Welf. & Inst. Code, § 4713.5 · Article 3. Fair Hearing Procedure
Welf. & Inst. Code, § 4713.5
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) The regional center shall implement the final hearing decision as soon as practical and not later than 30 days following the date of the final hearing decision, or, if a reconsideration was granted, the regional center shall implement the final corrected decision 30 days following the reconsideration, unless the regional center notifies the claimant and their authorized representative in writing, with a copy to the department, of the specific exceptional circumstances that make it impossible to implement the decision within that timeframe and provides the date when the decision will be implemented.
(b) The claimant or authorized representative may contact the department if they are dissatisfied with the regional center’s or the state-operated facility’s compliance with the decision. Upon notification, the department shall take appropriate actions to obtain compliance with the decision.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 49, Sec. 65. (SB 188) Effective June 30, 2022.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WIC§ionNum=4713.5.
- Text hash
- sha256 9550e9ada44a141f8b7c828ee1fccc09161e1298c7461ab467d7904e4cc4f179
- Composed by
- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.