2011 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
DIVISION 4. MENTAL HEALTH [4000 - 4390]
ARTICLE 1. Planning, Research, Evaluation, and Quality Assurance
Section 4033

(a) The State Department of Mental Health shall, to the extent resources are available, comply with federal planning requirements. The department shall update and issue a state plan, which may also be any federally required state service plan, so that citizens may be informed regarding the implementation of, and long-range goals for, programs to serve mentally ill persons in the state. The department shall gather information from counties necessary to comply with this section.

(b) (1) If the State Department of Mental Health makes a decision not to comply with any federal planning requirement to which this section applies, the State Department of Mental Health shall submit the decision, for consultation, to the California Conference of Local Mental Health Directors, the California Council on Mental Health, and affected mental health entities.

(2) The State Department of Mental Health shall not implement any decision not to comply with federal planning requirements sooner than 30 days after notification of that decision, in writing, by the Department of Finance, to the chairperson of the committee in each house of the Legislature which considers appropriations, and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.

(Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 611, Sec. 17. Effective October 7, 1991.)