrial, vocational and other training, guidance and reformatory help for young men, too mature to be benefited by the programs o…

There may be transferred to and confined in the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School any male subject to the custody, control and discipline of the Youth Authority, whom the Youth Authority believes will be benefited by confinement in such an institution. Whenever by reason of an…

The Youth Authority shall make rules and regulations for the government of the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School and the management of its affairs. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 555, Sec. 4.)

The Youth Authority shall appoint, subject to civil service, a superintendent for the Heman G. Stark Youth Training School, and such officers and employees as may be necessary, and shall fix their compensation. (Amended by Stats. 1989, Ch. 555, Sec. 5.)