Title WIC, California Welf. & Inst. Code

(a) For fiscal years prior to the 2019–20 fiscal year, a county that participated in the County Medical Services Program in the 2011–12 fiscal year, including the Counties of Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kings, L…

(a) The County Health Care Funding Resolution Committee is hereby created to do all of the following: (1) Determine whether the calculation of the historical percentage or amount to be applied in calculations in Sections 17612.3 and 17613.3 complies with those sections, taking in…

The department may establish orientation centers for the blind in such locations as may be deemed necessary to provide on a statewide basis the services to be rendered by orientation centers as provided in this article. Such orientation centers as may be established shall be unde…

Each orientation center established under Sections 19500 to 19506, inclusive, shall be residential in character. Blind persons shall be admitted as residents and trainees in an intensive program designed for maximum vocational and personal rehabilitation and for the preparation o…

Orientation centers shall provide for short periods of intensive personal and prevocational orientation for blind persons, and for specific vocational training. The program of orientation centers shall include such training as techniques of daily living, techniques of travel, phy…

The Director of Rehabilitation shall appoint an administrator for each orientation center for the blind who shall administer and supervise the program at the center in accordance with this article and under the supervision of the Director of Rehabilitation. The administrator of e…

The staff of an orientation center shall be composed of persons trained to assist blind persons in achieving social and economic independence, and whose qualifications include successful experience in teaching blind persons. The staff shall include as large a proportion as is pra…

Each orientation center shall be operated as a unit separate and apart from any state-operated rehabilitation facility. The program of each orientation center shall be closely coordinated with the services of the department, with the home teacher and field service program, and wi…

The department may: (a) Make rules for the government and direction of orientation centers established under this article, and may prescribe conditions for the admission and discharge of trainees having regard to an equitable representation from each county of the state. (b) Desi…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that the department, in accordance with Section 19007, is the authorized recipient of gifts, bequests, and donations made to the department or to a school or institution administered by the department. (b) There is, within the State Treasury…

The Legislature finds that there is a shortage of programs and facilities to provide a comprehensive network of habilitation services to persons with developmental disabilities throughout the state. In order to assure the development and necessary support for a comprehensive netw…

On or before the 27th day of each month, the Controller shall allocate to the mental health account of each local health and welfare trust fund the amounts deposited and remaining unexpended and unreserved on the 15th day of the month in the Mental Health Subaccount of the Sales …

(a) There is hereby created the Mental Health Facilities Fund, which shall have the following accounts: (1) The State Hospital Account. (2) The Institutions for Mental Disease Account. (b) Funds deposited in the State Hospital Account are continuously appropriated, notwithstandin…

(a) The State Department of State Hospitals may request a loan from the General Fund in an amount that shall not exceed one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) for the purposes of meeting cashflow needs in its state hospital operations due to delays in the receipt of reimburse…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, for the 2011–12 fiscal year, except for the funds described in subdivision (c), any funds under this chapter or any other provision of Chapter 89 of the Statutes of 1991 that would have otherwise been deposited into the Mental Health Subaccount …

The department may appoint counselor-teachers to provide individual guidance and training to adult individuals who are blind. The counselor-teachers shall give individual instruction in those techniques that will enable adult individuals who are blind to adjust to daily living in…

(a) Whenever a blind person who has the proper educational qualifications regularly matriculates, enters, and works for a degree, or for a diploma of graduation, in any university, college, or state college in this state, and who is not a recipient of federally assisted vocationa…

On and after January 1, 1978, the state plan established in this division shall be the primary method used for determining, in an orderly way, the programs and facilities that shall be developed, expanded, terminated, or reduced. The state plan shall also state the objectives of …

Prior to making an appropriation or allocating any state or federal funds for new or major expansions of programs or facilities for persons with developmental disabilities, the state plan shall be reviewed to determine if the proposed expenditure is consistent with the priorities…

(a) (1) The Developmental Disabilities Program Development Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury and hereinafter called the Program Development Fund. The purpose of the Program Development Fund shall be to provide resources needed to initiate new programs, and to expand or…

(a) The State Council on Developmental Disabilities, in implementing subdivision (b) of Section 4677, and with the support of the State Department of Developmental Services, shall convene a stakeholder workgroup on alternative and expanded options for nonresidential services and …

(a) In any year for which funding is available, to address the needs for services and supports of individuals living in the community, the department shall issue guidelines, including procedures and timelines, for the use of the available funds appropriated through the budget pro…

Commencing January 1, 2027, the department shall provide to the Senate Committee on Human Services, the Assembly Committee on Human Services, and the appropriate legislative budget subcommittees on all of the following information, appropriately deidentified to protect the privac…

(a) On or before the 27th day of the month, the Controller shall allocate to counties the amounts deposited and remaining unexpended and unreserved on the 15th day of the month in the Social Services Subaccount of the Sales Tax Account of the Local Revenue Fund, pursuant to sched…

(a) (1) Upon notification by the Department of Finance, the State Controller shall reduce a county’s allocation pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 17602 by any realignment withholding amount assessed on the county pursuant to Section 12301.61. (2) For the fiscal year followin…

On or before the 27th day of each month, the Controller shall allocate, pursuant to a schedule prepared by the Department of Finance, to the CalWORKs Maintenance of Effort Subaccount of each local health and welfare trust fund the amounts deposited into the CalWORKs Maintenance o…

In order to assure the availability of a continuum of community living facilities of good quality for persons with developmental disabilities, and to ensure that persons placed out of home are in the most appropriate, least restrictive living arrangement, the department shall est…

(a) The department shall adopt regulations that specify rates for community care facilities serving persons with developmental disabilities. The implementation of the regulations shall be contingent upon an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for this purpose. These rates shal…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, for the 1996–97 fiscal year, the rate schedule authorized by the department in operation June 30, 1996, shall be increased based upon the amount appropriated in the Budget Act of 1996 for that purpose. The increase shall be…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, for the 1998–99 fiscal year, the rate schedule increased pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 4681.3 shall be increased by an additional amount on January 1, 1999, based upon the amount appropriated in the Budget Act of 1…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, a regional center shall not approve a service level for a residential service provider, as defined in Section 56002 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations, if the approval would result in an increase in state costs or th…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2008: (1) A regional center shall not pay an existing residential service provider, for services where rates are determined through a negotiation between the regional center and the provider, a rate higher than t…

(a) Effective July 1, 2011, in order to maintain a consumer’s preferred living arrangement and adjust the residential services and supports in accordance with changing service needs identified in the individual program plan (IPP), a regional center may enter into a signed written…

Under no circumstances shall the rate of state payment to any provider of out-of-home care exceed the average amount charged to private clients residing in the same facility, nor shall the monthly rate of state payment to any such facility, with the exception of a licensed acute …

It is the intent of the Legislature that rates of payment for out-of-home care shall be established in such ways as to assure the maximum utilization of all federal and other sources of funding, to which persons with developmental disabilities are legally entitled, prior to the c…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the cost of providing 24-hour out-of-home nonmedical care and supervision in community care facilities licensed or approved pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code shall be funded by the A…

(a) This subdivision only applies until the end of the 2012–13 fiscal year. On or before the 27th day of each month, the Controller shall allocate to the local health and welfare trust fund health accounts the amounts deposited and remaining unexpended and unreserved on the 15th …

(a) Consistent with state and federal law, the Legislature finds and declares that children with developmental disabilities most often have greater opportunities for educational and social growth when they live with their families. The Legislature further finds and declares that …

(a) When a minor child requires a living arrangement outside of the family home, as determined in the individual program plan developed pursuant to Section 4646 and Section 4648, the regional center shall make every effort to secure a living arrangement, consistent with the indiv…

(a) The department may adopt regulations to implement and comply with home- and community-based settings and person-centered service plan requirements in Sections 441.530(a)(1) and 441.725 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Any regulations shall be adopted in accorda…

(a) Contingent upon approval of a federal waiver, the Self-Directed Services Program (SDS Program) is hereby established and shall be available in every regional center catchment area to provide participants, within an individual budget, greater control over needed services and s…

(a) The department shall implement a statewide Self-Determination Program. The Self-Determination Program shall be available in every regional center catchment area to provide participants and their families, within an individual budget, increased flexibility and choice, and grea…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, an in-home respite worker who is not a licensed health care professional but who is trained by a licensed health care professional may perform incidental medical services for consumers of regional cente…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, any vendor who provides applied behavioral analysis (ABA) services, or intensive behavioral intervention services or both, as defined in subdivision (d), shall: (1) Conduct a behavioral assessment of each consumer t…

The department shall adopt emergency regulations to address the use of paraprofessionals in group practice provider behavioral intervention services and establish a rate. The regulations shall also establish a rate and the educational or experiential qualifications and profession…

(a) Effective July 1, 2011, notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, any vendor who provides services as specified in paragraph (4) shall submit verification to the regional center for services provided to consumers who are under 18 years of age and residing i…