California

Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC

7,184 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 18297 — The staff of each domestic violence shelter-based program shall attempt to achieve community support and acceptance of the program by advocating the program to community representatives and groups wit
• § 18298 — Inasmuch as domestic violence shelter-based programs are to serve a variety of cultural backgrounds, to the extent feasible, a portion of the domestic violence shelter-based program’s personnel shall
• § 18299 — A domestic violence shelter-based program shall maintain annual fiscal reports in a form to be prescribed by the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• § 1830 — The Director of the Youth Authority may participate in a local work furlough program established pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1208 of the Penal Code, or conduct or discontinue a work furloug
• § 18300 — An annual report shall be prepared by each domestic violence shelter-based program for submission to the county board of supervisors.
• § 18301 — In addition to any other provisions of law concerning the confidentiality of personal information collected by domestic violence shelters, a county shall not require a domestic violence shelter-based
• § 18304 — A county may establish a program for reducing the incidence of domestic violence in the county by establishing or funding domestic violence shelter-based programs that meet the requirements of this ch
• § 18305 — (a) At the time of issuance of a marriage license pursuant to Section 26840 of the Government Code, twenty-three dollars ($23) of each fee paid shall be collected by the county clerk for deposit into
• § 18305.5 — Notwithstanding the availability of funds in either the county domestic violence programs special fund, or the availability of community resources, the county may finance domestic violence shelter-bas
• § 18306 — The county board of supervisors shall consult with the local regional domestic violence coalition, consisting of representatives from existing domestic violence shelter-based programs, in planning for
• § 18307 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 18305, a county may carry over funds deposited in a county domestic violence shelter-based programs special fund until the time that a domestic violence shelter-based progr
• § 18308 — The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 103626 of the Health and Safety Code into
• § 18309 — (a) The Alameda County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 26840.
• § 18309.5 — The Solano County Board of Supervisors shall direct the local registrar, county recorder, and county clerk to deposit fees collected pursuant to Section 26840.
• § 1831 — When a person is committed to a facility under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority, the Youth Authority work furlough administrator may, if he concludes that such person is a fit subject therefor,
• § 18310 — The purpose of this chapter is to establish the Green Light-Green Thumb programs for the benefit of senior citizens in California, as funded under the mainstream program of the Economic Opportunity Ac
• § 18311 — Funds received pursuant to this chapter shall be administered by the California Commission on Aging, and such commission shall provide any planning necessary to implement the programs established unde
• § 18312 — The state shall supply the necessary in-kind equipment and materials for projects under which the Green Light-Green Thumb programs contract with a department or agency of the state.
• § 1832 — If the Youth Authority work furlough administrator so directs that the ward be permitted to continue in his regular employment, the administrator shall arrange for a continuation of such employment so
• § 18325 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the McCarthy-Kennick Nutrition Program for the Elderly Act of 1972.
• § 18325.5 — It is the intention of the Legislature that the State of California through state, local governmental, and private agencies shall make a maximum contribution of their in-kind resources and in-kind fac
• § 18326 — The California Commission on Aging, with the approval of the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, shall develop and submit to the federal government the state plan for implementation of
• § 18327 — The state plan referred to in Section 18326 shall include, but not be limited to, the following: (a) Establishment of projects that, five or more days per week, provide at least one meal per day, eith
• § 18327.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state plan referred to in Section 18326 and Section 18327 shall provide that not less than 10 percent nor more than 20 percent of all funds expended for
• § 18327.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not more than 20 percent of the funds administered by the state for nutrition services for the elderly pursuant to this chapter shall be expended for meals
• § 18327.3 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no agency providing food services, pursuant to this chapter shall be prohibited from serving meals consistent with terms and conditions in its contract, to
• § 18327.4 — Notwithstanding any other law, meals served or provided to be consumed outside of an in-person setting or a virtual congregate setting may be provided under the Home Delivered Nutrition Services progr
• § 18329 — To the extent permitted by federal law, benefits received under this chapter shall not be treated as income or resources for the purpose of any program or provision of Division 9 (commencing with Sect
• § 1833 — Whenever the ward is not employed and between the hours or periods of employment, he shall be confined in a detention facility unless the court or administrator directs otherwise.
• § 18330 — In each case where the Director of the State Department of Aging determines that the failure or inability of any contractor adequately to perform the terms of a contract for a nutrition project establ
• § 18331 — There is hereby established a Nutrition Reserve Fund under the control of the Director of the Department of Aging.
• § 18331.1 — Notwithstanding the limitations of Section 18331 of this code, the director is empowered to allocate money from the Nutrition Reserve Fund in order to implement the Nutrition and Volunteer Services Pr
• § 18332 — (a) All allocations from the Nutrition Reserve Fund shall be approved by the Director of Finance prior to issuance.
• § 18333 — (a) The Nutrition Reserve Fund shall also be used for the purpose of making loans to maintain existing levels of supportive services provided pursuant to Section 3030d of Title 42 of the United States
• § 18335 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) Retired firemen may be utilized to conduct fire inspections of the sites of nutrition projects for senior citizens in order to determine whether such si
• § 1834 — The earnings of the ward shall be collected by the Youth Authority work furlough administrator, and it shall be the duty of the ward’s employer to transmit such wages to the administrator at the latte
• § 1835 — In the event the ward violates the conditions laid down for his conduct, custody, or employment, the Youth Authority work furlough administrator may order termination of work furloughs for such minor.
• § 18358 — The definitions contained in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Department” means the State Department of Social Services.
• § 18358.05 — (a) The department shall implement intensive treatment foster care programs for eligible children.
• § 18358.10 — Each foster family agency participating in this program shall enter into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the county and provide all of the following personnel and administrative and sup
• § 18358.15 — (a) Each foster family agency participating in the program shall develop the child’s needs and services plan, and have it agreed to by the county interagency review team, or county placing agency, and
• § 18358.20 — In addition to the requirements of Sections 18358.
• § 18358.23 — In addition to the requirements of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 18358.
• § 18358.25 — (a) Certified foster parents participating under this chapter shall ensure the well-being of emotionally disturbed children or children with a serious behavioral problem under their care.
• § 18358.30 — (a) Rates for foster family agency programs participating under this chapter shall be exempt from the current AFDC-FC foster family agency ratesetting system.
• § 18358.35 — Foster family agencies implementing intensive foster care programs shall under no circumstances have any interest in the properties occupied by the certified foster parents.
• § 18358.36 — In order to provide for continuity of services to children receiving intensive foster care services, the two foster family agencies providing services pursuant to this chapter prior to January 1, 1996
• § 18358.37 — The department shall develop, in consultation with the counties, providers, and other stakeholders, cost reporting, claiming, and other procedures necessary to maximize federal financial participation
• § 18358.38 — This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2028, or 24 months after the effective date specified in paragraph (9) of subdivision (h) of Section 11461, whichever is later, and, as of January 1 of
• § 18360 — As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (a) “Client support staff” means professional and paraprofessional staff or contractors who meet the experience and education
• § 18360.05 — (a) The department shall develop an intensive services foster care program that provides specialized programs to serve children with specific needs, including, but not limited to, the following: (1) I
• § 18360.10 — (a) Each licensed foster family agency or county operating a public delivery model intensive services foster care program shall engage in both of the following: (1) Targeted selection and specialized
• § 18360.15 — (a) Each licensed foster family agency or county operating an intensive services foster care program shall develop a child’s individual needs and services plan in coordination with the child’s case wo
• § 18360.20 — The department, in consultation with counties and other stakeholders, shall consider options to expand the number of available resource families who are willing to provide intensive services foster ca
• § 18360.25 — (a) The county shall employ the level of care rate protocol developed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 11463 to determine the placement of the eligible children into an intensive services foster
• § 18360.35 — (a) Each intensive services foster care resource family selected to participate in the intensive services foster care program shall rent, lease, or own their own home.
• § 18360.36 — This chapter shall become inoperative on July 1, 2028, or 24 months after the effective date specified in paragraph (9) of subdivision (h) of Section 11461, whichever is later, and, as of January 1 of
• § 18375 — The intent of this chapter is to assist city and county health agencies to provide preventive health care through public health nursing services to the aged.
• § 18376 — (a) The State Department of Health Services may authorize the payment of state funds to defray in part the cost of projects or the continuation of projects under which the city or county health agency
• § 18378 — The California Commission on Aging shall render such technical assistance and advice as is required by the department in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
• § 18400 — The department, subject to the approval of the Attorney General, may enter into reciprocal agreements with corresponding state agencies of other states regarding the interstate transportation of poor
• § 18401 — This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.
• § 18402 — This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Transfer of Dependents Act.
• § 18450 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Relief Law of 1945.
• § 18451 — The provisions of this chapter (except the provisions of this section) are suspended and continue suspended from operation until the occurrence of an economic emergency in this state, which results fr
• § 18452 — After the provisions of this chapter become operative, the provisions of Part 5 of this division, relating to county aid and relief to indigents, shall not apply to any person who receives or is eligi
• § 18453 — As used in this chapter, the terms defined in this article have the meanings set forth in this article.
• § 18454 — “Department” means the State Department of Social Services.
• § 18455 — “Aid” means state financial assistance to counties for the direct cost of relief and the cost of administration thereof.
• § 18456 — “Relief” means assistance in cash or in kind provided to individuals or families to relieve hardship and destitution.
• § 18457 — In accordance with the provisions of this chapter, every county shall provide relief to needy persons who are residents of this state.
• § 18458 — For the purposes of this chapter, a resident of the state is a person who comes within all of the following descriptions: (a) Who has lived continuously in the state for a period of one year preceding
• § 18459 — For the purposes of this chapter, a person who is a resident of the state is a resident of the county in which he has resided continuously for one year immediately preceding his application for relief
• § 18460 — A county may incur all necessary expenses in transporting a nonresident applicant for or recipient of relief under this chapter to another state or county, when information at hand reasonably tends to
• § 18470 — The direct administration of this chapter shall be carried out by the boards of supervisors of the several counties, directly or through their authorized agents.
• § 18471 — The department shall: (a) Establish minimum and maximum standards for the amount and form of relief, on a budgetary basis, as provided in Sections 18472, 18473, and 18474.
• § 18472 — The department shall from time to time fix for each county maximum and minimum relief case budgets within the range of which the board of supervisors may establish its own policies.
• § 18473 — In determining and redetermining budgets and standards, the department may give consideration to living costs and may establish budgets and standards varying in monetary worth or amount, but providing
• § 18474 — Relief may be granted in cash or in kind, but relief may be granted in kind only after the method has been approved by the department.
• § 18475 — All income received by a person or family, regardless of source, shall be considered in determining the amount of relief to be provided.
• § 18476 — In administering any funds appropriated or made available to the department for disbursement through the counties for relief purposes, the department shall: (a) Require as a condition for receiving su
• § 18477 — If any county fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter or the rules and regulations or orders of the department for the administration of relief by the county under this chapter, the direct
• § 18478 — The department may operate the relief administration in any county after the denial of financial assistance to the county in accordance with the provisions of Section 18477, and the county proportion
• § 18490 — Application for relief may be made to the county of which the applicant is a resident, or, in the case of an applicant who is a resident of the state but who is not a resident of any county, to the co
• § 18491 — The board of supervisors of every county as a board, or by committee or by such person as it may authorize, shall investigate every application for relief under this chapter, shall supervise by period
• § 18492 — Persons eligible for relief, who are residents of the state and residents of the county in which they apply for relief, shall be granted relief by the county of their residence, and the state shall pa
• § 18493 — In case of dispute between two or more counties as to the responsibility for any person, or in case of dispute between a county and the department, either may appeal to the department for a hearing.
• § 18494 — If any applicant or recipient is dissatisfied with the action of the board of supervisors, he shall, upon filing a petition with the department, have the right of appeal and shall be accorded an oppor
• § 18496 — Whenever an applicant or recipient loses an appeal made pursuant to Section 18494, the applicant or recipient shall be liable for any amount paid pending the hearing which was at issue in the hearing,
• § 1850 — The purpose of this article is to protect society more effectively by providing a system of flexible constraints and controls that utilize short-term confinement for selected youthful offenders, follo
• § 18500 — Relief shall be provided only to persons who are in need, as determined by an investigation as prescribed by the department.
• § 18501 — As a condition to the grant or continuance of relief, the county may require the recipient to perform work provided by the county.
• § 18502 — Persons who are eligible for aid to the aged under the Old Age Security Law, aid to the blind, aid to the disabled, or aid to families with dependent children (including the caretaker of such children
• § 18503 — No person shall be considered a needy person who has made any voluntary assignment or transfer of property for the purpose of qualifying for relief, and any transfer of property, other than heirlooms,
• § 18504 — No person is eligible for relief who, being physically capable thereof, refuses suitable employment.
• § 1851 — In order to provide appropriate facilities for the rehabilitative treatment of young offenders who otherwise may be committed to the Department of the Youth Authority or the Department of Corrections,
• § 18510 — Relief granted to any person who is not entitled thereto under the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a debt of the recipient, to the amount of such relief, to the state and the county partic
• § 18511 — If the spouse, parent, or adult child of any recipient of relief is financially able to contribute to the support of the recipient, such relative is liable to reimburse the state and county for relief
• § 1852 — Complete operation and authority for administration of the youth correctional center shall be vested in the county.
• § 18520 — The provisions of this chapter providing for state payments to counties do not constitute appropriations of money from the State Treasury, and no provision of this chapter shall be construed to make a
• § 18521 — (a) Until the rate of county expenditure for the direct and administrative costs of welfare activities under this chapter exceeds, on a fiscal year basis determined not less frequently than quarterly,
• § 18522 — During such time as grants-in-aid are provided or made available by the United States government for either direct costs or administrative costs of welfare activities under this chapter, or both, the
• § 18523 — The method of computing and paying the amounts provided for in Sections 18521 and 18522 for each quarter shall be as follows: (a) The department shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, estimate
• § 18524 — Reports of payments of relief and of payments for the cost of administration thereof made under this chapter shall be presented by the respective counties at times and in the form prescribed by the de
• § 1853 — Juvenile court wards and criminal offenders eligible for probation may be committed to youth correctional centers as a condition of probation, provided they come within all of the following descriptio
• § 1854 — While under commitment to the youth correctional center, the offender is subject to the control of the chief probation officer.
• § 1855 — Earnings of offenders who reside in the center and work in the community shall be collected by the chief probation officer.
• § 1856 — When in the opinion of the chief probation officer an offender appears to be unamenable to the program of the youth correctional center, he shall be returned to the committing court for further dispos
• § 1857 — The Board of Corrections shall adopt and prescribe the minimum standards of construction, operation, programs of education or rehabilitative training or treatment, and qualifications of personnel for
• § 1858 — No youth correctional center established pursuant to this article shall be planned to accommodate more than 350 youths under supervision at any one time.
• § 1859 — Where any such youth correctional center is established, and where the minimum standards and qualifications provided for in Section 1857 have been complied with by the county, the State of California
• § 1860 — (a) From any state moneys made available to it for that purpose, the Youth Authority shall share in the cost pursuant to this article of the construction of youth correctional centers established by c
• § 1861 — The Department of the Youth Authority shall report to the Legislature no later than the fifth legislative day of the 1974 Regular Session on the experiences and the results under the provisions of thi
• § 18650 — Every blind person who was a resident of the Oakland Orientation Center for the Blind on March 1, 1951, who may be transferred to other facilities either public or private and who is unable to work, s
• § 18700 — (a) (1) It is hereby declared to be the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to access sufficient affordable and healthy food.
• § 18900 — Finding that hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition are present and continuing problems faced by low-income California households, and further finding that the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assista
• § 18900.1 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall propose a new name for the Food Stamp Program in California, by July 1, 2009.
• § 18900.2 — (a) Pursuant to Section 18900.
• § 18900.3 — Subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act for these purposes, in order to increase client access and retention within CalFresh, on or before July 1, 2023, the department shall develop a Cal
• § 18900.4 — (a) (1) To the extent permitted under federal law, an individual shall have the option to complete an application or recertification interview and provide the required client signature by telephone.
• § 18900.5 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section that recipients of Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment Program benefits provided in Chapter 3 (commencing with Sec
• § 18900.6 — (a) There is hereby created the SSI/SSP Cash-In Supplemental Nutrition Benefit (SNB) Program.
• § 18900.7 — (a) There is hereby created the SSI/SSP Cash-In Transitional Nutrition Benefit (TNB) Program.
• § 18900.8 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall work with representatives of county human services agencies and the County Welfare Directors Association of California to update the budgeting methodo
• § 18900.9 — Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 18900.95 — (a) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section that California’s state cost share for CalFresh benefits pursuant to Section 10105 of Public Law 119-21 (7 U.
• § 18901 — (a) The eligibility of households shall be determined to the extent permitted by federal law.
• § 18901.09 — To the extent permitted by federal law, regulation, or guidance, or a waiver thereof, the department shall exercise the option provided in Section 273.
• § 18901.1 — (a) The department shall issue guidance to counties that does all of the following: (1) Simplifies the verification of dependent care expense deductions necessary to determine a household’s eligibilit
• § 18901.10 — To the extent permitted by federal law, and subject to the limitation in subdivision (d), each county welfare department shall, if appropriate, exempt a household from complying with face-to-face inte
• § 18901.11 — (a) For purposes of Section 273.
• § 18901.12 — (a) On or before May 31, 2022, the department shall issue a guidance letter to counties, the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges, the Chancellor’s office of the California State U
• § 18901.14 — (a) The department shall convene a workgroup comprised of the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, the Student Aid Commission, representatives
• § 18901.15 — (a) The department shall issue guidance to counties that does both of the following: (1) Establishes that shelter costs reported by an applicant or recipient on a signed CalFresh application or semian
• § 18901.2 — (a) There is hereby created the State Utility Assistance Subsidy (SUAS), a state-funded energy assistance program that shall provide energy assistance benefits to eligible CalFresh households so that
• § 18901.25 — (a) There is hereby created the Safe Drinking Water Supplemental Benefit Pilot Program, a state-funded program to provide additional CalFresh nutrition benefits for interim assistance to purchase safe
• § 18901.26 — (a) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another statute for this purpose, the department shall administer the CalFresh Minimum Nutrition Benefit (MNB) Pilot Prog
• § 18901.3 — (a) Subject to the limitations of subdivision (b), pursuant to Section 115(d)(1)(A) of Public Law 104-193 (21 U.
• § 18901.35 — (a) (1) No later than September 1, 2022, the department shall issue an all-county letter containing recommendations and suggested methods for county human services agencies to partner with the Departm
• § 18901.36 — (a) (1) The department, by February 1, 2028, shall establish a CalFresh workgroup to create recommendations for a state reentry process incorporating the necessary resources for transition from state
• § 18901.4 — (a) Effective July 1, 2010, the department shall propose a Transitional Food Stamps for Foster Youth demonstration project under which independent foster care adolescents, as defined in Section 1905(w
• § 18901.5 — (a) The department shall establish a program of categorical eligibility for CalFresh in accordance with Section 5(a) of the federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.
• § 18901.55 — (a) If a county has entered into a memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 49557.
• § 18901.56 — (a) The State Department of Education, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the State Department of Social Services shall work together with stakeholders, including, but not limited to, r
• § 18901.57 — The department, as the lead agency in partnership with the State Department of Education, shall maximize participation in the federal Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) progr
• § 18901.58 — (a) (1) On or before July 1, 2026, the department, in consultation with advocate representatives, county human service agencies, and the County Welfare Directors Association of California, shall devel
• § 18901.59 — (a) The department may identify data-sharing opportunities with other state and local public entities, and any other unit of state government, for the purposes of improving the administration of CalFr
• § 18901.6 — To the maximum extent allowable by federal law, each county welfare department shall provide transitional CalFresh benefits to households terminating their participation in the CalWORKs program.
• § 18901.7 — (a) To the extent allowable by federal law, the income, resources, and deductible expenses of any household member who is rendered ineligible for CalFresh benefits pursuant to Title IV of Public Law 1
• § 18901.8 — (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, and with receipt of necessary federal approvals, the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with affected stakeholder groups, shall develop and
• § 18901.9 — (a) For the purpose of eligibility under this chapter, the rules governing the resource value of motor vehicles shall be aligned with an alternative program allowed under federal food stamp law.
• § 18902 — Each county welfare department shall carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this chapter, subject to the supervision of the department and to rules and regulations adopted by the depar
• § 18902.5 — (a) In the administration of this chapter counties may conduct an early fraud prevention and detection program pursuant to this section.
• § 18903 — The department shall enter into and execute on behalf of the state all necessary agreements in connection with this chapter as may be required by the United States Government.
• § 18904 — Regulations, orders or standards of general application to implement, interpret or make specific the law relating to this chapter shall be adopted, amended, or repealed only in accordance with Section
• § 18904.1 — (a) The director, to the extent permitted by federal law, shall establish methods for CalFresh benefit issuance in all counties which guarantee to low-income households the health-vital nutritional be
• § 18904.2 — The department may administer outreach programs and adopt rules and regulations requiring counties to conduct outreach programs to the extent permitted by federal law and eligible for federal financia
• § 18904.25 — (a) Pursuant to the federal Stewart B.
• § 18904.3 — (a) If a private nonprofit organization, public postsecondary educational institution, or other state or local agency secures funds for CalFresh outreach activities that are allowable for partial fede
• § 18904.35 — Upon approval of a final plan for CalFresh outreach activities, in accordance with Section 18904.
• § 18905 — In the event that the United States Department of Agriculture makes a final determination to reduce federal funding of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, administered in California
• § 18905.1 — The department shall not impose any additional requirements for verification of eligibility for expedited service other than those minimum requirements that exist under federal law.
• § 18906 — The department shall establish and maintain a plan whereby costs for county administration of CalFresh under this chapter will be effectively controlled within the amounts annually appropriated for su
• § 18906.5 — (a) The state shall pay 70 percent of the nonfederal costs of administering the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, administered in California as CalFresh, subject to Sections 18906 and
• § 18906.6 — At the time the United States Department of Agriculture allows the state to retain a portion of the value of any claims collected, the state shall retain 50 percent of this portion.
• § 18906.7 — The state shall pay 100 percent of the nonfederal costs of administering an early fraud prevention and detection program in the administration of this chapter, established pursuant to subdivision (a)
• § 18906.8 — Subject to Section 18906, the state may pay 100 percent of the nonfederal administrative costs, when cost-effective, as determined by the state, of followup activities in the Income Eligibility and Ve
• § 18907 — In the determination of eligibility for CalFresh, there shall be no discrimination against any household by reason of marital status, political belief, or any characteristic listed or defined in Secti
• § 18908 — Except as provided in Section 18904.
• § 18909 — Section 10850, relating to disclosure of information regarding public assistance recipients, shall apply to information obtained under this chapter.
• § 18910 — (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, regulations, waivers, and directives, the department shall implement the prospective budgeting, semiannual reporting system provided in Sections 11265.
• § 18910.1 — All CalFresh households shall be assigned certification periods that are the maximum number of months allowable under federal law for the household type unless a county is complying with subdivision (
• § 18910.2 — (a) The department shall convene a workgroup that includes, but is not limited to, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, representatives of county eligibility workers, the Statewide
• § 18911 — (a) An application and an authorization for participation in CalFresh shall be processed within a period of not more than 30 days from the date of application.
• § 18912 — (a) Each county welfare department shall orally inform each applicant of the availability of expedited service and assistance in filling out the application.
• § 18913 — The department shall collect, quarterly, expedited service data, on a county-by-county basis, of the number of applications and the disposition of the applications, and shall publish those statistics
• § 18914 — (a) In accordance with, and to the extent provided by, federal law, the county human services agency shall provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis as provided in subdivision (b) to households
• § 18914.5 — (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, regulations, waivers, and directives, a resident of, or an individual on a waiting list to get into, a shelter for battered women and children who is curren
• § 18915 — All applications and public information materials shall be available to potential, present, and past CalFresh recipients in each county in Spanish as well as English plus any other non-English languag
• § 18916 — The board of supervisors of each county shall have the authority to request from the United States Department of Agriculture the simultaneous operation of the federally donated foods program under the
• § 18917 — (a) (1) The department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall identify the necessary elements of a county disaster plan, and shall issue guidance to county human services agencies informing them of
• § 18917.1 — (a) In the event of a declaration by the Governor or the President of the United States of a major disaster, the Legislature finds and declares that the State Department of Social Services and affecte
• § 18917.2 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall maximize the amount of assistance requested and received through the federal Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP), and all othe
• § 18918 — Not later than January 15, 2001, the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, shall develop and submit to the Legisl
• § 18918.1 — (a) In an effort to expand CalFresh program outreach and retention and improve dual enrollment between the CalFresh and Medi-Cal programs, county welfare departments shall, no later than January 1, 20
• § 18919 — (a) Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 18919.1 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to maximize food access for all CalFresh recipients.
• § 18920 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, an agreement between the department and a unit of local government, any other unit of state government, or a nonprofit organization that provides for a contract rela
• § 18922 — (a) On or before July 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the department shall submit a request for a federal waiver to waive the provisions of Section 273.
• § 18923 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall submit a request to the United States Department of Agriculture for a waiver to permit a CalFresh household to retain funds in the restricted savings
• § 18924 — (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, waiver, demonstration project, or other federal authority, the department shall allow counties to utilize existing information maintained by the federal Soc
• § 18925 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Social Services, shall implement a simplified eligibility process as part of CalFresh to expedite Medi-Cal
• § 18926 — (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department shall annually seek a federal waiver of the existing federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program limitation that stipulates that an abl
• § 18926.1 — (a) To the extent not prohibited by federal law and guidance, the department shall ensure that all recipients subject to the federal ABAWD time limit described in Section 18926 are permitted to meet t
• § 18926.2 — To the extent not prohibited by federal law and guidance, a recipient who is homeless shall be deemed to be exempt from the federal ABAWD time limit described in Section 18926.
• § 18926.5 — (a) For the purposes of this chapter, “CalFresh Employment and Training program” or “CalFresh E&T” means the program established under Section 6(d)(4)(B) of the federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008
• § 18926.6 — In a county that elects to participate in the CalFresh E&T program, a veteran applying for CalFresh benefits who is required to register to work, but who is exempt from mandatory placement in the CalF
• § 18926.7 — (a) (1) To the extent permitted under federal law, the department may contract directly with an entity that provides services on a regional or statewide basis and that has expertise in, and secures fu
• § 18926.8 — (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the CalFresh E&T Workers’ Compensation Fund for the purpose of paying workers’ compensation claims resulting from CalFresh recipients’ participati
• § 18927 — (a) Current and future CalFresh benefits shall be reduced in accordance with subdivisions (c) and (d) to recover an overissuance caused by intentional program violation, as defined in subdivision (c)