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• § 11454 — (a) A parent or caretaker relative shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter when the parent or caretaker relative has received aid under this chapter or from any state under the Temporary Assi
• § 11454.1 — (a) County welfare departments shall provide each recipient who is subject to the 60-month time limitation described in subdivision (a) of Section 11454 with written notice describing the 60-month tim
• § 11454.5 — (a) Any month in which the following conditions exist shall not be counted as a month of receipt of aid for the purposes of subdivision (a) of, and paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of, Section 11454:
• § 11454.6 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 15200, to the extent that the exemptions from the time limits on aid specified in paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of subdivision (c) of Section 11454 and subdivision (a)
• § 11455 — If on the first day of the month a child is eligible for aid, aid for the entire month shall be paid.
• § 11457 — (a) Money from noncustodial parents for child or spousal support with respect to whom an assignment under Section 11477 has been made shall be paid directly to the local child support agency and shall
• § 11458 — The county may cancel, suspend or revoke aid under this chapter for cause.
• § 11460 — (a) (1) Foster care providers shall be paid a per child per month rate in return for the care and supervision of the AFDC-FC child placed with them.
• § 11461 — (a) For children or, on and after January 1, 2012, nonminor dependents placed in a licensed or approved family home with a capacity of six or less, or in an approved home of a relative or nonrelated l
• § 11461.1 — It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure quality care for children who are placed in foster family homes.
• § 11461.3 — (a) The Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program is hereby established for the purpose of making the amount paid to an approved relative caregiver for the in-home care of children and nonminor depe
• § 11461.36 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide support to emergency caregivers, as defined in subdivision (c), who care for children and nonminor dependents before approval of an application under
• § 11461.4 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a tribe that has entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 10553.
• § 11461.5 — (a) The department may establish a rate to supplement the basic rate specified in subdivision (a) of Section 11461 for the provision of additional shelter needs for AFDC-FC children who are placed in
• § 11461.6 — (a) The Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children is hereby established, to be implemented at the discretion of each county, for the purpose of stabilizing foster children with families
• § 11462 — (a) The department shall commence development of a new payment structure for short-term residential therapeutic program placements claiming Title IV-E funding, in consultation with county placing agen
• § 11462.01 — (a) (1) If a program will admit Medi-Cal beneficiaries, no later than 12 months following the date of initial licensure, a short-term residential therapeutic program, as defined in subdivision (ad) of
• § 11462.011 — (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall, in consultation with the Department of Managed Health Care, the State Department of Social Services, the County Behavioral Health Directors Asso
• § 11462.02 — (a) Any existing county-operated foster family agency or group home, including the group home operated by the County of San Mateo, shall, commencing January 1, 2017, be classified as, and shall meet a
• § 11462.022 — (a) Upon meeting the licensure requirements pursuant to Section 1530.
• § 11462.04 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing January 1, 2017, no new group home rate or change to an existing rate shall be established pursuant to the Rate Classification Level (RCL) system.
• § 11462.041 — (a) The Legislature recognizes that group homes are one of the primary placement options utilized by probation departments to avoid inappropriate housing of youth in a detention hall, more so since th
• § 11462.045 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish a working group to develop recommended revisions to the current system of setting reimbursement rates for group home providers.
• § 11462.06 — (a) For purposes of the administration of this article, including the setting of AFDC-FC provider rates, the department shall deem the reasonable costs of leases for shelter care for foster children t
• § 11462.2 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 11462, when the director determines that a rate established pursuant to that section for a multistate group home facility which operates in more than two states and which p
• § 11462.4 — Notwithstanding Section 11342.
• § 11463 — (a) The department shall commence development of a new payment structure for the Title IV-E funded foster family agency placement option that maximizes federal funding, in consultation with county pla
• § 11463.5 — In order to receive funding on behalf of children receiving AFDC-FC, each provider, as defined in Section 11466, shall provide a full disclosure of all financial information related to its operation,
• § 11464 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Children who are consumers of regional center services and also receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster Care (AFDC-FC)
• § 11465 — (a) If a child is living with a parent who receives AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP benefits, or, on or after July 1, 2017, Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program (ARC) payments, the rate paid to the provider
• § 11465.6 — (a) Up to five counties selected by the department, and at the discretion of the counties, may implement a countywide program for licensed family homes and relative caregivers receiving payments under
• § 11466 — For purposes of this section to Section 11469.
• § 11466.01 — (a) Commencing January 1, 2017, a provisional rate shall be set for both of the following providers: (1) A new short-term residential therapeutic program provider.
• § 11466.1 — (a) (1) The department shall adopt regulations that specify the type of information requested from providers, including reasonable timeframes.
• § 11466.2 — (a) (1) The department shall perform or have performed provider program and fiscal audits as needed.
• § 11466.21 — (a) In accordance with subdivision (b), as a condition to receive an AFDC-FC rate for a foster care program operated by a provider, as defined in Section 11466, the following shall apply: (1) Any prov
• § 11466.22 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure overall program integrity in the AFDC-FC program through the establishment of an effective and efficient process for the collection of provider sustai
• § 11466.23 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to comply with the federal requirements of the Improper Payments Act of 2002 with respect to the remittance of the federal share of foster care or adoption assi
• § 11466.235 — (a) The department, in consultation and coordination with the County Welfare Directors Association (CWDA), shall update existing regulations and establish new regulations where lacking for the identif
• § 11466.24 — (a) In accordance with this section, a county shall collect an overpayment, discovered on or after January 1, 1999, made to a foster family home, an approved home of a relative, including, on and afte
• § 11466.25 — Interest begins to accrue on a provider overpayment or penalty on the date of the issuance of the penalty, the date of issuance of the final audit report, or the date of the issuance of a management d
• § 11466.3 — (a) The department shall offer a voluntary repayment agreement procedure to providers that owe a sustained overpayment.
• § 11466.31 — (a) When it has been determined that a provider participating in the AFDC-FC program owes an overpayment that is due and payable, the department may implement involuntary offset collection procedures
• § 11466.32 — (a) If a provider that owes a sustained overpayment pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 11466.
• § 11466.33 — (a) If any amount is due and payable to the department as a result of a sustained overpayment to a provider for care and services in the AFDC-FC program, the department may file, in the office of any
• § 11466.34 — (a) (1) At any time within 10 years of the recording of a lien pursuant to Section 11466.
• § 11466.35 — (a) Any licensee or member of a governing board of a nonprofit who has been determined to owe a sustained overpayment under this chapter, and who, subsequent to notice of the sustained overpayment, ha
• § 11466.36 — (a) The department may terminate a program rate or a provider’s eligibility to be paid any rate for a child placed in their care if any of the following conditions are met: (1) The department determin
• § 11466.5 — The department shall collect cost data and monitor the cost of providing care and supervision, and social work services, to AFDC-FC recipients.
• § 11466.6 — A provider who disagrees with the rate determined by the department, the rate adjusted by an audit, or a determination made in a management decision letter affecting the rate may request in writing an
• § 11467 — (a) The State Department of Social Services, with the advice and assistance of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behavioral
• § 11467.1 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that standards be developed to address the specific needs of very young children, from birth to six years of age, experiencing the trauma of separation from the
• § 11468 — The department shall establish and maintain administrative procedures to review the rate set by the department for AFDC-FC programs, including, but not limited to, group homes, short-term residential
• § 11468.1 — The administrative review procedure for rates established pursuant to Section 11468 shall include a protest within the department and a hearing conducted by a hearing officer appointed by the director
• § 11468.2 — (a) A provider who disagrees with a rate determination and who desires a different rate, or who has been denied a rate or had a rate terminated, may file a protest with the department within 60 days f
• § 11468.3 — (a) The appeal filed with the department pursuant to Section 11468.
• § 11468.4 — (a) The hearing regarding a rate held pursuant to Section 11468.
• § 11468.5 — The provider may request review of the final decision of the department made pursuant to Section 11468.
• § 11469 — (a) The department shall develop, following consultation with group home providers, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County Behav
• § 11469.1 — The performance standards and outcome measures required by Section 11469 shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) They shall include indicators of quality of care, including, but not limited
• § 11469.2 — (a) The department shall develop, following consultation with foster family agency providers, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the Co
• § 11469.3 — The performance standards and outcome measures required by Section 11469.
• § 11476.6 — Each local child support agency shall submit to the department data revealing the range and median time periods by which notification of the receipt of child support payments collected on behalf of a
• § 11477 — As a condition of eligibility for aid paid under this chapter, each applicant or recipient shall do all of the following: (a) (1) Do either of the following: (A) For applications received before Octob
• § 11477.02 — Prior to referral of any individual or recipient, or that person’s case, to the local child support agency for child support services under Section 17400 or 17404 of the Family Code, the county welfar
• § 11477.04 — (a) An applicant or a recipient shall be considered to be cooperating in good faith with the county welfare department or the local child support agency for purposes of Section 11477 and shall be elig
• § 11477.06 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, subject to the requirements of Section 77 of Senate Bill 189 of the 2021–22 Regular Session (Ch.
• § 11477.07 — (a) The State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the Department of Child Support Services, shall convene a workgroup that consists of representatives from the Legislature, the Departme
• § 11477.1 — No polygraph tests shall be administered to any applicant or recipient of aid under this chapter for the purposes of enforcement of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act, without written notice to app
• § 11478.1 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect individual rights of privacy, and to facilitate and enhance the effectiveness of the child and spousal support enforcement program, by ensuring the c
• § 11479 — In all cases in which the paternity of the child has not been established to the satisfaction of the county department, the county department shall refer the applicant to local child support agency at
• § 11480 — Any person other than a needy child, who willfully and knowingly receives or uses any part of an aid grant paid pursuant to this chapter for a purpose other than support of the needy children and the
• § 11481 — If the district attorney, during the course of any investigation made by him pursuant to this article, determines that any person has committed any act or has omitted the performance of any duty, whic
• § 11481.5 — The department shall evaluate the effectiveness of a 24-hour welfare fraud hotline pilot project, to assess greater public involvement and assistance in welfare fraud detection.
• § 11482 — Any person other than a needy child, who willfully and knowingly, with the intent to deceive, makes a false statement or representation or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact to obtain aid, or
• § 11482.5 — Any person who knowingly makes more than one application for aid with the intent of establishing multiple entitlements for any person for the same period, or who makes an application for aid by claimi
• § 11483 — Except as specified in Section 11483.
• § 11483.5 — Any person who obtains more than one aid payment for any person as a result of knowingly making more than one application for aid with the intent of establishing multiple entitlements for that person
• § 11484 — On request, all state, county, and local agencies shall cooperate with an investigator of an agency whose primary function is to detect, prevent, or prosecute public assistance fraud, by providing all
• § 11485 — If, to the knowledge of the court, aid has been applied for or granted to a child of parents who are engaged in a divorce or separate maintenance action which is pending, or if the court at any stage
• § 11486 — (a) The needs of any individual who is a member of a family applying for, or receiving, aid under this chapter shall not be taken into account in making the determination under Section 11450 with resp
• § 11486.3 — (a) The department, in consultation with system stakeholders, including county welfare departments, shall examine the CalWORKs sanction policy, its implementation, and effect on work participation, in
• § 11486.5 — (a) An individual shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter if the individual is either: (1) Fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody and confinement after conviction, under the laws of the pla
• § 11487 — (a) Whenever any aid under this chapter is repaid to the state by means of child support collections, the state shall be entitled to the amount received or recovered, except to the extent that county
• § 11487.1 — Except as provided in Sections 11457 and 11487, whenever any aid under this chapter is repaid to a county or recovered by a county, the state shall be entitled to a share of the amount received or rec
• § 11487.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including Sections 11487 and 15204.
• § 11495 — It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to maximize protections afforded to survivors of domestic violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and stalking through the provisions
• § 11495.1 — (a) The department shall align CalWORKs with, and not be more restrictive than, the federal family violence option pursuant to Section 402(a)(7) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.
• § 11495.12 — For purposes of this article, until regulations are adopted pursuant to Section 11495.
• § 11495.15 — (a) A county shall waive a program requirement for a recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of abuse when it has been determined that good cause exists pursuant to paragraph (2)
• § 11495.16 — (a) All CalWORKs applicants and recipients shall be informed verbally and in writing, and to the extent required by law, in the language understood by the applicant or recipient, of the availability o
• § 11495.17 — During the annual budget process, the department shall update the Legislature at hearings regarding the number of CalWORKs recipients, aggregated by county, who have been identified as potential victi
• § 11495.25 — Sworn statements by a victim of past or present abuse shall be sufficient to establish abuse unless the agency documents in writing an independent, reasonable basis to find the recipient not credible.
• § 11495.40 — The department shall adopt a model curriculum for domestic violence and sexual abuse prevention training, based on the statewide protocol, in consultation with the task force identified in Section 114
• § 11500 — The county may continue to provide case management and services to either a recipient of aid under this chapter not participating under Article 3.
• § 1152 — (a) Any person who without the use of force or violence willfully assists any parolee of the Department of the Youth Authority whose parole has been revoked, any escapee, any ward confined to a Depart
• § 11520 — The State Department of Social Services shall ensure that a comprehensive, independent statewide evaluation of the CalWORKs program is undertaken and that accurate evaluative information is made avail
• § 11520.3 — The department shall develop a research design to ensure a thorough evaluation of the direct and indirect effects of the CalWORKs program.
• § 11520.5 — The statewide evaluation shall be conducted by an independent evaluator or evaluators.
• § 11520.7 — The department shall ensure that county demonstration projects and other innovative county approaches to CalWORKs program implementation are independently and rigorously evaluated and that findings ar
• § 11521.3 — Evaluation of CalWORKs program implementation conducted or commissioned by the department shall, to the extent practical, use or build upon existing welfare data archives, including, but not limited t
• § 11521.5 — The department shall have access and authority to obtain for tracking, monitoring, research and evaluation purposes to data collected by counties on recipients receiving cash aid, in-kind payments, or
• § 11522 — The department, in conjunction with participating representatives of counties and the Legislature, shall develop approaches to improving data collection and management information reporting in the Cal
• § 11523 — (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the CalWORKs Outcomes and Accountability Review Act of 2017.
• § 11523.1 — The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to make the CalWORKs program the most effective family antipoverty program in the country.
• § 11523.4 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The Legislature has taken numerous steps in recent years to improve the CalWORKs program for the families who rely on it.
• § 11523.5 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall convene and facilitate a Cal-OAR implementation steering committee (steering committee) no later than November 1, 2021.
• § 11523.6 — (a) Subject to an appropriation of funds for this purpose in the annual Budget Act, the State Department of Social Services shall contract for the development of training for county CalWORKs staff.
• § 11523.7 — Payments, as determined by the State Department of Social Services, made to individuals serving either as individual participants or as a participant on an advisory group created by the State Departme
• § 11525 — (a) The department shall establish procedures to provide timely access to information on CalWORKs families to counties and researchers in a manner that maintains confidentiality of data while making i
• § 11526 — (a) The Legislature hereby requests the Regents of the University of California to establish and administer a program or programs to support welfare research and evaluation of the CalWORKs program.
• § 11526.5 — The department shall enter into an interagency agreement with the University of California for the purpose of implementing Section 11526.
• § 1154 — Whenever any person who has escaped from any institution or facility under the jurisdiction of the Youth Authority is returned by a sheriff or probation officer, the sheriff or probation officer shall
• § 1155 — The person in charge of any secure detention facility, including, but not limited to, a prison, a juvenile hall, a county jail, or any institution under the jurisdiction of the California Youth Author
• § 1176 — When, in the opinion of the Youth Authority Board, any person committed to or confined in any such school deserves parole according to regulations established for the purpose, and it will be to his or
• § 1177 — (a) Pursuant to Section 1178, if a person discharged from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities by the Board of Juvenile Hearings has proven that person’s a
• § 1178 — (a) A person previously committed to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities may petition the Board of Juvenile Hearings for an honorable discharge upon his o
• § 1179 — (a) Each person honorably discharged by the Board of Juvenile Hearings shall thereafter be released from all penalties or disabilities resulting from the offenses for which the person was committed, i
• § 1180 — The Department of the Youth Authority shall provide, within 10 days, upon request to the chief of police of a city or the sheriff of a county information available to the department, including actual,
• § 12 — The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
• § 12.2 — “Spouse” includes “registered domestic partner,” as required by Section 297.
• § 1200 — The Controller of the State shall, on requisition of any of the institutions under this chapter, duly audited by him, draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for any moneys duly appropriated to pay fo
• § 12000 — This chapter shall be known and may be cited as The Burton-Moscone-Bagley Citizens’ Income Security Act for Aged, Blind and Disabled Californians.
• § 12001 — It is the intent of this chapter to implement a state supplementation program pursuant to Title XVI of the Social Security Act and a program for state services to the aged, blind or disabled.
• § 12002 — It is the object and purpose of this chapter to provide persons whose need results from age, blindness or disability with assistance and services which will encourage them to make greater efforts to a
• § 12003 — For the purposes of this chapter, neither the residence nor domicile of the spouse shall be deemed the residence or domicile of the other, but each may have a separate residence or domicile dependent
• § 12004 — The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in favor of aged, blind and disabled recipients.
• § 1201 — For each person committed to any state school the county from which he was committed shall make payments to the state as provided in Section 911 of this code.
• § 12050 — For the purposes of this chapter: (a) The term “aged, blind or disabled individual” means an individual who is 65 years or older, or is blind, or is disabled.
• § 12051 — “Income” means both earned and unearned income as defined on October 30, 1972 in Part A of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, except as otherwise specifically provided.
• § 12052 — “Resources” means resources as defined on October 30, 1972 in Part A of Title XVI of the Social Security Act, except as otherwise specifically provided.
• § 12053 — An applicant’s share of his spouse’s community property income is defined as the income which is community property subject to the direction and control of the applicant, except for the earnings of hi
• § 12054 — “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
• § 12100 — The department shall enter into an agreement with the secretary providing for administration by the secretary of the provisions of this chapter.
• § 12100.5 — The department shall seek to enter into an agreement with the secretary for the purpose of administration by the secretary of the amount set forth in subdivision (h) of Section 12200.
• § 12101 — No applicant for or recipient of aid under this chapter shall be required to pay any part of the cost of a medical examination to determine blindness or disability as required by the department in con
• § 12102 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no agreement entered into for state administration of the state supplementary payment program on behalf of the secretary or as agent of the federal governm
• § 12103 — No authority is given under this chapter or Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500) or Chapter 6.
• § 12104 — Notwithstanding any other law, upon the order of the Director of Finance, the Director of Social Services shall defer all supplemental payments to the federal government required pursuant to subdivisi
• § 12105 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall submit a report to the Legislature that includes recommendations on the administration of the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disa
• § 12150 — Persons who are receiving federal supplemental security income benefits, or who but for their income, are eligible to receive such benefits under Title XVI of the Social Security Act, or who are made
• § 12152 — In determining eligibility of any individual for the state supplementary payment administered by the federal government, in addition to any other income or resources disregarded by the secretary, the
• § 12153 — To the extent permitted by federal law, any recipient who meets the eligibility criteria of more than one classification of recipient described under this chapter as aged, blind or disabled, shall be
• § 12156 — In determining, for purposes of this chapter, whether an individual is blind, there shall be an examination of such individual by a physician skilled in the diseases of the eye or by an optometrist, w
• § 12200 — An aged, blind or disabled applicant or recipient shall be paid an amount of aid which when added to his or her federal benefit received under Part A of Title XVI of the Social Security Act and other
• § 12200.01 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, commencing November 1, 1992, the payments schedules set forth in Section 12200 in effect on June 30, 1992, except subdivisions (e), (g), and (h) shall b
• § 12200.015 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on June 30, 1993, in accordance with Section 12200, as reduced by subdivision (a) of Section 12200.
• § 12200.017 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on June 30, 1994, in accordance with Section 12200, as reduced by subdivision (a) of Section 12200.
• § 12200.019 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on January 1, 2009, in accordance with Article 5 of Chapter 3 of Division 9, except payments made pursuant to subdivi
• § 12200.02 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and except as provided in subdivision (b), on the first day of the month following 90 days after enactment of the act that adds this section: (1) The maximum aid pay
• § 12200.03 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, and subject to subdivision (b), on the first day of the first month following 90 days after the effective date of the act that adds this section, the maximum aid pay
• § 12201 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), the payment schedules set forth in Section 12200 shall be adjusted annually to reflect any increases or decreases in the cost of living.
• § 12201.01 — (a) Commencing July 1, 2022, and each year thereafter, the payment schedules set forth in Section 12200 shall be adjusted annually to reflect any increases or decreases in the cost of living, and thes
• § 12201.03 — (a) For the 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 calendar years, or for the period of January 1, 2003, to May 31, 2003, inclusive, if no cost-of-living adjustment is made pursuant to Section 1
• § 12201.04 — On January 1, 1999, in addition to the changes in the payment schedules in Section 12200 required by Section 12201, the payment schedules in Section 12200 shall be increased by an additional 1 percent
• § 12201.05 — (a) Commencing with the 2004 calendar year, and thereafter, in any calendar year in which no cost-of-living adjustment is made pursuant to Section 12201, the payment schedules set forth in Sections 12
• § 12201.06 — (a) Commencing January 1, 2017, the amount of aid paid pursuant to this article, in effect on December 31, 2016, less the federal benefit portion received under Part A of Title XVI of the federal Soci
• § 12201.5 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 12200, the amount applicable under that section to a disabled minor residing in a nonmedical out-of-home facility with a nonrelative guardian shall be the amo
• § 12201.7 — (a) The department shall issue a one-time increase in the amount of six hundred dollars ($600) to a payment received under this chapter as of the eligibility date to be determined by the department.
• § 12202 — The policy shall be followed of granting aid to the recipient in his own home or in some other suitable home of his own choosing in preference to placing him in an institution.
• § 12203 — If, when, and during such times as the United States government authorizes after October 1972, an increase in the adjusted payment level, for whatever reason, above the adjusted payment level under th
• § 12204 — State supplementary payments under Section 1616 of the Social Security Act shall include payment to recipients as required by Section 212 of Public Law 93-66.
• § 12205 — Increases in federal benefits under Part A of Title XVI of the Social Security Act for reasons other than cost of living which are not accompanied by an increase in federal benefits under Title II of
• § 12250 — The intent of this article and Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300) of this chapter is to maintain a state system of a broad range of social services, including rehabilitation services, to assist
• § 12251 — As used in this article, and Article 7 (commencing with Section 12300), the term “social services” includes in-home supportive services, protective services, and children’s out-of-home care services a
• § 12252 — The department shall prepare and submit to the secretary a state plan for social services to the aged, blind and disabled that meets the requirements of the Social Security Act, the purposes of this a
• § 12253 — The department and the State Department of Rehabilitation shall jointly develop plans for the orderly processing of cases referred to the State Department of Rehabilitation for a determination of feas
• § 12254 — Funding of this article is subject to the provisions of Part 1.
• § 12300 — (a) The purpose of this article is to provide in every county, in a manner consistent with this chapter and the annual Budget Act, those supportive services identified in this section to aged, blind,
• § 12300.1 — As used in Section 12300 and in this article, “supportive services” include those necessary paramedical services that are ordered by a licensed health care professional who is lawfully authorized to d
• § 12300.2 — In any in-home supportive services action concerning the amount of in-home supportive services to be provided, the department shall send a notice of the action to each recipient.
• § 12300.3 — (a) For purposes of this section, “authorized representative” means an individual who is designated in writing, on a form developed by the department, by an applicant for or recipient of in-home suppo
• § 12300.4 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, including, but not limited to, Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 3500) of Division 4 of Title 1 of the Government Code, a recipient who is authorized to receive in
• § 12300.41 — (a) For three months following the effective date specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (l) of Section 12300.
• § 12300.5 — The department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall create, and provide to the Legislature, the framework for a permanent provider backup system.
• § 12300.6 — (a) Effective no sooner than October 1, 2022, and no later than 60 days after the date of the final all-county letter, a county or a public authority, as established pursuant to Section 12301.
• § 12301 — (a) The intent of the Legislature in enacting this article is to provide supplemental or additional services to the social and rehabilitative services in Article 6 (commencing with Section 12250) of t
• § 12301.1 — (a) The department shall adopt regulations establishing a uniform range of services available to all eligible recipients based upon individual needs.
• § 12301.15 — Effective January 1, 2010, the application for in-home supportive services shall contain a notice to the recipient that his or her provider or providers will be given written notice of the recipient’s
• § 12301.16 — Upon receipt of an application for in-home supportive services, the county shall provide the applicant with a confirmation number to serve as documentation that the applicant filed an application for
• § 12301.17 — Each county human services agency shall accept applications for benefits under this article by telephone, through facsimile, or in person, or, if the county is capable of accepting online applications
• § 12301.18 — (a) A county welfare department may use materials provided by an electrical corporation that is serving the county to inform each applicant or recipient of benefits under this article that the applica
• § 12301.2 — (a) (1) The department, in consultation and coordination with county welfare departments and in accordance with Section 12305.
• § 12301.21 — (a) The department shall, in consultation and coordination with the county welfare departments and in accordance with Section 12305.
• § 12301.22 — On or before December 31, 2011, the department, in consultation with county welfare departments and other stakeholders, shall develop a process to ensure that a provider of services under this article
• § 12301.24 — (a) All prospective providers shall complete an in-person provider orientation at the time of enrollment, as developed by the department, in consultation with counties, which shall include, but is not
• § 12301.25 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the standardized provider timesheet used to track the work performed by providers of services under this article shall contain both of the following: (1
• § 12301.3 — (a) Each county may appoint an in-home supportive services advisory committee that shall be comprised of not more than 11 individuals.
• § 12301.4 — Each advisory committee established pursuant to Section 12301.
• § 12301.5 — The department may secure to the extent feasible such in-home supportive and other health services for persons eligible under this article to which they are entitled under the Medi-Cal Act (Chapter 7
• § 12301.6 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 12302 and 12302.
• § 12301.61 — (a) On or after October 1, 2023, if a public authority or nonprofit consortium established pursuant to Section 12301.
• § 12301.7 — The annual administrative cost for any public authority or nonprofit consortium created pursuant to Section 12301.
• § 12301.8 — (a) (1) A public authority or nonprofit consortium established pursuant to Section 12301.
• § 12302 — Each county is obligated to ensure that services are provided to all eligible recipients during each month of the year in accordance with the county plan.
• § 12302.1 — (a) Contracts entered into by a county under Section 12302 shall be for terms not exceeding three years.