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| 1 | + | Amended IN Assembly April 03, 2018 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2933Introduced by Assembly Member MedinaFebruary 16, 2018 An act to amend Section 5325 of add Section 10004 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. public social services.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2933, as amended, Medina. Mental health services: involuntary detention. Public social services: county liaison for higher education. Existing law provides for the protection, care, and assistance for the people of the state, and the promotion of the welfare and happiness of all people in the state by providing appropriate aid and services to the needy and distressed. Under existing law, counties are responsible for administering the various public social services programs and related services, including, but not limited to, CalFresh and general assistance benefits.Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state.This bill would require a county welfare agency, or other county agency with similar programmatic responsibilities, to consider establishing a county liaison for higher education as a single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The bill would require the county liaisons duties to be funded using existing resources. The bill would require a disclosure of personal information under the bill to be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. By requiring counties to perform new duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.Existing law provides that each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment, as specified, or admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as specified, and each person who is committed to a state hospital, has certain rights, including the right to see visitors and the right to keep and use personal possessions.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions and correct an obsolete cross-reference.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NOYES Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 10004 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:10004. (a) A county welfare agency, or other county agency responsible for social services, health services, or behavioral health services programs, in the course of its regular planning and review processes, shall consider establishing a county liaison for higher education, as provided in this section. The county liaison for higher education shall be the single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The county liaison duties shall be funded using existing county resources.(b) Programs and services for which a county liaison for higher education may provide assistance under this section include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) CalFresh.(2) General assistance.(3) Energy assistance.(4) Suicide prevention services.(5) Sexual assault counseling.(c) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning to best determine how the county liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population.(d) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws.SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.SECTION 1.Section 5325 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:5325.Each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, and each person who is admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, in which psychiatric evaluation or treatment is offered, shall have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing those services, and otherwise brought to his or her attention by any additional means as the Director of Health Care Services designates by regulation. Each person committed to a state hospital shall also have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing those services and otherwise brought to his or her attention by any additional means as the Director of State Hospitals designates by regulation:(a)To wear his or her own clothes, to keep and use his or her own personal possessions, including his or her toilet articles, and to keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his or her own money for canteen expenses and small purchases.(b)To have access to individual storage space for his or her private use.(c)To see visitors each day.(d)To have reasonable access to telephones, both to make and receive confidential calls or to have those calls made for them.(e)To have ready access to letterwriting materials, including stamps, and to mail and receive unopened correspondence.(f)To refuse convulsive treatment, including, but not limited to, electroconvulsive treatment, treatment of the mental condition that depends on the induction of a convulsion by any means, and insulin coma treatment.(g)To refuse psychosurgery. Psychosurgery is defined as those operations currently referred to as lobotomy, psychiatric surgery, and behavioral surgery, and all other forms of brain surgery if the surgery is performed for the purpose of any of the following:(1)Modification or control of thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior rather than the treatment of a known and diagnosed physical disease of the brain.(2)Modification of normal brain function or normal brain tissue in order to control thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior.(3)Treatment of abnormal brain function or abnormal brain tissue in order to modify thoughts, feelings, actions or behavior when the abnormality is not an established cause for those thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior.Psychosurgery does not include prefrontal sonic treatment wherein there is no destruction of brain tissue. The Director of Health Care Services and the Director of State Hospitals shall promulgate appropriate regulations to ensure adequate protection of patients rights in such treatment.(h)To see and receive the services of a patient advocate who has no direct or indirect clinical or administrative responsibility for the person receiving mental health services.(i)Other rights, as specified by regulation.Each patient shall also be given notification in a language or modality accessible to the patient of other constitutional and statutory rights that are found by the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of State Hospitals to be frequently misunderstood, ignored, or denied.Upon admission to a facility each patient, involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, or as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, in which psychiatric evaluation or treatment is offered, shall immediately be given a copy of a State Department of Health Care Services prepared patients rights handbook. Each person committed to a state hospital, upon admission, shall immediately be given a copy of a State Department of State Hospitals prepared patients rights handbook.The State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of State Hospitals shall prepare and provide the forms specified in this section. The State Department of Health Care Services shall prepare and provide the forms specified in Section 5150.The rights specified in this section may not be waived by the persons parent, guardian, or conservator. | |
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| 3 | + | Amended IN Assembly April 03, 2018 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2933Introduced by Assembly Member MedinaFebruary 16, 2018 An act to amend Section 5325 of add Section 10004 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. public social services.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2933, as amended, Medina. Mental health services: involuntary detention. Public social services: county liaison for higher education. Existing law provides for the protection, care, and assistance for the people of the state, and the promotion of the welfare and happiness of all people in the state by providing appropriate aid and services to the needy and distressed. Under existing law, counties are responsible for administering the various public social services programs and related services, including, but not limited to, CalFresh and general assistance benefits.Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state.This bill would require a county welfare agency, or other county agency with similar programmatic responsibilities, to consider establishing a county liaison for higher education as a single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The bill would require the county liaisons duties to be funded using existing resources. The bill would require a disclosure of personal information under the bill to be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. By requiring counties to perform new duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.Existing law provides that each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment, as specified, or admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as specified, and each person who is committed to a state hospital, has certain rights, including the right to see visitors and the right to keep and use personal possessions.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions and correct an obsolete cross-reference.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NOYES | |
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| 10 | 9 | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION | |
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| 12 | 11 | Assembly Bill No. 2933 | |
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| 14 | 13 | Introduced by Assembly Member MedinaFebruary 16, 2018 | |
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| 16 | 15 | Introduced by Assembly Member Medina | |
| 17 | 16 | February 16, 2018 | |
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| 19 | - | An act to add Section 10004 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. | |
| 18 | + | An act to amend Section 5325 of add Section 10004 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health. public social services. | |
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| 21 | 20 | LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 23 | 22 | ## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST | |
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| 25 | - | AB 2933, as amended, Medina. Public social services: county liaison for higher education. | |
| 24 | + | AB 2933, as amended, Medina. Mental health services: involuntary detention. Public social services: county liaison for higher education. | |
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| 27 | - | Existing law provides for the protection, care, and assistance for the people of the state, and the promotion of the welfare and happiness of all people in the state by providing appropriate aid and services to the needy and distressed. Under existing law, counties are responsible for administering the various public social services programs and related services, including, but not limited to, CalFresh and general assistance benefits.Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state.This bill would require a county welfare | |
| 26 | + | Existing law provides for the protection, care, and assistance for the people of the state, and the promotion of the welfare and happiness of all people in the state by providing appropriate aid and services to the needy and distressed. Under existing law, counties are responsible for administering the various public social services programs and related services, including, but not limited to, CalFresh and general assistance benefits.Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state.This bill would require a county welfare agency, or other county agency with similar programmatic responsibilities, to consider establishing a county liaison for higher education as a single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The bill would require the county liaisons duties to be funded using existing resources. The bill would require a disclosure of personal information under the bill to be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. By requiring counties to perform new duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.Existing law provides that each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment, as specified, or admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as specified, and each person who is committed to a state hospital, has certain rights, including the right to see visitors and the right to keep and use personal possessions.This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions and correct an obsolete cross-reference. | |
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| 29 | 28 | Existing law provides for the protection, care, and assistance for the people of the state, and the promotion of the welfare and happiness of all people in the state by providing appropriate aid and services to the needy and distressed. Under existing law, counties are responsible for administering the various public social services programs and related services, including, but not limited to, CalFresh and general assistance benefits. | |
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| 31 | 30 | Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state. | |
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| 33 | - | This bill would require a county welfare | |
| 32 | + | This bill would require a county welfare agency, or other county agency with similar programmatic responsibilities, to consider establishing a county liaison for higher education as a single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The bill would require the county liaisons duties to be funded using existing resources. The bill would require a disclosure of personal information under the bill to be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. By requiring counties to perform new duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. | |
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| 35 | 34 | The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. | |
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| 37 | 36 | This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. | |
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| 38 | + | Existing law provides that each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment, as specified, or admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as specified, and each person who is committed to a state hospital, has certain rights, including the right to see visitors and the right to keep and use personal possessions. | |
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| 42 | + | This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions and correct an obsolete cross-reference. | |
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| 39 | 46 | ## Digest Key | |
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| 41 | 48 | ## Bill Text | |
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| 43 | - | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 10004 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:10004. (a) A county welfare | |
| 50 | + | The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Section 10004 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:10004. (a) A county welfare agency, or other county agency responsible for social services, health services, or behavioral health services programs, in the course of its regular planning and review processes, shall consider establishing a county liaison for higher education, as provided in this section. The county liaison for higher education shall be the single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The county liaison duties shall be funded using existing county resources.(b) Programs and services for which a county liaison for higher education may provide assistance under this section include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) CalFresh.(2) General assistance.(3) Energy assistance.(4) Suicide prevention services.(5) Sexual assault counseling.(c) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning to best determine how the county liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population.(d) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws.SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.SECTION 1.Section 5325 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:5325.Each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, and each person who is admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, in which psychiatric evaluation or treatment is offered, shall have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing those services, and otherwise brought to his or her attention by any additional means as the Director of Health Care Services designates by regulation. Each person committed to a state hospital shall also have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing those services and otherwise brought to his or her attention by any additional means as the Director of State Hospitals designates by regulation:(a)To wear his or her own clothes, to keep and use his or her own personal possessions, including his or her toilet articles, and to keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his or her own money for canteen expenses and small purchases.(b)To have access to individual storage space for his or her private use.(c)To see visitors each day.(d)To have reasonable access to telephones, both to make and receive confidential calls or to have those calls made for them.(e)To have ready access to letterwriting materials, including stamps, and to mail and receive unopened correspondence.(f)To refuse convulsive treatment, including, but not limited to, electroconvulsive treatment, treatment of the mental condition that depends on the induction of a convulsion by any means, and insulin coma treatment.(g)To refuse psychosurgery. Psychosurgery is defined as those operations currently referred to as lobotomy, psychiatric surgery, and behavioral surgery, and all other forms of brain surgery if the surgery is performed for the purpose of any of the following:(1)Modification or control of thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior rather than the treatment of a known and diagnosed physical disease of the brain.(2)Modification of normal brain function or normal brain tissue in order to control thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior.(3)Treatment of abnormal brain function or abnormal brain tissue in order to modify thoughts, feelings, actions or behavior when the abnormality is not an established cause for those thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior.Psychosurgery does not include prefrontal sonic treatment wherein there is no destruction of brain tissue. The Director of Health Care Services and the Director of State Hospitals shall promulgate appropriate regulations to ensure adequate protection of patients rights in such treatment.(h)To see and receive the services of a patient advocate who has no direct or indirect clinical or administrative responsibility for the person receiving mental health services.(i)Other rights, as specified by regulation.Each patient shall also be given notification in a language or modality accessible to the patient of other constitutional and statutory rights that are found by the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of State Hospitals to be frequently misunderstood, ignored, or denied.Upon admission to a facility each patient, involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, or as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, in which psychiatric evaluation or treatment is offered, shall immediately be given a copy of a State Department of Health Care Services prepared patients rights handbook. Each person committed to a state hospital, upon admission, shall immediately be given a copy of a State Department of State Hospitals prepared patients rights handbook.The State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of State Hospitals shall prepare and provide the forms specified in this section. The State Department of Health Care Services shall prepare and provide the forms specified in Section 5150.The rights specified in this section may not be waived by the persons parent, guardian, or conservator. | |
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| 45 | 52 | The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 47 | 54 | ## The people of the State of California do enact as follows: | |
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| 49 | - | SECTION 1. Section 10004 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:10004. (a) A county welfare | |
| 56 | + | SECTION 1. Section 10004 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:10004. (a) A county welfare agency, or other county agency responsible for social services, health services, or behavioral health services programs, in the course of its regular planning and review processes, shall consider establishing a county liaison for higher education, as provided in this section. The county liaison for higher education shall be the single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The county liaison duties shall be funded using existing county resources.(b) Programs and services for which a county liaison for higher education may provide assistance under this section include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) CalFresh.(2) General assistance.(3) Energy assistance.(4) Suicide prevention services.(5) Sexual assault counseling.(c) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning to best determine how the county liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population.(d) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. | |
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| 51 | 58 | SECTION 1. Section 10004 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read: | |
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| 53 | 60 | ### SECTION 1. | |
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| 55 | - | 10004. (a) A county welfare | |
| 62 | + | 10004. (a) A county welfare agency, or other county agency responsible for social services, health services, or behavioral health services programs, in the course of its regular planning and review processes, shall consider establishing a county liaison for higher education, as provided in this section. The county liaison for higher education shall be the single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The county liaison duties shall be funded using existing county resources.(b) Programs and services for which a county liaison for higher education may provide assistance under this section include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) CalFresh.(2) General assistance.(3) Energy assistance.(4) Suicide prevention services.(5) Sexual assault counseling.(c) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning to best determine how the county liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population.(d) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. | |
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| 57 | - | 10004. (a) A county welfare | |
| 64 | + | 10004. (a) A county welfare agency, or other county agency responsible for social services, health services, or behavioral health services programs, in the course of its regular planning and review processes, shall consider establishing a county liaison for higher education, as provided in this section. The county liaison for higher education shall be the single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The county liaison duties shall be funded using existing county resources.(b) Programs and services for which a county liaison for higher education may provide assistance under this section include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) CalFresh.(2) General assistance.(3) Energy assistance.(4) Suicide prevention services.(5) Sexual assault counseling.(c) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning to best determine how the county liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population.(d) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. | |
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| 59 | - | 10004. (a) A county welfare | |
| 66 | + | 10004. (a) A county welfare agency, or other county agency responsible for social services, health services, or behavioral health services programs, in the course of its regular planning and review processes, shall consider establishing a county liaison for higher education, as provided in this section. The county liaison for higher education shall be the single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The county liaison duties shall be funded using existing county resources.(b) Programs and services for which a county liaison for higher education may provide assistance under this section include, but are not limited to, the following:(1) CalFresh.(2) General assistance.(3) Energy assistance.(4) Suicide prevention services.(5) Sexual assault counseling.(c) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning to best determine how the county liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population.(d) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. | |
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| 63 | - | 10004. (a) A county welfare | |
| 70 | + | 10004. (a) A county welfare agency, or other county agency responsible for social services, health services, or behavioral health services programs, in the course of its regular planning and review processes, shall consider establishing a county liaison for higher education, as provided in this section. The county liaison for higher education shall be the single point of contact in the agency for academic counselors and other relevant professional staff at local community colleges and other institutions of higher education, to provide resource and referral information regarding relevant programs under the agencys jurisdiction to students who have expressed a need that might be met by those services. The county liaison duties shall be funded using existing county resources. | |
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| 65 | 72 | (b) Programs and services for which a county liaison for higher education may provide assistance under this section include, but are not limited to, the following: | |
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| 69 | 74 | (1) CalFresh. | |
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| 73 | 76 | (2) General assistance. | |
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| 77 | 78 | (3) Energy assistance. | |
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| 81 | 80 | (4) Suicide prevention services. | |
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| 85 | 82 | (5) Sexual assault counseling. | |
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| 84 | + | (c) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning to best determine how the county liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population. | |
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| 89 | - | (c) | |
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| 93 | - | (b) A county agency subject to this section is encouraged to consult with local community colleges and other institutions of higher learning located within the county to best determine how the county agency liaison can assist counselors and other professional staff members in meeting the needs of the student population. | |
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| 95 | - | (d) | |
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| 99 | - | (c) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. | |
| 86 | + | (d) Any disclosure or sharing of personal information under this section shall be made in compliance with applicable state and federal confidentiality laws. | |
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| 101 | 88 | SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. | |
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| 103 | 90 | SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. | |
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| 105 | 92 | SEC. 2. If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code. | |
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| 107 | 94 | ### SEC. 2. | |
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| 100 | + | Each person who is involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, and each person who is admitted as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, in which psychiatric evaluation or treatment is offered, shall have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing those services, and otherwise brought to his or her attention by any additional means as the Director of Health Care Services designates by regulation. Each person committed to a state hospital shall also have the following rights, a list of which shall be prominently posted in the predominant languages of the community and explained in a language or modality accessible to the patient in all facilities providing those services and otherwise brought to his or her attention by any additional means as the Director of State Hospitals designates by regulation: | |
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| 104 | + | (a)To wear his or her own clothes, to keep and use his or her own personal possessions, including his or her toilet articles, and to keep and be allowed to spend a reasonable sum of his or her own money for canteen expenses and small purchases. | |
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| 108 | + | (b)To have access to individual storage space for his or her private use. | |
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| 112 | + | (c)To see visitors each day. | |
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| 116 | + | (d)To have reasonable access to telephones, both to make and receive confidential calls or to have those calls made for them. | |
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| 120 | + | (e)To have ready access to letterwriting materials, including stamps, and to mail and receive unopened correspondence. | |
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| 124 | + | (f)To refuse convulsive treatment, including, but not limited to, electroconvulsive treatment, treatment of the mental condition that depends on the induction of a convulsion by any means, and insulin coma treatment. | |
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| 128 | + | (g)To refuse psychosurgery. Psychosurgery is defined as those operations currently referred to as lobotomy, psychiatric surgery, and behavioral surgery, and all other forms of brain surgery if the surgery is performed for the purpose of any of the following: | |
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| 132 | + | (1)Modification or control of thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior rather than the treatment of a known and diagnosed physical disease of the brain. | |
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| 136 | + | (2)Modification of normal brain function or normal brain tissue in order to control thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior. | |
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| 140 | + | (3)Treatment of abnormal brain function or abnormal brain tissue in order to modify thoughts, feelings, actions or behavior when the abnormality is not an established cause for those thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior. | |
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| 144 | + | Psychosurgery does not include prefrontal sonic treatment wherein there is no destruction of brain tissue. The Director of Health Care Services and the Director of State Hospitals shall promulgate appropriate regulations to ensure adequate protection of patients rights in such treatment. | |
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| 148 | + | (h)To see and receive the services of a patient advocate who has no direct or indirect clinical or administrative responsibility for the person receiving mental health services. | |
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| 152 | + | (i)Other rights, as specified by regulation. | |
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| 156 | + | Each patient shall also be given notification in a language or modality accessible to the patient of other constitutional and statutory rights that are found by the State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of State Hospitals to be frequently misunderstood, ignored, or denied. | |
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| 160 | + | Upon admission to a facility each patient, involuntarily detained for evaluation or treatment under provisions of this part, or as a voluntary patient for psychiatric evaluation or treatment to a health facility, as defined in Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, in which psychiatric evaluation or treatment is offered, shall immediately be given a copy of a State Department of Health Care Services prepared patients rights handbook. Each person committed to a state hospital, upon admission, shall immediately be given a copy of a State Department of State Hospitals prepared patients rights handbook. | |
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| 164 | + | The State Department of Health Care Services and the State Department of State Hospitals shall prepare and provide the forms specified in this section. The State Department of Health Care Services shall prepare and provide the forms specified in Section 5150. | |
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| 168 | + | The rights specified in this section may not be waived by the persons parent, guardian, or conservator. |