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• § 16511 — This chapter shall not be construed to give the department or county welfare departments any law enforcement powers.
• § 16512 — (a) The department shall report every third year, commencing in 1989, to the Legislature on the operation and progress of the child welfare services program.
• § 16513 — Anyone participating in good faith in the making of a report pursuant to this chapter shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that might otherwise be incurred or imposed.
• § 16513.2 — Funding of this chapter is subject to the provisions of Part 1.
• § 16513.5 — Any party to a dependency proceeding may bring a motion before the juvenile court to have a social worker removed from the case.
• § 16514 — (a) A child or nonminor who has been voluntarily placed, adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 300, or as to whom a petition has been filed under Section 325, may be hou
• § 16515 — (a) A county child welfare agency may establish a three-year pilot program in which the county partners with a domestic violence consultant from a domestic violence victim service organization, as def
• § 16516 — (a) No social worker or probation officer acting as an officer of the court for purposes of this chapter shall, directly or indirectly, lobby for, act as a consultant to, enter into a business transac
• § 16516.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, all foster children who are placed in group homes by county welfare departments or county probation departments shall be visited at least monthly by a
• § 16516.6 — (a) When a county social worker or probation officer makes a regular visit with a child in any licensed, certified, or approved foster home, the regular visit shall include a private discussion betwee
• § 16517 — (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to accomplish both of the following: (A) To prevent the unnecessary separation of children from their families because of homelessness or the lack of shelte
• § 16517.5 — (a) A social worker or probation officer acting as an officer of the court shall not make an out-of-home placement of a dependent or ward of the court pursuant to this chapter with any of the followin
• § 16518 — The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county placement agencies, foster care providers, and other interested community parties, shall establish criteria to be used for conducti
• § 16518.5 — When placing foster children, the placing agency shall not decline to place a child with a resource family because of a resource family parent’s actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity
• § 16519 — The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) Safety, permanency, and well-being are crucial for the more than 82,000 California children in foster care, and are paramount to achieving both fe
• § 16519.3 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law and no later than January 1, 2027, the department shall adopt a simplified approval process for relative caregivers consistent with the definition of foster family ho
• § 16519.4 — (a) Upon implementation of a simplified approval process adopted pursuant to Section 16519.
• § 16519.5 — (a) The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county child welfare agencies, foster parent associations, and other interested community parties, shall implement a unified, family f
• § 16519.501 — A resource family approval shall be forfeited by operation of law when one of the following occurs: (a) The resource family surrenders the approval to the county child welfare agency or probation depa
• § 16519.502 — (a) A portion of the annual resource family training shall support the case plans, goals, and needs of children in the resource family home, if there are any children in the home, in accordance with a
• § 16519.51 — (a) A person shall not incur civil liability as a result of a county notifying the department of its determination to rescind the approval of a resource family due to any of the following actions by a
• § 16519.52 — (a) A resource family may install and use delayed egress devices of the time delay type in the home of the resource family.
• § 16519.53 — (a) A resource family shall be authorized to administer emergency medical assistance and injections for severe diabetic hypoglycemia and anaphylactic shock to a foster child in placement in accordance
• § 16519.54 — Notwithstanding any other law, a resource family shall not be subject to civil penalties imposed pursuant to the Community Care Facilities Act (Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500) of Division 2 o
• § 16519.55 — (a) Subject to subdivision (d), to encourage the recruitment of resource families, to protect their personal privacy, and to preserve the security of confidentiality of the placements with resource fa
• § 16519.555 — (a) The written report evaluating a resource family applicant’s capacity to foster, adopt, and provide legal guardianship of a child based on all of the information gathered through the resource famil
• § 16519.56 — (a) (1) A county shall place a resource family on inactive status upon notification by the resource family in accordance with this section and the written directives or regulations adopted by the depa
• § 16519.57 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a resource family who has had a child either placed with them pursuant to order of the juvenile court or voluntarily placed with them by the person or persons having
• § 16519.58 — (a) A resource family approved by a licensed foster family agency pursuant to Section 1517 or 1517.
• § 16519.59 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, contracts or grants awarded for purposes of this article shall be exempt from the personal services contracting requirements of Article 4 (commencing with Section 19
• § 16519.6 — (a) A hearing conducted pursuant to Section 16519.
• § 16519.61 — A county or the department may deny a resource family application or rescind the approval of a resource family, and the department may exclude an individual from any resource family home, for any of t
• § 16519.62 — (a) The out-of-court statements of a child under 12 years of age who is the subject or victim of an allegation at issue constitutes admissible evidence at an administrative hearing conducted pursuant
• § 16519.63 — (a) An administrative law judge conducting a hearing pursuant to this article may permit the testimony of a child witness or a similarly vulnerable witness, including, but not limited to, a witness wh
• § 16519.64 — (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 o
• § 16519.65 — (a) For matters set before the State Hearings Division, the county or respondent may file a request with the department for a rehearing within 30 days after receiving the decision of the department th
• § 16519.7 — The training requirements of subparagraph (I) of paragraph (13) of subdivision (g) of Section 16519.
• § 16520 — The Legislature recognizes that wards and dependent children share many characteristics, often have similar family histories, and often require similar services such as out-of-home placement.
• § 16521 — The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with representatives of local probation departments, foster care providers, and other interested parties, shall review federal and state statut
• § 16521.3 — (a) The Department of General Services and all other affected state agencies shall cooperate with the State Department of Social Services and the California Health and Human Services Agency Data Cente
• § 16521.5 — (a) A foster care provider, in consultation with the county case manager, shall be responsible for ensuring that adolescents, including nonminor dependents, as described in subdivision (v) of Section
• § 16521.6 — To ensure that coordinated, timely, and trauma-informed services are provided to children and youth in foster care who have experienced severe trauma, all of the following shall occur: (a) (1) Each co
• § 16521.7 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to establish a methodology for reconciling the state’s and each county’s costs and savings resulting from implementation of the Continu
• § 16521.8 — (a) (1) A child welfare public health nursing early intervention program shall be conducted in the County of Los Angeles, as provided in this section, and with the county’s consent.
• § 16522 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall license transitional housing placement providers that provide supervised transitional housing services to foster children who are at least 16 years of
• § 16522.1 — (a) In order to be licensed as a transitional housing placement provider pursuant to Section 1559.
• § 16522.2 — (a) Eligible persons may receive transitional housing only with the permission of both the independent living program of the county in which the program is located and the county department of social
• § 16522.5 — Prior to county certification of any program to be provided by a transitional housing placement provider, the department shall approve a plan submitted by the county’s independent living program that
• § 16522.6 — The department shall make information available to the Legislature upon request regarding services rendered pursuant to this article.
• § 16523 — For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Child welfare services” means either of the following: (1) The same meaning as defined in Section 16501, including those servi
• § 16523.1 — (a) To the extent funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act, the department shall award program funds to counties and tribal governments for the purpose of providing housing-related supports to
• § 16523.2 — (a) Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 16523.5 — (a) The State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Health Care Services, the California State Association of Counties representing the counties, the County Welfare Directors Associat
• § 16523.51 — Update on the Transition of Providers to the CCR Program Models.
• § 16523.52 — Update on Capacity to Provide Mental Health Services.
• § 16523.53 — Tracking Child Outcomes over Time.
• § 16523.54 — Update on CCR-Related Costs and Savings.
• § 16523.55 — Child and Family Teams (CFT) and Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Implementation.
• § 16523.56 — Resource Families.
• § 16523.57 — Supporting the Transitions of Child Welfare Youth from Group Homes and Reduced Use of Congregate Care.
• § 16523.58 — System Changes.
• § 16523.59 — Update on County Recruitment and Retention Efforts.
• § 16524 — (a) The Child Welfare Services Program Improvement Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury.
• § 16524.10 — The State Department of Social Services, no later than April 1, 2017, shall provide the following information to the Legislature regarding the implementation of this chapter: (a) The participating cou
• § 16524.11 — This chapter shall become operative on January 1, 2015.
• § 16524.5 — (a) The State Department of Social Services may fund the various activities authorized pursuant to Section 16524 by means of grants rather than contracts.
• § 16524.6 — The Legislature finds and declares that in order to reduce the vulnerability of all children in California communities to incidents of commercial sexual exploitation, and adequately serve children who
• § 16524.7 — (a) (1) There is hereby established the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Program.
• § 16524.8 — (a) (1) Each county electing to receive funds from the Commercially Sexually Exploited Children Program pursuant to this chapter shall develop an interagency protocol to be utilized in serving sexuall
• § 16524.9 — (a) The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association, shall ensure that the statewide child welfare information system is capable of collecting da
• § 16525 — The definitions in this article shall control the interpretation of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise.
• § 16525.1 — “Department” means the State Department of Social Services.
• § 16525.10 — (a) In order to promote the development of placements that will allow children to move into more homelike environments, counties may establish an “Options for Recovery” program.
• § 16525.11 — Each participating county shall recruit foster families that shall be licensed as foster family homes and trained to care for children who are alcohol- or drug-exposed or who test HIV positive.
• § 16525.13 — (a) A participating county shall provide special training to recruited foster parents to care for eligible children and shall certify that the training has been provided.
• § 16525.14 — When a child is identified by a physician, medical team, county social worker, or placement source as a child who may be eligible for services under this chapter, the county shall determine if the chi
• § 16525.15 — (a) A participating county shall select a specialized foster family home for the child within the county in which the child’s eligibility is established.
• § 16525.17 — (a) Participating counties shall prepare a child welfare services case plan pursuant to regulations adopted by the department and arrange nonmedical support services, including respite care for specia
• § 16525.2 — “Eligible child” means any child who meets the requirements of subdivision (a) or (b), and subdivision (c).
• § 16525.20 — (a) The Legislature encourages participating counties to design and implement a range of respite options for specially trained foster parents and relative caretakers, from foster parent to foster pare
• § 16525.25 — The counties participating pursuant to this section shall do both of the following: (a) Maintain existing programs and standards for a specialized foster home recruitment and training project that wil
• § 16525.26 — A participating county may contract for the provision of services under this chapter on a sole source basis.
• § 16525.27 — (a) Each participating county shall submit written progress reports as required by the department.
• § 16525.29 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent children who are alcohol- or drug-exposed or HIV positive who have adoption as a case plan goal from receiving services under this chapter.
• § 16525.3 — “HIV” means human immunodeficiency virus.
• § 16525.30 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Sections 1250, 1251, 1254, 1270, 1501, 1502, 1505, 1507, 1521, 1530.
• § 16525.4 — “HIV positive” means a condition of being medically diagnosed as infected with HIV.
• § 16525.5 — “Specialized in-home health care” means, but is not limited to, those services identified by the child’s primary physician as appropriately administered by a foster parent, trained by health care prof
• § 16526 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Caregiver” means a person responsible for meeting the daily care needs of a current or former foster child or youth, and who is entr
• § 16527 — (a) The department shall establish a statewide hotline as the primary entry point for the Family Urgent Response System, which shall be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to respond to calls
• § 16528 — (a) The department, in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services, and in consultation with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, the County Welfare Di
• § 16529 — (a) County child welfare, probation, and behavioral health agencies, in each county or region of counties as specified in subdivision (f), shall establish a joint county-based mobile response system t
• § 16530 — This chapter shall be inoperative in any fiscal year for which funding is not appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the purpose of complying with the requirements of Sections 16527 and 16529.
• § 16540 — The California Child Welfare Council is hereby established, which shall serve as an advisory body responsible for improving the collaboration and processes of the multiple agencies and the courts that
• § 16541 — The council shall be comprised of the following members: (a) The Secretary of California Health and Human Services, who shall serve as cochair.
• § 16541.5 — The council shall meet no less frequently than each quarter of the state fiscal year and at the call of the cochairs, at a time and location convenient to the public as it may deem appropriate.
• § 16542 — The cochairs may appoint committees composed of council members, experts in specialized fields, foster youth, program stakeholders, state and county child welfare and foster care staff, child advocacy
• § 16543 — Consistent with state and federal law, the council shall have access to aggregate data and information concerning the child welfare and foster care systems held by any state or local department, agenc
• § 16543.5 — It is the intent of the Legislature to inspect other state child welfare and foster care systems over the course of the 2007–08 Legislative Session, for the purpose of examining effective administrati
• § 16544 — The secretary shall ensure that all of the federal Child and Family Services Review outcome measures and all of the California Child and Family Service Review System outcome indicators, along with any
• § 16544.5 — The California Child Welfare Council shall establish a Mandated Reporting Advisory Committee (MRAC).
• § 16545 — By April 1, 2008, the Judicial Council shall adopt, through rules of court, performance measures designed to complement and promote those measures specified in Section 16544 so that courts are able to
• § 16546 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Identifying and engaging family members are critical components of providing effective child welfare services to children who have been rem
• § 16546.5 — (a) Subject to an appropriation of state funds, there is hereby established the Excellence in Family Finding, Engagement, and Support Program.
• § 16547 — (a) (1) The department shall establish procedures for program data collection and reporting.
• § 16547.5 — Funds allocated under this chapter may be used to supplement, but shall not supplant, funds for existing family finding and engagement programs.
• § 16548 — (a) Subject to an appropriation of state funds, the department shall establish, or contract for the establishment of, the Center for Excellence in Family Finding, Engagement, and Support.
• § 16548.5 — Notwithstanding Chapter 3.
• § 16549 — Contracts entered into or amended pursuant to this chapter are exempt from Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 14825) of Part 5.
• § 16550 — For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Department” means the State Department of Social Services.
• § 16551 — (a) The department, jointly with the State Department of Health Care Services, and with input from county child welfare departments, probation departments, tribes, impacted youth and families, youth a
• § 16552 — (a) The department, jointly with the State Department of Health Care Services, shall develop and administer a request for proposals process, and shall develop selection criteria, to determine which ap
• § 16553 — (a) (1) The Children’s Crisis Continuum Pilot Program shall be designed, in partnership with county child welfare departments, county probation departments, and county behavioral health plans, to cont
• § 16554 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to appropriate moneys to the department in the annual Budget Act or other statute for the purpose of administering a grant program to provide funding to partici
• § 16555 — (a) No later than April 1, 2027, the department, jointly with the State Department of Health Care Services, shall submit an interim report to the Assembly Committee on Human Services and the Senate Co
• § 16556 — Notwithstanding Chapter 3.
• § 16560 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Continuum of Care Reform (CCR) was enacted to improve California’s child welfare system and its outcomes through, in part, the sele
• § 16562 — The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) (1) A coordinated, timely, and trauma-informed system of care is essential to meet the needs of children and nonminor dependents in foster care wh
• § 16563 — (a) If there is a child eligible for Tier 2 of the Care and Supervision component of the Tiered Rate Structure, as described in subdivision (h) of Section 11461, living in a resource family home, no m
• § 16565 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Social determinants of health, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), positive childhood experiences, and other supports are critical determina
• § 16567 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to assess the impacts of the Tiered Rate Structure on children, nonminor dependents, families, placing agencies, and providers.
• § 16585 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to exercise the option afforded to states under Section 474(a)(6) and Section 471(e) of the federal Social Security Act, as contained in the federal Family Firs
• § 16586 — For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: (a) (1) “Candidate for foster care” means a child described in Section 475(13) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.
• § 16587 — (a) A county may elect to provide the prevention services under this chapter by providing a written plan to the State Department of Social Services, in accordance with instructions issued by the depar
• § 16588 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall seek all necessary federal approvals to obtain Title IV-E federal financial participation for the prevention services provided under this chapter, inc
• § 16589 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall have oversight of the Family First Prevention Services program established under this chapter.
• § 16600 — (a) The department shall administer the federal Promoting Safe and Stable Families funds.
• § 16601 — For purposes of this part, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) “Adoption promotion and support services,” as defined by Section 431 of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.
• § 16602 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 16500, each county that chooses to utilize federal Promoting Safe and Stable Families funds shall establish a local planning body and develop county plans as required by th
• § 16604 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), counties shall spend a minimum of 20 percent of its allocated funds in each of the following categories, for a total of 80 percent: (1) Family support servic
• § 16604.5 — When preparing their needs assessments and plans to implement the federal Family Preservation and Support Act (Sections 430 to 435, inclusive, of the Social Security Act (Subpart 2 (commencing with Se
• § 16605 — (a) The Kinship Support Services Program provides community-based family support services to relative caregivers and the children placed in their homes by the juvenile court or who are at risk of depe
• § 16800.5 — The State Department of Health Services shall establish data collection and reporting requirements for counties to annually report health expenditures.
• § 16800.7 — Agencies responsible for conducting fiscal or program audits or inspections of grants or subventions pursuant to any of the following provisions shall, to the extent practicable and consistent with fe
• § 16801 — The following definitions shall govern the construction of this part, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “County health services” means public health services, outpatient health services, and
• § 16803 — (a) The County Health Services Fund is hereby created, and notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, is continuously appropriated to the department, without regard to fiscal years, for the
• § 16804.1 — (a) No fee or charge shall be required of any person before a county renders medically necessary services to persons entitled to services pursuant to Section 17000.
• § 16809 — (a) (1) The board of supervisors of a county that contracted with the department pursuant to former Section 16709 during the 1990–91 fiscal year and any county with a population under 300,000, as dete
• § 16809.3 — (a) Beginning in the 1991–92 fiscal year, and in subsequent fiscal years, a county shall pay the amount listed below or as established by the governing board pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph
• § 16809.4 — (a) Counties voluntarily participating in the County Medical Services Program pursuant to Section 16809 may establish the County Medical Services Program Governing Board pursuant to procedures contain
• § 16809.5 — (a) Funds appropriated for the purposes of this section shall be allocated on a monthly basis.
• § 16812 — The State Department of Health Services, in consultation with the local jurisdictions, shall adopt any regulations necessary to implement this part.
• § 16817 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a county may enter into contracts with selected providers to provide health care services in expending funds provided pursuant to this part and Part 5 (comm
• § 16818 — (a) Each facility treating persons pursuant to Section 17000 shall provide, at the time treatment is sought, individual notice of the availability of reduced cost health care.
• § 16900 — Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this chapter shall govern the construction of this part.
• § 16901 — “CMSP county” means a county that has elected to participate in the CMSP pursuant to Section 16809.
• § 16902 — “Department” means the State Department of Health Services.
• § 16903 — “Fund” means the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund.
• § 16904 — “Hospital services” means services provided by public and private hospitals licensed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.
• § 16905 — “MISP county” means a county which administers, either directly or through contracts with selected providers, its own indigent health services program.
• § 16905.5 — “Obstetric services” means the diagnosis of pregnancy and all other medical services provided by a licensed physician to pregnant women during their pregnancies from the time of conception until 90 da
• § 16906 — “Office” means the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
• § 16907.5 — “Pediatric services” means all medical services rendered by any licensed physician to persons from birth to 21 years of age, and shall include attendance at labor and delivery.
• § 16908 — “Physician services” means services provided by a licensed physician.
• § 16908.5 — For purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 16946 and the funds determined by Section 16932, and distributed pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 16946, and the appl
• § 16909 — (a) Any county which receives funds pursuant to this part shall deposit them in a special revenue fund or trust fund established solely for this purpose, in a hospital services account, a physician se
• § 16909.1 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), county adminstrative costs associated with the administration of each special revenue fund, trust fund, account, or subaccount required by Section 16909 shal
• § 16910 — (a) (1) Funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be used for the development and implementation of county medically indigent care reporting systems which will provide data on all pers
• § 16915 — (a) Any county receiving an allocation pursuant to this part shall, at a minimum, report to the department all indigent health care program demographic, expenditure, and utilization data, in a manner
• § 16916 — The department shall withhold payments to a county pursuant to this part if the county fails to provide the reports and data required by this chapter according to the schedule specified in subdivision
• § 16920 — (a) It is the intention of the Legislature to appropriate a portion of the 1988–89 fiscal year one-time revenues from the Hospital Services Account for distribution to each county and noncounty hospit
• § 16921 — Funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be allocated and disbursed to county and noncounty hospitals which meet any of the following requirements: (a) Operate an emergency room pursu
• § 16922 — (a) In order to determine the allocation for each eligible hospital of the amount appropriated for the purposes of this chapter, the office shall do all of the following: (1) Compute the total uncompe
• § 16923 — The office shall do all of the following: (a) Review and process the quarterly financial and utilization data report and calculate the distribution to be made within 30 days after October 2, 1989.
• § 16924 — The Controller shall distribute to hospitals the funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter within 60 days from the effective date of this chapter provided that the office has certified that
• § 16930 — (a) (1) There is in the County Health Services Fund, created pursuant to Section 16803, the Rural Health Services Account.
• § 16931 — (a) Funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter shall be used to enhance and maintain rural health services provided by counties, hospitals, physicians, and other providers of services to pati
• § 16931.5 — The county may reimburse for emergency services provided by a physician in a standby emergency room in a hospital specified in Section 124840 of the Health and Safety Code.
• § 16932 — The department shall allocate money derived from the Hospital Services Account in the fund to each county that is eligible to participate in the CMSP pursuant to Section 16809 in the following manner:
• § 16933 — (a) The department shall distribute those moneys appropriated from the Physician Services Account and the Unallocated Account in the fund to counties that are eligible to participate in the CMSP pursu
• § 16933.1 — Any physician who receives funds pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 16933 shall comply with the requirements of subdivision (d) of Section 16955.
• § 16934 — (a) As a condition of receiving funds under this chapter, a county shall provide, or arrange and pay for, medically necessary followup treatment, including necessary followup dental services and presc
• § 16934.2 — (a) For the 1989–90 fiscal year, a county shall not have the option to contract with the department for payment for treatment of children required pursuant to Section 16934.
• § 16934.5 — (a) For the 1990–91 fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years, each county that is eligible to participate in the CMSP pursuant to Section 16809 may enter into a contract with the department in which th
• § 16934.7 — (a) For the 1990–91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, each county entering into a contract with the department pursuant to Section 16934.
• § 16935 — (a) A county that is eligible to participate in the CMSP pursuant to Section 16809 may elect to have the state administer its physician services account.
• § 16935.5 — The department may administer the distribution and monitoring of funds allocated from the Hospital Services Account pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 16946 and from the Physician Services Account
• § 16936 — (a) (1) Any county that requests funds under this chapter shall submit to the department, for approval by the department, an application for initial funding and a description of the proposed use and e
• § 16937 — (a) Services, associated costs, and sociodemographic characteristics of persons served by each county under Section 17000 and supported in whole or in part by funds appropriated for purposes of this c
• § 16938 — (a) Each county shall submit a report of expenditures and other information to the department according to the procedures established by the department.
• § 16939 — As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this chapter, each county shall meet the requirements of Articles 6 (commencing with Section 16980), 7 (commencing with Section 16990) and 10 (commencing
• § 16940 — (a) The department shall, each fiscal year, determine the percentage of moneys appropriated for the purposes of this chapter.
• § 16941 — (a) The amount appropriated and available for the purposes of this chapter shall be allocated to each MISP county in accordance with the ratios established in subdivision (b).
• § 16941.1 — For the 1991–92 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, any county that elects to participate in the County Medical Services Program pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (b) of Secti
• § 16942 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that funds appropriated for the purposes of this chapter be administered, to the extent possible, in the same manner and according to same conditions and requir
• § 16943 — (a) Of those allocations made pursuant to Section 16941 for the 1989–90 fiscal year, 59.
• § 16945 — (a) The department shall annually verify and transmit to each MISP county and each CMSP county the figures specified in subdivision (c), using data supplied by the office.
• § 16946 — (a) The Hospital Services Account portion of each county’s allocation pursuant to Sections 16932 and 16941 shall be divided into two amounts by: (1) Multiplying the Hospital Services Account funding p
• § 16947 — (a) Any hospital which receives funds pursuant to this chapter or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16930) shall, within 90 days of the receipt of those funds, cease all current and waive all future
• § 16948 — (a) Commencing with the 1990–91 fiscal year, within 10 working days of receipt of funds allocated pursuant to Section 16941 and Section 16932, the county shall distribute to each noncounty hospital th
• § 16949 — (a) The Legislature recognizes that in the context of hospital services rendered as a result of emergency medical conditions, the application of the supplemental services requirement of Section 30125
• § 16950 — (a) Twelve and two-tenths percent, or that portion of the CHIP Account derived from the Physician Services Account in a fiscal year, of each county’s allocation under Section 16941 shall be used for t
• § 16950.1 — The twenty-four million nine hundred fifteen thousand dollars ($24,915,000) appropriated by Chapter 1331 of the Statutes of 1989 and the act amending this section in the 1990 portion of the 1989–90 Re
• § 16951 — As a condition of receiving funds pursuant to this chapter, each county shall establish an emergency medical services fund as authorized by subdivision (a) of Section 1797.
• § 16952 — (a) (1) Each county shall establish within its emergency medical services fund a Physician Services Account.
• § 16952.1 — (a) Each county that elects to establish a Physicians Services Account in the county emergency medical services fund shall annually, on April 15, report to the Legislature on the implementation and st
• § 16952.5 — (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 16952, expenses incurred by Solano County for the development of managed care systems to increase access for indigents to physician emergency services sh
• § 16953 — (a) For purposes of this chapter “emergency services” means physician services in one of the following: (1) A general acute care hospital which provides basic or comprehensive emergency services for e
• § 16953.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an emergency physician and surgeon, or an emergency physician group, with a gross billings arrangement with a hospital shall be entitled to receive
• § 16953.2 — Nothing in this article shall prevent a physician from utilizing an agent who furnishes billing and collection services to the physician to submit claims or receive payment for claims.