CHAPTER 1. General Provisions
Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 989.
§§ 5600–5623.6 · 31 sections
- § 5600 (a) This part shall be known and may be cited as the Bronzan-McCorquodale Act. This part is intended to organize and finance community mental health services…
- § 5600.1 The mission of California’s mental health system shall be to enable persons experiencing severe and disabling mental illnesses and children with serious…
- § 5600.2 To the extent resources are available, public mental health services in this state should be provided to priority target populations in systems of care that…
- § 5600.3 To the extent resources are available, the primary goal of the use of funds deposited in the mental health account of the local health and welfare trust fund…
- § 5600.35 (a) Services should be encouraged in every geographic area to the extent resources are available for clients in the target population categories described in…
- § 5600.4 Community mental health services should be organized to provide an array of treatment options in the following areas, to the extent resources are available:…
- § 5600.5 The minimum array of services for children and youth meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (a) of Section 5600.3 should include the…
- § 5600.6 The minimum array of services for adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 should include the following…
- § 5600.7 The minimum array of services for older adults meeting the target population criteria established in subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 should include the…
- § 5600.9 (a) Services to the target populations described in Section 5600.3 should be planned and delivered to the extent practicable so that persons in all ethnic…
- § 5601 As used in this part: (a) “Governing body” means the county board of supervisors or boards of supervisors in the case of counties acting jointly; and in the…
- § 5602 The board of supervisors of every county, or the boards of supervisors of counties acting under the joint powers provisions of Article 1 (commencing with…
- § 5604 (a) (1) (A) Each community mental health service shall have a behavioral health board consisting of 10 to 15 members, depending on the preference of the…
- § 5604.1 (a) Local behavioral health boards are subject to the provisions of Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the…
- § 5604.2 (a) The local behavioral health board shall do all of the following: (1) Review and evaluate the community’s public behavioral health needs, services,…
- § 5604.3 (a) (1) The board of supervisors may pay from available funds the actual and necessary expenses of the members of the behavioral health board of a community…
- § 5604.5 The local behavioral health board shall develop bylaws to be approved by the governing body that shall do all of the following: (a) Establish the specific…
- § 5607 The local mental health services shall be administered by a local director of mental health services to be appointed by the governing body. He or she shall…
- § 5608 The local director of mental health services shall have the following powers and duties: (a) Serve as chief executive officer of the community mental health…
- § 5610 (a) (1) Each county behavioral health system shall comply with reporting requirements developed by the State Department of Health Care Services, in…
- § 5611 (a) The Director of State Hospitals shall establish a Performance Outcome Committee, to be comprised of representatives from the Public Law 99-660 Planning…
- § 5612 (a) (1) The Performance Outcome Committee shall develop measures of performance for evaluating client outcomes and cost effectiveness of mental health services…
- § 5613 (a) Counties shall annually report data on performance measures established pursuant to Section 5612 to the local behavioral health board and to the Director…
- § 5614 (a) The department, in consultation with the Compliance Advisory Committee that shall have representatives from relevant stakeholders, including, but not…
- § 5614.5 (a) The department, in consultation with the Quality Improvement Committee which shall include representatives of the California Behavioral Health Planning…
- § 5615 If they so elect, cities that were operating independent public mental health programs on January 1, 1990, shall continue to receive direct payments.
- § 5616 Nothing in this part shall prevent any city or combination of cities from owning, financing, and operating a mental health program.
- § 5618 Mental health plans shall be responsible for providing information to potential clients, family members, and caregivers regarding specialty Medi-Cal mental…
- § 5622 (a) A licensed inpatient mental health facility, as described in subdivision (c) of Section 1262 of the Health and Safety Code, operated by a county or…
- § 5623.5 Commencing October 1, 1991, and to the extent resources are available, no county shall deny any person receiving services administered by the county mental…
- § 5623.6 (a) Individuals who have been found incompetent to stand trial and whose charges have been dismissed by the court pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b)…