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2011 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000 - 18996]

DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES

10000-18996

PART 1. DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

10000-10093

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

CHAPTER 1.5. Health Care Insurance

CHAPTER 2. Definitions

CHAPTER 3. Electronic Benefits Transfer Act

10065-10077

ARTICLE 1. General

ARTICLE 2. Electronic Benefits Transfer Committee

ARTICLE 3. Systems Design

ARTICLE 4. Administration

CHAPTER 4. California Child Support Automation System

PART 1.5. FISCAL PROVISIONS

PART 1.75. STATEWIDE ELIGIBILITY AND ENROLLMENT PROCESSING

PART 2. ADMINISTRATION

10500-10985

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

CHAPTER 1.3. County Plans for CalWORKs

CHAPTER 1.5. Performance Outcome Incentives Monitoring

10540-10544.317

CHAPTER 1.7. Emergency Contingency Fund for State Temporary Assistance for Needy Family Programs

CHAPTER 2. State Department of Social Services

10550-10619

ARTICLE 1. Organization

ARTICLE 2. Powers and Duties

CHAPTER 2.1. Public Social Services for Deaf Persons

CHAPTER 2.5. Rehabilitation and Employment Coordination

CHAPTER 3.5. State Administration of Health Care Services and Medical Assistance

10720-10751

ARTICLE 1. Organization

ARTICLE 2. Powers and Duties

CHAPTER 3.9. Consolidated Public Assistance Eligibility Determination Demonstration Program

CHAPTER 4. County Departments

CHAPTER 4.1. Statewide Automated Welfare System

CHAPTER 4.2. Kern County Vendor Payment Demonstration Project

CHAPTER 4.5. Aid Payments

CHAPTER 4.6. Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System

CHAPTER 4.8. Administrative Reform Act

CHAPTER 5. Records

CHAPTER 6. Personnel

CHAPTER 7. Hearings

CHAPTER 9. Penalties

CHAPTER 10. Reporting on Incarcerated Individuals

PART 3. AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

11000-15766

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

11000-11175

ARTICLE 1. Policies and Purposes

ARTICLE 1.3. Program Data

ARTICLE 1.5. Access to Franchise Tax Board Information

ARTICLE 2. Applications

ARTICLE 3. Residence

ARTICLE 4. Property Qualifications

ARTICLE 5. Recipients’ Property Tax

CHAPTER 2. California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act

11200-11526.5

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 1.5. Definitions

ARTICLE 2. Eligibility for Aid

ARTICLE 2.2. Restricted Payments

ARTICLE 2.5. Needy Families’ Paperwork Reduction Act of 1990

[ARTICLE 3.2. Greater Avenues for Independence Act of 1985]

ARTICLE 3.2. Welfare-to-Work Activities

ARTICLE 3.5. Cal-Learn Program

ARTICLE 3.6. New Chance Program

ARTICLE 3.9. Employment with Public Contractors

ARTICLE 4. Relatives’ Responsibility

ARTICLE 4.5. Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program

ARTICLE 4.7. Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payments for Children

ARTICLE 5. Aid to Families With Dependent Children—Foster Care

ARTICLE 6. Computation and Payment of Aid Grants

ARTICLE 7. Enforcement

11475.2-11487.5

ARTICLE 7.5. Family Violence Option: Domestic Violence and Welfare

ARTICLE 8. Employment Retention Services

ARTICLE 9. Evaluation of CalWORKs Program Implementation

ARTICLE 9.5. Interagency Data Development and Use

ARTICLE 9.7. Role of the University

CHAPTER 3. State Supplementary Program for Aged, Blind and Disabled

12000-12351

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Administration

ARTICLE 4. Eligibility

ARTICLE 5. Payment of Aid

ARTICLE 6. Services

ARTICLE 7. In-Home Supportive Services

ARTICLE 8. Relatives’ Responsibility

CHAPTER 3.5. Benefits For California Veterans

CHAPTER 4. Emergency Payments and Special Circumstances for Aged, Blind and Disabled

12500-12601

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 3. Special Circumstances

ARTICLE 4. Fiscal Provisions

CHAPTER 5. Loans to Blind Persons

CHAPTER 5.1. Social Services

CHAPTER 5.5. County Administration of Refugee Social Services and Targeted Assistance Funds

CHAPTER 5.8. Disaster Relief Grants

CHAPTER 6. Homeless Youth Emergency Service Pilot Projects

CHAPTER 6.2. Foster Care Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Assistance Program

CHAPTER 6.5. Nonmedical Care Facilities

13900-13922

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Out-of-Home Care

ARTICLE 3. Fiscal Provisions

CHAPTER 7. Basic Health Care

14000-14198.2

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 1.1. Medi-Cal Conflict of Interest Law

ARTICLE 1.3. Provider Enrollment, Application, and Participation

ARTICLE 1.5. Electronic Medical Records

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 2.5. Physicians Costs

ARTICLE 2.6. Selective Provider Contracts

ARTICLE 2.7. Contracts for Medi-Cal Services and Case Management

14087.3-14087.48

ARTICLE 2.8. County Health Systems

14087.5-14087.95

ARTICLE 2.81. Managed Health Care System for Los Angeles County

14087.96-14087.9725

ARTICLE 2.9. Primary Care Provider Case Management

ARTICLE 2.91. Geographic Managed Care Pilot Project

ARTICLE 2.92. Health Benefits Study

ARTICLE 2.93. Payments to Hospitals

ARTICLE 2.95. Primary Care Provider Enrollment

ARTICLE 2.97. Managed Care Plan Contracts

ARTICLE 2.98. California Children’s Services Program and Medi-Cal Managed Care Contracts

ARTICLE 2.99. Provider Contract Considerations

ARTICLE 3. Administration

ARTICLE 3.5. Third Party Liability

14124.70-14124.94

ARTICLE 3.7. Incontinence Medical Supplies

ARTICLE 3.8. Medi-Cal Long-Term Care Reimbursement Act

14126-14126.036

ARTICLE 4. The Medi-Cal Benefits Program

ARTICLE 4.2. Reinvestment of Savings

ARTICLE 4.3. Long-Term Care Integration Pilot Program

14139.05-14139.62

ARTICLE 4.4. Dialysis, Parenteral Hyperalimentation, and Related Services

ARTICLE 4.5. Development and Implementation of Long-Term Care Integration Pilot Projects

ARTICLE 4.7. Perinatal Services Program

ARTICLE 4.8. Perinatal Outreach, Coordination, and Expansion Services

14148.9-14148.98

ARTICLE 4.9. Medi-Cal Managed Care Benefits for Nondisabled Persons with HIV

ARTICLE 5. Fiscal Provisions

ARTICLE 5.1. California Medical Assistance Commission

ARTICLE 5.15. Medi-Cal Funding for South Los Angeles

ARTICLE 5.17. Nondesignated Public Hospital Medi-Cal Rate Stabilization Act

14165.55-14165.57

ARTICLE 5.2. Medi-Cal Hospital Care/Uninsured Hospital Care Demonstration Project Act

ARTICLE 5.21. Medi-Cal Hospital Provider Rate Stabilization Act

14167.1-14167.18

ARTICLE 5.22. Quality Assurance Fee Act

14167.31-14167.40

ARTICLE 5.226. Medi-Cal Hospital Rate Stabilization Act of 2011

14168.1-14168.175

ARTICLE 5.227. Hospital Quality Assurance Fee Act of 2011

14168.31-14168.41

ARTICLE 5.228. Medi-Cal Hospital Provider Rate Improvement Act of 2011

14169.1-14169.19

ARTICLE 5.229. Private Hospital Quality Assurance Fee Act of 2011

14169.31-14169.42

ARTICLE 5.3. Audit, Appeal, and Recovery of Overpayments

ARTICLE 5.4. Health Care Coordination, Improvement, and Long-Term Cost Containment Waiver or Demonstration Project

ARTICLE 5.6. Drug Utilization Under Medi-Cal Managed Care Programs

ARTICLE 6. Sterilizations

ARTICLE 6.1. Medi-Cal Therapeutic Drug Utilization Review

ARTICLE 6.5. Regional Burn and Trauma Center Program

14198.1-14198.2

CHAPTER 8. Prepaid Plans

14200-14499.77

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Administration

ARTICLE 4. Enrollment and Disenrollment

ARTICLE 5. Standards for Prepaid Health Plans

ARTICLE 5.3. Provision of Medical Care by Nonplan Providers to Enrollees of Prepaid Health Plans

ARTICLE 5.5. Quality Improvement Fee for Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans

ARTICLE 6. Conflict of Interest

ARTICLE 7. Pilot Programs

ARTICLE 8. Medi-Cal At-Risk Fiscal Intermediaries

14499.7-14499.77

CHAPTER 8.5. Family Planning

CHAPTER 8.7. Adult Day Health Care Programs

14520-14590

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Eligibility, Participation, and Discharge

ARTICLE 3. Services and Standards

ARTICLE 4. Administration

ARTICLE 4.5. Rural Alternative Adult Day Health Care Centers

ARTICLE 5. Conflict of Interest

ARTICLE 6. Cessation of Adult Day Health Care and Assistance with Transition from Adult Day Health Care Services to Other Services

CHAPTER 8.75. Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly

CHAPTER 8.8. Medi-Cal Management: Alternative Methods

14600-14685

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Negotiated Hospital Rates

ARTICLE 4. Acute Psychiatric Health Facility Allocations

ARTICLE 5. Mental Health Managed Care

CHAPTER 8.9. Transition of Community-Based Medi-Cal Mental Health

CHAPTER 9. Financial Provisions

15000-15207

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Social Welfare Federal Fund

ARTICLE 3. Welfare Advance Fund

ARTICLE 3.5. Central Benefit Issuance Fund

ARTICLE 4. Payment of State and Federal Funds to Counties for Public Assistance Programs

ARTICLE 5. Appropriations for Public Assistance

CHAPTER 9.5. Supportive Care Organizations

15300-15451

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Scope of Services

ARTICLE 4. Eligibility and Enrollment

ARTICLE 5. Administration

ARTICLE 6. Implementation and Evaluation

CHAPTER 10. Supplemental Food Program

15500-15520

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Administration

ARTICLE 3. Fiscal Provisions

CHAPTER 10.1. Work Incentive Nutritional Supplement

CHAPTER 11. Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act

15600-15675

ARTICLE 1. Legislative Findings and Intent

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Mandatory and Nonmandatory Reports of Abuse

ARTICLE 4. Confidentiality

ARTICLE 5. Local Agency Cross-Reporting

ARTICLE 6. Investigation of Reports

ARTICLE 7. Interagency Coordination

ARTICLE 8. Prosecution of Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Cases

ARTICLE 8.5. Civil Actions for Abuse of Elderly or Dependent Adults

ARTICLE 9. Reporting Forms

ARTICLE 10. Employee Statement

ARTICLE 11. Criminal Record Reporting

ARTICLE 9. Paid Care Provider Requirements

CHAPTER 12. Protective Placements and Custody of Endangered Adults

15700-15705.40

ARTICLE 1. General

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Protective Services

CHAPTER 13. Adult Protective Services

PART 3.5. HEALTH CARE COVERAGE INITIATIVE

PART 3.6. Low Income Health Program

PART 3.8. HEALTH CARE REFORM ELIGIBILITY, ENROLLMENT, AND RETENTION PLANNING ACT

PART 4. SERVICES FOR THE CARE OF CHILDREN

16000-16583

CHAPTER 1. Foster Care Placement

CHAPTER 2. County Adoption Agencies

CHAPTER 2.1. Aid for Adoption of Children

CHAPTER 2.2. State Adoption Services

CHAPTER 2.3. Adoption of Alcohol and Drug Exposed Children

CHAPTER 2.3. Adoption of Alcohol- and Drug-Exposed and HIV Positive Children

CHAPTER 2.5. Foster Child Ombudsman Program

CHAPTER 2.6. Interstate Adoption Assistance Agreements

CHAPTER 3. Child Welfare Training

16200-16215

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Child Welfare Training Program

ARTICLE 3. Child Welfare Training Advisory Board

ARTICLE 4. Funding

CHAPTER 5. State Child Welfare Services

ARTICLE 4. Transitional Housing Placement Program

CHAPTER 5.1. Child Welfare Services Program Improvement Fund

CHAPTER 5.3. Services for Children Who Are Exposed to Alcohol or Drugs or Who Are HIV Positive

16525-16525.30

ARTICLE 1. General

ARTICLE 2. Options for Recovery Program

16525.10-16525.30

CHAPTER 5.5. Child Welfare Leadership and Performance Accountability

CHAPTER 6. Statewide Registry for Child Support

PART 4.4. FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES

PART 4.6. LOCAL HEALTH CARE BUDGETING

PART 4.7. HEALTH CARE FOR INDIGENTS

16900-16996.2

CHAPTER 1. General

CHAPTER 1.5. Administration of Funds

CHAPTER 2. County Health Services Reporting

CHAPTER 2.5. County Reporting Requirements

CHAPTER 3. Uncompensated Care Assistance

CHAPTER 4. Rural Health Services

CHAPTER 5. California Healthcare for Indigents Program

16940-16995.1

ARTICLE 1. General

ARTICLE 2. Hospital Services

ARTICLE 3. Physician Services

ARTICLE 3.5. Physician Services Account

ARTICLE 4. Other County Health Services

ARTICLE 5. Child Health and Disability Prevention

ARTICLE 6. County Application

ARTICLE 7. Financial Maintenance of Effort

ARTICLE 8. Newly Legalized Person Health Services Appropriation and Funding Guarantee

ARTICLE 9. Capital Outlay

ARTICLE 10. Eligibility and Benefit Requirements

CHAPTER 6. Children’s Hospitals

CHAPTER 7. Operation of Part

PART 5. COUNTY AID AND RELIEF TO INDIGENTS

17000-17609.10

CHAPTER 1. General Provisions

CHAPTER 2. Eligibility

CHAPTER 3. Work Relief Projects

CHAPTER 4. Relatives’ Responsibility

CHAPTER 5. Termination and Recovery of Assistance

CHAPTER 6. Unemployed or Displaced Workers

CHAPTER 6. State and Local Fund Allocations

17600-17609.10

ARTICLE 1. Funding Allocations

ARTICLE 2. Mental Health Allocations

ARTICLE 3. Social Services Allocations

ARTICLE 4. Health Allocations

ARTICLE 5. Vehicle License Fee Allocations

ARTICLE 6. Growth Account Allocations—Deposits

ARTICLE 7. Allocation of Funds from the Sales Tax Growth Account

17606.05-17606.20

ARTICLE 9. County Matching Fund Requirements

17608.05-17608.15

ARTICLE 10. Expenditure Limitations and Reports

PART 5.5. CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL HEALTH CARE NEEDS

17700-17738

CHAPTER 1. Findings and Declarations

CHAPTER 2. Definitions

CHAPTER 3. Resources for Children with Special Health Care Needs

CHAPTER 4. Foster Care

PART 5.7. HEALTH CARE FOR LOW-INCOME PERSONS NOT COVERED BY THE MEDICARE PROGRAM OR THE MEDI-CAL PROGRAM

PART 5.8. PUBLIC BENEFITS

PART 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

18000-18996

CHAPTER 1. Welfare Emergency Financing

CHAPTER 2. County Boards of Public Welfare

CHAPTER 3. Demonstration Projects in Public Assistance

18200-18207

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

CHAPTER 3.2. Juvenile Probation Funding

CHAPTER 3.3. CalWORKs Demonstration Projects

18230-18247

ARTICLE 1. County Welfare-to-Work Demonstration Projects

ARTICLE 2. School Attendance Demonstration Projects

ARTICLE 3. Microenterprise Demonstration Projects

ARTICLE 5. Child Support Assurance Demonstration Project

CHAPTER 4. County Wraparound Services Program

CHAPTER 4.3. Sexually Exploited Minors Pilot Project

CHAPTER 4.4. Sexually Exploited Minors Pilot Project in Los Angeles County

18259.7-18259.10

CHAPTER 4.5. Child Welfare Waiver Demonstration Project

CHAPTER 4.5. Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Training Centers

CHAPTER 4.6. Child Health and Safety Fund

CHAPTER 5. The Domestic Violence Shelter-Based Programs Act

CHAPTER 5.5. Green Light-Green Thumb Programs

CHAPTER 5.7. Nutrition Program for the Elderly

CHAPTER 6.2. Intensive Foster Care Programs

CHAPTER 6.5. Preventive Health Care for the Aging

CHAPTER 7. Uniform Transfer of Dependents Act

CHAPTER 8. Relief Law of 1945

18450-18524

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Administration

ARTICLE 3. Procedure

ARTICLE 4. Eligibility

ARTICLE 5. Responsibility for Repayment

ARTICLE 6. Payment of Relief Costs

CHAPTER 9. State Programs for the Blind Other Than Public Assistance

18650

ARTICLE 1. Services

ARTICLE 2. Oakland Orientation Center for the Blind

CHAPTER 10. CalFresh

CHAPTER 10.1. Food Assistance Program for Legal Immigrants

CHAPTER 10.3. Cash Assistance Program for Aged, Blind, and Disabled Legal Immigrants

CHAPTER 10.4. Services and Benefits for Noncitizen Victims of Trafficking, Domestic Violence, and Other Serious Crimes

CHAPTER 11. The Office of Child Abuse Prevention

18950-18973

ARTICLE 1. General

ARTICLE 2. Definitions

ARTICLE 3. Office of Child Abuse Prevention

ARTICLE 4. Child Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment Projects

ARTICLE 5. Children’s Trust Fund

ARTICLE 6. Citizen Review Panels

CHAPTER 12. The Maxine Waters Child Abuse Prevention Training Act of 1984

18975-18979

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions and Definitions

ARTICLE 2. Primary Prevention Programs

ARTICLE 3. Prevention Training Centers

ARTICLE 4. The Office of Child Abuse Prevention

ARTICLE 5. Fiscal Provisions

CHAPTER 12.5. Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council Act

18980-18983.8

ARTICLE 1. General Provisions

ARTICLE 2. Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Councils

ARTICLE 3. Selection and Administration

CHAPTER 12.8. Interagency Children’s Services Act

18986-18986.30

ARTICLE 1. General Provision and Definitions

ARTICLE 2. County Interagency Collaboration

18986.10-18986.15

ARTICLE 3. Waivers

18986.20-18986.24

ARTICLE 4. Evaluation

CHAPTER 12.9. Integrated Children’s Services Programs

18986.40-18986.46

CHAPTER 12.95. Interagency Day Care Program

18986.50-18986.53

CHAPTER 12.85. Youth Pilot Program

CHAPTER 12.86. Childrens Services Program Development

18987.6-18987.62

CHAPTER 12.87. Reform of Residentially Based Services for Children and Youth

18987.7-18987.72

CHAPTER 12.9. Regulatory Flexibility for Adult Social Services

CHAPTER 12.95. San Mateo County Consolidated Human Services Agency

CHAPTER 12.96. Placer County Integrated Health and Human Services Pilot Program

18986.60-18986.62

CHAPTER 12.991. County Integrated Health and Human Services Program

18986.86-18986.87

CHAPTER 14. Community Challenge Grant Program

CHAPTER 14.1. California Families and Children Home Visit Program

CHAPTER 14.5. The State Emergency Food Assistance Program

CHAPTER 15. Emergency Food Assistance Program Advisory Board

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