California Code
DIVISION 5 - COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
PART 2 - THE BRONZAN-MCCORQUODALE ACT

CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

Section 5600. - 5600. (a) This part shall be known and may be...

Section 5600.1. - 5600.1. The mission of California’s mental health system shall be...

Section 5600.2. - 5600.2. To the extent resources are available, public mental health...

Section 5600.3. - 5600.3. To the extent resources are available, the primary goal...

Section 5600.35. - 5600.35. (a) Services should be encouraged in every geographic area...

Section 5600.4. - 5600.4. Community mental health services should be organized to provide...

Section 5600.5. - 5600.5. The minimum array of services for children and youth...

Section 5600.6. - 5600.6. The minimum array of services for adults meeting the...

Section 5600.7. - 5600.7. The minimum array of services for older adults meeting...

Section 5600.9. - 5600.9. (a) Services to the target populations described in Section...

Section 5601. - 5601. As used in this part: (a) “Governing body” means...

Section 5602. - 5602. The board of supervisors of every county, or the...

Section 5604. - 5604. (a) (1) Each community mental health service shall have...

Section 5604.1. - 5604.1. Local mental health advisory boards shall be subject to...

Section 5604.2. - 5604.2. (a) The local mental health board shall do all...

Section 5604.3. - 5604.3. (a) The board of supervisors may pay from any...

Section 5604.5. - 5604.5. The local mental health board shall develop bylaws to...

Section 5607. - 5607. The local mental health services shall be administered by...

Section 5608. - 5608. The local director of mental health services shall have...

Section 5610. - 5610. (a) Each county mental health system shall comply with...

Section 5611. - 5611. (a) The Director of State Hospitals shall establish a...

Section 5612. - 5612. (a) (1) The Performance Outcome Committee shall develop measures...

Section 5613. - 5613. (a) Counties shall annually report data on performance measures...

Section 5614. - 5614. (a) The department, in consultation with the Compliance Advisory...

Section 5614.5. - 5614.5. (a) The department, in consultation with the Quality Improvement...

Section 5615. - 5615. If they so elect, cities that were operating independent...

Section 5616. - 5616. Nothing in this part shall prevent any city or...

Section 5618. - 5618. Mental health plans shall be responsible for providing information...

Section 5622. - 5622. (a) A licensed inpatient mental health facility, as described...

Section 5623.5. - 5623.5. Commencing October 1, 1991, and to the extent resources...

CHAPTER 2 - The County Performance Contract

Section 5650. - 5650. (a) The State Department of Health Care Services and...

Section 5650.5. - 5650.5. Any other provision of law referring to the county...

Section 5651. - 5651. (a) Counties shall comply with the terms of the...

Section 5652.5. - 5652.5. (a) Each county shall utilize available private and private...

Section 5652.7. - 5652.7. A county shall have only 60 days from the...

Section 5653. - 5653. (a) Optimum use shall be made of appropriate local...

Section 5653.1. - 5653.1. In conducting evaluation, planning, and research activities, counties may...

Section 5654. - 5654. In order to serve the increasing needs of children...

Section 5655. - 5655. All departments of state government and all local public...

Section 5657. - 5657. (a) The private organization or private nonprofit organization awarded...

Section 5664. - 5664. In consultation with the County Behavioral Health Directors Association...

Section 5665. - 5665. After the development of performance outcome measures pursuant to...

Section 5667. - 5667. (a) A community mental health center shall be considered...

CHAPTER 2.5 - Program Initiatives

ARTICLE 1 - Community Residential Treatment System

Section 5670. - 5670. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to...

Section 5670.5. - 5670.5. Criteria for community residential treatment system programs are as...

Section 5671. - 5671. The following should be the programs in the community...

Section 5671.5. - 5671.5. It is the intent of the Legislature that programs...

Section 5672. - 5672. The types of programs serving children and adolescents referred...

Section 5675. - 5675. (a) Mental health rehabilitation centers shall only be licensed...

Section 5675.1. - 5675.1. (a) In accordance with subdivision (b), the State Department...

Section 5675.2. - 5675.2. (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury...

Section 5676. - 5676. (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in...

Section 5676.5. - 5676.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to...

ARTICLE 2 - Community Support System for Homeless Mentally Disabled Persons

Section 5680. - 5680. In order to assist homeless mentally disabled persons to...

Section 5681. - 5681. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that...

Section 5682. - 5682. The goal of the community support system is to...

Section 5683. - 5683. The function of the community support system is to...

Section 5683.5. - 5683.5. Community support systems may provide temporary funds to their...

Section 5685. - 5685. Counties may provide specific services, contract with a public...

Section 5685.5. - 5685.5. (a) A county may contract with the local office...

Section 5686. - 5686. Whenever a county believes that a mentally disabled person...

Section 5686.5. - 5686.5. In order to make the most efficient use of...

Section 5688.6. - 5688.6. Any and all funds appropriated for the homeless mentally...

ARTICLE 3 - Community Vocational Rehabilitation System

Section 5690. - 5690. It is the intent of the Legislature to, encourage...

Section 5691. - 5691. (a) Counties may implement the community vocational rehabilitation system...

Section 5692. - 5692. The State Department of Health Care Services shall, to...

Section 5692.5. - 5692.5. Programs that constitute the community vocational rehabilitation system are...

Section 5693. - 5693. The following principles should guide development of community vocational...

Section 5693.2. - 5693.2. Counties undertaking development of a community vocational rehabilitation system...

Section 5693.5. - 5693.5. The director shall provide technical assistance to those counties...

ARTICLE 4 - Self-Help

Section 5694. - 5694. Each community support program for the homeless mentally disabled...

Section 5694.5. - 5694.5. The counties may utilize designated mental health funding pursuant...

ARTICLE 5 - Policy Initiatives for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Children

Section 5694.7. - 5694.7. When the director of behavioral health in a county...

ARTICLE 6 - Regional Facilities for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Wards

Section 5695. - 5695. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (a) The...

Section 5695.2. - 5695.2. There may be established, on a regional basis, secure...

Section 5695.5. - 5695.5. A board of directors for a facility shall be...

Section 5695.7. - 5695.7. (a) The board of directors shall be composed of...

Section 5696. - 5696. Prior to the opening of a regional facility, the...

Section 5696.2. - 5696.2. No ward shall be admitted to any regional facility...

Section 5696.5. - 5696.5. Prior to the opening of a facility, the board...

Section 5696.7. - 5696.7. Wards shall be referred for admission to the director...

Section 5697. - 5697. The regional board of directors shall contract with the...

Section 5697.2. - 5697.2. The board of directors of a regional facility shall...

Section 5697.5. - 5697.5. The Director of the Youth Authority, in conjunction with...

ARTICLE 7 - System of Care for Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Children and Youth

Section 5698. - 5698. It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage...

CHAPTER 2.7 - Case Management for Children With Serious Emotional Disturbance

Section 5699. - 5699. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the...

Section 5699.1. - 5699.1. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this...

Section 5699.2. - 5699.2. Children identified for case management services under this section...

Section 5699.3. - 5699.3. “Individual treatment plan” means a plan that includes all...

Section 5699.4. - 5699.4. On and after January 1, 1987, any county may...

Section 5699.5. - 5699.5. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize...

CHAPTER 3 - Financial Provisions

Section 5700. - 5700. (a) The Legislature recognizes that mental health services provided...

Section 5701. - 5701. (a) To achieve equity of funding, available funding for...

Section 5701.1. - 5701.1. Notwithstanding Section 5701, the State Department of Health Care...

Section 5701.2. - 5701.2. (a) The State Department of Mental Health, or its...

Section 5701.4. - 5701.4. Costs that were reimbursed, prior to July 1, 1991,...

Section 5701.5. - 5701.5. City-operated Bronzan-McCorquodale programs paid by the state under Section...

Section 5702. - 5702. For the purposes of this part, the definition of...

Section 5703. - 5703. Nothing in this chapter shall prevent a county, or...

Section 5704. - 5704. Funds described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision...

Section 5704.5. - 5704.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that...

Section 5704.6. - 5704.6. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), each county...

Section 5705. - 5705. (a) Negotiated net amounts may be used as the...

Section 5706. - 5706. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the portions of...

Section 5707. - 5707. Funds appropriated to the State Department of Health Care...

Section 5709. - 5709. (a) A county shall not charge fees for Medi-Cal...

Section 5710. - 5710. (a) Charges for the care and treatment of each...

Section 5713. - 5713. Advances for funding mental health services may be made...

Section 5714. - 5714. To continue county expenditures for legal proceedings involving persons...

Section 5715. - 5715. Subject to the approval of the State Department of...

Section 5717. - 5717. (a) Expenditures that may be funded from amounts allocated...

CHAPTER 3.5 - Mental Health Master Plan Development Act

Section 5730. - 5730. This act is to be known as the Mental...

Section 5731. - 5731. The Legislature finds and declares that the mental health...

Section 5732. - 5732. (a) Given the requirements of Public Law 99-660 and...

Section 5733. - 5733. The Mental Health Master Plan shall include, but not...

CHAPTER 4 - Operation and Administration

Section 5750. - 5750. The State Department of Health Care Services shall administer...

Section 5751. - 5751. (a) Regulations pertaining to the qualifications of directors of...

Section 5751.1. - 5751.1. Regulations pertaining to the position of director of local...

Section 5751.2. - 5751.2. (a) Except as provided in this section, persons employed...

Section 5751.7. - 5751.7. (a) For the purposes of this part and the...

Section 5755.1. - 5755.1. The state mental health plan shall be submitted to...

Section 5767. - 5767. The department, in consultation with a statewide organization representing...

Section 5768. - 5768. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as...

Section 5768.5. - 5768.5. (a) When a mental health patient is being discharged...

Section 5769. - 5769. Whenever the director determines that a county’s personnel regulations...

Section 5770. - 5770. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the State Department...

Section 5770.5. - 5770.5. The State Department of Health Care Services shall encourage...

Section 5771. - 5771. (a) Pursuant to Public Law 102-321, there is the...

Section 5771.1. - 5771.1. The members of the Mental Health Services Oversight and...

Section 5771.3. - 5771.3. The California Behavioral Health Planning Council may utilize staff...

Section 5771.5. - 5771.5. (a) (1) The Chairperson of the California Behavioral Health...

Section 5772. - 5772. The California Behavioral Health Planning Council shall have the...