ARTICLE 2. Regional Center Responsibilities

Article 2 added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.

§§ 4640–4659.2 · 45 sections

§ 4640 (a) Contracts between the department and regional centers shall specify the service area and the categories of persons that regional centers shall be expected…
§ 4640.6 (a) In approving regional center contracts, the department shall ensure that regional center staffing patterns demonstrate that direct service coordination are…
§ 4640.7 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that regional centers assist persons with developmental disabilities and their families in securing those services and…
§ 4640.8 When convening any task force or advisory group, a regional center shall make its best effort to ensure representation by consumers and family members…
§ 4640.9 Beginning July 1, 2020, each regional center shall provide to the department a copy of any corrective action plans and sanctions issued to a service provider,…
§ 4641 All regional centers shall conduct casefinding activities, including notification of availability of service in English and such other languages as may be…
§ 4641.1 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The provision of services that are culturally and linguistically responsive to consumers is…
§ 4641.5 (a) Effective July 1, 2011, regional centers shall begin transitioning all vendors of all regional center services to electronic billing for services purchased…
§ 4642 (a) (1) Any person believed to have a developmental disability, and any person believed to have a high risk of parenting a developmentally disabled infant…
§ 4643 (a) If assessment is needed, the assessment shall be performed within 120 days following initial intake. Assessment shall be performed as soon as possible and…
§ 4643.3 (a) (1) On or before April 1, 2002, the department shall develop evaluation and diagnostic procedures for the diagnosis of autism disorder and other autistic…
§ 4643.5 (a) If a consumer is, or has been determined to be, eligible or provisionally eligible for services by a regional center, the consumer shall also be considered…
§ 4644 (a) In addition to any person eligible for initial intake or assessment services, regional centers may cause to be provided preventive services to any…
§ 4646 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the individual program plan and provision of services and supports by the regional center system is centered on…
§ 4646.4 (a) Regional centers shall ensure, at the time of development, scheduled review, or modification of a consumer’s individual program plan developed pursuant to…
§ 4646.5 (a) The planning process for the individual program plan described in Section 4646 shall include all of the following: (1) Gathering information and conducting…
§ 4646.55 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation to the contrary, and to the extent federal financial participation is available, effective July 1,…
§ 4646.6 Notwithstanding Section 632 of the Penal Code, a consumer, or his or her parent, guardian, conservator, or authorized representative, shall have the right to…
§ 4647 (a) Pursuant to Section 4640.7, service coordination shall include those activities necessary to implement an individual program plan, including, but not…
§ 4648 In order to achieve the stated objectives of a consumer’s individual program plan, the regional center shall conduct activities, including, but not limited to,…
§ 4648.1 (a) The State Department of Developmental Services and regional centers may monitor services and supports purchased for regional center consumers with or…
§ 4648.11 (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a request for proposals that is prepared by a regional center for consumer services and supports shall include a…
§ 4648.12 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that under federal and state law, certain individuals and entities are ineligible to provide Medicaid services. (b) An…
§ 4648.13 (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Probability sample or sampling” means a standard statistical methodology by which a…
§ 4648.14 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Public Health shall notify the State Department…
§ 4648.2 By September 1, 1986, the State Department of Developmental Services shall promulgate regulations which establish a process for service providers to appeal…
§ 4648.3 A provider of transportation services to regional center clients for the regional center shall maintain protection against liability for damages for bodily…
§ 4648.35 At the time of development, review, or modification of a consumer’s individual program plan (IPP) or individualized family service plan (IFSP), all of the…
§ 4648.4 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, commencing July 1, 2006, rates for services listed in paragraphs (1), (2), with the exception of…
§ 4648.55 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (d), a regional center shall not purchase day program, vocational education, work services, independent living program,…
§ 4648.6 The department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall develop an alternative service delivery model that provides an Individual Choice Budget for obtaining…
§ 4649 Regional centers shall cooperate with the state council in joint efforts to inform the public of services available to persons with developmental disabilities…
§ 4650 Regional centers shall be responsible for developing an annual plan and program budget to be submitted to the director no later than September 1 of each fiscal…
§ 4651 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that regional centers shall find innovative and economical methods of achieving the objectives contained in individual…
§ 4652 A regional center shall investigate every appropriate and economically feasible alternative for care of a developmentally disabled person available within the…
§ 4652.5 (a) (1) An entity that receives payments from one or more regional centers shall contract with an independent accounting firm to obtain an independent audit or…
§ 4653 Except for those developmentally disabled persons judicially committed to state hospitals, no developmentally disabled person shall be admitted to a state…
§ 4654 Before any person is examined by a regional center pursuant to Section 1370.1 of the Penal Code, the court ordering such medical examination shall transmit to…
§ 4655 The director of a regional center or his designee may give consent to medical, dental, and surgical treatment of a regional center client and provide for such…
§ 4656 (a) A qualified physician and surgeon who diagnoses a developmental disability, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 4512, of a patient who is a minor…
§ 4657 The State Department of Developmental Services shall, through the regional center contract, require that the following information is collected by each…
§ 4658 The State Department of Developmental Services shall insure that all potentially eligible clients are referred to the Social Security Administration for…
§ 4659 (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or (e), the regional center shall identify and pursue all possible sources of funding for consumers…
§ 4659.1 (a) If a service or support provided pursuant to a consumer’s individual program plan under this division is paid for, in whole or in part, by the health care…
§ 4659.2 (a) For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Physical restraint” means any behavioral or mechanical restraint, as defined in…