Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

In accordance with applicable regulations of the United States Children’s Bureau, the department and designated county agencies shall provide a diagnosis for handicapped children. Within the limits of available funds, the department and designated local agencies may accept for di…

If the parents or estate of a handicapped child is wholly or partly unable to furnish for the child necessary services, the parents or guardian may apply to the agency of the county that has been designated by the board of supervisors of the county of residence under the terms of…

(a) The department shall establish standards of financial eligibility for treatment services under the California Children’s Services Program (CCS program). (1) Financial eligibility for treatment services under this program shall be limited to persons in families with an adjuste…

In addition to the other eligibility requirements set forth in this article, prior to being determined financially eligible for services under this article, the applicant family shall agree to repay the California Children’s Services Program for any treatment services authorized …

If the California Children’s Service medical therapy unit conference team, based on a medical referral recommending medically necessary occupational or physical therapy in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 7575 of the Government Code, finds that a handicapped child, as d…

The department and designated agencies shall not deny eligibility or aid under the California Children’s Services Program because an otherwise eligible person is receiving treatment services under a teaching program at an accredited medical school facility or accredited school or…

Panel members as set forth in Section 123880 shall be board-certified and have expertise in the care of children. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)

(a) The state department shall not deny a hospital’s request to provide treatment to burn victims who are eligible under the California Children’s Services Program solely on the basis that the hospital does not have separate facilities for child and adult burn victims, provided t…

The designated agency shall determine the financial eligibility of the family according to standards established by the department. The agency will also determine if the parents are residents of the county, if the guardian of the child is a resident of the county, or if the emanc…

(a) Beginning September 1, 1991, in addition to any other standards of eligibility pursuant to this article, each family with a child otherwise eligible to receive services under this article shall pay an annual enrollment fee as a requirement for eligibility for services, except…

A county of under 200,000 population, administering its county program jointly with the department, shall forward to the department a statement certifying the family of the handicapped child as financially eligible for treatment services. The department shall authorize necessary …

The department may, without the possession of a county certification, pay the expenses for services required by any physically handicapped child out of any funds received by it through gift, devise, or bequest or from private, state, federal, or other grant or source. The departm…

When the department provides, or arranges for the provision of, services to physically handicapped children directly, as in the case of nonresident physically handicapped children, it shall enter into an agreement with parents, guardians or persons responsible for the care of han…

Upon the request of another state or of a federal agency, the department may pay the expenses of services required by any physically handicapped child who is not a resident of the state; provided, that the cost of the services is fully covered by special grants or allotments rece…

The department and designated agencies shall maintain surveillance and supervision over the services provided handicapped children under authorization by the program to assure a high quality of service and shall cause a record to be kept showing the condition and improvement of t…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Section 14133.05 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, California Children’s Services Program services provided pursuant to this article require prior authorization by the department or its designee. Prior authorization is cont…

This article does not authorize any treatment service without the written consent of a parent or guardian except as a person under 18 years of age is an emancipated minor. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 1996.)

A handicapped child shall not be denied services pursuant to this article because he or she has an intellectual disability. (Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 457, Sec. 32. (SB 1381) Effective January 1, 2013.)

(a) (1) Annually, the board of supervisors shall appropriate a sum of money for services for handicapped children of the county, including diagnosis, treatment, and therapy services for physically handicapped children in public schools, equal to 25 percent of the actual expenditu…

For those counties with a total appropriation of county funds not exceeding one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($125,000), and upon the expenditure of the county funds equivalent to a county appropriation pursuant to Section 123940, the department may, to the extent funds a…

The designated county agency shall administer the medical-therapy program in local public schools for physically handicapped children. As provided in Section 123940, the state and counties will share in the cost of support of therapist salaries in these schools in the ratio of on…

(a) The state and the counties shall share in the cost of administration of the California Children’s Services program at the local level. (b) (1) The director shall adopt regulations establishing minimum standards for the administration, staffing, and local implementation of thi…

The department shall require of participating local governments the provision of program data including, but not limited to, the number of children treated, the kinds of disabilities, and the costs of treatment, to enable the department, the Department of Finance, and the Legisla…

A handicapped child placed for adoption, determined to be financially eligible for care at the time of placement, shall not be denied services pursuant to this article based upon the income of the adopting parents, nor shall the adopting parents be required to enter into any agre…

The department and the placing adoption agency at the time of placement shall notify all prospective adopting parents in writing, that funds received under the California Children’s Services Program shall terminate if the adopting parents move out of the state. However, the depar…

(a) The department, in consultation with selected representatives of participating neonatal intensive care units, shall establish a system to screen all newborns and infants for hearing loss as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 124116 and create and maintain a system of asses…

If the recipient of services provided by the California Children’s Services Program, his or her guardian, conservator, personal representative, estate, or survivors, or any of them brings an action against a third person who may be liable for the injury, notice of institution of …

Except as otherwise provided by law, the amount of any judgment, award, or settlement relating to a medical condition for which treatment services have been provided under the California Children’s Services Program shall be subject to a claim by the state department and the desig…

(a) A bone marrow transplant for the treatment of cancer shall be reimbursable under this article, when all of the following conditions are met: (1) The bone marrow transplant is recommended by the recipient’s attending physician. (2) The bone marrow transplant is performed in a …

The department shall adopt regulations to implement the amendments of this article in 1991. The adoption of the regulations shall be deemed to be an emergency, and necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare. (Added by Stats. …

(a) The department shall require all applicants to the program who may be eligible for cash grant assistance or for Medi-Cal benefits to apply for Medi-Cal. (b) This section shall not be interpreted to prohibit the coverage of services in emergency cases. (Added by Stats. 1995, C…

After final action is taken by the board on the disposition of any protests or objections or in case no protests or objections are received, the board shall order the officer, board or commission causing the notices to be posted to abate the nuisance, or to cause it to be abated …

If the nuisance is seasonal and recurrent, the board of supervisors shall so declare. Thereafter, such seasonal and recurring weeds shall be abated every year without the necessity of any further hearing. (Added by Stats. 1939, Ch. 1018.)

In the case of weeds which have previously been declared to constitute a seasonal and recurring nuisance, it is sufficient to mail a post card notice to the owners of the property as they and their addresses appear upon the current assessment roll. The notice shall refer to and d…

The officer, board or commission, and his or its assistants, deputies, employees, or contracting agents, or other representatives may enter upon private property for the purpose of removing the weeds. (Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)

Before the arrival of the officer, board, or commission, or their representatives, any property owner may remove weeds at his or her own expense. Nevertheless, in any case in which an order to abate is issued, the board by resolution or motion may further order that a special ass…

The department may deny an application for, or suspend or revoke, any license, or any special permit, certificate of approval, or administrator certificate, issued under this chapter upon any of the following grounds and in the manner provided in this chapter, or may deny a trans…

The director may temporarily suspend any license prior to any hearing when, in the opinion of the director, the action is urgent to protect residents or clients of the facility from physical or mental abuse, abandonment, or any other substantial threat to health or safety. The di…

(a) The department shall conduct an unannounced visit to a facility within 30 days after the effective date of a temporary suspension of a license in order to ensure that the facility is nonoperational, unless the department previously has verified that the facility is nonoperati…

(a) Proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of a license, registration, special permit, certificate of approval, or any administrator certificate under this chapter, or denial of transfer of a license pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 1524, sha…

(a) The administrative law judge conducting a hearing under this article may permit the testimony of a child witness, or a similarly vulnerable witness, including a witness who is developmentally disabled, to be taken outside the presence of the respondent or respondents if all o…

(a) In any administrative proceeding conducted pursuant to this article in which a child or other minor is the victim in an allegation of inappropriate sexual conduct, evidence of specific instances of the victim’s sexual conduct with individuals other than the alleged perpetrato…

(a) (1) An out-of-court statement made by a minor under 12 years of age who is the subject or victim of an allegation at issue is admissible evidence at an administrative hearing conducted pursuant to this article. The out-of-court statement may be used to support a finding of fa…

Notwithstanding Sections 11425.10 and 11425.20 of the Government Code, a proceeding conducted pursuant to this chapter against a foster family home, certified family home, or resource family of a foster family agency shall be confidential and not open to the public in order to pr…

In addition to the witness fees and mileage provided by Section 11450.40 of the Government Code, the department may pay actual, necessary, and reasonable expenses in an amount not to exceed the per diem allowance payable to a nonrepresented state employee on travel status. The de…

The withdrawal of an application for a license or a special permit after it has been filed with the state department shall not, unless the state department consents in writing to such withdrawal, deprive the state department of its authority to institute or continue a proceeding …